•• Shadow Play
The user can manipulate shadows that already exist. They can grow, shrink, fade or intensify, change shape or even detach form the objects that cast them and move about. In dark surroundings, the vampire can create whatever shadowy images she wants. All these images remain shadows, though. A person who can see clearly could never mistake figures created through Shadow Play for anything solid or real. (Although, seeing one’s own shadow reach out to strangle the shadow of another person could prove quite disturbing.)
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The character fails to manipulate a shadow and cannot use this power again until the next sunset.
Failure: The character cannot manipulate shadows with this attempt, but a successive attempt may be made if another Vitae is spent.
Success: The character can alter shadows cast in a 16-square-yard area, but he may locate that area anywhere within line of sight. The zone of Shadow Play can itself be moved as a reflexive action, if the user so desires.
Exceptional Success: As per a normal success, except the area affected can be up to 25 square yards in size.
Failure: The character cannot manipulate shadows with this attempt, but a successive attempt may be made if another Vitae is spent.
Success: The character can alter shadows cast in a 16-square-yard area, but he may locate that area anywhere within line of sight. The zone of Shadow Play can itself be moved as a reflexive action, if the user so desires.
Exceptional Success: As per a normal success, except the area affected can be up to 25 square yards in size.
Side/Secondary Effects
Shadows can be manipulated for the remainder of the scene, their activities or behavior being modified by the user as a reflexive action. No more than one use of the power may be active at a time. Thus, shadows in two separate areas cannot be affected simultaneously. The user may leave shadows alone whenever he desires. They return to normal if he is knocked unconscious, sent into Torpor, destroyed, if he leaves them alone or if he loses direct line of sight to the area of effect.
Material Components
Cost: 1 Vitae
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: Wits + Intimidation + Obtenebration
Related Discipline
Effect Casting Time
Instant
Level
2
Applied Restriction
Modifier | Situation
— | Moving a shadow in a manner different from what the object casting it would suggest or be capable of (making the shadow of a statue dance, for example)
–1 | Causing an object to cast a shadow unlike what its physical shape would suggest
–3 | Truly complicated Shadow Plays, such as detaching a shadow from its host or making it undertake elaborate or wholly unnatural actions
— | Moving a shadow in a manner different from what the object casting it would suggest or be capable of (making the shadow of a statue dance, for example)
–1 | Causing an object to cast a shadow unlike what its physical shape would suggest
–3 | Truly complicated Shadow Plays, such as detaching a shadow from its host or making it undertake elaborate or wholly unnatural actions