Fusion

by Gary Greenhill

The bloodline of DaVinci share a great affinity with machines, it is even
fair to say that they love them. Fusion allows control and empathy with
machines much like animalism does with beasts. The DaVinci guard their
discipline well as it is their only advantage in this bleak world.

When communicating with machines some may have personalities but none will
have a soul as such. If a spirit possesses a machine the DaVinci can
converse with that instead.

Level One

Insight: The DaVinci can instantly recognise the function of any machine
simply by looking at it. He does not, however, automatically gain the
knowledge of how to work it.

System: The DaVinci simply knows what the machine does.

Level Two

Affinity: The DaVinci has an affinity with machines and can operate them
much easier than any normal person. This is anything from a gun (to
disassemble not to target) to a tractor to a supercomputer.

System: The difficulty for operating any item of technology is two less than
it would be normally.

Level Three

Synthesize: With this power the character can create special machines with
inefficient parts (A Team and MacGyver style). These makeshift machines
function to do a specific task.

System: The character spends a willpower point and can construct a machine
to do a specific task with the materials available. The character must roll
intelligence + repair + Fusion against the difficulty of the intended
machine. Once operational the machine will work for one scene only.

Level Four

Bonding: The DaVinci with this power can touch a machine and become joined
with it. She may feel and understand all that is the machine. She may also
control the machine as if it were her own body.

System: The DaVinci must first touch the machine and spend a willpower
point. Once this is done she becomes unconscious as though she is in torpor.
Her mind is in the machine, it is the machine. She has complete control over
the machines operation and can feel where the machine is, although unless
the machine itself is capable of movement she cannot move it. If she enters
a computer she may find herself in a world similar to that portrayed in
Tron. If the machine is part of a network she is only joined with it at that
particular node (e.g. a computer terminal) , however she may travel to a
different node at the cost of a willpower point. She may return any time, at
will. If the machine is in some way magical it may resist as up to the
Storyteller.

Level Five

Conduct: The character can manipulate machines from a distance by sending
his will to command it.

System: If the character spends a willpower point he can operate a machine
as if he were touching it for that scene.

Level Six

Download: With this power the character turns her whole body into an
electronic signal and can travel across computer networks and electrical
cables. This may be like the world of Tron and the character could encounter
all sorts of unusual creatures. The DaVinci may enter or leave the network
from any electrical medium with which humans can communicate, e.g. TV,
telephone, monitor etc.

System: The DaVinci spends two blood points and may enter the communication
or electrical network. It takes two rounds to complete the transformation.
The character is immune to sunlight in this form and may travel about during
the day (if she can stay awake), however there are stranger dangers lurking
in the global electronic web. The characters can only travel where the
network allows, and may need to roll computer or electronics to find her way
around. Most important computers will be protected by Programs.