••• The Eye Behind the Glass
The Residents of the Moulding Room are masters of surveillance, and part of this has to do with their fetishization of the camera, the Eye Behind the Glass. The Residents have turned the fetish into a fact. A resident with this power can literally remove her eye and install it with wiring, Vitae and spittle behind a camera lens or a mirror, meaning that she can always perceive that area as though she were looking out of the lens or mirror herself, wherever she is.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The character gouges too deep, and inflicts on herself a point of aggravated damage. She ruins the eye, and suffers the penalties of having one eye until she heals the damage.
Failure: The character inflicts the lethal damage and spends the Vitae, but cannot empower the eye to see.
Success: The character can install the eye behind a camera lens, a mirror, or in some other vantage point, using her own Vitae as glue. The vampire can now see everything the eye sees. The duration depends on the number of successes rolled.
Successes | Duration
1 success | One night
2 successes | Three nights
3 successes | One week
4 successes | Two weeks
5+ successes | One month
While the eye is placed in this way, the character suffers all the penalties of having the Flaw: One Eye (see The World of Darkness Rulebook, p. 219). If the character heals the damage at any point, the external eye shrivels and ceases to work, while the character grows a new one. If the eye is ever hit by direct sunlight, it combusts quickly and is consumed in seconds, leaving only a slightly greasy blackened area where it once sat.
Exceptional Success: The eye works as above, but the character suffers no damage.
Failure: The character inflicts the lethal damage and spends the Vitae, but cannot empower the eye to see.
Success: The character can install the eye behind a camera lens, a mirror, or in some other vantage point, using her own Vitae as glue. The vampire can now see everything the eye sees. The duration depends on the number of successes rolled.
Successes | Duration
1 success | One night
2 successes | Three nights
3 successes | One week
4 successes | Two weeks
5+ successes | One month
While the eye is placed in this way, the character suffers all the penalties of having the Flaw: One Eye (see The World of Darkness Rulebook, p. 219). If the character heals the damage at any point, the external eye shrivels and ceases to work, while the character grows a new one. If the eye is ever hit by direct sunlight, it combusts quickly and is consumed in seconds, leaving only a slightly greasy blackened area where it once sat.
Exceptional Success: The eye works as above, but the character suffers no damage.
Side/Secondary Effects
Anyone who finds the eye can destroy it automatically, causing the vampire intense pain and another level of lethal damage.
Material Components
Cost: One Vitae. Also, the power inflicts one level of lethal damage on the character as she gouges out her own eye.
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: Wits + Stamina + Detournement
Related Discipline
Effect Casting Time
Instant
Level
3
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