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Noah Gray Silver · May 21, 2022

Show me your beautifully broken people here.
Remember the time period most of all, I will just be doing NPC's and scene setting because I think I can set the story better that way.

Sherwood · May 21, 2022

Name: Sister Isabella Romanov
Gender: Female
Clan: Lasombra
Clan Disciplines: Dominate, Obtenebration, and Potence
Generation: 8th
Nature: Judge
Demeanor: Caretaker
Occupation: Nun
Age: 120 (appears to be in her early 20's)

Attributes
Str: 1
Dex: 3
Sta: 2

Cha: 2
Man: 5
App: 3

Per: 2
Int: 3
Wits: 3

Talents
Alertness: 2
Athletics
Brawl
Dodge: 1
Empathy: 2
Expression
Intimidation: 2
Leadership: 1
Legerdemain
Subterfuge: 2

Skills
Animal Ken
Archery
Commerce
Crafts
Etiquette: 1
Melee: 3
Performance
Ride
Stealth: 2
Survival

Knowledges
Academics: 2
Hearth Wisdom
Investigation: 1
Law
Linguistics: 3 - English, French, Italian, Russian, and German
Medicine
Occult: 3
Politics
Seneschal: 2
Theology: 2
Backgrounds
Domain: 3 - The Monastery of the Holy Trinity
Generation: 4 - 8th
Herd: 3 - 25 Vessels
Resources: 2
Retainer: 1

Virtues
Conscience: 3
Self-Control: 4
Courage: 3

Road - Humanity: 7
Willpower: 5
Blood Pool: 15 - Can Spend 3pts per Turn

• A vampire may spend one blood point to heal one normal (bashing or lethal) health level of damage. Characters must be resting and relatively inactive for this healing to take place, though this recovery is rapid: One blood point per turn may be spent to heal one health level, though vampires of lower Generations may heal as many health levels per turn as they can spend blood points.
Note that blood expenditure is the only way that vampires can heal wounds. Just as their immortality prevents the Kindred from aging and dying naturally, so it also inhibits the recuperative processes natural to a living body.
• A player may spend one blood point to increase a single Physical Attribute (Strength, Dexterity, Stamina) by one dot for the duration of the scene. The player must announce at the beginning of the turn that he is doing this. A player may spend as many blood points on
increasing Physical Attributes as the vampire may use in a turn (based upon Generation), but may only freely increase these Traits up to one higher than their generational maximum (i.e., a Tenth-Generation vampire may increase Traits to a maximum of 6). With effort, a
character may increase a Physical Attribute to above this limit, but each dot above the limit lasts for only three turns after the character stops spending blood.
This enables vampires to perform truly amazing physical feats, such as throwing cars, moving preternaturally quickly, and withstanding blows that would fell trees. Note: No character may increase Physical Attributes above 10.
• A vampire may give a number of blood points to another Kindred, thereby enabling the recipient to use the blood as if it were her own. This is often a grisly prospect, as the “donor” must open his own vein and physically deliver the blood to the needy Kindred. Of course, if a vampire is ever in a situation in which she needs blood, she’s likely all out of it herself, and may frenzy and take too much from the donor. Blood gifts should be given with care.
If a vampire (or mortal) partakes of another Kindred’s blood three times, she becomes bound to that vampire through the mystical properties of vitae. This is known as the blood bond. For more on blood bonds, see p. 286.
• A vampire may gift a mortal or animal with a dose of his vitae, allowing the mortal in question to inject or ingest it. For so long as the mortal retains the Kindred vitae in her system, she is considered a ghoul (see the Appendix, p. 496, for more on ghouls).
• Though most vampires (with the exception of Nosferatu) appear much as they did in life, they still display certain corpselike features; for example, their skin is unnaturally cold and grows more ashen with age, and they do not breathe. By spending a variable number of blood points, a vampire may will himself to appear more human for a scene: flushing his skin, drawing breath, even becoming capable of engaging in sexual intercourse (this last, while helpful in certain types of feeding, in no way means that the vampire may inseminate a mortal or become pregnant; a corpse is still a corpse, after all). Performing these actions for a scene requires an expenditure of blood points equal to (8 minus Humanity); thus, Kindred with Humanity ratings of 8 or higher may accomplish these feats automatically, while vampires with low Humanity find the process exceedingly arduous.
Only vampires with Humanity may use blood in this manner; vampires on a Path have forsaken their human sides entirely.

Flaws
Hunted: +4
Slow Healing: +3

Weakness: Magisters cannot be seen in mirrors or in other reflective surfaces, such as pools of still water or quicksilver. In addition, as creatures of darkness and shade, the Lasombra are greatly pained by the garish presence of bright light, and they suffer an additional level of aggravated damage from any exposure to sunlight.
Dominate: 3 - pg 189
Obtenebration: 3 - pg 202

