Revised Vicissitude
By Jeff Bussey
Introduction
Methods
Shapeshifting
System: Body Alteration + Intelligence - Difficulty: 7. Kindred must expend one blood point.
Healing Touch
System: Medicine + Intelligence - Difficulty: 7. Number of successes equals the number of health levels healed. Kindred must spend one blood point.
Corruption
System: Medicine + Intelligence - Difficulty: 7. Kindred must first successfully grapple the intended target. (Dexterity + Brawl - Difficulty: 6) Number of successes and intended effect determines the amount of damage inflicted. (Generally one health level per success) Kindred must expend one blood point.
Levels
* Changeling
** Fleshcraft
*** Bonecraft
Allows the kindred to shape bone in the same manner as Fleshcraft. Must be used in conjunction with Level Two unless the kindred is using it as an attack.Method: Shapeshifting, Corruption, Healing Touch.
**** Musclecraft
Allows the kindred to shape muscle, tendons, and ligaments in the same manner as the above levels, and can be used in conjunction with them as well.Method: Shapeshifting, Corruption, Healing Touch.
**** Organcraft
Allows the kindred to shape all organs and blood in the same manner as the above levels, and can be used in conjunction with them as well.Method: Shapeshifting, Corruption, Healing Touch.
**** Degeneration
Allows the kindred to destroy the chromosomes that hold and bind a person's genetic structure, thus making it impossible for the person to have any definite shape of feature. This causes the person to experience rapid and traumatic changes that his heart and brain cannot endure. The heart fails, and the brain goes catatonic. Eventually the person's bones will crumble, his organs will shrivel, and his flesh will melt away, leaving only a puddle of waste that resembles a melted candle.The user must roll his Body Alteration + Intelligence with a difficulty of 8. The victim's stamina equals the number of successes required for the power to be successful. The power can only be used while the user is in frenzy. Only those with Vicissitude and Body Alteration can attempt to oppose this power. In that instance, the person would roll his Body Alteration + Intelligence, difficulty 8 against the users roll.
Method: Corruption.
***** Alter Function
Allows the kindred to alter the functions of her blood and organs so that they perform functions that would otherwise be impossible. Example: Altering the function of one's eye so that she can see perfectly at night.Method: Shapeshifting, Corruption, Healing Touch.
****** Flesh Rot
Allows the kindred to cause a disease similar to advanced stages of Leprosy, to develop in anyone she touches. Method: Corruption.
******* Doppleganger
Allows the kindred to assume any form she can imagine as long as it is not less than half or more than twice the mass that the kindred normally uses.Method: Shapeshifting, Corruption.
Note: No roll is required.
******** Disintegration
Allows the kindred to cause the molecules and atoms within one's body or specified organ or appendage, to disintegrate once it has been touched by the kindred.Method: Corruption.
******** Breath of the Dragon
Allows the kindred to exhale flames that affect a six-foot square area and cause one die of damage each. Effects are cumulative.Method: Corruption.
********* Melding
Allows the kindred to meld with any living or non-living form that she touches. It can also be used as an attack, by touching two objects or kindred at the same time and causing them to meld with each other.Method Corruption, Shapeshifting.
********** Reform Body
Allows the kindred to reform her body even after it has been destroyed. Note: No roll is necessary, but the process may take years.Method: Healing Touch.
Changeling Chart
Successes | Description
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1 | Similar to what was intended, but with several flaws.
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2 | Almost what was intended, but with several small flaws.
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3 | What was intended, but there is still one small flaw.
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4 | Better than what was believed possible. Could fool any, but the closest family or friends of the intended person.
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5 | Perfect. Could pass as the person copied, even among close family and friends, as long as she played the part well.
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