Controlling a victim’s memories and actions is one thing, but for some vampires the truest expression of control comes from suppressing the victim’s will entirely, taking complete control of his body. The vampire moves her mind into the victim, using his body instead of her own.
Cost: 1 Vitae and 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Intimidation + Dominate – victim’s
Resolve
Requirement: The vampire must have inflicted the Mesmerized Condition on the victim.
Action: Reflexive
Duration: 1 night per success
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The victim’s mind will not be bound to the vampire’s control. He immediately resolves the Mesmerized Condition and regains a point of Willpower.
Failure: The vampire cannot take total control of her victim just yet.
Success: The vampire takes over her victim’s body for one night per success. While in this new body, she uses her victim’s Physical Attributes and Skills in place of her own, and gains any Physical or Combat Merits that the victim possessed. She can stay awake during the day by spending a point of Willpower at dawn and takes no damage from sunlight — if she does not spend Willpower, she returns to her body. Each night, she must spend a point of Vitae as normal. She cannot use Disciplines or Blood Sorcery when possessing someone else, nor can she access any supernatural powers her victim may possess, but she otherwise controls his body totally. If she attempts to kill herself the victim may roll Resolve + Blood Potency as a reflexive action, on a success he evicts the vampire from his consciousness. Possessing a victim removes the Mesmerized and Dominated Conditions, and the vampire is not subject to any triggers set on the victim by Entombed Command while she remains in control. Once she leaves the victim’s body, those triggers affect him as normal. While she commands the victim’s body, the vampire’s own form lies in a torpor-like state awaiting her return; if she remains in the victim’s body for so long that her body slips into torpor, she immediately snaps back into her body.
Exceptional Success: The vampire slips into the victim’s body with ease, and leaves her jaunt in another body with renewed purpose. Upon leaving the victim’s body, she regains a point of Willpower.