Vitae Bloat
Protean ••, Resilience •
The Gangrel clan is clearly the source of this useful (albeit dangerous and grotesque) Devotion. Developed in the late 1800s by Gangrel trying to get a few steps ahead in the westward expansion of the United States, Vitae Bloat allows a vampire to store more Vitae in her body than it can normally hold.
Effect
A character must be holding as much Vitae as he can normally contain to activate Vitae Bloat. Once that’s done, he can hold a number of extra Vitae equal to his score in Protean. Or, if he prefers, he can hold less.
The vampire suffers one point of bashing damage for each two Vitae held above his standard maximum. These Health points can’t be healed while the Kindred is exceeding his normal capacity for Vitae.
Furthermore, his veins and arteries bulge unnaturally, swollen beyond their ordinary capacity. Some Kindred might say the use of Vitae Bloat is a Masquerade risk, if they’re inclined to make trouble for its user. Mortal viewers, on the other hand, are likely to assume the bloated Kindred simply has some hideous, disfiguring disease. (Storytellers may choose to assess penalties to Social rolls accordingly.)
Example: Rosalita, with Blood Potency 1 and Protean 2, can usually carry no more than 10 Vitae. Preparing for a long journey across the Mojave Desert (don’t ask), she begins with five Vitae in her system when she catches an unfortunate hitchhiker. His first five points of Vitae fill her up, and then she activates Vitae Bloat to take the last two. She takes one point of bashing damage, and is even uglier than you’d expect a casual murderess to be.
The vampire suffers one point of bashing damage for each two Vitae held above his standard maximum. These Health points can’t be healed while the Kindred is exceeding his normal capacity for Vitae.
Furthermore, his veins and arteries bulge unnaturally, swollen beyond their ordinary capacity. Some Kindred might say the use of Vitae Bloat is a Masquerade risk, if they’re inclined to make trouble for its user. Mortal viewers, on the other hand, are likely to assume the bloated Kindred simply has some hideous, disfiguring disease. (Storytellers may choose to assess penalties to Social rolls accordingly.)
Example: Rosalita, with Blood Potency 1 and Protean 2, can usually carry no more than 10 Vitae. Preparing for a long journey across the Mojave Desert (don’t ask), she begins with five Vitae in her system when she catches an unfortunate hitchhiker. His first five points of Vitae fill her up, and then she activates Vitae Bloat to take the last two. She takes one point of bashing damage, and is even uglier than you’d expect a casual murderess to be.
Material Components
Cost: 1 Willpower point
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: No roll is required to activate this power.
Related Discipline
Protean ••, Resilience •