Rotting Touch

Vampire the Requiem - Covenant - Belial's Brood

The Adversary is often viewed as the embodiment of chaos; whatever the Beast Lord touches is stripped to its base elements and laid bare. The unchanging state of a vampire form is only an extension of the Beast’s will to survive, and a Forsworn with an intimate understanding of sarx may strip the material form of other creatures. With the lightest touch of the hand, the vampire’s Beast flays the flesh of the living and rots the corpus of the dead.

Effect

Dramatic Failure: The Vitae is wasted, and the Forsworn takes an aggravated wound as rot spreads along his skin.
Failure: The Vitae is wasted, and the power fails to damage the victim.
Success: Each success garnered on this roll translates to a point of lethal damage to living victims, or a point of aggravated damage to dead or undead victims. Living victims affected by this power leave behind strips of muscle and skin, while dead or undead flesh melts away into putrescence.
Exceptional Success: The victim has been impaired or crippled by the Rotting Touch, and, of course, limbs stripped of tissue are a gruesome sight. Victims take a –1 penalty to all Physical and Social dice pools until the end of the scene, or until the damage from Rotting Touch is healed, whichever comes first.

Prerequisites: Flesh Spider, Hands of the Beast, Warp Corpse

Related Organizations

• Belial's Brood

Material Components

Cost: 2 Vitae

Gestures & Ritual

Dice Pool: Manipulation + Occult – victim’s Stamina.

Related Discipline

Investments

Effect Duration

N/A

Effect Casting Time

Reflexive

Applied Restriction

A victim must be touched or grabbed for this power to be activated. This usually requires a separate grapple (Strength + Brawl) roll.
Modifier | Situation
–1 to –2 | The victim is heavily clothed or covered, with little exposed flesh.
+1 to +2 | The victim is very lightly clothed or nude.