Consumption

Physical Merits & Flaws

5 points Your very blood is wrought with a corrosive, flesh-eating bacteria. At the beginning of each evening, you suffer one health level of bashing damage that cannot be soaked nor healed with blood. The only way to counteract the effect is by ingesting one-tenth of your body-weight in flesh to supplement your depleted carcass. Whether you kill and devour the skin from humans or raid the biohazard containers of liposuction clinics for siphoned fat, you need your ration of human flesh in order to survive. If you try and ingest this macabre meal before damage is done, you'll simply vomit it out like any other food—this doesnot impart the benefitsof the Eat Food Merit.
Tzimisce believe that this is a manifestation of their Eldest in the blood and flesh of the vampire.