••• Kiss of Oblivion
This much sought-after power allows the user to drain emotions while feeding, stealing the pleasures and pains of life from the victim in addition to Vitae. The experience is almost unparalleled in pleasure, for the vampire. Xiao who have learned this fearsome power can literally prey on their victims’ souls, tainting them and driving the vampire’s hooks deeper into them.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The victim’s soul proves too resilient for the user to feed on. The subject is immune to further uses of Kiss of Oblivion by the vampire for the rest of the chapter.
Failure: The user may feed normally but doesn’t gain any other benefits.
Success: Success allows the vampire direct access to the emotional soul of the victim, tapping into the accumulated bank of his experience. She may select one emotion to drain. As long as the vampire continues to feed, she feels the full impact of all the victim’s accumulated experience with respect to this emotion — an intensely enjoyable and stimulating sensation.
Thereafter, the vampire enjoys a special understanding of the victim. Her attempts to manipulate him enjoy a +2 dice bonus for the remainder of the night, until the feelings inspired by the feeding fade from her mind.
For the remainder of the night, the victim’s soul is damaged by the Kiss of Oblivion. The emotional foundation of his spirit is thrown off balance by the drainage, and he cannot depend on his store of experience when confronted by certain stimuli. For the remainder of the night, he cannot gain Willpower by satisfying his Virtue. Those who observe him may note that he seems hollow, as if missing something crucial.
Kindred capable of Aura Perception will note that the victim’s aura seems frayed after this power is used on him, slowly repairing itself until the duration of the power’s effect is ended. The Xiao’s aura will seem a little brighter than normal, and suffused with pleasure.
Exceptional Success: As above. In addition, the vampire retains some of the information gained indefinitely. Anytime afterwards, her attempts to manipulate the victim of this power enjoy a +1 die bonus. Further exceptional successes scored on subsequent attempts do not improve this bonus.
Failure: The user may feed normally but doesn’t gain any other benefits.
Success: Success allows the vampire direct access to the emotional soul of the victim, tapping into the accumulated bank of his experience. She may select one emotion to drain. As long as the vampire continues to feed, she feels the full impact of all the victim’s accumulated experience with respect to this emotion — an intensely enjoyable and stimulating sensation.
Thereafter, the vampire enjoys a special understanding of the victim. Her attempts to manipulate him enjoy a +2 dice bonus for the remainder of the night, until the feelings inspired by the feeding fade from her mind.
For the remainder of the night, the victim’s soul is damaged by the Kiss of Oblivion. The emotional foundation of his spirit is thrown off balance by the drainage, and he cannot depend on his store of experience when confronted by certain stimuli. For the remainder of the night, he cannot gain Willpower by satisfying his Virtue. Those who observe him may note that he seems hollow, as if missing something crucial.
Kindred capable of Aura Perception will note that the victim’s aura seems frayed after this power is used on him, slowly repairing itself until the duration of the power’s effect is ended. The Xiao’s aura will seem a little brighter than normal, and suffused with pleasure.
Exceptional Success: As above. In addition, the vampire retains some of the information gained indefinitely. Anytime afterwards, her attempts to manipulate the victim of this power enjoy a +1 die bonus. Further exceptional successes scored on subsequent attempts do not improve this bonus.