Scions, vampires who follow the Road of Kings, teach that Cainites were made to lead, that their orders demand obedience by unholy right. There is no better manifestation of this belief than the Discipline of Dominate. With this gift, a vampire may impose her will on another, compelling her to obey commands or even rewriting her memory Where Malkav's gift of Dementation turns its victims minds inside out, the high-blooded ability of Dominate forces the weak of wil to submit to the strong.
Dominate is not always an easy power to use, however, since it requires both eye contact and speech for most of its applications. Clear gesturing (holding up a hand for "Stop!") can work for the simplest commands, but anything more complex requires verbal communication. Unless the victim has already become a will-less thrall, eye contact is an absolute requirement and the most limiting, since it means commands can be imposed on only one person at a time. Beyond these limitations, most targets can be made to submit to the will of a Cainite skilled in Dominate. The major exception is subject of more powerful blood. Any vampire of lower generation than the user is totally immune to her uses of Dominate. Therefore, Scion thinkers say, this power cannot be used to upset the right hierarchy of blood among the Damned.
There are a few other limits to the uses of Dominate, but they occur much more rarely. Stories claim that some mortals blessed by God are immune to the breaking of their wills - their fear of the Lord is greater than any other subjugation. It is also easier to force a victim to act in a way close to her true self than to make her reject her nature. In game terms, efforts to Dominate a character into doing something in line with her Nature (make a barbarian strike someone, make a Defender stand guard) enjoy a -1 difficulty bonus. Efforts to Dominate someone into doing something utterly against her Nature (making a Caretaker commit murder) suffers a +1 difficulty penalty.
Finally, it is always possible for the Cainite to taint the subject's will himself. Dominate is best used with precision, and careless applications can unnecessarily arouse the defenses of the immortal (or Damned) soul. Whenever a player botches a Dominate roll, that subject becomes immune to her character's Dominate efforts for the rest of the story (and shakes off any of her existing effects).
The Lasombra and Ventrue are the ancient masters of tis Discipline, but they do teach it to others on the Road of Kings. Most accept the story that the power reflects the curse of God in that it erodes the basis of friendship or true intimacy. Such is the price of leadership, however, and they pay it gladly. The Tremere, sorcerous upstarts in the Cainite world, also have an affinity for Dominate, said to be a corruption of the mind magics they once wielded in their breathing days.

The most basic ability of the Discipline of Dominate is to give a one-word command which must be obeyed. The Cainite must make eye contact with his victim and speak in a language that the victim can comprehend. To ensure instant compliance, the command must be clear and unambiguous: flee, dismount, enter, silence. If the command is unclear, the subject might act slowly, ineptly or not at all. Commands that require the subject to act over a sustained period of time hold force until the subject removes herself from the commanding Cainite's influence, or until the end of the scene. Therefore, a subject commanded to flee will do so until she is well out of the dominating vampire's sight, while a subject commanded to be silent will not speak for the remainder of the scene, unless a countermanding order is given.
The single-word command need not stand alone. A Cainite who wishes to camouflage his orders in polite conversation may do so, as long as long as he makes eye contact as he utters the command word.
System: The player makes a Manipulation + Intimidation roll with a difficulty equal to the target's Willpower. Additional successes improve the subject's response time.

Murmur of the False Will is more than simply an extension of the Observance of the Spoken Word, although it may be u sed as such. In this case, clearly worded instructions are given to the target, who must immediately obey. Orders may also be given to be carried out at another specified time - "at moonset" or "next spring" - or in response to a specific event - "when next you attend the voivode" or "when you hear the phrase, 'Sleep well, my lady.'" The clarity of the orders affects the subject's alacrity and skill in carrying the out. Eye contact must be maintained continuously between the dominator and his subject when the orders are given; this is not an ability that be used politely. The instructions will be carried out at any length, but a wise Cainite knows that extended and detailed commands are more likely to confuse the subject or induce unforeseen elements into the path of events.
A much more subtle use of this ability simply imposes an idea or concept on the victim's mind - "You are a brave warrior" or "Your lord's wife is a very handsome woman." The subject includes this idea in his or her routine activities, acting on it as opportunity presents and according to his or her Nature. Again, eye contact must be maintained throughout the implanting of the idea, but one may do so more subtly than by simply giving a string of precise instructions.
The commanding Cainite may impose only one set of instructions or insinuated idea on a subject at any given time. Imposing a new command or concept aborts the previous instructions, no matter how incomplete, or negates the imposed idea. In many cases, replacing one concept with another or with a command is the only way to be rid of it - once subject to this power, most victims are never completely free-willed again. Another Cainite who wishes to command the same subject may do so, but only a Cainite of a generation equal to or lower than that of the first dominator can impose conflicting commands or ideas.
Command given using this power may not force the subject to directly harm herself. Neither commands nor implanted ideas can force the subjec to act contrary to her Nature.
System: The player makes a Manipulation + Leadership roll with a difficulty equal to the target's Willpower. The number of successes determines how well the suggestion is implanted. At fewer than three successes, the subject does not do anything she finds too strange (riding a horse naked through the streets of town, for instance), but she performs instructions or parts of instructions that seem reasonable. With four success, the subject carries out the orders completely unless doing so greatly endangers her. At five successes, the subject obeys nearly any command.
To countermand or contradict another's orders, the character must be of equal or lower generation than the original dominator, and the player must roll more successes on a Manipulation + Intimidation roll than the first dominator tallied with their Manipulation + Leadership roll. The commands or ideas cannot simply be removed. Commands must be replaced with new commands, or the old idea must be replaced with a new one.

This terrifying ability allows the Cainite to remove or re-create the subject's memories. Minor erasures and alterations can be made to remove all remembrance of a chance meeting or of a singular encounter such as feeding. More invasive work is required to remove all traces of a planned meeting, and more subtle work is necessary to alter the details of just one encounter if the subject is familiar with the manipulating Cainite. At the greatest extreme, the vampire may erase and reconstruct his victim's memories from the very beginning, crafting a person with the virtue and peccadilloes he requires.

