Auspex
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Auspex
I can still feel it, yeah? In my head. I call it “it†even though I know it’s her. She got inside my damn head and won’t stop laughing. She got in there and won’t shut up! I’m sorry. I can be calm. First I thought God was answering my prayers. It said it wanted to get to know me and I’d been so lonely. It started telling me things about myself I’d forgotten. It knew every part of me. It felt nice, I guess, for someone to take an interest.
But then it started using my brain against me. It started telling me what I was going to do before I did it. It started telling me that if I didn’t dance to its tune, I’d never be free of it. I didn’t want to be alone, but I didn’t like where this was going. That’s why I took the drill to my head.
The thing is, and listen: I’m not crazy. I know crazy, and I know I look crazy, but I’m not. What I was dealing with was something, someone, projecting her mind into mine and picking me apart when I was at my most vulnerable. I still don’t know why she did it other than for some cheap thrills and the combination to my company safe, but now I’m left with the memory of that intrusion and am convinced the only way I can stop it is by killing the woman responsible. That’s why I was recruited by the government. All I have to go on is the word “Asylum,†but I won’t stop until her laughing does.
Among the greatest gifts and worst curses afflicting vampires, the Discipline of Auspex allows Kindred to discern truth from lies, probe the minds of those around them, and perceive reality on a different level than other beings. What appears to be the ultimate power in foresight and vision grants its wielders perhaps too much knowledge. They may detect an assassin’s blade before it strikes or get into an enemy’s head to turn them around, but they can also sense every shift in emotion, good and bad, see things they wish they had not, and discern futures they may not wish to explore. Users of Auspex invite paranoia, but using it is addictive. Once you know the truth rests within your grasp, you seek it out at every opportunity.
Kindred use Auspex in many ways. Some vampires act as spies for their courts or factions. Others act on their own, blackmailing mortals and immortals with secrets gleaned from quiet conversations, subtle emotional shifts, and telepathic intrusion. Auspex allows its user to play the role of domain detective, studying the scene of a vampire’s destruction for tell-tale spiritual clues or interrogating suspects with unnatural accuracy.
Characteristics
Storytellers may wish to make Auspex rolls for characters in order to more convincingly provide wrong or incomplete answers after failed rolls.
Type:
Mental
Masquerade threat:
Low. Auspex never by itself manifests in a way visible to the naked eye or causes effects that can’t be rationalized, if only as dumb luck.
Blood Resonance:
Phlegmatic. Artists (especially photographers) and visionaries, certain schizophrenics, users of psychoactive substances, detectives.
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