••••• Shift Threshold
The Apollinaire bloodline has the ability to open any door to any other, linking the two doors together through space, no matter where they both reside. A Gatekeeper may, for example, link a closet door in New York to the door of a flat in London. When the vampire passes through the door in New York, he ends up in the London flat. Gatekeepers have scattered hundreds of these doors across the globe, forming an intricate, secret network across the fabric of space known as the Eternal Crossroads.
The Eternal Crossroads are available for any vampire to use, provided she knows where to look and has been taught the proper way to open the door. A small number of Gatekeepers have taken up the duty of maintaining the Eternal Crossroads, mapping its intricate and ever-shifting passageways, and locking doors (often using Skeleton Key to prevent those outside the bloodline from gaining access) that have been left ajar to prevent the unaware from stumbling through. Maps of the Eternal Crossroads are available for purchase, at a high price, although they are rarely accurate for long, as old passageways are destroyed and new ones are constantly added.
The Eternal Crossroads are available for any vampire to use, provided she knows where to look and has been taught the proper way to open the door. A small number of Gatekeepers have taken up the duty of maintaining the Eternal Crossroads, mapping its intricate and ever-shifting passageways, and locking doors (often using Skeleton Key to prevent those outside the bloodline from gaining access) that have been left ajar to prevent the unaware from stumbling through. Maps of the Eternal Crossroads are available for purchase, at a high price, although they are rarely accurate for long, as old passageways are destroyed and new ones are constantly added.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The Gatekeeper creates a connection to a random door, rather than to the intended door.
Failure: The attempt fails.
Success: The Gatekeeper links two doors together creating a passageway in space from one to the other. The vampire may only create a connection to a door that he has seen and can clearly visualize, and may not link a door to another that is already a part of the Eternal Crossroads. The link exists for a number of hours equal to the successes rolled, unless the player spends an extra Vitae for the character to mark the door with his blood. If an Apollinaire marks the door, the passageway becomes a part of the Eternal Crossroads, and the link lasts until one (or both) of the doors is physically destroyed. While any vampire can cross through a passageway formed using Shift Threshold, only an Apollinaire can see the mark upon a door designating it as a gateway of the Eternal Crossroads.
When a Gatekeeper creates a door to the Eternal Crossroads, he also invents a “key,” a special way of accessing the door to cause it to open to the linked destination, rather than to wherever it would usually lead. This “key” is usually a simple ritual: a special knock, a symbol to be drawn on the door or a quick phrase. An Apollinaire who forgets which key goes to which door might be in for embarrassment (at least), but nothing stops the character from using the same key for multiple doors. Then all he has to do is remember where each of the doors goes.
Exceptional Success: The vampire can make the door part of the Eternal Crossroads without further expenditure. All Carrefour rolls for the next hour gain a +1, as Ghede looks upon the intricacy of the Crossroads with pleasure.
Failure: The attempt fails.
Success: The Gatekeeper links two doors together creating a passageway in space from one to the other. The vampire may only create a connection to a door that he has seen and can clearly visualize, and may not link a door to another that is already a part of the Eternal Crossroads. The link exists for a number of hours equal to the successes rolled, unless the player spends an extra Vitae for the character to mark the door with his blood. If an Apollinaire marks the door, the passageway becomes a part of the Eternal Crossroads, and the link lasts until one (or both) of the doors is physically destroyed. While any vampire can cross through a passageway formed using Shift Threshold, only an Apollinaire can see the mark upon a door designating it as a gateway of the Eternal Crossroads.
When a Gatekeeper creates a door to the Eternal Crossroads, he also invents a “key,” a special way of accessing the door to cause it to open to the linked destination, rather than to wherever it would usually lead. This “key” is usually a simple ritual: a special knock, a symbol to be drawn on the door or a quick phrase. An Apollinaire who forgets which key goes to which door might be in for embarrassment (at least), but nothing stops the character from using the same key for multiple doors. Then all he has to do is remember where each of the doors goes.
Exceptional Success: The vampire can make the door part of the Eternal Crossroads without further expenditure. All Carrefour rolls for the next hour gain a +1, as Ghede looks upon the intricacy of the Crossroads with pleasure.
Material Components
Cost: 1 Vitae
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Occult + Carrefour
Related Discipline
Effect Casting Time
Instant
Level
5
Applied Restriction
Modifier | Situation
+2 | The vampire is attempting to connect to a door in his haven, or another location with which he is intimately familiar.
+1 | The character practices Vodoun, and his patron loa is Ghede.
+2 | The vampire is attempting to connect to a door in his haven, or another location with which he is intimately familiar.
+1 | The character practices Vodoun, and his patron loa is Ghede.