Successes / Effectiveness
1 Success / Memory loss lasts for a day
2 Successes / May remove, but not alter memory
3 Successes / May make slight alterations to memory
4 Successes / May alter or remove entire scene from subject's memory
5 Successes / Whole periods of subject's life may be reconstructed.

Fortunately for the victim, memory is a wonderfully elastic thing. Even the most skilled manipulator of minds may not be able to remove all traces of an offending memory. Those with less skill must be content with temporarily misplacing the subject's memories or making minor alterations to them. A feeding might be altered in the subject's memories to a wild animal attack and the man encountered on a dark street may be remembered to have snowy white hair rather than dirty brown.
Memories lost to this power may flood back to the victim when she is cued, such as by a familiar face or an odor from childhood. They may also drift, piecemeal, to the surface of her dreams. A Cainite with the ability to alter memory is capable of recognizing tampering in the minds of others, and he may also be capable of restoring the lost memories. Unfortunately, the vampire cannot tell when his own memories have been altered, nor can he restore his own lost memories.
System: Roll Wits + Subterfuge with a difficulty of the target's Willpower, then consult the table to determine how deeply the target's memory can be affected.
To attempt to recover removed memories or detect created memories, the character must possess Dominate at a level equal to or greater than the vampire who tampered with the target's memory. Unlike with Murmur of the False Will, the vampire can be of higher generation than the original dominator and still undo her work as long as his level of Dominate is high enough. The player must gain more successes on a Wits + Subterfuge roll with a difficulty equal to the Willpower of the tampering vampire.
The Storyteller's discretion must be used to determine if and when removed or altered memories return on their own. As a general guideline, the subtler the changes are, the more likely the alteration or deletion is to remain, while incautious and dramatic changes will always come undone, even if it takes hundreds of years.

"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep," says the Book of Genesis. "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." God created the heavens and the earth before anything else. But before the accursed Sun, before Eden and well before Caine, there was darkness. It is this darkness that the eldest Lasombra revere, and this ancient, unknowable darkness whose depths they plumb with the Discipline of Obtenebration. With it, the Magisters can coax filaments of the shadowy void out into the physical world. Here those filaments can take on solid form and obey the commands of those who summoned them.
The source and inhabitants of the ancient darkness are unknown. many Lasombra claim that the darkness predates God Himself and is the home to a more powerful entity kept at bay only by the power of the Sun. In that, they see themselves reflected. Many Lasombra strive to master this ancient being and its minions. Many of those who fail to fully master the shadow find themselves haunted by phantoms in the darkness. Other Lasombra suggest that the darkness comes from a corner of Hell, cut off from the shining firmament of Heaven or from some pre-Christian pagan underworld. The most common name given to the darkness is Ahriman, the dark half of Zoroastrian dualism - a faith that has had a long association with the Lasombra, most recently as one of the spiritual underpinning of hte Cainite Heresy.
Obtenebration frightens ordinary mortal creatures and animals. Most Cainite scholars believe that this is because Obtenebration is part of God's curse on Caine. By gaining power through calling forth the forces of Hell, or whatever the outer darkness represents, the character pulls himself further from the gaze of God and closer to eternal damnation. Characters with a mystical bent, philosophers and those who consider themselves to be damned souls favor Obtenebration.

This relatively simple ability gives the Lasombra control over local ambient shadows. It does little to allow her to conjure primordial shadow from the Abyss, as later Obtenebration powers do, but he power still provides plenty of social advantage. The Lasombra can use Shadow Play to manipulate a social circumstance to her advantage, placing shadows in advantageous locations throughout a room, or giving herself a more stern and imposing visage. Alternatively, the Lasombra can use the local shadows to hide a bit more stealthily.
System: The player spends one blood point as the character exerts her will. For the remainder of the scene, the player can add one die to Intimidation and Stealth dice pools as the vampire moves shadows around to suit her needs. The vampire can also accomplish minor feats of shadowplay, such as moving a person's shadow here and there, or leaving a looming shadow over another Cainite's hiding place in order to fool him into thinking he's about to be discovered. She can also manipulate ambient shadow in a way to help her see through it, reducing darkness related penalty by her Obtenebration rating (to a minimum of zero, of course). No die roll is required for these abilities, but the player must still spend blood.
Mortals are often quite disturbed by use of this power, and their players must make Courage rolls (difficulty 7) when they see Shadow Play used. Failure means the mortal suffers a one-die penalty to Social dice pools for the remainder of the scene.

The Lasombra with this ability can create a cloud of unnatural darkness that is strong enough to completely obscure light and even muffle sound. Those who spend time inside the darkness are often terrified by the experience, as all sense are equally twisted and suppressed by the power. Victims lose their sense of direction and place, and they cannot defend themselves against attack from without.
Nocturne does not extinguish fire within its radius, but it does suppress the fire's light such that it cannot be seen even from an inch away. The Lasombra must concentrate on Nocturne throughout its manifestation, or it fades away almost at once. She can move the cloud as she concentrates, but doing so is not easy.
System: The player rolls Manipulation + Occult (difficulty 7). If he succeeds, the vampire creates a cloud of inky darkness some 10 feet in diameter (though its shape is unstable, and it undulates and writes over time). Additional successes can double the cloud's radius, at the vampire's discretion. He can summon up the cloud up to 50 yards away and does not have to have line of sight to the cloud in order to do so (though creating a cloud he cannot see requires a blood point to be spend and brings the difficulty to 9).
All Perception dice pools drop by five within the cloud, unless the victim has a supernatural way to see through darkness - such as Witness of Darkness (Protean 1) or Heightened Senses (Auspex 1) - in which case dice pools drop by only two. Regardless of sensory abilities, all non-sensory actions are at +2 difficulty, and the cold dark leaches away at the life essence of those within it, reducing all Stamina-based dice pools by two.
Mortals and animals wrapped in Nocturne do not find the experience pleasant in the least. Their players must make Courage (or Willpower, for animals) rolls much as with Shadow Play, with similar consequences for failure.

