Telltale Murder
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| Preq's |
Intelligence ●●●● Medicine ●● |
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| Level(s) |
●● (6XP) ●●● (12XP) |
| Venue | |
| Possessed By | |
| This is not allowed. |
With the two-dot version of this Merit, you know how to disguise a murder as a suicide, or use the means by which your victims die to taunt your attackers. Roll Intelligence + Medicine before the character ends a victim’s life. Each success allows you to make one brief statement: “The murder symbolizes Pride,” or “The victim is not innocent.” An investigator will pick up on these statements with one success on a Wits + Investigation roll. You can use this capability to taunt the officers investigating your crimes, or to foil their attempts to build a profile.
The three-dot version of this Merit enhances understanding of murder. You can stage a killing so that it sends a message that isn’t true: “This death was a suicide,” for example. Anyone studying the body must gain more successes on an Intelligence + Medicine roll than you rolled when using this Merit, or believe your lie.
Note that use of this Merit isn’t supernatural: the character isn’t psychically willing a message into the corpse or the murder scene. No, this necessitates work on the part of the slasher: arranging a series of bodies in some grisly display out of Milton’s Paradise Lost, for instance, carving a scarlet letter (“A”) in a dead adulterer’s chest, or some other kind of murderous theatrics.
Drawback: Once you start leaving messages, it’s very hard to stop. If you don’t make use of this Merit when you strike a killing blow, the Storyteller may decide on a single statement that investigators will pick up.
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| Merit Dots | 2 +, and 3 + |
| Merit Type | Mental + |
| Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Merit Editor + |
| Parent | Slasher + |
| Permission | Banned + |
| Pool | Intelligence +, Medicine Skill +, Wits +, and Investigation Skill + |
| Source | Slasher + |
