{"id":"vampire/power/discipline_power/the-spirits-touch","type":"power","system":"discipline_power","line":"vampire","name":"The Spirit’s Touch","sources":[{"source":"V20","page":144,"folio":136}],"entries":["When someone handles an object for any length of time, he leaves a psychic impression on the item. A vampire with this level of {@npc Auspex|V20} can “read” these sensations, learning who handled the object, when he last held it, and what was done with it recently. (For","Aura Colors","Condition Aura Colors","Afraid Orange","Aggressive Purple","Angry Red","Bitter Brown","Calm Light Blue","Compassionate Pink","Conservative Lavender","Depressed Gray","Desirous or Lustful Deep Red","Distrustful Light Green","Envious Dark Green","Excited Violet","Generous Rose","Happy Vermilion","Hateful Black","Idealistic Yellow","Innocent White","Lovestruck Blue","Obsessed Green","Sad Silver","Spiritual Gold","Suspicious Dark Blue","Anxious Auras appear scrambled like static or white noise","Confused Mottled, shifting colors","Diablerist Black veins in aura","Daydreaming Sharp flickering colors","Frenzied Rapidly rippling colors","Psychotic Hypnotic, swirling colors","Vampire Aura colors are pale","Ghoul Pale blotches in the aura","Magic Use Myriad sparkles in aura","Werebeast Bright, vibrant aura","Ghost Weak, intermittent aura","Faerie Rainbow highlights in aura","these purposes, a corpse counts as an “object” and can be read accordingly.) These visions are seldom clear and detailed, registering more like a kind of “psychic snapshot.” Still, the Kindred can learn much even from such a glimpse. Although most visions concern the last person to handle the item, a long-time owner leaves a stronger impression than someone who held the object briefly.","Gleaning information from the spiritual residue requires the vampire to hold the object and enter a shallow trance. She is only marginally aware of her surroundings while using The {@sphere Spirit|M20}’s Touch, but a loud noise or jarring physical sensation breaks the trance instantly.","System: The player rolls {@attribute Perception|V20} + {@ability Empathy|V20}. The difficulty is determined by the age of the impressions and the mental and spiritual strength of the person or event that left them. Sensing information from a pistol used for a murder hours ago may require a 4, while learning who owned a bloodstained puppet fashioned a century ago might be a 9.","The greater the individual’s emotional connection to the object, the stronger the impression he leaves on it — and the more information the Kindred can glean from it. Events involving strong emotions (a gift-giving, a torture, a long family history) likewise leave stronger impressions than short or casual contact do. Assume that each success offers one piece of information, as per the chart below.","Successes Information","Botch The character is overwhelmed by psychic impressions for the next 30 minutes and unable to act.","Failure No information of value.","1 success Very basic information: the last owner’s gender or hair color, for instance.","2 successes A second piece of basic information.","3 successes More useful information about the last owner, such as age and state of mind the last time he used the item.","4 successes The person’s name.","5+ successes A wealth of information: nearly anything you want to know about the person’s relationship with that object is available.","At the Storyteller’s discretion, some impressions on objects may be so strong — a knife plunged into Caesar’s breast, the tip of the Spear of Destiny, a fang pulled from the maw of Dracula — that any use of this power may be deemed a success."],"parent":"vampire/power/discipline/auspex","level":3,"_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"section_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-15","job":"v20-disciplines"},"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/vampire/power/discipline_power/the-spirits-touch","html":"/records/vampire/power/discipline_power/the-spirits-touch","parent":"/api/v1/records/vampire/power/discipline/auspex","children":"/api/v1/records/vampire/power/discipline_power/the-spirits-touch/children","sources":[{"abbr":"V20","page":144,"folio":144,"title":"Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition"}]},"_db":{"title":"The Spirit’s Touch","props":[["Discipline","Auspex"],["Roll","Perception + Empathy"]],"parent_id":"vampire/power/discipline/auspex","level":3,"category":null,"summary":"When someone handles an object for any length of time, he leaves a psychic impression on the item. A vampire with this level of Auspex can “read” these sensations, learning who handled the object, when he last held it,","tags":[],"children":[]}}