••••• •• Beast Shard

With Unleash the Beast, the vampire instills her Beast in a human or Cainite victim, effectively losing it for a time. With Beast Shard, she can break apart her Beast into smaller pieces, infecting multiple characters simultaneously. Characters infected with her Beast are more susceptible to her Disciplines.

System

The character may use Unleash the Beast on multiple characters at a time, and is not limited in further uses. Unlike Unleash the Beast, Beast Shard does not require eye contact. Roll Charisma + Self-Control/Instinct, difficulty 5 + the number of targets. Use Drawing Out the Beast’s success chart, but all targets are affected equally. The vampire may choose to infect a victim with her Beast but not inspire frenzy. Cainite victims suffer +2 difficulty to all frenzy resistances. Human victims become prone to frenzy as if they were Cainite. Additionally, the difficulty to all Discipline powers she uses on an affected character decreases by one.

The vampire may have a total number of infected characters equal to her Generation Background dots. If she has that many concurrent victims, she suffers the effects of losing her Beast, mentioned in Unleashing the Beast. To affect further characters, she must first coax a shard of her Beast back, or kill a host.