Whisper of War

Protean •••, Resilience ••

Vampire the Requiem - Ancient Bloodlines

An attack happens in a painfully short moment of time: in half-a-second, the Hatchet falls and scrapes away the scalp or a tumbling shotgun slug punches a hole in an enemy’s breastbone. The Sta-Au have a way of casting their flesh into Twilight for the moment in which an attack would normally come crashing against them — leaving the Hatchet or the bullet to pass harmlessly through.

Effect

The vampire must perform this Devotion at the beginning of a turn of combat before any others have acted (it’s reflexive, and as such does not need to happen in order of Initiative). If the character uses it in the middle of a combat turn and not at the beginning, it applies to the next turn of combat.
After activating this Devotion, the vampire’s flesh becomes inconsistent for the one-to-three seconds that comprise a combat turn. She may appear to flicker or blur at the edges. Any attacks that fall to her this turn simply pass through her body — an arrow whistles through air and finds no purchase, a fist strikes nothing, a spray of buckshot peppers the wall behind her. Obviously, a character who uses this Devotion to avoid an attack cannot take one of her own, as her body is insubstantial. She can, however, use her action to move, speak or do anything else that doesn’t require physically interacting with the world around her.

Material Components

Cost: 1 Vitae

Gestures & Ritual

Dice Pool: No roll is necessary.

Related Discipline

Protean •••, Resilience ••

Effect Casting Time

Reflexive

This Devotion costs 15 experience points to learn.