Discipline Powers

Subtle Spy (Chimerstry ••••• •)
The user of this power may create a perceivable,
understandable illusion (such as a lamp or a person) that
incorporates part of her own consciousness, effectively
granting the illusion a small amount of independent
intelligence. When the Ravnos dispels that illusion, she
may draw this intelligence back into herself, learning
anything that her illusion witnessed as if she had
experienced it firsthand.
System: Imbuing an illusion with Illusory Mind costs
two Willpower points, and lasts for one night (or less, if
the Ravnos wills the illusion to dispel). If the illusion is
an object, it will witness anything that the Ravnos could
sense from the object’s location. If the illusion is mobile
(a person or animal), then it may be programmed as
per Apparition (V20, pp. 144-145), and at the end of its
existence, the Ravnos will learn everything the Apparition
sensed. Further, this Apparition is vaguely conscious, and
can knowingly change its actions in small ways: stepping
around an obstacle, giving the appropriate response to a
simple question, and so forth.
The user of this power does not know what is occurring
around her illusion if she is not otherwise there to sense it.
She may dispel the illusion at any time, and at any distance,
drawing back to herself the substance (and experiences) of
that illusion as it is destroyed. If the illusion is dispelled
or disbelieved before the Ravnos can reincorporate it
into herself, the illusion is destroyed and no knowledge
is returned to the Ravnos, other than the fact that her
spy exists no more.


Combination Disciplines

Carriage Horses (Animalism ••, Fortitude •••)
This power originated among Ravnos kumpaniyas.
Most traveling groups had animal ghouls for the purpose
of protecting and guarding the vampires during the day,
and some clever individual learned how to make those
retainers serve an even greater purpose. By the use of this
power, a Ravnos can transfer a point of damage he has
suffered to one of his animal ghouls.
System: If the Ravnos has any animal ghouls within
sight, he may elect to use this power. The player spends
one blood point and rolls Stamina + Animal Ken against
a difficulty of 8. Each success transfers one Health level
of damage (any type) to the animal. This can only be used
immediately after the vampire is wounded (after the soak
roll) and counts as a reflexive action.
This power costs 15 experience points to learn.

Eventide Strength (Chimerstry •••, Fortitude •)
Typically, the powers of Chimerstry are dispelled by the
touch of sunlight. However, a Ravnos who has studied this
power has learned subtle tricks to reinforce the maya within
her illusions, rendering them less vulnerable to the sun.
System: A Ravnos who has learned this power can
strengthen her uses of Chimerstry, causing it to survive
one hour of sunlight.
This power costs 12 experience points to learn.

Heart’s Desire (Auspex ••••, Chimerstry ••)
With this power, a Ravnos reaches into a target’s emotion
and creates an image of the target’s greatest wish. This
desire manifests as some sort of material object: a love
letter, a stack of money, or the golden crown of a Prince.
No matter what manifests, the Ravnos who used this
power understands the meaning and nature of the item,
and is able to comprehend the target’s deepest desire.
The Ravnos has no magical ability to understand the why
or wherefore of that desire; only that this is the person’s
fondest dream.
Obviously, handing that love letter to the target will
not convince her that the Ravnos can (or has) caused her
greatest desire to truly come true. Instead, most Ravnos
cunningly use this power to discover a target’s secrets, and
never reveal to the other individual that Heart’s Desire
was used at all.
System: To target a player with this power, the Ravnos
must have touched them within the last three rounds.
Once that has been achieved, the player must spend a
blood point and a Willpower point. Then, roll Intelligence
+ Subterfuge against a difficulty of the target’s current
Willpower, and achieve three successes. If the Ravnos
is successful, an illusory item manifests within the
Ravnos’ hand as if Fata Morgana (V20, p. 144) had
been used, and the Ravnos instinctively understands
the meaning of the item and the general nature of the
target’s desire.
This power costs 18 experience points to learn.

Sympathetic Agony (Chimerstry ••, Fortitude ••••)
The Kshatriya caste developed this power as a weapon
of last resort, punishing their enemies with illusory
agonies in the throes of combat. After a target strikes
a Ravnos who has successfully used this power, the
target feels the pain of that specific attack instead of
the Ravnos.
System: The user of this power rolls Manipulation +
Intimidation against a difficulty equal to the victim’s
Perception + Self-Control. If successful, for the rest of
the scene the target will feel a supernaturally augmented
reflection of any pain she inflicts by attacking you.
Any time your target attacks you, she immediately
suffers a penalty to all physical actions equal to the
successes you scored when activating this power.
Penalties inflicted by Sympathetic Agony last for three
full turns. Penalties from this power do not stack; a
character under the effects of multiple applications
of Sympathetic Agony suffers a penalty equal to the
highest number of successes scored on a single use of
the power’s activation.
This power costs 18 experience points to learn.

Waking Dream (Chimerstry •, Fortitude •)
You may briefly treat an illusion you’ve created as
though it were real.
System: Once per game session, you may utilize
a simple illusion (climbing a rope, landing on a
trampoline, unlocking a door with an illusory key, or
similar) as if it were real for one turn. Waking Dream
cannot be used to directly harm or help any other
character.
This power costs 6 experience points to learn.