Contagion

By Jason C. Marshall (jcmarshall@sympatico.ca) for the Bubanos bloodline.

Description

This discipline is a corrupted form of Obeah, and is used exclusively by the Bubanos.

* Blighted Touch

The Kindred can cause wounds already inflicted to fester and corrupt.

System: This will cause one extra wound to occur to an already wounded character. Only those characters who have already been wounded can be affected.

** Touch of Pain

The kindred can cause painful lesions, blisters and boils to occur with but a touch. These lesions cause pain and discomfort.

System: This requires a willpower roll versus the target's current willpower. The infected character suffers a -2 dice penalty for all physical actions as long as the infection lasts. The lesions will remain for a length of time dependent on the number of successes.

Successes	Length
1	One Turn
2	Two Turns
3	Three Turns
4	Four Turns
5	Five Turns

*** Vampiric Infection

At this level the Bubanos can inflict the level one and two powers on a Kindred. He is also capable of inflicted diseases on a vampire.

System: This power requires a Willpower roll made versus the target's current willpower.

**** Corruption of the Mind

The Bubanos is capable of causing derangements in the minds of others, by staring at them with its now fully developed third eye, be they supernatural or mortal. The target suffers the effect of the derangement to the fullest.

System: This requires a Manipulation + Medicine roll versus the target's willpower +3.

***** Plague Touch

At this level the kindred is capable of inflicting transmittable diseases to any person, living or dead. This disease can be passed on by touch or by air depending on the actual disease.

System: The kindred makes a Strength + Medicine Roll versus the target's Stamina + Athletics. The number of successes determine the severity of the disease.

****** Sapping the Strength

The kindred can remove health levels through touch alone.

System: The character rolls Manipulation + Medicine versus the target's willpower. The number of successes equal how many health levels are lost.

****** Touch of Pain

By touch alone the kindred causes intense waves of pain to flare through the subject, at the same time any wounds suffered are considered double the effects to the pain felt.

System: The character rolls willpower versus willpower to activate the power; it requires one success to get going.

******* Repulsion

As the 7th level Obeah power.

******** Vitae Block

As the 8th level Obeah power.

********* Spirit Corruption

The is the final level of Contagion. At this point the Kindred can infect the very soul itself with a 'wasting' disease. The infectee finds himself suffering from more and more depression till finally he becomes suicidal and morose. Nothing will matter, not friends, family, money, objects, nothing. This sickness can be cured through therapy and such practises but it takes time, as the sickness is incredibly powerful and potent. It is often malignant.

System: The character rolls his Medicine + Manipulation versus the targets willpower +1. Each success means the infection is more powerful and works quicker to the result of suicide.