Slaking Hunger During Combat
Was hoping someone could clarify a weird little doubt I had regarding combat feeding.
Per the feeding table (page 212), slaking 5 Hunger requires draining and killing the target. Easy enough.
But then, per the rules for Combat Feeding (see image), you slake one point of Hunger for each Aggravated damage you inflict on a mortal target (which happens once per turn).
Potentially a stupid question, but wouldn’t that mean you can technically slake more than 5 points of Hunger from a single vessel without killing them?
Let’s say there’s a super-beefy mortal with shit tons of health (Stamina 5 so total of 8). You bite them for two Aggravated damage, then feed on them for five turns—dealing one Aggravated damage per point slaked—and stop when they have one point of health remaining.
Let’s assume you’re also Rousing the Blood to mend damage while you’re feeding, and that means you never bottom out at 1 Hunger (where slaking any more would require the death of the vessel, ignoring that with that much Aggravated they’re likely to die anyway). In theory, you just slaked 5 Hunger without killing them.
Could you theoretically get 6 or more Hunger’s worth out of a single feeding? Or does slaking 5 Hunger from a mortal just automatically kill them (no blood left, health tracker be damned)?
I recognize that this is a highly niche and probably-unlikely-to-ever-come-up scenario, but the lack of official clarification (that I can find) does torment me somewhat, so I figured I’d petition the community at large.
Curious to see what y’all think!