Creo Neco

By Chris Pulle (negative_image@hotmail.com)

Description

Having already mastered Movement of the Mind, practitioners of this Path take advantage of certain specialized uses of telekinesis. Possession of this Path allows the thaumaturge to lift objects telekinetically using a Strength equivalent to her Willpower plus her rating in this Path.

* Project Force

At this basic level, the thaumaturgist may use her telekinetic potential to strike a target. This may be dodged as normal, as a gesture is required to activate the level. At higher levels of this Path (3+), the thaumaturge may dispense with the gesture altogether.

System: To hit, the thaumaturge uses her Willpower roll. The target may dodge as normal if the thaumaturge has only level one or two of the Path. At level three, the dodge difficulty increases to 8 (targets can¹t see what they¹re dodging). Damage is calculated and soaked normally with the exception of the attacker substituting Willpower for Strength. This causes only bashing damage and targets must be within the Warlock¹s line of sight.

** Ballistic Attack

This level allows the thaumaturge to levitate small objects like pebbles and nails and hurl them at near-bullet velocity. These objects must weigh no more than a pound and the target must be visible to the caster.

System: The Willpower roll is the attacker¹s roll to hit. The defender may dodge at +1 difficulty. If the attack succeeds, damage is calculated by rolling the attacker¹s Willpower. This may be soaked as lethal damage.

*** Flight

At this moderate level, the Warlock may achieve flight through her own force of will.

System: For each success on the Willpower roll, the thaumaturge may achieve a speed of 50mph. This remains in effect until canceled by the caster or for the rest of the scene.

**** Fine Manipulation

This potent level allows the thaumaturge the ability to telekinetically manipulate any manner of objects. The finest of control and manipulation may be achieved with this power. A dial could be turned, a switch thrown, a trachea collapsed or a heart squeezed. Despite the level¹s name, this allows any of these actions to be taken with the telekinetic strength granted by this Path as a whole. System: Following a successful Willpower roll, the thaumaturge may manipulate any object within her line of sight, or even obscured from sight if she knows its exact location. This level could be used to levitate nearly anything, rip internal organs from victim¹s bodies, or crush mortals and kindred alike. If used to hurl objects at victims, dodge is rolled as per Ballistic Attack.

***** Superior Ballistic Attack

Similar to Ballistic Attack, this final level allows the attack of an unfortunate victim with telekinetically hurled projectiles, excepting that this level requires no projectile.

System: Rolled like Ballistic Attack with a difficulty to dodge +3.