>TQ
Being a blood doll.
>>97551454
>The phrase fish-malk gives Mèo anxiety.
Cats eat fish. Cat-malk.

>/TQ/
I honestly don't know. Can't say if that's a boon for my current metal, or pathetic.

Maybe my race, if I had to pick something. When I was a little girl I remember kind of hating my parents for making me, though, can't say how much of that was for being Metis and how much of that was for being an orphan.

Mèo though? Her family had basically groomed her to be a super heir to their family fortunes by prepping her to be an eye doctor. Whole nine yards for an over-achieving viet family's eldest, A+ grades, extra-curricular activities in high school and volunteering in university.

Then she got bit.

>>97551575
Some clan issues have a lot more weight than others. Can't blame her for it.

She's been dragged through the mire of 'ha ha so silly what will the funny Malk do next? Oh, almost dying because the heartbeat of unknowable ancients almost got her killed? So silly!'

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>>97542189
Non, merci. I've had my fill of the Palatine and her misfit minions. Enough to fill another two lifetimes, if I'm being quite frank.

>>97545956
Pour mieux te serrer dans mes bras, mon cher.

>>97547133
>Avoid men in checkered suits for the time being. You can't, but just so you have a heads up.
My, how ominous! Merci.

Unfortunately, a combination of burnout, getting sick, and a family emergency kept me from finishing the other sketches and posting the events in Jacksonville as I had originally intended.

GOOD NEWS GENTLEMEN, THE PRIMOGEN OF THE NEW YORK LASOMBRA IS D. E. A. D. DEAD! SKULL WAS PRODUCED, PICTURES TAKEN, AND THE REWARD HAS BEEN PAID OUT.

EAT IT YE TURNCOAT RATS!

Sadly, the former Arch-Bishop has fled for Europa, and the bounty is locked. New bounties will be posted at the leisure of our generous sponsors

>>97551553
I had a stupid mole on the side of my face I hated so much I had it lanced

That was back when an infection could kill you and the states still had those bullshit laws that let you do whatever the fuck you wanted with medicine

Didn't even deal with the issue, I hated the scar from the lancing procedure

Flash forward a decade and alter a deal with a sewer hoodlum and I got my spine turned into an accordian and my face got turned into a little kids nightmare

and I aint regretted it. is real liberating

>>97552128
take your time, you're like a third of the reason i got into these threads and its always a pleasure seeing your stuff. at your own pace boss.

>>97552249

>a third of the reason
what were the other reasons besides Bleus' honkers?

>>97552249
>EAT IT YE TURNCOAT RATS!
You know damn well it was probably a Lasombra who did it.

continuation of >>97540991
if anyone has input, feel free to give it.
After the battle noises began to fade, Revelation waited. After what felt like eternity door blasted inward and Revelation watched as tentacles emerged from the shadows of her circle and threw them through the walls to be dealt with by the forces outside. In walked in a tall man with a wicked grin.
"Hello Revelation, I've waited for this meeting. Let's get right onto business...."
if Princess Charming wants to chime in and tell me what ending Revelation will get that'd be appreciated, if I can pick then I'm using some Mytherceria for a fitting punishment.
>>97552792
Not sure, Probably one of the headhunter teams dispatched from our alliance. Definitely not one of ours though. -Kakophoni

>>97552792
oh colma baby we both know 50% of that dosh is going to backstabbers in the clan.
other half though? can't say. half of the eastern seaboard was looking for an excuse to use their knives on the fence-sitters
and now i get to watch them scramble
dms are flying and we have a new power-struggle on our hands

>>97552774
Primadonna shit and some of the stories we've had, marquette actually made me want to play a WoD game at some point. Be lying though if I said my favourite gimpforatu wasn't as much a factor as sniddies. Went back through all the threads to make sure I didn't miss any of him.

>>97552808
I want the 2nd Battle of New York to go like this:

The East Coast Garou Nation have their Concolation, a massive gathering on the 17th under the New Moon, and launch 2 operations: massacring the vampires they meet (a diversion) and "rescuing" Papa Wolf to "return" him alive to Siberia (main operation), they believe he isn't simply a lost cub but a lost Legend. Silver Fangs think they can heal their relations with the Siberakh this way.

Werewolves do have Delirium but they aren't going to be subtle about it, attracting the attention of the hunters who are already preparing their next move.

Hunters are fucking pissed and they launch their third strike on North Bronx with their Intergovernmental Task Force on Extraordinary Counter-Terrorist Response.

This is where Scholar comes in. Scholar attacks from the center, quickly trying to decapitate New Carthage by going for the leadership.

In the middle of the vampire vs vampire vs werewolf vs hunter chaos, another faction shows up out of nowhere: the Palatine Voivodate and their monsters.

Michael the Taxiarch's forces finally strike: Scholar's attack from within, Michael's rush from the outside.

House Venus will return to Bridgeport, CT. What Princess Charming, Venus and their superiors did was help assemble the new NY Camarilla leadership from a selection of kindred from Europe and the US with excellent pedigree, loyalty, ability. With the help of a book by the late Boy Toy, they found a suitable Prince.

To give you a few ideas, the Toreador Primogen invented cinematography, the Hounds are all childer or grandchilder of current Justicars, Blue Fairy's the Scourge.

This high profile government was made to ensure no bicentennial Caitiff thinks of stealing a city of the New World from the Camarilla ever again. It's not just about New York anymore.

My only request for the battle itself is that while Revelation is still alive, the skin of her face is sent to Venus.

The rest is up to you.

>>97549323
>>97549327
I will not make Assoluta frenzy again
I will not make Assoluta frenzy again
I will not make Assoluta frenzy again
I will not make Assoluta frenzy again
I will not make Assoluta frenzy again

>Thread question
I wanted to be famous. Now I am content with being known by and performing for the select few.
>>97555228
Please, I am just an opera singer.

>THREAD QUESTION
Marketing to the common man, it's similar to Assoluta's answer when I think about it.
>>97552249
>THE PRIMOGEN OF THE NEW YORK LASOMBRA IS D. E. A. D. DEAD! SKULL WAS PRODUCED, PICTURES TAKEN, AND THE REWARD HAS BEEN PAID OUT.
Was this another machination of Revelation?
>>97555228
She didn't even touch you! Being on the receiving end of this side of Assoluta was an unlife-affirming experience, to borrow Mamma's words. In that hell, I found my heaven.

>>97555228
What's the matter, childe? Too hardcore for you? Too "metal", perhaps?
You said it best yourself, honey:
>Not gonna lie this shit is teaching me so much about what a vampire really is.
This too is part of your education.

>>97552128
oh my god, of all things I certainly didn't expect to see art of Gimpweeb Supreme. Great work, Serpent! And yeah, that stuff happens. Good to see you again.
>>97554121
Sounds fitting, all around. Michael's force is professional and ruthless, outwardly resembling a PMC, but with quite uncanny and obvious stuffness and automaton-y movements, owing to heavy use of Dominate commands and control to maximize efficiency. It's made up of ghouls and Ventrue shock troops, with a few of his younger childer and older grandchilder as the officers, and a quartet of elders as the overall leadership and mass-controllers who pull the Possession flavor of Dominate, but on scale of fireteams, concentrating firepower on werewolves and Kindred until the target is pulp. They're also the ones who actually understand how the modern world works, hence the army not resembling hoplites or whatever. Noblesse and his coterie got dragged into the fighting, and Michael himself is in Bridgeport, half to chat up his Childe there, half to observe the war in New York. Also, to visit the New World, in general, he's not one to travel often.

It'll go well until the Palatine, being a fairly childish, uppity, foul person, and still upset about her Mutihorn, brings out her trump card; a dragon.

>>97556263
It's a dragon only in fairly loose terms, being, instead, just the same Tzimmy shit as her unicorn was, but even more complex and even more annoying to deal with. She didn't bring it out before on account of not being able to complete it, and not having a really good reason to, but New York being on fire is a great reason.

Anatomically it's as horrid as expected. The neck and head, for instance, are actually a fair number of bodies lenghtened and shaped to look like a head when pressed together; they can split into hydra-heads of sorts, opening up a gaping neck-maw that spits a pressurized, living acid that can let the dragon melt through concrete, even if with effort. A few of the heads 'breathe' fire, having been, before Palatine got to them, Tremere with fire Thaumaturgy, and the dragon can use Obfuscate, because while the Palatine's utterly uncaring about the Masquerade, she likes dramatic appearances and she's fairly confident dragons just aren't supposed to be seen these days. It's improper.

It's probably only functioning because the sheer proximity to that mass of Eldest-flesh underneath New York could help the Palatine some. Naturally, since it's a dragon, Michael will take it upon himself to try killing it, as to justify his pseudonym beyond 'bearer of a spear', but I'm undecided on what's better as his choice (not necessarily what actually kills the thing, just what he chooses) - him going into the field personally, him possessing one of his ghouls with Dominate and using the poor guy as his avatar, him doing that to Noblesse (Possession explicitly only works on living targets, but Michael's a 5th gen Methuselah, he can probably come up with a new power, when 8-dot Dominate lets you order somebody around acrosst he globe) or him possessing the entire non-Kindred force. Noblesse is definitely not beating a dragon without a Methuselah driving his body around, it's way outside his and his coterie's pay grade.

>>97556263
In order to get a certain Nosferatu involved in Princess Charming's NY dream team, Venus in Furs cashed in the favor she had from Juliet.

Said favor got them their first "Yesferatu" in the team: a childe of Belinde Buch, the Prince of Copenhagen with the immobile face and lips, and her role is...

...a Harpy?

The idea of a Nossie Harpy in NY proved to be a masterstroke, and it kind of snowballed from there: Orloks who first proved difficult to convince to join suddenly wanted in, eventually leading to the one House Venus wanted...
>>97556315
I never understood how many points of Vicissitude are needed to attach new limbs to people, let alone make this shit.

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Well. That's a fucking awful inventory.

Of the things I'm willing to report were found...
> (987) Books on just about every topic imaginable, many of which are old, some of which are oddly mundane, most of all a mid 30's 'cook book for housewives'
> (124) Personal Journals and Record Books of the Anchoritte Sire [Which, ahead of time, not a pretty read for any involved but I really feel you need to see this shit]
> (27) Assorted Organs stored in jars, one of which is disconcertingly a heart that is still beating
> (3) Mummified hands of occult purposes
> (1) Crate full of miscellaneous human bones
> (2) Vats of ink infused with vitae, probably connected to all of this nonsense
> (1) Very naughty object affiliated with the Anarchs I know a Trem would never be allowed to have, and I find extremely funny
> (1) Gargoyle in torpor via stake, unknown, but we will discuss him later
> (17) Assorted pieces of furniture including the 'phantom chair,' mostly confined to the attic
> (20) Varied 'trophies' from grudges the sire had
> (1) Icon of the Virgin Mary
> (6) Medieval Swords that for some reason make people antsy
> (38) Wax-Seals and parchment icons that seem to expressly inhibit ghostly entities (which don't fucking work)
> (9) Sets of cursed dice
> (40ish) Trick stakes that can be hidden before attack
> (4) Feather quills, also possibly cursed
> ("1") Whole alchemical set with all the fancy bells and whistles
> (N/A) Several Rav and Loup relics which I'm taking as my payment for all of this because boy I'm pretty sure I know who these belong to
> (1) Fuuuuuucking wall-mounted bass
> (1) Entire room full of runes I do not like and would personally collapse if allowed. Makes my skin crawl
> (+) A whole load of dirt and crap I feel doesn't make the inventory

I'll be gathering everything in that back storage room. I consider all these objects yours (outside the aforementioned issues) but I'd request one of those swords and Mèo would like some dice and the icon.

