Thread #017 Malkavian EditionWelcome to /schreck/ where you can rp your VTM character! For all questions concerning the World of Darkness, please consult the WoDg and CoDg thread>>98232196>Previous Thread>>98142918Brief rules>We have no story teller, we are acephali>Threads are v20 based, although the night is long and full of whispers, lies, and half-truths. Decide your own canon but all will not believe you>all nicktuku will be diablerized on sight>all OOC discussion should be spoileredTHREAD QUESTION>After Blood Sorcery in its various forms, what's the #1 Discipline you don't know, but you wish you did?
>TQI hope Zoryana teaches me extrasensorial perception...>>98239956>take the soft optionSure, the first draft of the plan was straight up pure espionage then having Errand Chancellor direct the operations, do the Ventrue thing and seize the ground from under the cultists' feet, slow and steady, the Cammy way of expanding territories. But with your dossier we can have some members cut from the more observant Followers of Set.>>98240732>You either trust them implicitly or you have to treat them as a 'slavetaker in waiting'.What does this power change when untrustworthy humans exist too, Kindred can forge blood bonds with or without it, and the 1st or 2nd thing you all told me was not to trust any and all vampires, even yourselves, and not just a handful of clans?No, I think Mèo's problem with using mind control is more personal and has little to do with wanting to be seen as a trustworthy Kindred, when such a thing hasn't been invented yet. Yay.>Ahh, see there we go. I mean if you have to enforce your 'polycule' with the most addictive substance on the planet, I doubt you can say that's more free then what Princess' sire was doing.Enforce what? Nope, nobody ordered Magpie or Sparrow to become the friends with benefits of like half of the boys! This kind of relationship(s) I was talking about is entirely between humans, and on the other side of the Masquerade. Sparrow even "knew" them, in the biblical sense of the word, before they met Zoryana.So what if our blood dolls want to date one another or even have group sex, as long as they don't fight, dinner is served and the First Tradition is upheld? I may have died a virgin, but I don't wish the same fate on our herd, let them share their own kind of pleasure on top of the pleasure a Kindred's Kiss can give. On this side, we do not enforce or oppose anything of the sort.Through all your centuries, did you screen each of your vessels' private life like a Ventrue, who needs a cherry-picked herd all for himself?
I spotted our Princess talking to a cat, she got mad, a different kind of mad, like the not angry, disappointed kind of mad, hope that makes sense. Told me to get out, didn't even raise her voice.My body got out. I remember my body getting on the truck. Next thing I know I'm in this club in the Rack with Wren wrapped around my arm. Birthday date. Right.This stranger puts his hand on the table and makes inappropriate comments about "WMAF couples" wherein "the girl looks like she works in a rice paddy." I'm like: "Let's continue this conversation outside. Like gentlemen." Wren says he's no gentleman, just a p***y.Down in the alley, I block the imbecile's punch, then something hits him from behind, three times. It's Wren, she's holding a brick. He goes down, she doesn't stop hitting the man's cranium. Then the blood doll tells me to help her drag him onto the truck, yells: "Poor man's EMS coming through! Medical emergency and no insurance! Wee-ooo! Wee-ooo!" Once inside tells me she made dinner for Lianhua. Wasn't she jealous of that Chinese Giovanni?The hell's wrong with this chick.At home, said Chinese Giovanni pats Wren's head and pinches her cheek, cue obligatory "Good girl." Wren calls everybody in Castle Errand: "Who wants to see our superheroine feed on a racist?" Horror movies got nothing on Lianhua. She was moaning and laughing. While feeding. My God his screams. Tells me not to worry about the body: "The Giovanni have excellent funerary services." Don't know if "afterglow" is a thing, I swear the lady's skin was literally shining in that red dress.One hour later we're in a comedy horror, Sal and Stella park a hearse in front of Castle Errand. Lianhua walks past Sal and his open arms, she hugs Stella instead. Sal walks up to me, speaking body language: "Psst. Take the hint, man. Ask your Princess. Make this girl a ghoul already." Wren's eyes SPARKLE. As the 2 Gios leave with the dead racist, Stella says: "My condolences." They burst out laughing.
>THREAD QUESTIONChimerstry. It's wasted on the Ravnos.>>98243890>a brickAn interesting choice of weapon.
>>98243890>Literal blood-sucking vampires.>Repulsed by racism.I laughed sardonically at this.>>98245705>An interesting choice of weapon.Must be one of those legendary "soft bricks" I've heard about. The kind that gently render you unconscious instead of fucking dead.
>>98245775This soft brick - still assuming Errand Knight saw the weapon properly - had to be light enough for Wren to lift it over her head with those broken spaghetti she was born with instead of arms. The dentistry student's cooking took a little inner strength and inspiration to make, but the flavor was harmonious and worth it.Now imagine EK and Wren living in the past two centuries, ridding the world of racism by bonking entire nations, and I swim in seas of blood. Yum.
>>98243753>what about the humansIt doesn't diminsish that a Ventrue, can do with a glance, that a torturer could not do in a year. I won't talk about this further, because princess' silence is doing most of the talking here. >those cultists just joined us on our eternal quest to slake our thirst. It's entirely reasonable for the Kine to worship Kindred. Not a hinderance at all, not compelled at all. My ghouls have been picked for their skillset, you should try to remember in that bondhaze of yours that the only 'pleasure' you have to offer is death. You chortled about the racist but you're doing the same thing to those dolls.Been a long time since I had to wear a dinner jacket. Wish me luck.
>>98243742>THIS THREAD QUESTION INTERRUPTED TO ASK THE QUESTIONS THAT /SCHRECK/ TRUELY DESERVEShttps://youtu.be/WbkAiRV3m38What clan?
Lianhua is educating me about Chinese fashion, I didn't think it'd be so interesting. In the US she often wears a qipao. It's simultaneously a symbol of early Chinese feminism in the 1st half of 20th century Shanghai, and very fetishized. The qipao, or cheongsam, is rooted in Manchurian designs from the Qing Dynasty, the last imperial dynasty who influenced all US perception of Chinese culture.In the PRC the Han are 92% of the people and are no longer ruled by the Manchu, she dresses as a politician, that is, a Westerner, because it signifies a greater status, and because the Han blame the Manchu for the Century of Humiliation and failing to save and modernize the country.She said today the hanfu is just a subculture in China while a kimono and yukata are capital C Culture in Japan. The hanfu's history was interrupted by government-mandated clothing designs even before communism, and revived in 2003 by an electrician. Meanwhile the Japanese kept wearing their traditional clothes at ceremonies and festivals. Chinese female students in Japan started wearing hanfu at their graduation.In a hanfu Lianhua feels comfortable and feminine, a qipao also gives her freedom of movement, practicality and more options to style her hair. And it's way sexier.Everything in Asia is so full of politics and meaning. Clothes makes the man. Or woman. If you know your stuff you can tell a person's status with a glance, whether it's a period drama or the streets of today.>>98246928We rescued Wren from a stalker! Why would you think it's the same as bonking a racist and let a Giovanni drain them to death? The cultists were perfectly at ease throwing their money at a couple of fellow mortals, now they're the ones receiving a "reprieve from the tedium of 21st century life", is there any wonder they come to hang out as many nights as their life lets them? The herd is so large they could never go anemic.Zoryana once said: "Good boys and girls don't need discipline. Or Disciplines."
>>98243890>My body got out. I remember my body getting on the truck. Next thing I know I'm in this club in the Rack with Wren wrapped around my arm. Birthday date. Right.This may be wishful thinking on my part, but the best case scenario here is that, perhaps, between the tenacity of Wren's attachment to him, and having tasted some vitae from Lianhua straight from the source, our Knight is starting to finally free himself from the Blood Bond arranged by my Sire without my consent.Anything less than the best case scenario means something, or someone, is messing with his brain. He shouldn't register what happened as "My body got out", he should have felt as if he left my room willingly and happily wagging his tail. More concerning still are those lapses in his memory. Didn't Lyuba see him spend 50 minutes to choose his clothes for the date with Wren? Why would he say: "Birthday date. Right." as if he was confused about it? Even if he forgot me, he should remember her at least.Hmmm. The memory of his embrace and meeting my sire also had some conspicuous holes. You have to wonder if that Malkavian did more to this high schooler than just drain him and feed him thaumaturgically preserved Assamite vitae.>>98246928>princess' silence is doing most of the talking here.I appointed a fledgling to handle your messages~ I guess I took a page from the Ventrue~ Look how well I am adapting to a life in the Camarilla~
>>98248220Speaking of Malkavians, did you just dump the staked Malk in a Prince's office? Did anybody ever confirm the kill, or heard back from that Prince of Bumfuck Nowhere, Virginia?
>>98248236No no come on now he was drained too and in every sect's most wanted list!
>Thread questionMy priority is still learning Necromancy over any other Gift of Caine, no matter how tempting.>>98248239Think of an accomplice.
AaaaaaaaitfeelslikemybrainisturningoffffaaaaSomething bad is gonna happpen.fhw2efhhfds8iGod it feels>>98246928Bring another knife Bringe- BoweiBowie>? Gnaaaa Booit. Boot. Size doesn't matrtAlso chrt.>>?>>/Ttgq/I wanna fly some day and not jst b jumping off a bridge drunk. Or cause I stole a plane.>>98243753He careful what yuo wish for.ReedignReedingGja>You should bring a bigger gun>Fortune cookies are bullshit so steal as many as you want>N713_Klaie&Perkile183-284>FIXYOURFUCKINGFLOORYOUMOTHERLESSGOAT>Huh can't beloiuev I'm free again.>Colour: Lapis Lazuli>Omne futurum pro momento permutares. Stulte.>The Weather is getting bad in France, consider a sabbatical >Get bent Klein Gnna wear the soil clok agnn + sleep
>>98249329Am I... Spyro the dragon?As an aside I hope Sorc found a way to mask their presence using koldunism and simply ran away.>>98243742>TQI've heard of Asian vampires with a "rift" discipline. Combined with vicissitude it would allow me to store an awful lot of biomass inside said rift, and transform using said biomass into an awfully big dragon or something.
>>98248166>Everything in Asia is so full of politics and meaning.Most of it is full of politics and empty of meaning.>If you know your stuff you can tell a person's status with a glance, whether it's a period drama or the streets of today.The same can be said for the West.>>98248220So you think he is resisting you? A curious case.>>98248256Twist your theory to the available facts, not the other way around.>>98250356>I've heard of Asian vampiresThose are just myths. There are only Cainites who happen to be Asians before being embraced. Consider Thaumaturgy's VIA EVOCATIONIS.
>>98248166I don't think that. >I know that. I know that because humans are a huge pain in the ass for kindred, and if they're not being a huge pain in the ass, it's because something was done to them. Your arguement while cleverer then when you began>hats off to your paperpusher for thatall comes back down to. >The humans were going to die anyway. They were already victims. They are so stupid, they need us. We are the light of their lives. >WE ARE THE SUNAnd just let that linger in your mind for a bit. You are not the sun, you are not the prince of human endevours. You are not popular. You are not liked liked. You are not loved. You are a monster poured into the flabby skinsuit of an idiot given a set of tools that mortals can't resist. Congrats you were given power, now do something worthwhile with it aside from>jilling off the bloodbags.>>98248220>Bloodbond beginning to get out of controlBoy who could have warned you about that. >I appointed a fledglingYou are a fledling you tramp. And you have learned one lesson very well, I hope you learn your place before the next one. >>98249329Wait why does Che want to carbomb me, or is that all of Winnipeg. I didn't even do anything to Winnipeg.Dinner was Eventful, I'll catch you up later. I've been given a goal to hunt Gangrels and I'm not particularly happy about it.
>>98251554Oh it's me, Tabarin. Why is there a cat filter on it Nyan.
>tqKinda wanna learn some Rav tricks. Pocket phospherus is expensive as a panic trick man. I'm no longer made of Vitae. Sabbat shovelheads been bleeding my supply out.Also when we killing either the Archbishop or the prince? >>98249329Oh sweet. New horrors I literally don't understand.Rad. Thank you crazy cat.>>98250356I mean. You are like a dragon. Like a spyro.Gonna be real though between the sad pepe he got and the shit I seen I'm just assuming Sorc got flayed.Ain't the worst fate sadly. He'd be dead. Hopefully.>>98251554Hey I don't WANT to give you the Downing Street special.I just would be willing to. You know?Like, I'd eat Shaq. Not planning on it but I would.
Would it surpise to learn I have nothint but disgust for any and all forms of "magic" and thus have no desire to learn blood sorcery at all?
>>98251554>a set of tools that mortals can't resistI don't have the natural or supernatural charm, grace, or force of personality of my fellow Kindred. Wren even called me gross on our first meeting. We have the first Tradition because mortals are far from defenseless.>you were given power, now do something worthwhile with itTell that to your nearest Elder.>You are a fledling you tramp.Tabarin, Tabarin, Tabarin. I've tried the patient listener routine, clearly didn't work out. What did Zoryana do to you, that outspoken enemies of your sect, OUR sect, whose ethics or lack thereof chill me to the bones, were friendlier and more eager to teach us than you, even after we refused their offer to join them? Shouldn't it be the other way around?Is it because we didn't go to the cities you suggested? Do you want us out of the Camarilla? Do you want me to admit I'm evil? What do you want?
>>98253443>We have the first Tradition because mortals are far from defenseless.Right, which is why you shouldn't fuck with them more then you need to. WE have a problem when piss ants who've been alive 5 mins forget that every human they mess with has a mother father brothers, and more. >Tabarin you weren't very friendlyOh no. Did I hurt your feelings. Get that nincompoop comptroller of a ventrue you have to socratic method that with you. Huh, this guy who seems interested is giving mixed messages, while this guy who you admit is your enemy. He is very friendly to you. What could possibly be the motive. It's just incomprehensible. What do I want, I want you to be a decade older and wiser and to understand your place. But hey, I get it. Unwanted advice.
>>98253467>this guy who seems interested is giving mixed messagesWhy?>It's just incomprehensible.I get why the others are friendly. You, I don't get.
>>98254208Enough computer for tonight, Errand Knight. Come with me and let's do some reconnaissance.
>>98254208That's easy. Tabby blabby is fully aware of his own incompetence, incontinence, indolence and impotence that he cannot help but bitterly lash out at everything and everyone he sees.Also...>>98249329 WTF is this shit about a HATE FUCK!? Okay, let's clear this up once and for all. Yes, I LIKE to show off my body. I am proud of how I look. But I am EXTREMELY picky about the dicks I let inside it! Three dicks over five occurrences, and one of those was me getting drunker faster than I realized.
>>98254293Look boss you and him are basically hate flirting. Don't know how else to put it.Could be worse though. At least you don't have the ominous symbol of Oedipus hanging over your relationships like the sword of Damocles. Insisting that Knight and Princess both have penis envy.
>>98249329I didn't meet Spider Lily, Knight did.>>98254364Nonsense, we're Kindred.
>>98254293Well, were young HalfSeeingEye not still afflicted with that baffling curse their clique is struggling with, she would be here, I bet. And she would insist that you two do seem to be of the more... Mutually attracted sort of violently explosive towards each other. Matters of heart are not my forte, however, so I shall not pry. It's wonderful to see somebody make something of their unlife, anyways, treasure it. Intense emotions and grand pursuits are perhaps the best antidote to going mad as the years march on.>>98249329Oh my. I like the little hat on my green rodent. I should get one of those. And maybe ammo for the Tommy gun we got, while it's not really useful for much, it's still quite the nifty toy. I remember all the discontent over them getting introduced, the moral panic. Good nights, those were. Victoria's busy making solid and chain shots for her punt gun, by the by, and she thanks you for what's presumably advice for her. Not sure how much bigger a punt gun we can find, and she's not really a Potence expert, so there is a limit to what she can haul about without impeding her agility, but, advice is advice. Appreciated as always! that image is perhaps the objective peak of this thread. i could throw a million dollars at artists and this will still come out on top. it's just perfection. i can imagine Mèo exceptionally carefully operating MS Paint while shaking from left to right a little in immense concentration, driven by divine inspiration to position the EXACT little vampire pepe for Colma, exactly where it should be.
>>98243742Obtenebration. Being able to fuck around with shadows seems very useful. Go figure, the High Clanners don't like roughing it in the wilds, so I haven't had much chance of getting in good with any Lasombra.>>98245705Good ol' rocks. The first murder weapon and the last, without a doubt. A brick is just a domesticated rock.>>98254293>>98254364Ah, to still have blood warm enough to remember the pleasures of the flesh. Or thin enough to still care about it.
>>98250356He's gonna wish he ran when I throttle him.And ues :)Youre gonna be purple and I didn wanna use a barney.>Fudge. I miss fudge.>>98252875People gotta repeat Tim's dumb mistake. I guews.Forvever and ever until the end of time.>I smell a rancid grave...>>98254293We do nt need to share howmany dicks we've all taken Stroppie\iAswu yourr camera boy is making mistakes>Somethings coming. RUN.>>98255619To paraphrase my favoutrie 8ball:DOn't worry. You will. :)>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA>>98255772The next oe you dont need to worry about, th one after Vic's gonna try strangling him but you need to sit on her. After. After. After. After. After. After. After. After. After.\['lfegt me go.>Valmiina tai en, minä tulen kyllä.
>>98256165Thank you, I don't think I could handle being Barney. While I've never played a Spyro game, I can at least appreciate the reference. Though I do prefer being light blue rather than purple.
>>98254293Hey Shovvy, If you think I'm so bad at this wanna come help me dig up Jalan's torpid corpse. He's one of yours right, that's got to be bone for you. Don't need to kill him, just dig him up. Get him up and running so that the Don has his drinking buddy back, and the tzimmy fils de pute, I believe him when he says they will stop the current levels of bullshit in the sabbat.
Me and Lianhua went to give a good look at the temple. We hid ourselves, then she said we weren't alone. "Didn't see you there. How goes yer trainin'?" It was Rump's boy with too much to share about the Setites. He led us someplace safer. I told him it's the ugliest building in the French District.My first disciple quoted a Chinese idiom then went straight to the point: "An inch of land is an inch of gold. Morgaine wants that s******e." Shouldn't it be 'square inch?' The Nossie cussed in some language I don't know and kicked a rock. I tried to de-escalate to no avail. He went on a lengthy rant about the Toreador Primogen, whom he calls a 'c**t', and 'those G*******d f*****g f***y w****s hoggin' all tourists.'Lianhua issued her ultimatum:"Choose how this story ends.One. Our coterie fails to deliver the goods then SWAT agents and/or Kindred dressed as them shoot up the place. Drugs, prostitution, you know what's in there, we don't have to guess, it's all of the above.Two. City officials find out those poor innocent souls were less than perfect with taxes and paperwork, oh no! But wait, there's more: heresies within the little temple are suddenly discovered by the bigger one! A disappearance here, a domestic 'accident' there, maybe I hit the jackpot, and find a walking bloodbag who's enough a freak to actually like my fangs' sting, even.Three. The Setite parish as it is f***s off and everyone continues to do their business where the Toreadors can't see it."The guy spat blood and roared with that mouth full of fangs: "F*****G WHERE!?" She teased him: "Maaaybe somewhere bigger, and also far away from the golf course? Tick tock, handsome boy~" He didn't like it, again I tried to de-escalate: "Please don't shoot the messenger. We're all just pawns in the Elders' hands anyway. Help us help you help the Setites find a path of least resistance.""Elders, huh. Can't win with dem a******s." The Nossie waved, put his hands inside the trenchcoat's pockets, and left.
>>98256165>DOn't worry. You will. :)>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA
>>98258177How malformed is that poor creature, that he would wear a trenchcoat in summer?>>98258188What are you afraid of, darling?
>>98257608You can stop now. I'm not gonna fly off the handle just because you fucked up some guy in the Sabbat. You're just embarrassing yourself with these playground taunts.
Information has been leaked. Hunt is going to boil over tonight for everyone in town.>>98243742Whatever is an option. Only a fool pretending to be an adult stops learning.>>98256165>Auto-Reading againNope. We are putting a stop to that now.
>Thread questionMy priority is the study of Koldunism, but I wish I had those healing powers of the Salubri I read about, but it's a case of 'I want the one I can't have.'I think Protean would go well with my understanding of the animal kingdom, but I have enough Old Clan Tzimisce in me to be very suspicious of it, as it shares one similarity too many with Vicissitude.>>98258206I am indeed afraid of you, Lady Asano. You are one of the most fearsome Kindred I know the existence of, and a proud, restless, energetic Elder who leads from the front and would even walk under the sun, rather than a stereotypical, torpid ancient sleeping beneath the surface of the Earth.I dare not think of the reason one such as you would wish to meet me in person, when you must be so busy managing your vast international network of connections and operations, and your Childe sleeps under the same roof with us, and she could relay any messages of yours with ease.Since I have your attention, me and my thrall wish to thank you again for saving his life from the trigger-happy Scourge of New York, and for allowing your Childe to work and train with us.よろしくお願いいたします>>98260620>Nope. We are putting a stop to that now.What is Mèo-Mèo's track record with this automatic writing, or reading?
Well. Rumples little disagreement with his own sire has dredged up some things in me. I've just spent an entire evening staring into a fire, lost in my own memories.I don't really remember the moment of my Embrace. Commodore Decatur had just returned from the second Barbary War and I had gone out celebrating his victory. Me and pretty much everyone else. Whichever drinking establishment I cared to poke my head in, once it came out that I was late not only of the Marine Corps but had served 15 years under his command... Lets just say it was a small miracle I had a few drops of blood left in my alcohol stream. I was stumbling about the streets of New York, singing "When the Warrior Returns" https://youtu.be/ZtnCzIN0P2Q?is=zCP9nV73QB00pIGIand the next thing I know I'm waking up just as the sun is going down out in the forests somewhere with that soul crushingly empty feeling...Anyone else feel like sharing?
