True Love's Face
Obfuscate 3, Presence 3
A sinister hybrid of Mask of a Thousand Faces and Entrancement, this Discipline Technique enables a vampire to assume the form of a target's true love. Both the Followers of Set and the Nosferatu prize this power, though for very different reasons. Where Serpents use the guise of loved ones to tempt and seduce, spiteful Lepers delight in shattering victim's minds by revealing their true face after a passionate embrace. Vampires may use this art to take the form of someone they know their victim loves or allow their target's expectations to manifest on their own. In the latter case, however, the vampire may need quick wits to discern what she looks like, especially since the copied person may or may not be living.
System: The player rolls Charisma + Empathy (difficulty 6); neither physical contact nor eye contact is necessary to invoke this technique. Success means the chosen victim sees the vampire as a loved one for as long as she remains in his presence. Failure means the ruse fails and the target sees the vampire as she is. All others present see the vampire's true form, unless she is able to discern her assumed identity and quickly make the transition to the basic Mask technique - a feat likely to require Performance, Stealth or other rolls at the Storyteller's discretion. A botch indicates the vampire projects too much of her own passions into the visage, making the disguise a disturbing mockery of the victim's true love. The victim regards the vampire with fear and loathing, the very opposite of the emotions normally engendered by this power.
Experience Cost: 21
