Gifts

As the Hakken Gift. • Recapitulate (Level Four) — The Mokolé can attack enemies with their own evolutionary heritage, forcing them to retreat back down the tree of life toward a clump of cells. The foe is transformed into a lower form of life. A lungfish-spirit teaches this Gift.

System: The Mokolé shouts the enemy’s name and certain Words out of time. The player spends two Gnosis points, then rolls Mnesis + Intimidation, difficulty 7. The player splits her successes between the effects of devolu­ tion and the duration. For each success spent on effect, the victim devolves through one stage of existence: for humans or Garou, one success makes him a primitive rat­ like mammal, two make him a synapsid, and so on. The effect lasts for ten minutes per success spent on duration.