>>98262939My memory is still fresh.Lady Asano was generous enough to let me choose the place of my Embrace, a reward for serving as her a ghoul for so many years. My appearance was already taken care of as she knows how to craft flesh and bone, my skin has been smoother than a baby for decades.The day before, she used her magic that restores her life and defies the sun. I held her parasol as we went for a walk over the Great Wall and I cooked for her and myself a feast worthy of an emperor, which took a whole week to prepare, particularly marinating the duck.I still had the bamboo bit gag she gives her blood dolls, it's been well over a century since I last fed her, I wanted to wear it myself, but my Sire insisted and took care of the knots.She sat on her throne on a tiger pelt, magnificent, and I laid before her with my knees and head on the mansion's floor, wearing naught but said gag and other red ropes she so skillfully arranged around me.Then midnight came.Two Beasts awakened, a dragon above, the tiger below, they danced, they fought the struggle within for dominance of their respective worlds, and the struggle without between Heaven and Earth.Yet this fight was over in a single instant, for the outcome was already written: a Celestial Mandate, the divine right to rule, a pre-established harmony.My Mistress, Domitor and now Sire, ever superior, staring into my eye, as her fangs broke my skin and she took every last drop, a pain I had almost forgotten, but that night would only grow and grow.Then, I rose, a new daughter of Caine, with an euphoria greater than any I will ever feel, even greater than when I first ingested a Kindred's vitae.Lady Asano fed me and washed me like a newborn, and then clothed me.I said to her: "I am home, Mother."She looked at me, stroked my hair, wiped a bloody tear from her eye and kissed me - just with her lips this time. She bore two children before her own Embrace.
>>98262939I was getting very drunk, don't even really remember why. My guy baited me into a bar fight and then beat me to death. Then he Embraced me. I was the unlucky sort, so the injuries stuck. It's pretty hard to get up with broken bones, and he wanted me upright, so he had one of his buddies use a weird, definitely not Brujah trick to make me able to stand, then beat me to torpor, as a bit of fighting practice. He didn't like blood bonds, so he instead just held the trick over my head. If I didn't play along with whatever dumb fucking plan he had on a given night, his friends wouldn't fix me the next one. By the time I healed enough to get up, I'd be delirious with hunger, and that's if I could heal enough. He's dead now. Made that friend eat him, and then curbstomped the diablerist. It's a crime, after all, don't want criminals around, now do we.
>>98262939some nights i wonder idly if knowing my origins would make me a better or worse individual. such is the life of a caitiff, i think. so often mocked by my peers for a lack of lineage and dissent and watching them build their little sandcastles and mud-huts. pretending to fill the shoes of their sires like they mean anything. as if they are anything but degenerations for all it means to their lineage. perhaps it is better to not worry of such things?
>>98263207Whatever happened to that Ventrue kid you were hanging with? Did he end up biting the dust during that kerfuffle in New York?
>>982629391976. Carter was going head to head with Ford, Jobs and the Woz were forming Apple Inc, California spanked France in winemaking and music was breaking out of the awful funk of the past ten years. I was out of a show over in Daly, some Punk band with an awful name. Couldn't afford to gas up my bike because the zine's publisher was a broke dipshit. But that was fine. A nice walk was just what I needed before getting home to my girls and my typewriter. Bang out a review, maybe a few pages of that book; real gonzo journalist shit. I never even saw them coming. Was out for the whole grisly night. Piecemeal, I've been told I killed four or five people, including a Goth girl (post punk really) that was a blood doll of no less an august presence as the Prince of Colma. I didn't know any of that, I just woke the next morning with a feeling that I can only describe as a full body tooth ache while some weirdo monologged as he tried to shove my mouth onto some schlep neckand dragged me from ghe sunshine. He promised to explain things once I helped him wrangle the other Licks just writhing around the place. We must have gotten an even dozen. Between monologs, he explained. All of it. Vampires. The War. The rules of each side in the war. All he knew.The Sabbat took it's two losses at the end, as two of us calmly walked out into the sun then and there, unable to accept it. Or maybe just unwilling to go on. I didn't ask. Just watched. A lot of the early days was just, watching.
>>98264669Would it surprise you that the reason you get so much flak for not having a label because it means you are less predictable, which is the last thing the stagnate, hide bound elders pulling the strings want?Just find some fellows who don't give a damn, who'd rather work with you build a nice fortress instead of try to steal the stones. Or join us out here beyond the city lights in the back woods. Plenty of blood out here, and not as many wolves as the elders tell you there are.There are just worse things than the wolves out here, but just go TOO deep.
>>98264669>>98268981I mean, from the point of view of another clanless, suppose an older Kindred has a problem with you. They could threaten you to tell your sire, or just do it and have the sire scold or punish you, in other words, if you have a sire they can use them against you. Besides in the Camarilla one needs the Prince's permission to embrace and stuff. You have fewer strings for people to pull, you only answer to your coterie/pack instead of someone older, they assume you haven't been trained, that's quite a lot of reasons to be distrusted, and this isn't even touching the horror stories I heard about what goes in New York after its war with some Caitiff.
>>98268981it would seem i ended up in the first camp. i'd long known the larvae, those boneless nosferatu of southern hellas who'd wished for a neutral party in their dealings with surface dwellers. just the same for the shia ashina who cared little for endless invasions of the balkans, and the unaligned masochistic toreadors, and the ancient gorgons, and the rest. you know, it strikes me i've had dominion of this little corner of the peninsula for almost two hundred years now. curious.t hardly feels like it. i suppose that is the boon of being out of the way. lacking much greater ambition. beyond spiting those princes i have the misfortune of sharing hellas with. outside of vanishing a few gestapo and monarchists i missed more recent global events.>>98269403no man, no woman, no beast stands alone childe. you shall need peers regardless to even consider reaching a position of lordship. or a degree of isolation. political uncertainty. the right combination of wisdom and utter folly to even consider such a thing.but when you have that. well?only natural things like new york would transpire. let us say i have a few options if the degenerate princes decided to make demands of me.
>>98262805>What is Mèo-Mèo's track record with this automatic writing, or reading?Pretty good this time around. I've spent enough time south of the Rio Grande to know you do not fuck around with a crying woman at 3 in the morning when no one else is around.
The Winnipeg “Situation” (Recap 10)Alright. So.> The Prince is Dead > This isn't even the worst news> Let's get that out of the way right now, Pontius ripped her apart and gutted her in the morning > The Sabbat and the “Treaty Army” (as Horns has taken to calling us) found out at the same time the night before > Pilsudski managed to piss off one of her ghouls enough he blabbed in public her safe-house location> We are trying to save our resources and tried to find a cover opening. > Pontius didn't need to even try. Basically pulled another mass-embrace out of his ass and slammed the results down Pilsudski's location> Seems the Prince had a few more retainers left than we expected, along with land-mines, but after getting worn down by two dozen freaks dominated into a human wave? > Well, Pontius was lucky enough to get Pilsudski dragged out for him by the surviving trio of shovelheads> Executed her right there, pulled her head off, ripped her heart out, and shredded what was left to gore> First time he's actually looked like a Gangrel to me, really> When all the pretenses of civilization he wears like the dumb fucking laurel came off and I saw his beast> Wanting. For all his strength and all his 'friends.'> This is bad. However I've got word that the three Templars from down south are about to reach town.> And the War-Party led by THAT GUY from Quebec is essentially waiting for their moment. THAT ONE is in Thunder Bay right now and probably en-route. > Likewise, Kill Team Caenis is getting the fuck out of town and is planning to burn down a portion of Winnipeg on the way out > Probably already started as Pontius has made it very clear he's exterminating every ghoul and non-Sabbat actors present and they choose continued unlife > So. To that end. We are pulling out to the periphery for the moment.> Letting Pontius 'have his triumph.'
>>98270829> He doesn't seem like the type to take an easy victory however and we're going to hope he falls for the bait.> Also. I have yet unconfirmed reports our little Serendipitous Sorcerer has turned traitor.> Was seen in the war party of Pontius personally, I mean> Which would explain why so many of our near-sanctuaries have been raided and why we're doing what we're doing> I will offer no comment on this Judas action as I'm sure the rest of you will have enough words for all of us> What matters is this, the storm is calling and we need only have patience and faith in that world> And ourselves> Let the Romans have their moment in the moonlight> Let them have tonight > For everyone here? Follow your orders and wait for the signal.> And I'm going to give you tomorrow.>>98262805All Malkavians are subject to influences, but... The Cat is uniquely susceptible to unconsciously catching stray thoughts and omens and writing them down wherever. When she isn't under the influence or stress at least she's able to be herself. Discounting manic bouts and the intense depression.Last two times it was regular were the Slumbering Thing under Marquette and the God in the Rockies. Two many times for my liking.>>98262939I suppose if your curious.All the things I've learned long after are more real than the things I had before. Going into the wilderness. Well, that was a lot more real in some ways than the time before the bite. But thinking on it (to avoid thinking about my present) I'm pretty sure I went out on my own. Into the woods.Remember getting the bite about the back of my neck. Getting thrashed. Thought it was a big cat and I thrashed back. I don't have much else though. Don't know how much of the wildness you kept. But mine kept me much longer. Stays with me even now.
>>98269403Fear is the mind killer, something something. Nothing cares the unchanging quite like the unknown. Although that very freedom from strings means no one is looking over you in case someone decides you'd better serve their interests as a pile of ash. >Horror stories>New YorkThose are just regular stories coming out of that open cesspit of a city.>>98270198Everyone loves a middle man who has no interest in their business. >>98270862Talking to the Old Man in the Mountains is never a good idea.
>>98270862I...indulge...in the wild from time to time, even now. There are few indeed who can tell the difference between a big dog, a wolf hound, and a timber wolf on sight these days, so I sometimes round up a pack of feral hounds and we all go hunting the homeless togother. >>98270520Omens of Death are very real. When I yet drew breath I once had a young corporal come in from night watch with a look on his face as though he had seen tge gallows he would be mounting momentarily. When I asked what the Devil happened on watch, thinking he had gotten sick how, he looked me in the eye and said he had seen his own fetch in the tops last night.I suppose I should elucidate: a fetch is a is, at it's most basic, a spirit that appears in the guise of another who is marked for death. Though most often it is NOT the man so marked who sees the fetch.Sure enough, we soon gave battle to the HMS Macedonian, and that young Corporal lost his head to British Chain-shot up in the fighting tops.
>>98270829>>98270862With all the railways and waterways Winnipeg boasts, it'll make a hell of a beach head. Yessir. Every corner of western Canada will be ripe for the Crusading. Enough to fufill Pontius ambitions to be named Cardinal. As Sabbat, it is my duty to reccomend to you to surrender and join. You aren't Camarilla, have comported yourself in the way a vampire ought. You even have a fearsome reputation among we Californian Sabbats for your actions in Marquette, and it'd be my honor to come to Winnipeg and speak on the group's behalf, to preside over a Vaulderie whuch will found the packs that will span the continent. This new haven will want for many ducti and you'd be better at it than many of my late superiors.I say this, knowing full well none of it is to your interest. Break his ass, Big Sis.
>>98270862I JUSTWANNA NOT BE HOMELESS BROTHERGONNA SHOVE AN IED UP HIS ASS IF I EVER SEE HIM AGAINFUCK IT ALL IN
Rump's boy called. The same Setites the Toreadors want gone from the French Quarter now want a meeting with our coterie on neutral ground.Chancellor arranged a nice whiteboard presentation to brief everyone with all we know. Now Zoryana gives orders without pause, one of them is not to mention Caine in those Kindred's presence. Lianhua is the only chill person in Castle Errand right now.The Warehouse District is right next to the French one. For all its faults, this city's got a convenient urban planning sometimes. Other times, too convenient.
>>98274324Nothing makes me want to invoke the apocalypse on the children of Seth more than visiting an actual proper cityNot whatever it is they've been making since the car became the golden calf of the last centuryFucking sabbat and anarchs fighting over shitholes like Cali and TexI could live in portugal or something
>>98274324Oh yea and Set boys. They're just capital G gnostics who want to tear off the ideas of good and evil.And the physical world to be like pappa Set.Just nod with whatever they say, don't internalize it, give them money and a pat on the ass when you show them the door.And if they get nippy just get a UV flashlight. We had a problem child a few years back I just harassed out of town with one.
>>98274931Zoryana made us add flashlights to our... "gear." I pray we won't have to use any of that.
>be me>antitribu malk>heard a sabbat pack moved into the neighbourhood, in the abandoned apartment blocks down the street>fuckmyquietlife.png>got a vision to snitch on them through a random number Ive never heard of>what the fuck, lets try it>buncha humans appeared days later>hunters? theyre not going to survive this shit!!>voice in my head kept saying to 'trvst ze plan'>sabbat fucks crawled out onto the streets>i blinked and one of them exploded into a pool of blood and gore>none of the humans had normal looking weapons>oh fuck theyre mages!!>entire pack got shlorbed that evening like it was nothingbros i think i started sumfin!!!
>>98275128Does 'ze plan' have any contingencies for when they turn their magics against you?
>>98266935>Did he end up biting the dust during that kerfuffle in New York?Almost. He went into torpor after taking out the dragon. We initially figured it was just him ending up utterly spent, because he likes playing hero way too much to just fucking leave when he clearly should, or maybe his grandpa's prehistoric Ventrue bullshit had its side effects. Took us a week or so of him just not healing, but also not turning to dust, to figure out what's going on. The problem is a poison that keeps him on second death's door, more or less. Nothing we tried thus far worked to break it.We're optimistic, thanks to the local Internet cat, which is fucking foul, because I otherwise keep a very clean track record of not ever willingly trusting a Malk's bullshit.
>>98273365>every corner of western CanadaOh someone is claiming the tundra again. the mountains? Will you charge us to look upon the sky? Sabbat is tiresome sometimes, is not a city enough for you?>>98277125Is this the result polyamory? Use your words Meowmeow. I have to admit I see why these mortals get so tied up online. I'm away from the city and the fucking internet sucks out here.
>>98277212T
I think Mèo's feeling complex emotions that defy description and the English language isn't enough.
>>98277338I thought Malkavians were better equipped for this.
>>98271180First. Correct. Second, disconcertingly, it was a different God. The Rockies are a very wild place I guess.>>98272297Poor choice of quarry. But I suppose I'll take what I can get with how some of the clan act. Half of the country spawn around here wouldn't be able to bring down a moose, much less a grizzly bear. >>98273365Oh the flame of ambition... Ha. >Break his ass, Big Sis.That I shall.>>98274193Focus, you are more useful to us alive and un-exploded. Follow the birds and stay low. The fire is already started and we go for the jugular ASAP. Ignore Sorcerer. He's not the linchpin here. >>98277212>>98277338>>98277405Very few single words describe the 'feelings of a coyote in a trap attempting to gnaw off the bound leg.' Closest thing to it. Ironically she's taking this stab in the back better than the gargoyle. He's beside himself. At least the Cat is just... Biting and scratching compulsively. I'm gonna need to file down her nails after as well that ain't normal.
>>98277212>Use your words Meowmeow.You are perfectly fluent in Bottom.
>>98277520It isn't as though I am hunting, rather I am Hunting. Sometimes the peaceful sips I take from my herd are just...unsatisfying. Now a mouthfull of blood along with a pound of flesh and a few bits of sinew on the other hand...
>>98270829>>98270862He knows where I live! I'm fucked now.
1/2Zoryana's whole strategy was making the alleged "neutral gound" as little as neutral as we could make it: espionage, setting up "amenities" in the warehouse - including some unwanted furniture we didn't dispose of yet - being first on the scene and arming us to the teeth before the first Setite showed up. When they did, we looked like the guards of a dictator lady sat behind a huge desk, all we needed was a pair of flags to either side. It's hard to believe this place became the setting of a huge party, given the rough start.When the Setites did start showing up, Zoryana put the pressure on them right away, demanding to meet the leader of their congregation, saying she didn't have the time for them - yes, there is some irony here given how much we prepared for this, but she wasn't completely wrong...Enter the Head Priest, he sinks in the couch we set up before the desk with a dark skinned woman on either side. The Princess takes off her sci-fi shades. The conversation starts like this:Head Priest: "Just who the hell do you think you are, ordering my flock around?"Zoryana: "Bark."Head Priest: "Woof."A freezing wind appears outta nowhere, the Setites reach for their weapons, but we're faster.Andrei: "Halt!"Errand Knight: "Keep your hands where I can see them!"Lianhua: "Too slow on the draw~"Zoryana: "You may come out now."A Nosferatu falls down from some shadow on the ceiling, and slow claps.Rump's Boy: "Jeez. Almost feels like I got a pulse again-"Zoryana: "Not you! I meant the lady over there."Rump's Boy: "Oh?"
>>982797052/2Zoryana points to some corner and a Whoopi Goldberg lookalike, leader of the New Orleans Setites, materializes, and pats the tattooed bald white head of the priest, she raises an eyebrow.Manon: "Whatcha doing, fillette?"Zoryana: "Saving the souls of your believers from this apostate and from Primogen Morgaine, Manman."Head Priest: "WHAT THE F**K!? BULL! F*****G! S**T!"Manon: "Really?"Zoryana: "The files, Jack."Errand Chancellor: "Good evening, Miss Manon. We can e-mail you the rest if you'd like."Rump's Boy: "Someone's been a bad doggy~"Manon: "You renounced the ways of Vodou?!"Head Priest: "F*****G LIARS- AIEEEE!!!"Manon does something (?) to the priest, he shuts up when he finishes screaming.Zoryana: "The warehouse, Jack."Errand Chancellor: "Please sign here and this here facility will become your new temple."Manon: "And the fine print?"Chancellor: "The nearby Brujah will not bother you if you agree on these terms..."Manon: "Exclusive deal-? Aw, ****** please!"Lianhua: "...or the Giovanni. Call me if you have a problem."(No! I'm not going to repeat in writing what Manon said there! Don't ask!)Manon glares at Lianhua, the latter writes something more on the document and they both sign it.Zoryana: "Relocating the temple to this warehouse was this fledgling's idea, Manman."Errand Knight: "Good evening, Elder... I wish to learn the art of... partying?"Lianhua: "Pfft. I can't."Manon: "Hah! Who you think you callin' an Elder? Come, trésor, we hafta inaugurate the venue!"Zoryana: "Where are my manners? Let's introduce ourselves properly..."Rump's Boy: "That's my cue. Bye, I got stuff to-"Manon: "Nope. You stay."Rump's Boy: "Aw, man..."Zoryana forbade me from sharing what happened when the warehouse became a temple. I'm going to pretend to sleep now.
>>98279705>Zoryana: "Bark.">Head Priest: "Woof.">Gangrels.jpg
>>98279708Man, it must be nice to deal with complete morons for adversaries. We should all be so lucky! I would have thought that a clan that has been beefing with literal invisible assassins for centuries (and who can turn invisible themselves) wouldn't blunder into such an obvious setup.
>>98280507Kindred in this city are a bizarre bunch. The Ventrue don't rule. The Toreador are conquerors. The Brujah are more hierarchical than the Ventrue. The Nosferatu don't like the sewer system. The Setites are from Haiti, say they descend from Damballah, their leader is less than 100 years old and doesn't seem to know the first thing about Egypt - are these even Setites anymore? The Tremere are enemies of the Tremere - no wait, that's perfectly normal.So who's the most normal in New Orleans? Us Giovanni? The few Samedi? Kindred tourists?
>>98280507They set themselves up when they founded a temple in the French Quarter where all the tourists go, right in front of Morgaine's crosshair, as if she wouldn't find out.But these are not our adversaries! Nay! They are friends~And when you have complete morons for friends, you just have to nudge them in the right direction, or harnessing the power of idiots, to quote Lianhua's Sire~Morgaine sent me to uproot them, Damballah sent me to save them~Now, for the interesting part, what can we get out of the Clan of the Rose, I wonder...
ICAN'TSLEEPSOMEONEHELPMEPic of Zoryana for your trouble, taken with permission.>>98277520What does Mèo do when she can't sleep>'feelings of a coyote in a trap attempting to gnaw off the bound leg.' welp nevermind my bad
>>98280656>>98280784I'm more shocked at the absolute amateur hour thinking on display. A clan that is universally distrusted walks into a meeting without any backup plan, so they're forced to bargain from a position of weakness.Good thing they didn't have some boys armed with shotguns lurking outside the warehouse, hidden by Obfuscate. Sure, Zoryana might be able see them; doesn't do the rest of her group any good.Good thing the Setite didn't respond to Zoryana's use of Dominate by paralyzing her with their hypnotic snake eye trick. Or using their extendo-knife-tongue trick to puncture her brainpan.Lucky thing they all decided to just turn their brains off for the night. As I said, we should all be so lucky in our dealings.
>>98280442Don't tar my people with this, this is an issues with errand's writing. >>98280784>I'm so very smart and everyone else is so very stupidI am waiting with baited breath for the next issue. >>98280828We don't sleep>you're dead dummyYou haven't slept since you died.
>>98280931>hypnotic snake eye trick.The thing we rehearsed the most. Lights on. Shoot Opfor, cover VIP's eyes. Counted as more Celerity training for me and Knight.We settled and simplified the plan, "lights on" became "turn on the lights during the VIP's attempt to Dominate.">extendo-knife-tongue trickDo I want to learn this power? How far goes this "extendo", and can this be done the easy way by fleshcrafting the tongue, which is pure striated muscle? Hmm...>forced to bargain from a position of weaknessBut they were always in a position of weakness! The first thing I wanted Rump's boy to tell them was Morgaine wanted their place. They counted their forces and chose survival. Lucky? Amateurish? It's New Orleans, not Haiti, not Cairo or wherever their cultist are the strongest and more fanatically eager to throw their unlives away.Chancellor says: "Is anyone's wonder the Assamites rule the Middle East and the Dark God hid himself under the sand?"
