•• The Pleasure of the Text

The vampires of the Moulding Room have a terrifying ability to consume information. A vampire with this power seeps his blood over a book, CD, DVD or video tape. Then, he takes the blood back into himself, leaving the media blood-smeared and completely devoid of any of the recorded material on that medium. In this fashion, the vampire literally ingests the knowledge formerly stored on that item.

Effect

Dramatic Failure: The character’s blood rejects the media. Upon consuming the blood once more, the vampire takes a point of aggravated damage. Additionally, the vampire does not regain the point of Vitae used to activate the power.
Failure: The character’s blood simply fails to imprint the information, and the vampire does not regain the point of Vitae used to activate the power.
Success: The character instantly knows the information on the media she anointed with her blood, as if she had read it, watched it or listened to it. The object is destroyed by the blood.
Exceptional Success: The character assimilates the information on the media item targeted by this power. Additionally, this process does not destroy the media item — the blood simply wicks away cleanly when the vampire re-consumes it.

Material Components

Cost: One Vitae to activate the power, though this point is regained when the blood is re-consumed.

Gestures & Ritual

Dice Pool: Intelligence + Stamina + Detournement

Related Discipline

Detournement

Effect Casting Time

Instant

Level

2