As the Lasombra masters his control over the inky, primordial blackness, he turns the darkness into a weapon. He can draw tentacles from shadowed reaches and use them to attack enemies nearby. In the traditional lore of the clan, the practitioner is literally calling out to the dark half to make itself manifest and grasp at its victims.
System: The players spends one blood point and rolls Manipulation + Melee (difficulty 7). Every success creates one tentacle, six feet long with Strength and Dexterity equal to the character's Obtenebration trait. The player may spend additional blood points to increase the Strength of Dexterity of a single tentacle by one per blood point or increase its length by six feet per blood point. Each tentacle has four health levels and does not face wound penalties. It soaks damage using the character's Stamina + Fortitude total, and it has even worse vulnerabilities to fire and sunlight than a Cainite would have. It cannot soak aggravated damage of any kind.
The tentacles can undertake mundane tasks such as lifting objects, and they can make simple bludgeoning attacks. They use Dexterity to attack and do Strength bashing damage. Alternatively, they may attempt to grapple a foe, again using Dexterity to hit and constricting for Strength + 1 levels of bashing damage if they succeed. The tentacles do not all have to come from the same source as long as all sources are within 20 yards of the vampire. Controlling them does not require exclusive concentration. The Magister can take ordinary actions while controlling the Arms of Ahriman, at no penalty as long as her order to the arms are straightforward. ("Attack" is fine; "Lift the key from the guard's belt" is not.) More complex actions require the vampire's attention.
Experience Costs
Trait - Cost
Attribute - current rating x 4
Ability - current rating x 2
New Ability: 3
New Discipline - 10
Clan Discipline - current rating x 5
Other Discipline - current rating x 7
Secondary Path (Necromancy or Thaumaturgy) - current rating x 4
Virtue - current rating x 2
Road - current rating x 2
Willpower - current rating

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Psychie · May 21, 2022

Name: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Gender: Male
Clan: Malkavian
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Dementation, Obfuscate
Generation: 9th
Nature: Autocrat
Demeanor: Caretaker
Concept: Doctor
Haven: Insane Asylum
Age: 117 (appears to be in his mid 40's)

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 2
Sta: 2

Cha: 3
Man: 3
App: 2

Per: 2
Int: 4
Wits: 4

Abilities
Alertness: 1
Athletics
Brawl
Dodge: 2
Empathy: 3
Expression
Intimidation
Leadership
Legerdemain
Subterfuge: 3

Animal Ken
Archery
Commerce
Crafts
Etiquette: 1
Melee: 1
Performance: 2
Ride
Stealth: 1
Survival

Academics: 2
Hearth Wisdom: 1
Investigation: 2
Law
Linguistics: 2 Italian, English, and German
Medicine: 4
Occult: 2
Politics
Seneschal
Theology
Backgrounds
Domain: 3 - Insane Asylum
Generation: 3 - 9th Gen
Herd: 3 - 25 Vessels
Retainers: 1

Virtues
Conscience: 3
Self-Control: 4
Courage: 3

Road - Humanity: 7
Willpower: 6
Blood Pool: 14 - Can Spend 2pts per Turn

Flaws
Erie Presence: +2
Addiction: +3 - Morphine
Enemy: +2

Weakness: It is said that Caine offered Malkav the maddening truth, a secret the Antediluvian forever shares with his progeny though his sanguine genealogy. Therefore all Malkavians automatically possess one derangement (chosen at character creation) that they can never overcome, even after spending Willpower.

Derangement: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - Germophobe and cleans everything around him.
Dementation: 3 - pg 186
Obfuscate: 3 - pg 200

Dementation Revolves around inflicting madness and its side effects on other souls. Cainites who know Malkavians personally - and even those who have only heard stories - fear Dementation more than any other Discipline. Dominate might erase your memories, Vicissitude might reshape your form, but Dementation can destroy your soul. And although Dementation is presented here as a having a fairly unified core of abilities, each Malkavian's use of Dementation is filtered through the madness that taints his soul. The application of Haunt the Soul will be quite different from a Malkavian who believes that he is the Devil incarnate than from one who suffers crippling phobias from crowds.
It is impossible to learn Dementation without possessing at least one derangement, regardless of bloodline. Should a character attempt to do so, finding a Malkavian who is willing to turn a blind eye to his relative banality, he finds himself slowly going mad, blossoming one or more of his own derangements before he is able to learn even the simplest power of the Discipline. the ability is powered by madness, and intertwines with it; sanity is salt in the soil in which one plants Dementation.
Dementation is an obvious part of Caine's curse on the Malkavian clan founder. Some legends claim that the Eldest Malkavian was a schemer and planner during the Antediluvians' revolt against Caine's first childer, and Caine cursed him with incoherence and madness to prevent this from ever happening again.
Dementation is commonly used by mystics, jesters, and the deeply disturbed.