>>98281410>We don't sleepC'mon you know what I mean, Tabarin. The thing I do in the morning where I don't move or think or sense the passage of time. What d'you call it? Rest? Repose? Somnium? Unsleep? Ripbozo?That thing. I want to do it. I'm going to try Quietus if this keeps up.WAIT WAIT WAIT WAITOooooh now I get it! A vessel at the party had a stimulant! I remember that night in grade school when I had 1.5 cans of Redbull at 11 PM lmao
>>98243742Anyone else dealing with suicidally incompetent Sabbat encroachment? I mean sure, they're reckless at the best of times, but one of those pricks managed to get diablarized by one of the shovelheads they had just turned on the outskirts of my barony. How pathetically weak do you have to be for that to happen? Now I have to figure out what to do with the poor fucker. He has no idea what's happening and seems to think he woke up some latent superpowers. He can't be older than 20. My emissary thinks I should play it safe and just kill him, lest I appear to be tolerating diablarie, but he's just a kid. I'd prefer another option if possible. Any ideas?
>>98280931Behind all the petty insults, there is a good point. Setites are dangerous enemies and as friends.. well they like to corrupt them. Tread carefully, you've got your hands in a nest vipers and knowing their vipers doesn't make them gartersnakes. >>98281732Least it's not 4Loko. Or speed.
>>98281814>THE WILL OF TIME IS SPINNING FORWARDS AND THE SHADOWED HAND SEEKS TO BURN LIVES FREELY. GRAB THE LENGTH OF HIS ROPE AND CAST HIM INTO FORM, SLAY OR NOT, THE SHADOW WHICH SPAT HIM OUT COMES, BALEFUL, WITH ONE EYE SET UPON YOU, NECK THICK AND RIPE FOR THE GARROTTE
>>98281891>they like to corrupt themI hear you. Chancellor warned me the Setites like to play the long game with clients, victims, servants, enemies AND their own members. Lianhua says one the best way to offend a Setite is making them think they and their services are unexciting.>Least it's not 4Loko. Or speed.You happen to know Celerity? Because it's definitely NOT helping me here. Rolling in my bed like a rotisserie chicken.>>98281814Do Anarchs ever have blood hunts with diablerie allowed? And this thing that Kindred read auras, is it common in your Barony?
>>98281814See? SEE? It's THIS SHIT right here that makes mass embraces so fucking stupid! This guy gets it. >>98280931 Out of every ten creatures capable of thought, seventeen of them couldn't pour water out of a cup if the instructions were written on the bottom! This is what happens when retards embrace retards.
>>98281989Even here, it seems there is no respite from Malk soothsayers. However, you have a point. Perhaps he might be useful for drawing out the other wretches targeting my domain. Maybe even his grandsire. I'll have my Sweeper show him the ropes. If he's tainted, we'll be in a position to eliminate him quickly. If not, we might be able to wrongfoot our enemy. Let the Sword of Caine believe me ripe for beheading. It will be their final mistake.In slightly less yet still concerning news, there's been rumors circulating about kine who are somehow capable of spontaneously breaching the masquerade. My sources describe them as ordinary mortals without the aura you might expect from willworkers, ghouls, or lupines. Yet they can allegedly shrug off dominate, see through the blush of life and even obfuscation, and they can access strange disciplines that can, for example, make lethal weapons out of mundane objects. They are also apparently insane, and follow the will of voices in their minds commanding them to seek us out. I'm honestly a bit relieved about this part, as one could easily write them off as schizophrenic and have them eliminated through mortal institutions. This smacks of cleverly concealed Malk ghouls, but even that doesn't seem to fit. Could be the elusive dream folk, but they don't often seek our kind out. Probably a long shot to ask, but have any of you encountered kine like this?
>>98282028>Do Anarchs ever have blood hunts with diablerie allowed?It's rather difficult to organize blood hunts without the incentive of diablarie. We have been fortunate enough to avoid that extreme measure so far, but that may change in the coming nights.>And this thing that Kindred read auras, is it common in your Barony?You must only have baby's first auspex or none at all. It's common enough. I'll say that much.
>>98282145Preaching to the choir. Jyhad is easier to wage when your pawns are unquestioning rabid dogs, but the price of that is mass incompetence.
>>98282153Do these strange kine have tribal markings, religious symbols, distinctive clothing, a shared ethnic background or any other thing that could help distinguish them, or that unites them?I am asking because your message reads a lot like the stories about True Faith I was taught about. They go as far as to say that during the time of Muhammad, there was such powerful faith, Kindred who attempted to enter the holiest cities of the nascent Islam would turn to dust.Imagine a mortal developing a stronger conviction, fanaticism and aggression towards Kindred than your typical werewolf, acting as if the stories kine tell themselves about destroying our kind with the power of God had a kernel of truth.Is your territory infested by a kine cult or charismatic preacher on the rise, perchance?
Hey Lucky Che, wherever you are. Think we should fill my house with a fuckload of explosives and let Pontiac and/or Kyle Strathcona blow themselves up when they show up to kill us?
>>98282370I couldn't say for certain as I haven't laid eyes on these kine myself, but my sources didn't indicate any kind of consistency between them besides their shared abilities. I'll have them double check, but they usually screen for religious inclinations when monitoring parties of interest, as this is usually a warning sign for the Second Inquisition. Even with the increased Sabbat activity, I would be surprised if we'd drawn enough attention to ourselves to warrant their gaze. The Pacific Northwest is pretty distant from their usual strongholds, or so I'm told. All this being said, you may be onto something with "True Faith". The disciplines they invoke seem to be tied to specific pseudo-ritualistic movements or words into which they channel their "conviction", according to my sources. I'd like to keep them at a distance, but interrogation may be necessary with all the ambiguities we face. At very least, I need to be sure they aren't puppets of the Sabbat or another upstart kindred.
>>98282466El Jefe, I'll deliver it soon as I can. You want manual det or booby trap?
>>98282469Hedge Mages are my secondary hypothesis, they both have distinctive auras compared to the true Awakened ones, and strange powers which could match the ritualistic movements you describe, but this murderous hatred towards Kindred just isn't typical.As is known, if you have too many walking Masquerade breaches, a third party might think of removing you from the picture together with the mad kine; meaning your clinical, observant eye of the scientist, who just wants to understand, may need to make way for the weapons of the general on the battlefield, seeking more practical results, urgently so.
>>98282523Great. Well that takes interrogation right out. If they are hedge wizards with a bone to pick with our kind, then the last thing I want to do is piss off their Awakened master. The Tremere are usually cagey about the information they share, but I have learned that practitioners of "True Magik" can pass their "paradigms" down to their lackeys for a modicum of their power. Kinda like ghouls, in a way. Hmmm. Perhaps they can be redirected towards mutually beneficial targets.
>>98282516Hmmm... I can see pros and cons to both. My gut is going with booby trap though.
>>98282569Well, interrogation was already going to be problematic when they resist Dominate, whichever is the cause. And having one's enemies fight other enemies, as supremely seductive and satisfactory as it can be, is often put aside when there is a concern the fight will degenerate into an arms race over who gets to punch the biggest hole in the Masquerade.Not easy, is it? Definitely not as easy as what my little Coterie's been dealing with as of late, and that's why you're the Baron and we run errands.
I probably should not admit this, as it does little for my Princely dignity, but it is always possible for one to overlook the blindingly obvious and appear a complete fool every now and again. I recently had a breakthrough developing my skill with Auspex. Specifically the reading of the objects.Now, in Jacksonville there is a a statue, erected in 1924, honoring the dead of WWI. <---Some of you can already see where this is going. For everyone else, well... I reasoned that an object with strong emotional residue and a prominent place in history would be much easier to read for a first timer such as myself. Oh, how right I was. I have a headache. I will say that again. My head. Is. In. Pain. And my fingertips are still burned from where I touched it.
>>98282644It wasn't Auschwitz, at least.
>>98282633Give it time, little fledgling. You'll either end up ashes, or in charge of something if you survive long enough. I suppose we'll have to monitor the situation from a distance for now. If interrogation proves necessary, there's always the... mundane methods for extracting information. For now, the less involved we are, the more likely it is that the problem solves itself.Also, word of advice, if you think your dealing with a small or manageable issue, then someone isn't telling you something. No offense, but I would never assign a coterie to something I could have a ghoul handle, and I would never assign a ghoul to something I could just bribe a mortal to do. If you and other kindred are in the picture, it's because something has gone wrong.
>>98282627Right on, and if I get whacked I'll make sure someone TRUSTWORTHY has the disarm instructions.
>>98282028I'll ask Hitch and Posh. But when it comes to feeding preventative measures are generally better than unfuckative. Only thing worse than realizing your pre-bout pick-me-up is drunk is when they're a crackhead.
Aight. I've been keeping my yap shut about things because 1)This is a cammy board and anything I talk about WILL be used against us and 2)you probably won't believe anything other than "...and then the big bad Justicar blew away with shovelheads with sheer awesomeness and we all ran off into the night crying and shitting ourselves because the Sabbat are a bunch of big dumb doody heads." But it's high time to share some REAL war stories. Bear in mind this shit all has already happened up to a month ago so don't go thinking you can get sime headpats by riding in to save the day at the eleventh hour.Got a Pack of four with me right now. I've mentioned Handsome Jack. We've also got a Tzim I only know as Green Man who looks like Peter Steele. Given he's a Tzim I'm 87.5% sure it's just a fleshcrafted disguise and he's not really Peter. And our Ductus is a 5'11" Bronzed Bombshell of a Lasombra named Alex. She's pretty ripped, might be stronger than even me. Right. On to our story.>Arch-Bishop taps us to siege down a Camarilla Stronghold to close to Mexico>Plan is to have us leas about 50 shovelheads into Las Cruces.>big surprise there. So I say so. >LITERALLY everyone thinks that's going to be our first move. They're obviously ready for something like that. We would tip our hand for nothing. So let our Pack go in first and see what we can see. >Who knows, maybe we get in trouble and my Sire comes to bail me out? >He won't but Archie doesn't know that.>But he agrees. Gives us 48 hours to try and figure things out on our own.>cool.>For whatever reason, I've always been real good at the whole blush of life thing.>So I go in first. Find the nightlife hotspots, the Rack. >Cammies take their secrecy seriously. Finding them is always the hardest part.>but I dress like I belong in a nightclub. Start near the Uni.>Bouncer takes one look at me and ushers me straight in, sure I'll have Simps buying me drinks all night. More money for the club, right?
>>98283958>I play it to the hilt.>hit the dance floor, shake all the right bits, get shiny and sweaty.>the body glitter dosen't hurt.>neither does my Presence>all eyes are now on a barely dresser, aparently slightly drunk, redhead dancing with wild abandon.>after a few dance partners I get what I'm after.>Another Vamp.>I know what to look for. Spot the telltale signs of a corpse playing human.>And I know how this game is played. Usually I'm the Hunter in this scenario, but I know the other role well enough to make him think tonight is going to be an easy hunt.>after we dance for a while I pant a bit, bite my lip, and look up at him through my lashes.>Hook is set.>lets go to a motel room>where a lasombra and a Nos are hiding in the bathroom under the cover of both Obten and Obfuscate, while a 6'8" Tzim is ready to come from the next room and block the doorway.>I've got my tape and his pants off when Green Man busts in>To his credit, our Cammy reacts quickly Bolting up, tearing out of his pants instead of getting tangled up in them, and squares up with Green Man. Even though he's a Spikey ass roadblock right now.>but tge double whammy of on obfuscated, potence backed punch to.the back of the head and shadows grabbing him from behind overwhelmed our guy.>they truss him up in tge cuck chair while get some fresh tape on.>Pete puts his bones back inside where they belong, thank God.>Alex asks Jack if he cut the phone lines.>He spits out a line that I think is Australian for Yes.>We all know that he did already, but we wanted our Lick here to know he shouldn't he expecting help anytime soon.>But he takes that in stride. Looks me in the eyes and says "Release Me!">Maybe he had me pegged as the weakest, hoped it woukd start a brawl as tge pack tried to stop me without seroisly fucking me up.>Would make sense. Hard to mistake the Tzim or Nos and Alex had shown her Obten
The Clan of the Rose will grant me an audience once they're done renovating the ex-temple to their liking. A process so thorough, they even want it decontaminated by people in white suits and gas masks.>>98282684>Also, word of advice, if you think your dealing with a small or manageable issue, then someone isn't telling you something. No offense, but I would never assign a coterie to something I could have a ghoul handle, and I would never assign a ghoul to something I could just bribe a mortal to do. If you and other kindred are in the picture, it's because something has gone wrong.No offence taken, as you preach to the converted, but in addition to the usual concerns about insufficient details or "unexpected" complications - we always do our own intelligence gathering before any undertaking - here in New Orleans there is certainly something more that went wrong, something systemic, when it has more Elysia than Clans, more than New York City, and about half of them degenerated into private, invite-only areas for this or that Primogen. Those Kindred have a monumental egomania even by ordinary Primogen standards, so I can't say I'm too surprised when they send the army to crush an ant, so to speak, as if sending an appropriately sized force could tarnish their prestige. My greater suspicion is that they're just terribly afraid of failure and of losing face, or lording Kindred of lower status like that feeds their narcissism.I know there are Princes and other Barons reading this message board, I hope your Domains never descend into such collective folly.
>>98281989Mèo can I be selfish and ask for a reading? I feel lost tho I shouldn't.
>>98284268They've been fighting for their unlives in Winnipeg while you have food, shelter and entertainment. Be sure to thank Mèo-Mèo properly if she humours your request, and to accept whichever news are revealed to you, no matter how cryptic or bad.
>>98284268Hnnga. WOrds. Need focus. Give em and Ill see what I can do. Need to get the ash out of my mouth.
>>98284694I don't know if this life is on the correct course, I feel I may need to make important decisions about it soon, and that I may regret them later. Is this common for fledglings?
>>98284716Man I don't even need to reach into m braing for that one. Theres no such thing as a "correct" course for anyone, only roads you'd b willing or happy to walk, jnd the roads you'd hate. N yea, everyone gest future anxiety. You dont even need to be a fledgling for it.\Reading though. Reading. Read. >Ride the Tiger and devour her soul or be devoured alive>Aww the widdle baby bad looks into the dark. Welcome home. >The less you know the better>August 16th, 1956, Shiloh>The tongue is spineless>There is no gain in haste, or, those who ran are all dead. Stupid. Idiot.>Can't go the wrong way on a snowboard
>>98284823>Ride the Tiger and devour her soul or be devoured aliveWhy did I read this in Spider Lily's voice, like she was right behind me? Sweating blood rn>Aww the widdle baby bad looks into the dark. Welcome home. What Zoryana is thinking probably>The less you know the betterZoryana's like the opposite of this>August 16th, 1956, ShilohLost me there>The tongue is spinelessWords need to be backed up? Something like it?>There is no gain in haste, or, those who ran are all dead. Stupid. Idiot.Gimme a break bro I have Celerity>Can't go the wrong way on a snowboardBecause both feet are locked to it, right? But you can still lose your balance...Per Zoryana's request, thank you for the widsom, Mèo, I'll reflect the next time I manage to not-sleep.
>>98284005>but I have a thick blooded Sire.>So he guessed wrong, and his dominate slides right off me.>First twitch we got out him.>At this point Alex steps up, grinning ear to ear.>Oh boy. >The shadows flow like sticky tar, oozing up around the two of them. >The three of us exchange a nervous glance>Guy who weaponize his own organs, dude with a face like melted candle wax from fucking Australia, and chick Sired by American Ghost Story are all a little unnerved by Lasombra bullshit.>Let that Sink In. >After a while of screaming that is way too quiet the shadowd just kind of, run down into the floor.>Alex did her best, but this cammy is just sitting there. No finger nails. He hasn't bothered healing any of his injuries. Not in a Frenzy either.>Fortitude then? Could this guy be a Ventrue?>Jack gets a bright Idea and check what was left of this guys pockets. Finds his wallet.>Andrew Rickman. Tax Attorney. (Name is changed so this guy doesn't get compromised later.)>Jack gets his Social Security, Drivers Lisence, Buisiness card, some plastic.>Starts fiddling with his Phone. Snapping Pics. Internet Sluething.>Andrew gets that twitch again.>Jack looks up and holds out his phone.>Check this out, the Cunts website.Got a Nice pic of himself standing on his front lawn...in the middle of the Bloody Day!>So he hasn't been a Vampire long...means all that stuff is still probably from his real life.>I see. Time for me to play Good Sabbat.>Andrew, we want info on your sect. The higher ups. Not YOU. Not your FAMILY.>I slide a few of his credit cards through my fingers and continue.>You've got enough cash to relocate. Once this is all over, no one is ginna ask why you were one of the luck ones who got away, You're too low on the totem pole for you to be on our hit list.>But looks away. I'm getting through.>But then he just spits some blood on the floor.>Nah, bitch. Seems to me like time is on my side here. Somebody is gonna notice I'm gone.
>>98285377>Then the Old Man gonna shut your shit down...HARD. Gangrel from the 1800s gonna peel you like a fucking grape.>Well shit.>We're all young. Three of us are pretty much one trick ponnies. Alex hasn't got enough dominate to force him to talk, if she can even effect him, and Green Man is almost all Vicissitude and sharp senses.>Jack pipes up. Awlright then. Guess I'll have to get out the Funnel Webs, yeah? One bite from those buggers and yer fangs'll turn inside out and start sucking on yourself. Be a real pisser of a time, mate!>Jacks lying. Jack is a surprisingly bad liar. Jack does not know this.>So I try something from my Sire's playbook.>I let my lips curl back, show my fangs.>Or we can just suck the memories and disciplines right out of you here and now, Meat.>He can't really run anywhere. So I hold the gaze and shove the fear straight into him until he finally chokes on it.>Alex helps by literally choking him with her shadow shit. It ain't ginna kill him, but it's not pleasant, even for a vampire.>Eventually he spills. The Cam have an elder Gangrel who just sleeps out past the city limits in the dessert all day. We learn they organize regular patrols. Being this close to Sabbat territory They're on guard. We learn the Prince hosts Elysium regularly at a private mansion. We learn there's a shift change, watching over the I-10 corridor.>Alex wants to diablerize this guy right away.I say we shouldn't.>He might be young but he's well connected enough to eat at the Rack. We need to let him go. He knows the info we have. Knows what we could do if he doesn't play it cool. What we WILL do.>We gotta go tell the Bishop what we've learned.
>>98284878First rule of Malkavian advice. The reading makes sense but there is absolutely no reason for it to make sense to you or the present. The Cat-Cat gives out actual passwords and concrete information at a disconcerting rate.That time and date means something. I'd recommend doing some digging and seeing if anyone in your circle is affiliated with that. There's a few Shiloh's in the US. And at least one in the near east.I'd also recommend keeping an eye out for hostile or 'friendly' Lasombra. That greeting makes my skin crawl.
>>98285476>We meet back up with the Arch-Bishop.>He's got several packs rounded up, bonfires are built, ready to burst into flame for Fire Dances.>And the packs are digging holes.>Lots of holes.>Well. Fuck.>I step up to the Arch-Bishop and start whispering to him in Spanish.>Gotta be careful here. Can't publicly gainsay an Arch-Bishop, I'm just a pack priest.>So I tell him what we learned. And why it means the shovelheads are a bad idea. >Your Grace, we have critical intelligence. The chicken shit Camarilla have the I-10 corridor under constant surveilance. If you send in a wave if Shovelheads, you will trigger their alarms and our prey will bolt to their fortified dens.>I see his jaw tense up. >Arch-Bishop will remember that.>But cowardice is one if the biggest sins in the Sabbat. So I wonder how in the Hell my mouth can feel dry and barrel on ahead.>There's another problem, Your Grace. The Sheriff. He's old. An Old Gangrel, and he rests out here, in the dessert.>I hardly need remind Your Grace that numbers alone will not slow or tire an Elder with great Fortitude and Claws. It's not like Shovel heads have vitae to use or any idea what they are doing if they get some.>the clenched jaw has turned into a full on scowl. He looks over at Alex and starts to open his mouth.>Aw fuck. Did I lay it on too thick? Or not thick enough?>Green Man saves my ass though. Shows the Arch the phone recording of Andrew spilling the beans.>Jack backs him up. Everything checks out, your Grace. The sorry blighter weren't lying.>the Arch-Bishop narrows his eyes, starts stroking one of his sixteen chins.>I better back off now. He's considering. Better let him play this off as he revised the plan after getting new intel.>I think it worked. He addresses the troops. Says there will be no need for shovel heads.>Because OUR pack has just bravely volunteered to crack the city open.>Alex gives me the dirtiest look.
>>98283958>and then the big bad Justicar blew away with shovelheads with sheer awesomeness and we all ran off into the night crying and shitting ourselvesBut it's true. I know that guy. His name was Xavier. Good times, They managed to convince some fool to take up the mantle from our clan again, apparently. >>98284130Again, you are five minutes old and have literally no relevant experiance. Congratulations on doing exactly one thing correctly. Maybe give it a few years before attempting more. >>98284694Meowmeow, do me a favour. >22251045 or 25081074Pretty sure the other marias ain't it but confirmation never hurt .
>>98286555Ah, that most ancient of ritae: the passage of the Buck.
