Discipline Powers

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Make one Rouse Check and spend your Standard Action to verbally taunt or challenge a target character within 12 steps of you to activate Savage Provocation. Until your target succeeds in a contested challenge against you that she initiates, she may not initiate an offensive challenge against anyone else. Any challenge will suffice, though an attack is certainly a common response to this power. During this time, if you willingly move away from your target or become invisible to the target, whether through breaking line of sight or through the effect of Obfuscate, Savage Provocation immediately ends. You may only target one character at a time with this power. Targeting a second character immediately ends the effect on the first character, regardless of whether or not you succeed.

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As long as you have not taken any offensive actions this turn, you may make 1 Rouse Check at any point in the initiative order to activate Between the Ticks for one turn. While active, you may not take any offensive Physical actions. Instead, when an ally within six steps of you is attacked, you may declare the Assist Defender maneuver to temporarily move to within one step of them and defend them without expending an action. After completing the Assist Defender maneuver, you return to the location from which you started. You may do this up to five times per turn.

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Make one Rouse Check, expend your Standard Action, and make an opposed challenge against a target character. Your target can no longer separate friend from foe for the scene. She considers all characters to be her enemies. She is no longer able to employ beneficial powers on allies or take actions that directly benefit any other characters, such as Assist Defender. She cannot benefit from helpful powers originating from other characters, and she is never considered a willing target for any mechanics. On her next turn, she must spend a simple action to end any powers she is currently maintaining that positively affect other characters. She must then attack or use a power to attack the person who is physically nearest to her as if they were attempting to kill her, and she was defending herself in a fight for her life against them. She continues to use her simple and Standard Actions each turn to best attack the person nearest to her for the duration of the power, changing targets as necessary if a new person comes closer to her. Powers that enhance attacks, such as Puissance or Staggering Strike, must be applied to any attacks, and the most effective, damaging, and/or disabling power must be used. The Storyteller may exercise their discretion to determine the appropriate action in the situation. This power is not broken by being attacked, even if the user does not possess Terminal Decree.

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This power can be activated at any point during the initiative order. Once active, the user cannot be moved in any way unless she chooses to be moved. This power does not make her immune to damage, such as from being hit by an oncoming car. However, such a collision will not move the character. It will severely hamper the normal movement of the vehicle. Objects that hit you are likely damaged and deflect off of you with substantially reduced momentum. Collisions such as this are blatant breaches of the Masquerade. Because you are fixed in position, using this power while in a moving vehicle is very dangerous. Your body will tear through the vehicle as it moves through your position. Whatever the reason, if you collide with a moving object with sufficient mass to injure a person, you take damage equal to the Structure of the object you collide with. Your Storyteller is the final arbiter on other results of such collisions.

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This power can be activated at any point during the initiative order with no action cost. It can also be activated preemptively outside of initiative order to prevent specific effects, as described below. Once activated, the vampire gains a specific immunity based on the Resonance of the blood they most recently fed upon. • Choleric: While active, the first time a stake would usually pierce the vampire's heart, it instead decays to ash without doing any damage. • Melancholy: While active, the first three damage a vampire takes from fire damage is automatically reduced to Normal damage. • Phlegmatic: When active, the first time an Auspex power is used during a scene to reveal something about your character or something they know, the power fails without a test. • Sanguine: During the scene, the first four damage a vampire takes from the sun is automatically reduced to Normal damage. Once any of these four effects are triggered, the Resonance of the blood weakens, and the vampire must feed before activating this power again. If they have a Dyscrasia card, they may keep and use it as per usual.

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Make one Rouse Check and spend your Standard Action while saying "you cannot escape" to a target whose Gaze and Focus you have. If successful on an opposed challenge, your target's mind tricks them by creating mental obstacles that keep them trapped in the building they are presently in. They are unable to leave the room or declare Fair Escape from a combat scenario for a scene, even if helped by another character. You must make an additional Rouse Check to trap a target inside a single room or a densely packed outdoor environment, such as a forest or a construction site. If you attempt to use this power on a target and fail, you cannot use it on them again for 5 minutes. This power may not be overcome using Auspex. This power fails if the environment becomes dangerous (such as if the building is on fire), or if the target is attacked, unless you also possess the power Terminal Decree.

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Make one Rouse Check and expend your Standard Action. If you succeed on an opposed challenge, your target's perceptions are twisted into a distorted experience that prevents them from accurately perceiving the world around them. Mechanically, they are rendered Impaired for the scene. This power may not be overcome with Auspex.

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Spend a Standard Action inciting a target vampire or other supernatural creature capable of Frenzy, whose Gaze and Focus you have, to enter Fury Frenzy with your words and gestures. If successful on a contested challenge, your target immediately tests for Fury Frenzy against a difficulty of 8. If they Frenzy, their source of anger is the closest character. This power may be used with Capricious Visage.

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Make one Rouse Check and use a simple action to activate Beneath Notice for up to one hour. While Beneath Notice is active, observers will assume that you are an expected and legitimate part of their surroundings so long as you do not draw undue attention to yourself. They assume you have an authentic reason to be there and will not question your presence. You can interact with mortals while under the effect of this power so long as you do not startle them or give them any reason to scrutinize your appearance. In addition, no one will stop to ask you for identification or credentials. They will casually overlook you, assuming that they have already verified your reasons for being in the area, along with everyone else. Beneath Notice will fail immediately if you attempt to enter a restricted area alone. Any mortals observing you or interacting with you are incapable of describing you in any specific detail after the effects of this power end. Mortals will only remember a bland-seeming individual with the proper credentials and reasons to be present and little else. If you are detected using another power, threaten or attack another character, or otherwise draw significant attention to yourself, this power immediately ends. Supernatural creatures may attempt to pierce this power using Sense the Unseen or other similar powers.

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A vampire who possesses the powers Awe, Daunt, or Majesty may extend them through the structure of a building. You may only extend one of the listed powers at a time. Anyone inside or looking at the building treats it and you as the source of the power you are extending. These powers work as follows: • Awe: A building under the influence of Awe will cause people within line of sight to flock to the building and try to get inside unless they spend a Willpower point to ignore Awe. • Daunt: Will cause all mortals within line of sight to be nervous and afraid of the building. They will refuse to enter or try to harm the building unless they win a Resolve + Composure challenge vs. difficulty 3. Supernatural creatures can sense the threatening aura of the building but may act freely. • Majesty: When Majesty is used to suffuse a building, treat the entire building as if it were the vampire itself. When Majesty is used to suffuse a building, it is hazardous to the Masquerade. If you attack or use a power on an individual affected by Suffuse the Edifice, this power ends for that person. They are rendered immune to your use of Suffuse the Edifice for the next hour and act normally. This breaking of Suffuse the Edifice only affects that specific individual; others in the area who are affected by Suffuse the Edifice are not freed simply by witnessing your attack or power use on their friend. Those characters previously affected by Suffuse the Edifice are then immune to your uses of the power for the rest of the night.

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Make one Rouse Check and spend your Standard Action while you are within 15 steps of at least one human body that died within the last 30 minutes. For each dead body present within 15 steps of you, you may Slake 1 Hunger as you absorb the body into your own. You may Slake Hunger in this way a number of times up to your dots in Blood Sorcery. You may not reduce your Hunger below 1 with Visceral Absorption. When complete, no evidence of any dead body is left, no blood splatter, dead flesh, or bones, as the evidence has been absorbed into you with no change in your body mass. The use of this power is very efficient at covering up a messy scene. However, while in use, it is a massive breach of the Masquerade as a vortex of blood and viscera swirl around and are slowly absorbed into you.