W20 - Changing Breeds.pdf

STEREOTYPESGenevieve Monfort relates:• Garou: You’re prone to extremes. Somedance to the Weaver’s tune, some lurch andstumble as pawns of the Corruptor. Many die forno reason. And yet I find you fascinating.“What has eight legs and is the size of a smallcar? Nothing I ever want to see again, but if youlook they’re all over the webs.” — Pete Quire• Nuwisha: You’re tricksters who do notrealise that you are the punch-line. Ultimatelyof little consequence.“I thought we were getting along, and thisguy just dissolves into a pile of spiders! Was itsomething I said? Can’t take a joke, that’s forsure.” — Laughing Okode• Vampires: The Ovid talk about ties betweenthe blood-drinkers, as if we would haveanything to do with you. The Corruptor crawlsin your veins and taints your every action.“Oh, I’ve seen them. Creeping and crawlingwhen they think we’re not looking. As if we’d justignore another kind of blood drinker. We will turnour attention to them soon enough.” — MarcusFlavius Ocella, Priscus of the SabbatThe Ananasi can only use this rite on a human whohas been injected with her venom without her assistance.The spider then spends an hour spinning a web cocoonover the mortal and waits for him to awaken. The Ananasimust wait patiently to see if her rite succeeds. Overa number of days the victim suffers horrific nightmaresas his mind fights the venom.System: After each day the victim makes a Willpowerroll (difficulty equal to the Ananasi’s Gnosis). If he fails,he owes the werespider a service. Regardless of the result,his body heals one health level of the venom’s damageafter each roll.When the victim has fully healed, he wakes andpushes his way through the cocoon. The werespider cancall on a service by spending a Blood Point per serviceowed by the victim, which cannot be refilled while servicesare owed. The Ananasi may call upon each serviceonce in one of the following ways:• She may use the servant’s senses as her own fora scene.• She may take control of the servant and direct hisactions for a number of turns equal to her Gnosis. TheAnansi uses her own dice pools to resolve tasks, even ifthey differ from the servant’s pools.• She may grant the servant the use of one Gift.He instinctively knows how the Gift works but decideswhen it is used (unless the Ananasi takes control of hisactions, using another service). The Gift draws upon theAnanasi’s Gnosis and Blood Points when used.• She can release the servant from all remainingservices.• She may use two services give the servant onespecific goal that he will try to accomplish however longit takes and regardless of the cost to himself, even if itresults in his death. This must be a simple instructionsuch as ‘kill this person’, ‘break into that facility’, ‘plantthese explosives’, or ‘protect this person against all harm’.FetishesTracking WebLevel Three, Gnosis 6Ananasi frequently make these fetishes for theirown use, but once one is made any shapeshifter can useit, though they must expend Gnosis in place of BloodPoints. The Ananasi may activate the fetish by spendinga Blood Point rather than using Gnosis.To make a Tracking Web the Ananasi excretesa pound of web (this is easiest in Pithus form) andweaves it into a tight sphere no bigger than a grape.She then teases an inch of web out of the weave, whichhangs from the otherwise perfect sphere. To use thefetish the Ananasi pulls on this thread, which extendsanother inch before breaking off. The small piece ofweb is sticky to anyone but her, and she can place iton almost any surface.At any time thereafter, she may activate thefetish. It will gently tug in the direction of the lostthread, becoming stronger as the tracking web nearsthe thread.The fetish may have as many active tracking websas the Ananasi’s Gnosis. She may sever the link to anyone as she desires but if she makes a new tracking webbeyond her Gnosis the oldest thread crumbles to dust.ANANASI69