This ability inflames emotions that already exist in its target. This can be done for good or ill, but even a positive emotion that is tripled in intensity becoms an uncontrollable, frightening thing. The Malkavian using Incubus Passion seizes on the strongest and most obvious emotion, and he intensifies it to the level of madness. The target casts aside other feelings he might be experiencing in favor of this one. A talented user of Dementation can use this ability to make frenzy all but unavoidable in a Cainite. Under no circumstances can it be used to calm a situation down or bring people to a more relaxed state.
When used on mortals this power mimics one of the emotional effects of the Curse of Caine: Affection becomes obsession, desire becomes avarice, irritation becomes hatred and so on.
System: Roll Charisma + Empathy against a difficulty of the target's Road score (for Cainites) or Willpower (for mortals). Every success extends the duration of the inflamed passion, per the following chart. Failure on this roll has no effect. A botch takes the emotion that have been kindled in the target and forces it onto you, at the tripled intensity that this power creates. That effect lasts for a scene.

Successes / Duration
1 success / One Turn
2 successes / One Hour
3 successes / One Night
4 successes / One Week
5 successes / One Month

You may choose to use this ability to affect a Cainite's frenzy, instead. Every success you roll adds one to the number of successes that the target must accrue to avoid the frenzy.

This power lets its user bombard a target with maddening visions for hours or even months, assailing her sanity and degrading the boundary between reality and imagination. The character cannot predict or control the images beyond a certain point: He can decide on a desired effect, bu the images are spawned entirely from the victim's ind and are invisible to the vampire using the power.
The images themselves are fleeting. They are only visible on the edges of the target's vision,, or they superimpose themselves over the current scene, but they exist for only a moment. Victims report that these images tend to follow a general theme: They might resolve around the target killing her family, messages from angels and saints or fire consuming everything it touches. The images may last long enough to drive the target mad, or she may find strength in herself or her faith in God to outlast an incipient breakdown.
System: Roll Manipulation + Empathy. The difficulty is the target's Perception + Self-Control or Instinct. The number of successes necessary determines the period over which the visions appear. A failure on this roll does not infect the target with images, and you cannot try again for one full night. A botch might infect you with those images (plucked from the target's unconscious, not your own) or shout down your Dementation abilities for a full night. Success yields the following duration:
Successes / Duration
1 success / One Night
2 successes / Three Nights
3 successes / One Week
4 successes / One Month
5 successes / Three Months
6+ successes / One Year

Throughout the determined time period, the target risks losing his mind. While this degeneration is something best played out or left to the Storyteller's devices, it will surely cost Willpower to keep hold of one's sanity. Those characters who do not act in accordance with their Natures, so as to better regain spent Willpower, are likely to go mad.

Madness, randomness and chaos write around every Malkavian. Though even the least enlightened Cainites of that clan can pierce the fog of normalcy that wraps most people, the Eyes of Chaos open whole new vistas as the character truly gains insight from the madness of others and from seemingly random events in the world around him. The Eyes of Chaos see through the mask that mortals and Cainites place between their true natures and the surrounding world, and they enable their user to sense madness in another.
Vampires using the Eyes of Chaos receive portents of the future with some regularity, yet they cannot always deduce the portents' meaning in time to use the information to their advantage. Their mad visions also clue them in to others' driving goals and obsessions, though again, the visions are often obscured by their medium and may convey the necessary truths too late to be of any good.
System: Roll Perception + Occult. The difficulty varies and is set by the Storyteller based on the available information, your familiarity with the situation and the taint of madness in the immediate area. To learn the Nature or derangements of a companion requires an 8; similar traits for a stranger might require a 10. The greater the madness inherent in the thing you are analyzing is, the lower the target number is. Deranged ranting written in a strange tongueis easier to assess than the clinical scribing of a monk. Analysis of a piece of art or craft - anything from a manuscript to a woven blanket - can reveal the creator's Nature or derangements much as analyzing hte person can (though one extra success is required). With five or more successes, your character can find prophetic truths in such a work that the creator did not consciously put there. And truly chaotic, random events or images are seductively easy to analyze through the Eyes of Chaos. The Vampire might well be able to see into the future after an evening spent staring into a fire or watching clouds scud by. This sort of divination, of course, is left entirely to the Storyteller, who may have her own plans for your character's future.
Information that one gains with Eyes of Chaos is inherently untrustworthy, as it is an analysis of madness as filtered through the eyes of an insane vampire. Storytellers should be sure to convey a character's impressions subjectively, preferably filtering them through the character's primary derangements.

