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'''''Ectoplasmic Conjuration'''''
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'''''Mortician's Appraisal (Auspex ●)'''''
*Cost: 1 Vitae
 
*Dice Pool: Intelligence + Occult + Cattiveria
 
*Action: Instant
 
*Requirement: None (Free) ●
 
  
'''Dramatic Failure:''' Ectoplasm appears, but it rips itself violently out of the vampire’s body, doing one level of aggravated damage to the user, and dissipates before it can be used.
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The Sangiovanni exploits her unique bond with death to analyze a corpse at a single glance. The signature use of this power involves looking deeply into the eyes of the corpse, and seeing the last image the deceased ever saw, burned into the retinas. This may be used only once per scene per corpse.
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'''Failure:''' Nothing happens.
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'''''Ectoplasmic Manifestation (Vigor ●)'''''
  
'''Success:''' The ectoplasm is produced harmlessly, and floats in the air before the vampire, who may then manipulate it.
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The root of the Sangiovanni’s power lies within the blood and flesh of their body. Something unique to this line allows the Necromancer to convert the concentrated life of Vitae into the death energy of Plasm.
  
If this ectoplasm is used to mend undead flesh, it is absorbed into the body, sinking into the flesh, healing 1 lethal or 2 bashing damage and vanishing from normal sight.
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Cost: 1 Vitae per Plasm
  
Ectoplasm may also be applied to a corpse or a severed limb. The said corpse or limb rises as a Shambling Porter. A Shambling Porter without specific conditions is a mindless creature, responding only to the simple commands of its master. It cannot be mentally or socially manipulated. The Sangiovanni may have at the most twice her Cattiveria rating + Blood Potency Shambling Porters at her command.
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Action: Reflexive
  
Shambling Porters have an effective rating of 1 in all Physical Attributes and 0 in all Social and Mental Attributes, and they have no Skills. Their Defense is 0, and their Speed is 2. Shambling Porters suffer no unskilled penalties. Their initial Health rating is equal to Size + Stamina, and they take one level of lethal damage every hour as they rot. When the lethal damage they take equals their Health rating, they collapse lifeless to the ground. The somewhat rotted corpse may be animated again, but as a result of the accumulated rot suffers a point of aggravated damage for each time it was raised. Once the Shambling Porter has aggravated damage equal to its size it becomes rotten beyond recognition or repair and cannot be animated again. Until collapsing, the animated corpse suffers no wound penalties from bashing damage. Shambling Porters suffer a point of aggravated damage every turn they are in sunlight.
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At the cost of one Vitae per one unit of Plasm, the Sangiovanni can produce the death-energy laden substance that is necessary to fuel their rituals. This Plasm, which is a thick, syrupy, dark liquid that exudes smoky vapors from it, must come out of the Sangiovanni physically, usually through an orifice (such as the mouth) or through a cut to the flesh. Cutting open flesh to release Plasm turns this power into an instant action. The Sangiovanni can spend as much Vitae as their Blood Potency allows as an instant action.
  
The Shambling Porter may not have more conditions than its master’s Blood Potency + Cattiveria rating and no more than two copies of the same condition.
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Once out, the Plasm will immediately start to decay. If it is not used, it will be gone entirely in a few short minutes. The Sangiovanni cannot store Plasm.
  
'''Exceptional Success:''' Double the normal quantity of ectoplasm is produced.
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Sangiovanni who unlock this ability within their blood also intuitively learn to work with Plasm. At its most basic, the Sangiovanni can apply Plasm to the eyes of kindred as an instant action, one Plasm per vampire, and grant that vampire the ability to see ghosts concealed in Twilight. Likewise, corpses (vampires included) will gain a strange black shimmer. This effect lasts for ten minutes per Blood Potency of the Sangiovanni.
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Additionally, some Necromancers have learned that Plasm is a valuable means of bartering with ghosts (and a few other entities). While this power offers no means to compel a ghost to do anything at all, there are many that would trade favors and information for Plasm. Plasm is converted to death-attuned Essence and consumed by the ghost.
 