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>Go out to feed
>Atlantic City rats taste like unfettered ass
>Go back inside
>Call Doordash instead
>Eat the driver

I need to move dog this city sucks

>>97556407
Six dots in Vicissitude are the minimum both for attaching new, functional limbs to people, and for making meat-horrors that can break walls! You'll also need a sixth level Koldunic ritual for the latter.
Strictly mechanically speaking, the dragon is probably best categorized as a really big, really gracefully designed and structured Vozhd, and you'd probably want a Tzimisce elder as its core, just to have it be able to use some freaky abilities through Vicissitude, on top of the other involved Kindred. Regular ones don't, really, spit acid, breathe fire, or have the mental capacity to operate such abilities in the first place; that's what makes the dragon so precious to Pally. She's exceptionally talented in the art of making war-ghouls, despite her utter derangement and obsession with a world of whimsy, and even she wouldn't be able to make this one work without exceptional luck, hard work, cooperation with other experts, and, most probably, aid or 'borrowed' tools and knowledge of people older and better than her. Or even just plain backing from them and from other Tzimisce, who want to make sure her talents don't die with her during some hare-brained scheme at making the dragon work all on her own.

She'll be so very, very sad if something tragic were to happen to her baby... Distraught. Heartbroken. One of her hearts would definitely break.

>>97551553
He's supposed to be President Dracula Flow; let's unironically grassroots campaign for his candidacy in the next election.

>>97556861
The boys down in Lexington got themselves a pipe from a pig processing plant. Groddy, but it ain't the worst option.

>>97556915
Don't. The last time someone pulled that shit some nerds tried resurrecting a gorilla.
Turned into a whole affair.

>>97551553
>Name something that used to be a big deal to you in your mortal days, but that you no longer care for now that you're a vampire
Fate! Future! Odds and chances. I wasn't, like, outright neurotic, that was, and is, Lavender's specialty, but I certainly worried about how things may or may not go. I laid at night, sometimes, dwelling endlessly on the most asinine shit possible, from whether I'd ever be satisfied with my life, to whether a car'd run me over tomorrow.
Fate tells me all about herself, now, so I don't worry whatsoever.

>>97551553
>some of which are oddly mundane, most of all a mid 30's 'cook book for housewives'
On top of our Sire being eccentric and maybe just kind of wanting those books for personal or memento reasons, it could be that they hold some sort of cipher? It would be like him, to add a regular riddle to all the magic layers of defence against invasions and spying.

>one of which is disconcertingly a heart that is still beating
That thing better not be our Sire pulling a Dorian Gray of some sort, I swear to God.

>(1) Very naughty object affiliated with the Anarchs I know a Trem would never be allowed to have, and I find extremely funny
UghHHHHHHHHH Lavender's refusing to tell me about this thing! I must know and I don't want to scrye for it. H0T, you are my savior, my friend, my shining star! Guide me to knowledge of the funny, embarrassing artifact! I need to know. I must know.

>I'd request one of those swords and Mèo would like some dice and the icon.
Yeah, no problem, six swords is anyways not enough for every one of us to get one, in some sort of fellowship thing, so you taking it can't hurt, and Mèo is precious and gets anything and everything she wants. Not that you're not precious, but she's extra.
Sure you don't want to also grab our staked cousin Vine-y or whatever the fuck kind of pun about stone we're calling the gargoyle? You absolutely sure? Totes sure?

>>97556945
Whoops, should've replied to >>97556739

A highlight of just how distraught I am, denied knoweldge of the artifact...
Also,
>(1) Entire room full of runes I do not like and would personally collapse if allowed. Makes my skin crawl
I'm voting for 'collapse it', but I'll go bug our wards-mistress about coming over and letting you talk her into that. Five bucks say at least some of those runes must be load-bearing for the building or our defenses, in some way.

>(+) A whole load of dirt and crap I feel doesn't make the inventory
I take offense to you not including the totally legitimate, and not fake whatsoever, thank you very much, unicorn skull in the list of notable items. It's very notable. The horn fell off only three times between when we found it and now.

>>97556945
>>97556986
>On top of our Sire being eccentric and maybe just kind of wanting those books for personal or memento reasons, it could be that they hold some sort of cipher? It would be like him, to add a regular riddle to all the magic layers of defence against invasions and spying.
Personally I err more towards mementos. The thing is well-worn like some memento's I've known people to keep, and the really aged margins are for some very old recipes.

>That thing better not be our Sire pulling a Dorian Gray of some sort, I swear to God.
I doubt it, though, I'd honestly bury that thing in a vault for personal reasons.

>I must know.
I'll tell you in person once the sun is down. It's the type of thing that we've already definitely super duper destroyed.
It's a vaulderie chalice, an old and very botched one from some of the early anarch revolts before the ritual was wholly assimilated into the sabbet. The kind of thing that would absolutely make Trem leadership have an episode.

>but she's extra.
She is indeed. My thanks.

>Five bucks say at least some of those runes must be load-bearing for the building or our defenses, in some way.
I worry that those runes are more affiliated with the Caern entities, mimicking or manipulating their influence.

>I take offense to you not including the totally legitimate, and not fake whatsoever, thank you very much, unicorn skull in the list of notable items. It's very notable.
A narwhal died for that thing sister. It depresses me.

>Sure you don't want to also grab our staked cousin Vine-y or whatever the fuck kind of pun about stone we're calling the gargoyle? You absolutely sure? Totes sure?
That is a whole ass person whose been locked in a cabinet for decades. I'm not grabbing him but I'm also not leaving him there. I sure hope someone recognizes him. Otherwise it's going to be a real awkward wake up party.

>THREAD QUESTION
I wanted to go back to being a professional art model at some point. These nights I can still pose for a painting, but I don't have to make it my job, which makes it the more artistic thing do.
I'm wiser now.

>>97554121

>the skin of her face is sent to Venus
I'll do you one better, with Mytherceria I can give you Revelation, as a statue as Scholar can straight up turn her to stone with a touch which I think would lend itself to an emotional moment with Venus.

>>97557358
*more artistic thing too.
>>97557583
Sure thing, go ahead.

>TQ
My memories from those days, I guess. They were beaten out of me just before my embrace and I can definitely live without them.

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>>97552128
Per your last post mi dama, pic related. Call me Sher Khan.
>>97530665
Eh, besides the nicktuku attack and the closest I’ve ever been to final death, nothing too out of the ordinary. The ocean whispers to me, but I expected that. I maintained a professional relationship with tremere when the bar ran despite my personal misgivings about the usurpers.
>>97557119
Sad. I too love narwhals. Did you save its tusk? I’d pay handsomely for it. Might act as a conduit or something, I dunno.
>>97536237
Our hospitaity extends to all clan members, barring long held personal grudges, and even then our customs are upheld. Besides, I’m not in a position to be burning bridges and I doubt eating your would even benefit me in any way. As far as what we could do, I assume you’ve heard of a vozhd?

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>>97551553
I have far too much to even go over. So much had happened.
>mi oseo calliente moved to texas
>Don't go to the sewers beneath new york.
>a pack of gaia's strongest soldiers jumped me
>Nearly met final death in the pine barrens
>THE CATHEDRAL OF FLESH HAPPENED
>survived another methuselah waking up
>rescued a hunter of all people
>found a cave full of starved/torpid kindred & wights
>Went to a jester convention, lots of stuff to do this year
What did i miss? Did i post anything manic the last time i was here?

>>97560162
>Our hospitaity extends to all clan members, barring long held personal grudges, and even then our customs are upheld. Besides, I’m not in a position to be burning bridges and I doubt eating your would even benefit me in any way. As far as what we could do, I assume you’ve heard of a vozhd?
Oh well then that's a different story entirely. I forgot the clan customs of hospitality would be originating from the old clan. My sire has told me of vozhd, big creatures made of 10-15 ghouls. Lots of work to build, requiring special magic.

>>97560217
Mi oseo calliente made one back when she was still in the sword if caine, she called it "Ahuizotl" and she used it to wipe out a bunch of camarilla agents heading into rural mexico. On a sidenote has anyone else slept through the day with their partner? It's nice.

>>97560162
>Sad. I too love narwhals. Did you save its tusk? I’d pay handsomely for it. Might act as a conduit or something, I dunno.
The whole 'unicorn skull' is in storage, I'm sure the Anchorites would be happy to consider a sale if you ask them. Lavender is less willing to sell, though Igni seems more eager to clear house.

>>97560198
Nothing outside the occasion manic confusing one-liner that probably haunts some poor soul.
And aye. It is nice.

>>97560217
The line between the old and the new gets... Muddy, in the New World.
My teacher was one of the old Clan, but they'd almost exclusively taught kids like you from the new clan. Or haggard Gang vagabonds like myself.

>>97560307
>Nothing outside the occasion manic confusing one-liner that probably haunts some poor soul.
Sounds like alright. Sometimes i wake up at the keyboard after something particularly temultuous occured. Probably was the whole cathedral of flesh affair. TLDR somebody found it, but lost it again.
It's burrowing around under the atlantic ocean somewhere.

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>>97560431
I have had enough flesh monstrosities to last me a lifetime.

>>97560513
There has never been enough monstrosities of the flesh as far as I am concerned

>>97555387
I learned different kindred frenzy in different ways, now that I saw mom frenzy again, and I think different episodes of frenzy in the same kindred are also different.
What I saw was mom but... deep down that really ain't mom?
Mama Venus wasn't sad, mad or scary this time, the Beast whipped and fucked Princess Charming with no restraint, but it was chill, like a smiling Virgin Mary? No bloodshot eyes like the first time I saw her frenzy, no monstrous appearance like Assoluta's Beast.
Mom's Beast was fucking beautiful. Yeah, beautiful. The fuck? I don't know what a vampire or frenzy is anymore. Like, I'm done pretending I understand.
What I do understand is why Princess Charming wanted it. The ladies of House Venus paid her in full for her job in the Zurich Elysium, and House Venus may go back to Bridgeport sooner than I dreamed of.
I like it here, but that city had a certain coziness, maybe it's what's left of the human in me, but I think this place is sorta kinda too isolated.

>>97561820
>What I saw was mom but... deep down that really ain't mom?
You are what you cultivate in your beast niece. And if you aren't careful, it overtakes you like a snake 'overtakes' a mouse.

>>97561820
>Mom's Beast was fucking beautiful. Yeah, beautiful. The fuck?
I assure you the Beast made you and Blue Fairy more alluring, just like your sire. In a way, it's like an improved version of what alcohol does to make kine women uninhibited, free, ready and eager for a Bacchanalia of sex and violence.
You become Her. I dream of Her. I give my all to Her. When I am a slave to Her, I am free.

