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More than Human

[Main Street, outside Gazz's Guns]

Barto relaxed as the tall figure wised up and too backed down.
He knew they'd fight later, but it would be outside his jurisdiction.
Threats weren't illegal. Veiled or otherwise.

He saw several citizens loot the weapon store. Theft was not illegal, so Bartho said nothing. He simply stood and watched.
Onlookers might see his stern stare and guess this was hard on him, that his sense of justice put him in conflict.
But he wasn't conflicted. By strict law, theft was legal.
Shop owners had their own way to protect their interests, it was not his jurisdiction.
He was simply waiting for one to aim the weapon at another citizen.
Waiting for someone to break the law.
Barto imagined how he'd break them in return.

The Blood Compact

On an unrelated note: werewolves aren't hurt by holy water right?

The Blood Compact

@thewizardguy
I guess plants shouldn't rot with his mere touch. Though it could wilt at accelerated rate.

We could say that since the plants in Mo's domain grow at visible rate that means they also wilt easily when suddenly exposed to a more rapid
Or we could say that scene was exaggerated.

Either way, the speed of the ability is enough to heavily affect Hale's daily routine, everything he owns is either cheap or extra simple in design.

@Grombus
Being able to 'resist' holy vapor can be done in 3 ways:
1: Endure the pain and out-regenerate the burn. Magnus and a few other old-bloods have demonstrated this before.
Downsides are that you still feel the burning fully and that this spends energy. No matter how big of a boss you are, you'll generally want to avoid holy water.
2: wear a hazmat suit.
3: Predate religion. This holy water is christian made (I think), which is the lore most vampires her are based on. Lady Mo for example is spiritually tied to old world shamanism. Logically I would assume she'd be hurt by the shamanistic equivalent of holy water instead. Smoke of certain herbs, blood of a blessed creature, this would require in game research.

I actually had a hunter in one of the other incarnations of the blood compact that had a pagan holy symbol instead (golden sun), he might have been able to hurt her. We'll never know cause he's not in this game.

Now to resist fire, which can be done in the following way:
None.
All vampires are extremely vulnerable to heat and fire, to the point the sun gives them serious discomfort.
Vampires are dry and flammable.
Now If you have a specific power that helps manipulate or resist fire sure. Mithias can do that to some extent, but it's a specific power listed in his CS.

I would even argue Void especially is endangered by fire, as many diseases don't survive an environment over 40 degrees Celsius. (This is why we get fevers, to combat disease.)

Oh and burned skin is dry and thus absorbs water at faster rate! happens the air is full of water, water that burns!

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tl;dr: If you take a flamethrower to the face, you are: blinded, burned, severely if not mortally wounded, sterilized and more susceptible to holy vapor.

No matter how much of a boss you are, as a vampire: fire bad!

PS: what does the combination of flamethrowers and holy vapor do in general anyways? I mean let's assume the Purge designed their equipment to work in unison, so the flame throwing device is waterproof and stuff.
Would the fire boil the vapor in the air? What would that do?

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The main theme of the aura is supposed to be ruin and entropy.
It hastens destruction and decomposition caused by wear over time.
Metal rusts, stone erodes, plants rot, circuits short out.

I guess it speeds up the effects of time. And it doesn't break down molecules unless they would break down by themselves over time.
That would imply diseases have a faster and more aggressive effect as long as there is a host body to suffer it.
Faster incubation time, increase in severity of symptoms.
Disease outside a suitable host would however starve and become inert quicker.

Biological poisons decay, metal based poisons don't.

On living creatures this power would have a similar decaying effect, aka aging.
However, I made a specific downside for just that reason: the power is psionic based, to be resisted through willpower.
A living creature can resist the effect for some time.
Creatures that get more powerful over time might even find they grow faster from large amounts of exposure?

So his presence isn't lethal to people, though their smoking habit is even less healthy, and wearing a belt of grenades might be a bad idea.

Monsters Hotel

I suddenly have a title.
Neat.
Now what shall I do?

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Lmfao. @ Hale's sentence before throwing the bike at Kami. Also, what do you mean Magnus wasn't surpressing his ruin? Magnus' shit going to rot off him now?

@Shikaru

Magnus can surpress Hale's Aura of Ruin. It's usefull cause he can't himself.
They usually do this at home so the base doesn't take structural damage and so Hale can play videogames.

In a battlefield it makes sense not to surpress it, and since Hale just comes into the battlefield while Magnus is occupied, I asumed he wouldn't bother.

Everything breaks down faster. The more complex the mechanism, and the closer to Hale, the faster it breaks.
So a simple rifle or a bike will have a larger chance of malfunctioning, clothes wear faster, smart phones burn out almost instantly.
A sword or hammer should do well, though if it can break it will at some point.

Magnus knows this all in detail and has had plenty of time to tinker with it's effects while making his weaponry.

I don't know for sure what poisons and diseases would do. Not sure if 'faster decay and rotting' implies the bacteria work faster, or that bacteria have a reduced lifespan. So what his effect is on your claws and on Voids powers. I'd need a GM call on this.

Monsters Hotel

@Blumenkranz
Hello and welcome.

Now we have 2 people waiting on you @oakman

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Catapults that throw bikes.
You should play Besiege.

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Your environment is your greatest weapon.
Plus Hale's "combat style" is to break every fucking thing nearby, be it related to the fight or not.
And if it's broken it's still an improvised weapon right?
So yes.

Monsters Hotel

Not to mention, the Devil himself did not recognize Jack and let him into his home.
They are currently having this conversation in a hotel run by the devil.