••••• Yama’s Benefice
This is a gift of manifold applications. In its most basic form, it allows a Guardian to wholly extract herself from her body in the form of blood — independently mobile, sentient blood that can flow in any direction. This leaves behind the desiccated hulk of the original physical body. What can then be accomplished depends entirely on the amount of blood contained in the vampire’s body when this power is invoked. A vampire with a healthy supply of blood can attack, escape and even establish a Vinculum with sleeping victims by dripping a tiny bit of blood between their lips. A vampire who is nearing Final Death or Torpor, though, can use this power to “Embrace” a nearby corpse, fooling the attacker into thinking he has won.
Effect
If the vampire’s blood pool is substantially diminished (no more than three Vitae remaining), this ability can be used as an option of last resort to avoid Final Death. The vampire needs to escape the scene without being captured or set on fire (but receives a +3 modifier to all Stealth rolls, as she exists as a small puddle of dark liquid). Once she does, she has until sunrise to find a human corpse. She can then slither into the body’s mouth, at which point the player expends a Willpower dot. From this moment on, the vampire claims the corpse as her own. Over the course of the next month, the vampire alters the corpse’s physical form, causing it to take on the vampire’s Attributes and Skills. The character’s features, when the process is complete, resemble an odd amalgam of the vampire’s original body and the pilfered corpse’s. If the vampire cannot find a suitable corpse before sunrise, the puddle of blood loses sentience and dries up (the vampire, of course, meets Final Death).
If the vampire’s blood pool is robust (more than three Vitae), this form can be used to invoke any and all of the other abilities of this Discipline, both offensive and defensive. In such cases, engaging in acts of espionage and combat are the favored activities. In this form, invocation of Gift of Indra becomes a reflexive action. The disembodied blood-being generally repossesses its own body rather than take a new host when this invocation is complete, though the vampire can claim a new body if she so desires. She can even use the blood-form to kill a mortal of her choosing, and then inhabit the resulting corpse.
If the vampire’s blood pool is robust (more than three Vitae), this form can be used to invoke any and all of the other abilities of this Discipline, both offensive and defensive. In such cases, engaging in acts of espionage and combat are the favored activities. In this form, invocation of Gift of Indra becomes a reflexive action. The disembodied blood-being generally repossesses its own body rather than take a new host when this invocation is complete, though the vampire can claim a new body if she so desires. She can even use the blood-form to kill a mortal of her choosing, and then inhabit the resulting corpse.
Material Components
Cost: 1 Willpower
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: This power does not require a roll.
Effect Casting Time
Instant
Level
5