Obfuscate allows its user to hide or otherwise conceal his identity. Often one can do so in plain sight, by fooling the minds of those around him into believing he is not present. Apprentices in t his art must remain motionless and cloaked in shadow to hide; masters can conceal a small crowd in the middle of a busy street. Those affected by this Discipline do technically still see the user, but they do not notice that they see him, and they cannot find him. Accordingly, dumb animals are only misdirected by Obfuscate. The power's user makes them uneasy even if he is entirely hidden from them.
Obfuscate is one of the oldest Disciplines known to Cainites. It is said that this ability allowed members of the third generation to hide from their sires until the time was right to strike at them. Various legends suggest that either Caine himself or Lilith taught the Discipline to the Nosferatu Antediluvian, to better hide his visage, but the Children of Haqim insist that it was their sire who refined his own hunting and stalking talents to this supernatural level.
Those vampires who use Auspex are sometimes unaffected by Obfuscate. Although the power tries to reach through such a character's senses and fool her mind, the rarefied senses of the Auspex-user prod the target into realizing that the Obfuscate-user is not as he seems. Generally speaking, a character with more dots in Auspex than the user has in Obfuscate recognizes that there is something wrong. A Perception + Alertness roll (difficulty 7) pierces any illusion the character has summoned up. A Cainite with fewer dots in Auspex, however, is no risk to the obfuscated vampire. In the event that another character has as many dots in Auspex as the vampire has in Obfuscate, the players make a resisted test, both using a difficulty of 7. The obfuscated vampire's player rolls Manipulation + Subterfuge, and the Auspex-user's player rolls Perception + Subterfuge.
Obfuscate is particularly valuable to those who wish to go about their daily business without being noticed. While spies and thieves are sure to get a lot of use out of it, a vampiric monk who must enter and leave his monastery unnoticed or a courtier who wishes to listen in secret to conversations at court is sure to revel in the power this Discipline gives. Obfuscate is part of Cane's curse on the third generation, for it is said that Caine wanted to blot his grandchilder from the Earth. Obfuscate does the next best thing, from that perspective. Those who use Obfuscate regularly find themselves divorced from society around them, only observing and never participating in ordinary social interactions.

With the aid of shadows and concealment, the Cainite using Cloak of Shadows can hide his presence from all those nearby. He deftly eases himself out of hte way of mundane senses, and thus remains unnoticed until he moves, makes a sound or does something else to call attention to himself. He must remain under cover during this time. However, should someone suspect his presence in a particular place, sustained investigation and examination reveals him.
System: No roll is required as long as the character acts as described. An observer with an Auspex rating greater than the vampire's Obfuscate rating is not fooled by Cloak of Shadows.

Unseen Presence allows the Cainite to move around and remain under a degree of concealment. Mortals and Cainite who are restricted to ordinary senses simply ignore the character's presence, unconsciously averting their gaze and paying more attention to the surrounding landscape than the character. Such victims even skirt around the character without realizing that they are doing so. They might notice that they had done so only after going back and looking at their own tracks.
The character must be careful not to call attention to himself while using this power. A clumsy action or a loud noise alerts those nearby to the Cainite's presence, and any benefit provided by Unseen Presence is at least momentarily lost.
System: As with Cloak of Shadows, no roll is immediately necessary to activate this power as long as the character starts off in a concealed place. Using the power while moving stealthily and subtly requires no roll either, but circumstances may arise that require particular stealth. In such a case, the player rolls Wits + Stealth against a difficulty assigned by the Storyteller (typically 7). Success allows the character to remain concealed. Examples of such circumstances include walking through a noisy area (a squeaky wooden floor or leaf-covered forest floor) or speaking quietly to someone nearby without being noticed by others.
Taking drastic or showy action immediately draws the attention of bystanders, who snap out of the minor trance this power puts them in. Their players make a Wits + Alertness roll (difficulty 7) to recall the character's actions while the trance lasted.

While using this ability, the Cainite remains fully visible but changes his appearance to fit a particular image. The character may choose to invent an image of his own devising or alter himself to look like a particular individual. The vampire's appearance does not really change - this isn't the Tzimisce Discipline of Vicissitude - but rather, a temporary vision is superimposed over the character's face and body.
System: The player rolls Manipulation + Performance (difficulty 7). See the following chart for the level of change the character can then make to her appearance. Bonuses to Appearance are listed, but these cannot raise the Attribute above the character's generation maximum. If the player rolls enough successes, the character can reduce her Appearance to 0 (taking on the aspect of a leper, for example).
The number of successes needed to masquerade as someone else depends on the differences between the vampire and the person she is emulating. Doing so also has its own set of risks, however. Regardless of the vampire's new appearance and voice, she is likely to confuse that person's acquaintances or give away her ruse if she cannot adequately pretend to be the other person. Plenty of Subterfuge and Performance rolls are sure to be necessary in this case.

Successes / Limit
Botch / A hideous transformation into a Nosferatu-like monster or worse
Failure / No change
1 success / Same height and weight, minor alterations to your image; maximum of +1 or -2 Appearance
2 successes / Substantially different looks; acquaintances certainly would not recognize the character; maximum of +2 or -3 Appearance
3 successes / Look like pretty much anything that's sill roughly the character's size; maximum of +3 or -4 Appearance
4 successes / Can change entirely, concealing voice, mannerisms and so on; maximum of +4 or -5 Appearance
5 successes / Can appear to be a different gender, vastly different height/weight and so on; Drastic changes are possible; maximum of +5 or -6 Appearance
Experience Costs
Trait - Cost
Attribute - current rating x 4
Ability - current rating x 2
New Ability: 3
New Discipline - 10
Clan Discipline - current rating x 5
Other Discipline - current rating x 7
Secondary Path (Necromancy or Thaumaturgy) - current rating x 4
Virtue - current rating x 2
Road - current rating x 2
Willpower - current rating

SirNateUnknown · May 21, 2022

still trying to get the disciplines info copied out

Name: Samael Caine Velmont
Gender: Male
Clan: Malkavian
Clan Disciplines: Auspex, Dementation, Obfuscate
Generation: 8th
Nature: Monster
Demeanor: Gallant
Occupation: Gravedigger
Age: 120 (24)

