Body of Spirit
- Protean 5
This power turns the body of the Cainite who invokes it into a physical, whitish mist, reminiscent of water vapor or fog. The character's perceptions expand throughout the mist, and every gust of wind sends ripples through her being. Her vision is focused in the center of the mist (that is where her eyes seem to be, to her), but with brief concentration, she can see or hear from any part of her mist form.
The character becomes a small cloud of mist, perhaps four feet in diameter. she can move about at the equivalent of her walking pace. She can fit anywhere that a misty cloud might go, and she can pass through most cloth, up a chimney or through a crack under a door. As a cloud of mist, the character is less vulnerable to the depredations of the sun, though it can still burn her. Even the strongest winds cannot disperse her form. They can and do push her around, however, if she cannot find a barrier behind which to hide.
System: The player spends one blood point, and the character takes three turns to transform his body into mist. As with Form of the Beast, the player may spend three blood points to have the vampire transform in a single turn. To resist the buffeting effects of strong wind, the player rolls Potence (not the character's natural Strength), with a difficulty ranging from 6 (mild breeze) to 10 (gale-force winds). Each turn, she may have to roll again to have the character move against the direction in which the wind pushes her. On a calm night, the mist any move about at the character's regular walking or jogging speed.
Sunlight and fire do burn the vampire in mist form, but they cause one less level of damage and it's much easier to find shelter in mist form. The character's perceptions are normal except as described, and sufficiently stimulating experiences can lead her into frenzy and Rotschreck. The character is immune to normal physical attacks (except for fire and sunlight), and she cannot affect anything physical in the world about her while she is in mist form. She can use Disciplines that do not require a physical component, however.
