Prerequisite: Carthian Status ••
Effect: Carthians have adapted a bit of real-world surgery and a little body horror into a series of morbid reconstruction techniques to help injured Kindred heal. Night Doctor Surgery helps bones reset, and speeds the knitting of flesh. With an hour of treatment, roll Intelligence + Medicine. Each success converts one point of lethal damage to bashing. Alternatively, three successes can convert one point of aggravated damage to lethal damage. Failure means the wounds remain; dramatic failure upgrades three points of bashing to lethal, or two lethal to aggravated. With Storyteller discretion, this Merit and Willpower expenditure may be used over time to make changes to facial appearance.
Drawback: Knowledge of Night Doctor Surgery affords a
great responsibility. If your identity is known, the Movement
will call on your services frequently. For this reason, most
Night Doctors use pseudonyms (usually a letter, like Doctor H),
performing their services while masked. You cannot perform Night Doctor Surgery on yourself. You may only make one
attempt to treat a given injury.