Dissolve the Flesh
Discipline Power · Vampire · Level 5
This ability brings the Grave’s Decay path full circle, as it causes Destroy the Husk to apply to vampires. Dissolve the Flesh allows a necromancer to attempt to turn vampiric flesh to dust or ash, as though the target had been burned or left out in the sun.
System: The player spends two blood points and a Willpower point as the vampire extracts a quantity of her vitae charged with the power of the grave. If she drips it onto a single Kindred victim anytime within the next few turns (most of the blood must reach the victim, so flinging a few drops is ineffective), it causes whole chunks of the victim’s body to crumble to ash. The player rolls Willpower against a difficulty of the victim’s Stamina + 3. For every success, the target takes one aggravated wound.
The undead flesh damaged by this power turns to dust (gone for the time being), and it must be regen-erated painstakingly by the victim, should he survive. That dust doubtlessly has mystical properties that various sorcerers might be able to take advantage of. Every wound inflicted by this ability represents the loss of about one-eighth of the target’s weight; the Storyteller chooses where the loss comes from. (It might also be shed from all over, leaving the victim a bit gaunter or missing chunks of flesh.)
Regenerating body parts occurs naturally while healing aggravated wounds at the normal rate (see p. 285).
Part of The Grave’s Decay
See also 3
Abilities & Attributes
- Stamina shared/trait/attribute/stamina
Discipline Powers
- Destroy the Husk vampire/power/discipline_power/destroy-the-husk
Disciplines
- The Grave’s Decay vampire/power/discipline/the-graves-decay