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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