Maksim Smithmyer

The Irraka’s first strike is often the last of the fight. Cost: 1 Essence
Action: Reflexive
The Irraka may activate this Facet as part of a Brawl or Weaponry attack against an unaware or surprised opponent, turning her attack into a rote action. 

Once caught in the trap, the prey cannot escape. Every path she flees down just leads her back to the hunter’s waiting jaws.

Cost: 1 Essence per prey targeted

Dice Pool: Wits + Survival + Honor versus Composure + Primal Urge

Action: Contested

This Facet is used against prey who are within an area of wilderness and whom the Uratha can perceive.

Duration: 1 day
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The prey is easily able to leave without obstruction, and benefits from a +3 bonus to Initiative if the Uratha attacks before he leaves.

Failure: The Facet fails.

Success: No matter what they do, the prey cannot escape the area that they are in for the Facet’s duration. Winding woodland paths leave them back at the clearing where they started; crumbling urban wasteland just seems to turn in on itself no matter where they run. A road winding through a remote valley never actually delivers them to the valley’s border.

Exceptional Success: If the prey is in a group, then they rapidly end up split apart, losing track of each other. A lone prey soon gives in to fear, gaining the Shadow Paranoia Condition. 

The Uratha with this Facet can change sex as easily as he or she changes form.

Cost: 1 Essence

Action: Instant

This Facet twists the very geometries of the world, warding a site from unwanted approach.

Cost: 5 Essence
Action: Instant
Duration: 1 month

This Facet affects all or part of a single structure, or an area of up to the Uratha’s Cunning Renown x 100 yards in radius. Intruders (anyone apart from a packmate) who enter the area have to fight the landscape itself to make any progress. All attempts to navigate the area, foot chase through it, or track through it suffer a penalty equal to the Uratha’s Cunning Renown. Anyone who fails such a roll ends up back at the edge of the warded area. 

The call of the wild can be alluring, drawing the unwary into its clutches.

Cost: 1 Essence

Dice Pool: Manipulation + Survival + Cunning versus Composure + Primal Urge

Action: Instant
Duration: One scene
This Facet can be used on an isolated person or small group of up to the Uratha’s Cunning Renown in number. It does not work on Uratha, and cannot draw people away from a larger group. The prey must be at the edge of an area of wilderness. Nature’s Lure works just as well in the parks and wasteland of the city as it does woodland in the countryside.

Roll Results

Dramatic Failure: Fear strikes the prey and leaves them with the Spooked Condition. They refuse to heed the lure and become aware that something called to them.

Failure: The Facet fails.

Success: The prey is lured into the wilderness, suffering the Lured Condition and feeling a strong urge to try to travel to its heart for the rest of the scene. She may see a desirable object like fruit or discarded money; she may hear interesting sounds that bring her running to the aid of someone she fears is in danger; or she may simply feel the urge to explore the cool darkness beneath the boughs of trees. The prey suffers a penalty to Initiative rolls equal to the Uratha’s Cunning Renown as long as they remain in the wilderness.

Exceptional Success: The prey also suffers a penalty to Perception rolls equal to the Uratha’s Cunning Renown as long as they remain in the wilderness. 

The wise fear the dark where the hidden hunter may lie in wait. The unwise let that fear overwhelm them.

Cost: 1 Essence per prey

Dice Pool: Presence + Intimidation + Glory versus Composure + Primal Urge

Action: Instant

This Facet can target any number of prey that the Uratha can perceive.

Roll Results

Dramatic Failure: The prey gains the Steadfast Condition.

Failure: The Facet fails.

Success: Each prey who rolls fewer successes than the Uratha suffers the Shadow Paranoia Condition.

Exceptional Success: The Uratha may add his Glory Renown to Stealth rolls against the prey for the remainder of the scene. 

1. This Facet tears away the facade behind which the prey hides, revealing his frailties to the hunter.

   Cost: 1 Essence

   Dice Pool: Presence + Empathy + Cunning versus Composure + Primal Urge

   Action: Instant

   The Uratha may use this Facet against an individual whom he has been able to observe for at least one turn.

   Roll Results

   Dramatic Failure: The prey remains opaque to scrutiny and gains a +3 bonus to all Subterfuge rolls against the Uratha for the remainder of the scene.

   Failure: The Facet fails.

   Success: The Uratha immediately becomes aware of the following information about the prey: her Blood and Bone (or other equivalent traits); how much damage she is currently suffering from; any frailties she possesses (including physical and mental Conditions and Tilts); if she is sick, poisoned, or drugged; and whether she is currently in the grip of strong emotions such as anger or grief. If the Uratha uses any of this information against the prey in a Social roll or maneuver during this scene, he gains a +3 bonus to his dice pool.

   Exceptional Success: If the Uratha plays on the information gleaned in a Social maneuver against the prey, he automatically opens one Door in addition to the action’s other results. 

The wily predator knows when to wait and when to strike. The perfect ambush requires patience.

Cost: 1 Essence
Action: Instant
Duration: 1 scene

As long as the Uratha remains relatively still and does not draw attention, this Facet inflicts a penalty on all Perception rolls and supernatural power rolls made to spot him equal to his Purity Renown. If he successfully launches a surprise attack, he may add his Purity Renown to his Initiative.