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 3
Sta: 1

Cha: 3
Man: 2
App: 5

Per: 3
Int: 2
Wits: 3

Talents
Alertness: 1
Athletics
Brawl
Dodge: 1
Empathy: 2
Expression: 2
Intimidation: 3
Leadership: 1
Legerdemain
Subterfuge: 3

Skills
Animal Ken
Archery
Commerce
Crafts
Etiquette: 3
Melee: 1
Performance: 1
Ride: 1
Stealth: 3
Survival

Knowledges
Academics
Hearth Wisdom
Investigation
Law
Linguistics: 1 - english and Italian
Medicine: 1
Occult
Politics: 3
Seneschal
Theology
Backgrounds
Domain: 4 - Velmont's Manor
Generation: 4 - 8th
Herd: 1 - 5 Vessels
Resources: 2
Retainer: 2

Virtues
Conscience: 2
Self-Control: 4
Courage: 3

Road - Humanity: 7
Willpower: 6
Blood Pool: 15 - Can Spend 3pts per Turn

Weakness: It is said that Caine offered Malkav the maddening truth, a secret the Antediluvian forever shares with his progeny though his sanguine genealogy. Therefore all Malkavians automatically possess one derangement (chosen at character creation) that they can never overcome, even after spending Willpower.

Derangement: Fantasy- Believes that he is the Angel of death itself and taking other people's life (mortal and kindred alike) are all god's divine plan.
Auspex: 1
Dementation: 1
Obfuscate: 4

Auspex is as much reflections of the Curse of Caine as the traditional banes, as it can lead to an obsession with minutiae and distraction from important matters due to focusing on minor details[1]. Also, higher mastery of the discipline can result in Cainites who are accustomed to using Auspex to read the minds of people in any situation and may suddenly find themselves unable to shut the mind-reading down. These vampires find themselves overwhelmed with "background noise" or, if only in the company of one or two people, answering unasked questions.[2]

It is one of the most common and favored Disciplines among Cainites due to its versatility and overall usefulness in just about every facet of vampiric existence. In addition to the individual powers granted at each level, Auspex allows someone the opportunity to see through illusions, such as from Obfuscate or Chimerstry, so long as the user possess at least an equal mastery in Auspex as the Discipline in question. Furthermore, it has been known to grant some degree of oracular ability, particularly when alerting a Cainite to danger, even if they are in torpor.

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Dementation Revolves around inflicting madness and its side effects on other souls. Cainites who know Malkavians personally - and even those who have only heard stories - fear Dementation more than any other Discipline. Dominate might erase your memories, Vicissitude might reshape your form, but Dementation can destroy your soul. And although Dementation is presented here as a having a fairly unified core of abilities, each Malkavian's use of Dementation is filtered through the madness that taints his soul. The application of Haunt the Soul will be quite different from a Malkavian who believes that he is the Devil incarnate than from one who suffers crippling phobias from crowds.
It is impossible to learn Dementation without possessing at least one derangement, regardless of bloodline. Should a character attempt to do so, finding a Malkavian who is willing to turn a blind eye to his relative banality, he finds himself slowly going mad, blossoming one or more of his own derangements before he is able to learn even the simplest power of the Discipline. the ability is powered by madness, and intertwines with it; sanity is salt in the soil in which one plants Dementation.
Dementation is an obvious part of Caine's curse on the Malkavian clan founder. Some legends claim that the Eldest Malkavian was a schemer and planner during the Antediluvians' revolt against Caine's first childer, and Caine cursed him with incoherence and madness to prevent this from ever happening again.
Dementation is commonly used by mystics, jesters, and the deeply disturbed.

This ability inflames emotions that already exist in its target. This can be done for good or ill, but even a positive emotion that is tripled in intensity becoms an uncontrollable, frightening thing. The Malkavian using Incubus Passion seizes on the strongest and most obvious emotion, and he intensifies it to the level of madness. The target casts aside other feelings he might be experiencing in favor of this one. A talented user of Dementation can use this ability to make frenzy all but unavoidable in a Cainite. Under no circumstances can it be used to calm a situation down or bring people to a more relaxed state.
When used on mortals this power mimics one of the emotional effects of the Curse of Caine: Affection becomes obsession, desire becomes avarice, irritation becomes hatred and so on.
System: Roll Charisma + Empathy against a difficulty of the target's Road score (for Cainites) or Willpower (for mortals). Every success extends the duration of the inflamed passion, per the following chart. Failure on this roll has no effect. A botch takes the emotion that have been kindled in the target and forces it onto you, at the tripled intensity that this power creates. That effect lasts for a scene.

Successes / Duration
1 success / One Turn
2 successes / One Hour
3 successes / One Night
4 successes / One Week
5 successes / One Month

You may choose to use this ability to affect a Cainite's frenzy, instead. Every success you roll adds one to the number of successes that the target must accrue to avoid the frenzy.

