Before the Flood:Cattiveria Devotions
Ectoplasmic Conjuration
- Cost: 1 Vitae
- Dice Pool: Intelligence + Occult + Cattiveria
- Action: Instant
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.
Failure: Nothing happens.
Success: The ectoplasm is produced harmlessly, and floats in the air before the vampire, who may then manipulate it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Exceptional Success: Double the normal quantity of ectoplasm is produced.