>>97561820
>>97562434
Yeah Scarlet's Beast was magnificient.

>>97562237
>>97562434
>>97562440
Hold up is the Beast the vampire I wanna be?

>>97562465
A Beast I am, lest a Beast I become.

>>97562465
No. But it is the vampire you end up. Just about every philosophy or path we have is in some way predicated on our relation with it, either as curse to be cast off, an animal to be subjugated, or an ego to be imposed upon, or a curse to be negotiated with, or a feral self to be released.

These are useful lies. They help to avoid the issue that there was always an animal in you, the condition we share just gives it teeth. Literally.

Now that the business with Revelation has been dealt with, I believe I owe someone a visit. Venus, I'll be arriving shortly with a gift for you. -Scholar
When Scholar makes his grand entrance to his manor House Venus is staying at, he brings with him both Kakophoni and a large almost statue sized crate. Opening it reveals Revelation, turned to stone with her final expression being utter terror and fear.

Houston, we have a problem.

>>97562758
Risen Demon, you have exactly five seconds to explain why Revelation isn't answering my calls!

>>97562768
idk fml

>>97562774
IN CASE I WASN'T CLEAR, YOU GET YOUR ASS OUT OF HERE AND TELL THE NEWS TO THE BELIEVERS
IN ENGLISH

>>97562784
BITCH I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED

Scholar's forces alongside their allies are still cleaning up the remnants of Revelation's group, though it will be a few days before all are dealt with finally.

>>97562801
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE IT'S A CULT ANYWAY
MAY PASHUPATASTRA SMITE YOUR WHITE ASS IF YOU DON'T GO AND MAKE SOME SHIT UP TO RALLY THE TROOPS
YOU STUPID HAMBURGER EATING FORUM TROLL

Well. That's... Wonderful.

Didn't want to preempt this so soon but here we are.

Here is my advice to you. There will always be another city. Another London. Leave. It isn't worth kicking up dust over the biggest metropolis of your time.

Head inland. Carthage may go, but a new Constantinople is just waiting to be born. If fate permits, you might yet see it. But you won't see it if you die like a roach.

There's an encrypted key-phrase I'll have my Uruguayan distribute if you inquire. To let you know who to trust, and when the time is right.

Keep yourself alive until then. I need you caitiffs and thin-bloods.

And that password will be; 'Village People.' For if you want to save some these goobers and bimbos.

>>97562801
>>97562820
>>97562897
>Head inland.
Come to Manitoba it sucks here! We got:

Winnipeg: A Sabbat controlled shithole, capitol city of the province. There may or may not be a Camarilla Prince depending on what day it is.

Selkirk: A Sabbat controlled shithole, known for meth abuse.

Steinbach: A largely Mennonite community with lots of hunters.

Portage La Prairie: Anarchs, nuff said.

Brandon: Exists.

Thompson: Werewolves.

Churchill: Northern port on the Hudson bay. Would be a nice place in winter with the long nights, if not for the werewolves.

The Pas: Werewolves.

Flin-Flon: Werewolves.

Werewolves! Werewolves everywhere!

>>97563471
>Selkirk: A Sabbat controlled shithole, known for meth abuse.
Hey they also got chuck the channel cat and a little hole in the wall that has 50% of the Nos in the province.
And outside of that really not getting across how many Loups there are? Accurate.

>TQ
Bathing. I was born in a time where the advent of residential plumbing was almost exclusively for the rich and the proliferation of it for the middle-class didn't occur until during a significant torpor of mine. I came from a rich family with a religious background, I was able to acquire a potent, if niche education, the prospect of being regularly clean was one I was familiar with. It's not something I do much anymore as I rarely find myself in situ that would demand it of me after the fact. I make sure that dust doesn't accumulate within my domicile too much, though I find myself finding it in more secluded portions of the estate.
It's... more of a special occasion activity for me.

>>97563471
If Winnipeg is Sabbat controlled, why is there occasionally a Prince?

>>97563471
Manitoba also has a major repository of blood and some very curious parties nearby who have a bone to pick with the Sabbat.
Matter of fact, the 'Arch-Bishop' has managed to piss off a good many people all across the interior. Including weirdly enough the Sabbat of Seattle. A good number of them are exiles who it seems didn't have the guts to go through with the traditional dueling rite.

There's a plan here.

>>97563520
I love that fish.

>>97563615
The Camarilla have a thing about attempting to reassert control in Free-State / Sabbat areas. Basically these 'princes' are usually ambitious heirs that need to be dealt with, placing them as 'Princes' in a city where they either fail or miraculously attain control.

Rarely ever works, but when it does it lets them gain territory at little cost. Most of the princes they send off would have just gotten whacked, and when they succede they're too caught up with their conquest to go back and settle scores.

>>97563615
>If Winnipeg is Sabbat controlled, why is there occasionally a Prince?
It's as H0T_G4R0U3S says. The Camarilla is always looking to start a new franchise.

>>97563520
>>97563653
>chuck the channel cat
That fish has a name? How famous is Selkirk?

COMMUNICATIONS DOWN // SWITCHING TO TERTIARY INFRASTRUCTURE // PRAISE THE NOSFERATU

GLASSWALKER GAROU INTERFERENCE PRESUMED // UNVERIFIED // FIRETEAMS DISPATCHED TO COMMS CENTERS DO NOT RESPOND

HUNTERS IN SAME DISARRAY // SABBAT IN LESSER DISARRAY // SEDITIONISTS IN LESSER DISARRAY // HELPS US LITTLE

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING ASSET SPOTTED OVER I-95 HEADING FOR NEW YORK // FIGHTER JET HYPOPHESIS REJECTED // COOPERATORS AT JFK REPORT NO CALLSIGN // NO RADAR SIGNATURE // CONFUSED AND SPORADIC CIVILLIAN PILOT OBSERVATIONS // MASQUERADE UPHELD // DRONES AND LOOSE VALENTINE'S DAY DECORATIONS BLAMED

FLYER NO LONGER SPOTTED // RETRACTION

FLYER SPOTTED // RETR // RETRACTION, FLYER SPOTTED

FLYER NO L // RE // FLYER OBSERVED HEADING FOR BRONX

Christ, of all things, to be stuck on text-to-speech SchreckNet! Being knee-deep in szlachta and caitiffs and ghouls and catholics simply isn't enough, we simply must also have to deal with fucking wolves. Buying a barrel of oil and pouring it out in a national park once this is over.

>>97564335
What fucking flyer? There's nothing in the sky but a few szlachta with wings and fucking gargoyles, the intel has to be some sort of diversion courtesy of the Glass Walkers, we've-


Oh.

>>97564343
Fwoosh.

>>97557119
Oh ho, I actually recognize him, I think! Not too well, we worked in entirely different fields, and I didn't want to get too cozy with anybody, in case me and Victoria had to leave. It's always heartbreaking to abandon good friends and coworkers, so it's simply best to not tie yourself down.
That said, me and the Sire of the youngsters had many different other colleagues, and this one I think (though I could easily be wrong, maybe that was a different gargoyle...) was some sort of asset given to him by the Pyramid's upper echelons, both a gift and a shackle in case he gets a bit too opinionated about constraints put upon him, and so on and such. Scarcely do I get the logic of using a gargoyle for that, given that they're themselves opinionated about shackles, but, I guess it's better than no shackle at all?

Very strange, though! Around seventy years back the Anchorite Sire told me he sent the gargoyle off to some farm on the edge of the Rockies, as to research a potential secondary caern-tapping spot. I figured the gargoyle was just very busy with that, hence him not showing up anymore. How he ended up in the cabinet is a little mystery.

>>97560307
>Igni seems more eager to clear house.
Oh, that one is always a fanatic for clearing out the old to bring in the new! Hardly very representative. Though I do endorse giving up at least some of those things to eager buyers, especially the fish. Dreadful little thing.

>>97564386
Christ. How you didn't end up in a cabinet, yourself, is a mystery the answer to which is me.

>>97557119
>Otherwise it's going to be a real awkward wake up party.
It will be, if it's actually who we think it is and not some other fucking gargoyle. Given the risks of that, I am voting for chopping off the gargoyle's head while it's in torpor, but I can fucking tell nobody will actually do the reasonable thing, and instead we will wake up a very-upset-at-'''Anchorites''' piece of rock. I can even foresee us trying to talk it into being nice and getting over a murder-grudge.

>>97564343
I'M LEAVING ON A JETPLANE~

The End is nigh! Enemies are everywhere: hunters, lupines, hostile vampires! You'd best start believing in dragons soon enough! Our Lady and Savior Revelation is fighting on a mission so secret even her higher ups know nothing about it!
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Come pick up your free assault rifle with today's paper!

>>97564335
The fuck's that?

Yoink. Stray dog secured.

Risen Demon?

>>97564759
What? I told them to revere me as if I was Revelation herself. I did nothing wrong!

>>97564767
Oh really? Are they going to kiss your biceps now?

>>97564770
Do you see the size of these guns?

>>97564774
YEAH YOU HAVE RICE NOODLES FOR ARMS
YOU'RE THINKING OF RUNNING AWAY AREN'T YOU

>>97564781
YEAH AS SOON AS I FIGURE OUT WHERE IS PAPA WOLF
DON'T ACT LIKE YOU DIDN'T HAVE A DOZEN ESCAPE PLANS IN THAT NOTEBOOK

>>97564747
Ill-behaved puppies. Give me a good reason for why I should not 'yoink' him back, as to build upon the glory of this city's fall?

>>97564790
WHERE IS HE NOW

>>97564796
ok bye

>>97564799
DON'T YOU DARE 'OK BYE' ME YOU FUCKING TRAITOR

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>>97564794
Oki doki boomer. Whatever you say, boomer.

>>97564816
Ah, I suppose that is enough a reason to delay things a little. This way, once my darling gets to you, she'll be sufficiently voracious.

>>97564717
>You'd best start believing in dragons soon enough
Hush. They're not real, not real at all.

>>97562596
>Now that the business with Revelation has been dealt with, I believe I owe someone a visit. Venus, I'll be arriving shortly with a gift for you. -Scholar
Oh, Scholar! My most gracious of hosts!

I understand the most urgent matter you're attending to, but I have one request.

Could you deliver this gift you have for me, and myself, the childer and the staff that are still here in your manor to our mansion in Bridgeport?

My childer Assoluta and Blue Fairy, together with Princess Charming and a quite sizable "coterie" of guests from all over Europe and beyond have already departed for the United States, they should be in Bridgeport soon enough.

You can reassure Kakophoni that once House Scholar first, and House Venus second - in this order - are done with our respective, urgent business with the city of New York, his singing lessons with Scarlet will resume as scheduled.

