• Gnashing Maw
The vicious potential of the Noctuku shows itself in the very first expression of Phagia, allowing vampires to draw sustenance from flesh even as they rend it with their fangs. When most Kindred latch onto a victim with their teeth, they may choose whether to drink blood or do lethal damage by gnawing further. The Noctuku can do both at once, tearing through his victim and feeding at the same time.
The Gnashing Maw can be used to take blood from the corpse of a recently deceased mortal or animal, assuming there is any left in the system, drawing the blood from the torn vessels in the flesh itself. The blood will only be useful if the creature has died within the last hour or so — after that, the blood begins to break down.
This power does not involve any physical transformation on the part of the Noctuku. He is simply a more efficient predator than most, pulling the blood from his victims even as he tears them apart.
The Gnashing Maw can be used to take blood from the corpse of a recently deceased mortal or animal, assuming there is any left in the system, drawing the blood from the torn vessels in the flesh itself. The blood will only be useful if the creature has died within the last hour or so — after that, the blood begins to break down.
This power does not involve any physical transformation on the part of the Noctuku. He is simply a more efficient predator than most, pulling the blood from his victims even as he tears them apart.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The Noctuku fails to use the power, accidentally disengaging from the victim without doing damage or draining blood, wasting his action for the turn.
Failure: The Noctuku fails to use the power, and must choose either to drink blood or to deal damage as normal.
Success: The Noctuku drains one point of Vitae and deals lethal bite damage to his victim, chewing through her flesh even as he drinks. If the wound is inflicted upon a mortal, it will be mangled and may disfigure the person permanently.
Exceptional Success: The bite of the Noctuku does an extra level of lethal damage while draining a point of Vitae.
Failure: The Noctuku fails to use the power, and must choose either to drink blood or to deal damage as normal.
Success: The Noctuku drains one point of Vitae and deals lethal bite damage to his victim, chewing through her flesh even as he drinks. If the wound is inflicted upon a mortal, it will be mangled and may disfigure the person permanently.
Exceptional Success: The bite of the Noctuku does an extra level of lethal damage while draining a point of Vitae.