Dischord

By Kelley Woods (kwoodsdh@aol.com)

Basic

The user senses sounds waves as physical vibrations, thus recognizing and reacting to the sound far more quickly than even other Kindred with Heightened Senses. This puts her at an advantage when attempting such activities as listening in on conversations, discerning the likelihood of an ambush.

System: This power is activated at will, and when so activated, the user has the benefit of Heightened hearing. When dealing with surprise attacks or actions, the Kindred is given a six second response time instead of three.

At the second level, Dischord allows the user to actually affect sound waves, thus altering how the ear perceives and catalogues them. The Kindred can change the decibel level by fifty units in either direction, or can reverse the order of the vibrations, thus making the sound come out backwards.

Example: Lou the Gangrel screams "Oh shit, I'm on fire!!!!!, and it comes out to Jerry the Brujah as "Ho tihs, m'i no erif", leaving Jerry confused, and poor Lou up gasoline creek while smoking a cigarette.

System: The Kindred spends a Mental Trait and is allowed to alter one aspect of the sound wave within the listed parameters.

Intermediate

Similar to Audible Glamor, except now the user can alter the decibel level by 100 units, and can change the tone to any that she wishes.

System: Same as above, excepting the cost of two Mental traits.

The Kindred has now refined her abilities to the point that any sound can be made altered in any way. The Decibel modification limit is now 200 units. " I love you" can be made to sound like "You mean nothing", and "Go get me something from the Rack" can be changed to come out "Bring me the head of the Prince!!!!" Note: The Kindred cannot change the quantity of words spoken, only the sound of the words spoken"

System: To affect the sound so drastically, the Kindred must win a Static Mental Challenge and spend a Willpower Trait as well as a Mental Trait.

Advanced

Upon attaining this level of development, the Kindred can alter a wave of sound to such a focused state as to actually damage structures and living entities. The wave is utterly imperceptible to hearing, but will cause damage nonetheless.

System: By expending one Willpower, the Kindred captures the wave, and can then strengthens its damage capability at the cost of two Mental Traits per regular Health Level. Only one target can be affected by each particular wave, and that target is allotted a challenge to defend itself, the target's Physical traits versus the attackers Mental Traits.

Note: Any target using Heightened senses or the like takes all damage in aggravated format.