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MET LARP SRD

(2013 BNS MET System)

The Darkness Within

Level 7
3 Blood

Obtenebration • Level 7

Tendrils of shadow pour forth from your mouth, eyes, ears, and even open wounds, enveloping your enemies in clouds of thick, inky, darkness like a more sinister Shroud of Night. Within the darkness your enemies are assaulted by horrors they cannot comprehend as you feed on their very essence.

Cost

3 Blood

System

Spend a standard action and 3 points of Blood and designate a number of targets up to your dots in the Occult skill that are within your line of sight. Inky black tendrils of the abyss erupt from nearby shadows to envelop your targets. Initiate an opposed challenge against your targets using your Social attribute + Occult skill versus your targets Physical attribute + Dodge skill. Should you expend a point of Willpower to retest any of these opposed challenges, you also gain that retest for the remainder of the opposed challenges without spending further Willpower. If you spend the Willpower to retest after some challenges have been resolved, you cannot go back to previous challenges you have lost and apply that Willpower retest retroactively.

Characters who are successfully targeted by The Darkness Within are considered Grappled and immediately gain 1 Beast trait and lose 1 Blood. You may choose to ingest the blood drained, without risk of blood bonds, or you may feed the blood to the Abyss, consigning it to Oblivion. However, any harmful effects such as Acid Blood, still affect you. At the beginning of each everyman action that she remains Grappled she gains an additional Beast trait and loses an additional point of Blood.

If an individual Grappled by this power attempts to escape, she must succeed in an opposed challenge using her Physical attribute + Brawl skill versus your Social attribute + Occult skill. A victim who succeeds in breaking free or that you willingly release from The Darkness Within must immediately test for fear frenzy. Characters affected by this power gain Beast traits and test for frenzy even if they are not normally susceptible to those effects. The Beast traits gained through this power fade at the end of combat and cannot cause Morality loss.

Exceptional Success

Should your target escape The Darkness Within, she may not spend a point of Willpower to avoid the effects of a frenzy caused by The Darkness Within.

Source: MET - VTM - V2 (2021)