Here are the kindred already on their way to the US together with Princess Charming, Blue Fairy and Assoluta:

CLAN BRUJAH:
Leodegar, childe of Vera and grandchilde of Guillaume, 7th gen, M, CH
Maxmillien "Maxwell" Rousseau, childe of Altamira, 6th gen, M, FR/HT (colony of Saint-Domingue)
Pankraz Hartings, grandchilde of Jaroslav Pascek, 9th gen, M, DE/NL

CLAN MALKAVIAN:
Eris Catlow, childe of Juliet Parr, 10th gen, F, UK

CLAN NOSFERATU:
Arne de Briey, childe of Nikolaus Vermeulen, 8th gen, M, BE
Ursula Vibeke Gyldenkrantz "UVG - Uncanny Valley Girl", childe of Belinde Buch, 8th gen, F, DK

CLAN TOREADOR:
Jorani Lawan, childe of Victoria Ash, 9th gen, F, KH/TH
Louis Le Prince "The inventor of cinematography", childe of Edward Williams, 8th gen, M, FR

CLAN TREMERE:
Eugenio "Gene" Estevez, childe of Octavio Korrol, 9th gen, M, ES

CLAN VENTRUE:
Emily Carson, childe of Robert Parkhurst, 9th gen, F, US
Lisabeth Verena Sprecher von Bernegg, grandchilde of Purissima Geiss, 7th gen (?), F, CH
Najwa Akram Sharaf, childe of Anushin-Rawan, 7th gen, F, QA/AE

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>>97564250
He's a very endearing fish. Especially when you're hours away from Thunder Bay of all places, and you're also four hours away from the only city in Manitoba.

>>97564386
>Very strange, though! Around seventy years back the Anchorite Sire told me he sent the gargoyle off to some farm on the edge of the Rockies, as to research a potential secondary caern-tapping spot.
Of course, why am I not surprised? Any details on his personality? Loyalist, itching for the chance to escape?

>especially the fish. Dreadful little thing.
At the very least the old chief of this shitfest will come around to reimburse all of you. Even if it's a roundabout garage sale with cursed singing bass.

>>97564416
If you'd all prefer I can shove him in the trunk when I leave and we can make up a convincing story that the mansion was burned down and I accidentally bought the poor thing inside a novelty casket at a Nevada antique store, reviving him far away from you. We can use the funny object to sever all ties with the Pyramid.

STUPID ASSHOLES ACCUSING EACH OTHER OF TREASON WHEN THEY SHOULD BE MY HUMAN AND CAINITE SHIELDS

>>97566272
Hi.

NOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE FUCKING LUPINES WHEN IT'S NOT EVEN DUSK I WORKED WAY TO HARD FOR THIS
SHIT SHIT SHITSHITSHIT

I'm going to miss that cold pussy.

I told you "Papa" Wolf can be reasoned with!
>>97566298
Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

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Good evening. What's the opposite of doomscrolling? Joyscrolling? I love my joyscrolling bride.

>>97566398
Hey! If you wanted a kiss you could've just asked!?

>>97566403
A King doesn't ask, a King commands.

>>97560162
Oh, my! How cold! What's wrong? You don't like me with the tail? If you saw me like that in the flesh, I'm sure you'd change your mind, mon cher.

>>97564335
I finally caught up with this message, what is this about?

Is that a dragon?

Who wants to add "slaying a dragon" to their resume?

OH MY GOD EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE

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I'll also add this now for the Anchorite clan, we need to start considering how your relation with your neighbours is going to work. As far as I'm concerned there are three options. Now that we've stopped the violence.

>(1) Abandon the Caern and leave
This is the easiest option, and one of the safest. Simply put that manor is an affront to the Caern and while you've had a reprieve, it is entirely possible that at some point something beyond the Veil will look and turn on you again. Or some upstart Loups will decide they'll be the one's to claim the Caern. The current show of good faith cuts a line between you and them. And you'll be able to depart without issues. With your skills and the not insubstantial cash you could raise, so long as you keep to yourselves you could do well enough. I am not a fan of this because it leaves Mèoin the lurch. This place has had an effect on her.

>(2) Attempt to maintain the current status quo
If we could keep the Animkiig muzzled, and the truce maintained with some sort of agreement, it is possible your could remain here. I already laid out why that is a bad idea, and I don't really feel it is an actual option. No more than wiping out the Loups. But, if you don't wish to run or you don't wish to do something more... Extreme? So be it.

>(3) Synthesis
Lavender. I'm going to be very blunt with you. You were probably chosen by your sire for a very specific and very selfish reason, you probably saw it in the journals, but you were selected to influence the Animkiig. The plan was to abuse you (and your siblings') connection to the things beyond the pale for his own ends, and that connection remains. I have a radical proposal to ensure no Loup will trouble your clan ever again and engaging in a direct contract with the God of this Place. Acting as guardian and allowing the Loups access to the powers of this place, elevating you and yours as guardians.

It is a serious commitment either way.
Talk it over with the others.

>another outbreak of fighting has broken out in belgrade
my neighbouring 'kindred' are little better than vermin and i hate all of them

>>97560198
>What did i miss?
Rev ate it just in time for Werewolves to airdrop into New York.
>>97567810
>>97567822
>>97567832
And a sign of Gehenna. Hold on, lemme find the moon.

>>97569863
>belgrade
If you see Piyotr, the gangrel not the nossie or ventrue, punch his jaw off for me, that slimy fuck deserves it. -Kakophoni

>>97569943
There are those that still believe in drivel after the two supposed wars of the world? Mind you, it's a notion recently illuminated to myself, but I find it ridiculous. Surely if there were an apocalypse, we would not see it coming.

>>97565732
The gargoyle, from what I recall, was one of the nice-y ones. Very loyal, despite that, which is probably why it got sent to fuckoff-nowhere to basically spy on a decidedly heretical goblin of a man putting spirits into people, or whatever it is he was doing, with zero other assistance.

As the closest thing to a security specialist, since Igni is more of an exterminator, the second best thing to chopping the gargoyle's head off and breaking it up into little tiny pieces is waking it up and making it break ties with the Pyramid. Otherwise it will, eventually, track us down, and I don't want to spend my unlife staring at walls in search of a face peeking out of them.

>>97568288
Voting for option one. Option two is just suicidal, attrition is inevitable, and option three reeks of arranging a marriage between a corpse and something that usually despises corpses. Little twink'll be a beaten spouse in weeks, tops, given how their recent meeting went.

>>97567753
Don't worry your pretty little head, hedonistic obsessive. It's nothing at all.
>>97567810
>>97567822
>>97567832
Shhhhhh. Dragons aren't real. Trust the cattle news; it's just gas leaks, transformers going up in smoke because of the cold, freak accidents and urban violence.

Oh, whoops. And a helicopter crash, just now. I suppose some overly religious man behind the steering... Wheel, or however those operate, must've elected to meet his God early! Happens, really.

>>97568288
>Acting as guardian and allowing the Loups access to the powers of this place, elevating you and yours as guardians.

This sounds decidedly too good to be true. Not that I don't trust you, but... It, I guess, seems good on account of everything else being decidedly atrocious? Ditching the Cear and leaving your cat in trouble is just unacceptable, but I'll be as considerate as I can with whoever votes for this, which is 'not very'. Option two wouldn't work, and it's the coward's option, anyways, sitting on things as they are, not being willing to alter anything lest it just gets worse.

So, three is best at least by elimination. God, the moment this comes out to whatever sort of higher government lupines got, we are fucked. Do lupines have any sort of higher government? Are we going to be meeting wolfy methuselae, here to look at us discontently and just bless the resulting arrangement because they don't have any better options, or whatever the fuck?

I'm voting for option three, but I'll gather everybody for a formal discussion. Feel free to come over for it, we'll have drinks, and you and your cat might as well get votes, too, given how involved you are with things.

>>97570634
'Twink' is perhaps the nicest thing you've called me in the thirty years I've known you. I feel touched. Cared for in a very real way.

>>97568288
I vote for option three, with addendum that if the conditions of guardianship for the Caern prove unfortunate, and Animkiig and his kind start making unacceptable demands, such as getting rid of ghouls like Lavender's cat, we burn this place until it is no Caern.

I will not be bound against my will again. I will not make ill-balanced deals and grovel before things ethereal.

I will, however, attend the discussion. Do attend also, please. Your company is appreciated.

>>97568288
Unlike the resident three quickshots I'll hold my thoughts until that talk, but I just wanna say, I'm glad you came over to help, H0T. You're a saint, and your cat's a blessing.
>>97570655
She lies a lot, she no doubt meant something more offensive, maybe with a quip about corsets and wedding dresses.

Okay, comms are... Back on, somewhat? Not entirely, but I at least can actually send text messages instead of text to speech. Joy of joys.

>>97567753
Hell on Earth.

Palatine is waging a guerilla war on us, hunters, the lupines and what's left of Revelation's forces with a flying thing that's the size of several semi-trucks and keeps going invisible. Every time we try to concentrate fire on it, it just disappears, only to attack elsewhere. I've gotten nearly incenirated five times tonight. Whenever I try to link up with somebody, it manifests and makes sure people treat me as an omen for being immediately burned alive. I've seen the thing's head split into many heads, and then tear a werewolf limb from limb, quite literally. Since the wolf didn't die, being a werewolf, it ate the limbs, flew up onto the roof of a tower, and seemingly continued eating the regrowing limbs off of the werewolf torso for a solid fifteen minutes until the wolf finally expired, or at least played dead convincingly.

Then a werewolf 'shell' with its insides missing got thrown right at Tats. It naturally didn't do anything to her, except make her angrier, but if the beast wanted to, it could've fried her, instead. We're being fucking toyed with, here.

Juliet and seemingly half of the Nosferatu in a total of four states are currently scrambling to make sure every single thing Palatine pulls is quickly discredited as something mundane, and I'm getting word that the hunters are actually helping on this, probably because they don't have an immediate answer to a fucking dragon and don't have pretext to bring something fitting. They've tried using a large, armed- and armored-up helicopter disguised as a cargo one, it got hit with what can be best described as a beam of acid, and the wreck crashed into the Hudson.

And, as to make things worse, I think the attacks make a pattern the center of which seems to be the Arcanum chapter house, of all places.

Hell on Earth.

How's Europe?

>>97570714
>Hell on Earth.
Sounds like you could use the assistance of Scholar and your Grand-Sire themselves down in the Big Apple.
>How's Europe?
The... better part of Europe joined me and we're in your city. We're making our move in the Big Apple once the enemies' populations are finally within acceptable limits.

THE CODE IS VILLAGE PEOPLE
YOUNG MAN, THERE'S NO NEED TO FEEL DOWN, I SAID
YOUNG MAN, PICK YOURSELF OFF THE GROUNNNNNNNNNNNN

>>97570837
The. End. Times. Are. Upon. Us.
I'm. Not. Asking.
Get. Out. And. Fight. Or. You. Will. Taste. Fucking. Lightning.

>>97570655
>Do lupines have any sort of higher government? Are we going to be meeting wolfy methuselae, here to look at us discontently and just bless the resulting arrangement because they don't have any better options, or whatever the fuck?
There's... a Concolation of the East Coast Garou Nation on the 17th!? I don't think they're going to just talk about the so-called "Papa" Wolf either...

