MET LARP SRD
(2013 BNS MET System)
Death’s Puppetry
The Bone Path • Level 5
The most terrifying power of a corpse necromancer is the ability to inhabit a corpse, spiritually taking over your target’s physical form and wearing the corpse as if it were your own flesh. While you are in command of the target’s body, you can take any physical action that body is capable of performing.
Focus
Charisma
You can possess any zombie you control, such as those created by Shambling Hordes. You can activate this power even if you cannot see that zombie, so long as it is within one mile of your current location. You must still pay all other costs of using this power.
System
To use Death’s Puppetry, you must spend your standard action and target a true corpse or zombie within line of sight, including zombies you do not control. Your consciousness transfers into the target corpse as though that body were your own. Your original body falls into a torpid state and can neither defend itself nor act on its own, although your torpid body still has access to any Fortitude you possess.
Corpses have no disciplines and cannot spend Blood. Further, a character cannot use any of her own disciplines while using Death’s Puppetry. While inhabiting this corpse body, a character uses her own Mental attributes and focuses, Social attributes and focuses, skills, and backgrounds. You must use the corpse’s Physical attribute, rather than your own, for all Physical challenges while using Death’s Puppetry. While possessing a zombie, you cannot spend Blood points, but can use the zombie’s Fortitude and/or Potence. If you use Death’s Puppetry on a Stock NPC, the subject’s Physical attribute is equal to double that NPC’s rating. You cannot utilize the target’s Physical attribute focuses.
Death’s Puppetry lasts until the next sunrise or until you spend a simple action for your character to return to her native body. Death’s Puppetry ends immediately if the character travels more than 10 miles away from her native body, if the character’s native body takes damage, or if the corpse she’s inhabiting is destroyed.
Errata
Add the following line: “While possessing a zombie, you cannot spend Blood points, but can use the zombie’s Fortitude and/or Potence.”
Source: MET - VTM - Core Book