Break Worlds

By Steve Markley (smarkley@ocean.otr.usm.edu) for the Baku

Bodhivista Baku Gift

Description

The Baku can shatter the strands that tie the layers of reality together, or break them down completely. He must spend 2 points each of Willpower, Rage and Gnosis, Roll Str + Enigmas vs a 7, and slam his foot onto the area to be affected. He must choose to either "smash the barrier" or "cleave the walls." Smashing the barrier decreases both the Gauntlet and Shroud in the area by a number equal to the successes rolled. If either rating is reduced to zero, then travel between the mundane realm and the spirit world is instantaneous and requires no effort from residents of either; spirits can manifest and wraiths can Embody without power/ Pathos cost in the affected area. Cleaving the walls increases the Gauntlet and Shroud by one for every success in the Str + Enigmas roll. If the resulting Gauntlet/ Shroud rating is 10, then all manifested or Embodied wraiths in the area are immediately forced back into their respective spirit worlds, and all attempts to use spiritual effects (such as Gifts, Spirit Magick, Spirit Thaumaturgy) have their difficulties increased by one. The Gauntlet and Shroud ratings will slowly return to normal, recovering/ lowering by a point per hour. Tales go that Walks-Like-the-Mountain, a Shiva-turned-Bodhivista, used this Gift during the War of Rage to disrupt and even destroy the caerns and den realms of his foes before he fell at the claws of the Simba Bon Bhat Amuda-the-Sun-That-Scorches (who is supposedly a direct ancestor of Black Tooth.)