Just to be clear, rolling a 1 or 12 always increases your stat? Also, is this like Lasers & Feelings, where you have one number representing yourself, and you want to roll above for Blood and below for Breath?
I also don't understand how you obtain Inhuman or Human Traits; that's not very clearly explained. Nor do I understand how you "lock" the ability--do you pay, using Bloodlust as an example, 2-3 Dust, or 12 Dust?