THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 Cachexy – Facility with this Discipline is considered the dividing line between what makes a Kindred a Mekhet with a peculiar feeding habit and a confirmed member of the Morbus bloodline. Any Kindred can choose to feed from diseased mortals if he's willing to risk spreading infection to the rest of the herd, but only the Morbus can turn the effects of their feeding predilection into this formidable and dangerous Discipline. Cachexy allows the user to selectively spread, inflict or worsen the effects of any of the myriad diseases he carries at any given time. Some of the effects require the character to touch his intended target, while the dangerous high-level ones eliminate that impediment and turn users into walking biological hazards. Contaminate (Cachexy ••) – Contact with the blood of a Morbus might result in infection from whatever diseases he has sampled, but this power ensures it. By smearing a hand-held object or a small area with his Vitae, the Morbus contaminates that object with a supernaturally resistant strain of one of the diseases he carries. Should a mortal or Kindred touch the affected area with bare flesh or touch or ingest the affected object, that person risks being infected. Unwell Undead – In this piece from Vampire: The Requiem Andrew Trabbold gets at just how worn out a Kindred can be. Don't let the undead go hungry, boys and girls.
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