Obfuscate allows its user to hide or otherwise conceal his identity. Often one can do so in plain sight, by fooling the minds of those around him into believing he is not present. Apprentices in t his art must remain motionless and cloaked in shadow to hide; masters can conceal a small crowd in the middle of a busy street. Those affected by this Discipline do technically still see the user, but they do not notice that they see him, and they cannot find him. Accordingly, dumb animals are only misdirected by Obfuscate. The power's user makes them uneasy even if he is entirely hidden from them.
Obfuscate is one of the oldest Disciplines known to Cainites. It is said that this ability allowed members of the third generation to hide from their sires until the time was right to strike at them. Various legends suggest that either Caine himself or Lilith taught the Discipline to the Nosferatu Antediluvian, to better hide his visage, but the Children of Haqim insist that it was their sire who refined his own hunting and stalking talents to this supernatural level.
Those vampires who use Auspex are sometimes unaffected by Obfuscate. Although the power tries to reach through such a character's senses and fool her mind, the rarefied senses of the Auspex-user prod the target into realizing that the Obfuscate-user is not as he seems. Generally speaking, a character with more dots in Auspex than the user has in Obfuscate recognizes that there is something wrong. A Perception + Alertness roll (difficulty 7) pierces any illusion the character has summoned up. A Cainite with fewer dots in Auspex, however, is no risk to the obfuscated vampire. In the event that another character has as many dots in Auspex as the vampire has in Obfuscate, the players make a resisted test, both using a difficulty of 7. The obfuscated vampire's player rolls Manipulation + Subterfuge, and the Auspex-user's player rolls Perception + Subterfuge.
Obfuscate is particularly valuable to those who wish to go about their daily business without being noticed. While spies and thieves are sure to get a lot of use out of it, a vampiric monk who must enter and leave his monastery unnoticed or a courtier who wishes to listen in secret to conversations at court is sure to revel in the power this Discipline gives. Obfuscate is part of Cane's curse on the third generation, for it is said that Caine wanted to blot his grandchilder from the Earth. Obfuscate does the next best thing, from that perspective. Those who use Obfuscate regularly find themselve divorced from society around them, only observing and never participating in ordinary social interactions.

With the aid of shadows and concealment, the Cainite using Cloak of Shadows can hide his presence from all those nearby. He deftly eases himself out of hte way of mundane senses, and thus remains unnoticed until he moves, makes a sound or does something else to call attention to himself. He must remain under cover during this time. However, should someone suspect his presence in a particular place, sustained investigation and examination reveals him.
System: No roll is required as long as the character acts as described. An observer with an Auspex rating greater than the vampire's Obfuscate rating is not fooled by Cloak of Shadows.

Unseen Presence allows the Cainite to move around and remain under a degree of concealment. Mortals and Cainite who are restricted to ordinary senses simply ignore the character's presence, unconsciously averting their gaze and paying more attention to the surrounding landscape than the character. Such victims even skirt around the character without realizing that they are doing so. They might notice that they had done so only after going back and looking at their own tracks.
The character must be careful not to call attention to himself while using this power. A clumsy action or a loud noise alerts those nearby to t he Cainite's presence, and any benefit provided by Unseen Presence is at least momentarily lost.
System: As with Cloak of Shadows, no roll is immediately necessary to activate this power as long as the character starts off in a concealed place. Using the power while moving stealthily and subtly requires no roll either, but circumstances may arise that require particular stealth. In such a case, the player rolls Wits + Stealth against a difficulty assigned by the Storyteller (typically 7). Success allows the character to remain concealed. Examples of such circumstances include walking through a noisy area (a squeaky wooden floor or leaf-covered forest floor) or speaking quietly to someone nearby without being noticed by others.
Taking drastic or showy action immediately draws the attention of bystanders, who snap out of the minor trance this power puts them in. Their players make a Wits + Alertness roll (difficulty 7) to recall the character's actions while the trance lasted.

While using this ability, the Cainite remains fully visible but changes his appearance to fit a particular image. The character may choose to invent an image of his own devising or alter himself to look like a particular individual. The vampire's appearance does not really change - this isn't the Tzimisce Discipline of Vicissitude - but rather, a temporary vision is superimposed over the character's face and body.
System: The player rolls Manipulation + Performance (difficulty 7). See the following chart for the level of change the character can then make to her appearance. Bonuses to Appearance are listed, but these cannot raise the Attribute above the character's generation maximum. If the player rolls enough successes, the character can reduce her Appearance to 0 (taking on the aspect of a leper, for example).
The number of successes needed to masquerade as someone else depends on the differences between the vampire and the person she is emulating. Doing so also has its own set of risks, however. Regardless of the vampire's new appearance and voice, she is likely to confuse that person's acquaintances or give away her ruse if she cannot adequately pretend to be the other person. Plenty of Subterfuge and Performance rolls are sure to be necessary in this case.

Successes / Limit
Botch / A hideous transformation into a Nosferatu-like monster or worse
Failure / No change
1 success / Same height and weight, minor alterations to your image; maximum of +1 or -2 Appearance
2 successes / Substantially different looks; acquaintances certainly would not recognize the character; maximum of +2 or -3 Appearance
3 successes / Look like pretty much anything that's sill roughly the character's size; maximum of +3 or -4 Appearance
4 successes / Can change entirely, concealing voice, mannerisms and so on; maximum of +4 or -5 Appearance
5 successes / Can appear to be a different gender, vastly different height/weight and so on; Drastic changes are possible; maximum of +5 or -6 Appearance

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Experience Costs
Trait - Cost
Attribute - current rating x 4
Ability - current rating x 2
New Ability: 3
New Discipline - 10
Clan Discipline - current rating x 5
Other Discipline - current rating x 7
Secondary Path (Necromancy or Thaumaturgy) - current rating x 4
Virtue - current rating x 2
Road - current rating x 2
Willpower - current rating

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