MET LARP SRD
(2013 BNS MET System)
Spirit's Touch
Auspex • Level 3
Living creatures leave behind traces of thoughts and emotions like a rippled wake of water. With this power, a character can read the psychic impressions on recently handled objects or locations that have strong emotional events tied to them. A touch and a moment of concentration can unlock a flood of images and sensations, possibly giving insight into the past.
Note that you can only use this power on objects or places, and not on people, vampires, animals, or other living creatures. The visions received by the use of this power are seldom clear or detailed, and register more like a “psychic snapshot.” Still, a clever vampire can learn a great deal from a glimpse. Although most visions will reveal the last person to handle the item or be present in a location, a long-time owner may leave a stronger impression, and a long-ago trauma may overwhelm more recent events that transpire at a location.
To get a psychic impression, you must physically hold an item (or touch parts of a location) with your bare skin. As you do so, you enter a shallow trance and glean information from the spiritual residue on the object. You are only marginally aware of your surroundings while using Spirit’s Touch, although a loud noise or jarring physical sensation will break the trance in an instant.
Cost
1 Blood, Standard Action
Focus
Perception
When you activate Spirit’s Touch, you may ask three questions instead of one.
System
Spend 1 point of Blood and use your standard action to touch an object. You can then ask the Storyteller one of the following questions, plus an additional question for every five minutes your character concentrates on the object or location:
• Show me the last person who handled the object. › Your character receives a vision of the last person to use the object. The vision generally shows the last significant individual, not simply the most recent person who touched the item.
• How did the individual die? › This question may only be asked when Spirit’s Touch is used on a dead body (or part of a dead body). Your character receives a vision of the last few moments of the target’s life.
• When (or how) was the object last used? › Your character gains an image of the item’s most recent use and target (a knife stabbing, with the victim’s appearance; binoculars looking down, seeing the Prince’s car; etc.). If the object was recently involved in an emotional event, such as a murder or a robbery, your character gets a brief glimpse of the emotion, and how it relates to the item.
• Are there any strong emotions attached to this object? › If someone loves or hates the object, or if any deep emotions are relevant to the object’s use, your character will receive such information. This information may be quite old, depending on the object’s nature and associations. Some objects or locations have particularly strong emotional connections. Your Storyteller may elect to provide one or more answers for free when a character uses Spirit’s Touch on such an emotionally charged target. Characters using any level of Obfuscate who handle an object or visit a location do not leave psychic impressions.
For the purposes of this power, corpses (including the corpses of supernatural creatures and the ashes of vampires) count as objects and may be targeted by Spirit’s Touch. Vampires who have not met Final Death do not count as corpses.
Exceptional Success
None.
Source: MET - VTM - Core Book