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Aggravated
The creatures that lurk in the world's shadows work in ways that most people cannot comprehend. They have their own mysterious agendas and miraculous capabilities. Among the latter is the capacity to inflict crippling harm on other beings and mortals. These otherworldly attacks sometimes prey upon enemies' inherent weaknesses, such as silver for a werewolf. Or they involve dark magic and unfathomable might, inflicting horrifying injuries.
- Once the rightmost Health box on your mortal character's chart is filled with lethal damage, all subsequent injuries are upgraded to aggravated, from left to right.
- All lesser injuries -- lethal or bashing -- are pushed right as more and more aggravated damage is taken, until your character's Health chart is full of aggravated marks.
- He also bleeds to death or simply fades from life and one box, from left to right, is upgraded to aggravated damage per minute that passes without medical attention.
- Once your character's Health chart is full of Aggravated damage, he's dead.
Vampire Considerations
Aggravated damage in vampires is not representative of anything that can happen to normal living humans. All it really signifies is “lethal” damage that actually is lethal to Kindred — more so than ordinary force. Mortal humans can suffer aggravated damage from certain mystical attacks, but in those cases, the damage itself is no worse, appearance-wise, than lethal wounds — aggravated damage is just much more difficult to heal.
- Since vampires are so much more vulnerable to sources of aggravated damage than any other weapons or circumstances, and since the injuries inflicted are much more likely to result in Final Death, Kindred are prone to panic when they sustain this type of wound. Some succumb to Rötschreck, fleeing in terror as soon as they realize what’s happening to them.
- Aggravated wounds are disfiguring. Those that are inflicted directly manifest as blackened, ferocious injuries, often looking charred or snaking outwards from the site of injury along the veins and capillaries, as if the wounds themselves are trying to grow into the vampire. They are obvious, and they are horrifying.
- Those aggravated wounds that result from “spillover” after a character’s lethal Health boxes have been filled are different. They represent demolished fleesh — severed limbs, caved-in skulls, torn-out innards — but are not as livid as the accursed injuries described above.
- When a vampire character’s rightmost Health box is filled with aggravated damage, she suffers Final Death. She collapses immediately (if she was still active before taking the final wound), and begins to rot, dry out and eventually crumble into dust. [1]
