••• Vévé Passageway
Using white chalk, a Gatekeeper can draw the image of a door upon a wall, and instantly create a passageway through any barrier to the nearest room or empty space beyond it.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The door opens, but closes in a few seconds, rather than at the end of the scene. If the vampire is crossing through when this happens, the player rolls Dexterity + Athletics reflexively. If this roll fails, the character suffers seven points of lethal damage as the wall solidifies around her. The character can attempt to use Skeleton Key to get out (short of destroying the wall, this is in fact her only hope), but the attempt suffers a -3 modifier.
Failure: The attempt fails, and the chalk drawing remains upon the wall.
Success: The chalk door becomes a real door that opens to the nearest room or empty space (up to a distance of one mile in the direction directly behind the symbolic drawing). If there is no open space behind the drawn door, a real door still materializes, but it opens to the wall behind it, and goes nowhere (unless Shift Threshold is subsequently performed upon it). The door may be opened and closed once, after which the door vanishes. Otherwise, it remains for a number of hours equal to the successes rolled, after which it dissolves. Shift Threshold may be used upon a Vévé Passageway, but the door always disappears after it is closed or its duration has expired, and may therefore not become a part of the Eternal Crossroads.
Exceptional Success: Other than the extra time gained, extra successes have no effect.
Failure: The attempt fails, and the chalk drawing remains upon the wall.
Success: The chalk door becomes a real door that opens to the nearest room or empty space (up to a distance of one mile in the direction directly behind the symbolic drawing). If there is no open space behind the drawn door, a real door still materializes, but it opens to the wall behind it, and goes nowhere (unless Shift Threshold is subsequently performed upon it). The door may be opened and closed once, after which the door vanishes. Otherwise, it remains for a number of hours equal to the successes rolled, after which it dissolves. Shift Threshold may be used upon a Vévé Passageway, but the door always disappears after it is closed or its duration has expired, and may therefore not become a part of the Eternal Crossroads.
Exceptional Success: Other than the extra time gained, extra successes have no effect.