Sensualis

By Raoul "Violence" Borges (paercebal@hotmail.com) for the Black Widows bloodline. Inspired by Ekstasis. Also a discipline of the Banshees.

Description

Catherine 'Violence' Sauvenay desired the power to instigate precise emotions in others. Adept at seduction, she found that Presence wasn't specialized enough. Instigating fear and awe, or calling someone from the other side of the world wasn't for her. Then, she created Sensualis... As Sensualis is similar to Presence, one can resist Sensualis in the same manner (Blase, however, provides no immunity to Sensualis...)

Sexual preferences don't change the effects of Sensualis. Learning or creating Sensualis give one Weakness: The Cainite loses the possibility to Embrace male Childer. The Cainite must have 3 in Appearance (or more) to use this Discipline. It's one reason for the creation of Neferys.

* Adulation

The simple presence of the Black Widow causes all eyes converge on her, and instigate interest, or even mild desire in people who see her. People tend to mass around her as long as it doesn't seem dangerous to do so. This power can have astonishing effects, as others looking at the Black Widow will ignore any fact that would demean or embarrass her (say, if she were clothed with jeans at a Toreador "soiree"). System: (Appearance+Comedy, Diff: 7) This power is similar to Presence 1 (Awe).

Successes	People affected
1	1
2	2
3	6
4	20
5	Everyone who can see her.

** Sensual Caress

The touch of the Black Widow is so soft and so pleasing that her caress is a delight for her... victim. Used with all power, this touch can even paralyse the victim as he becomes overrun by waves of pleasure. This power is very effective with Toreador.

System: (Dexterity+Seduction, Diff: Wits+3) This power is always active in the first form. Anyone touched by her will want to be touched another time; the urge is not overwhelming but powerful nevertheless. If the Black Widow really wants to affect her victim, she can, with one caress, paralyse her victim. Each success against the Wits of the victim +3 (or +1 if it is a Toreador, or if the victim was using Auspex) is a die draw out from the Dice Pool. This power is similar in game effects to the Presence 2 power (Dread Gaze), but in this case, the Turn is generally a 3 minute Turn, and not a 3 second combat Turn. Anyone touching her wil automatically be affected by the passive orm of the power, as if she were touching him. This power isn't usable in combat (for obvious reasons) but can paralyze someone who will then not be able to fight.

*** Suggestion of the Sirine

Like Murmurs of the False Will (Dominate 2), the Black Widow can give orders or make "suggestions" to others. The difference with Domination is that this power come with the Voice, and not the Eye Contact. Someone to be affected must hear the Black Widow and feel her with another of the five senses, like seeing her or touching her. However, this power is more "Presence" than "Dominate." The victim is free to use his imagination to serve the Black Widow even better. While it can be a blessing, it can make the Black Widow's life a little more difficult.

System: (Manipulation+Seduction, Diff: Willpower) This power is similar in game effects, to Dominate 2. Three successes are needed to make someone do something that can seem strange to him, and five to put him in obvious danger. The effects of this power are more subtle than Dominate: A cop Dominated to throw down his weapon won't be able to explain his action. A cop Suggested by a Black Widow will rationalize and think (in an extreme case) that he had done that because he had fallen in love with her.

**** Seduction of the Succubi

The Black Widow is now able to actively seduce her victim simply wanting to be desired. The victim seeing (or hearing) the Black Widow will eventualy succumb to her instincts, and will desire to possess her (an young innocent boy will fall in love while a criminal pander will only desire her in a more physical sense).

System: (Manipulation+Seduction, Diff: Willpower). The victim must see and/or hear the Black Widow (thus the phone is out as he can't see her). This power is like the Presence 3 power with some changes: The victim falls in love and will do virtually anything to please her. When the effects wear off, she can try another time to seduce him. A botched roll will immunize the victim to future attempts of manipulations by Sensualis.

Successes	Duration
1	1 hour
2	1 day
3	1 week
4	1 month
5	1 year

Seduction of the Succubi can be an extended roll: If the Black Widow succeeds in collecting successes five or ten times the victim's Wits, the victim won't be able to free himself from the Black Widow's influence. This Victim will be added to the Herd of the Black Widow, but retain too much free will (and Willpower) to be added as a Slave. This power is the only one to add 2 to the Black Widow's Difficulty if she tries to seduce someone who could be repulsed by the idea of an "affair" with her (An female Heterosexual, or a male Homosexual).

