Category
Gnosis: 4 Simple cloth pouches, tied and knotted with leather thongs - swarmbags don't look like much. True, they do have something of an unpleasant consistency to them, but until thrown they are inert lumps and nothing more. The shapeshifter lucky enough to be granted these talens usually finds between four and a dozen. Once they are tossed at an enemy, however, swarmbags become an entirely different proposition. On contact (a Dexterity + Athletics roll, difficulty 5 is required to score a direct hit), the bag bursts open as a swarm of crawling, biting creatures erupts and frantically scurries about whatever - or whomever - the bag has hit.
System
Without a successful Willpower roll (difficulty 7), the target immediately ceases whatever he was doing and starts trying to sweep the bugs off of himself. Doing so requires 2 successful Dexterity rolls (difficulty 6), giving the werewolf who tossed the swarm bag in the first place at least one clear shot. Even those targets who make their Willpower rolls are at +1 difficulty for all actions until the bugs are either scraped off or fall off of their own accord. The contents of a swarm bag are a mixed lot: insects, arachnids, worms and less identifiable creatures. None are venomous, but some bite (albeit for no damage). The creatures swarm for up to 6 turns after being hurled at a target, and they will not infest anyone or anything except their original victim. Only one Swarmbag can be thrown at a time, though enterprising Garou have attempted doublebarreled action in the past.
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