>>98286555>Archie drops his voice so that I can barely hear him over the cheering Packs.>You better deliver, sweetie. Or I don't give a flying fuck who sired you, I'll make you pay for fucking this all up.>Yeah. Okay. Great. I just got on a big shots bad side by pointing out there was a better way to do things. Fuck me, right.>planning session in the back our party van, pooling what cash we had, and a few shopping trips.>Jack uses what little Animalisim he does have, with a healthy bribe of "Maccas" gets doves, pigeons and bats to bump, start building nests on, sitting on, and shitting on security cams along I-10. >Suspicious, but only by shear volume.>less concerned with with that and more concerned with a quick blind spot. >Next up, get some fireworks, shotgun shells, fertalizers...Che would probably facepalm but we just need it to set off our teal explosives.>While Jack and Pete are working on those, Alex and I start hunting around truck stops.>Find what we're after, A slightly oent up trucker driving a big ass tank of gasoline.>Akex is distracting him with the T&A this time. Jack and Pete plant the homemade bombs.>Then I jump up and slam agaisnt the window, he looks. Right into my Dread Gaze.>Now, normally an obviously suicidal order frim Dominate will be ignored.>But when you're akready so panicked you woukd claw a hole in drywall to put distance between you and the scary monster..."FLOOR IT!" seems a lot more palatable>And that is, more or less, how we delivered 18 wheels of flaming boom boom to tge Las Cruces Elysium.>I know, I know. Too much boom for most vamps to survive, most of the rset ran off half dead and probably Rotshreking to boot. So no personsl kills for me.>Alex got somone with that Toledo Steel Rapier of hers.>Had a cat that ate the canarry grin. >Which, considering the bloodstains around her mouth, was probably exactly what happened.>Before you ask, the Prince got away.>But most of her court got scooped up by the Packs.
>>98288038>But the main event was the Elder Showdown.>The old Gangrel vs the Arch-Bishop. Protean and Fortitude vs Ugly Bat War Form with Earth Bending.>There really aren't words to adequately describe that fight.>The Sheriff died, but he bought enough time for other Cammarilla to get away.>Brave guy. Respect.>The Arch-Bishop got a lot of rep that night, enough that I think he's mollified. I hope.>Alright, Our Pack is moving on. And I'm going dark for a bit while I wait for all the heat I just drew telling this month old story to die down
The Winnipeg “Situation” (Recap 11)> The wheels have come off completely > Currently we have a 'Wild-fire' ravaging a bunch of the nearby farmland and forest, along with some...> Sporadic fires were also lit in town. Currently that's getting blamed on summer heat but we all know what's happening?> Kill Team Caenis's survivors mostly burned down what they could on the way out> Attempts at flushing out the Sabbat for what comes next and the spite move> One of whom defected to us to spite the Sabbat, rather than run back to British Columbia for severance pay> We'll call this individual 'Golmi' and they've revealed a lot about things on the Camarilla front> A portion of Sabbat pledging themselves to the cause of Pontius have already attacked Calgary, Edmonton, even Regina > Apparently he's even got people in Thunder Bay jumping on the band wagon> He even managed to bag one of the Templars, one from Texas, apparently he managed to take him alive> Crucified him the other night and let him burn in the dawn
>>98289588> We're all in a very precarious position, but, there is some good here. Pontius finally took off the mask> Someone leaked the Cat's prophecy to him and he clearly thinks we're gonna earn a 'moral victory' before we're massacred> Making him comfortable enough to reveal the source of his and his Loupine's power > A 'Bound Aspect of the Dark Mother, Already Subjugated by the Dark Father,' held captive by his pet wyrmspawn > If you know nothing of the Loupines? Good. Because I can make this simple. He has something APOCALYPTICLY BAD > Something that is making me and Big-Pipe-Club pulling out the emergency rituals in nearby caerns> This is probably the last post before it goes bad> Because he's coming for us> Strathcona is here> Pretty sure the Headless Horseman is as well > All of this is going to burn until someone wins, because all Pontius needs to fulfill his 'prophecy' is to wipe us out> Along with the monster hiding in the local park, then he can deify his goddess of pain and start his nightmare crusadeLet us see if you have the worth to seize your day you piece of shit.Lagimodière-Gaboury Park. Come get me.
>>98287594Left. Left!
>>98291437Thanks Meowmeow, >Do I have to wrangle guys to wrangle our local retard up there? There should be three princes (and whatever the fuck they have up in Thunder Bay) stamping out this masquerade breach and it just keeps going and going. And I'm still out here in this salle dirt bowl, not sure if I've been sent on Goose chase or not. Going to have to believe in the tzimmi's. No one's dug me up during the day which is a good sign.
>>98243742>TQNot really an option for me, but my sister seems to enjoy Temporis quite a bit. So I guess I'd say Temporis, or maybe Rift if those writings about the Gaki had any truth to them.
>>98289588>>98289593Hahaha we're gonna die but I got your back. You only live twice! Lets go down swinging! Alex is going to kill me if I survive!
>>98289593>Bound Aspect of the Dark Mother, Already Subjugated by the Dark Father"My man's got two cosmic horrors in a can.>WyrmspawnThree. Goddamn Canada, chill out; you're the nice one.
Here's my current character sheet. I'm bringing seven giga crickets, my espurr and Gwyllgi with me, not sure how to stat any of them I'm a n00b to VtM.
>>98289588So we were absolutely doomed from day one then? Nah that's fine.YOU CANT SCARE ME WITH HORRORS FROM BEYOND THE STARS I'M TOO DUMB TO NOTICE THEMTHE FUNNY VEST IS ON WITNESS ME
>>98291867You will arrive in Valhalla, shiny and chrome.
>>98291867>YOU CANT SCARE ME WITH HORRORS FROM BEYOND THE STARS I'M TOO DUMB TO NOTICE THEMThis. I should have keot my head down and not gotten involved, but now I'm so involved there is no way out but through. Or run away I guess. BUT DRAGONS DON'T RUN WE FUCKING FLY!
>>98291605Temporis? What is it, and what can she do with it?
>>98292660A myth. Some Brujah like to pretend they are one of the so called "high clans" and they can do much more with their celerity than they actually can.
>>98289593Exciting, isn't it? To be face to face with a true horror, one wrangled about by inept, power-hungry kin of ours, and the rotten cousins of our lupine friends. Oh, to stand there, confronted with a thing-beyond, something that is truly, unambiguously, beyond-all-doubt evil and hostile to life itself! To know that every bullet you fire, every rite you perform, all of it truly works to save the world from something darker than dark. This, this is what me and Victoria, to her vexation, spent well over a century preparing for, and what I myself spent even longer in anticipation of. Even if this is not exactly the scenario I was confident will eventually transpire, it's still close enough that our prepwork would be of decent use.We willl triumph. We will wrench the wizardhat from the clutches of whoever holds him in truth, whether the wizard likes it or not. And Pontius will relent, or join the endless ranks of other petty kings who overreached, played with things that are beyond their understanding, and were devoured by those things. >>98282153If it's still relevant, I suggest revealing your new diablerist's existence to the notables of your barony and pitching his employment as that a diablerie is a crime against all Kindred, not just the party that got eaten. Something-something, it'd be barbaric and wasteful to just chop his head off, but he still is a criminal and a crime must be answered for, so to make it up to all of Kindred the kid will be used for all he's worth, for the good of all at that. This way it won't look like you're creating a double standard, where diablerie is fine if you benefit from it, and it also won't look like you'll react with immediate execution if somebody happens to eat somebody and comes clean to you about it to try and control the damage.
>>98292699Oh. I have this little hobby of collecting information on the purported abilities of Kindred, even the mythical ones. I assume this Temporis, or alternative Celerity, has to do with manipulating the flow of time? What else distinguishes these self-proclaimed high clan Brujah?
>>98293520I always thought it was a sort of delerium, and that the 'True' Brujah were just malkavians using self-delusionThe 'Temporis' powers I heard of just seemed like it. Essentially forcing someone to repeat an action, or deluding them into repeating a day, or in 'advanced cases' making them think they're slowed down
The Winnipeg “Situation” (Recap 12) So. Guess we really got that 'Triumph' of the Sword of Caine huh?Right- this might be my last post so. Gonna try and summarize everything for the record. > As some of you might have guessed, our little “Operation Morning Star” has been a long time coming> From the start we lacked the numbers to actually overtake the Sabbat around here and needed to whittle them down> To win we'd need a few ounces skulduggery, William already knows the full story, but, I'll get to it here in a moment> As far as (You), and the 'Sword of Caine' Pontius knew, I was basically going to have a suicidal last stand with a handful of misfits and strays> Of course he didn't even come himself, no he sent his own dogs to wipe us out> The ones of the Blood, and otherwise> All while while he went off to crush the Templars and the 'Canadiens de Montréal'> Now, for reference, something very funny happened when everyone set out to kill themselves, but you can wait that> But for us, what matters is this; Me and Mine were, mostly in the Park by the river> While Pontius went out alone hoping to draw out his enemies in his full Imperial outfit, wolf helmet and the works> The Nerd> Pontius succeeded. Headless Horseman tried to squash him with a truck when right out the gate.> He technically succeeded, although it didn't really hurt him > Rotten with the source of his Strength the Would-Be Regent was pushed right into the concrete> The Horseman's remaining counterpart, the 'Hand of El Salvador', went for the kill while he could, which was probably the best option> Well, Pontius yanked what was left of the vehicle and hurled it at the Templar, swatted him like a mouse hit by a cricket bat> Now as the person who was seeing this couldn't understand Latin we don't know what Pontius was saying> But it was obvious he was running his mouth
>>98294496> When the Montréal Canadiens joined the fray no one could touch him, and meeting his gaze was raw agony to all> It went very badly, especially with Pontius' lieutenants skulking around in the dark preventing his foes from truly swarming him> Not very sportsmanlike, but, when you're shooting for a real mythic origin story, why not take a few shortcuts?> Now for our little defence of the Park?> Even at the best of times when you have a dozen assorted kin and Loups against three times that number, that would be a feat> Didn't help that Pontius had sent Vulpes Noctus and the only one of the Spiral Dancers that could actually talk to try wheedling us first> They were as charitable as they could be, a sadistic ladder climber and a servant of the devouring god> Did not even try talking to me or Big-Pipe directly, tried getting everyone else to either cut and run, or to join the cult> Benefits include being the one raping the world forever rather than being on the receiving end of super-hell-on-earth> All while big and ugly laughed like a broken engine> We almost got the ploy broken when Lucky Che got tired of them and hit them with a juice bomb> Didn't do anything to the Dancer, but Vulpes managed to scream once before he dissolved into a pile of gore and ash> Fortunately, the Turquoise legion and the Foederati were looking for a reason to attack, as were the Dancers> Devolved into an orgy of violence, enough that they didn't catch the ritual markings we'd put up
>>98294504> I'd like to add more here. But outside of a few moments of valour as we were waiting for it?> I don't remember much> I'd pulled on my war skin and let it lead me> Fear almost got his head ripped off by one of the Dancers and landed a very nasty neck blow when it was poking the shell > Like a dog getting its throat torn out by a Snapping turtle> Very proud of you for that Nïa > Gün, bless his heart was also brave. Horns, Golmi, all of them were > But with these sort of numbers? > We were doomed from the start> Wasn't going well for the Templars and Quebecois either, around this point apparently Pontius was just hitting the Horseman with raw agony and laughing in the street like a shitty sith lord, anyone who got in the way got themselves hit with a Javelin that returned to his hand at a call> The armour and grit had saved the Knight up to that point, but he was unable to get up, and the Hand of El Salvador had already been dusted> Now, I want you to imagine you're in the middle of this bloodbath in the park> Night is still lit up by some of the fires outside of the city, total chaos, some mother fuckers are even launching fireworks despite a curfew being in effect> All while you're waiting for the storm to actually break> Hell, isn't it?> Couldn't tell you how long it was, all that matters is what happened next> One of the Dancers finally got a message from their mage telling them to 'use Her in full'> And the Mongrel Wyrm-Servants were all too happy to oblige > Grabbed the nominal 'leader' of the Turquoise legion and sacrificed her right then and there, ripped into shreds> And with the gore still fresh and screaming, the biggest of the trio muttered profane horrors to the darkness between webs> Clawed hands grabbed the frayed edges of the Firmament. And tore into it.> That thing. That thing which had cut my Cat to shreds with a glance. Which was the source of Pontius' power. It finally stepped out to play.
>>98294512> It has many names, but for our purposes I will call it the Wyrmfinger Aife, Caliph of Pain, Face of the Urge of Cruelty> In that space, as it stepped out into the physical world through the gaping wound, I saw many things simultaneously> I saw a beautiful woman in depraved leather things, armed with a savage whip> I saw her mangled corpse stood gaunt and rotting, but just as gleeful > I saw agony that made my eyes tear up> I saw her bloated reality, her flesh full of writhing movement and her body puppet along like a marionette, or maybe the better way to describe it would be... Like a mask, wearing her like that to think > Can't tell you what was behind it, but if I live that will be with me for the rest of my life> Finally.> Big-Pipe and I jumped to play our parts, Horns running off to activate the ritual sigils as Big-Pipe began his final act> Myself? Well. I had the misfortune of facing it down directly. > Her laugh was like someone ripping into my eardrums with razor wire, threw myself through one of the Dancers as it hit me> Felt like I would fall apart as it mocked, chided as I grappled, asked what I could possibly do to it? > Began pulling me apart slowly as I locked onto it, fusing my feet into the ground> Well. I didn't say then. But for all of you reading? All I had to do was hold her in place.
>>98294521> Horns managed to activate the Gauntlet Sigils without issue, pulled the entirety of Lagimodière-Gaboury Park 'Out' of the physical world > It was a short ritual, we didn't need long, just enough time to catch the Urge Wyrm in a state of 'Maybe'> And Big-Pipe-Club, Elder of the Loupine Ukte of the Great Lakes tore out his own heart and hurled it into the air> His soul rode out with it, taking the form of a man riding atop a terrible monstrous wolf-spider> Damn near lost my remaining arm when Wyrmspawn realized what was about to happen, started lashing out in every direction > The first of the Dancers died that night by the hand of their mistress, a strike aimed at me cut him into three> Desperation din't save the Caliph of Torment, Big-Pipe-Club's soul rent the Urge into shreds and cut it from the thing wearing her> Killed her. 'Beheaded' the Abomination behind. > We only caught a few moments of consequence, but the reality beyond reality bent and shined like the sun had risen, and a typhoon had struck> Didn't stay to witness, the Sigil Ritual ended, and we dropped off Lagimodière-Gaboury Park right onto Assinaboine Park> Right where the rest of our people and the Wentiko reinforcements were waiting> And other things> I'll add this; as about the same time this happened things shifted with Pontius> When his 'Aspect of the Dark Mother' was annihilated, he flinched, and fell to his knees> And without missing a beat, the Horseman stood and began to beat the ever loving shit out of the former would-be Regent> Despite the absolute tanking he'd received prior, his crumbling armour was just another bludgeon for him> Horseman ripped off what was left of his helmet and knocked out most of Pontius' teeth> Seemed though that Pontius had enough of the Wyrm in him to call up a departure through the Gauntlet, one moment he was there, then he was gone> Just as Strathcona arrived to wipe out the stunned lieutenants> Mother fucker.
>>98294537> Now, as for what I saw personally?> The moment our 'ritual of transport' ended and most of us dropped a dozen feat to the ground, the battle went to absolute shit> Fresh Wentiko in frightful war-faces and the very woods themselves turned against the Sabbat > The remaining Dancers were completely overwhelmed, the one who Fear had smacked up earlier got tackled and dragged off into the brush, pretty sure it was killed outright, but I can't confirm. The last one?> Well, Victoria finally revealed herself, pressed that stupid Punt gun right to the back of the torso > One shot and the only thing left above the waist is a fine mist> Sorry Vic, I absolutely missed what you said after> Suffice to say the Turquoise Legion and the Foederati are annihilated> There was a price to that though> Coming to the Assinaboine, our Stalker who'd been creeping on us so long had us. Had me, rather. > Pontius arrived looking even more gnawed on than usual, perhaps seeking his dogs and the source of his power, or his ritual hadn't been so deliberate> We didn't even get to jump him, for the Stalker finally decided to make themselves know then > I got about a second of a look at some roots before I got was pulled underground. Deeper and deeper. Dropped into the sewers.> So was Pontius. > He took one look at me and fled like a beaten dog. > Stalker druid freak is down here with us too.
>>98294554> Now. As soon as I'm finished with the write up and this dumb baggie I'm sipping on, I'm going to go and see how this hunt ends> I imagine the only reason I've been left is that the Stalker knows I'll play their game> This will be set to auto-post> Wifi is shit down here> But before I go off I should tell you how we did all that> You see we cheated. > Everyone remember Sorcerer “betraying” us? Well. He didn't. Only William, Big-Pipe and I knew the plan.> Using a bit of delusion and forced forgetting Sorcerer was able to play the part of a Judas very well, one of Pontius' biggest weaknesses was his belief everyone has a price, and all we had to do was make Sorcerer play the part of back-stabbing Tremere well enough to buy it> Only tonight when he remembered who he actually was was there any suspicion within the Sabbat camp> Not that it saved Pontius' pet Mage, he got sucked dry by Sorcerer before he could even scream> Sorcerer proceeded to beat the pair of Vampires Pontius had placed on observation and communication to death, and fled> Not before sending the fake message to the Dancers, of course> Apparently our little Double-Agent reconnected with the others, and William is informing people of the plot so no one throttles himNow, I think I've delayed the hunt as long as I'm willing to. We've got three Gangs down here in some abandoned tunnels looking to tear into one another. Probably shouldn't keep them waiting any longer.Really hope Stathcona's pet BDSM Biker wasn't full of it the other night and he actually sits down for talks if INah. See you space cowboys
>>98294496>>98294504>>98294512>>98294521>>98294537>>98294554>>98294573I've been recording all the bullshit the Cammies have been throwing at the news cycle trying to keep this tamped down, they're blaming riots, gas leaks, white supremacists targeting métis communities. It's probably the ugliest, mist slap dash cover up I've ever seen, nobody's even trying to explain the fucking werewolves. Holy fuck.
>>98294573Okay, I know I said I'd be going dark, and I know this might not even reach you in time, but dammit I like you H0T_G4R0U3S_1N_Y0R_3R34.If my Sire hasn't confirmed Pontius is dead, and my Sire can still move, then The Horseman is still after him. If you can just dig a tunnel.or something to him, you'll have one more...ally? Look, The Horseman doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And heabsolutely will not stop... ever, until his target is dead! But he's not without reason. Make it clear you're out to kill Pontius and The Horseman WILL work with you.
Always thought victory would taste better than this>>98294573#1 that thing with the wizard was vile bro #2 you better not be dead. Cause like- No one here saw 'Da Dream' like you>>98295094LMAOTeach them not to help us until its too late
ERRAND 'KNIGHT'WHILE YOU WERE PLAYING AROUND WITH THAT BLOOD DOLL WHO THINKS SHE'S YOUR GIRLFRIEND, SPIDER LILY INVADED OUR MANSION AND NOW WANTS ZORYANA AND LINHUA TO FIGHT TO FINAL DEATHOR 'FIGHT TO SOMETHING WORSE THAN A FINAL DEATH ITSELF' IF I UNDERSTOOD THIS CORRECTLYWHERE IN THE FUCK ARE YOUCOME BACK HOME ALREADY YOU COMPLETE FUCKING DISGRACEAND YOU DARE CALL YOURSELF A KNIGHT
>>98295977Dear Jack,I am simply obeying my Princess and Regnant's orders, as I was told under the strikes of her whip not to die for Zoryana, but to survive for her.I was also given this definition: "Home is where we don't have to run anymore." A mansion with Spider Lily - or Lady Asano as she prefers to be called - inside hardly fits such definition of home.I am in fact going home. I'm going forward, not back, to my true origins - the Banu Haqim.August 16th, 1956, Shiloh.Faithfully yours and forever grateful for everything all of you've done,The fledgling formerly known as Errand Knight
The West Coast is going fucking apeshit. There are morons from down south running up here "avenge their turquoise brothers and take the New Tenochtitlan" which I assume is Winnipeg and to the North they're fleeing from PNC because suddenly they're being expected to fight someone that isn't each other. Oakland's goddamned circus and I haven't heard from the young licks we pit in charge of Daly for hours. Somebody fucking stake me, leave me with a good view of the sunrise over San Bruno.
You passed the test.If there ever was a one on one fight where both contestants deserved a win, it was this one.With Zoryana's name etymologically rooted in the word for star, and Lianhua's name meaning lotus flower, your new self will become the 'star lotus' of the Asano bloodline, your new name shall be Asano Seiren (浅野星蓮).I took the liberty of giving you a suitable new look. I'm certain it will be to your liking, even considering Zoryana's dislike for the art of Vicissitude.Surely you remember the stories about the Cathayans, they have two souls in one body. I once said: "If the Kindred of the East do not exist, we should invent them", and you are my greatest achievement towards such a goal, the culmination of decades of labour, my pride and joy.I regret to inform you, my beloved younger sister Seiren, that it appears said monsters do exist. I have come to know that one Sirio Ascari, also known on this FORVM as Boy Toy, simply refuses to stay dead. I made him a wraith, I incarnated him into a new body, but there is one part of the cycle of his soul, or souls, I did not yet take care of - and that is killing him with my own two hands.For this reason I am sending you to Venice, in the care of my Sire, to begin your Necromantic studies. I will not be able to honour my promise of tutoring you personally as I must handle this urgent matter in person. Besides the evident scientific relevance of such a discovery, I can confidently say that, this time, it's personal.You inspired me so much, I am pondering whether I should host a single elimination martial arts tournament for undead fought all over Asia. My arch-enemy would jump at the chance to prove himself in such contest, just as you or my dearest husband, Baron Tecuani of Kelowna.When this message reaches you, you should be in Italy. Until the night we're together again, may the darkness protect you.Your elder sister,浅野家の綱POST SCRIPTVMYour battle is far from over.The real fight begins now.
