W20 - Changing Breeds.pdf

STEREOTYPESRaina Fader goes on at length:• Garou: You’re big, you’re violent, andRaven’s beak it’s fun to point you in the rightdirection and watch the blood fly. We look outfor you, and you look out for us. Capische?“They talk too much, but if you know whatto listen for and what to ignore, you can learna lot. Assuming you don’t kill them first.” —William Furhie• Kitsune: Gotta love a whole Breed namedafter a Hendrix riff. But I got a feeling that you’reup to something, and even the Tengu I speak todon’t know the whole of it.“Nobody hates the Tengu or their kind, noteven the Garou. They irritate without makingenemies. Perhaps that is the ravens’ truestrength.” — Moonlight-Over-River• Rokea: And I thought the Garou weredumb and violent, you guys take the biscuit. But Ican’t help imagining everything you know aboutthe world under the waves. If you’d only tell us.“Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!” — Bleeds-Nightwith which to bind the spirit egg to the Corax-to-be. Ifanything happens to the egg or the binding before theFirst Change, the results are spiritually and psychologicallydevastating.System: This rite can only be performed in theUmbra, and requires a witness of the breed oppositethat of the Corax “parent.” The Corax spends threehours and three permanent Gnosis creating the spiritegg, then another hour binding it to the soul for whichit is intended. If the rite is interrupted at any point, theGnosis is lost and the rite fails.Rite of Memory TheftLevel Four, PunishmentThis rite is reserved for only the greatest of all Coraxscrew-ups. It requires a small, empty wooden box, preferablypainted with scenes from the target’s life. At least threeCorax, including the one performing the rite, must surroundthe target (who is generally bound or subdued). The boxis then opened and a litany of the victim’s deeds is sung.As each event is named, the memories of that momentfly from the victim into the box, along with all associatedmemories, until the victim’s mind is emptied of everythingbeyond his First Change. The rite is all-or-nothing — itcannot be used to excise only specific memories.The ritemaster must then seal and crush the box,at which point all of the memories contained withinbecome his.System: This rite costs a point each of Gnosis, Willpower,and Rage, and lasts for as long as it takes to singaway the deeds of the victim. It also requires a contestedWillpower roll (difficulty 8) between the ritemaster andthe victim, though each additional Corax present lowersthe ritemaster’s difficulty by 1, to a minimum of 3. Thisrite may only be used on other Corax.Of all Gaia’s children, none are more attuned to thecycle of life, death, and rebirth than her ursine brood,and they alone were trusted with Her greatest gift — thepower over life and death itself.FetishesuPhoneLevel Three, Gnosis 8The Corax claim to have invented this fetish — intruth, they stole a prototype from a Glass Walker and theyquickly improved upon the design. The fetish is made froma normal smartphone with a Chimerling bound within.The uPhone works as a normal smartphone anywhere onearth, without charging the wereraven for calls or datause. When activated it can call other uPhones regardlessof distance, even between Umbral realms or across theGauntlet.102CHANGING BREEDS