•• Serpentine Union

Dramatic Failure: The Gorgon somehow mis-channels her mystic power. The target snake immediately turns on her, attacking with all its might until it is dead or out of her presence. The snake enjoys a +3 bonus to its initial attack roll from the Gorgon’s spent Willpower point.
Failure: The Gorgon fails to channel her power into the target snake. Her Willpower point is wasted.
Success: The Gorgon infuses some of her supernatural might into the body of the subject snake, thereby preparing it for a mystical union with her undead body. The Gorgon gains the benefits described below.
Exceptional Success: The character gains no special additional benefits above those described below.

Once a snake is prepared with a successful activation roll, the Gorgon swallows it to complete the union. As long as the snake stays within her, she gains a +2 bonus on all perception-related dice pools involving smell or touch; her tongue becomes visibly forked and her skin becomes dry and coarse. The Gorgon may also gain a +2 bonus to vision-based Perception dice pools, but her eyes are visibly transformed into those of a snake during such actions. Finally, the Gorgon gains a +1 bonus to either her Dexterity or Strength, as decided when she activates the power.
An absorbed snake can also be transmuted into an amount of Vitae equal to its Size, without any of the usual potency loss associated with animal Vitae (see Vampire: The Requiem, p. 165), regardless of the Gorgon’s Blood Potency. This is an instant action. Once a snake has been consumed for Vitae, it can be transmuted back into a snake (or snakes) equal in Size to the amount of Vitae expended per turn. These conjured snakes are wholly mundane and not under the effects of Serpentine Union, though they may be subjected to any of the Gorgon’s Disciplines on subsequent turns. Transmuted snakes must leave the Gorgon’s body somehow, whether through the mouth or through cuts and slashes on her body.
Because spending Vitae is a reflexive action, the Gorgon can release snakes from her blood as a reflexive action as well. Thus she may loose tiny vipers from her body through a gash made in her gut by a fearsome witch-hunter, the snakes slipping out of her flesh where a mortal woman might bleed.
A Gorgon may only subject one snake to this power at a time. Once a snake has been digested into Vitae, the Gorgon looses any Perception or Attribute bonuses derived from it. A Gorgon may only absorb (that is, swollow) snakes of a Size equal to or less than her own minus one.
If this power is used on a snake too large for the Gorgon to absorb, she may instead feed from the snake to gain Vitae on a one-for-one ratio to its Size, without any of the usual potency loss associated with animal Vitae, provided all such feeding is done within the same scene.