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|Name=Grotto Gifts
|Source=Lodges The Faithful
|Pages=p. 129
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These Gifts are the blessings of those that tunnel
and burrow, and assist werewolves in navigating the world
underneath. These Gifts are taught by the spirits of burrowing things such as worms or moles. These Gifts can be
learned by werewolves outside the Lodge of the Grotto,
though only lodge members treat them as affinity Gifts.

== Gift List ==
=== • Ratsquirm ===
If a werewolf with this Gift can get her head through
an opening, she can wriggle the rest of her body through
as well. The Ratsquirm Gift allows a werewolf to pop loose
joints and temporarily collapse her ribcage in order to
squeeze through spaces no other full-grown werewolf could
pass.
Cost: None
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Larceny + Cunning
Action: Reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Gift fails to activate; the
werewolf cannot attempt to use this Gift again for
the remainder of the scene.
Failure: The Gift fails to activate.
Success: The Gift activates successfully. The werewolf is able to squirm
through an opening no
smaller than 10 inches in diameter as a standard action. If
the werewolf has used this Gift as preparation to escape a
grapple, she gains +2 dice to her escape attempt. This Gift
may also allow a werewolf to escape handcuffs or rope or
chain bonds with ease.
Exceptional Success: The Gift activates particularly
successfully. The werewolf may squeeze through an opening no smaller than eight inches in diameter as above, or
gain a +4 bonus to her next roll to escape a grapple.

=== •• Knocktalk ===
Those who would hunt the Burrowers in their own
tunnels find the hunting an intimidating experience. As
the hunters press deeper into the darkness, they hear short
bursts of staccato rapping and tapping, echoing around
them like alien birdcalls. By means of the Knocktalk Gift,
a werewolf can send coded messages to those around her
by tapping on stone or metal pipes, thus enabling her and
her kin to coordinate devastating attacks against intruders.
Cost: None
Dice Pool: Wits + Expression + Wisdom
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Gift fails, and the werewolf is
briefly confused as to why. For the remainder of the scene,
she may not attempt the Gift again, and must make a roll
to understand another werewolf’s knocktalk as if she did
not know the Gift herself.
Failure: The Gift fails; the tapping travels no further
than the sound would without physical means, and no
message is encoded.
Success: The werewolf encodes a brief message of up
to one word per success. The knocking or tapping can be
heard for up to 100 yards along the tunnels per success.
Any listener who knows the Knocktalk Gift automatically understands the message; others must make a Wits +
Occult roll to understand the nature of the message. If the
listener does not belong to the Lodge of the Grotto, the
Wits + Occult roll is made at a –3 penalty.
Exceptional Success: No additional effect.

=== ••• Tunnelscent ===
Most werewolves are able to adapt to subterranean
darkness well enough, through a mix of arranging their
own human-made light sources and shifting into forms
with lupine senses. The truly dangerous, though, need
neither of these things. The werewolf who has learned
this Gift benefits from dramatically increased sense acuity
while underground; even in pitch darkness she is able to
navigate her surroundings by means of hearing and especially scent as accurately as if she were in broad daylight.
She may fight without being subject to any of the normal
penalties for fighting blind (see the World of Darkness
Rulebook, p. 166).
This Gift functions only while the werewolf is
underground; the Gift doesn’t work if the werewolf is
above ground, whether in an enclosed area or under open
sky. Sudden bright lights, loud noises or powerful odors
will disorient a werewolf under the effects of this Gift. If
exposed to such extreme stimuli, she must make a reflexive
Wits + Survival roll to resist; such stimuli cause the
werewolf to lose this Gift’s effects and take a –2 penalty to
appropriate Perception rolls for five turns minus one turn
per success on the Wits + Survival roll.
Cost: None
Dice Pool: No roll is required.
Action: Reflexive

=== •••• Stoneburrow ===
Some werewolves use Elemental Gifts or mundane
digging equipment to carve out underground dens. This
Gift makes the process even easier. A werewolf in Dalu or
Urshul form can use this Gift to grow long mole-like claws
that tear easily through stone or concrete. The claws are
unwieldy and not the finest for combat, but are virtually
unbreakable.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Stamina + Athletics + Glory
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The werewolf’s nails become
brittle and split painfully. She may not make any claw attacks for the duration of the scene.
Failure: No change.
Success: The werewolf’s claws become capable of
digging through stone or concrete. She may excavate up to
one cubic foot of stone or concrete per turn. She also gains
a +1 damage claw attack if she did not have one previously (if in Dalu form), or may add +1 damage to existing
claw attacks. The Gift’s effects last for the duration of the
scene, or until the werewolf chooses to end the effects.
Exceptional Success: The werewolf may excavate up
to two cubic feet of stone or concrete per turn.

=== ••••• Tunnelwrath ===
This Gift calls on the wrath of the burrowed earth
to strike down the werewolf’s enemies. Tunnels may crack
and spray rocks or steam pipes may burst as the tunnel
lashes out at intruders.
Cost: 2 Essence
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Crafts + Purity
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The tunnel rebels against the
werewolf rather than her foes. The Gift user immediately
takes one point of lethal damage from an appropriate
source.
Failure: The tunnel refuses to answer the werewolf’s
call.
Success: The tunnel strikes at the werewolf’s foes.
The werewolf may distribute two points of lethal damage
per success against anyone within 100 yards who shares
the same tunnel as she. This takes the form of environmental damage, and can be used in either human-made
or natural subterranean passages. For instance, if the user
gained three successes in a mineshaft, she could choose to
apply all six points of damage against one enemy (perhaps
by causing a minor cave-in) or divide them among her five
attackers, inflicting two points of lethal damage to one
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werewolf of her choice and one point of lethal damage to
each of the five others. In a subway tunnel, the damage
could take the form of an electrical short from the third
rail, and so on.
Exceptional Success: No additional effect apart from
the large amounts of damage done.

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