When you taste blood, you can tell if the blood is from vampire, and you can automatically taste the generation. You've got a natural instinct for the flavors in blood. Reduce the difficulty of any Empathy rolls involving other people by two, and by one when human-seeming monsters are concerned. Even distrustful creatures tend to put aside their instinctive wariness of mortals in regard to you. People find you very easy to start a conversation with. There's something very inviting and non-threatening about you. Animalism and Animal Ken rolls with these animals have their difficulty reduced by 2. You've an innate understanding of and rapport with a certain type of animal, such as dogs, bats, rats, cats or wolves.

The normal penalty for using both hands at once to perform different tasks (such as fighting with a weapon in each hand) is a +1 difficulty for the 'right' hand and a +3 difficulty for the other hand. You have a high degree of off hand dexterity, and can perform tasks with the 'wrong' hand at no penalty. don’t know you maintain this second identity, and treat this 'stranger' accordingly. However, you sire, Allies, Contacts, etc. This other self has a believable history and backstory that can stand up to at least cursory checks, and he is accepted at face value (more or less)** by his associates. In addition to your normal identity, you’ve taken up an alternate role that allows you to run with another group or sect of vampires. You can avoid any penalties associated with exposure to alien environments or drastic changes. The most bizarre things do not phase you, nor does it bother you to make sudden changes in plans or tactics. You accept change easily and adapt quickly to unfamiliar situations or alien circumstance.

This Merit can be purchased multiple times (a Cainite could have Acute Vision and Acute Taste for instance). Combined with Auspex, this Merit can grant truly superhuman sense. Perception +Alertness to hear a faint noise, taste poison in food or see an oncoming attacker) are decreased by two. The difficulties of all dice rolls that relate to the sense in question (e.g.

You have exceptionally sharp hearing, smell, vision or taste. You have a -2 difficulty to the rolls in any situation relating to that ability. You have exceptional talent with one specific non-combat ability. Vampires, Hunters, KotE, Mortals and Numina users may select freely from these Merits. Merits under the 'general' category may be taken by any character from any sphere.

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