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BLANDISHMENT OF SIN (LEVEL-THREE THEBAN SORCERY RITUAL)
The subject of this power suffers increased damage the next time any harm is infl icted
on him. That wound is upgraded one degree of damage. Three bashing damage becomes
three lethal, and three lethal damage becomes three aggravated. (Aggravated wounds do not
increase to any other sort, and the effects of the ritual are wasted.) If, at the end of the night,
the subject has not suffered any damage, the ritual ends, though it may be invoked against
him on the following night.
If the subject has Resilience, that Discipline offsets the benefi ts of this ritual for the next
wound he suffers only if the damage upgrade would make the next wound aggravated. The injury
in question infl icts its upgraded, aggravated damage, which Resilience downgrades again.
The action to activate this power is contested, pitting the sorcerer’s Intelligence + Academics
+ Theban Sorcery against the subject’s Resolve + Blood Potency (resistance is refl exive).
The subject is initially unaware of the power applied to him and doesn’t know why his next
injury is so severe.
Offering: A scrap of paper, upon which the subject’s name must be written. The paper is
then burned in sight of the subject as the ritual is cast.
MALEDICTION OF DESPAIR (LEVEL-THREE THEBAN SORCERY RITUAL)
The sorcerer curses his subject with regard to a specifi c action. The next time the subject engages
in that action, her normal test pool is not drawn. A chance draw is made, instead. The curse can
be as general (“Your next attack in combat is doomed to failure!”) or as specifi c (“When next you
feed upon a blind Christian at midnight…”) as the caster chooses. The curse remains until its
conditions are met. If the subject suspects that she is cursed by this ritual, the player may spend
a Willpower point and make a Composure + Resolve draw. If this draw yields more successes
than were achieved to invoke the malediction, the curse ends without ever coming to pass.
The action to activate this power is contested, pitting the sorcerer’s Intelligence + Academics
+ Theban Sorcery against the subject’s Resolve + Blood Potency. Resisting in this manner
is refl exive.
Offering: A lock of hair from the subject.
GIFT OF LAZARUS (LEVEL-FOUR THEBAN SORCERY RITUAL)
A successful invocation of this ritual brings the dead back to a semblance of life, though
it is a pale echo at best. While the rite certainly reanimates the dead, it does not return a
being’s soul, nor does it halt the body’s slow decline into rot and putrescence. The power
effectively creates a painfully self-aware zombie, who most likely just wishes to be allowed to
rest in peace. Initially, all of the former person’s faculties may be intact (retaining access to
its former Skills, but having no Willpower). The pathetic wretch can neither heal damage
nor feel physical sensations in any true sense, however, so it suffers no wound penalties. The
length of time in nights that the creature remains animate equals the number of successes
on the Theban Sorcery draw made to create it. A Theban Sorcerer may create a number of
simultaneous walking dead equal to his Willpower.
For every day that the creature was dead prior to the invocation, subtract one dot of the
Storyteller’s choosing from an Attribute in each of its Physical, Mental and Social categories,
and also do the same for every day it is animated by this ritual. When any Attribute is reduced
to zero, assume that any draws involving that trait fail automatically. Multiple animations
of the same corpse are possible but sequentially more disturbing and less useful. A walking
corpse of this sort that loses all of its Health dots to lethal damage is too wounded to move,
but still aware and possibly even capable of communication (depending on the type of damage
sustained and to what portions of its body).
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