This is the Ultimate Showdown
Of Ultimate Destiny
Good guys, bad guys and explosions
As far as the eye can see
And only one will survive
I wonder who it will be
This is the Ultimate Showdown
Of Ultimate Destiny
>>97570638
>Shhhhhh. Dragons aren't real. Trust the cattle news; it's just gas leaks, transformers going up in smoke because of the cold, freak accidents and urban violence.
What??? Transformers are real???
I'm kidding, I'm kidding...

>>97570872
Bad Scarlet! Now is not the time for jokes!

>>97570655
>Do lupines have any sort of higher government?
Hi.

>>97570655
>Do lupines have any sort of higher government?
They're called Civil Serpents.

>>97570833
We've called in aid already. If I understood my Grand-Sire correctly, he does not consider the situation so degraded as to step in, and wants his Childer and Grand-Childer to enjoy the opportunity to truly prove their worth.

So we are attempting to enjoy it.

>>97570873
The jokes honestly help, they add a bit of levity. Tats wishes to inform Scarlet that, if we survive this and get back to our city, Scarlet will be found and put in a chokehold. She'd write this herself, but she's currently in a phone-crushy mood.

>>97570878
Are you people going to contribute anyhow to the fight against the dragon, or you've settled on runing around and getting used as calorie-rich snacks for it?

>>97570883
Don't send snake-people our way, they'll freeze.
>>97570878
Hello, totes-a-werewolf! Wanna weigh in on our dilemma? The more you threaten us, the more likely will we be to pick option three, so be nice.

>>97570951
>Are you people going to contribute anyhow to the fight against the dragon, or you've settled on runing around and getting used as calorie-rich snacks for it?
It seems to like your kind's blood a lot, I was about to ask the same question.
>>97570956
>Wanna weigh in on our dilemma?
What dilemma? You already know what any Gaia-fearing Garou should want out of this situation - or out of any leech any day of the week for that matter - so there is no need for you to think too hard about it.

>>97570951
>Tats wishes to inform Scarlet that, if we survive this and get back to our city, Scarlet will be found and put in a chokehold. She'd write this herself, but she's currently in a phone-crushy mood.
I think she's shy and she just wants to date me?

>>97571070
Helpful as usual. Get off of our comms, no good house permits its dogs to sit on furniture.

>>97571085
Well, violence is her love language, so that's not impossible, but I'd wager on it being an expression of happiness that you aren't getting purged for loose and distant ties to Revelation.

>>97571070
That's a vote for option three, then! Terrific, thank you. If anybody asks, we'll confirm you threatened us the best you could while getting pursued by a literal wyrm and dodging hunters and whatever else.

Our Brujah guests look like college American football players on prom night.

>>97571132
Perhaps you meant draft night, my horny big sis.

>>97571137
I'm not horny!

Just a quick canon question: I get it that this is V20 and we continue to use V20 rules and those of the clan of whoever embraced a vampire, but multiple characters mentioned the Hecata so should I assume the Family Reunion of the late 2010s and the formation of Clan Hecata happened, and are a thing? Asking for a friend.

>>97570634
Would suzerainty have been transferred with the Sire's death? Now that he's scattered over the mountains, who would be in charge legally?
And noted, thank you for the honesty Vic.

Also regardless of how this goes, by the way, would you be interested in killing people up in Canada?

>>97570655
>This sounds decidedly too good to be true.

We kind of have a special confluence of factors...
>You technically already passed certain rites with the Caern by virtue of survival
>Pre-Existing affinity
>Caern having been orphaned by de-jure since the going of the Croyhatoon and neither of the brother tribes did anything but maintain the site
>Currently the Loups of the area are a handful of exiles, spirit-seekers, and opportunists that can be negotiated with directly
>The prime medium of this Caern is currently in an awkward position through factors I still don't understand with the Cat

>Do lupines have any sort of higher government? Are we going to be meeting wolfy methuselae, here to look at us discontently and just bless the resulting arrangement because they don't have any better options, or whatever the fuck?
It's complicated, I'll try to explain but critically we don't need to care about them when we have the backing of the locals, Ukte and Wentiko.
Which as a consequence of all this I'm extending my grasp and declaring myself 'great aunt' to both of these tribes. They deserve a helping hand after all this bullshit.

>Feel free to come over for it, we'll have drinks, and you and your cat might as well get votes, too, given how involved you are with things.
Aye, I'll hunt first, should only take an hour come sundown.

>>97570662
Of course. Thank you Igni.

>>97570855
Oh for fucks sake-

>>97571070
Oh yes and that's why the remaining two brothers have had to carry events inland for the past few months? That's why you've used your mission as an elaborate ritual suicide system?
I get the feeling I'm more a warrior of Gaia than you are these nights, brother.

they banned the lupines

>>97571701
It's one of those areas where the event has wiggle room. From the outside if you were neighbours with the Giovanni, not much changed, while more learned or sycophantic vampires would use Hectata by default. I'd treat it as canon, but a big messy event that some people still aren't in on.

>>97571779
>Now that he's scattered over the mountains, who would be in charge legally?
Ughhhh, horrid question. Legally speaking, I don't think a single Kindred community, polity, group, organization, kingdom, empire, club, or BDSM basement settled on an answer for inheritance that didn't, as part of its settling, involve murder of everybody who disagrees with the proposed option. William did some research, mostly because of chasing down a very niche little lead for getting our Antedeluvian to go fuck himself via inheritance law and compelling the old fucker to go away and so on.

Typically, no sane vampire establishes an official heir, because if you, as an immortal, make an immortal heir, both your own immortality and the heir's are going to be tested very quickly. Every example we found went poorly. The Pyramid is no different. The usual protocol is a bit of local traditions, cultural stuff, Childer of the dead Sire deferring to the local authority, of which there was none except the spirits, I guess, and a division of assets between heirs, which is kind of what happened here? The brats drew lots, Lavender pulled the short one, and thus he became the caern's primary babysitter.

Given that he's the vessel for what you seem to be pitching as the chief petty god here, I am suspecting that the straw-drawing was meddled with by his unwanted passenger, and the rest, with all of them choosing what they want 'their' Kindred to get.

Meaning that the reigning authority went and chose heirs.

>Also regardless of how this goes, by the way, would you be interested in killing people up in Canada?
Always. Should steer clear of Alaska, though, local wolves and Sabbat don't like me or William.

>Oh for fucks sake-
Preach.

>>97571922
>Meaning that the reigning authority went and chose heirs.
Of course. Guess we'll put the Gargoyle to vote as well with Lavender taking de-facto tie breaker.

>Always. Should steer clear of Alaska, though, local wolves and Sabbat don't like me or William.
Good news, it's a good ways from Alaska. More mixed news, the Sabbat won't be big fans. If we do it messy anyways.

Bridgeport, here we come again. And what could be Scholar's gift for me, I wonder...
>>97562897
My city sources tell me this and other efforts at creating escape routes are facing severe issues, from thinbloods, Caitiff, Anarchs thinking it's just another cult, for example the Sabbat, or a honeypot trap set by any of their many enemies, and then there's the ever-present threat of being called a traitor and entrapment.
Even the shelter efforts, which go out of their way to bring a smiling face physically in there, instead of a remotely operated series of contacts, are marred by infighting.
The body count is rising and something tells me that once the Camarilla takes the city back, or should I just say, "takes the city", they won't be tender either.

>>97572058
>The body count is rising and something tells me that once the Camarilla takes the city back, or should I just say, "takes the city", they won't be tender either.
What a fascinating hypothesis, Mother.

>>97572065
I don't like that tone.

>>97572058
>they won't be tender either.
No shit. Then another Revelation will come along, and we'll repeat this every two decades until New York collapses.

And I'm gonna have a handful of dweebs I'm going to need to de-program. Fuck, I'll need to get into contact with Hippy and Hap for that. They were the ones who handled newcomers.

>>97572058
Scholar makes his grand entrance through the front doors this time, with Kakophoni and a few others with him, bringing a large crate in. Once all of House Venus is present, the crate opens to reveal the stone form of Revelation, face contorted into a visage of pure terror as if he last moments were horrifying. Scholar clarifies that it's actually Revelation, turned to stone, her body is inactive but her mind will forever be awake yet unable to move, destined to never know the kiss of madness or the release of death.

>>97572471
As soon as everybody was back to Bridgeport, Scholar brought us Revelation... turned into a statue. She was wearing her signature leotard showing her perfectly fleshcrafted muscular but somehow curvy body, and her youthful face, forever petrified into one of pure terror.
Our amazonian colossus once stood 6'4'' and weighed "only" about 105 kg but it's now pure stone instead of muscle, so it must be 2.5 times denser.
Mamma Venus is transfixed and essentially lying over the horizontal statue, she's in a mixture of heartbreak and lust, we know exactly what is going to happen once either emotion prevails, so we're carrying the damned thing inside her room.
Fortunately, in this mansion I have some good men from Europe with strong arms, and an even stronger drive to compete, and to succeed in our first task as a team.
There must be something poetic about this titan reduced to a frightened, mewling kitten, and our international coalition having to carry the weight of her sins, in the most literal sense of the word.
I once told a good man in Zurich:
>Remember the Egyptians who built giant statues of themselves in their own palaces, those were a reminder meant not for the common man slaving in the fields near the Nile, but for the king. And where is the glory of Egypt now?
And speaking of poetry, Percy Shelley wrote:
>"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
>Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
>No thing beside remains. Round the decay
>Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
>The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Let Mamma have her moment of intimacy with her old flame.

Those are not sad moans I'm hearing from mom's room, you can tell she wanted to do this for decades... Rev's real name was Savannah? Kinda cool.

>>97572676
Scarlet! Show some respect!

>>97572690
I'm waiting for my turn. Very respectfully.

>>97572471
On behalf of my... transfixed Mother and sire, and all of House Venus we are eternally grateful for your boundless generosity and hospitality-
>>97572701
SCARLEEEET!!!!!

not going to lie, the fact that there's a Toreador fucking a self-aware statue while crying like 60 miles away from a Tzimisce abomination waging a several-nights-long guerilla warfare campaign on a whole fucking city of hunters, vampires, and werewolves, who all fight between each other too, is too funny. And both are fairly VtM tone-wise. I missed out on so much by not going to these threads.

Oh god they Kars'd her.
Fuck that noise, everybody in the old network you know the railroad we're taking. See you there.

>>97572747
Nothing of the sort was on my mind or bingo card when I came up with Revelation's faction, yet here we are and this is precisely why I love roleplaying games

>>97571779
>I'm extending my grasp and declaring myself 'great aunt' to both of these tribes

Once we're done with all this, I think I'd like you to explain precisely what is your deal. Key words being 'I'd like', I'm not demanding it, nor am I going to try and guilt-trip you by way of pointing out that you know more about our deal than we did, and probably do, currently. It's just, when life just goes and grants you the one-in-a-million chance of:
>an expert in spiritual matters going online and chatting, and, by that, stumbling into a little goblin with tarot cards
>who provides her with all sorts of guidance, and, eventually, meets up with her in-person, which ends up dragging her into matters several centuries in the making
>which she is uniquely equipped to assist with
It's not a coincidence you can just enjoy and ignore the oddities of. Hope you don't mind the curiosity.

