• Diagnose
Probably the most important power of this Discipline, Diagnose helps Morbus vampires identify suitable vessels from the throngs of the kine. The power reveals the taint in someone’s blood as it moves through his body, and it calls out to the Morbus’ Beast.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The character receives a completely false or misleading impression of the subject’s condition.
Failure: The character receives no impression at all of the subject’s condition.
Success: The character receives a sense (lasting a scene) of who in his line of sight carries infected blood.
Exceptional Success: As per success, but the character can also intuitively identify what diseases people carry.
A Morbus can also use Diagnose to identify Kindred who’ve been feeding on tainted blood (and whether those Kindred are Morbus themselves). Uses of Obfuscate, however, confound this power as surely as they confound the naked eye. Diagnose detects only those diseases that are currently active in a creature’s body. Pathogens that travel through the air, that are sealed in biohazard containers, that grow in a test tube or that thrive on a dirty countertop are undetectable.
Failure: The character receives no impression at all of the subject’s condition.
Success: The character receives a sense (lasting a scene) of who in his line of sight carries infected blood.
Exceptional Success: As per success, but the character can also intuitively identify what diseases people carry.
A Morbus can also use Diagnose to identify Kindred who’ve been feeding on tainted blood (and whether those Kindred are Morbus themselves). Uses of Obfuscate, however, confound this power as surely as they confound the naked eye. Diagnose detects only those diseases that are currently active in a creature’s body. Pathogens that travel through the air, that are sealed in biohazard containers, that grow in a test tube or that thrive on a dirty countertop are undetectable.