Virulence

By Perry Lyons (plyons@wyosem.liu18.k12.pa.us) for the Children of the Plague.

* Diagnose

On a successful virulence+intelligence roll (diff 5) the user may determine if a person is sick and with what disease.

** Common Cold

The user can infect the target with a disease similar to the common cold. The disease is only curable after scoring ten successes (difficulty 4) in an extended on medicine+intelligence roll.

System: Roll Virulence + Manipulation, difficulty of the victim's Stamina+2. The victim suffers -1 on all rolls and generally feels miserable. 2 willpower must be spent to gain an automatic success. Vampires may counter by spending 1 bloo point.

*** Carrier

The user may become a carrier for almost any known disease, viral or otherwise. He or she will show no signs of illness but will transmit the disease to any vessels fed from.

System: All that is required is exposure to the disease in question. The user spends one blood point per scene she wants to carry the disease. If user botches any stamina rols, she immediatley suffers the effects of the diseaes currently carried. HIV/AIDS can not be carried through use of this discipline.

**** Pestilence Cough

The user may cough up a cloud of bacteria that transmits a wasting disease. The victim is -1 die on any physical roll and a botch causes the permanent loss of one dot of the appropriate trait. It is curable same as Common Cold but with difficulty 10 (Very nasty).

System: Roll Virulence + Manipulation, with the difficulty equal to the victim's Stamina x 2. On a botch the user suffers the effect of the discipline.

***** Rebellion of the Body

This level causes the bodys white and helper-T cells to designate healthy cells as bacteria and infection.

System: Roll Virulence + Manipulation, difficulty 9. It causes one aggravated damage level per success. In vamps the platelets go into overdrive causing massive clotting; it takes 2 blood points to to do the work of one. For each success the user suffers one non-aggravated health level in damage as his own cells are attacked.

****** Tumor

At this level the user can cause a virulent cancer to form, rapidly spreading.

System: Roll Virulence + Manipulation, with a difficulty of the victim's Stamina x 2 (maximum of 10). If victim does not seek immediate diagnosis death will occur in 1 + victim's Stamina hours as the cancer quickly spreads. Each use causes lesions, subtracting 1 from appearance.

******* Psychosomatic Death

On a successful Virulence + Manipulation roll vs. the victim's Wits x 2 (it is a mental assult), the user can cause the victim to exxperiance one health problem (e.g. heart attack, stroke, embolism, etc.). On a botch the user experiences the condition.

******** Transmitter

At a touch the user can implant any known disease in a subject.

System: Roll Virulence + Manipulation with a difficulty of the victim's Stamina x 2 (maximum of ten). On a botch, the user is infected.