>>97571992
Voting to release the gargoyle, by the way. It's the right thing thing to do.
I've asked the others, the tally is thus:
Against:
>Victoria
Safety reasons.
>Stitch
Experimentation and value reasons, plus safety reasons. Is easily influenced by domineering, cruel Nosferatu women.
>Artificer
Had to repair a lot of things the gargoyle broke by accident, and, therefore, is petty about it. Admits she's being petty.

For:
>Me
>HSE
>Ignis
>Librarian
>Ghostbuster (I fucking hate this name, he's the asshole who's generally been a bit spooked of you and keeps quiet mostly, the guy who specializes in ghosts and NEVER MANAGED TO BANISH A SINGLE ONE HERE, EVEN IF WE DID ADMITTEDLY CHOSE TO NOT FUCK AROUND SPIRITUALLY, BUT COME ON)
>William

The butler-who-wasn't-actually-a-butler ghoul says the gargoyle's always been appreciative of 'the help', but he's deeply worried about the security risks, so he's undecided. No other ghouls get votes, you two get votes.

>>97572758
I understand that reference -Scholar
>>97572734
You're welcome for the help, also I'm glad your mother didn't take a liking to Scholar as I shutter to imagine what those two would get up to. What with Scholar being part fae and also having nearly 2 millennia of experience in various things. Speaking of Fae though, I appreciate the bottle of wine you gave although if you want actual fae wine I can provide that. -Kakophoni

this is from the context that Scholar interacted the most with House Venus; various members when they were staying at the manor as Kakophoni is more reserved and only hung out with Scarlet. as for Scholar's appearance: very tall, over 7ft, very much like a fae nobleman in terms of looks with clothes like a gothic getleman. He's a Kiyasid so he's got fae blood in his vitae

I think fakecel vampchads shouldn't be allowed to use schreknet, only vantablackpilled chudferatucels should be here

>>97573397
would you prefer to DIG for the kompromat and situational pulse you fuckin muppet?

>>97572950
Deal? Now you sound like Showmaster wondering why the town hermit is offering help.

For more pressing matters, we both vote 'For.' Although I'll ask we don't wake him up until all things are settled.
Aaaand Mèo is giving me a look and refusing to write it out.

Point though...

Alright.
Imagine you're a girl of unclear roots growing up in the 1900s and 1910s in one of the worst schools, in one of the poorest provinces in Canada. Then you get bit. You wake up, barely avoid death in the day, scrambling through filthy sand with your bare hands. It doesn't get easier. You never meet the mother fucker who turned you. You just sort of... Wander. You never lose your heart though, because you realize you can just keep walking. That you can still be kind. You keep learning. Keep meeting people and picking up tongues and tidbits. Bigger things. Path. Koldun. Things most people don't recognize. You don't disconnect with those periphery first nations and small cultures you come across, but you always move on.

Then you realize it's the 2020s and your longest stay at a place is interrupted by that community getting invaded.

And you decide this is the time to do something.

>>97573231
>I'm glad your mother didn't take a liking to Scholar as I shutter to imagine what those two would get up to
While I do share the latter sentiment, historically speaking, romance in our family didn't have much to do with first sight or displays of power- and if not displays of power, displays of vulnerability, I guess, seemed much more effective.
The common thread between Princess Charming, Boy Toy, my ex-husband from clan Ventrue, and yes, Revelation, is that they were able to win our hearts with lengthy, clever, intimate conversations where they would expose themselves to us.
It wasn't Revelation laundry list of talents that won Mother's heart, but how she got them: how she got where she was... before her downfall.
Definitely the most interesting Caitiff we've met.
>Speaking of Fae though, I appreciate the bottle of wine you gave although if you want actual fae wine I can provide that
Why, thank you. We do store wine in our mansions, as some if not most of our staff would definitely appreciate it, and depending on how the apocalypse in New York comes to an end, if it comes to an end, we may have an occasion to celebrate very soon.

>go into my cave
>it has turned into a suspiciously cathedral shaped mass of flesh
>run out to grab my pack mates and show them
>by the time I get back it's gone
they're all making fun of me and calling me insane but I fucking swear it was there just a few minutes ago

>>97573857
>displays of vulnerability
Makes sense given they are Toreador. House Scholar's kindred tend to be more reserved until they trust you, and as children of shadow they don't trust easily, especially for those of Scholar's age so seeing vulnerability from one is a deep gesture as they don't open up unless they are 100% sure you are loyal to them. -Kakophoni
>>97573857
>We do store wine in our mansions
As for the fae-wine, it can get kindred drunk, speaking from experience. Though I am curious as to House Venus' experience with the fae. -Kakophoni

Man I want fae wine, I haven't even had a buzz in ten years. Is blood wine a thing? If I let a bottle ferment could I drink it and get a buzz? Not that I know much about brewing alcohol, but I'm a Tzimisce, we experiment on things. I used to have good ideas when I was drinking as a mortal.

>>97575475
>Is blood wine a thing
House Scholar has figured out the way to make alcohol that can affect kindred. What's your favorite alcohol and dm me the drop off point, we need to clear out the cellar anyway.

>>97575506
I've done nothing to earn such an honor, but I do like rum. I'll owe you a favor to be certain.
I dm a nearby drop-off to Scholar's account.

>>97556739
>(27) Assorted Organs stored in jars, one of which is disconcertingly a heart that is still beating
Covered in black goo that smells like blood concentrate?

>>97575534
a hogshead barrel of vitae infused rum is dropped off within the hour thanks to shadow-step.

>>97575743
I drive down to the drop-off with my fleshcrafted espurr in tow on a lark, to check to see if there's anything there. My feline friend spots it first and begins meowing excitedly and pointing at it. Not expecting it to be delivered already I'm pleasantly surprised. However there is a dilemma, the barrel is too large for the trunk of my car, and I can't even begin to try to lift it, even by spending blood. Upon returning home temporarily empty-handed I post:
That's a lot more rum than I was expecting, I owe you a very large favor. Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to get this home. Maybe my sire could give me a hand in exchange for some of it, they have very strong ghouls.

Oh wait I can probably roll it up a ramp and just drive home with my trunk open, derp.
I drive back to the drop-off with some wooden planks in my back seat, pump myself up with some blood, roll it up the ramp and into the trunk, and then drive home, trunk open, with the suspension clearly bogged down a bit in the back.
Now I don't have to share!

>>97575083
>As for the fae-wine, it can get kindred drunk, speaking from experience.
Fun for the whole family, then.
>Though I am curious as to House Venus' experience with the fae. -Kakophoni
You and your sire are our "experience with the Fae", or the closet thing to one.

>>97575083
My nickname is a reference to Carlo Collodi's Adventures of Pinocchio, it has nothing to do with the Fair Folk.
Princess Charming gave it to me, I wore a blue dress on the night we first met at her club.

>>97576116
Blue Fairy gave me this nickname in response. I love it.
I created Blue Fairy, Venus in Furs and Princess Charming first, in this order, when I did I had only played VTM once, and had I known more about WoD I would have picked an username that doesn't mention a different type of supernatural creature directly.

COMMUNICATIONS OFFLINE AGAIN // CONFIRMED GLASSWALKER INTERFERENCE // COMMITING TO ANTIVIRUS PROTOCOL AT EXPENSE OF TACTICAL OBJECTIVES // STATUS REPORT NECESSARY

FOUR BOROUGHS SECURED // STATEN BROOKLYN QUEENS BRONX

EXCEPTIONS // HIDEOUTS // NEOCARTHAGE REMNANT STRONGHOLDS // MAGE GROUNDS // CAERNS // FOLDED SPACE // HAUNTED GROUNDS // ARCANUM CHAPTER HOUSE PROPERTY // CHANTRIES // ELYSIUM STATUS UNVERIFIED // NOSFERATU UNREACHABLE // LIST OF PERSONS OF INTEREST ABANDONED // MOST ARE PRESUMED MISSING OR IN HIDING // FEW CONFIRMED DEAD

CHANTRIES UNRESPONSIVE // SIEGE PROTOCOL PRESUMED // CAITIFF WARBAND ATTEMPTED ENTRY OF ONE, TURNED TO PASTE // HELPFUL

ABNORMAL DEFENSIVENESS OF ARCANUM CHAPTER HOUSE OBSERVED // COMMUNICATION ATTEMPTS UNSUCCESSFUL

MANHATTAN ON FIRE // DRAGON HUNTING GROUNDS // CONTESTED TERRITORY // TO AVOID MASQUERADE BREACHES LOCAL CRIMINALS HAVE BEEN CONSCRIPTED AS WORKFORCE TO PROCURE NON-KINE FEED // HUNTERS ACTING IN SIMILAR FASHION // ATTEMPTS AT MANIPULATION SPURRED

GAROU // DRAGON // CAITIFF // GHOUL // MAGE // HUNTER // SABBAT // ANARCH // DIABOLIST // CULTIST // UNVERIFIED EXTRA PARTIES HOSTILE ACTIVITY STATE-WIDE LOGGED

SPEAR STRIKE REQUIRED

MAY HER NAME BE FOREVER GLORIOUS

Meeting with Polar and Bee tonight. Here's hoping they remain amiable.

>>97575610
No, it's more of an amber-coloured substance.

>>97577342
Please ask them about the Concolation too, since my sources know nothing, the lupines that were here on Schrecknet were banned, and no one would be foolish enough to approach something of the sort, let alone spy on such an event.

>>97577396
Genuine question, what are you after on a grand moot?
I have other contacts, better than an old Wentiko and a young Ukte on the other side of the continent. Especially if you genuine concerns.

That Bruha FUCK Dracula Flow cannot keep getting away with these masquerade violations where the fuck is the sheriff??

>>97577583
My concerns are possible lupine attacks on, or subtler (by werewolf standards, that is) operations in the city of New York. I'd love to be wrong, but don't think such a gathering was simply a business meeting or a religious service.
Even so, I'm feeling optimistic that order will be eventually restored to the city.

>>97577646
Very well, I will inquire. Though I can't help but feel the Loups are the least of your worries.

Our local cutie Mercury Lamp and "uncle" The Devil Wears Me are working overtime to greet the new guests and create a suitably hospitable environment for them, these are from the New World.
>>97576965
>SPEAR STRIKE REQUIRED
>MAY HER NAME BE FOREVER GLORIOUS
I like what I'm reading.

>>97579256
The guests they met in Europe were listed here: >>97565337
These are the rest, only two are missing, then "the team" is assembled:

CLAN MALKAVIAN:
Luna Rochester, childe of Bedelia, 7th gen, F, US

CLAN TOREADOR:
Maude, (grand?)childe of Diana Iadanza, 10th gen, F, US/CA-QC

CLAN TREMERE:
William Morgan, childe of Madeline Coventry, 9th gen, M, US

CLAN VENTRUE:
Morena, childe of Datura, 7th gen, F, US/MX
Ronan "Ron" Fitzpatrick, great-grandchilde of Lucinde, 9th gen, M, US/IE

This William Morgan is the occultist who "disappeared" in 1826 after trying to publish the "secrets of the Freemasons"

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how do you guys get money? I just get welfare but I was thinking I should probably start to branch out before the thing I dread most happens (that is being called to a meeting during the day)

>>97579675
We're Toreadors, and rich people pay to spend time with us. I could be their sister, girlfriend, wife, dominatrix, for one or a few nights, and for the right price.

