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Art is subjective, and beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. While other Toreador focus on their paintings or their voices, your talents are a little more grotesque. When using your Crafts skill test pool, you may incorporate your Vicissitude powers to create objects that are shockingly and disturbingly alive. These objects are fully functional and are imbued with a horrifying biological capability. For example, a book may have a mouth and the ability to read itself to you, a harp may have arms to pluck itself, or a piece of furniture may have moving legs to arrange itself when commanded. To use this merit, declare your intent to use it to the Storyteller and select a single function to imbue into a crafted item. Using this merit causes you to enter the next game session with a number of Beast traits appropriate to killing an animal or human donor, subject to any modifiers, such as those granted by Morality merits. In most cases, a human donor is required to craft an item using Visceral Artisan, but some simple functions can be accomplished with animal components. Donor specimens cannot be supernatural creatures other than ghouls; the physiology of supernatural creatures simply does not work with your methods. Once you have gathered sufficient materials, make a static challenge using your Crafts skill test pool against the difficulty of the object you’re creating. If you succeed, the object takes on the intended characteristic. If you fail, the Storyteller determines if you must either start again, or if the object is created, but with a darker functionality or consequence. Objects created in using Visceral Artisan require some trivial degree of maintenance, such as feeding it an occasional bit of raw meat; these objects do not require any downtime actions to maintain. If fed your Blood, they survive indefinitely, and they can be subjected to the blood bond. However, if these objects are abandoned, not cared for, or lack the functionality to feed themselves, they will die. These objects are undeniable breaches of the Masquerade and are typically hidden away, even when lovingly cherished by their owners.