Kinderfeld

By Anthony "The Magician" Murlin (ruby@pa.net)

* Autotelekinesis

At this level, the Cainite is granted the ability to hover several feet off the ground and soar around. The distance covered depends on the number of successes gained. Roll Dexterity + Kinderfeld.

Successes	Distance (ft)
1	10
2	50
3	100
4	150
5	200
6+	300

** Innocent Childe

Level two of Kinderfeld allows the Cainite to masquerade as a seemingly biblical "innocent." All rolls requiring both Manipulation, Appearance, and Acting gain an automatic success. If Appearance + Acting is rolled, then only one Automatic Success is scored.

** The Laughter of Small Children

The character rolls a Manipulation + Kinderfeld (Gaining one automatic success due to Innocent Childe). The victim of this odd power then begins to hear the laughter of children and the chanting of nursery rhymes. They emanate from all around, the apparent positions of the laughter and chanting changing every time the victim turns around. Every success determines how loud the laughter and chanting are, One success being barely audible and eight successes (the maximum) being loud enough to cause ear drum damage to normal humans. When the successes are lower then five, the victim may spend a Willpower point per success in order to ignore the power, otherwise become extremely discombobulated, causing all difficulty rolls to increase (Storytellers' discretion).

*** Shadowplay

At this level, the Cainite is able to separate the victim's psyche and his "shadow," causing the living (or undead) target to behave as he would in Wraith: The Oblivion. This shadow, however, is not like a Wraith's shadow, and has no stats whatsoever, but it screams into the characters mind, commanding her to do all sorts of blasphemies and atrocities. The Cainite must roll Perception + Kinderfeld (Difficulty Victim's Willpower). The number of successes equals the number of Willpower points the Victim must spend all at once to rid themselves of this curse and the overall power of the Shadow.

The Shadow also alters the Psyche's thought patterns, raising the difficulty to resist frenzy +2. And, as one final gift, the longer the shadow remains, the higher the risk that the Victim will receive a major, incurable Permanent Derangement. For every three turns the Shadow exists, the Victim must roll a Wits + Self Control (Difficulty 3, + 1 for every other third scene afterward), otherwise, the storyteller randomly picks a Permanent Derangement. Willpower points cannot be spent for Automatic Successes in these rolls.

**** Bloody Walls

A Cainite at fourth Level Kinderfeld can, with the expenditure of three blood points cause the walls of a building to bleed profusely, scaring the shit out of a normal human and some Mages, and causes a Kindred to make a Willpower roll (Difficulty 8) to resist going into a hunger induced Frenzy. Extreme light sources, such as bright lights, sunlight, a raging inferno, etc. will cause the blood to fizzle and evaporate. A Cainite that drinks this blood immediately goes into Torpor for a number of hours equal to his Blood Pool. When the Kindred awakens (if he awakens), he will have three Blood Points in their Blood Pool.

**** Reap what you Sow

With the expenditure of four Blood Points and two Willpower Points, a Cainite is able to create a small, seed like object, which, if planted, grows into a small, withered tree, which bares an odd, and slightly bitter fruit about the size of a cherry. Consuming one of these fruits gives the consumer a Blood Point. Mortals who consume this fruit become Ghouls with Obtenebration 2 and Dominate 1, and are immediately Blood Bound to the Cainite. A Cainite who consumes this fruit (if he can keep from gagging at the aspect of eating something) simply receives a Blood Point. Eating two of the fruit, however, Blood Binds the Cainite to the creator of the Tree. Light of any sort causes the tree to burst into flames and causes the fruit to explode violently. All damage from this fire, of course, is aggravated.

***** Psychotelekinesis

The Cainite spends two Blood Points in order to open the pathways of his mind and allow the energies to flow, causing all sorts of funky effects. The Cainite is able to levitate objects (and other people...) shatter all the glass in the immediate area, read other's thoughts, and cause the ground, or an enemies' skin, to rupture. After the expenditure of the two Blood Points, the Cainite rolls Willpower + Kinderfeld (Difficulties Below...). Failure indicates that the Cainite wastes the turn concentrating and nothing happens and a botch indicates that the internal forces backlash on the character (much like Paradox). The higher the difficulty chosen, the more destructive the consequences (Storytellers' discretion, although examples are listed below).

Difficulty	Example	Botch
4	A gust of Wind	Small, such as the Light Bulb busts
5	Bust a window	A minor headache or other minor flaw
6	Bust All Windows in area	A Major Headache, or other more serious flaw
7	Shatter a section of a brick wall	Minor convulsions or something else really debilitating (1 - 2 Health levels of Damage, unsoakable.)
8	Demolish a brick / Wood building	Major convulsions or something else (2 - 4 Health levels of damage, third - fourth levels unsoakable)
9	Rend Earth (Max. Concrete)	Minor cranial hemorrhaging (1 - 3 Health levels of aggravated damage and -1 to a mental trait)
10	Rend Metal (Max. Steel)	Head explodes (or some other form of instantaneous death)