>>98296040lmaothe baltimore panders are shitting ass with the number of schizos and psued-anarchs who got baited civil war number 4 lets gooooo
>>98294573I have my head mostly reattached now. Fuck my neck hurts. Kyle Strathcona gave me a sideways glance while I was sculpting my trapezius back together and if my bowels still functioned I would have shit myself in fear. I hope you can survive and make a deal with him, because I sure as fuck am not.I know those sewers, though. I helped install a lot of them when I was a mortal. You would be in the LDS (land drainage system) if you can stand up, as the waste-water sewers are like 12" in diameter. The LDS outfalls to the rivers, that might be where Pontiac will try to flee. If I can find a manhole I'll try to help you out, but I'm not much use as low on vitae as I am. I still have two shots left and maybe I can pin Pontaic Firebird's leg or something. Maybe I'll wait near the closest outfall and ambush him if you can flush him out, I'll send in what crickets I have left to back you up. Fodder basically, I used all their shots up already. They can still bite though.
>>98296098Bruh ylj absolyuty not goin in tereLike if it was jsut Caesar and his Salad okaty maybe but not while that Tree freak is down there
why does this shit happen the night my sabbatical ends?
>>98296143How's everything on your end, Rump? Finally get your get back on your sire?
>WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON LIANHUA zoryana calm down WHAT DO YOU MEAN CALM DOWN CYKA we have all eternity to figure this one out you dumb maozi why don'tWould you kindly shut the fuck up, both of you? This is internal monologue is mine. ALL MINE. ALL OF IT. CAPISH?Ah, inner peace...
>>98296128I'm just going to wait at the outfall and see what comes out. Hopefully just H0T_G4R0US.
>>98296183Are you winning, "younger sister Seiren"?
>>98296172i got home to my big silly crab.that coño? dead. goat fucker never had a plan that lasted longer than a decade. only regret is i didnt look around the florida keys back in the 60s. coulda dealt with this then.
>>98296205Curse you, Sirio Ascari of Clan Toreador! May you never find whatever you seek, be it salvation, vengeance or a sound spanking like your Sire used to give you.
>>98296143>>98296172I was just about to ask the same...your answer could shed some light on a few movements that I find concerning, though I'll be damned if I can explain what's got my hackles up just yet.
>>98296256A weird sort of diet coke+mentos vibe? Like you're all pent up and need to run around take in and use up blood. Vampiric zoomies?
>>98296256didn't you get the-right. guess i lucked out for keeping the hard copies. long story short a lot of long term plots with more recent ominous rumoursdoing it over a more secure + direct linealso running through the delivery process of the hard copies so we can figure out why the last package didnt reach you
>>98294078Something came up, sorry. Yeah, that's the most of it. Though I've seen her change someone's age before. Not the most practical but I'd imagine it can be useful in some applications. Probably not worth forsaking celerity, though.
>>98294573I take it back. >I LOVE THIS MEXICAN BACKCOUNTRY BULLSHIT>>98295094Man I miss the days when you could just say the injun's got hopped up on firewater and call it day. >>98295977>zoryana and Linhua fight to the deathFinally, Spider is going to do something I approve of. >>98296040Ha, even in death, it rains on the saints and the sinners alike. >>98296052Knew it was too good to be true. Merde, I gotta call Justicars>you licks don't get itJusticars fucking suck. It's hard to explain, they have more strings on them then most. Dona and Lucinda may give me the time of day but the rest were the ones who put me on ice calice. At this rate I'm going to need batalions and no one wants to pay the prices that MNM or Constellis group are asking. Let alone the vitae bribes and the cover up, and the inevitable bitching from the eldars and the bitching from the princes. And these fledging licks, Oh Woe is me. NO WOE IS THE IDIOTS IN CHARGE OF YOU>Base-mo dans le cul
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>>98296997OK! こう!
>>98297001>73%>10分間すごく遅いな……もしかして、もっと血が必要なのかな?
>>98297029>75% 76%うまくいった!>80% 84% 89%やったぞ!>90% 99% 101%新しい学問分野を創り出したんだ![DATA CORRUPTED]
Any kindred near Clatsop County, OR: There's an active Blood Hunt on the Tremere Neil Ross for absconding with an unknown diablarist Brujah fugitive/potential Sabbat associate. His rank as Sweeper of Astoria is hereby stripped and his heart's blood, along with the blood of his fledgling Brujah, is forfeit.Furthermore, the Anarch Movement of Astoria is now on full war footing with the encroaching Sabbat. Any Kindred that can prove another Kindred's connection to the Sword of Caine before a jury of their peers in Elysium is hereby entitled to the guilty party's blood and property. Greater leniency for Masquerade breaches will be granted if said breaches relate to actions taken against the Sabbat (or their ghouls) or provide useful intelligence regarding their agendas.
Alright. So. I return to you all in glory yada yada yada I NEED SOME FUCKING HELP HERE>Article UNO We WON CONGRATULATIONS YOU STUPID DENIZENS OF SEASAMY STREET WE GET TO LIVE IN PEACE AND HARMONYBUT NOW WE ACTUALLY NEED TO FIGURE THAT OUT>Article DOSI would really appreciate a bit of help wrangling the Malkavian and FINDING THE DAMNABLE NOSFERATUIt was really my dream to wander around a city tunnel system infested with various horrors but I WOULD LIKE SOMEONE WHO HAS THAT AS A FUCKING RACIAL BONUS TO HELP FIND THE GANGREL>Article TRESWHY DOES THE ONE LOUPINE KEEP STARING AT ME. TITS AND RAM HORNS.I FEEL SMALL ENOUGH FOR THE LOVE OF THE ABSENT GOD>>98296098>>98295681TURTLE BOY AND THE PAINT THINNER I WOULD KINDLY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU CAN STAY INTACTAsRight NowYOU ARE THE MOST FUNCTIONAL "WINNERS" AND IF YOU DIE I WILL DRAG YOU BACK TO LAMBASTE I DONT CARE HOW LONG IT TAKES TO GET NECROMANCY DOWN I SWEAR IT ON THE DARK FATHER'S NAME>>98295493Stripper I will level with you like I am a ye-olde-timey mason using a circle and tweezers.The feral Chimpanzee that is your sire spent the last hour before we went in for the day scraping his ears against the ground.I. (clap) Am. (clap) NOT (clap) GETTING (clap) NEAR (clap) HIM
>>98294554>Sorry Vic, I absolutely missed what you said after'I hear no evil'. Or maybe I screamed 'my fucking ears' because the shot blew my ear drums, and the flower of the muzzle flash was bright enough to make me think I'm in a house fire. I definitely put in way too much powder in it, had to do that to make sure the coinshot got the velocity to vaporize whoever it's fired at. I don't like it when a thing without its head gets up and growls at me. >stupid Punt gunYou fucking bet it's stupid. I was juiced up on blood and it still damn near tore one of my arms out of its socket. If we ever make it back to the Rockies, I'm making the twink fire it. He only ever learns anything when he gets beaten within an inch of his unlife, so that'd be helpful.>>98294573Apparently our little Double-Agent reconnected with the others, and William is informing people of the plot so no one throttles himYeah, yeah. Got informed. Will throttle regardless, once we've got the time.>Probably shouldn't keep them waiting any longer.Could always just pour something flammable down there and blame it on a gas leak, you know. Oh well.>>98298835>I WOULD LIKE SOMEONE WHO HAS THAT AS A FUCKING RACIAL BONUS TO HELP FIND THE GANGRELWhen you stop your little angry-typing break, take two steps to the left, then keep moving forward. That pile of cardboard you'd walk onto otherwise got one of those old, vaguely-leaf-resembling landmines under it. The mine's old and shitty, the sound of it blowing up would probably fuck you up more than the actual blast, given the cramped space. Also you'd scream a lot. You don't want to scream a lot down here.Also, don't be scared if you bump into something cold and somewhat pipe-like, if you move back. That's a surprise tool that'll help you out when you most need it, wizardhat.You can hand 'THE MALKAVIAN' over to William, by the way, he's got free enough hands and is way too chipper about us 'besting daemons'.
>>98299705>>98298835i saw a vision of this encounter
>>98299705FUCKINGHIDEOUS SADOMASOCHISTIC LUNATICYOU ARE SOOOOOOOOOOO LUCKY DEVOURING THE MAGI PUT ME IN A GOOD MOODI will attempt to deliver the cat but she's... Not great. Understandably. The source of her blood bond and relative sanity is absent.>>98299786IT IS BAD ENOUGH SUFFERING LIKE THIS UNDER ONE OF YOU I SHALL TOLERATE NO OTHERSAND MY BEARD IS NOWHERE NEAR THAT RATTYRad though, we could use more sketch posts.
>>98298835Sounds like he was using his enhanced senses to try a get a clue about the underground.But I get it, and it's probably for the best. If you talk the way you write you probably WOULD get on his nerves, there's no telling what he might do then.
I'm good I'm real I'm just gonna keep crying and shaking because I can't stop doing that but I can type. Cause even though I'm stuck inthis stupid eternal return nightmare loop I can bull on my adult skirt and pretend I am one.Stupid. Called another death. Eaaaaagh it was bad enough with Bleu now the shit with New Orleans. Hate it. Hate you too.>>98297588The second Childr is the one you need to worry about.>>98297029A big bird and a funny coyote told me to tell you to stop that. Please.Or at least don't do that near Korea.
Also also because stupid NET securityt dumb bsgropadsaa>>98296201>>98296098>>98296128We'll need to go in tonight. But, Günther wants to take the lead. He can tuck his wings in, has obfuscate.>>98299705Thanks Vic. >>98301072We'll try to drag out whats left of the Roman for him so he doesn't dig up a water vein.
>>98301266>We'll need to go in tonight.What are we going to do about the "druid" thing, though? We don't even know what it is. I've fed now at least, but I can't sense the crickets I sent in anymore. They must be dead, and I have no idea what killed them. I have no problems going in, shit I almost went in last night on my own, but we need to figure out what the fuck that thing is if we want to kill it and rescue H0T_G4R0US.
>>98301266A broken watermain would be pretty tame for the Collateral Damage he's willing and able to cause. I heard a story from one of his Packs first missions that ended with him standing on the back of an out of control Vozhd and laying into it while dodging angry pseudopods so it was hitting itself. I mean, it took the whole pack to bring the damn thing down but still...good thing that Hamlett was already empty.
What could be a suitable nickname for my roomie? I know! Rumi! Rumi wanted to take a selfie with me now that we're in Mestre. This literal doe-eyed sweet summer Great-great-grandchilde! I wonder what will big sis will do to my roomie, and her Sire, once she finds out Rumi dyed her hair blonde, like a yankee~I think I need a new username for myself, too.>>98301263>Stupid. Called another death. Eaaaaagh it was bad enough with Bleu now the shit with New Orleans. Hate it. Hate you too.You're a spoiler brat, Mèo-Mèo~
>>98299786I absolutely do not look like this. >>98302163You look like a frog.
>>98299786Exceptionally accurate! >>98300956Denial is but the first step on the road to acceptance.
I feel heavy today. My vitae isn't racing, it creeps, languidly, through my veins and everywhere I turn faces and voices of those long dead and dust haunt me. Not literally mind you. At least, most of the time.Back in 2020, as I was beginning to settle in Florida, the Camp Gordon Johnston WWII Museum held an exhibit for the 75th anniversary of the battle of Okinawa. I went to check it out. I ran into a Marine more lost than an Lt. on his first landnav course.The shade was distraught, disoriented, and seemingly oblivious to having lost his right arm around his elbow. Shouting orders to men that weren't there, still fighting a war long ended. I'm no necromancer. And I don't make it a habit of concerning myself with every human soul that lingers on because of me. But I just could not leave a Brother like that.I don't know why I saw him so clearly, when staff and guests only heard faint echos or felt sudden chills, nor am I certain which artifact it was that drew him so far from his place of death, or his home. What I do know is, when he saw me in my 1812 uniform.the next night(after I dropped obfuscate once the museum had closed.) and I yelled out with my best Sargent bellow, it snapped him to reality. To where and, most importantly, when he was. I told him my story(Necessary, as I was sporting a uniform over a hundred years old by his reckoning) and I listened to his, which I will not share as he told me things in confidence. The most important thing is that for the true patriot, the true hero, duty does not Always end even in death.And so I informed him, with all the ceremony I could muster, that the war was over, and he stood relived.The memory of the salute he snapped is one of the things that still anchors me to my humanity.
Everything about me is a biiiiiiig huge experiment.I'm still discovering how this body works, and mind too, the first thing I learned is that I apparently have access to the memories of both the voices in my head! I wonder if I have their abilities~Lianhua met big sis' Sire before, so I knew what to expect, but this didn't make Rumi's face any less funny when they met. He just walked to her, hugged her neck and sniffed the top of her head like an US President would.I got squeezed too but he was waaay more delicate, he stroked my hair from the nape downwards instead of trying to inhale them. I think I remind him too closely of his Childe.I don't blame him, we're the most adorable, huggable apprentices in the known world, and we're one biiiiiiig Family, too!Stay classy, Uncle Marco~ >REVOLTING>sighShush.>>98302769Princess, not frog! Hmph!>>98303394Happy July the 4th!!!!o7
Unangenehm und seltsam. Auch. Danke William für die Rechtschreibprüfung.Report back from the underground. Stops being a standard sewer section deep enough in. Roots shoved pipes around.So, the bad news is this.> No finding of H0T, Pontius, or the Beast. What I found of the Roman Larper... Disconcerting.> Much signs of struggle like that of the Wöf. Claws through stone. Found Pontius' dismembered arm. > These tunnels are disconcerting, far too much growth. > Even has a really deep pit down there.But, good news! > Think the crickets did not die! Found one, just high from eating mushrooms! > Recovered H0T's things, including her sword. Really wish she'd have used it but eh, better with claws und fangs.> I have faith I'll be able to scour everything tomorrow.If the "rootways" are not related to Druid, not a bad space for warrens?
>>98303898>Think the crickets did not die! Found one, just high from eating mushrooms!That would explain why I can't control them with my mind anymore. I'll have to collect them all before they escape and wander around stoned in public breaching the Masq. There should be four of them left.>If the "rootways" are not related to Druid, not a bad space for warrens?Thankfully they seem to branch off from the LDS, and they're mostly below Assiniboine Park, so it could take years before city crews find them and seal them up. If ever.
>>98305190>I'll have to collect them all before they escape and wander around stoned in public breaching the Masq.Gotta catch'em all!
Dear sweet God in Heaven, why, oh WHY did the Camarilla see fit to forbid dueling amongst the kindred!?Do you all remember how our third mystery Nosferatu showed up out of nowhere claiming to have helped build the Undercity and seeking status and accolades? How suddenly several of the Clan "remembered" him? I had initially assumed simple bribery, or promises of riches to come. That the Tremere had worked some blood sorcery and Dominate to deceive several Nosferatu and create a schism with their very own willing puppet...Now the Nosferatu know. I know. The Tremere (who are rebuilding their Clan and territory with a few new Ancilla and an Elder sent from other Domains) know we know. And both clans are making preparations for outright war! NOW of ALL TIMES, when the wolves of the Sabbat are scratching at the gates across the continent!Well. It looks like I've some work to do. Some unruly children are in desperate need of a good switching.
>>98303394vestiges of conflicts, both before and after the embrace, are much more common on this side of the sea.granted, i have usually dealt with the more physical vestiges. occasionally we get a straggler who thinks we still fight the ashira and the banu haqim as we did in prior centuries and refuses to believe any word of peace or armistice. though, i've dealt with a few echoes before. i think they reveal themselves to shared kinds. one sticks with me though. a boy, who must have been no older than twelve attempting to make it to missolonghi, ankles swollen. still attempting to deliver a message someone must have taken from his body. morea had seen great victories against the turk.took a whole week to walk him 'home.' the moment he crossed the threshold, he faded, in a burst of light.>>98306822fear of direct consequence and monomacy makes many wise elders insist on very stupid things.
>>98306822>Dear sweet God in Heaven, why, oh WHY did the Camarilla see fit to forbid dueling amongst the kindred!?They were probably tired of hearing something like: "No, your Highness! It was obviously self-defense! The Elder frenzied over a single coin and I had no choice but to put him down! Since I am a very loyal and law-abiding Cainite, may I humbly request you sign this paper saying I am the legitimate heir to all his property?"It's not that strange: you're among Cammies so you need the formal authorization of the Prince for everything from dueling a Kindred to wiping your ass anyway, but it also means if you curry enough favor the Prince will overlook an "honor killing" or two.Older Princes may even allow a trial or appeal by combat from time to time.
And it just keeps getting worse.It reminds of that time I was sent to the Sail Locker for some spare lines, as we had just weathered a storm and the some of the rigging was getting fouled, whereupon I discover some lubber didn't coil the lines properly and the storage was a complete rats nest!Before I became Prince the Nosferatu had the lions share of influence with JSO, and this was the where this little feud started. The Tremere didn't just rewrite the memories of several Nosferatu, they were using their blood sorcery to meddle with every attempt by the Nosferatu to utilize the modern technology of the mortal authorities. Including slowing down attempts to make uncomfortable evidence vanish! I didn't even know Blood Magic could do that.Apparently they were under the impression that as long as the Nosferatu looked incompetent the Tremere would be asked to step in and pick up their slack.
Being an East Asian and also a woman in Venice at night is not easy, too many people, local or not, feel authorized to reach for your belongings, even an elderly lady you wouldn't suspect came far too close to Rumi's handbag for my liking.Mind control is still working, as seen by that one old hag's sudden desire to cool her body in the nearest canal. We can scratch that one off the to do list.I wanted to talk to a cat like Zoryana used to do but there are so few in this city these nights. Disappointing.>>98306822>>98307177>Before I became PrinceWait are you (still) the Prince of your city? What's stopping you from authorizing a duel? You are the law of the land!>they were using their blood sorcery to meddle with every attempt by the Nosferatu to utilize the modern technologyHmmm... I dug up a memory about some thaumaturges specializing in technology, Lianhua was with big sis and they left Tokyo when the Tremere wiped out the Tzimisce some 30 years ago.>as long as the Nosferatu looked incompetent the Tremere would be asked to step in and pick up their slack.Those silly nerds just couldn't think of acting reliably with their oligopoly over magic for a week or two, could they? It's not that I can't see where they're coming from: nobody sane would trust them anyway.
>>98307177I know that Your Highness has thus far decided to respect the decrees and edicts of the old Prince (including territory and de facto membership in the Camarilla for the Assamite and Lasombra antitribu and respecting the Giovanni claim to JaxPort), but as Star Lotus says >>98307357, you ARE the Prince. You have a vast amount of discretion in how you govern the city: if you want ritualized dueling, you need only decree it to be so.Also consider that the Brujah and Assamite Primogen are the only remaining members of the original council. Most of the "old guard" of powerful and influential Kindred met Final Death between the chaos of last year and more recent events. There are few Kindred remaining who could really muster up any sort of political capitol to oppose a Princely Decree.
>>98307177god i hate the wizards so fucking muchthem buying time with that package pidgeon BS was the last fucking straw this can't stand>durhur look at me and my high generation i have so much influence but I COULDNT FUCKING WIRETAP SOMEONE TO SAVE MY SOUL>WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALGORYTHM ALL I KNOW IS EAT HOT BLOOD AND LIE WHAT DO YOU MEAN I NEED TO DO WORK BEYOND SCHEMES>OH ILL JUST DOMINATE SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT NOT LIKE THE PILE OF BRAIN ROTTED KINE ISNT TELL NUMBER FUCKING 1 FOR US GETTING FOUND OUT BY NORMIES STUPID CUNTSroll heads, hell ill foot the bill for one of the fancy teams to help do it
Dakò. Dakò. Kilès nan nou TRAYITÈ yo ki chanje tag mwen an?
>>98307357>>98307432Monomacy in this case wouldn't end well. Neither the Tremere or Nossies like to settle matters out in the open. If Leatherneck authorized or even ordered a duel, both sides would do their level best to put on the brakes, set the date for the bout as far into the future as possible and spend the entire time between the challenge and the duel doing what they can to sabotage each other's champion, up to and including assassinating them, at which point they show up to "Win by Default" Used to happen a lot in the Bay Area, until the Bishops of Oakland and Colma allowed the hosting Priest or Ductus the right to fill in for absent belligerants. Nothing like watching some smug Lick realize he just maneuvered himself into facing one of the Fingers.
>>98307432>>98308210Ooh! I was interested in this conversation because my current existence is owed to a duel. Now I get what the problem is! Imagine Big sis Spider Lily, who received her Embrace near the end of the golden age of the samurai, reading our messages. She'd experience cultural shock.I picture her responses would be like:>Neither the Tremere or Nossies like to settle matters out in the open. "Have the duel take place behind closed doors!" Two Cainites enter, one leaves.">both sides would do their level best to put on the brakes, set the date for the bout as far into the future as possible"Nonsense! You, and no other, decide the date, time, place and all the other terms! Summon the combatants and be an impartial referee! If you and your rule are so weak you cannot even enforce a writ of summons, find someone who will, have him host the duel, then abdicate in his favour!">and spend the entire time between the challenge and the duel doing what they can to sabotage each other's champion, up to and including assassinating them, at which point they show up to "Win by Default""Blasphemy! I volunteer to give a slow and painful Final Death to all who interfere with the duel and their accomplices, then let me send their souls to the Rossellini! Shame! Shame and dishonour upon the lineages of the guilty!"Big sis just isn't used to the struggles New World Princes face with herding cats in their domains, the ever-present risk of entire city blocks switching sides to the Anarchs (or worse) overnight, and the lack of powerful Elders acting as a safety net for threatened Princes and Kindred in vulnerable domains.As her ghoul who spent many more years in the USA, Lianhua helped big sis navigate this instability worthy of African kine governments.Can you imagine the consequences in America if the whole Brujah clan pulls the plug and goes Anarch like the Gangrel did? Hysterical!
