••••• Shadow Form
A master of Obtenebration can literally become a shadow. In this form, a character can slide across walls, through a crack under a door or through a window without breaking the glass. No physical force can harm her because she isn’t solid. She looks just like a shadow of herself (and can use Shadow Play separately to make herself even harder to recognize). The character can also “peel” herself off the floor, wall or ceiling to assume a three-dimensional form of semi-transparent darkness, but doing so demands great concentration.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The character does not become a shadow of herself, but rather “roots” her shadow self to some object in her vicinity, becoming its “shadow” until the scene ends or until a Willpower point is spent as a reflexive action to free herself. Shadow Play can still be used in “trapped” shadow form.
Failure: The character is unable to transubstantiate herself into shadow, but another attempt may be made in a subsequent turn if another Vitae is spent.
Success: The character becomes a shadow-like form, with all of the benefits and only some of the drawbacks.
Exceptional Success: As per a standard success, plus a three-dimensional form can be assumed with a Willpower cost.
Failure: The character is unable to transubstantiate herself into shadow, but another attempt may be made in a subsequent turn if another Vitae is spent.
Success: The character becomes a shadow-like form, with all of the benefits and only some of the drawbacks.
Exceptional Success: As per a standard success, plus a three-dimensional form can be assumed with a Willpower cost.
Side/Secondary Effects
The character becomes a two-dimensional shadow, can move at normal or running Speed, and can defy gravity, but must always move across a surface such as the ground, a wall or a ceiling. She can pass through any object which a shadow could be cast through, such as a window, a paper wall or a mesh screen. She cannot exist as a free-standing, two-dimensional shadow.
The character is a shadow-like ephemeral form, existing in the material world but intangible. This state is not unlike that of a ghost anchored to the physical world (a state called “Twilight”) — in fact, a character in Twilight can interact normally only with other creatures in Twilight. She cannot speak or affect anything physically. Punches, bullets, mundane fire and other material attacks cannot harm the shadow-like form of the vampire any more than they could damage a normal shadow. Sunlight, however, remains deadly.
If an exceptional success is rolled when the power is activated, the character can choose to become a freestanding, three-dimensional figure of darkness with visible eyes (whether they appear as flesh, as pinpricks of light or as holes in the shadow is up to the character), but doing so requires significant concentration. (One Willpower point must be spent as a reflexive action; it does not confer a +3 bonus to any roll.) In this form, the character can speak normally into the material world and make use of her other Obtenebration powers. She is still considered an ephemeral form in the state of Twilight, however, and cannot otherwise interact with material things. A vampire in either kind of Shadow Form cannot use any other Disciplines against material targets. She can, however, use Disciplines against ephemeral targets, such as another vampire in Shadow Form or against a ghost or spirit.
Surrounding a character in Shadow Form with light, so that no shadows can exist, forces the vampire to resume corporeal form.
The character is a shadow-like ephemeral form, existing in the material world but intangible. This state is not unlike that of a ghost anchored to the physical world (a state called “Twilight”) — in fact, a character in Twilight can interact normally only with other creatures in Twilight. She cannot speak or affect anything physically. Punches, bullets, mundane fire and other material attacks cannot harm the shadow-like form of the vampire any more than they could damage a normal shadow. Sunlight, however, remains deadly.
If an exceptional success is rolled when the power is activated, the character can choose to become a freestanding, three-dimensional figure of darkness with visible eyes (whether they appear as flesh, as pinpricks of light or as holes in the shadow is up to the character), but doing so requires significant concentration. (One Willpower point must be spent as a reflexive action; it does not confer a +3 bonus to any roll.) In this form, the character can speak normally into the material world and make use of her other Obtenebration powers. She is still considered an ephemeral form in the state of Twilight, however, and cannot otherwise interact with material things. A vampire in either kind of Shadow Form cannot use any other Disciplines against material targets. She can, however, use Disciplines against ephemeral targets, such as another vampire in Shadow Form or against a ghost or spirit.
Surrounding a character in Shadow Form with light, so that no shadows can exist, forces the vampire to resume corporeal form.
Material Components
Cost: 1 Vitae
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: Wits + Subterfuge + Obtenebration
Related Discipline
Effect Casting Time
Instant
Level
5