MET LARP SRD
(2013 BNS MET System)
Deny Death’s Imminence
The Path of Grief • Level 1
Denial is a common first-stage response to grief, where the terminal or bereaved actively rejects the reality of her circumstances. This early coping mechanism is theorized to exist, in part, to allow the psyche to accumulate the emotional energy needed to face the crisis. You have the power to induce this state, bewildering your victims.
Cost
1 Blood
Focus
Manipulation
This power affects Stock NPCs of rating 5 or lower.
System
Spend a point of Blood and your simple action to project necrotic energies, extending 15 steps from you in every direction. Those within this area lose the ability to comprehend and process mortal threats and instead resort to denial. Supernatural creatures can sense this effect and are immune; however, most ordinary humans cannot resist this power. As a result, Stock NPCs of rating 3 or lower will ignore any threats to their well being provided they and others are not directly harmed, continuing to act as if nothing is happening. If they are attacked, they will react fearfully. For example, if a Tzimisce in Horrid Form lumbers past an affected Stock 3 NPC while this power is active, the NPC will be unable to process the imminent threat and will ignore it entirely. This power has no effect on Stock NPCs rated 4 or higher.
The use of this power can effectively preserve the Masquerade as bystanders will ignore acts of violence and other Masquerade breeching effects carried out in their presence. These observers will mentally classify the events as non-remarkable, even if they might otherwise regard them as extraordinary. They will not act on these events and will quickly forget any details over the span of 24 hours as their recollection blurs.
Source: MET - VTM - V2 (2021)