Abrupt Internment
DESCRIPTION
The ability to immerse one’s self into the ground is more than mere transformation — it mystically attunes you to the soil beneath. Through your mastery of this process, you have the power to meld others into the earth, immobilizing them via partial submersion. Test Pool Social attribute + Survival skill versus target’s Physical attribute + Dodge skill
SYSTEM
Expend 1 point of Blood and spend a standard action to target a character standing on any type of ground covering, including dirt, concrete, rock, metal, plastic, or wood. If you succeed in the opposed challenge, you cause your target to become grappled, as she sinks into the ground to a depth reaching just below her knees. While your opponent is grappled in this way, you can move and act normally without ending the effects of the grapple; this is an exception to the rules limiting your ability to move farther than one step or target other characters while maintaining a grapple. If an individual grappled by this power attempts to escape, she must succeed in a static challenge using her Physical attribute + Brawl or Melee skill, (if appropriately armed) versus your Social attribute + Survival skill. You cannot use Willpower to retest an opponent’s challenges to escape grapples established via Abrupt Internment. In addition, you can target inanimate objects with Abrupt Internment provided they do not contain living or undead creatures. Expend 1 point of Blood and use a simple action to cause an object, or a cache of objects no larger than a small car, to sink completely into the earth. You may spend a simple action to return the melded objects to the surface. While melded, the objects exist in a semi-tangible state. If returned to the surface or manually unearthed, the objects show no ill effects for having been interred. If Abrupt Internment is used on a target who possesses the Protean power Earth Meld, that character can activate Earth Meld normally, effectively escaping the grapple. This use of Earth Meld functions normally for targeted characters, even if the target has been encased in a hard substance she normally could not affect with Earth Meld. This technique is not a transformative power; characters using or successfully affected by Abrupt Internment who are also currently using transformative powers are not forced to assume their true forms in order to activate or when targeted by Abrupt Internment.
SOURCE BOOK
MET - VTM - V2 Issue 1
Vampire the Masquerade