Theft of Vitae - The Path of Blood

One of the basic principles of sympathetic magic is the concept that like is attracted to like. By mystically attuning the vitae in your body into a thaumaturgical magnet, you can literally siphon blood from your target, causing it to cascade out of your enemy’s pores and into your hand, to be absorbed instantly into the caster’s system.

Cost

1 Blood

Focus

Intelligence

When you use Theft of Vitae to steal blood from a vampire, your power neutralizes the blood to a certain degree. Blood drawn with this power cannot induce a blood bond in you, sicken you, or carry diseases. Supernatural powers affecting vampire vitae, such as Vicissitude’s Acid Blood, remain in effect.

System

Spend 1 Blood and use your standard action to make an opposed challenge using your Mental attribute + Occult versus the target’s Mental attribute + Willpower, targeting a character within 25 steps of you. If you succeed, you can mystically draw forth 3 points of Blood from your victim. This blood bursts through your victim’s pores, soaring through the air into your hand, and is then mystically absorbed into your own ﬂesh. Blood stolen in this fashion has all of its normal properties — ingesting blood from a vampire creates a blood bond, poisoned blood still sickens you, diseased blood passes on its infection, and so on. Needless to say, this rather unsettling power is considered a breach of the Masquerade when used openly.

You may use Theft of Vitae on consecutive turns even if you fail a challenge. This is an exception to the rule that prevents you from immediately reattempting a Mental challenge on the same target.

Exceptional Success

You steal 4 points of Blood from your target, rather than 3.

Errata

Add the following line to the end of the power’s description: “You may use Theft of Vitae on consecutive turns even if you fail a challenge. This is an exception to the rule that prevents you from immediately reattempting a Mental challenge on the same target.”

Source: MET - VTM - Core Book