>>97579675
I had savings from my mortal life, but they're running out, so I could also use whatever advice you get. Though I am a Tzimisce, anyone want to buy a Pokémon or a new face/physique?

>>97579700
I am also Toreador and no one has wanted to sleep with me let alone pay me to sleep with them

>>97579964
Are you sexy? If not I can help fix that.

>>97579964
Good grief! That's about as awful as being a Tremere who can't read.

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>>97579675
WHAT WANT OF THEM WHO DEFILED SO, WHAT WANT OF THEM WHO KNOW ONLY TO TAKE

Honestly? I was- Kind of been mostly homeless. Getting by I had to steal and sell out and sometimes sell really shitty weed

THAT YOU SO MISERABLE REPOSE IN FILTH

Then it got better a bit, when I could sell services. The Blood isn't always great- Well, I don't think I need to tell you that. Still had to rely on base humiliating shit to feed.

YOU WOULD DO SO?

Yea.

Shard of a shard- You should ignore it by the way. It's just something I stuck with

WHY?

You've got a long long future ahead of you if you're unfortunate enough to live, so you should probably start learning skills. Making connections. Better than crime or accumulation. And for the harlots who own themselves, the profession works well enough. The rest of us though? Shouldn't use it for anything but a crutch or a feeding tool.

Hm. Tool workshop. Paper. Online Security. Noise- Noise- Noise- Noise-

Plumbing? There are good night trade schools. People don't think twice about handymen.

IT ACHES

Yea. Yea I feel it don't worry none. You ain't alone.

>>97576965
While it may or my not be of any use, I recommend that you enlist the aid of a member of the Samedi bloodline if you are able. If this dragon is anything like the unicorn monster, it will possess incredible powers of regeneration. During the battle against the Palatine and her assorted allies, minions and creations, Christopher was able to do... something to the Multihorn that was not only able to halt its ability to regenerate but even seemed to turn the creature's healing against itself somehow. Unfortunately I'm uncertain if this ability is a universal effect of the peculiar powers of the Samedi, or if it is something unique to Christopher himself.

>>97579675
>>97579960
I see this question asked frequently and I must confess that it confuses me. Find a suitable ghoul who can provide shelter if you need it or cultivate a herd of mortals who can help in providing goods, services or capitol. If nothing else, surely your Disciplines should make you useful to someone with resources but can't or won't do certain tasks themselves. You can even deposit funds in to an account and let it grow with interest, if you have the patience for such a thing. Your only requirement is vitae and a place to shelter from the sun after all - everything else is just a means to an end.

>>97551553
/schreck/ is dreck

I recall Revelation mentioning how "thinblood alchemy" could have been part of the process of making those early abominations: artificial vitae to allow for an artificial embrace of an artificial werewolf (a "Mockery Breed" as Kakophoni told us).

This hypothesis was correct and Newest Carthage was able to find the alchemist first, and that is how they made the abominations they used to fight the previous wave from the Second Inquisition, as Pentex provided the furry raw material.

I just received some pleasant news from a friend of our Nosferatu guests: the alchemist in question was... located, that is also how I came to confirm the above information, which means justice for my poor son Boy Toy will be coming sooner than I thought!

I have more pleasant news, again involving our Nosferatu guests: little Mercury Lamp had them both participate in a red tea party with the dolls, it was their first, and they had a very emotional moment, as the good folks in the Clan of the Hidden seldom have such positive interaction with children.

Oh, and remember that clip with Mercury Lamp's doll, Dies Irae, burning two neo-nazi trespassers alive with the flamethrower? She showed it to none other than the father of cinematography himself, and transfixed him. I think he rewatched it at least 20 times.

I am so, so, so proud of her, and of all my progeny.

>>97581567
>Christopher was able to do... something to the Multihorn that was not only able to halt its ability to regenerate but even seemed to turn the creature's healing against itself somehow.
Did this "something" require Christopher to touch the monster directly?
>>97582597
>I am so, so, so proud of her, and of all my progeny.
Yay!!! I love you Mommy!!!

>>97582608
Unfortunately it did, so you will need to find a way to ground the creature, at least temporarily. As I said, this might not be of any help at all, but I felt it best to share what was effective for us here in Jacksonville.

>>97572471
Out of curiosity, do Scholar and company bother to visit the de-facto Prince, Noblesse's Grand-Sire, do the usual honors? The actual Prince, Noblesse's Sire, is involved in the deathwar in New York, so grandpa's reigning in his place, along with using the court as his base of operations. Militarized Ventrue behavior, all around.

>>97581567
The advice is appreciated, albeit it is not going to be immediately useful. The mobile fireteams had a number of specialists they could call in, even including a Samedi, incidentally. They've tried to pull some appropriately special methods to down the creature - slowing its regeneration, sabotaging its food supply, feeding a suicide bomber with incendiary bombs in their chest cavity to it, ghouling rats so they'd try and eat their way out of its stomach, trying to make the hunters bring out military toys, and so on - but nothing worked, and the dragon seemingly just got remarkably hungrier in each instance. And ate the specialists. The remaining ones are keeping their distance, and hiring new ones just won't happen, not with things being as bad as they are.

Outlasting it may be an option - it's eating several times its own body weght every day, at this point, using the flesh as fuel; maybe it's got a Nagaraja in it somewhere? Though I heard those are meant to eat humans, only, surely they can't just eat animals, as the dragon does, when it's offered some... Whatever it is, it seems to need to feed to be able to function, and its needs keep increasing, and that means that once it outscales its food supply, it'll starve. Issue is, by then it'd be a Masquerade breach so vast, New York's current state would seem serene... Horrid.

We may have no other choice but to tie it down in combat and keep on hitting it until there's nothing that can regrow, though given how the much inferior Mutihorn kind of refused to die...

>>97572950
Good news, the Loup camp is willing to meet with you in the Flesh Lavender. As soon as you're willing, I'll handle the minutia.
The primary leader is Polar, older Wentiko you already nominally met, though there are other strong personalities. Bee, the younger Ukte I've been talking with is probably the main reason this is no longer 'ceremonial rite' (suicide mission) central, bright future, affection for the sort of fucked up magic shit that makes me think he might be a longer term ally. There's also "Fuzzy" (big brute whose been looking for an excuse to start up the onslaught invasion but is mostly depressed),"Horns" (you'll understand when you see her, she's not a threat but her primary concerns are a self-sacrificial attitude) and "Loki" (take a wild fucking guess.) I;ll patch you in on the specifics in person.

>>97577646
I have an ounce of news, you needn't fret much over large scale warfare from 6 of the Loup Nations.
That's all I can say though. You've got other enemies of a more conventional breed you should concern yourself with.

>>97579675
I'll be honest fledgeling I didn't worry about money until the 60s. Still ignore it for the most part, but I dabbled a lot. Scavenging, hunting, did a summer working at a night shift in Ohio at an auto repair shop. Graveyard hours can let you get by. Although having to quit when they shift you to more dangerous times can be awkward. Have an alibi lined up.

The Cat was right though, you should probably look to the future. Maybe not investing in property or grooming millionaires, but skills are a neccesity.

>>97582987
Would this be of any help? It's a level 4 Necromantic Ritual from Rites of the Blood V20.

Point of the Needle

This ritual was discovered by Voudoun Necromancers that were already adept at being able to create Baleful Dolls. By taking a needle that has been previously stabbed into a Baleful Doll, the Necromancer immerses the needle completely in blood under the light of the moon for a whole night. Upon successful completion of the ritual, the blood turns to ash and the needle develops a red tint.

System: Until the next sunrise, the Necromancer may perform a single use of “Withering” upon a target, using the same systems as outlined for the original power, but with a prick from the needle replacing a touch attack.

>>97584152
... theoretically speaking, a spear is just a really big needle.

>>97584378
We may be about to witness peak WoD.
I like that the "blood" in that Ritual doesn't have to belong to the caster or anyone in particular, even if the "needle" is big it's not that difficult to find enough blood since anything goes.
Baleful Doll is a a level 4 Ritual from the Core Rulebook that doesn't have a size limit on the doll, it needs 4-5 hours to make but most Voudoun Necromancers will have a Baleful Doll ready, especially those who know Point the Needle.

>>97581567
>a member of the Samedi bloodline
Unfortunately I don't know any.
I've met my share of Necromancers in Italy, but I don't think any could be mobilized to fight a dragon New York urgently - they'd probably laugh if you ask them nicely or not so nicely - not to mention how their craft always takes forever to prepare or what we can usually expect should their powers backfire.
>>97584109
>I have an ounce of news, you needn't fret much over large scale warfare from 6 of the Loup Nations.
>That's all I can say though. You've got other enemies of a more conventional breed you should concern yourself with.
That's one less headache to worry about.

>>97573836
>I'll ask we don't wake him up until all things are settled.
Yeah, that's entirely reasonable. The last thing we want is tempting the odds that the gargoyle will remain loyal to the Pyramid even with all ties broken, and will proceed to be a pest and sabotage our efforts. Things are fragile enough.

And thank you, that's enlightening.

>>97584109
Thank you. I'm as willing as I'll be, the longer we delay it the more I want to send Ignis in my place, see how that goes.

>affection for the sort of fucked up magic shit that makes me think he might be a longer term ally.
Oh good God. You know, in like a year, when the Pyramid sends somebody to assess things here and verify this isn't just weirdos LARPing on SchreckNet, and thus finds out we have a werewolf lab assistant of sorts, on top of everything else strange about the caern by then, we're going to be in so much trouble. Can't wait.

>"Loki" (take a wild fucking guess.)
Tom Hiddleston appearance? Horns, but, like, less impressive than those of Horns? Disturbing fascination with horses? Trickster nature? Ordained by fate to be an antagonist and a pest, to his own woe? I could keep making horrid guesses.

Anything I should bring to the meeting, or try to gun for a specific appearance, maybe? Project an aura of strength with lightning tricks, or be particularly accomodating, or something else? Kind of worried about it being an ambush, or about not hitting some sort of werewolf diplomacy points and getting eaten for it.

>>97579675
Ghoul Kine with money, skim off of their earnings. The hardest part is getting in a room with them, but you can manage it by, first, ghouling the staff of some fancy enough restaurant or club. Not that difficult, just, be careful to not accidentally try ghouling your fellow Kindred. That gets awkward.

>>97584469
It's so fucking shonen-y. A deeply overburdened Ventrue, barely ancilla, bearing a cursed, withering needlespear, risen from a pool of blood, felling a great dragon in the middle of burning New York! His ancient Grand-Sire, puppeteering him, throwing him from side to side in impossible moments of dexterity and finesse, all to make sure he slays the dragon while never forgetting whose hand is on his shoulder, now and forever! Venus, probably finishing up licking Revelation clean sixty miles away! New Primogens of New York, sitting in Bridgeport and probably already arguing over how to divide a city they don't even own yet!

