Rites & Rituals

This ritual allows an Anarch to copy aspects of the appearance of a particular mortal — hair color or style, eye color, tattoos, piercings, even clothing choices — by essentially beating them out of the target. The sorcerer may perform this ritual herself or she may perform it through another Anarch by rubbing his shoulders from behind and whispering what to say. The sorcerer must spend one point of blood and make the activation roll whether he is performing the ritual for himself or another. Regardless, the one to be altered must then walk up to a particular mortal with the desired physical characteristics and say “I like your look. I’m taking it.” Then, the vampire must punch the mortal in the face.

To complete the ritual, the vampire must render the mortal unconscious through brute force unaided by vampiric powers. In fact, merely speaking the incantation causes the vampire to lose access to all of his Disciplines and prevents him from spending blood for the duration of the fight (or for the rest of the scene if the mortal wins) — Punk Sorcerer philosophy says that a vampire who can’t take a mortal in a fair fight deserves to get his ass kicked anyway.

Once the mortal is rendered unconscious, the vampire claims his prize. If he wants to copy the mortal’s hair style, he must remove a large handful of the mortal’s hair. If he wants eye color, he gives the mortal a black eye. If he wants a piercing, he rips the mortal’s piercing straight out of the skin and swallows it. If he wants a tattoo, he damages the mortals tattoo in some permanent way. If he likes the mortal’s clothes, he slices them to bits, keeping a few rags for himself.

System

Each success causes the vampire to gain one Appearance-related characteristic of the mortal victim, chosen from hair color, hair style, facial hair, tattoos, piercings, or clothing. When the vampire awakens the next night, he will have those traits (and if appropriate, will awaken wearing a copy of the mortal’s clothes sized perfectly to fit him). The ritual will not change overall appearance — the vampire still looks basically the way

he did before, and only superficial traits are changed. Piercings and tattoos appear on the vampire’s body in roughly the same location as they were on the mortal’s body but adjusted where necessary due to differences in size and build. Clothing will last until destroyed, but all other acquired characteristics become part of the vampire’s default appearance.