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

OPTIONAL RULE: DIABLERIE DURATION
The standard diablerie duration listed was designed to suit an ongoing chronicle
expected to run between two to four years, which holds chapters roughly once a
month or every other month. Consuming the souls of powerful Kindred will likely
stay with the character for the rest of the chronicle (as it should), but a wily vampire
might be able to get away with a less potent meal if she’s careful. If this standard
diablerie duration does not suit the game, however, the Storyteller may use the
short diablerie rules: This option is designed for shorter chronicles, or chronicles of
any length where the Storyteller does not mind having diablerie be slightly easier
to hide. With this option, tell-tale black veins persist in the diablerist’s aura for six
months per dot of the victim’s Blood Potency.
OPTION RULE: SOUL SHARDS
If a Kindred diablerizes another vampire with a Blood Potency at least two points
higher than her own, the overwhelming strength of the older vampire’s mind may
crush the weaker soul, resulting in the body being taken over by the diablerized
vampire after a successful diablerie. The diablerized character makes a refl exive
contested draw of Willpower vs. the diablerist’s Stamina + Blood Potency without any
bonuses from Willpower, Vitae, Disciplines or sorcery. If both get an equal number
of successes, additional draws are made until a winner emerges. If the diablerist gets
more successes, nothing unusual happens. If the diablerized character gets more
successes then her soul takes over the diablerist’s body, destroying that soul entirely.
The resulting vampire gets no benefi ts from the diablerie and retains all of the
diablerist’s dots as their minds merge - with one exception: Any Discipline and sorcery
dots not possessed by both vampires are permanently lost. A point of Humanity is
lost in the process of the bestial act that includes the destruction of another soul.
Her Advantages are then recalculated. The Storyteller should assign an appropriate
Derangement, signifying the traumatic act of having one’s mind crushed and then
freed in such an inhumane fashion.
LIMITATIONS
Only vampires can commit diablerie. Ghouls, werewolves, mortals and the like aren’t Kindred,
so they lack the ability to consume the souls of the Damned. Furthermore, only vampires
can be diablerized. Those selfsame ghouls, werewolves or mortals do not have the same spark
of undeath animating them, so their souls cannot be consumed in this manner.
A vampire in Golconda cannot be diablerized. A would-be diablerist can certainly try, but
the Kindred’s soul eludes the consumption. In a situation like this, make the draws as normal
(in this case, it is certainly better for the Storyteller to draw for the player), but tell the player
that the character feels that something isn’t quite right as she commits the baneful act.
A diablerized vampire never leaves behind a ghost, as the diablerist consumes the soul that
might become one of the lingering dead.
AN EXAMPLE OF DIABLERIE
Danny the Ventrue is supposed to deliver a message to a Daeva contact. When he arrives at the
meeting place, he fi nds nothing but a trail of blood and a torpid Nosferatu in bad shape. Danny fi gures
that he has a golden opportunity before him — he’ll diablerize the Nosferatu and if anyone raises a fuss,
he can implicate the missing Daeva.
The torpid Nosferatu has only one Vitae remaining, which Danny quickly devours. Thereafter, the
process of diablerie begins, and Danny has seven turns in which to succeed, as his Willpower is 7. The
Storyteller draws Danny’s Resolve + Stamina, gaining two successes. The Nosferatu also has a Willpower
of 7, so Danny needs fi ve more successes to complete the deed, but he doesn’t know this. Danny chooses
to continue, so the Storyteller draws again, this time acquiring three more successes. Danny presses on,
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