Voodoun

By Joanne FitzRoy (gfitzroy@intranet.ca) for Bloodline Book Samedi

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-- Ash, Army of Darkness

Description

Practitioners of this discipline have command of Occult curses and cures. They will carry a kit bag full of fetishes, dolls, different coloured candles, strings of beads, bottles of booze, matches, cigars and ribbons. They can make a Kindred or Kine's (un)life a living Hell, or clean as a scene from a 1970's "perfect family" sitcom.

* Hunting Help

Used positively, this power ensures that your victims will be plentiful and willing for one night's feeding. Used as a curse, hunting will be next to impossible for the night.

System: Declare whether the character is using the ability in the positive or negative. The character must pop a quart jar full of popcorn kernels and pour the popped corn over his/her naked body. Roll Manipulation + Subterfuge (diff target's Willpower). Number of successes equals number of hours the effect remains.

** Scrying

Delving into the past or future is the bread and butter for many Samedi Voodoo mediums.

System: The medium should have a crystal ball, mirror or bowl of water as a prop. Roll Perception + Acting (diff 7). The number of successes determines the strength and accuracy of the reading coming through (Storyteller's discretion).

*** Luck

Sometimes things go unbelievably well. At other times good luck just isn't in the cards. The effects of Luck (good or bad) must be directed at an individual.

System: Decide whether the luck will be fair or foul. Break a candle in half. Roll Wits + Alertness (diff 8). The number of successes determines the number of dice the victim adds (or subtracts) from his next action.

**** A Friend is a Friend

Even though a Samedi's countenance is near impossible to be around, the successful casting of this spell can make even a Toreador rub shoulders with the bloodline.

System: Determine who the target of the spell will be. A flower, preferably a rose (any colour) must be held by the character. Roll Manipulation + Empathy (diff target's Willpower). The number of successes determines the number of hours the victim will be amiable to the character. The dice pool may be split to affect more than one target at a time.

***** Animate Form

The practitioner can make a dead body move.

System: The character must spend a Willpower point, and roll Dexterity + Occult (diff 8). Successes rate as follows:

Successes	Effect
1	Eyes open
2	Head turns
3	Arms move
4	Corpse stands up
5	Corpse will walk up to 600 yards.

****** Projection

The character's body stays on the material plane, but he can direct his spirit to travel the physical realm (like the 5th level Spirit Thaumaturgy ability (journey).

System: The character must spend one Willpower point and one blood point. The spirit can travel up to 500 miles, and can use the five senses.

******* Transferral

The practitioner of this art can rearrange another Kindred's internal organs. Great for creating a misplaced heart.

System: Victim must spend 5 blood points, and make a successful Stamina + Occult roll (diff 8). The practitioner must spend two blood points, and gain three successes on an Intelligence + Medicine roll (diff 8). Used offensively, the character can pull the heart from a victim at a distance. Victim must spend 2 points of blood and make a Stamina + Occult roll (diff 8) to resist.