Playing the Heart-Strings
Gift · Werewolf · Level 4
True love comes in many forms. Sometimes it runs smoothly, from a first meeting to first kiss to a lifetime together. Such simple relationships aren’t for this Gift. It is the first step in a chain of unlikely events that bring two
people together. Often wildly improbable, this Gift results in relationships that work, having come through weird coincidences and bizarre misunderstandings. A Nuwisha who possesses this Gift will never know its benefits — she becomes unable to use it as soon as she enters an ongoing relationship. A bird-spirit teaches this Gift.
System: The Nuwisha touches her target. Her player spends a point of Gnosis and a point of Willpower, then rolls Wits + Subterfuge (difficulty of the target’s Will power). The target will meet someone suitable in the next scene — who he meets is outside of the Nuwisha’s control — and keep meeting them in strange circum stances over the course of the next (12 – successes) months. Each meeting is a bizarre co-incidence in an otherwise improbable situation — the star-crossed lovers don’t meet in a bar, but end up in hospital beds next to one another after a car crashes into a shopping mall, or meet when they both beat the same casino for millions of dollars. They have plentiful chances to talk and get to know one another, and at the end of the chance meetings they are able to start a surprisingly stable relationship.
This Gift doesn’t directly affect either of the lovers. Instead, it warps and twists chance, fate, and destiny to ensure the star-crossed lovers meet. While the target may feel like his life has turned into a romantic comedy, everyone around them gets caught up in events that could ruin their lives. One use of this Gift can skew the laws of chance throughout Vegas, bringing two people together but utterly ruining thousands more.
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Abilities & Attributes
- Subterfuge shared/trait/ability/subterfuge
- Wits shared/trait/attribute/wits
Tribes & Fera
- Nuwisha werewolf/faction/fera/nuwisha