{"id":"vampire/power/discipline_power/curse-the-laurel","type":"power","system":"discipline_power","line":"vampire","name":"Curse the Laurel","sources":[{"source":"LotC","page":263,"folio":262}],"entries":["An unusual application of Fortitude, this power allows a Ventrue who has been successfully staked to slowly restructure her very heart around the offending stake so that it ceases to paralyze the Ventrue.","System: The player spends a Willpower point and rolls Stamina + Survival (difficulty 9). The number of successes determines how quickly the stake can be negated, according to the chart below. Each use of this power affects a single stake. On a failed roll, the player can spend another Willpower and roll again, but he cannot combine successes from multiple rolls. Only the roll with the most successes applies. On a botch, the vampire may not attempt to neutralize the stake again.","Successes Time until the stake is neutralized","1 One month","2 One week","3 Immediate","The power only removes the stake from the heart, not from the body. It will remain trapped in the Ventrue’s dead flesh until removed, a process that causes two health levels of aggravated damage."],"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/vampire/power/discipline_power/curse-the-laurel","html":"/records/vampire/power/discipline_power/curse-the-laurel","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/vampire/power/discipline_power/curse-the-laurel/children","sources":[{"abbr":"LotC","page":263,"folio":263,"title":"Lore of the Clans"}]},"_db":{"title":"Curse the Laurel","props":[["Discipline","Fortitude"],["Level","6"]],"parent_id":null,"level":6,"category":null,"summary":"An unusual application of Fortitude, this power allows a Ventrue who has been successfully staked to slowly restructure her very heart around the offending stake so that it ceases to paralyze the Ventrue.","tags":[],"children":[]}}