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not apply to any resistance to which a subject is entitled (logically, if the user gained a bonus
and the subject gained the same bonus, that bonus would be effectively negated). The bonus
is awarded only to the proactive user of a given power.
Example: Sir Edward decides he doesn’t want to continue an argument with his childe, Jane, so
he orders her to forget about it — and backs up his command with Dominate. Edward’s player would
normally have a test pool of 12 for this effort. Because Jane is Edward’s childe, however, Edward’s player
has a test pool of 14 instead.
THE TASTE OF FAMILY
Kindred can tell how closely they’re related to another vampire by tasting their blood (with
all the hazards of addiction that entails). The blood of one clan tastes a little different than
the blood of another; a discriminating undead palate can tell the blood of a Kindred “relative”
from that of a more distantly related clan member.
When a Kindred tastes Vitae, the player can draw Intelligence + Occult. Having active
Heightened Senses (Auspex) grants a +2 bonus to the draw. One success is enough to tell
whether the blood comes from the character’s own clan, or to recognize the blood as coming
from his immediate Kindred “family” — that is, in the taster’s own line of sires and childer (see
“Blood Ties”). Two successes enable the character to recognize the clan (assuming the character
has tasted Vitae from several clans). Or two successes tell the character if the subject is within
two generations of him in the line (that is, if the subject is a grandsire or grandchilde).
The character can also mystically recognize blood from his mortal relations, if he should happen
to drink it without his knowledge, with one success on the Intelligence + Occult draw.
Example: Ethon, a Nosferatu, tastes the Vitae of a Kindred whom he plans to diablerize. Ethon’s
player obtains four successes on the Intelligence + Occult draw to determine if Ethon has any insight into
the blood’s origins. With four successes, Ethon determines that the individual he’s about to diablerize
is, in fact, his sire’s sire! If Ethon’s player had obtained only one success, Ethon would know only that
this Kindred was closely related to him in the sequence of Embrace. If no such connection existed, one
success would have confi rmed that the other vampire was a Nosferatu.