Might as well drop his stats.[Spoiler]Name: Vigo Grigori Concept:Prince of Jacksonville Gen and Clan:8th Generation Gangrel Nature: Survivor Demanor: AutocratStr: 4 (Heavy Lifting) Dex: 4 (Perfect Balance) Sta: 4 (Tireless) Cha: 3 Man: 4 (Trust Me) App: 3Per: 3 Int: 2 Wits: 4 (lightning reactions)Alertness: 4 (nose for danger) Athletics: 4 (Climbing) Awareness: 1 Brawl: 5(Claws) Empathy: 4 (Emotions) Expression: 3 (Public Speaking) Intimidation: 4 (Pulling Rank) Leadership: 5 (Military) Streetwise: 3 Subterfuge: 3Animal Ken: 3 Crafts: 3 (Sewing) Drive: 3 Etiquette: 3 Firearms: 5 (marksmanship) Larceny: 2 Melee: 5 (Cutlass) Performance: 1(singing) Stealth: 4 (silent steps) Survival 5 (tracking) Weapons Maintinence: 3Computer: 1 Finance: 2 Investigation: 2 Law: 3 Medicine: 1 Occult: 3 Politics: 4 (Camarillia)Ally:1 (Mina) Contacts:5 (DA, Detective, Coroner, Mayor's secretary, Port Watchman) Generation: 5 Herd: 2 (marine vets living in a halfway house Vigo funds) Influence: 1 Recources: 4 Status: 5 (Prince of Jacksonville) Concious:3 Self Control:5 Courage: 5Willpower: 10 Animalism: 3 Auspex: 3 Fortitude: 5 Obfuscate: 2 Potence: 3 Protean: 4(Timber Wolf & Aligator Gar)Combo Disciplines: Blood Thorns, Flesh Wound, Shatterproof, Spirit TrackingMerits:Ambidextrous, Cat Like Balance, Early Riser, Time Sense, Friend of the Clan(Nosferatu)Flaws: Flashbacks, Dark Secret (Most of his wealth was gained from two centuries of Crime, from wearing a red sash in Tombstone, to running booze durring prohibition, to white collar crime in tge 80's and 90's)
>>98308608One day. One Brave and Glorious day, I will get the second part of the spoiler tag correct.
>>98307357>>98307432Too be honest, I was mostly concerned with making too many changes too quickly. I have already made the Harpies responsible for Enforcing the Boons they are ASKED to offically record in the hope of eventually turning them from sharp tounged gossips to Auditors, And my reign is less than a year old. But as Colma points out here >>98308210 they might balk at settling their differences like proper gentlemen. Normally I don't mind letting the Nos settle things "behind closed doors" but...I find it hard to argue with this >>98308498
In we go I guess.>Spes novissima perit.
>>98310260For what it may be worth, I wish you success.
Bad enough our prince fell for the Nigerian prince emails (he insisted it must be someone he met in Africa in the 1800s) now he keeps showing us AI slop videos and wants us to investigate "masquerade breaches" and "tremere tomfoolery" God i miss the fucking 80s.
I annihilated Rumi in Patty Cake, Celerity is confirmed, but today's biggest discoveries was that I don't have the Giovanni's curse and that the voices in my head still experience pleasure when I feed. Let me explain myself *worse*, it's like having two (more?) Beasts inside, but they're... intelligent?Basically we're living the boarding school life but for Necromancy, and we even have free food here in Venice, this boy from the herd sat besides me and I instantly became his favorite vampire. I even went for the subclavian... no pain, only pleasure? I held him down for Rumi, Potence confirmed, though not surprising as Zoryana knew some Potence too. Rumi likes it when boys moan.She said I should tell Marco about my lack of a Painful Kiss, so I rushed to my teacher's room, jumped on his lap, held his hand and nibbled on his index finger. I told him with my best puppy eyes: "I'm not sure what I am anymore..."We snuggled tight and he told me in my ear: "I'll tell you what you are: you are family." Then the shade of his mother showed up and petted my head with her frigid, translucent hand."You can be a mortal, ghoul, Kindred, spirito, anything you want, but family is forever. If people don't treat you like they should, they will have to answer to us.", he said. I was overjoyed, I hardly felt the pain from the man's lips on my forehead!>UUUUUUGH. DO YOU HAVE MY CLAN'S WEAKNESS, THEN?>or the cappadocians'? or none at all like a clanless?I need more time...>>98310260More optimism!>>98310389How many dancing cat videos does it take to impeach a Prince?
Final Update on the Winnipeg Whatever:(> We found her last night> Last out of the three actually> I'll spoil it up front for you, Pontius was terminated and probably diablerized by the Druid-Stalker> We could have rolled up what we found like a wrinkly ballsack rug if we'd been so inclined (we weren't) but we brought back pictures and enough of the spat out bone shards to prove the point> Next we found the Stalker, deeper in, totally exsanguinated but not bitten weirdly enough > Blood exited through the mouth if you were wondering > And the entire chest cavity was popped open like a xenomroph egg > Totally hollow. No organs. No bones.> And at the> Her name was Moire MacBrennan> Once. Once. She was and is and I know she hates me saying it but she was a real person.> She's- Alive. As much as any of us are but it did something to her. > She's not- Like- The same kind of Gangrel anymore. She's like- Whatever the Stalker-Druid-Corpse was.> She scared the Hell out of all of us. Though. Wood kept growing in her empty eye socket and she kept- Getting rid of it.> I> Kind of threw myself at her. If she was a feral or a wight I kind of didn't wanna do this anymore without her.> Tackling her at least roused her from the daze she'd been in> She can't speak anymore, can't type or write anymore either with the claws she gre, and she's a lot bigger and scarier now but> Still her. Still her.
>>98314687> We helped her out of the underground for the meeting with the remaining Sabbat> Gave the Horsemen his bounty. His job is done and he took off after staring at one of us for a moment> The meeting with Strathcona kind of went the same way. First time he looked like a person and not like a hole shaped like one.> Kind of started> Just once though, told us a pretty line about how, as long as the Camarilla stays out the city serves his strategic ends> Even more so now that there isn't a crazy Sabbat heresy cell trying to raze his territories > Then he went on his way, taking his camp with him> Just like that> We signed the agreements for the 'Free City' thing as well. Everyone who survived. I mean.> Sort of a formal version of the rules we used to have back in Marquette, even if my memory of that is kinda fried> Basic stuff, since we all gotta share the burden; Share if you make mistakes, get backing if you want to move in or 'bring people on'> A few things if you're here at the start or willing bleed for the city, a few things we all need to do> Plus the stuff we agree with for the Loups> Horns is in charge of their camp now, with Big-Pipe being gone> The ones sticking around anyways, most are off > Although all the wolves are celebrating because they did something huge killing the jerk who skinned me> Miss the Big Guy tho > So. We won. I guess. Just. > Cost us a lot and I don't really feel like we won.> But at least Gün is feeling a lot better and Sorcerer is getting super bloated and drunk on the good stuff> Everyone else also, I mean everyone sticking around is glad Ponty is buried and we got nobody trying to whack us> So, I'm just gonna try and work out a way for me and my better half to communicate beyond growls and grunts> Later, guys
>>98314687Unfortunate. I can remember several instances where the price of victory seemed too high once it was finally calculated, and it never gets easier. You have my condolences.This news does little to improve my ill mood.I have been attempting to lead some "back door" talks to bring reconciliation between the Nosferatu and Tremere, but both sides seem Hell Bent on stalling and whining about every perceived slight no matter how small. I have tried reason, thteats, even pretending to throw a temper tantrum. I genuinely don't know if I was seen through or they are simply too stupid to realize the dangers of frustrating a Gangrel Prince to near frenzy.So it has come to this after all. I am in the process of drafting a code duello. I cannot simply copy the mortal one, though. Vampires always complicate matters, even when not scheeming to do so. (Which, one may safely assume, they are.)If they push back on even THAT, then I shall simply take Rumples suggestion. Ironic that this entire time I have been trying to convince myself a Prince MUST NOT show favoritism to any one Clan, and keeping the Tremere around would be beneficial should the Giovani in Jax Port start getting upitty. But I am not having this shit.
>>98314687>>98314697A city that will make a fine Haven. And all it cost was her ability to tell us about it. Damn.
>>98314687stand proudly little pythoness you are much stronger than you realizebut ah, perhaps i should be more helpful than offering bitter truths. you said she is changed, yes? that is curious. tales of gangrel off-shoots are often sullied by rumors and outright slander. i have heard of tales of a line of priests and shaman, but, they were little more than myths. but in light of these events? you would do well to begin research into them. especially to discern weaknesses. one of which is of concern to miss macbrennan. that being certain northerners were unable to consume vitae from animals. if this is true she will be forced to adopt human vitae entirely.>>98314991no clan can ever afford to be beyond reproach. even in the sabbat shithole of belgrade, the dragons handle the gangrel, the lasombra menace the dragons, and the gangrel trim the lasombra. and almost everyone would have something to say if vienna tried making inroads down here again.vermin.
>>98315141It is always correct to bully the Tremere, except Dotty and Red.>if this is true she will be forced to adopt human vitae entirely.Kaine lloró.
>>98314687¡Dijeron que moriria en el Bronx!¡Dijeron que moriria en los Apalaches!¡ESTABAND! ¡EQUIVOCADO!¡SIIIUUUUU!I AM NO LONGER HOMELESS I AM CANADIAN
WE WON.THE COST WAS HIGH.I AM GETTING DRUNK ON VITAE-RUM.THEN I AM GOING TO CRACK MY SHELL OPEN AND CRAWL OUT A NEW MAN.LIKE SOME KIND OF DRACONIC BUTTERFLY.Kyle Strathcona was not as scary the third time around. But maybe my courage was tempered by crawling around in the LDS and the "rootways" for two nights looking for signs of H0T, not knowing if the druid thing was going to pop out of the walls and eat me. That and getting nearly decapitated by an evil werewolf.I might move into the city now that we own it. Tired of driving three hours to do anything. Have to defuse the bombs in my house and clear out all of my weird Tzimisce stuff so I can sell it. Maybe get some human ghouls and blood dolls finally, since there will be people around in abundance. Anyone want to buy a two bedroom in Neepawa? Asking $250,000.I'm praying H0T's mental condition is temporary, the physical I can remediate if she wishes. But she's in feral Wolverine mode like when he got his adamantium ripped out by Magneto. Maybe the root in her eye will bloom into a flower if she stops ripping it out, that would be pretty.
I thought everyone's eating healthier and they got rid of so many food additives- then why do people taste so bad since the last few years? Do I have to start seasoning folks by buying them steak dinners?
>>98315564Emotional stress, cost of food and housing is ridiculous so people are feeling the pinch. This translates to their brains releasing a lot of icky-tasting hormones like cortisol. Also micro-plastics in the water they drink.
もしもし、「Vitae」のせいで私のスマホが爆発しました。怖かったです。>>98301263だが、氏族に属さない身としては、源氏に献上品を差し出さなければ、道頓堀を去るか、さもなくば死ぬしかない。とはいえ、せめて試してはみるつもりだ。
So I might be drunk but I think I'm on to something, I think the scientific root of "blood potence" is methyl-mercury, which bio-accumulates in predators such as ourselves, which is why feeding on herbivorous animals is less nourishing to us than feeding on humans. Humans that eat a lot of fish (the Japanese) should therefore be more nourishing than humans that don't eat a lot of fish (the poors). I have no way of quantifying or testing this theory however, but I think the "fishMalks" are on to something. Mercury was used in Nazi UFOs and time-travel machines, so maybe there's a connection between their mercury-agitation distorting space-time and bio-available methyl-mercury also allowing us to bend the laws of physics. I know what we have is a magical curse laid on us by God, but there's a science behind everything. This could also be why most predators are venerated by human cultures over prey animals, they have more methyl-mercury in them and are therefore "more magical" like eagles, wolves and bears.Just the drunken ramblings of a Tzimisce nerd. Pay me no mind unless you want to.
>>98315793あの、ちょっと待って。ち͇͞ょ̶̮̝̥̾͡っ̉と͇͚͇̒̀_ͫ.̣̙̘͗̍̆͠.̳̚͜.͝t̶̳̩͉̍̿h́erͧ͆̌̊̕͜e͍̟͔ͦ̎͘... If that was the case, wouldn't the most [filling] people be people with Minamata disease?
>>98315846Who knows? Maybe they are. Like I said, drunken ramblings.
>>98316029I had always assumed someone who eats three full meals a day, with dessert, plus a miday snack, is just going to have have better blood, and more of it, than five malnourished chimney sweeps.
>>98315564>>98316058>THE FOOD IS ABUNDANT BUT LESS NUTRITIOUS BECAUSE EXPLOITING THE SOIL KEEPS MAKING IT POORER FOR ALL WHO DEPEND ON IT.>THUS THE KINE HAVE TO EAT EVEN MORE TO GET THE SAME CALORIES AND MINERALS THAN THEY USED TO DO.>THE CORRECT CYCLE IS THIS: THE SOIL FEEDS THE CROPS, THE CROPS FEED THE LIVESTOCK, THE LIVESTOCK FEED THE KINE, THE KINE FEED THE SOIL.>THE KINE DO NOT LET THE SOIL REST LET ALONE USE IT AS A RESTING PLACE.>>98315793>NATURALISTIC EXPLANATIONS OF KINDRED ABILITIES ARE DOOMED TO FAIL. YOU'D THINK BRILLIANT KINDRED WHO WALKED WITH THE LIKES OF CHRYSIPPUS OF SOLI, HIPPOCRATES, DA VINCI, LEIBNIZ, NEWTON AND C.S. PEIRCE WOULD HAVE GIVEN US THE SOLUTION BY NOW, BUT OUR KIND NEVER HAD AN ENLIGHTENMENT.>WE ARE CURSED TO DWELL IN DARKNESS.Wow.>sorry but i come from a culture that used to think drinking mercury was the secret to immortality and even i think that's bullshitwwww>>98315846英語上手
I tried Auspex on the famous Bridge of Sighs. Between the historical prisoners seeing the city one last time while walking between the tribunal and the prison cells, and the later legend of eternal love for couples kissing underneath it on a gondola, I had quite the sensory overload. Rumi carried me to my room lol.>>98316298>CORRECTION: PROTEIN, NOT CALORIES
>>98314687>>98314697A victory is a victory. While it is bittersweet to a degree, to deny yourself the triumph is to devalue its cost. Dwelling on the worst instead of relishing the best will do you or yours no good, wise Mèo-Mèo.As for brave H0T and her condition, I will briefly focus on practical ways to try and aid her. The Anchorites are probably a good lead, but not amazingly so. Working with their Sire gave me little contacts with more floral Kindred; he did try to locate experts in the field, though he died before finding any sages of note. Broadly speaking, me and Victoria met some strange types over the years, but only fleetingly, and usualy didn't keep in touch. Finally, there's that pine grove I mentioned a while ago.So, far as what we two can offer:>Heading back to the Anchorites personally, since evidently whatever communication issues they got going on refuse to let up, but they do still have a treasure trove of information>Or, alternatively, marching north to the Kin-pine grove, to see if the thing there might assist us when confronted with, possibly, something similar to itselfBoth, one after another, could be a good pick too, but with the wood in brave H0T's eye, I worry we may be on a timer here. >>98315457>I AM GETTING DRUNK ON VITAE-RUM.Rightfully so! Great showing all around from you, by the way. I tried to not overcompliment you in the field, lest that gets to your head, but, for somebody who quite peacefully messed around with giant crickets recreationally beforehand, you proved a Dragon indeed once push came to shove. >Anyone want to buy a two bedroom in Neepawa? Asking $250,000.Is it particularly, eh, Kindredesque? Meat furniture, ominous spirits, stashes of vitae, stuff like that? I think I have some Kine who could use a nice place to stay there, provided they could remain happily unaware of things they ought to remain unaware of.
Okay. Here is what I've worked out so far.Aside from all the usual stuff you would expect from a code on dueling to resolve issues...The Duelists may have any number of Seconds they wish. (More eyes makes it harder to cheat)Interfering with the duelists before the duel is strictly prohibited and will be punished at the Princes pleasure.Should a Duelist fail to appear at the appointed time, one of their Seconds MUST step in for them. (This was added to remind the seconds their first duty is to talk thr duelists down, more likely if their asses are exposed, even a little)Should ALL seconds refuse, their lives shall be immediately forfeit, and the judgement default to the opposing duelist. Further punishments may be levied at the Princes pleasure. (No room for cowards.The line about interfering means no dominating the seconds out of it.)No active discipline use in the duel unless agreed to beforehand, on a discipline by discipline basis. (I would have banned all disciplines, but some things just cannot be "turned off")The Prince retains the right to veto any disciplines at their pleasure. (I don't care if you want to duel with Koldunic Sorcery, I'm not letting you two set the building on fire!)Either duelist MAY name a champion to fight on their behalf.(some people just can't fight.)Said champion MUST agree of their own free will, absent any undue coercion. (Bribe the Brujah? Fine. Dominate the Brujah, or threaten their mortal family? No.)The Prince may name a champion at their pleasure (just in case some friendless neonate is getting bullied)Lastly, as vampires are quite hardy... Once the handkerchief drops the duel does not end until one of the combatants meets final death. (I am not letting the kindred of my domain waste my rime with jumped up, preening slap fights. If you're coming to me to sanction a duel, you had damn well better be serious about it.)Any glaring holes I may have missed?
>>98317006Diablerie.
>>98317006I consulted the voices and we reached a consensus, here are some initial suggestions:>The Duelists may have any number of Seconds they wish. (More eyes makes it harder to cheat)Are you sure you want every single other clanmate of a duelist to invade the arena? Wouldn't a large amount of Brujah do more than add eyes?>Interfering with the duelists before the duel is strictly prohibited and will be punished at the Princes pleasure.*before AND DURING the duel!!!!!>Should a Duelist fail to appear at the appointed time, one of their Seconds MUST step in for them.The Seconds should be willing too, otherwise you create a legal loophole for an unwilling champion: appoint an unwilling Second, then don't show up at the place and time for the duel, instant unwilling Champion!>The Prince retains the right to veto any disciplines at their pleasure.Any and all undeclared disciplines by a duelist are forbidden by default.>Once the handkerchief drops the duel does not end until one of the combatants meets final death.Any interference with the movement of the handkerchief, and any intentional flight from the designated combat zone by a duelist once it falls, will be punished by Final Death.>Any glaring holes I may have missed?As this anonymous poster stated, what to do about Diablerie: >>98317068Plus what to do with what a fallen duelist owned!Choose:>Any property or asset not mentioned or distributable by the Will of a fallen duelist will be inherited by their appointed Seconds, and if no Seconds were appointed by their Champion, and if no Champion was appointed either, by the Prince.or>Any property or asset not mentioned or distributable by the Will of a fallen duelist will be inherited by the victor.or>Any property or asset not mentioned or distributable by the Will of fallen duelist will be inherited by the Prince.If you plan on discouraging duels, having Kindred think about what to write in their Will before the fight could help you.
>>98317355>The Seconds should be willing toowilling to be Seconds, I mean
>>98317006Is the function Cammy Only or can the Prince allow outsiders in the case of a dispute with Anarchs or an Autarkis?
God. Hungover again. We need to figure out a way to make this shit locally. And I need to never drink again.But eeeeeeeeegh something something gonna live forever so I might as well develop a crack addiction. PaH!>>98314687>>98316832I feel I need to add my input here because I did look over the Ductus. Before I sloshed out. Anyways.It isn't just the eye. Her """"arm"""" tried the same regrowth trick and she kept gnawing it off judging from the damage. The eye is just the more disconcerting because she KEEPS PUTTING HER FINGER IN THE HOLE. Eagh! Fucking- Like a child chewing their god damn nails! It seems like an unconscious response. While there is wood elsewhere it isn't spreading like a corruptive element.Making it act like artificial 'scar' tissue. Also, while my familiar is a MORE USELESS DRUNK THAN I they were at least helpful in identifying the type of wood. European Holly. Just- Significantly faster growing, harder, and boasting disconcerting feelings that makes my bones twist under my skin. If there is a timer it comes not from this. At least- IF SHE COULD STOP GNAWING HERSELF LIKE A NAUGHTY CHIHUAHUA RECENTLY NEUTEREDPersonally I'd much rather go somewhere with sane kindred and the Loupines will be subject to the friendship agreements.But I digress. >>98315308>>98315457Brother Cainites. May we all live long enough to repeat such mistakes.I also feel it would be best to start working on the booze project but I have matters of self-empowerment. Also. Creepy Tree Ductus issue.
>>98317798>European Holly. Just- Significantly faster growing, harder, and boasting disconcerting feelings that makes my bones twist under my skin.Certainly explains why she doesn't like it. Holly's an invasive and insidious weed. One that likes to fill in the spaces where stumps and fallen trees. The implications are bad.
