Dominar a la Bestia Menor

(Animalism ••••, Dominate ••)

The vampire locks eyes with an animal and forces her mind into its body. She can only command a predator, a parasite, a carrion-eater, or a plague-bearer; she cannot affect a mere prey animal. She completely subsumes the animal’s consciousness, piloting it like a meat puppet. Her body falls into a state of torpor while she controls the beast.

Cost: 1 Vitae
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Animal Ken + Animalism – animal’s Resolve
Requirement: The vampire must feed 1 Vitae to the animal (included in cost).
Action: Reflexive

Roll Results

Dramatic Failure: The animal throws off the vampire’s attempt at control. For the rest of the night, the vampire manifests a number of physical tics akin to the animal’s behavior. Any Social rolls suffer a –2 penalty.

Failure: The vampire cannot take total control of the animal yet.

Success: The vampire takes over the animal’s body for one night per success. She uses the animal’s Physical Attributes and Skills in place of her own, and cannot use her own Physical or Combat Merits. She can stay awake during the day by spending a point of Willpower at dawn, and takes no damage from sunlight; if she does not spend the Willpower, she returns to her body. She cannot use any Disciplines or Blood Sorcery while in the animal’s body, but can use any of its senses, natural weapons, or forms of locomotion. While she commands the animal’s body, her own body lies in a torpor-like state, awaiting her return — though she must spend a point of Vitae every night to remain active. If the vampire remains in the animal’s body for so long that her body slips into torpor, she immediately snaps back into her body.

Exceptional Success: The vampire can still access some of the power of her blood even in the animal’s body. She keeps access to Auspex when in the animal’s body.

This Devotion costs 3 Experiences to learn.