Thaumaturgical Alchemy

 

Thaumaturgists who practice this Path can transmute solid iron into a puddle of slag, or petrify wood with a thought. Thaumaturgical Alchemy ignores the laws of chemistry, forcing a change in state regardless of temperature.

System: The player spends a Blood Point. Effects vary depending on the level of the power, but the number of successes determines the number of turns the effect lasts. The vampire can increase the duration of the effect by spending more Blood Points — each additional Blood Point extends the power’s effectiveness by one turn.

1 • Fortifying the Solid Form
At this level, the vampire strengthens the physical structure of solid items. Doors become unbreakable, shields deflect the mightiest blows, and arrows pierce the hardest breastplates. Seemingly fragile items can become deadly weapons in the presence of an alchemist. The alchemist can even make wooden stakes that are as hard as stone.

2 • Crystallize Liquid
Tremere designed this ability to hinder other Cainites from imbibing vitae. Although the effect cannot alter the tissue within vampires or mortals, it can solidify blood as it exits a body. The effect can also freeze water instantly and even turn molten lead to solid metal. The temperature of the liquid is irrelevant — boiling oil or cold water solidifies at the behest of the vampire.

System: Each success changes one Blood Point’s worth of liquid (about two pints) into a solid. The temperature of the substance does not change. When the solid reverts to its natural liquid state, it behaves normally. Vampires cannot consume solidified blood.

3 • Liquify the Solid Form
At this level of ability, the alchemist can dissolve solid objects into liquids. Metal, wood or stone decays at the Cainite’s behest. Swords dissolve in mid-swing and shields ooze into pulp. When the liquid reforms, it solidifies into whatever shape it has taken. Even a finely crafted sword reforms into a useless blob of steel. An object is either changed utterly or not at all; there are no "partial" transformations.

4 • Ethereal Stone
The vampire can transform the very air into a solid prison. Air condenses to form a solid block of ice around the vampire’s enemy. Crafty Tremere have used this ability to suffocate mortals by turning the air in their lungs to ice. The prison is inescapable until the effect wears off.

5 • Vaporous Transformation
Walls and other obstacles no longer hinder the vampire. She can turn stone, metal or any other solid into vapor. Walls vanish and swords disappear into thin air. Recoagulating solids are dangerous to those in their vicinity. Slags of metal or stone that suddenly re-form can crush mortals.
(VDA Comp)

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