>>98317355>The Seconds should be willing too, otherwise you create a legal loophole for an unwilling champion: appoint an unwilling Second, then don't show up at the place and time for the duel, instant unwilling Champion!Don't overthink things. The point of a Second is to deescalate so a duel doesn't need to be fought in the first place, negotiate the parameters of the duel on behalf of the duelists, and ensure the sanctity of the duel. Only a fool would appoint an unwilling party to negotiate a duel to the Final Death on their behalf.>Interfering with the duelists before the duel is strictly prohibited and will be punished at the Princes pleasure.>*before AND DURING the duel!!!!!Enforcing the rules of the duel is the responsibility of the Second. Interference during the duel is punished by the Seconds. Traditionally by shooting the cheater.
>>98306822Guy to guy, I'm just saying we may have made a mistake in judging the Tzimisce so damn Harshly. The Koldunists here seem far saner then our Thaumaturges. It's never too late. If people are making space for the lasombra is there really a reason we're not making a genuine effort to get the tzims back on board?>and kicking out the tremere. A few decades in the Wilderness might remind them why they thought the Camirilla was a good idea in the first place. >>98308210That still may not be a bad play for ol'leatherneck>Looks Strong>Prevents blame coming back his way>Prevents claims of coddling either side>Both tremeres and Nossies expend resources away from his leadership>And we all know Nossies are going to win this one>>98311327Starlotus, we believe you have become an abomination but no one believes>family is forever.that you've become stupid. >>98314697>won>surrounded by posers, wooden animate corpses and loupsBe safe Meowmeow. >>98317853>is that some magic fuckery>no its worst, it's mythological fuckeryGood luck with that. >>98317006Yeah don't take the fun out of it maybe. This is where 'polite society' comes in. Find you a good sheriff, one that has swift hands and some steel in his spine. Just make it known that if there's too much fuckery there will be an immediate second duel aganist him>and if that don't work there will be a third a bit later when half a dozen good fighters stake whoever for the light and swear the prince killed him in a perfectly fair duel.
>>98316298>英語上手いや、血液錬金術なら得意だよ
>>98316832>>98314697Müm? It could be we could do both. I could take Sorcerer with me to my halbclan out West, see what we can find. It was asked before, Lavendel has some information. But you with William and some Wöf, you can find that thing.
>>98316298I'll admit I got the idea from a video game about vampire-adjacent characters seeking infusions of blood from aquatic old gods and a heavy emphasis on quicksilver being a catalyst of said eldritch vitae. Beating said game is actually what got my sire to embrace me. I swear it was made by ancient vampires to elucidate esoteric secrets to other vampires, but I have zero proof. It is also the reason I tried to drink milk one time. "seek paleblood lest the hunt consume you">>98316832>Is it particularly, eh, Kindredesque? Meat furniture, ominous spirits, stashes of vitae, stuff like that?No, it's rather normal, I don't do meat furniture. H0T mentioned the dirt in the yard was weird but not how so. Surgery table, blood jars in the fridge, and coffins will be coming with me.>>98317798>I also feel it would be best to start working on the booze project but I have matters of self-empowerment. Also. Creepy Tree Ductus issue.I'm willing to help with all three of those once I'm done fleshcrafting myself into a new form.
>>98320040>I'll admit I got the idea from a video game about vampire-adjacent characters seeking infusions of blood from aquatic old gods and a heavy emphasis on quicksilver being a catalyst of said eldritch vitaeArcades have gotten wild since I was a fledgling.
>>98320040I don't think it's Mercury. But it could be that something in Vitae accumulates in us as we take it in, even as we [burn] it off, powering Disciplines. Or maybe it slowly [burns] away our non-vampirism. I wonder if that means someday I'll look like That Man again, Mr. Panda said I wouldn't, I hope he was right.
>>98318513This fellow adequately explains why those particular thoughts never crossed my mind. But now that it's said >>98317355 I cannot shake the suspicion some fool will think himself clever and try to pull just such a scheme.Ah. I have it. A duelist who is championedShall share the fate of their champion. Should also serve to keep politicians from having a champion on retainer while making sure their own backside is forever safe and secure as well.>Are you sure you want every single other clanmate of a duelist to invade the arena? Wouldn't a large amount of Brujah do more than add eyes?This does make me concerned about inviting a potential army into a secluded place. Very well. Rule of three. Duelists may have up to two seconds.As fir what shall be done with any personal posessions not declared in tge loosers will...it's obvious it shall become property of the Prince. If they forgot to include the article in question in their will, it must not have been that important to them.>>98317068No. I am not about to open THAT can of worms.>>98317659I am not starting some fighting club, I am drafting a code duello for the kindred in my domain. As such, participants would need to recognize my authority over them. Or whichever Prince follows after me, should they choose to retain said code.>>98319841Oh my sheriff is quite strong. He is rather fond of coming out of Obfuscate swinging a 10 llb sledge at tge back of miscreants heads. So far, this has worked out in his favor more often that not.And I am not particularly averse to rolling up my sleeves and getting my hands bloody myself. I do still have my Nathan Star cutlass, though these nights I fight with a D'Capitane model from Zombie Arms. They are quite durable. I fear my vampiric strength would shatter my old blade.
>>98320040Sounds all-around decent, then! Bit on the expensive side, but I suppose every single piece of property is nowadays, and I am mentally stuck in a century where you could buy a house with a thousand dollars. You'd figure all this traveling would help to stay somewhat up-to-date, but it at best somewhat delayed being baffled at six-figure numbers being attached to a plain two-bedroom.I'll get in touch with some of my associates, they should reach out to you about arranging the purchase in maybe a week or two. Please don't make any sort of wink-wink-nudge-nudge kind of gestures at the Kine buyers, by the way. You don't strike me as the sort, just, I'd really rather they don't start getting suspicious about good fortunes and enjoy them for what they are.>>98319997Finding the thing should not be an issue! Or, well, probably shouldn't be. While I'd imagine an unliving grove could in fact move if it wanted to, what with being an unliving grove, the site we found it in did seem to be of some sort of signifiance, so maybe it'll still be where it is. More of an issue would be whether we want to risk interacting with the thing at all. It was benevolent enough, but, you really can't say it was entirely benevolent when it made that group of hunters seemingly die of lethargy and malaise. I suppose bringing lupines along will serve as a decent enough way to identify what it is; if they freak out and decide to leave, that'd be a warning enough.>>98317798>IF SHE COULD STOP GNAWING HERSELF LIKE A NAUGHTY CHIHUAHUA RECENTLY NEUTEREDYou know, calling other people small dogs really will not make Victoria stop calling you one of those. If anything, she'll just start looking into what niche dog breeds you resemble the most, for accuracy's sake, it'll be a hobby for her.
>>98319841>kicking out the tremere. A few decades in the WildernessDon't they have some magic to help them live comfortably in the wilderness? My big brother in law is no Trem but he can make a haven out of plant matter?>no one believes>family is forever.>that you've become stupid.I know from Zoryana what it feels like to be kicked out of a family. What matters is that Marco is motivated to endorse my education. Unless you meant something else?>>98319901すげえ! So how's unlife in the Land of the Rising Sun this summer?>>98320040Haaaa!???? You're getting your occult education out of videogames!???? And you were even embraced over playing a videogame!????>PREPOSTEROUS.>i saw gamers as little more than easy meals for kindred, but my view of them changed a lot after meeting errand knight, i think they can be imaginative people and>NOT YOU TOO, LIANHUA.>zoryana, you have to admit that if you give a gamer an objective he will walk barefoot to hell in order toWhat are you two talking about!? Get out! Out!>>98320091>Arcades have gotten wild since I was a fledgling.Not gone wild, gone... period! They're a relic of the past in the West and keep disappearing...>i saw the rise of the arcade and immediately adapted to finding prey in there for my then domitor, i made her practically swim in blood between the 70s and 80s, in return she taught me the foundations of many disciplinesIs that the reason I know a tiny bit of everything?>it gets better, lady asano intentionally used a ghoul precisely because they are slow, limited and weaker learners as part of her research in making an 'artificial kindred of the east'Wait->yes, uncover your other powers and you will continue my research in blood cultivation, in hànzì 血功, xuègōng, or as you would pronounce it in japanese, chikō>DO NECROMANCY, KOLDUNISM OR THAUMATURGY PLAY ANY ROLE IN THIS?>maybe~ aren't you curious~What.The.Actual.Factual.Fuck?>hahahaha!
>>98317798>>98319997>>98316832>>98321282I dreamt in the day sleep. Change. Shifting shapes. Roots and thorns. Scared me out of the slumber.Woke up to H0T just sort of looming over. Worried about me.God. Still feel like a bitty baby bat. If Sorcerer is willing to join you Gun we can do it. H0T would be willing to just rot in this state but I'm not going to let her. We'll only need one of the Loups just to guide us up north and we got some money for transport. Things we've uh, 're-possessed' from the Sabbat and the late wannabe Prince.Probably best we have a meeting on how to use it. But we can afford a few flights.>>98319841Friends are friends, even if they're huge nerds.>>98320582>>98317006Have dogs with you.
>>98323269Odd you should say that. I fund a halfway house for Marines here. It's not really a secret, either. There are a handful of Marines who live in the complex permanently who handle upkeep and look after the residents. I had been getting donations from former residents who got back on their feet, and had been considering adding a rehab unit for wounded MWDs. Ah, sorry, Military Working Dogs. You've just convinced me. My Devil Dogs need their own Devil Dogs.
>>98321551>すげえ! So how's unlife in the Land of the Rising Sun this summer?Loud, garish and bright. Can't believe I missed it but it's nicer than living under canal bridges. ... Are you sharing an account with friends or..?
>>98323656Gehhh!
>>98323656>>98323674It's... complicated. A tentative explanation is that this body was made to contain the soul of an Old Clan Tzimisce lady from Ukraine who came to the US called Zoryana>GOOD EVENINGand a long lived ghoul whom the Giovanni had recently given the embrace from China, who also came to the US, called Lianhua>晚上好Lianhua was also taught Japanese because her Sire, who is the same Kindred who also created this arrangement, is Japanese: she goes by the nickname Spider Lily and decreed I ought to be her younger sister in her bloodline and noble family.Now, "this body", "made", "contain", "soul", "created" and "arrangement" are all provisional terms, and the greatest mystery of them all is... who or what is the person typing these messages and her relationship with Zoryana and Lianhua. Is it a third person? A partial or complete fusion of the two? Is there only one Star Lotus and the other two are mere voices in her head? Or one or two wraiths with her body as a fetter?Like I said, it's complicated, because I'm not just *in* uncharted territory, I *AM* the uncharted territory.I am studying Necromancy in Venice with the Sire of my 姉上 as I search for answers.
I am being 'voluntold' things.Lovely.>>98320040If this goes through I'd think it best we start on the first one. Really the latter two options may be delayed by current circumstances. Also.We didn't get our shit rocked by actual skin bandits and mongrels. Just to walk away and lose the town. So. Gonna need you to keep an eye on the assortment of gangrels and thinbloods so no one does anything funny while we're out. >>98321282XOLOTL ARE NOBLE DOGS AND I WILL SELF-COMBUST IF I HEAR HER SLANDER THEM>>98323674STOP BEING TSUN TSUN YOU MOTHER FUCKER, GET YOUR CHEAPSCATE COUNTERPARTS TO REGISTER THEMSELVES THEIR OWN ACCOUNTS.>>98323269Very well. I suppose I would prefer to go to an actual chantry at some point for arcane lore. I will consent. Supposing I get some down time to snoop about through the pages for actual rite names.
>>98321551>zoryana, you have to admit that if you give a gamer an objective he will walk barefoot to hell in order toWell I did turn into skeleton man to help my internet friends liberate a city and almost got my head torn off in the process and STILL went down into the sewers to help said internet friends find my other internet friend. To no obvious immediate benefit to myself other than it seemed like a cool quest.>Not gone wild, gone... period!Much to my chagrin, I would totally hunt nerdy bitches to feed on at an arcade if they were still around.>>98324247>Gonna need you to keep an eye on the assortment of gangrels and thinbloods so no one does anything funny while we're out.Can do.
>>98323765That sounds like, a lot. If you don't mind my asking, why would the two (three?) of you agree to such a thing?
>>98324635You're talking to the most delusional Malkavian I've ever heard.
>>98323765It's not complicated>You're an abominationSomehow even a Step below Diablerist because at least in Diablery one of the original souls has control as apposed to whatever ghost fuckery that Spider Lily did to you. Oh who knew that necromancy could be used on Vampires and Vampiric Bodies. A mystery indeed.
>>98320582Honestly a Strong Sherrif who enjoys his Job and is paid well is more then half the key to running a successful domain.>SledgeWell it's certainly a statement.>>98321551They have all kinds of magic but if you don't think that the market and blood hungry tremeres won't seethe over having less access, then you don't know Tremere very well. >>98323269>dreamt in the day sleepNo one ... Fuck I hate malkavians sometimes. We're dead during the day, We don't sleep. Malkavians aren't even really sleeping, its just complicated. I figured out which left it was Meowmeow. Thanks. >update on MehicoIt's hot and dusty>even at night. Driving these scrubass deserts sucks, the little hidden quagmires and villages suck more and the fucking gormless looks of the people suck threefold. I've sent missives to the Ventrues of all people about the encircling action the sabbat is doing at the moment. While>>98314687May not have been them directly, they no doubt wanted that chaos to hold down the north. Plus that Cultfuckery had to be put down. Everyone who helped towards that goal, did us all a favour and as much as it sticks in my craw>Thank you. So after investigating further into mexico then I planned, sleeping rough, driving all night for several nights, and several villages I found what the Don described. It's in Coahuilla hell I'm like halfway to Mexico City not that I want to get closer. Things have died down after that last stunt and getting out of Juarez. And I found it, wild. Fucking Pyramid hidden in this shit. Most of this land is flat, whatever forests were here were cut down a long time ago. Like the houses not much grows tall here, no point.But the valley was damn near hidden. If someone hadn't picked my ear I never even would have found the switchback to the gormless village and then this valley. Barely big enough for the pyramid but here it is. It's something, They did something bad here.
>>98325075>They did something bad here.Real bad. This pyramid got to be about 4 stories tall but the valley is so hidden , I doubt the top of the pyramid even peaks above the bluffs on the side. It's covered in deep channels. Maybe its dust and water makign the dark gunk that lines the very bottom of them, spread in spirals and lines all over this damn thing. >But I can taste the blood in the airHell when I take my Kabar, and drag it along a channel it sparks like its hitting flint, the gunk stays in place. And at the top of it there's a table? Slab? It sort of looks like a Slab to me. There's more gunk here, Whatever Jalan was hunting it was rumored to be a god, and I don't doubt that my presence is known here. I've waited two nights and a day here , expecting someone to bust in , bust up. But no. Whatever Jalan was searching for is gone or dead. Jalan, if I may borrow the local tongue, look like a Gringo. he got his Levi jeans, a shirt torn to tatters that I don't doubt cost more then some of the villeagers make in year. He's been beat up, no duobt. But he ain't dead. He damn well crawled his ass up on that Slab and is having a good sleep. I have no idea why the sun hasn't dusted him. But it hasn't. Like I said, Spooky. Mexcian Shit. That said, he's Torpid. He might get up on his own in a few years or a century. I never really asked the Don how old this Honcho was supposed to be, seemed rude at the time. If I revive Jalan, maybe he be happy maybe not so much. I don't think Winners get on the Slab. Might just be me thinking that . Jalan could bring the Sabbat Gangrel to heel. Maybe let our clan be the free spirits they were meant to be. >Then again he is a sabbat cocksuckerDecissions, Decissions. I'm kind of glad Stripper didn't come now.
Once I would have said I was having a cold fit. That in my martial ardor I had spent my body's nervous fluid. Now, you would call it an adrenaline crash.Either way it's a lie. A damnable lie. My body is dead. My blood is cold. No chemicals burn in my system. And yet...I feel light. Floaty. The Beast is howling. Louder and more close than at any point before.If I move, I fear I will do so with every ounce of my vampiric strength. I would tear this building to it's foundations. I dare not even type. I am dictating to Mina.They attacked my halfway house. A Sanctuary. The Sabbat attacked the only men in this Godforsaken swamp who know what Honor is. What it means to have a code. MY. MEN.In a moment I will master my rage. I will force the Beast back into it's cell. Mina will then tell me the names of the traitors who let the Sabbat in. She does not have to, I already know. Only one Clan could be so paranoid, so convinced they labor under unearned enmity that they would bite at the only hand even trying to help them. But it will be good to have plenty of evidence to explain why tonight every Tremere in Jacksonville dies screaming.
>>98325992You may also want to reconsider your current alliance with the Anarchs of St. Augustine. One of their Barons smuggled in the Sabbat pack from a couple months ago, plus provided them with shelter and intel. That's indirectly tied to the mummy incident and the Tremere chantry's destruction, which is a catalyst for our current situation.
>>98324972>Somehow even a Step below Diablerist because at least in Diablery one of the original souls has controlBut the other soul is destroyed forever! Wasn't that the 2nd most important reason Diablerie is considered worse than destruction?>>98324635We didn't. Big sis Spider Lily raided Zoryana's haven, where Lianhua also lived, ordered the two to fight, the two couldn't fight back or escape the Elder Necromancer. Supposedly the fight was part of a completely new experimental Necromantic ritual but for reasons we can all imagine the memories between the second half of the fight and my awakening were erased.Oh, I didn't ask you, but in which city did you sleep under the canal bridges?>>98324688I AM NOT a Malkaviannn!!! Girls? Post your lineages!>lǐ liánhuā>ninth generation kindred of the clan of death>childe of tsuna of the asano>childe of marco della passaglia>childe of diego giovanni>childe of giacomo giovanni>childe of matthaeus giovanni>childe of augustus giovanni>childe and usurper of cappadocius>childe of irad>childe of caine>IN THE BEGINNING WAS BOGŬ THE ONE;>BOGŬ THE ONE CREATED ADAM KADMON THE FIRST MAN;>ADAM KADMON THE FIRST MAN BEGAT AZAZEL-CAINE THE DARK FATHER;>AZAZEL-CAINE THE DARK FATHER SIRED YNOSH THE WISE;>YNOSH THE WISE SIRED THE ELDEST;>THE ELDEST SIRED IONACHE THE FIRST VOIVODE;>IONACHE THE FIRST VOIVODE SIRED VIRINEIA THE SORCERESS;>VIRINEIA THE SORCERESS SIRED PANAS THE ROMANSLAYER;>PANAS THE ROMANSLAYER SIRED BOGDAN THE CHIVALROUS;>BOGDAN THE CHIVALROUS SIRED KNYAHYNYA ZORYANA SOLOMIYA SANGUSHKO THE FREE,>ESTRANGED TZIMISCE OF THE OLD CLAN,>SEVEN TIMES REMOVED FROM AZAZEL-CAINE.See? No Malkavians to speak of- Huh? Bogŭ? Azazel-Caine? Who the fuck is Azazel?>BOGŬ IS THE OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC WORD FOR THE BIBLICAL GOD YOU WILL FIND IN TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK TEXTS LIKE THE SEPTUAGINT AND NEW TESTAMENT.>AS TO THE OTHER QUESTION, I NEVER KNEW THE ANSWER. I MERELY RECITE THE INFORMATION AS IT WAS PASSED DOWN TO ME.
>>98326804Really not beating those Lunatic allegations there. All eyes. No stomach to break down the meal.And you have activated my trap card! Basic understanding of the Tal'Ma'Ra terminology! Naughty little scion of the black hand! Demented eschatological muppet!
>>98326882Erm, in English, pretty please? Could you explain it to me like I'm five?
It's not any one thing. They betrayed the sect to the Sabbat. They caused an attack on (one) of my (more public) havens. They attacked my herd. They attacked my brothers. They attacked my city. They attacked what was mine. And they planned it all while I was agonizing over the necessity of a Prince not playing favorites. Trying to keep a war from breaking out between the citiy' s kindred without exiling an entire clan.I do not even dislike the Tremere in and of themselves. It's the various forms of Blood Sorcery I have issue with. I suppose It's time I elaborate.>>98325114I have mentioned I took personal part in the Mexican-American War. Not as a mortal marine, but as a Vampire guerilla. I learned the hard way that was a bad idea. Many beings often have their own intrests and concerns regarding the outcome of the wars of the Kine. And setting foot on the battlefield draws their eyes to you.The first was a Lasombra. He babbled at me for a bit in spanish, then robbed me of my senses with his Shadow Puppetry before striking at me with his rapier. Once I understood I could still feel, I seized his arm when he ran me through, causing his thrust to just miss my heart and, knowing where was because I was still holding him, I clawed him open from groin to neck. I won only because I surprised him with my durability, but I still have that fancy steel rapier in my trophy case.The next to come for me was one of those Aztecs Blood Gods. Now, I am an Elder. Young for one of that tittle, yes, but still an Elder. Back then I was, at best, an experienced neonate. Had I never been embraced it was conceivable I could have still been alive at the time. I had no chance against such an ancient vampire. I survived for one reason. He WANTED me to go. To warn others to stay out of his territory.I've hated blood magic ever since.
>>98327275The Black Hand! The 'Hand of No Sun!' Wretched death seekers and devil worshippers who stole vitae from nobler clans! They refer to the Dark Father by the name Azazel-Caine, and seek to incite Gehenna to serve their own ends. Many do not believe they exist, others still murder those who dare name them as they simper over the purity of the Dark Father's sword. Bah!Insufferable conspirators of their ilk sully the cause of the Sabbat endlessly. And they are enemies of almost all vampires for good reason! >>98327284As a nascent Sorcerer, the natural experience of a sorcerer is wanting to kill other sorcerers.Granted. Most of them have it coming. Scumbag ladder climbers.
