This Discipline, mastered by the Nosferatu House, are
arts of concealment and deception. Use of these powers can keep mortals,
except those with wonderous powers, and even Cainites not possessed of
certain Disciplines and abilities, from finding them, or ferreting them
out when deceiving another.
BASIC
LEVEL 1 Cloak of
the Shadows
By remaining still and relying on natural cover, you
can blur the apparent lines of your form and make it difficult for people
to notice you. As long as you remain completely still and unmoving
in a shadowed place or behind some sort of cover, you remain hidden from
normal view. While hidden, nobody but a Cainite using Auspex (or
another supernatural creature with similar sensory acuity) can spot you.
The concealment vanishes immediately if you move, speak, or interact with
your environment in any fashion.
LEVEL 2 Unseen
Presence
Your powers of concealment allow you to fade from view,
and then wander about while remaining unnoticed. Once concealed,
you may move about at a walking pace and remain unnoticed. You can
wander about unnoticed, but you automatically become visible if you speak,
open a door, attack a person, exert the Presence Discipline or knock over
a vase, for instance.
INTERMEDIATE
LEVEL 3 Mask of
A Thousand Faces
By twisting perceptions around you, you cause others
to see you not as you really are but as someone different from your actual
physical appearance. Generally, this power causes people to ignore
your features, making you unassuming and average. However, with concentration,
you can assume a specific hallucinatory visage or even copy the features
of another individual.
LEVEL 4 Vanish From
The Mind’s Eye
The incredible powers of your stealth allow you to remain
hidden even while speaking or moving about. You can even fade from
plain sight, disappearing from the view of any onlooker. You still
cannot remain invisible while interacting physically with your environment,
screaming, exerting Presence or attacking, but you could take such an action
and then try to fade away again.
ADVANCED
LEVEL 5 Cloak of
the Gathering
Your powers of concealment extend beyond your own form.
With an effort, you can throw your disguising powers over several people,
hiding them all from view or masking them with hallucinatory guises.
When you use this discipline, you can use any Obfuscate
power that you possess over the targets. For example, you could choose
to spread several Masks of A Thousand Faces over your allies; making them
all look like different people; or you could shroud a group of people with
Vanish From the Minds Eye, causing them all to fade from view. If
an individual under Cloak of the Gathering violates the provisions of his
loaned Obfuscate in any way (say, by launching an attack), then he immediately
loses the benefits, but the cloak remains intact for the others.
Only if you, the Caster of Cloak of the Gathering, violate your Obfuscate
does the cloak fail completely. Cloak of the Gathering only throws
your Obfuscate over other creatures or entities. You cannot use Cloak
of the Gathering to shroud a house, for instance. But you can certainly
conceal a small group of vampires and all that they wear or carry.
LEVEL 6 Conceal
The Vampire may mask an inanimate object up to the size
of a house (Obfuscate cannot be used to disguise inanimate objects without
the use of this discipline). If the object is hidden, so are all
of its contents. While Conceal is in effect, passersby walk around
the concealed object as if it were still visible, but refuse to acknowledge
that they are making any kind of detour around an object.
Mind Blank
A Vampire with this discipline is able to shrug off telepathic
contact, easily withstanding invasive probes of their mind. Use this
discipline before combat to help ward off Auspex attacks.
Scrawl (Clanbook: Malkavian)
The vampire may write a message that will only be understood
by Malkavians, or only by a single Malkavian, though to encrypt it for
a single Malkavian, she must know the true name of that Malkavian’s sire.
No other characters will even recognize the writing as a form of communication,
let alone be able to decipher it. This power is exempt from possible detection
by higher Auspex, psychic powers, etc.
Soul Mask
In addition to concealing their form, Vampires who have
developed Soul Mask are able to conceal their aura. The Vampire may
display whatever combination of colors and shades the Vampire wishes, or
may appear to have no aura whatsoever.
LEVEL 7 Cache
Most Obfuscate powers require the individual using them
to be within a short distance of their subjects of concealment. Cache
extends this range considerably, allowing an elder with this discipline
to leave people or objects safely hidden while the Vampire goes about his
or her business elsewhere. The enhanced concealment fades at the
next sunrise, or breaks, as always, if the Obfuscate subject reveals himself.
Cloak
The vampire may make her aura invisible. If a target
wishes to perceive the vampire’s aura, she must make a resisting roll as
above, and if she succeeds, she may then use Aura Perception to read the
aura.
Visit Faeryland (Clanbook: Malkavian)
The vampire may visit Arcadia. The vampire disappears
from the "real" world, and can not be detected by any means. When the vampire
returns to the "real" world, it is at the same time and place where she
left it.
Veil of Blissful Ignorance
This discipline allows a Vampire to Obfuscate an unwilling
victim, removing him or her from the notice of others. Some Nosferatu
use this discipline to teach a humbling lesson on individuals who take
their presence and aid of others for granted, while others utilize it to
remove an essential member of a group in the midst of a crisis. The
length of time the victim is concealed is dependent on the age of the caster.
The victim of Veil of Blissful Ignorance does not necessarily
know that he or she is under the effect of this power. The victim
is only aware that everyone around them has suddenly begun acting as if
the victim were not there. Curiously enough, Veil of Blissful Ignorance
can never be used on anyone who is ready and willing to accept its effects.
LEVEL 8 Old Friend
A variation of Mask of A Thousand Faces, Old Friend allows
a Vampire to probe a subject’s subconscious and take the semblance of the
individual who that victim trusts over anyone else. Someone using
this power does not appear as someone who the victim is frightened of or
awed by, but rather someone to whom the victim feels most comfortable revealing
intimate secrets. Old Friend doesn’t necessarily make its user appear
as someone who is still among the living; a long dead friend or relative
is just as likely to be assigned visage, and in such cases the subject
remembers the encounter as a dream or a ghost visitation.
LEVEL 9 Create Name
This discipline allows a Vampire to create a completely
new identity; face; speech pattern, aura, even thought processes are constructed
according to the Vampire’s desired identity. The discipline can be
used to impersonate an existing individual, or it can project the semblance
of a completely fictional identity with perfect accuracy.
A Vampire working with Create Name must spend three hours
a night in relatively uninterrupted quiet to establish a new personality
by means of this discipline.
LEVEL 10 Memory’s
Fading Glimpse
No one remembers the vampire. Not even if they read about
her, or see her on film. The vampire must roll only if she meets someone
who once knew her.
1 suc. The target remembers one minor, mundane thing
about the vampire.
2 suc. The target knows that she remembers, but doesn’t
know anything about the vampire.
3 suc. The target feels a vestige of recognition.
4 suc. The target gets a feeling about the vampire.
5 suc. The target doesn’t notice a damned thing amiss. |