Melpominee
 
The Melpominee Discipline appeared simultaneously with the Daughters of Cacophony and is intrinsically linked to that bloodline. It allows its possessors to use speech and song for a variety of supernatural effects.  It is not, however, limited to that bloodline alone.  Any vampire can learn Melpominee if all criteria are met.

BASIC
LEVEL 1  The Missing Voice  
Like a ventriloquist, you can throw your voice to any place within your line of sight.  However, you do not cause your voice to seem to emanate from there - with The Missing Voice, you actually cause your speech or song to generate from thin air.  You can even carry on two conversations simultaneously, for The Missing Voice functions independently of your normal voice (the second voice is actually produced from your concentration of The Missing Voice).

LEVEL 2  Phantom Speaker  
No longer limited to sending your voice to a place you can see, you can project speech or song to anyone you know.  As long as it night at the subject’s location, you make your voice heard to your target.
 
The words and music of Phantom Speaker are audible only to your target, unless an eavesdropper with at least intermediate Auspex manages to listen in.

Tourette's Voice
With this power, the vampire can project her voice to any point or person with which she is familiar. She can sing, talk or make any other vocal noises she likes, as loudly or as softly as she wants. The Daughter will not hear the sounds unless she is within earshot.

System:  Tourette's Voice requires the character to make a Wits + Linguistics roll (difficulty 7) and spend a Willpower point. Each success allows the character to speak for one turn.

INTERMEDIATE
LEVEL 3  Madrigal  
The crashing waves of your song carry the force of your own emotions.   For example, with inspiring verses, you can raise others to the very heights of passion…or with despairing songs, you can bring about terrible dread from within the victim.

Toreador's Bane
This power enables the vampire to entrance others with her voice. The effect duplicates the Toreador clan weakness, but can affect anyone. The target will sit still, in awe of the character's voice, until the character stops singing. Thus the effects can last seconds, minutes, hours or even the entire night.

System:  The character makes a Charisma + Music roll (difficulty equals the target's Willpower [minus two for Toreador] and totals the successes, though one is enough to send the victim into this "trance." If the target wants to resist, she must make a Willpower roll (difficulty equals the number of accumulated successes.). If the target does not resist, than the trance will last until the character stops singing.

LEVEL 4  Art's Traumatic Essence
This is the power that other vampires fear the most. It is the song that drives others mad, and it can be used in conjunction with the other powers of this Discipline. It can only affect one target at a time.

System:  Art's Traumatic Essence requires a Manipulation + Empathy roll (difficulty equals the target's Willpower). The singer must accumulate a number of successes equal to the subject's Self Control + 5. Once this happens, the target acquires a new Derangement of the Storyteller's choice.

Siren’s Beckoning  
Pulling out the roots of turmoil and despair in a subject, you awaken insanity from the soul.  Like the legends of faerie  singers and mermaids, you can drive your target into desperation with your melodies.

ADVANCED
LEVEL 5  Death of the Drum
At this level, the character can use this discipline and his voice to inflict actual damage upon others. The damage caused to mortals is mainly that of punctured eardrums. Kindred may take serious damage as dead organs begin rupturing. Only one victim can be targeted at a time. The target must be within earshot, but does not actually have to hear anything.

System:  Use of this power requires a Manipulation + Intimidation roll (difficulty equals the target's Stamina + 3). Each success inflicts one level of aggravated damage. This damage can be soaked (difficulty 7).

Virtuosa  
Although the Vampire was limited to affecting a single target with hidden speech or insanity, your performance can now carry your music to as many listeners as you desire.  You can extend your powers of Phantom Speaker or Siren’s Beckoning to multiple subjects, however you can only use one of the disciplines at a time…ie: you cannot use Virtuosa to project speech to some people while singing to others simultaneously.

LEVEL 6  Blessed Audience
At this point, the vampire learns to use Art's Traumatic Essence on a group. All affected must be within earshot of the vampire, and they must be able to hear her song.

System:  The roll and effects are the same as for Art's Traumatic Essence. The vampire can affect one person for every Blood Point she spends.

LEVEL 7  No Powers of this level currently known or have been discovered.

LEVEL 8  No Powers of this level currently known or have been discovered.

LEVEL 9  No Powers of this level currently known or have been discovered.

LEVEL 10  No Powers of this level currently known or have been discovered.

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