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Lunar Perception

Supernatural Senses

Hunter’s Eye Technique
Cost: 1 mote per soak reduction
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Perception: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Perception of the Moon-Kissed.
Every creature has weak spots, and the hunter knows just where to find them. Be it weak spots on a mortal armor or that of a Chosen, soft spots on a human body or in the scales of a Tyrant Lizard, there is always a weak spot. All the hunter has to do is strike there, and his enemy will fall more easily. Using this Charm, the Lunar reduces his enemy’s soak – whatever its origin – by 1B/1L per mote spent. The Lunar may not use more motes to power this Charm than he has dots of Perception.

Sense-Sharpening Change
Cost: 1 mote per increase
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Silver-Soul’s Perception.
The Lunar sharpens his senses, increasing his sensory abilities for a whole scene by the cost of 1 mote per Perception increase.

Ever-Wary Fox Technique
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Perception of the Moon-Kissed
Lunars are very aware of their enviroment, and as such, very difficult to ambush. As long as the motes remain committed for this Charm, the Lunar will not be ambushed by any foe his senses can perceive – he will always be aware of the attack in advance, able to defend normally, no matter how well the enemy has rolled, or even what magics he uses. He will not be aware of immaterial beings or such unless his normal senses would provide him the ability to perceive them. This is not a perfect effect, and may be beaten by sufficiently powerful magic.

Observed Prey Instinct
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Perception: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Ever-Wary Fox Technique.
Using this Charm, the Lunar know can instantly know wether he is being observed, either by normal means or magic. It activates automatically as soon as the Lunar comes upon sustained observation - a casual glance or a flirtatious look are not enough to trigger it. The Charm guides his perception to gather further information, allowing a Perception+Awareness roll. One success merely confirms the Lunar is being observed, while additional successes reveal the number and direction and location of observers(one per success). A Lunar observed by magical means will know the viewpoint from which he is being watched but not the actual location of the observer.

Blood-Kin Sense
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Perception of the Moon-Kissed.
With this Charm, the Lunar can immediately sense the blood ties between other individuals. A Lunar's player may make a Perception+Awareness roll when the character targets the Blood-Kin sense in an individual. One success allows the Lunar to know if the individual is related to anyone the Lunar knows, why three successes tell the exact degree of the relationship, and five successes allow the Lunar to sense firm details of the subject's lineage, including a capsule history of the being's ancestor's physical abilities for a number of generations back equal to the Lunar's Essence. If the Lunar tastes the target's blood, his player gains three bonus dice to the roll.

Blood on the Wind
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One Day
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Perception of the Moon-Kissed.
By means of this Charm, a Lunar can track creatures through any terrain. To the Lunar, trail is as clear on solid stone as it is in woodlands or on soft ground. The Lunar is consdered a supernatural tracker, automatically able to follow any mundane prey without a roll and receiving his Essence in automatic successes in any of his Perception+Survival rolls to track supernatural beings.

Sensing the Hidden Remains
Cost: 6 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Blood on the Wind.
The Lunar focuses his senses on an area, and picks the scents of all who had been on the area before him. He may sense impressions of up to his Perception days past, however those might be obscured(by rain or heavy usage of heavy-scented substances in the area). The Lunar rolls Perception+Investigation, with one success meaning he recognizes any scent he knows on the area, three allowing him to perceive emotions and vague happenings, and five allowing the Lunar to draw an accurate picture of at least partly violent scenes that happened on the area, due to minute changes brought by actions and scent brought by emotions.

Bloodhound's Unfailingly Memory
Cost: 1 Experience Point
Duration: Permanent
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Blood on the Wind.
Many hunters do not forget a scent, ever. And the scents they know, they are able to track anytime, anywhere. Using this Charm, the Lunar pays 1 experience point to commit a creature's or substance's scent to memory - thereafter, any time he has to roll to track or recognize the creature or substance, he receives 2 extra dice. Those do not count as Charm dice. There is no limit to how many scents a Lunar may commit to his memory.

