Path of Lilith

By Ole Peder Giaever (deagol@everyday.no) for the Mancata and Daughters of Mancata bloodlines.

Description

Said to be taught to Mancata by Lilith, this discipline reflects the way the Mancata are connected with demons, and the power of Lilith.

* Inspire Terror

The Mancata uses Path of Lilith to inspire a mortal terror in her victim, somewhat similar to the horror of Rotschreck.

System: The character must make a Manipulation + Intimidation roll, difficulty of the target's Willpower. If she succeeds, the victim must make a Courage roll. The difficulty is equal to the number of successes on the Inspire Terror roll +2. If the character fails, or marginally succeeds, he may do nothing but flee in panick. If the roll is botched, the victim is susceptible to the same terror, but gains a Derangement (usually a paranoid one). Each success determines how many minutes the Terror fit lasts (one success, one minute etc).

** Lure of Lilith

The Mancata allures the victim, causing him or her to feel a deep sexsual desire for the vampire. The effect is similar to the blood bond, and the victim becomes completly obsessed with the vampire for the duration of the effect.

System: The character rolls Appearance + Empathy to invoke this power. The difficulty of the roll is equal to the victims Self-Control + 2. The number of successes determines how many hours the victim is hold in sway of the passion.

*** The Gift of Delphi

The Mancata uses the magical properties of his demonic face, to look into the future. The number of successes determines how far into the future the character may see, and how clear the vision is. The future is, however, not fixed, and what the character perceives is only the most likely proposition. The ST should use this as a way to scare the players, and introduce new plots.

System: The character spends two blood points, and then rolls Perception + Empathy. The difficulty is determined by how accurate and specific she wants the vision to be.

1 success:	one day into the future, metaphorical or symbolic vision
2 successes:	one week into the future, blurred or incomprehensible vision
3 successes:	one month into the future, snapshot vision of specific incident.
4 successes:	a year into the future, clear vision
5 successes:	a decade into the future, the vision is seen with perfect clarity.

**** Favour of the Dark Child

The Mancata is connected with demons through Lilith. This three hour ritual requires expenditure of three bloodpoints and a human sacrifice. A lesser demon is thereby summoned, and the Mancata may bid it to do her a favour. How large this favour may be depends on the number of successes. There are, however, a great deal of danger connected with this sort of dealings with the dark side, and many Mancata prefer never to use this ritual.

System: The character spends three bloodpoints, and rolls Manipulation + Leadership against the Demons willpower. A failure indicates that she didn't manage to control the dark entity, and that the demon attacks her. This attack will be ferocious in the extreme, and it's up to the ST to use her dirty imagination. A botch means that the demon is filled with such rage that he drags her screaming to hell with him. After the effect is over, the demon will return to the other side, whether his mission is accomplished or not. Also, when the mission is accomplished, the demon will return. The ritual results in the loss of one point of humanity.

1 success:	The demon may be commanded to perform a lesser task, such as stealing a small object. The effect may last one night.
2 successes:	The demon may be commanded to perform a minor task, such as stealing a major object. The effect may last one week.
3 successes:	The demon may be commanded to perform an easy task, such as destroying some object. The effect may last one month.
4 successes:	The demon may be commanded to perform a large task, such as harming a mortal or Kindred immensely. The effect may last one year.
5 successes:	The demon may be commanded to perform an immense task, such as destroying someone. The effect lasts until the Demon has accomplished his mission.

***** Hand of Decay

Through the use of this power, the character may cause a person or place to slowly wither and decay. It is sometimes called the Revenge of Lilith, for that is how the Mancata justifies their actions. The person or place affected is slowly corrupted and decayed when exposed to this power, determined by the chart below.

System: The character must spend two bloodpoints and roll Manipulation + Occult for the power to be invoked. The difficulty is the purity of the place (a number from 1-10 assigned by the ST. A slum quarter is a 3, an unpolluted forest is a 10 ) or the humanity of the victim.

1 success:	One object or person is affected. The effect is hardly noticeable, but manifests in such things as odor and habits.
2 successes:	One room, or two persons are affected. Same effect as above + The victim's natural aging is doubled. A place will attract insects and fungus.
3 successes:	One house, or three persons are affected. Same effects as above + The victim becomes corrupted and loses 1d10 humanity, a place will smell of stale piss.
4 successes:	One neigbourhood, or four persons are affected. Same effects as above + The victim ceases to feel human emotions, and gains a derangement; a place will become a slum, and detoriate quickly.
5 successes:	One city cell, or five persons are affected. Same effects as above + figure out something inexplicably nasty.

****** Wither life

This effect will cause the victim to age at an abnormous rate. The Mancata must spend two bloodpoints to invoke the effect, and roll Stamina + Self-Control. The difficulty is the victim's humanity + 2. Each success ages the subject three years.

******* Ignore the Searing Flames

This effect was adopted from the Baali discipline of Daimoinon, as the Mancata are close knit with the powers beyond. By spending a blood point, a character can make it so fire no longer affects him. The effect lasts one scene.

******** Invoke the Fire of Hell

By using this power, the character may ignite a Cainite or mortal. One bloodpoint must be spent per health level of damage which the Mancata seeks to bestow upon her victim. Then she must roll Dexterity + Courage. A success means that the victim ignites in a way similar to the phenomenon of spontaneous combustion. The wounds are aggravated for Kindred and Kine alike. A failure means that the fire ignites something else (It's the STs pregorative to be naughty). A botch means the Mancata is ignited (a sad sort of way of wasting 5 bloodpoints).

********* Aid of Lilith

By employing this power, the Mancata uses the infernal intervention of Lilith to heal aggravated damage in the same way as vampires heal normal wounds.