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Black Blade [Supernatural, Style • - •••••]
Despite the name, this merit is not restricted to bladed weapons - it merely represents a deeper... partnership between you and your possessed weapon. I'd... advise keeping an eye on it, all the same. Unless otherwise stated, "weapon" refers to the weapon you chose for Assertive Implement.
Prerequisites: Assertive Implement ••, Living With Death ••
At One With The Tool (•) - You may reduce any penalties due to physical pain or damage by one when using your weapon for its intended purpose (i.e., hurting other people). In addition, you may ignore any Strength requirement it might have, and consider it to be Size 2 for the purposes of concealing and carrying it unless it was already smaller. However, your dots in this merit are added to your weapon's dice pool when it lashes out.
Trust Your Partner (••) - Your weapon is far more in tune with violence than you are - you may expend your use of Assertive Implement to apply your Defense against a single Firearms attack or sneak attack. In addition, your weapon gains Armor Piercing •, or increases its Armor Piercing by one dot.
My Master, My Slave (•••) - You no longer suffer Breaking Points when faced by violence you committed while wielding your weapon. In addition, you may treat fulfilling your weapon's needs as an additional Vice.
The Weapon's Flow (••••) - On any turn where you make an all-out attack, you may spend one Willpower to use Assertive Implement without it counting towards your one use per scene. If you use Trust Your Partner in this manner, you don't apply your Defense against a Firearms attack or Surprise attack - instead, you apply your Defense against one attack as if you hadn't sacrificed it for the turn. In exchange, your weapon may spend your Willpower when lashing out.
Violence Is As Violence Does (•••••) - If you strip away the decorations and the lies we tell each-other, all that's left of a weapon is a tool intended to hurt people. Whenever you make a successful attack with your weapon, you may expend your use of Assertive Implement to inflict a Personal Tilt on the character you struck. This Tilt must be one that could normally be inflicted by the weapon on an Exceptional Success, but otherwise can be any Tilt you please. At this point, you no longer need to spend Willpower to take violent action while Beaten Down or to attack someone who has surrendered - instead, you must spend Willpower to prevent yourself from taking those opportunities for violence.
Who's really in charge, you or the weapon?
(No souls for your Lord Arioch, though. That would be a little too much.)
Black Blade [Supernatural, Style • - •••••]
Despite the name, this merit is not restricted to bladed weapons - it merely represents a deeper... partnership between you and your possessed weapon. I'd... advise keeping an eye on it, all the same. Unless otherwise stated, "weapon" refers to the weapon you chose for Assertive Implement.
Prerequisites: Assertive Implement ••, Living With Death ••
At One With The Tool (•) - You may reduce any penalties due to physical pain or damage by one when using your weapon for its intended purpose (i.e., hurting other people). In addition, you may ignore any Strength requirement it might have, and consider it to be Size 2 for the purposes of concealing and carrying it unless it was already smaller. However, your dots in this merit are added to your weapon's dice pool when it lashes out.
Trust Your Partner (••) - Your weapon is far more in tune with violence than you are - you may expend your use of Assertive Implement to apply your Defense against a single Firearms attack or sneak attack. In addition, your weapon gains Armor Piercing •, or increases its Armor Piercing by one dot.
My Master, My Slave (•••) - You no longer suffer Breaking Points when faced by violence you committed while wielding your weapon. In addition, you may treat fulfilling your weapon's needs as an additional Vice.
The Weapon's Flow (••••) - On any turn where you make an all-out attack, you may spend one Willpower to use Assertive Implement without it counting towards your one use per scene. If you use Trust Your Partner in this manner, you don't apply your Defense against a Firearms attack or Surprise attack - instead, you apply your Defense against one attack as if you hadn't sacrificed it for the turn. In exchange, your weapon may spend your Willpower when lashing out.
Violence Is As Violence Does (•••••) - If you strip away the decorations and the lies we tell each-other, all that's left of a weapon is a tool intended to hurt people. Whenever you make a successful attack with your weapon, you may expend your use of Assertive Implement to inflict a Personal Tilt on the character you struck. This Tilt must be one that could normally be inflicted by the weapon on an Exceptional Success, but otherwise can be any Tilt you please. At this point, you no longer need to spend Willpower to take violent action while Beaten Down or to attack someone who has surrendered - instead, you must spend Willpower to prevent yourself from taking those opportunities for violence.
Who's really in charge, you or the weapon?
(No souls for your Lord Arioch, though. That would be a little too much.)
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