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'''''Ectoplasmic Potential'''''
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'''''Ectoplasmic Infusion (Vigor ●●)'''''
*Cost: None
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*Dice Pool: None (enhances Ectoplasmic Conjuration)
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The energy of the dead can be used to heal the dead, just as life can heal the living. The Sangiovanni have learned to use the Plasm they create to heal the undead.
*Action: None (enhances Ectoplasmic Conjuration)
 
*Requirement: Vigor ●●
 
 
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'''''Ectoplasmic Purification'''''
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'''''Shuffling Porter (Auspex ●●, Vigor ●●)'''''
*Cost: 2 Vitae (when extracting pure ectoplasm)
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*Dice Pool: Intelligence + Crafts + Cattiveria (– Resolve + Blood Potency, if used against an unwilling target, touch must be achieved previously)
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Through working with Plasm, the Sangiovanni learns to will the death-energy into a corpse (or piece of a corpse) and animate it. The Sangiovanni sprinkles, spreads, or spills Plasm over a corpse and channels the energies of their bloodline and wills the creature to life.
*Action: Instant
 
*Requirement: Vigor ●●●
 
 
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'''''Wake the Restless'''''
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'''''The Predator's Bequest (Auspex ●●●, Vigor ●●●)'''''
*Cost: 3 Vitae + X Vitae (chosen while casting the ability)
 
*Dice Pool: Wits + Occult + Cattiveria
 
*Action: Instant
 
*Requirement: Vigor ●●●●
 
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'''''Corpse Switch'''''
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Once the Necromancer has raised a zombie, it is possible for him or her to infuse more of their own power into the walking corpse, not unlike one might do with a ghoul. The Necromancer spills their own vitae and pushes their will into the Shuffling Porter, and in doing so creates a much more useful servant.
*Cost: 1 Vitae
 
*Dice Pool: None
 
*Action: Instant
 
*Requirement: Vigor ●●●●●
 

Revision as of 07:29, 23 August 2017

Mortician's Appraisal (Auspex ●)

The Sangiovanni exploits her unique bond with death to analyze a corpse at a single glance. The signature use of this power involves looking deeply into the eyes of the corpse, and seeing the last image the deceased ever saw, burned into the retinas. This may be used only once per scene per corpse.


Ectoplasmic Manifestation (Vigor ●)

The root of the Sangiovanni’s power lies within the blood and flesh of their body. Something unique to this line allows the Necromancer to convert the concentrated life of Vitae into the death energy of Plasm.

Cost: 1 Vitae per Plasm

Action: Reflexive

At the cost of one Vitae per one unit of Plasm, the Sangiovanni can produce the death-energy laden substance that is necessary to fuel their rituals. This Plasm, which is a thick, syrupy, dark liquid that exudes smoky vapors from it, must come out of the Sangiovanni physically, usually through an orifice (such as the mouth) or through a cut to the flesh. Cutting open flesh to release Plasm turns this power into an instant action. The Sangiovanni can spend as much Vitae as their Blood Potency allows as an instant action.

Once out, the Plasm will immediately start to decay. If it is not used, it will be gone entirely in a few short minutes. The Sangiovanni cannot store Plasm.

Sangiovanni who unlock this ability within their blood also intuitively learn to work with Plasm. At its most basic, the Sangiovanni can apply Plasm to the eyes of kindred as an instant action, one Plasm per vampire, and grant that vampire the ability to see ghosts concealed in Twilight. Likewise, corpses (vampires included) will gain a strange black shimmer. This effect lasts for ten minutes per Blood Potency of the Sangiovanni.

Additionally, some Necromancers have learned that Plasm is a valuable means of bartering with ghosts (and a few other entities). While this power offers no means to compel a ghost to do anything at all, there are many that would trade favors and information for Plasm. Plasm is converted to death-attuned Essence and consumed by the ghost.


Ectoplasmic Infusion (Vigor ●●)

The energy of the dead can be used to heal the dead, just as life can heal the living. The Sangiovanni have learned to use the Plasm they create to heal the undead.


Shuffling Porter (Auspex ●●, Vigor ●●)

Through working with Plasm, the Sangiovanni learns to will the death-energy into a corpse (or piece of a corpse) and animate it. The Sangiovanni sprinkles, spreads, or spills Plasm over a corpse and channels the energies of their bloodline and wills the creature to life.


The Predator's Bequest (Auspex ●●●, Vigor ●●●)

Once the Necromancer has raised a zombie, it is possible for him or her to infuse more of their own power into the walking corpse, not unlike one might do with a ghoul. The Necromancer spills their own vitae and pushes their will into the Shuffling Porter, and in doing so creates a much more useful servant.