•••• Open Bayé
Members of Apollinaire’s bloodline can create a gateway, known as a bayé, to and from the world of the dead, allowing traffic in either direction. Anyone who steps through a bayé is transplanted into Twilight. While in Twilight, they can touch ghosts, pick up ghostly objects or read tomes hidden there. They can also engage in physical or magical combat with ghosts, damaging their Corpus. Conversely, wrathful shades might physically lash out at visitors, causing them harm.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The gateway opens, but it doesn’t lead to Twilight. The player rolls the vampire’s Wits + Composure as a reflexive action. If the roll succeeds, the vampire realizes what has happened and stops before entering the gate (which leads to somewhere else — the Underworld, perhaps, or even to Hell). The gateway remains open until dawn, however, and if the vampire doesn’t watch it carefully, something could escape. Ghede would certainly be displeased if this were to happen.
Failure: The attempt fails.
Success: The attempt succeeds, and the character opens a gateway to Twilight. One vampire of Size 5 or less can pass through the bayé per turn (larger Kindred can spend two turns squeezing through). Each success allows the Gatekeeper to widen the gate so that one additional vampire can pass through per turn. Only vampires may pass through a bayé opened by an Apollinaire, and the gateway cannot be moved. It is impossible to open a Gateway from within Twilight using Open Bayé, making it difficult to return to the material world should a vampire linger too long in Twilight. While there, vampires are only able to feed upon each other, and sunlight is just as dangerous within Twilight as it is in the material world.
Exceptional Success: Extra successes allow for larger gates, but confer no other benefit.
Failure: The attempt fails.
Success: The attempt succeeds, and the character opens a gateway to Twilight. One vampire of Size 5 or less can pass through the bayé per turn (larger Kindred can spend two turns squeezing through). Each success allows the Gatekeeper to widen the gate so that one additional vampire can pass through per turn. Only vampires may pass through a bayé opened by an Apollinaire, and the gateway cannot be moved. It is impossible to open a Gateway from within Twilight using Open Bayé, making it difficult to return to the material world should a vampire linger too long in Twilight. While there, vampires are only able to feed upon each other, and sunlight is just as dangerous within Twilight as it is in the material world.
Exceptional Success: Extra successes allow for larger gates, but confer no other benefit.
Material Components
Cost: —
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: Wits + Occult + Carrefour
Related Discipline
Effect Casting Time
Instant
Level
4
Applied Restriction
Modifier | Situation
+2 | Discipline is activated is a cemetery or other location related to death.
+1 | The character practices Vodoun, and his patron loa is Ghede.
+2 | Discipline is activated is a cemetery or other location related to death.
+1 | The character practices Vodoun, and his patron loa is Ghede.