Instinctual Canine Recall
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Perception: 5
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Bloodhound's Unfailingly Memory.
One who tries to trick the hound may find that his very scent sells him away. This Charm instantly activates reflexively, with a cost of 2 motes, any time the Lunar meets a person or substance in his Library, but does not know he is before the creature or substance in question. One may try to disguise it by changing his scent(any Lunar with Shaping the Ideal Form can do so) or masking it, using perfumes or mixing a substance with others. This calls for a Perception+Awareness roll by the Lunar, with a difficulty set by the ST(Usually the number of successes in the Larceny roll to conceal it). This Charm also activates any time the Lunar tries to track things by scent, to tell the Lunar of vestigial impressions - the Lunar may find out by accident that one close to him has met with an enemy, while trying to hunt someone else, for example.

Emotion-Revealing Scent
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Perception of the Moon-Kissed.
With this Charm, the Lunar can sense the emotional state of a subject, even if there are no clear signs of it, as the body's scent will always betray it. This charm automatically scents strong emotions such as fear, anger, hate and love without a roll. The Lunar may also make a Perception+Investigation roll to try to gather a deeper understanding from the scent, one success merely comfirming the impression, three successes denoting the source, target or object causing those emotions, and five successes allowing the Lunar to deduce the reason for the emotion.

Truth-Scenting Method
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Emotion-Revealing Scent.
By oberving a target's responses, the Lunar may determine if a person is telling the Truth. The Lunar may observe a number of people in such a manner at once equal to his Perception. This Charm does not detect evasions of the truth, or statements the subject does not realise are not true. Only overt falsehoods can be unearthed with this Charm.

Alternative Senses

Wolf’s Eye Advantage
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Perception: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None.
By sharpening his senses, the Lunar ignores all penalties due to poor visibility applied to a single roll or attack. Even a torchlight is enough light for him. He may make ranged attacks as far as he normally would. It does not work in absolute darkness, there must be some light, even if that of the stars.

Night is Day
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Wolf’s Eye Advantage.
The Lunar alters his eyes, receiving flashing, cat-like eyes that allow him to see perfectly in low-light conditions. He treats nightime as daylight, but becomes partially colorblind in normally lit conditions(+1 difficulty to Perception rolls) for the duration of the Charm. Night is Day does not allow the Lunar to see in absolute darkness - there must be some light, even if that fo the stars.

Perceiving the Hidden World
Cost: 4 motes
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Night is Day.
The Lunar becomes able to 'feel' light incomprehensible to humans such as spectral glows of heat and cold. This allows the Lunar to see in perfect darkness, although his ability to distinguish detail is greatly impaired(+2 difficulty to all Perception rolls involving discerning fine detail)

Seeing Without Looking
Cost: 6 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 5
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Perceiving the Hidden World.
With this Charm, the Lunar sharpens his hearing to inhuman degrees, by growing great bat ears. A Lunar can use his enhanced hearing to keep track of others in his vicinity, or to build a picture of the world around him using the air currents, sound, or echoes of sounds sent by the Lunar himself. The Lunar must pick a dice action and roll Perception+Awareness – the difficulty is 1 for quiet wilderness, 2 for a village, 3 for a city, 4 for the proximity to a waterfall 6 for the middle of a large-scale battle or riot, and even more if greater noises are used specifically to hinder the Lunar. One success allows the Lunar to draw a basic picture of his surroundings on his mind, and has a basic picture of the people around him, but it does not differentiate details. Three successes gives him details of all those in the area, identifying the materials of objects and the details of people. Five or more successes allow the Lunar to notice others perfectly, knowing exactly what they are carrying, how fast they move, and their exact activities. With five or more successes, even individuals cloaked by Charms are revealed. With this Charm, the Lunar is aware of an area equal to his Perception x 100 yards. The picture remains on his mind, but he must take another dice action to update it.

