Psion Feeding

By Robert Sweeney (rsweeney@anet-stl.com)

* Willpower Leech

The vampire can engage in a psionic battle while feeding. The vampire and victim roll resisted Willpower checks (difficulty the other's base Willpower). If the vampire wins, he may drain a point of Willpower for every success beyond the victim's and add that point to his total (only if he's below his normal maximum). A botch on the part of the vampire indicates he cannot drain any more Willpower from this victim for at least one week.

** Alternate feeding

The vampire can drain Willpower (as above) instead of blood. His system, however, reacts as if he had actually consumed blood (filling up his 'blood pool'). To do this, he must dump all his regular blood pool (wasting it) as he drains Willpower from his victim. After this point, each day of existence drains one point of Willpower instead of blood and the vampire uses Willpower to fuel all of his 'blood' disciplines.

The vampire must still bite his prey, but he drinks only trace amounts of blood. If the vampire can drink the victim's cerebrospinal fluid instead of blood, he can drain Willpower as fast and as easily as a vampire would normally drain blood points.

The vampire's Willpower flows into his 'blood pool' and she burns both Willpower and 'blood points' from that pool. She is still limited to one Willpower point per turn for Willpower attempts and a number of points per turn to fuel disciplines as determined by her generation.

*** Drain Mind

Once a victim has been drained to 0 Willpower, the vampire can drain one of her Mental Attribute points and add it to his own total. This drained point is lost to the victim until she regains full Willpower. The vampire is still limited to his maximum attribute according to his generation. The vampire can only drain one point from each of the victim's mental attributes and can only add one point to each of his attributes in any given day.

The attributes gained last for one day (or until the vampire sleeps). The vampire can never gain more than one attribute point per day in this way. Excess points can be drained (one from each victim) but they are simply wasted.

**** Potent Mind

The vampire can spend Blood/Willpower points to increase her mental attributes just as she would normally increase her physical attributes.

***** Zombie (living)

The vampire has drained the victim over successive nights until all her mental attributes are 0. He then spends one blood point to change her into a zombie. Zombies do only as they are commanded and have little better than animal intelligence. They can eat and do simple physical tasks such as one would describe in 12 words or less. They will typically spend most of their time sleeping. They no longer possess personal motivations or drives.

Zombies regain one point of Willpower per week, but have a maximum Willpower of 2. They are less often used for labor, and mostly used as a docile 'herd'. Once changed into the Zombie, they regain an Intelligence of 1 and Perception of 1, but their Wits remains at 0 until released from service by their Master.

Zombies can be Ghouled safety, as they will have no memories at all of the time they spent as a zombie.