Nine Lives
Merit · 6 pts
Fate has granted you the opportunity to come as close to Final Death as anyone can get and still survive. When a roll occurs that would result in your death, the roll is made again. If the next roll succeeds, then you live — and one of your nine lives is used up. If that subsequent roll fails, then another reroll is made, until either a successful roll occurs or your nine lives are used up. The Storyteller should keep careful count of how many lives the character has remaining.
Also in BoS p. 80 — text differs from V20 (64%)
Oh, you lucky bastard! Somehow, you manage to cheat the Reaper with hair-raising regularity. If a die roll would result in your character’s death, the person who made that roll must roll again. If the second roll allows your character to live, then you and /or your Storyteller mark off one of your nine “lives” and your character survives the thing that would otherwise have killed her. If that roll fails, then one “life” gets marked off anyway and another roll is made. The rolls continue until either the character survives or the lives get used up. As the name suggests, however, this Merit lasts only nine times, tops. And if the final die roll still results in your character’s death… well, your luck was bound to run out sooner or later anyway.
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Merits & Flaws
- Nephilim /Laham shared/trait/merit/nephilim-laham