High Level Obeah Powers

By Sable O'Malley-McRoy (captainsable@home.com)

Author's Notes

I created the following new Obeah powers for a character who was a medical doctor before his Embrace into the Salubri. Because it was a crossover game, he was also created by Elysium rules and therefore, of much lower generation than is normally permitted to Salubri characters. That being said, please feel free to add these powers to your game if it suits your fancy.

****** Cure

This power allows a vampire to cure illnesses and diseases, even life-threatening ones, or those diseases known to afflict vampires, such as AIDS or the Black Death. This includes all forms of viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal infections. However, genetic defects and environmentally afflicted diseases, such as cystic fibrosis or lung cancer, may not be cured in this manner.

System: The character focuses his third eye, which radiates a soft golden glow, on the target, and rolls Intelligence + Medicine. The difficulty depends on the severity of the infection as follows:

Difficulty	Condition
4	Mildly irritating, passing infection (a cold).
5	Severe passing infection, irritating illness that won't be cured without treatment (such as a bacterial throat infection).
6	Long-term or debilitating illness (mono).
7	Disease that may cause permanent harm or maiming (polio, flesh-eating disease).
8	Debilitating illness that is potentially life-threatening (malaria, meningitis); also, any attempt to cure a disease carrier is rated at this difficulty (Typhoid Mary).
9	Fatal disease (Ebola, AIDS); quasi-mystical disease (anything that affects vampires falls into this category).

The Storyteller may call for a certain number of successes, depending on how well advanced the particular illness is. Generally, however, only the most severe cases should call for multiple successes.

******* Restoration

With this power, a vampire can make alterations to a person on a cellular and genetic level, for the purpose of repairing damaged tissues or fixing genetic defects. In essence, this ability allows the vampire to cure genetic illnesses and defects such as Huntington's Disease or Down's Syndrome, or even diabetes, or to cure illnesses and injuries caused by environmental factors, such as heart disease and cancer.

System: The vampire focuses her third eye on the target and rolls Intelligence + Medicine at a difficulty of 7, to determine what changes are needed in the target's pattern. Five successes are required, but it is an extended action. Once these successes are accumulated, the vampire then touches the patient and spends a Blood Point. The changes will immediately take effect, affecting a cure.

Note: Alternatively, this could be made available as a Multi-Discipline power, combining Obeah 6 and Vicissitude 3, with a cost of 10 experience points.