Lithium (Institutionalize 2, Dominate 3)

[If you read my last post this one will seem awfully similar – it is basically the resolve equivalent to Sedation’s strength reduction.  Although much of the text and mechanics are the same it is the sensation that is so different and significant.  Many kindred would in fact seek an effect like this if they knew about it which could be a boon, bane or both to a Morotrophian.]

Handling any patient is a challenge but modern pharmacology has coped with the needs of mental wards by creating a variety of drugs that allow a patient’s moods and mania to even out.  Tragically, these same drugs do not work on kindred patients.  Dr. Opal Berke solved this dilemma by finding a way to combine the power of Institutionalize and enforce the potency of a drug on a kindred system as if it were a rule of the institution.

Cost: 1 Vitae
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Empathy + Institutionalize – (Blood Potency + Resolve)
Action: Instant

Activating this power requires injecting a Kindred target with the appropriate drug.  While doing activating this power some of the Morotrophian’s blood joins the drug in invading the target’s system and transmit’s the Morotrophian’s power to overwhelm the target.  The blood is merely a conduit however and loses the properties of the Nosferatu’s blood causing no blood ties or other effects.  The drug must be appropriate for the effect of reducing the target’s resolve (such as lithium) but it is not the drug itself that has any effect.

The effects of this power lasts a minimum of one hour.  Every hour the victim may make a contested willpower roll against the Morotrophian and if they fail it continues another hour.  A tie means that the power will last one more hour and then automatically end.  The power cannot last beyond the next dawn.

When successful the lithium effect reduces the target’s resolve by the same value equal to the number of successes on the activation roll.  The mellowing of the victim’s attitude also makes it hard for them to be motivated to do much of anything.

This power costs 20 experience points to learn.