Comfort Crafting

By Alexander Shearer (nightgaunt@earthlink.net)

Auspex 2 and Vicissitude 3

Description

Simply put, it lets the vampire "Auracraft" someone else's personal space into any shape they like. The amount of personal space the vampire has to work with will depend on the person. People from very contact-oriented nations often have much smaller personal bubbles (comfort zones) than people from more distant regions. Regardless, the vampire makes an Empathy + Body Modification (8) roll. Each success on this roll makes the effect last one day. There are rumors that expenditure of blood, or perhaps ritual magic, may make the change permanent.

Example: Vatario has been snubbed one too many times by an annoying Toreador. Deciding to get even with her, he sneaks up behind her at a party and viciously Comfort Crafts her personal bubble. He rolls his Empathy (3 dots) and his Body Modification (5 dots), resulting in a roll of 10, 8, 8, 6, 6, 4, 2, 1. This gives him 2 successes, so the effect will last for 2 days. Vatario decides to pull all of the personal space from everywhere on the Toreador's body (making her suddenly very comfortable with close contact) and crafts it into a 3" diameter cylinder stretching a full 30 feet outward from her left shoulder. The hapless Toreador will be twitching in social discomfort whenever anyone crosses through this region during the next 2 days.