• Sanguine Analysis
Before Vitae can be utilized, it must be broken down and understood. The first procedure a newly inducted member of the Geheim family learns allows her to do just that. Through Sanguine Analysis, a Kindred garners a great deal of information about a blood sample.
This power renders the blood useless for anything other than further uses of Blut Alchemie.
This power renders the blood useless for anything other than further uses of Blut Alchemie.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The character not only fails to garner information, she also ruins the sample — rendering it useless to further Blut Alchemie procedures.
Failure: The character gains no insight into the sample.
Success: The character garners one piece of the following information regarding the sample:
Example: Cecilia von Geheim surreptitiously takes a small sample of blood from the scene of a ghoul’s murder. Cecilia knows that the ghoul served a stranger to the domain, a Gangrel nomad who calls himself Aaron. The amount of blood she manages to take is small, she knows (and will inflict a -3 penalty on her rolls), and the fact that he is a ghoul will make determining information about the blood more difficult (another -1). Luckily, Cecilia is an elder and her dice pool for Sanguine Analysis is 8 after the penalties. She retires to her laboratory, where she could made five rolls (based on her Blut Alchemie rating), were it not for the fact that the dawn will interrupt her in three hours (allowing her only three rolls). Her player rolls eight dice three times, garnering a total of seven successes, allowing her seven pieces of information. First she makes sure that the servant was actually a ghoul (he was). She then attempts to discern the regnant’s clan, beginning with Gangrel (which, despite his claims, he is not), followed by Ventrue (also false), and Mekhet (this rings positive). She now knows that either Aaron is actually a Mekhet or that his ghoul was a double agent. She checks for another Kindred’s Vita in the ghoul’s system and finds none. She has spent five of her seven successes. Suspecting that “Aaron” may be a member of the Morbus bloodline, she checks to see if the ghoul was diseased and uses her last two successes to find that he carried both syphilis and cholera. If she had more successes, she could check for more diseases (and if she had a sample of Morbus blood, she could confirm her suspicions), but for now she has enough information to begin a more thorough investigation… assuming that Aaron hasn’t left town by the time she finishes in the lab.
Exceptional Success: No benefit, save that additional successes will accumulate.
Failure: The character gains no insight into the sample.
Success: The character garners one piece of the following information regarding the sample:
- The age of the character (if mortal) or time since the character’s Embrace or last Torpor, whichever was most recent (if Kindred).
- Whether the character suffers from or carries any diseases (one disease per success).
- The general health of the character (if mortal).
- The amount of blood that was in a human or Kindred’s system at the time the sample was taken.
- The presence of animal, human or lupine blood in the sample (the presence or lack thereof of each is garnered per success).
- The presence of another Kindred’s Vitae in the sample.
- The clan the Kindred who provided the sample hails from (whether or not he originates from a given clan per success).
- Whether or not the sample came from a ghoul (one success) and the clan of the ghoul’s regnant (whether or not the regnant is a member of a given clan per success).
- Whether or not the Kindred is a member of the Geheim family (the Geheim may be able to test for members of other bloodlines if he has confirmed samples available from a member of said line).
Example: Cecilia von Geheim surreptitiously takes a small sample of blood from the scene of a ghoul’s murder. Cecilia knows that the ghoul served a stranger to the domain, a Gangrel nomad who calls himself Aaron. The amount of blood she manages to take is small, she knows (and will inflict a -3 penalty on her rolls), and the fact that he is a ghoul will make determining information about the blood more difficult (another -1). Luckily, Cecilia is an elder and her dice pool for Sanguine Analysis is 8 after the penalties. She retires to her laboratory, where she could made five rolls (based on her Blut Alchemie rating), were it not for the fact that the dawn will interrupt her in three hours (allowing her only three rolls). Her player rolls eight dice three times, garnering a total of seven successes, allowing her seven pieces of information. First she makes sure that the servant was actually a ghoul (he was). She then attempts to discern the regnant’s clan, beginning with Gangrel (which, despite his claims, he is not), followed by Ventrue (also false), and Mekhet (this rings positive). She now knows that either Aaron is actually a Mekhet or that his ghoul was a double agent. She checks for another Kindred’s Vita in the ghoul’s system and finds none. She has spent five of her seven successes. Suspecting that “Aaron” may be a member of the Morbus bloodline, she checks to see if the ghoul was diseased and uses her last two successes to find that he carried both syphilis and cholera. If she had more successes, she could check for more diseases (and if she had a sample of Morbus blood, she could confirm her suspicions), but for now she has enough information to begin a more thorough investigation… assuming that Aaron hasn’t left town by the time she finishes in the lab.
Exceptional Success: No benefit, save that additional successes will accumulate.
Material Components
Cost: —
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Investigation + Blut Alchemie
Related Discipline
Effect Casting Time
Extended. Each roll represents one hour of laboratory study
Level
1
Applied Restriction
Modifier | Situation
+1 | Each aspect, of the sample listed above, that the character already knows about the subject prior to beginning work.
-1 | The provider of the sample is a ghoul or otherwise has consumed Kindred Vitae in the last month.
-2 | The provider of the sample has committed Diablerie within the last year.
-3 | The character possesses only a small sample of the blood (less than one Vitae).
-5 | The provider of the sample has committed Diablerie within the month.
+1 | Each aspect, of the sample listed above, that the character already knows about the subject prior to beginning work.
-1 | The provider of the sample is a ghoul or otherwise has consumed Kindred Vitae in the last month.
-2 | The provider of the sample has committed Diablerie within the last year.
-3 | The character possesses only a small sample of the blood (less than one Vitae).
-5 | The provider of the sample has committed Diablerie within the month.