Daphneism

by Joel Sax (12 Oct 93)

Here is the discipline of the Endendara bloodline.

[1] Cloak of Leaves: Your ability to transform into a plant has not yet
developed, but this discipline allows you to hide among plants without being
seen. Even small potted plants can afford cover.

Once under cover, you must remain completely motionless in order to remain
obscured. If you move, if the plant cover is pulled away, or if a light is
turned on which would illuminate you, the Cloak of Leaves fails.

System: No rolls need to be made, since the discipline succeeds once the
criteria have been met. However, those with Auspex higher than the
character's mastery of this discipline will see right through the leaves.

[2] Tendrils: You are able to grow three foot long tendrils. These tendrils
are immune to sunlight and can aid in grappling.

System: No roll need be made; the transformation is automatic. Expenditure
of two blood points per three foot tendril (you can expend eight blood
points to make a 12 foot long tendril) is required. Each three foot long
segment adds one to your grappling dice. Note that the number of blood
points to create a three foot tendril decreases to one after you have
attained the fourth level of mastery in this discipline.

[3] Root Meld: Similar to the Protean discipline Earth Meld except that the
vampire becomes a fibrous root ball. While buried, the vampire is protected
from the rays of the sun, but you can be dug up and exposed to sunlight
while in this form.

System: No roll is necessary and the transformation is automatic, but two
(or one) Blood Points must be spent.

[4] Leaves: You may grow leaves and use them for photosynthesis. When in
this form, you may grow a leafy vine resembling kudzu above your resting
place. If you sprout Tendrils while in this form, you may grapple with
opponents. You must combine this with Earth Meld. (Exposure of your vampire
body will result in light damage.) If you rise from the earth, you lose your
leaves until you meld again and reform them.

System: No roll is required, but the transformation takes three turns and
two Blood points to complete.

[5] Suckers: You may grow suckers for feeding while in vine form. You must
successfully grapple with your prey to use them. You can drain your victims
at the normal rate.

System: No roll is required. Creation of the suckers requires the
expenditure of two Blood Points. This takes a turn.

[6] Forbidden Fruit: You may grow bloodberries. The fruit are filled with
your own vitae. Other vampires eating them may derive sustenance (one Blood
Point per clutch), but if they eat three times of the fruit (on different
nights) they will become blood bound to you.

System: Creation of bloodberries requires two Blood Points while in Vine
form. One of these points will be encapsulated in the berries. They are not
recoverable to you. Bloodberries require an hour to grow.

[6] Flower of Evil: You may grow a large white flower at night. Humans and
others who see the flower will feel drawn to sniff it. You can dominate any
who do by the odor the flower emits. The emotions you can provoke are
primitive: rage, love, anger, lust, caring, etc. The human will act out
these emotions until dawn. Vampires are not affected.

System: Creation of the flowers requires two Blood points while in Vine
form. The effect of the scent must be determined when the flower is grown.
An opposed roll of the vampire's Manipulation+Herbalism against the victim's
willpower is required to draw the victim towards the flower.

[7] The Moving Vine: You may uproot yourself and move about while in vine
form. Your root ball comes up with the vine (therefore you should move only
at night) and you are able to crawl at a slow rate.

System: You must roll your willpower against eleven-humanity to uproot
yourself. It takes five-strength turns to uproot yourself. You may move
three square feet of foilage per blood point spent up to twenty five feet.
(The remainder dies.)

[7] The Writhing Vine: You may move all your above ground plant parts, not
just your tendrils.

System: No roll required. Expenditure of one blood point.

[7] The Swimming Vine: You may move your root ball underground for short
distances.

System: No roll required. Expenditure of one blood point per ten feet moved.

[8] Variable Foilage: You may grow different styles of foilage, imitating
trees, grass, shrubs, flowers, as well as vines. A vampire with this power
can create a whole garden.

System: No roll is required. It requires an expenditure of a Blood Point to
effect the foilage change plus a blood point for each three feet (or nine
square feet of one inch high lawn) you grow. You may accumulate growth on
successive nights to a limit of three hundred square feet.

[9] Plant Parasitism: You may derive sustenance from plants. You can draw
one blood point from each three cubic feet of plant material you parasitize.
The plant dies.

System: No roll is required.

NOTE: DAPHNEISM is similar to Vicissitude (see Storyteller's Guide to the
Sabbat) in that any vampire who has tasted the blood of an Endendara may
develop the powers. Of course, this also means that you will become more
plantlike as you lose humanity.