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

chapter one: society of the diablerie
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Success: The character continues to draw the soul of the fallen Kindred into his own.
After all of a victim’s Vitae has been taken, but before all successes are achieved in consuming
the subject’s soul, a diablerist in possession of his faculties can cease to feed at any time
and allow the victim to reach Final Death in (relative) peace.
Upon diablerie’s completion, the Humanity of the diablerist drops by one automatically.
He also gains the benefi ts and drawbacks described here. A diablerized Kindred crumbles to
ash immediately, regardless of how old her body actually was upon the Amaranth.
BENEFITS OF DIABLERIE
If the diablerized vampire had a higher Blood Potency than the Kindred committing the
Amaranth, the diablerist’s Blood Potency immediately increases by one. Blood Potency increases
by only one, regardless of the difference between the vampires’ Blood Potencies. This
increase need not be paid for with experience points, though it still must be properly verifi ed
and recorded by a member of the Storytelling staff.
In consuming the fallen Kindred’s soul, the diablerist actually consumes some of her
knowledge as well. The diablerist acquires a single dot of either a Skill or a Discipline that
the diablerized vampire possessed at a higher level than the diablerist does. This adds to the
diablerist’s dots in that Skill or Discipline, even if he didn’t have any dots at all in the Skill
or Discipline before. For example, if a neonate with Obfuscate 3 diablerizes an elder who
has Obfuscate 2, the neonate may not take an additional dot of Obfuscate. He already knows
more than the elder with regard to that Discipline. The diablerist may not take a dot in a
bloodline’s unique Discipline unless he is also a member of that bloodline (see p. 373). Also,
a diablerist may not exceed the trait maximum imposed by his Blood Potency (although if
that Blood Potency now increases to a level that allows a higher level of those traits, he enjoys
the benefi t of that newly raised Blood Potency when deciding which dot of what to acquire).
This increase need not be paid for with experience points, though again it must be verifi ed
by the Storytelling staff.
It should be noted that the only benefi t to diablerizing a vampire of lower Blood Potency
is acquiring an extra dot in a Discipline or Skill. All of the detriments still apply, however.
DRAWBACKS OF DIABLERIE
As noted prior, when a vampire commits diablerie, his Humanity decreases by one automatically.
The Humanity draw that follows this loss to check for a derangement occurs
normally; see p. 260.
A vampire committing the Amaranth risks blood addiction as normal when he consumes
his fallen foe’s Vitae and soul. See p. 220 for more information on blood addiction. This
risk isn’t redundant — the vampire need not check for addiction right as he tastes his victim’s
Vitae and then again as it turns into diablerie.
Finally, the act of Amaranth stains the diablerist’s own soul upon its commission. The
character’s aura acquires telltale black veins that reveal her crime to those who can scrutinize
such things (see p. 161). These black veins remain in the diablerist’s aura for one year per
dot of Blood Potency the victim possessed. This time is cumulative; a vampire who diablerizes
two Kindred of Blood Potency 6 has veins in his aura for 72 months. If a character diablerizes
his victims months apart, the additional months add on to the end of last. For example,
if a Kindred diablerizes a vampire of Blood Potency 4 and a year later diablerizes a vampire
of Blood Potency 5, the black veins appear in her aura for 42 months following the second
diablerie — or perhaps even longer, if she keeps to her wicked ways and diablerizes again.