You carry yourself with poise and grace, but your proficiency with Protean has helped you learn how to make your eyes a true danger. Your eyes capture your victim, rendering them utterly helpless for as long as you hold their Gaze uninterrupted.

Amalgam: Protean 1

Cost: Free

Challenge Pool: Charisma + Persuasion vs. Wits + Composure

System: Use a simple action to activate Eyes of the Serpent, and target a character with whom you have established Gaze and Focus. If you are successful in a contested challenge, your target is partially paralyzed, unable to take steps or make offensive actions. However, she maintains the ability to speak and defend herself. 

Eyes of the Serpent immediately ends if you move a step from your location, your target suffers damage, or you fail to spend your simple action concentrating on holding their Gaze. Supernatural creatures, including ghouls and thin-blood vampires, may spend one point of Willpower after suffering from Eyes of the Serpent for two turns to end its effects.

Once a character has been affected by Eyes of the Serpent, and spends Willpower to end its effects, she remains immune to future uses of Eyes of the Serpent for the remainder of the scene. 

Duration: Two turns or see above