MET LARP SRD
(2013 BNS MET System)
Heart of Darkness
Serpentis • Level 5
In Egyptian legends, the hearts of the dead are removed so that they may be weighed against the feather of truth. Those found wanting are thrown into a lake of fire and devoured, while those who are worthy are accepted into paradise. It is within your power to remove the hearts of undead creatures, taking judgment into your own hands.
Cost
1 Blood
Focus
Charisma
You can perform Heart of Darkness any night of the month, and can do so on an unwilling target, so long as she is in torpor.
System
Spend 1 Blood and one hour performing a complex ritual in order to draw the heart from an unliving (vampiric) body: either your own, or that of another willing participant. No test is necessary to remove a heart.
This power can only be utilized on the night of a new moon.
While most vampiric flesh rots and decays in a single turn after being separated from its body, a heart removed with this power remains intact. The heart can be replaced by another use of Heart of Darkness, so long as the power’s user possesses the correct heart to restore. It is not possible to install a fake heart or the heart of another individual using Heart of Darkness.
Anyone whose heart is removed in this fashion is immune to staking . Further, when this character attempts to resist frenzy, she does so as if she had one less Beast trait. A separated heart may be staked, even if the target vampire is not otherwise wounded. If the heart is staked, then that vampire is immediately paralyzed as though she had been staked normally. Should the heart be exposed to even a single point of damage from fire or sunlight, it is destroyed, and its owner erupts into flame and is reduced to ash, meeting Final Death in a single turn. Obviously, trying to use this power on a mortal, even a ghoul, is messily fatal.
Source: MET - VTM - Core Book