Gaki

1 • The Joining
Sometimes called tsutaeru by the Gaki this power allows them to silently communicate with both those around them and other Gaki. While this does not allow mind reading, attempts to communicate with Gaki are automatically successful unless the other Gaki is blocking such contact, and can be made over any distance. Communicating with non-Gaki requires the user of this power be within eyesight of his target.

2 • Glimpse of the Pain
With the second level of Rift, the Gaki begins to draw others into his/her realm of agony, if only for a moment. This power, called tsukamu allows (forces) a target to see the Gaki's own rift. This look at a whole microverse of guilt, sin, frustration and horror is often more than most can handle. Being blind or closing one's eyes can lessen the agony, but the rift is a complete sensory and psychic experience, so the victim may still be affected.

3 • Crossing the Iron Bridge
At this stage in a Gaki's development he/she begins to deal with her own inner demons. This power allows her to enter into her rift confronting all that which makes it such a hell. The Gaki actually disappears from the place she was, and will reappear there shortly.

4 • Journeying the Iron Bridge
When a Gaki first becomes able to Cross the Iron Bridge, all he can take with him are those inanimate items which have a personal connection -- clothes, keepsakes, etc. -- and these for just a short time. With the fourth level of this power, the Gaki can take anything with him. In addition, the Gaki can stay in the rift for as long as he wants... or can.

5 • Passing the Inner Realm
At this point the Gaki begins to learn how to manipulate the rift, using this horror to her own advantage. While the rift is not infinite, it is subject only to the limits placed on it by the Storyteller. Thus the Gaki can travel through it, invisible to the outside world, to any he point he could see before entering the rift. She can even enter the rifts of other Gaki she could see before using this power.

6 • Collection
Now the Gaki can manipulate objects without having to enter the rift. Collection allows him to send inanimate objects he touches into the rift or call back items which have been stored there.

6 • Transport
Similar to collection, a Gaki able to Transport can touch an object and send it through her rift to any point she can see.

7 • Eyes of a Thief
An offshoot of Collection, this power lets the Gaki take any object he can see and send it into his rift.

7 • Doorway to Hell
Generally a Gaki's rift comes with her wherever she goes. However, with the Doorway to Hell, the Gaki can create a physical entrance to her rift somewhere, one that anyone can enter. Setting up the doorway requires a location with an entrance way and the loss of a Willpower point -- permanently. Note that the Gaki can still Cross the Iron Bridge normally, and can then exit the rift through the doorway instead of having to reappear at the spot she first went in. Others entering through the doorway are affected as though they had a Glimpse of the Pain.

8 • Touch of Sin
Now the Gaki can actually grab others and bring them involuntarily into his rift. Those brought in by this power experience the same effects as someone getting a Glimpse of the Pain, but each turn she remains in the rift, the difficulty of her Willpower roll increases by one and the Gaki's decreases by one. Every time the victim botches a Willpower roll, she gains a Derangement. The victim can leave if she gains more successes on her roll, or the Gaki leaves the rift.

8 • Gateway
With Gateway, the Gaki can send others through his rift just like he does when he uses Passing the Inner Realm. This costs two Willpower points (one to send the target into the rift and one to get her back out), and the target must deal with a Glimpse of the Pain along the way. The Gaki must first touch her.

9 • Imprison
A victim imprisoned by the Gaki is caught in the rift until the Gaki cares to release him (or the victim manages to find a Doorway, if there is one). It takes at least 3 turns to send them. Note that since many who are imprisoned are guaranteed to go mad if left in a Rift too long, this is a good way for Gaki to lose Humanity.

10 • Manifest the Horror
Now the Gaki can not only pull others into his rift, but can open his rift on to the outside world. The actual effects of this power vary based on the individual Gaki, but he can loose any sort of torments found in his rift.
This can include oni (demons), Hima, giant multi-headed, lightning-breathing lobster eagles, whirling tornadoes of fire and light or anything else the Storyteller's fiendish imagination can come up with. However, everything that enters the world from the Gaki's rift costs the Gaki a Willpower point, and may even be hostile to him (it is from his own version of hell, after all).