Challenge Pool: Manipulation + Animal Ken vs. variable

Cost: One Rouse Check (free if used on a ghouled Familiar)

System: To activate Subsume the Spirit, target an animal within your line of sight, perform one Rouse check, and spend a standard action. No Rouse check is required to target your own ghouled Familiars (see Familiar). Make a Manipulation + Animal Ken test vs. difficulty 4. If successful, your consciousness is transferred into the target animal’s body. When targeting an animal ghouled by someone other than yourself, or an animal that is already Subsumed by another, you must also succeed in a Manipulation + Animal Ken challenge vs. the Resolve + Animal Ken of its domitor. Successfully targeting an animal who was Subsumed by another character kicks that character’s consciousness out of the body and returns them to their vampiric body.

While the animal is inhabited by your consciousness, its mind is rendered into a fugue-like state. Because your character’s mind is focused entirely on controlling the body she has inhabited, the vampire has no sense of anything occurring to her native physical form. Your character’s original body falls into a torpid state and can neither defend itself nor act on its own, but it does retain your Fortitude or other powers that are always active while your consciousness is absent. While Subsuming the Spirit, you always know the direction and distance of your real body, even if it moves, although you cannot perceive its surroundings.

While possessing a ghouled animal, you may utilize any Discipline powers it possesses as if used by the ghoul itself. You maintain your own mental attributes, but you must use the attributes and Skills of the animal in all other cases.

Subsume the Spirit lasts for one hour. You may extend the duration of Subsume the Spirit by performing one Rouse check prior to its expiration. When extending this possession into the daylight, you must follow the rules for staying awake (see Awakening), and, if you see the sun, you must test for Terror Frenzy vs. a difficulty of 2. If the animal dies while you are possessing it, your consciousness immediately returns to your body and you suffer one Aggravated Damage. If your physical body takes damage of any type, your consciousness is immediately released from the animal and returns to your character's body.

Duration: One hour plus one hour per additional Rouse Check