Killing Words Technique

Cost: — (1wp); Mins: Presence 4, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dread Lord's Demeanor

Those who dare refuse an Abyssal's commands suffer terribly for their impudence. Whenever a deathknight with this Charm makes a written or spoken social attack or uses a Charm that imposes unnatural mental influence, he may reflexively spend one Willpower to enhance the effect. By doing so, anyone who would spend Willpower points to resist the effect must instead pay an equivalent number of lethal health levels. Because this is a cost, this damage cannot be prevented by any effect that does not also result in the victim consenting to the attack. The Abyssal may choose whether the effect's damage occurs subtly as life-draining weakness or spectacularly in the form of unnatural stigmata.