Words of the Teacher (Level 4)

By Alejandro Melchor, for the Ehecatl tribe.

The minions of Quetzalcoatl are comitted to the spreading of knowledge, and this Gift is often used to give the pupils a taste of the knowledge that can be achieved. By successfully rolling Manipulation+the Ability being taught the pupil can use that teaching for a scene and will afterwards learn that specific knowledge with less difficulty, that is, it will cost less experience points; if a Gift is being taugh, the roll is Manipulation+(Teacher's Gnosis/2). The pupil can add to his Dice Pool the number of successes in the Ability/Gnosis roll, and the cost in experience of the Ability or Gift will diminish a number of experience points equal to the successes in the Manipulation roll (minimum of one). The difficulty number of the roll depends of what is being taugh and how well the teacher knows it:

                        |* - **|*** - ****|*****
              Skill*    |  6   |    5     |  4
              Knowledge |  8   |    7     |  6
              Gift**    |  10  |    9     |  8

*or Talent.

** treat the number of *'s as half the teacher's Gnosis, rounding up.

The Ehecatl can reverse the Gift to learn by rolling Intelligence or Perception instead of Manipulation, whichever is highest.