The Beast bursts out from the vampire’s body, dissolving it into a cloud of hungry smoke. Occasionally, her victims can see flashes of yellow within the smoke, like the gleaming of eyes. Nothing short of an airtight room can bar her passage, and nothing physical can harm her.
Cost: 3 Vitae Dice Pool: None Action: Instant
Taking on a smoke form gives the vampire a number of advantages. She can condense herself down to her human Size, or expand into a cloud of up to (Protean + Blood Potency) yards (meters) in diameter. She can move through pretty much anything that isn’t actively airtight, and floats at half her normal Speed. She can perceive inside the cloud of smoke as clearly as if she were looking with her human senses, but the world outside her form is blurred and muted. Her Kindred senses continue to function as normal.
In her smoke form, the vampire is immune to all harm that doesn’t come from fire, sunlight, or other banes that deal damage. If her smoke form is ever fully exposed to sunlight, she returns to her human form. Nothing else can force her back into her human form — as long as she avoids sunlight she can slumber in her Miasma form. It has all the same benefits as her Unmarked Grave, allowing the vampire to shift her adaptations and animal forms.
Other beings pass right through the smoke. If a victim has any open wounds, the vampire can feed from them just by having them enter her Miasma — the blood boils out of his wounds, evaporating in a flash of grey and yellow smoke. If she needs to feed and can’t find someone who is already bleeding, the vampire can instead force herself into the victim’s lungs with strands of semi-tangible smoke, stealing her life-force along with her breath (grapple and “bite” using her normal Physical Attributes).