***** Charms of the Temptress

This power is similar to Majesty (Presence 5) but it's more subtle, and the effects are a little more visual. Anyone seeing a Black Widow using this power will see things that he wouldn't see normally. Wind will make her hair floating in graceful curves in the air; he will lose himself in her gaze, charmed by the details of her iris; he will be in the right place to see a little more of her breasts (but not too much!) when she will bow to him, be in the right place to feel her perfume, transported by the wind. All these effects are created by this power. Charms of the Muse is what makes some details more important and more charming; it's the wind that make her dress fly. Charms of the Muse is the power that make the Black Widow a living, moving "Oeuvre d'Art". There will always be some external factor, apparently caused by chance (or by the subconscience of the victim), and one sense to see and memorize the scene.

Catherine without Charms of the Temptress:

The Toreador saw Catherine walking away from the Kindred and go to the balconies. When he reached her, she was motionless, in the middle of the balcony, looking the stars.

He drew profit from this time to admire her silhouette which was enhanced by the white silk of her gown. She had long black hair.

"Catherine?"

"Yes?"

She turned to him. She had beautiful blue eyes, and her traits were worthy of the most beautiful model.

The Toreador turned his eyes to admire the stars, too.

Catherine using Charms of the Temptress:
The Toreador smiled as, after minutes of impatience, he saw Catherine walking to one of the balconies. He followed her with a pressed pace, his eyes looking at her magnificient silhouette whose curves were enhanced by the translucent white silk of her flowing gown. she disappeared between the curtains flowing close to the open doors.

He waved the satin curtains aside with but a finger, and stopped. Catherine was here in the middle of the white marble balcony, her long black hair flowing with the wind she kept from her face with her delicate hand.

Her silk gown style combined Greek and Egyptian, and she wore it like a queen. split to the middle of her thighs, the silken veils raised by the wind showed with a clearer and clearer transparence the sweet peach skin of her shapely leg.

The Toreador decided to apporach her, fearing to be caught as a young enamoured teenager.

"Catherine?"

She turned slowly, with grace, and the Toreador breathed in deeply as he admired now the statuesque curves of the young woman with the silhouette of a goddess.

She looked him at him intently, silently, and the Toreador was surprised by his desire that this moment should last forever.

The wind ended the magic, and a lock of hair flew in front of the face of the beautiful woman, as the Toreador felt suddendly a sweet pain in his breast.

"Yes?"

Her voice was a whisper, but the Toreador felt he would remember its sweet timbre until the end of his existence. He could only admire, no worship, the movements of her blood red lips, her delicate nose, the traits of her face, so perfect that he could only envy the talent of the artist who had drawn it.

But her eyes...

Her eyes of a so perfect blue, like the Lapis-luzuli the Egytpians were so fond of... Where the Toreador could admire the reflects of the stars...

...where he drowned himself...

System: (Self-Control, Diff: Appearance+Seduction of the Black Widow) This power is similar to Majesty. Any victim in the presence of the Black Widow must roll Self-Control to be unaffected by this power and do one thing that would displease her. No one is immune and even vampires seems to have memories of mortal love. Only Old Vampires (non-Toreador) have a bonus of 2 to the Difficulty of the Roll (note that no matter the Difficulty, for the same old vampire, the Difficulty can't more than nine). Using Auspex while in the Black Widow's presence adds one to the Difficulty.

Special Powers

Requirements: 6 XPs, Sensualis 1 and Obtenebration 1

Description: Adding the Sensualis effects to Obtenebration, the Black Widow can clothe herself in shadows, magnify her curves and make up her body with shadows. This form of Obtenebration doesn't induce fear, but used in feeble lights (Nightclubs, et al.), it lowers the Difficulty of Seductions by one.

Requirements: 9 XPs, Sensualis 2 and Vicissitude 1

With this power, the Black Widow is able to "drink" blood from a victim with a simple contact. The number of bloodpoints absorbed in one turn (not combat turn) is function of the surface of contact:

Amount of contact	# of blood points
Kiss, Massage	1
Nude torso, et al	2
Bikini or totally nude	3

In all other effects, this Embrace Ecstasis is similar to the Kiss. There is no blood, even if the victim and the Black Widow are violently separated, and no marks.