Concepts
Combination Disciplines
Character and Traits
Concepts
Body Double
You make looking like a dead guy work for you. Sometimes, a dead body is needed to convince the authorities that someone is dead. You provide that body— your own— for a fee. A work night usually means a ride to the morgue or the funeral home( it helps to have someone there on your payroll). You might slip out the back or you might pay them off at the end of the night. Occasionally, you have to dig up a grave and climb inside when someone starts snooping around a Kindred playing much younger and more alive than they really are. The important thing is that the paperwork says there’ s a body where the body is supposed to be. If some hunter digs up the grave in a few years, it’ s not your problem. Unless they want to renegotiate at the end of the night.
Hijacking Urban Legend
They say that Blackbeard used to tie fuses and candle wicks into his beard and light them to convince his opponents he was of the devil. You don’ t need the extra theatrics, but you take advantage of your corpse-like appearance in a similar way. Whether you are getting a truck on a lonely highway to pull over or taking the deck of a freighter in a midnight raid, you count on your strange look to frighten targets and build your legend. How badly you break the Masquerade depends on how poorly your planning goes, but you rarely feel the heat. Most of your raids are carried out between the domains of the same Princes that pay you well for your illegal goods.
Speaker of the Crossroads
All Kindred have one foot in the grave and one in the underworld. You pride yourself on being able to negotiate both worlds, unlike most who ignore the dead parts of their nature. You serve as a gateway between the living and the dead, carrying messages between
Kindred and their living relatives or speaking to the ghosts of their victims. What you ask for in return depends on how much your patron can afford to give. You usually help the poor for free but take the rich for all they are worth.
Combination Disciplines
Switched At Death( Thanatosis •,
Obfuscate •••)
Usually, the Samedi take great pains to hide their shriveled, dead appearance. Looking like the right corpse at the right time, however, can prove to be quite useful.
System: Roll Wits + Awareness with a difficulty equal to the observer’ s current Willpower. Success allows the user to appear as a specific dead body that they’ ve touched. The power allows the illusion to emulate any damage done to the body, such as a fatal gunshot wound or a severed head. Any actions the Kindred takes that are out of place for a dead body, such as obvious movement or direct communication, trigger
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