SilverMasks/ShapeshiftingBeyond
Beyond Blood
Laurels-and-Ivy Technique
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Stamina: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: None
This is a rare Charm amidst the Lunar Exalted, and few ever bother with it. Upon learning it, the Lunar increases his shapeshifting, able to transform into any kind of plant he has consumed, from a bush of roses to a great tree. Being able to shift into plants works in the following ways...
- The Lunar may, from the purchase of this Charm onwards, flavor his shapeshifting with plants. From Tells that echo plants, in his shape, their perfume, or the like, to charms that create armor in the form of bark, grow flowers with boosts to appearance or thorns with natural weapons. Anything and everything is permissible in that way.
- The Lunar has to pay 1 experience point for every plant he learns to shapeshift into.
- Shapeshifting into a plant is the same as with any part of the Lunar's Blood Library.
- The Lunar may not move or act in the form of a plant, although he instantly roots into the earth if at all possible, even through cobblestones, and chooses where to move and how to appear as this plant. He will appear as the 'typical' size for one of those plants. This may be used as a stunt in a Strength+Athletics roll to break something with his roots.
- The Lunar may perceive his surrounds dimly - he must make a Perception+Awareness roll as a dice action to perceive anything around him. The difficulty of this roll is 3. One success above three allows the Lunar to perceive vague shadows and movement, three successes allows the Lunar to make out slight details of things closer to him, and five successes allow the Lunar a clear picture of the enviroment around him.
- The Lunar will most certainly receive the two extra successes to conceal his Tell from looking inconspicuous in the Form of a Plant. He may also receive even more successes - use the size modifers, Small, Tiny and Minuscule for the plants, and their bonus to Stealth Rolls - however, the Lunar always converts all of his attribute dice into automatic successes in stealth rolls if he becomes a plant among others of the same type, even if it is a great tree.
- Usually, size differences are enough to account for the statistics of the Lunar in those forms. Although Trees have, aside from the size differences, usually Sturdy and some manner of armor more often than not.
Wheel of Seasons Prana
Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Stamina: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Laurels-and-Ivy Technique
The Lunar is able to shift the age of the plants he turns into, making seasons go by with each breath, or recede in the same breath. The Lunar must be transforming into a plant-form or be already transformed to use this Charm. With a Stamina+Craft(Shapechange) roll, the Lunar may shift the apparent age of the plant he turns into by (Permanent Essence) years per success. The Lunar may grow the tree no more a hundred times his Essence in years, and may not become a bulb or a seed, only an infant plant. The modifiers to perceive the Lunar when smaller are the same as above. The Lunar may also channel Compassion while using this Charm to make fruit trees become full of fruit. He may even do this particular use of the Charm in other forms, sprouting his Appearance in Fruits from his body.
Leaping Trees Method
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Stamina: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Wheel of Seasons Prana
Pouring his Essence into it, the Lunar is able to move even things not built for it! Even in the form of a plant, the Lunar may move, attack, and do all things he possibly could before - be it as walking vines, uprooted , powerful trees, or any other sort! The Lunar can move with the plant normally in the turn this Charm is used, and converts his attribute dice in successes to his first action against a foe who's ignorant of the Lunar's plant status. The Lunar must continue to use this Charm every turn to keep the plant-form moving.
