Energy

By Micheal Dopheide (erudite@bcl.net)

Introduction

The basis for this discipline was thought up by a Catiff in one of my chronicles. Since he thought up the idea, I had to come up with the powers. The higher levels require a lot of blood to be effective and often drives vampire to diablerie so that he will have a larger blood pool.

* Energy Disruption

With this power, the vampire can cause disruptions in energy around him. Electrical currents, phone line transmissions. light emanating from a bulb, etc. In this way, a vampire could cause major problems with a computer just by standing near it.

System: Intelligence + Science (or any science relating to energy) determines the amout of success.

** Store Energy and Discharge

The vampire can now store energy within himself. He needs only to go up to an outlet or some other energy source and "charge." He can store this energy for up to an hour without any problems. To become fully charged (12 points of aggravated damage ), the vampire must absorb at least the amount of energy stored in 2 car batteries.

Once the vampire has stored energy within himself via Store Energy, he can then release the energy on contact to cause aggravated wounds. On contact, the vampire can choose to release from one to six points of energy to cause aggravated wounds. Anym more than this will do one dice of aggravated damage to the vampire for every point of energy spent over six. The vampire can also release two points to make any damage he does for his next physical attack aggravated. A discharge can also be used to crea te a shock to an electronic device.

System: After the first hour is over, the vampire must make a stamina + fortitude check every 10 minutes to keep from taking aggravated damage. The difficulty of this roll is 6 + one for every 10 minutes after the first hour. The vampire will take one point of aggravated damage per turn until he discharges if the roll if failed. If the roll is botched, however, the vampire will take six points of aggravated damage and be stunned for two turns as the energy suddenly explodes from h is body. This will continue until the vampire releases the energy or has taken six points of damage.

For the first variation of Discharge the vampire need only touch another person. Then he can cause as many dice of aggravated wounds as he releases in points of energy. This is in addition to any normal wounds caused by the charact er that action by physical contact. The aggravated wounds are saved first. For the second variation, the vampire releases two points over a period of time and all of the damage he does in the current physical attack is aggravated. Discharge damage can also be conducted through metal melee weapons, although it decreases the damage by two dice because the vampire is concentrating on the release of energy.

*** Ranged Discharge and Transformer

With this power the vampire can cause aggravated wounds just like in the Level 2 power Discharge, but from a distance. The vampire must spend one blood point for every 20ft. of distance to be crossed.

The vampire can now transform one type of energy into another. For example, he can take the stored energy within his body (level 2) and create light or heat. The amount of heat or light produced is proportional to the number of energy points stored within his body. The vampire needs to make an Intelligence + Science roll to determine how fast the transfer can be made.

Successes for transforming energy

Number of Successes	Outcome
1 Success	You could warm up faster by rubbing your hands together.
2 Successes	You are a flashlight and you can warm a plate of beans.
3 Successes	Headlight and you can make paper burn.
4 Successes	Blinding light and you can catch wood on fire.
5 Successes	Weak sunlight and you can melt some metals.

**** Create Weapon

With this power, the vampire can create physical weapons from energy. Weapons can be of any size, but without any moving parts. The vampire must be in physical contact with the weapon at all times, otherwise it will dissipate. The weapons can be formed in one of two ways. They can be made to only affect organic material or they can become as solid as steel in which case it would be just like a normal weapon. If made to only affect organic material the weapons will be able to pass through walls, armor, pillars, etc. The disadvantage with this is that the vampire can not parry his opponents blows because inorganic material would pass right through the energy weapon.

System: The vampire must spend 1 blood point for each foot of length he wants the weapon to have and an additional point if he wants the weapon to have a cutting edge. i.e. brass knuckles=1 blood point, knife=2-3 blood points, baseball bat=3-4 blood points, sword=3-7 blood points, etc. All damage done by an energy weapon is aggravated.

***** Advanced Weapon and Energy Field

This is just like the level 4 power Create Weapon except that the vampire gains two extra options. The vampire can spend another blood point to make the weapons last up to an hour without having to be in physical contact with the creater. This enables him to make throwing weapons. Anyone picking up an energy weapon without this discipline will be shocked for two points of aggravated damage per turn. The second variation allows the vampire to spend an extra blood point to allow an edged energy weapon to cut through almost anything. (Light Saber) With this power the vampire can create an energy field over him and up to a radius of ten feet around him. This field will help protect anyone in it from outside attacks. This field helps prevent damage from all forms of attack except mental, umbral (attacks from wraiths or other entities from the umbra), and non-physical magic. Anyone trying to enter the field will be shocked as if he had picked up an energy weapon above.

System: The vampire must spend one blood point for every success of damage that the field will protect against. In addition to this cost the vampire needs to spend one blood point every five rounds to keep the field active. (not co unting the first five) If he chooses, he can spend another point to have the field move with him if need be. This only needs to be spent once for the entire time the field is active.

****** Energy Travel

With this power the vampire can change himself into electrical energy. The only real use for this power is a powerful one. The vampire can enter the world's electrical supply via a wall socket and travel to any other wall socket on the globe. He can enter through just the lines, but it is a lot less noticeable through a wall socket. Wherever the vampire goes he just looks and acts like a power surge.

System: To attempt the transformation the vampire must have a full supply of power. (12 points, as per Store Energy above) After the vampire has completed his journey, he will have been depleted of energy. The vampire must also spend one blood point and successfully make a stamina+fortitude check. The transformation takes 3 turns. The vampire may also spend three blood points instead of one and the transformation will be immediate.