Level 3:
Dread gaze
Briefly exposing their vampiric nature, the user instills a single subject with utter terror. Mortals are cowed, run, or freeze with fear, while other vampires either submit like whipped dogs or flee in frenzied Rötschreck.
■ Cost: One Rouse Check
■ Dice Pools: Charisma + Presence vs Composure + Resolve
■ System: Displaying their fangs, their face twisted in a predatory grimace, the user rolls a contest of Charisma + Presence against their target’s Composure + Resolve.
◻ Failure: Mortals are unable to act other than in their own defense, backing off for a turn. Vampires are unaffected.
◻ Win: Mortals run in fear.
Vampires are unable to act other than in their own defense for a turn unless they spend Willpower equal to the users margin of win (to a minimum of one).
◻ Critical Win: Mortals freeze or crumple into a fetal position. Vampires must make a terror frenzy test (Difficulty 3). If they win, they are still affected as above.
■ Duration: One turn