MET LARP SRD
(2013 BNS MET System)
Baal’s Caress
Quietus • Level 4
By continuing her study into vitae transformation, this power’s user can alter the properties of a vampire’s blood even further, rendering it into an intensely vitrolic ichor. This ichor destroys any flesh it touches, whether living or undead.
Cost
1 Blood
Focus
Intelligence
Weapons coated by your Baal’s Caress remain toxic for five turns instead of the standard three. Additionally, you may choose to thicken the ichor of your blood sufficiently so individuals other than yourself can wield it safely without risking injury.
System
Spend 1 point of Blood and use your simple action to meditate upon the properties of your vitae, and draw a sharpened blade across your skin, creating a shallow cut in order to coat the edge of a weapon with a layer of your own vitae. This weapon must be used quickly, before the blood dries and loses its supernatural properties. For the next three turns, the weapon gains the Deadly trait, and anyone struck with this weapon takes aggravated damage from the weapon’s strike. Note that Baal’s Caress does not increase the damage done by a given weapon, but that weapon infl icts aggravated damage, rather than normal damage.
You are immune to your own Baal’s Caress, but other individuals wielding weapons coated with your ichor risk being injured. If someone else uses a weapon coated by your Baal’s Caress, she takes a point of aggravated damage if she loses any test involved in the challenge. This occurs even if the individual wins the overall challenge. It is possible for both a weapon’s wielder and the target of that attack to be affected by your ichor in the same action. If the wielder repeatedly loses tests in challenges, she will take multiple points of aggravated damage.
You can poison a single sword-sized or smaller weapon with each expenditure of Baal’s Caress. This item could be a dagger, a sword, one crossbow bolt, one arrow, or something similar. Baal’s Caress is normally used with edged or sharpened weapons. If used on a non-edged weapon, you must spend a standard action, rather than a simple action, to tear open your flesh by some other means and coat the weapon with vitae. Baal’s Caress cannot be used to modify bullets or other fi rearms equipment, as the heat and speed of a fi rearm destroys the blood coating on any projectile fired.
Baal’s Caress cannot be used with unarmed attacks.
Source: MET - VTM - Core Book