Seeking Ears Method
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Seeing Without Looking.
The Lunar grows acute ears, reworking the entire inner structure of his head to better receive sounds. When using this Charm, the Lunar can hear clearly from up to a mile away in a clear day(without rain, great winds or overly loud noises, such as a festival or a battle) and receives +2 dice on all his hearing attempts. He can try to locate any voice he knows with a Perception+Lore roll in this radius(each success revealing one voice he knows and its distance and location; This receives a difficulty of 3 in windy or rainy days, four for storms and festivals, and five for large-scale battles) and follow it to its source, or simply listen to it, as if he was listening to the voices just outside the room. The Lunar needs full concentration to listen to voices from afar like this.

World Sensing

Weather-Seeing Method
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None.
The Lunar rolls Intelligence+Awareness. Each success is translated into a 500-mile radius he can predict the weather of, or a week in advance.

Moonsilver-Scenting Sense
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One Night
Type: Simple
Minimum Perception: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Weather-Scenting Method.
With this Charm, the Lunar is able to feel deposits and items of Moonsilver to the range of his senses, and keep sensing it as long as Luna remains on the sky. The Lunar makes a Wits+Awarness roll - one sucess allows the Lunar to ascertain if there is any Moonsilver in a number of miles equal to his Perception+Essence. Three successes also provide its direction and approximate distance. Five successes allow the Lunar to judge the quality and condition if the deposits or items.

Language

Animal Speech Method
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Wits: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None.
Shifting vocal cords is easy for a Lunar Exalted, even to create them where they do not exist. This Charm allows the Lunar to speak like a human when in any animal form. However, there is the question of volume - even when an insect can speak as a human, he must be close to a human's ear to be heard.

Comprehending Ears Meditation
Cost: 4 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Wits: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None.
The Lunar can understand in general terms what is being said in a language he does not know, although in general terms. The Lunar rolls Wits+Linguistics, with the number of successes indicating the level of comprehension. One success allows him to get the general gist of what is being said, while three successes allow for solid comprehension, and five successes allow the Lunar to discern nuances in what is being said. The Lunar is able to understand physical communication just as easily, able to see people trading glances across a room and divine their meaning.

Feral Ears Metamorphosis
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Wits: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Comprehending Ears Meditation, Animal Speech Method
The Lunar becomes capable of understanding animal speech. The Lunar makes a Wits+Linguistics roll, difficulty equal to 4, and 2 if the Lunar has the Heart's Blood of that species. As animals are very simple, the Lunar usually needs only one success to fully grasp what it says, but particularly intelligent and eloquent beasts may make more successes relevant. The Lunar will always understand animals of the same species as his Totem. This Charm allows the Lunar to speak in the voice of any animal he has consumed without a roll.

Calls of the Human Prey
Cost: 4 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Wits: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Comprehending Ears Meditation.
Activating this Charm, the Lunar tries to understand the dialect of those he has consumed. The Lunar makes a Wits+Linguistics roll, with a difficulty equal to 5 - (the number of people that speak that language that the Lunar has the Heart's Blood of). One success gives he Lunar the ability to speak like a young child, three successes give adult speech abilities, and five give the Lunar the skills of a poet. If the Lunar has only the Heart's Blood of people of a certain region, he will carry their accent. Otherwise, he might choose, or just mingle the accents and have an all-encompassing speech. The Lunar may freely read or write in the language for the duration. The Lunar may also borrow the voice of any being he has consumed without a roll.

Mimicking the Familiar Sound
Cost: 6 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Wits: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Calls of the Human Prey.
Using this Charm, the Lunar shifts his vocal cords, being able to perfectly mimick any voice he has previously heard. This is indistinguishable from the normal voice, and even close friends would be fooled. If he has heard the voice only briefly, or a long time past, the Storyteller may call for a Wits+Linguistics roll to recall it properly.

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