>>98325992>why tonight every Tremere in Jacksonville dies screaming.Good Man. We don't say it enough but Fuck the Tremere. >>98326804Reading comprehension still not your forte I see.Either way, I've made my decision. I'm going back to Juarez. I got something I want to settle a little, hopefully the fucking ventrues get back to me. Hey I need some Nosferatu Deformities for a Nossie Character I planned in a cross over game. The closest thing I have now is 'Nose like a fleshy beak or probiscus', but if anyone wanted to suggest some memorable deformities I would be in your debt.
>>98325992>In a moment I will master my rage. I will force the Beast back into it's cell. Pussy. Sabbat will see you do that and come to the same conclusion I just did, too. They wanna play at being monsters, you show them you got bigger fangs and sharper claws, or you might as well not show at all.>why tonight every Tremere in Jacksonville dies screaming.Pussy with decent odds on getting all the blood boiled out of him because he decided to throw hands with the wizards, and announced as much on a public chatroom. So much for forcing the Beast back, eh? >>98327655 Could always start with taking normal diseases and genetic oddities and making them weirder or more pronounced. Teratoma's a classic. Random teeth, hair, eyes that form in messy, disgusting chunks. Could have some end up peeking out if the guy gets injured enough to tear his skin, for extra horror he could even be unaware he's got teeth, eyes and hair hiding in his arm or something until he starts seeing out of it. Harlequin ichthyosis is fucking horrifying to look at, and very distinctive; to make it more horrifying you'd have to make your presumably adult nossie have the newborn version of it, but it's a curse, it can work weird. Epidermodysplasia verruciformis makes you look kind of like a tree, also very distinct and impossible to hide.
>>98327741You really don't understand that Humans win do you? Human soldiers will annihilate each and everyone of us. They will drag us from our holes, they will see every ounze of our rage and fearfulness. And they will still kill you. >Why don't your fancy powers matter?Beacuse at the end of the day Cooperation and Selflessness are a gift from god that will trump every one of our so called powers, our rage, our beast. Will all be brought to heel by the sheppard or even the sheep of all things. It's important to remember that, you'll live longer. Good ideas thank you
>>98327741Oh look. A prime example of A dumbass Tremere talking shit they can't back up. Just how many Tremere in a normal city do you think even know that ritual? Then are good enough to touch a guy who knows full well if the wizard is trying to touch him he should avoid it? Then will actually be able to hurt a guy who.is Gangrel levels of tough?The Tremere in Jacksonville just talked themselves into comitting High fucking Treason, like a fucking Soverign.citizen protesting a speeding ticket to the point they get themselves arested and their car impounded! You think those asshats are just gonna expeliriarimus away an entire Blood Hunt?
>>98327631But nobody in this body has any recollection of ever joining or interacting with this Black Hand? Seems it would make sense for such a group to not let in Zoryana in for being too human and/or young.>THE OLD CLAN THINK YOU'RE A NEONATE IF YOU'RE UNDER TWO CENTURIES OLD REGARDLESS.>i'm grasping at straws here but given you say the black hand are death seekers and thieves of vitae... among the various goals lady asano is pursuing, she is searching for a way to learn necromancy from a nagaraja, do the two groups have anything to do with each other?>>98327655>Reading comprehension still not your forte I see.Hnggg!!! Then if you know that, lower the difficulty!!!when their skin is cut, it heals improperly and forms keloidsalso look up Joseph Merrick The Elephant Man, by the way David Lynch did a great movie about him and it's highly recommended to all Nosferatu players
>>98328590IMBECILE THE FLESH EATERS WERE ONCE SERVITORS OF THE BLACK HAND, CRAFTED NOT UNLIKE THE GARGOYLES WERE TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THE PROJENITOR CLANMANY REMAIN SO- AND THE PITCHED INTERESTS OF THE LIGHTLESS CONSPIRACY ROTATE BETWEEN DOMINATING THE CHILDREN OF SETH AND HITTING THE FUNNY "KILL EVERYONE INCLUDING GOD" BUTTON! IT IS MADDENING!ALSO >>98323269 WHY THE FUCK DID SHE HAVE THIS IN A PDFFORTY YEARS THE HOUSE OF GORGON FESTERED IN CALIFORNIA WHORING ITSELF OUT FOR MEAGRE CRUMBS OF KNOWLEDGE, FROM WHICH I BARELY UNDERSTOOD THE VERY NAME OF THE LIGHTLESS HAND AND FOR SOME FUCKINGREASONTHE FUNNY GAELIC HALFBREED WHO LIVED IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND HAD THISI HAVE FURY
>>98326804>Oh, I didn't ask you, but in which city did you sleep under the canal bridges?Dotunbori, a district of Osaka, built around a Canal in 1615 that was made by a man who turned out to be entirely ficticuous. You or Fear-han might know it from the Yakuza games, especially 0.
>>98329155It's a beautiful place to visit, but the requisites to (un)live here are... stringeant. On that note, I need to get back to work. New disciplines won't invent themselves...
>>98329155I've never actually played a Yakuza game. As a Tzimisce: no character creator = no sale.
>>98328521To be fair, Tats isn't a Tremere. If memory serves, she's a Brujah. It probably also explains why why she's trying to antagonize the Prince of Jacksonville; what with the whole anti-authority schtick and all.
>>98328744IDK what to tell you man she likes reading and jumped on net stuff. And. Your old chantrymates were dumb.
>>98328744>IMBECILE This gratuitous bullying has to stop! Even a cat told me to piss off tonight! At least it means I can take Animalism off the list.So the theory that Big sis Spider Lily may have met Zoryana's Grandsire, or is considering doing so, in her search of a Nagaraja has some merit to it.>IF YOU THINK CAT BEHAVIOUR IS COMPLEX, UNPREDICTABLE AND IRRITATING, TRY AND TALK TO TWO OR MORE CATS. ONLY THEN YOU WILL EXPERIENCE TRUE FRUSTRATION.>my culture has a 'complicated relationship' with animals, we have a saying of our own for it: "anything that turns its back to heaven is for people to eat"Good or bad kitty, I'm not having one for dinner! We're in Venice, not Vicenza!!!!>>98329155>Fear-hanあら! 関西弁...>Yakuza gamesFar too recent for Lianhua to have played it. Nope she was all over Dragon's Lair, Ms. Pac-Man, Track & Field, Kung-Fu Master, Karate Champ, 1942, Pole Position, Xevious. Or their players, more like.>hey player one~ would you like to see some real gōngfū~Ohhh! That reminds me... ACHOOOO!!!! WAAA-TAH!!!! Shhhhh... Is this Jeet Kune Do?>now i know i did not die on that night, because i think i died a little inside nowI know kung fu!>why did you have to do it in front of the mirror? >THE FORM BEING SO GOOD ONLY MAKES IT MORE CRINGE."You have offended my family, and you have offended the Shaolin Temple!">W-WHY IS SHE'S SPEAKING OFF SYNC?!>but bruce lee was in sync in that scene... i'm not normally a praying woman, or a deserving one, but if you're up there, please let me move on to the next life, lady asano... >>98329162>New disciplines won't invent themselves...Disciplines can be invented? YOU can invent them!? Are you some kind of Methuselah!?
>>98331457YOU WERE SIRED FOR BULLYING>>98330985hNNGHANnnnasaaaaaaaaach. Fucking- Not incorrect. >What does the budget look like okaaayWell. Tickets purchased.
>>98328521Waaah waaah waaaaaah I never went into a fight with a Tremere in the field waah waaaah somebody pay attention to me and to that I am fucking stupid waaaaaaAAAH.You'll eventually figure out why assuming the wizards can't pull a weird scroll out of their prison pockets is a bad idea. Prolly when you get blood boiled.>>98330106>Tats isn't a Tremere. If memory serves, she's a Brujah.Correct.>It probably also explains why why she's trying to antagonize the Prince of Jacksonville; what with the whole anti-authority schtick and all.Incorrect. I don't really give much of a shit about princes, at least about most of them on the East Coast. This one is just a bitch, running his mouth and obviously giving in to his Beast while also talking about not giving in to it. He'll commit suicide by Sabbat, wizard, or Sabbat wizard, given his attitude thus far.So I poke him. He either ends up wiping them, which's a win given how they apparently act, or he dies mad, which is a win.Win-win.
>>98331662>So I poke him. He either ends up wiping them, which's a win given how they apparently act, or he dies mad, which is a win.>Win-win.You have very strange definitions of "winning" then. I do not, and would never ever, call a period of instability because the Prince of a city either died or vanished a "win." But I suppose Brujah aren't known for thinking about "what happens while we transition from one regime to a new one."
>>98331737He's on track to die as he is anyways, which is my point. He either fixes that, which is a win, or he at least dies funny, which is a win.
>>98331662Sounds like sombody got absolutely bodied once and has been sucking every dick that smells the same out of abject terror ever since.
>>98331457>Disciplines can be invented? YOU can invent them!? Are you some kind of Methuselah!?Yes. Yes, theoretically. And near as I can tell, I can because I'm as far from a Methuselah as possible. The explanation is over my head, something about "Clan Curses" and mine being stripped away by Mr. Panda.
>>98331662>>98331781Or he summons you to Jacksonville and beats some courtesy into your clown ass.
>>98333453Pander, not Panda! Panders are the Caitiff, also known as Clanless or Unbound, who are part of the Sabbat!
>>98332371It's really more that I saw somebody else get bodied by a comically unassuming group of Tremere. Blood magic's blood magic, man, if you don't expect the worst out of it you're suicidal. You still can beat the shit out of the Tremere, you just should be fucking aware of what they can do. Sort of like when you're trying to catch a Nossie, them going invisible as a trademark trick is kind of important.>>98333461>hello>HellOOOOOOOOO>is this the PRINCE of BRIDGEPORT?>One of your BRUJAHS was RUDE TO ME on the SCHRECKED NETS >I demAND you send her my way IMMEDIATELY so I could TEACH HER COURTESY >what>what do you mean we're across a coast and I don't have any authority whatsoever in your city>what do you mean all I can really do is ask you nicely and offer you favors in return for doing this for me>or spend political capital to get back at her in some other wayI've said he's a pussy, not that he's an idiot who doesn't understand how domains work. Not sure this is how that scenario's panning out.Can't wait until you're a Prince of some town somewhere, man, that'd be a very funny seven minutes.Trying to get a feel for writing an obnoxious Brujah agitator. If it's getting more annoying than entertaining, and starts dragging the thread down, let me know and I'll dial it back, I want Tats to be occasionally a nuisance in-character, instead of being annoying read.
>>98334142A priscus tooling around random cities turning random ass Nossies(?) into Clanless?
>>98334235Oopsies! I guess I was mistaken. I thought Panda above was a mispronounciation of Pander- hold on, did you just say it is possible to remove the curse of the Nosferatu? Wouldn't that be of immediate interest to virtually the entire clan all over the world!? There must to be some kind of limitation or trade-off to this transformation!
I've been dead for a year now and I still think "Lupines" are a fucking Gangrel larper group. Like, how the FUCK would you even tell this shit apart? It's so obvious that they don't want us muscling in on their territory or some shit. Not like there's literally anything interesting thousands of miles into dipshit forest or whatever, I'd know, I've been there when I was a child.Fuck, man. I just want to see my childhood forest again, but all the peeps keep telling me the Lupines, the Lupines, there's Lupines in that forest and they tear Kindred apart. Fucking Gangrel Territory bullshit, leave the hikers and parkrangers alone, don't they? Telling, as if """"Lupines"""" would do that.
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>>98334553I'm pretty sure the Winnipeg crew can assure you that, yes, Lupines are very much a real thing.
>>98334553I'm gonna be real.Like a lot of what you're told is "just so" as a kindred is horse shit.Lupines aren't realThere's no secret cabals of wizards besides the ones who are also kindred.There's no such thing as fairies The entire bible is allegorical and yes that includes Caine - motherfucker isn't real.I do want to emphasize something thought: Ghosts are very fucking real.
>>98331457>Disciplines can be invented? YOU can invent them!? Are you some kind of Methuselah!?You are a fool if you think the power of the blood has been fully explored
>>98334553Isn't it convenient that when these "Lupines" deign to interact with the Kindred, none are seen, and a Gangrel is always acting as a mediator and relaying every word? Heed the Call of the Wild, young one.
>>98334885You think that if they ran into one of the new Winnipeg Gangrels they'd be able to tell if they were even kindred?I'm actually asking the word about some of those Protean antics makes me feel weird.I could have gotten lucky and been a cool freak. Instead my OCD just got worse.>>98334553Okay then go do it and take pictures.
>>98334553Yeah no shit asshole.What? Our whole society is based around lying to people, and you thought the buck stopped at you?EVERYONE YOU MEET EVERY NIGHT IS FULL OF SHIT!
>>98334553>Like, how the FUCK would you even tell this shit apart?Yea. Uh. Bro that weird wolf starts walking on two legs, balloons to ten feet tall, starts running at you out of the brush.Shit is wild man.
>>98335271>Yeah man it's not a gangrel. It's just doing shit that gangrels do. TOTALLY not a gangrel.
>>98335281You talk a big game for someone hiding from some "gangrels" man. We got Starlinks and shit go out and stream it for us. You'll either learn or you won't be talking shit.
Whew, that was a fun filled evening. Starts out with everyone gathered for Elysium. Now, I know the Prince is gonna unveil his code duello so we can hash it with the Tremere without having to go to war, and am just noticing the distinct lack of pointy hats when the Prince strides in with a face like a thundercloud and a sword on his hip. He procedes to inform us all a Sabbat hit squad just targeted his Herd in Halfway House he funds. Worse than I was expecting. Just as that is sinking in in he drops the bombshell the fucking wizards are the ones who tipped the Sabbat off and smuggled them in! I shoot a look over to the Assimite Primogen (Should you visit our fair city, I strongly recommend staying the fuck out of Emerson.) And he is grinning ear to ear even before the words leave the Prince's mouth: Blood Hunt.So with the Prince leading us we all head out to the new chantry, the one they've been rebuilding. Since it's brand new the wards are nothing special yet. Whike the Ghouls and Neonates are testing the defences, our Primogen lets the Prince know JSO thinks there's a gas leak and to keep people away, while the Prince himself is spreading out owls, bats, rats, stray cats and dogs in a surveillance grid. Explains the mountain.of fast food he had some of the kids gather. Bribes.Once the doors are breached oir Clan gets to take point. With me obfuscated in the lead, even our Prim is with us, though he's playing ass end charlie. The first apprentices head just explodes under a sledge he never saw coming. There was only 5 of them, so the rest of the clan makes short work of them. But as we push deeper we see the Tremere Prim amd his 3 pet ancilla vanishing into a mirror.I think it's gonna be a long night of hide and go seek, but the Prince walks slowly around the mirror, takes a few sniffs, and then says "with me."
>>98335695We get in this Hot Pink Cadillac El Dorado and off we go, He's tracking them somehow. A short ride later and we stop in front of a brownstone, his left hand turns into a freaky Gangrel claw and he draws his blade with the right. I follow his lead and Ob up. He just nods and says "when you see your chance, take it."The actual fight was something to see, let me tell you. When the Prince burst in through wall, slicing up one of the Ancilla as he did, the other two tag teamed him, one grabbed him with Telekinesis, another threw a bonfire on him, and the Primogen looked like he was making sure the bonfire didn't get out of control. That bonfire spooked me pretty bad, damn near bolted, but I held it together.The Prince though? Those flames just washed right over him. Didn't even look like he was burned at all. Without missing a beat, he holds out his left hand and this spike of bone shoots out on a jet of blood, kills the one holding him instantly. Somehow the Prince lands on his feet, and is in the flame throwers face instantly chopping away with his sword. I ser the prims hands start glowing but as I move up on him, he doesn't register me, So he doesn't have that much Auspex. He starts ranting about how the Prince set his Clan up, fed them to s mummy for his pet Nosferatu. I wish. Pretty sure we don't get along THAT well. But then I hit the Prim and that's that. I get out my phone and spread the word the Blood Hunt is over. The Prince and I head back to the Elysium, the Prince sits his throne, and everyone looks at him expectantly. He starts to clean, oil and sharpen his sword, pauses, and makes this get on with it wrist twirling gesture, before turning back to his sword. So we all go back to our political games.
>>98335327Are you stupid or something?>Hey we think "lupines" are some bullshit made up gangrels so they can murder people who go onto their turf and blame it on "werewolves">OH REALLY ANON?! WHY DON'T YOU GO INTO THE WOODS WITH A GOPRO AND GET MURDERED BY GANGRELS TO PROVE IT THAT IT'S THE GANGRELS DOING THE MURDERS! ALSO STREAM IT TO TWITCH SO THAT IF YOU DON'T DIE YOU'LL DEFINITELY BE KILLED FOR BREACHING THE MASQUERADE!
I continue to be shocked and disheartened at how many Kindred can access this secret network, but seem completely ignorant about the concept of archives.
>>98335752I might not be smart but you sound like you breathed with your mouth when you lived. Worse you sound like a bitch.>Oh I can't possibly do the thing I gotta be a big baby and whinnnnnnne about it on the netFucking coward ass.
>>98335762What does it say about vampires as a species that only the dumbest of kine are being embraced these days? Like a baby, sure you're gambling. But a Childe? Who is letting these midwit sires embrace these smooth brained Childer?
>>98335817>What does it say about vampires as a species that only the dumbest of kine are being embraced these days?That these truly are The Final Nights.
>>98335762Yes hello fellow Kindred please reveal the locations of all archived Kindred Knowledge so that I can better understand all things Kindred. This will certainly never, at any point, be used against us.There's a reason these threads are fucking ephemeral, man.
>>98335834These threads are archived you muppet!!!
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>>98335782Walking into an obvious trap that ends with you 100% experiencing final death is not brave. It's stupid.But hey man. You want to prove me wrong? You've already made the suggestion. Go into the woods with a livestream. Meet a "lupine." Shake his hand. Prove that it's something that's not a fucking Gangrel.
>>98335845Wait you're serious?Right we need to find whatever dipshit Nosferatu thought "we should archive the thing we made intentionally ephemeral", kill him, kill any ghouls he has, kill any childe he may spawned, kill their ghouls, kill his sire, kill their ghouls, kill any other children that sire had, kill anyone associated with him and destroy that archive. Total eradication of the fucking bloodline.The whole reason this shit is temporary is because WE HAVE ENEMIES.
>>98335862Can you kill whoever came up with the Captchas first? Asking for a friend.
>>98335862Regardless of the wisdom of keeping these threads, the fact remains that they are archived and any Kindred who is able to access this network is also able to make use of them to be informed of previous events and discussions. And yet, for some reason, they chose not to make use of them and instead choose to vomit such nonsense as "do you think Lupines are real?"Forget the archives, THIS THREAD has multiple posts from the Kindred in Winnipeg that mentions Lupines as allies in the battle against an insane Sabbat Bishop!
>>98334539There is, it doesn't always work. Something about the thickening of the blood making the curse too strong for the ritual to take. That, incidentally was why my "sire" was after him.
>>98334235>>98334539Given the Panders by now are a whole ass clan, it's entirely plausible that a different Mr. Pander met and helped Bat. Not every Louis in France (or Osaka) is Louis XIVth and so forth.That said, yeah; Joe would.
>>98335848BAWK BAWK BAWK WHOLE LOTTA BITCH TALKHave one of the older ones auntie took back when that Michagan shit went down. I ain't tagging any of my current neighbours. I think I can get them to buy my product.
>>98335926Yeah, and it's all a Gangrel Psyop. People who buy too much into that shit actually believing it's Lupines and not just Gangrel, as always. Or more likely, people fucking with you.
>>98337102yes. because clan gangrel, with its inability to work together en-mass since the end of the middle ages en-mass is clearly capable of such a feat.the one currently fractured between sabbat, camarilla, ashira, anarch, and the sort of monsters swollen with blood they could not be contained to political affiliation? who, as a clan have not even managed a functional moot in the balkans since the victorian era and actively sabotage one another to the point of near extinction? who despise social conventions and happily murder one another over vast tracks of empty forest? that clan gangrel, against all odds has somehow masqueraded a whole imaginary race mentioned in the book of nod, for millennia, just to scare kindred out of their woods?
>>98337456You really gotta call us out like that? Its worst because its truehttps://youtu.be/3mbBbFH9fAg
>>98337456I must confess I am mildly surpised every time I see the Gangrel clan whip at Elysium.
>>98337456>the one currently fractured between sabbat, camarilla, ashira, anarch, and the sort of monsters swollen with blood they could not be contained to political affiliation?To fool all of vampirekind, one eould need agents in each sect. Plus, aren't the Sabbat Gangrel generally in the city and Camarilla ones out in the wilderness, meaning it'd be much harder for their "allies" to contact and contradict them? And while there aren't any Gangs that I know lf in Osaka, the three who post here seem pretty savvy politically, though Ms. Garou would probably object.
>>98337456So? They're just Gangrel that've gone a bit cuckoo, then. Doesn't mean ALL Gangrel gotta be in on this shit. Just don't make it sound all mysterious, like it's not just fucking crazy woodlands Gangrel. Don't need to dripfeed me some fucking horror story of some make believe villain when I'm a fuckings godsdamned vampire myself. We already have terrible things beyond (im)mortal comprehension, they're called Tremere.
>>98337102Would you trust the word of a Tzimisce? I almost got my head ripped off by a werewolf just the other day, and it was clearly NOT a gangrel.
>>98337928>Would you trust the word of a Tzimisce?Is this a joke?
>>98338089We're a very honorable sort. Law of hospitality and all that.
Which one of you fuckers
>>98339690What does he mean by "Tzimisce in real life" I wonder? Is he implying that there are fictional Tzimisce?
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