| Cat Claws
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By calling on her heritage, a Bastet in Homid or Sokto form can unsheathe her claws and attack as if she was in beast-form.
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A simple Stamina + Primal-Urge roll (difficulty 7) brings out a cat's claws. They remain out as long as she cares to keep them, but damned peculiar and hurt to use (+1 to all combat and Dexterity difficulties). Once resheathed, they must be called forth again.
| Sweet Hunter's Smile
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With a charming look, the werecat wins his target over; if that look shifts into a snarl or a stare, the victim feels uneasy and may back away, intimidated.
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By rolling Manipulation + Primal-Urge, the Bastets adds a die to all subsequent Social rolls for the remainder of the scene. This only works on one target at a time. Difficulty is the subject's Willpower if she's hostile to the werecat, 6 in most situations, and 4 if she's already inclined to like or fear him. At storyteller's option, the player may add two dice if he scores four successes or more.
| Level Two
| Gift
| System
| Jam Technology
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The Bastet can cause technological devices to cease functioning, albeit temporarily. Garou sensing for the Wyrm at this time will notice a slight shimmer coming from the werecat who uses this Gift, as the Bastet version invokes the power of Cahlash.
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The Bastet spends one Gnosis point and rolls Manipulation + Repair. Technological devices within 50 feet cease functioning for one turn per success, though the devices are unharmed. The difficulty of the roll is based on the following chart:
Device |
Difficulty |
Computer |
4 |
Phone |
6 |
Automobile |
8 |
Knife |
10 |
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| Eavesdropper's Ear
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By listening carefully, a Bastet may hear things outside the normal human range, or understand something spoken some distance away. This is said to be a Gift from Whispers.
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A simple Perception + Enigmas roll (difficulty 6) boosts the cat’s hearing into the high and low sonic spectrums, and adds two dice to her Perception Dice Pool for hearing rolls only. The Gift lasts one scene, and makes the Bastet susceptible to sudden loud noises (which might inflict one to three Health Levels of normal damage in extreme cases like explosions or high-frequency alarms).
| Level Three
| Gift
| System
| Craft of the Maker
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The Bastet can instantly shape once-living material(but not undead!) into a variety of objects -- thus trees may become shelter, buck antlers become spears, animal hides become armor, and flowers become perfumes. The item will in some way resemble the object from which it was created (the spear is made of antler, not wood).
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The Bastet rolls Manipulation + Repair against a variable difficulty(5 to turn a broken tree limb into a spear, 8 to turn a plank into a floatable raft, etc.). The created object is not necessarily permanent; it will last length of time according to the chart below. Expending a Gnosis point allows a created weapon to inflict aggravated damage (this effect is not permanent inless a permanent Gnosis point is spent).
Successes |
Duration |
One |
5 Minutes |
Two |
10 Minutes |
Three |
One Scene |
Four |
One Story |
Five |
Permanent |
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| Babel's Cure
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By flexing Rahjah’s powers, a Bastet can translate any human language in her vicinity. Invoking the Unmaker will turn everything into gibberish.
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To render languages either clear or unintelligible, the player rolls her Manipulation + Linguistics (difficulty 6). This Gift works on spoken words, writing and even body language. Everyone within 50 feet will understand all communications for the duration. Cahlash’s inversion of the Gift scrambles everything the same way. Either version lasts for one turn (or minute) per success, and each can cancel the other out.
| Level Four
| Gift
| System
| What's the Password?
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By communing with the odd spirits inside computers, a werecat can call up the passwords to files, accounts or encryptions. Although few nature-bound Bastet know this trick, many of their city cousins have at lest heard of it. Most of those who do know it charge hefty favors for the teaching...
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Information |
Difficulty |
Checking Accounts |
5 |
Corportate Records |
6 |
Important Documents |
7 |
Secure Accounts |
8 |
Corporate Secrets |
7 |
Government Secrets |
10 |
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| Monkey's Uncle
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With this Gift, a werecat can assume any human form in seconds. Changes can include physical prowess, attractiveness, racial features, gender and age. Legends credit this Gift to Coyote, although the Bubasti claim to have discovered it first.
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The player rolls Manipulation + Subterfuge (difficulty 5). Really extreme changes, like changing from Dr. Ruth into Arnold Schwarzenegger, raise the difficulty by one. For each success, the player can add one dot to her character’s Physical or Social Traits for the Gift’s duration. Monkey’s Uncle lasts for one hour per success, applies only to the Bastet herself, and may be detected with a resisted roll (Perception verses Gnosis, difficulty 8) by someone with magical senses.
| Level Five
| Gift
| System
| Black Friday
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This dreaded Gift, the bane of the Information Age, allows a Bastet to crash a computer network in seconds. By communing
with Net Spiders (see "What’s the Password?") and promising a few favors, a lucky werecat can wreak system havoc without even touching a keyboard. It’s rarely done because of its tendency to backfire (wiping out one’s own computer files!), but causes untold headaches for the programmers of Pentex.
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The player rolls his Manipulation + Enigmas to convince the Spiders to do his dirty work. Obviously, he has to have some way of reaching them first, such as a Gift, a short visit to the Penumbra, or a message typed into the doomed system. Once the deal is set in motion, the Spiders eat the system’s data; a skillful data retriever can undo the damage, but it’ll take days or weeks to fix. The Gift’s difficulty depends on the size and complexity of the system in question. Protected networks add one to the amount of successes needed; magickal systems include Trinary computers or Technomagickal networks (see Mage: The Ascension). A botch causes the Spiders to wreck your own data instead. Note that this kind of tampering immediately sets off alarms on guarded systems; a would-be saboteur would be wise to amscray ontopray!
Network |
Difficulty |
Successes Needed |
Small Office |
6 |
one - two |
Large Office |
6 |
three - four |
Small Corporate |
7 |
four - five |
Large Corporate |
8 |
four - five |
Internatioanl/Government |
9 |
five - 10 |
Secret Government/Magickal |
10 |
five - 15 |
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| Deny the Hungry
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With a gesture or spray, a spiteful werecat can destroy crops and fertile land, spoil food or toxify drinking water. Legend lays this Gift at the feet of the Bubasti, who were said to punish disrespectful communities with famine and drought. Some Simba use it for the same reasons. Sadly, it’s easier to destroy than to create; undoing this damage requires a different Gift all together.
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The player spends a permanent Rage point and rolls Wits + Primal-Urge (difficulty 7). Each success withers one mile of crops, spoils a waterhole or lake, or renders one ton of food or drink unusable. Only the Redeem the Waste Gift, a Rite of Cleansing, or powerful Life and Prime magicks (see Mage) can undo the destruction. Cropland will remain infertile for a year, water will be poisoned for the same time. Spoiled food is rotten forever, and those who eat it anyway will grow ill. These effects, and the casting of the Gift, clearly comes from the Unmaker, and may be detected by appropriate Gifts.
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