• The Contagion Principle

The vampire can disconnect a shred of her fingernail which, on contact with living or undead flesh, burrows just under the skin. The owner feels a sympathy with it, and knows how far away and in what direction it lies, for as long as the effect lasts. A vampire with this power activated will never be able to lose track of the person implanted.

Effect

Dramatic Failure: The target knows exactly what has happened, and feels a great deal of discomfort. The shred of fingernail itches like hell, but it can easily be removed from the target’s skin with a pair of tweezers, like a splinter. The vampire gains no information.
Failure: The character fails to implant the splinter of fingernail.
Success: The target feels nothing, and the character now knows how far away and roughly where the target is. If the character is within a hundred yards of the victim, she knows the victim’s location exactly . This power has a variable duration, depending on how many successes the character rolled.
Successes | Duration
1 success | One night
2 successes | Three nights
3 successes | One week
4 successes | Two weeks
5+ successes | One month
Exceptional Success: Apart from the enhanced duration, the character gains no extra benefits from rolling five or more successes.

Material Components

Cost: One Willpower

Gestures & Ritual

Dice Pool: Wits + Stealth + Detournement, opposed by the target’s Wits + Blood Potency. The character must first touch the target (as per The World of Darkness Rulebook, p. 157) to use this power.

Related Discipline

Detournement

Effect Casting Time

Reflexive and Contested; resistance is reflexive.

Level

1

Applied Restriction

A handshake or a brief brush is all a character needs to use this power. Unless the character rolls a dramatic failure, the target does not know that anything has come to pass.
A character can only use this power on one individual at a time.