So long as you can find a patch of soft, natural ground, you no longer need to worry about finding safe shelter; you can sink into the Earth, becoming one with the substrata all around you. 

Cost: One Rouse check

System: Use your simple action to begin sinking into the ground. You must be touching the earth (clay, soil, or any other soft-consistency ground) in order to use Earth Meld. At the end of the turn, you resolve any Grappled Conditions you may have and become supernaturally joined with the earth. Before the end of the turn, you may attack and be attacked as normal. If you choose to end this power willingly and are still part of a combat scenario, you appear at the end of the turn and may act normally again on the following turn. 

While joined with the earth, the vampire exists in a semisolid form and cannot take actions or use any powers. While awake and melded with the earth, you can perceive your surroundings as though you were standing above the ground with which you are merged. Melding with the earth shelters a character from the sunlight during the day, or from fire searing the ground overhead, and makes the vampire immune to most forms of physical harm.

Significant disruption to the ground where a character is melded ends this power prematurely, immediately ejecting the vampire from the ground. An ejected vampire returns to full wakefulness immediately, showering dirt in a wide radius as she erupts violently from the soil. Typically, this disruption takes three minutes of digging. Using tools to disturb the ground can reduce the time needed to disrupt an Earth Meld. For example, a character with a shovel might be able to eject a melded vampire in two minutes, whereas a character with a pipe bomb could eject her with a single standard action.

Earth Meld allows a vampire to sink into dirt or other naturally-occurring substances with similar consistency, such as sand or gravel, but cannot be used to meld with (or pass through) concrete, rock, metal, plastic, wood, or any other ground covering. Earth Meld cannot be combined with transformative powers; melding with the earth returns a vampire to her original state.

Duration: One day or more, or until disturbed