Duplication

By Spyda' (sala@grzes.czart.pulawy.pl) with assistance from Pepper

Description

This discipline is available only to followers of Path of Evil Revelations. It can only be bought for as simple a thing as a soul (if you have one that is :). Of course, Storyteller can make some changes in vampire's psychics or nature (I recomend derangements). This discipline cannot be transferred with blood, Thaumaturgy or any other way. If you want it, you have to pay for it (unless ST decides to create a bloodline of completely soulless vampires or vampires who are five times as crazy as Malkavians). I suggest that players should not have many opportunities to get this power. Levels of Duplication cannot be higher than character's Intelligence! When characters abandons the Path of Evil Revelations, this ability is lost, as well as his soul.

Levels 1-5: Multiply, Baby

At this level, a vampire may create the number of duplicates equal to the level of discipline. They are all controlled by vampire, and he has to pay attention to all of them. Each of them has Intelligence equal to vampire's Intelligence divided by the number of copies. Of course, a vampire may control which copy has major part of his attention, and thus decide which has the highest Intelligence. Every copy must have at least one Intelligence. Each copy requires using 1 BP to create. It can only survive 1+Fortitude levels of damage. When destroyed, it turns back to vampire blood. It will seek to return to vampire but if it succeds, it can't be more than 1/2 BP. Using a mental discipline requires spending a Willpower point. Since controlling a number of copies requires great attention, the ST may as well make them suffer from mistakes like one copy performing an action which was supposed to be done by the other. A copy cannot be used as daylight guard. Sunlight destroys it immediately; the blood is immobilised, and it causes vampire great pain. You can add 4 Diff. to all frenzy rolls, or even make vampire lose all his Willpower (not permanently), 1 permanent Willpower, or add a derangement. However, this can be made a trial of pain, and succesful surviving it could add 1 level of Path.

****** My Twin Brother

This ability alows vampire to create his copy. This copy, however, is different from the one of lower levels. The vampire splits into two (Sic!). Both copies have half of vampire's Bloodpool - 1BP each. Their mental abilities, knowledges and disciplines are halved, but both have unlimited amounts of Willpower. They have only one thing on their minds: survival. This kind of copy is created in sitations with no other way out. Both copies are an original, and both have vampiric nature and needs, and both die like vampires. It is intended that only one copy survives. If both do, then . . .

Well, after 1 hour of relative peace, both copies start to regain their normal abilities at a rate of 1 point per hour. They lose all of their Willpower (not permanent of course). Most importantly, they regain their consciousness, and both feel, that they are the vampire (well, if a player does that its up to ST to decide which of the copies is guided by player. Since neither one has his soul it really makes no difference). An important thing is that neither one will be able to use Duplication until the other is destoyed (It's rather obvious, that both will attempt to make it happen soon). But if they are separated, and unable to kill one another, they are completely independent, and may gain disciplines, attributes, abilities, change the Path of Enlightenment, or regain Humanity, change sect, and do whatever is best for each of them (imagine a character meeting copy he made few hundred years ago -- cool, isn't it?)