Horrid Reality
Description: Masters of Chimerstry can now sharpen it, focusing the Disciplines altered reality so that affects only one victim but is terribly real to that victim. A Sword created with Horrid Reality seems to harm as easily as a real one, because the sword is real to the victim. The Horrid Reality ends when you stop concentrating on it, or can no longer sense it yourself.
System: Spend two Willpower points to create our illusion: you must name your target when you create the illusion. The illusion cannot carry any weight or otherwise take action that would require it to exist to anyone other than the victim, but it can attack the the target and do semi-real damage. To cause your illusion to attack the target, roll Manipulation + Subterfuge (difficulty is the victim's Perception +self-Control or Instinct). Every success inflicts one unsoakable level of bashing damage on the target. You may choose to do less than the damage you rolled.
The character heals all his damage instantaneously if he can be convinced that the damage he took was illusory, but convincing him may take some doing. If you wish to do him a favor, a simple display of showy Chimerstry tricks should suffice. Otherwise friends who wish to convince him that the attack was illusory must roll Charisma + Empathy, with a difficulty of your manipulation + Subterfuge, and score at least two successes. The target must be convinced of the attacks illusory nature within 24 ours of its taking place, or it becomes too well ground into his memory, and he will have to heal the damage using blood, or over time. Depending on the nature of the Horrid Reality it may have other effects beyond the simple damage it inflicts. A vampire who truly believes that she is engulfed in flames suffers Rotschreck, for example.
