One World of Darkness

Focus: Wits

Focus

Opponents receive a -5 penalty to Awareness challenges to discover your uses of Contradict.

You have the power to twist your target’s cognitive processes and perceptions, forcing her to reverse her last decision into something darker and destructive.

System

Spend 1 Blood, use your standard action, and make an opposed challenge using the Thaumaturgy test pool to use Contradict. If you succeed, the action or decision your target is about to undertake becomes its negative, far darker opposite. Your target determines the details of this decision, and she must roleplay it, although the Storyteller may intervene and provide speciﬁc instruction. You cannot predict the exact results of Contradict in advance, but it always takes the form of a more negative action than the subject had originally intended to perform.

You can use Contradict on any target within your line of sight. Contradict cannot be used in combat nor to effect actions that are mainly physical or reﬂexive.

Exceptional success

This use of Contradict is subtle, and cannot be detected with an Awareness challenge. This is an exception to the rule that allows Awareness to detect the use of supernatural powers.