Mind's Eye Theatre - Vampire The Requiem.pdf - RoseRed

THE COIL OF BANES
The two major banes of the Requiem are fi re and sunlight. Any attempt to conquer the
curse of vampirism must overcome these two obstacles. While no vampire has yet managed
to truly surmount them, the Coil of Banes provides a place to start.
First Tier: Conquer the Red Fear
The character gains a +2 bonus to resist fear frenzy triggered by fi re or sunlight. Fear frenzies
triggered by other stimuli occur as normal.
Second Tier: Surmounting the Daysleep
The player can spend a Willpower point for the character to remain awake for an entire
day without penalty (though the character must still take precautions to remain out of the
sunlight and “waking” the next night still costs a Vitae). Test pools during the day are still
limited by Humanity (see p. 263). If the character does sleep and is disturbed, add three
points to the player’s wake-up draw.
Third Tier: Sun’s Forgotten Kiss
Sunlight at twilight and dawn causes only bashing damage to the Dragon, rather than
aggravated. After the sun has fully risen, however, its rays cause aggravated damage as usual.
At sea or on a mountaintop, the sun might fully rise within a mere fi ve minutes and take
some time to set (10 minutes). In a dense forest or deep in a city, the sun might rise slowly
(10 minutes) and set quickly (fi ve minutes).
THE COIL OF THE BEAST
The Beast seeks always to subsume the Man, which is probably the most serious impairment on
the Coils of the Dragon. If legends are true, the order’s founder struggled with his Beast even before
his Embrace, so it only makes sense that he would have pioneered a means to control it.
First Tier: Chastise the Beast
The player spends a Willpower point for his character to resist a frenzy of any kind automatically.
The player may choose to draw Resolve + Composure as usual for his character to
resist frenzy, spending the Willpower only if the draw fails.
Second Tier: Lure the Beast
“Riding the wave” does not cost a Willpower point, and it requires a base of only three
successes, not fi ve. All other rules still apply (see p. 257).
Third Tier: Exhaust the Beast
The character may spend an hour per night in frenzy (usually doing so under controlled
conditions such as in a locked room or far from mortals). For the sake of game balance, this
hour generally must be taken from play time. For example, the character must arrive at the game
an hour late, or take an hour out of the game later on. For the rest of the night, the character
does not enter frenzy unless she wishes to do so, no matter how strong the trigger is.
DEVOTIONS
The rote Disciplines that are common to all Kindred are not the only supernatural capabilities
at their disposal. Every so often, an entirely new Discipline “technique,” formed by a
curious combination of two or more standard powers, emerges from the ranks of the undead.
Like standard Disciplines, these techniques — called Devotions — can be learned from or taught
to other Kindred in much the same time frame and manner as the broader powers from which
they originate. Any vampire with the appropriate prerequisite Discipline dots can, in theory,
develop the Devotions for which he qualifi es. It’s simply a matter of time and effort.
Some claim to have truly secret Devotions, however, and the claim does have some basis
in truth. Kindred may fi nd themselves incapable of developing some of the more esoteric
techniques without a learned mentor at their side. Indeed, not all Kindred have even heard
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