Dévotion de Melissidae
5 XP
Melissid Vitae tastes like honey. Most Queen Bees learn early on to take advantage of this fact, manipulating their Vitae so that the sweetness is unbearable and doubly addictive.
Cost: None
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Survival + Dominate – subject’s Resolve
Action: Reflexive
A Melissid can activate this power any time someone takes a drink of her Vitae. Success on the activation roll causes her blood to become powerfully addictive, causing the drinker to suffer a –3 penalty on rolls to avoid blood addiction, cumulative with any other penalties already in effect. This penalty applies only to the character’s own Vitae, and the power needs to be re-rolled for each point of Vitae consumed, even if taken by the same vampire.
Exceptional success makes the Melissid’s blood so potent that not only is it addictive but that a single draught counts as two drinks for the purposes of creating a Vinculum. Dramatic failure makes the Vitae taste foul, like the smell of burning insects, and excuses the drinker from having to make an addiction roll at all. This Vitae may be used as normal — it simply tastes foul.