If this wasn't so self-indulgent and silly I'd commission art of it. Only way it can get more over-the-top is with a lamp post serving as the 'spear', and, due to its size, being operated by Tats and Noblesse together. And with Shark coming back to these threads and eating what's left of the dragon after it withers.

>>97587823
>this isn't just weirdos LARPing on SchreckNet, and thus finds out we have a werewolf lab assistant of sorts
The nerdy good twin of Papa Wolf?
>Disturbing fascination with horses?
>Project an aura of strength with lightning tricks
"By Asgard's golden gates, let me embrace thee, my cunning long lost brother who is probably planning to stab me in the back as Thor is speaking! How doth that noble eight-legged foal fare in thy fecund womb? Art thou counting the kicks?"

>>97588124
>The nerdy good twin of Papa Wolf?
Hopefully with less attempts to stick his dick in vampires. We don't need to aim for that degree of cozyness with the locals, I think, especially given SOME PEOPLE attempting to arrange a relationship between me and a werewolf grandma.

>"By Asgard's golden gates, let me embrace thee, my cunning long lost brother who is probably planning to stab me in the back as Thor is speaking! How doth that noble eight-legged foal fare in thy fecund womb? Art thou counting the kicks?"

Pfft. See, this would be great, on top of probably prompting that depressed werewolf to first kill me out of cringe, then himself, but I am a bit of a manlet, got white hair instead of fair blond locks, owing to SOMEBODY fucking around with reagents, and am overall a twink. You can probably bet on '''Loki''' being more Thor-like than I am, especially if we discount the thunder.

I'd make an okay Hel, maybe.

>>97588124
>"By Asgard's golden gates, let me embrace thee, my cunning long lost brother who is probably planning to stab me in the back as Thor is speaking! How doth that noble eight-legged foal fare in thy fecund womb? Art thou counting the kicks?"
Je déteste ça tellement.

>got white hair instead of fair blond locks
Arrêtez ça!

>>97584152
I don't see why it wouldn't work, but ultimately the tale of New York is outside of my jurisdiction, so to speak.


In my story of Jacksonville, the Multihorn would have been brought down by Christopher applying a combination of Necrosis (Thanatosis 5) plus a unique Thanatosis-based combo discipline that would foul vitae so that any attempt to use it for healing would instead inflict more damage; causing those lethal wounds to stack up until they became aggravated while Vigo and a bunch of other vampires were pounding on the thing (getting in the occasional aggravated wound inflicted here or there) until it was dead - but not before taking out all the unfortunate unnamed vamps of course. Was one of the sketches I was working on but didn't complete.

However, Bleu doesn't really know anything about Thanatosis beyond "it's the unique power of the Samedi bloodline" so she can't really describe what happened beyond "something." Likewise, she doesn't really have an understanding of Necromancy, so she can't give any advice on its effectiveness as a solution.

But again, how things go down in New York is up to those who are telling the story, not me.

>>97587823
>Oh good God. You know, in like a year, when the Pyramid sends somebody to assess things here
And I have half a mind to throttle them for the shit they let slide out west in the 'Bastion of Tremere Lands in America.'

>Tom Hiddleston appearance?
Who? Did they make a movie about Norse mythology or something?
He has a disposition akin to Half-Seeing, I meant.

>Anything I should bring to the meeting, or try to gun for a specific appearance, maybe? Project an aura of strength with lightning tricks, or be particularly accommodating, or something else? Kind of worried about it being an ambush, or about not hitting some sort of werewolf diplomacy points and getting eaten for it.

Be yourself. We have more to gain working together than ripping each other apart. Most of them were either sent her as penance or called in dreams by vengeful things which now have either gone out or have much less fire in them. Some were just sent to die, or came only to seek out the Croyhatoon sites. All we need to do is let the Caern be fully opened up, and you as a... Well. The most polite way to put it is 'a dead guardian for a dead tribe's Caern.' Custodianship, rather than dominion like your sire plotted.

Other than that, just the usual you'd have in dealing with a Gang moot. No sudden moves, no tasteless jokes,no sycophancy or threats.

They're currently deciding what they want to do themselves, and I'm hoping they could be... Allies? Good neighbours? Folk that could call in a favour from you and vice versa. Something like what a few of the Milwaukee and Labrador Blood have going on between themselves and some of their Loup neighbours. Having you as a support structure could let this coalition be a formidable force. One that could, in turn, provide a bit of protection.

Then if this goes well we go have a screaming match with the feathery asshole at the heart of all this.

>>97588813
>Be yourself.
Why is that so hard for vampires?

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>>97591210
Do you really want a Tzimisce to be himself around living organisms?

>>97551553
oh the petty fears over virility and stature that have always plagued men. i was once very insecure.
but i suppose i stopped worrying at some point about it. i could not tell you precisely when it was though, it washed out over long decades, and i only recall it now.

>>97556945
you are a most coy weaver of riddles. or perhaps you are merely in possession of ironic cards.
regardless, i have sent you back a few cursed trinkets. less out of recompense, more out of a gesture of good will. keep them in their snuff boxes and you may release them at your leisure.

>>97591210
is that even a question?
>he wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
if it was bad enough for a white anglo-saxon serving a few years in burma, imagine what a never-ending curse will do.

>>97591387
Hey, if organic life didn't want to change it wouldn't be so pliable!

>>97577643
The Prince has said before that what he's said doesn't count as a masquerade breach as he hasn't talked about kindred society at all or any of the terms
He claims to be dracula but the kine already know about dracula so it's fine
The only concern is if he's arrested for his crimes that he's committed
Also someone should stop him from feeding on kine that are on narcotics, it's affecting how he acts and his ghouls are the ones making these videos of him

>>97593760
>Also someone should stop him from feeding on kine that are on narcotics
You first.

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[Montane Layover, Update 6] Someone has the Power

Another swell night. That was only partially sarcasm as I feel LL has his own thoughts on the gongshow.
He can fill you in when he wakes, for now though, I'll recap.

>We left the Anchoritte manor at the start of the night. In theory it was just the two of us LL & I, hiking up the mountain to the campsite where the Loups were waiting
>This started off fairly well enough, the Ukte, especially Bee (who has decided to call me Gran) were willing and happy to open up
>Everyone else was varying levels of uneasy, though, Polar seemed mostly tired, no promise of a righteous death took a toll on her
>After about an hour though things soured, and something really bad happened
>For reference, about of the nine Loups I was familiar with and had participated in the Grudge-Ending Rite. There were sightings of more though, and the Loups informed me of one in particular, a Shadow Lord who'd been skulking on the periphery for years, seeking to claim the Caern; called 'Bat-Eater'
>As the name implies, not a pleasant fellow
>Bat-Eater crashed the meeting with a small cohort of four other Loups, Fenrirs I think
>Didn't matter much what they were, as Bat-Eater laid into Polar for entertaining thoughts of 'Covenants with dead things' and myself for my abominable status
>He also slagged the Cat for being a false prophet. Cunt.
>I will admit, I was played pretty well when his one of his lackeys bull-rushed me down the mountain to get me out of the way
>His real intention was to do what one of his peers had done prior, challenge the "problem" (Lavender) to a duel, kill him, and rally the Loups to wipe out the Anchorites
>As I was rolling down the mountain with an increasingly disoriented Loup in a bundle of fangs, claws, and screaming, Lavender was faced by Bat-Eater
>While the undecided watched to see if the Trem had any strength at all to protect the Caern

>>97594779
>This 'duel' immediately went to shit as Lavender wisely scrambled to avoid being mauled, and Bat-Eater's followers struggled to keep the other Loups out, one getting into a scuffle with Bee and Horns that quickly turned violent
>Another of the lackey's took a bullet to the back as it seemed the Anchorite Nos had followed. They didn't manage to kill him, but they forced another of Bat-Eater's followers to give chase into the brush
>Pretty grim situation I won't lie
>As Lavender was constantly on the backfoot and most were focused on him avoiding death, no one noticed Mèo slip into the impromptu fighting ring
>She hit Bat-Eater with something that made him recoil, grabbed Lavender, and gave him a 'V-J Day in Times Square' snog and said something to him
>What was uttered remains unknown to me as in the present Mèo remains mute
>What matters is this, Bat-Eater recovered and hurled the Malk out of the way looking to finish off Lavender
>And then, faced with that bear of a Loup bearing down on him, LavenderLevinbolt pointed a finger at Bat-Eater, the sky rumbled, and a bolt of lightning hit them both
>The Loup was cast back on his ass, Klaives knife flying into the dirt where the little Trem scooped it up
>Spitting lightning from his mouth, everyone present watched as Lavender got on Bat-Eater's back and decapitated him with a sawing manoeuvre
>For a moment apparently everyone just stared at him, shirt ripped off, holding the head and speaking in tongues
>Then all hell broke loose, the sole unmolested Lou of Bat-Eater's followers getting ripped apart by Polar, like a gazelle in the jaws of an alligator. The one who'd been trying to wrangle Bee and Horn fled into the night as fast as he could, while the one who'd been after the Nos gave up on the chase and fled looking like a cut of swiss cheese. I managed to kill mine, dropping him head-first off a cliff, although by the time I'd managed that it was over, and Loki and Georgie arrived to 'rescue' me.

>>97594792
>Mercifully, the peace agreement afterwords was much less dramatic and proved very productive in hashing out a formal arrangement between the two groups
>With the real detractors having gotten themselves killed and ironically proving the Trem in question was adept?
>It was the best possible outcome
>even if Lavender was still twitchy and only felt himself when the night began to wane, and Mèo remains mute even now
>Also been digging teeth out of my leg for the better part of the morning. Real fun
>Consent has been given by the 'Wards of the Animkiig Circle' as they are calling themselves now
>Now all we need to do is to strike a bargain with a small god.

>>97585591
>I've met my share of Necromancers in Italy, but I don't think any could be mobilized to fight a dragon New York urgently
Correct, but one of your childer told a student of mine you had an interesting death in the family, and that is a valid enough reason to mobilize me.

>>97595347
Sigh. You can't wait, I understand that, but I'm certain the dead are not in a hurry.

>>97588124
PFHEHEHEHE
>>97588813
>He has a disposition akin to Half-Seeing, I meant.
:)
:)
...
Wait.
Hey. HEY. >:(

>>97594779
>>97594792
>>97594797
I maintain utter disbelief that any of this happened! Lavender and 'doing literally anything but hitting things with lighting and running away' just doesn't seem like a believabel combo to me. Can't even imagine him seducing a wolf, much less cutting off one's head while being possessed or whatever.

>>97595426
I can corroborate the events as outlined by the manor's esteemed expert in all things Lupine, actually! Barring fine details I just was not a witness to, due to playing my part in baiting a werewolf.

Unless you are being sarcastic as a form of expressing quasi-sibling sympathy and concern for your definitely very possessed sort-of-brother, in which case I shan't sabotage your efforts any further, and will say that you are actually utterly right, and young Lavender just kind of ate a very strange sort of mushroom-based remedy and spoke with 'spirits' that would be remnants of his brain's electrochemistry firing off, briefly-alive. Victoria is suggesting I make some sort of convoluted claim to what he got up with the Garou while high out of his mind on mystery mushrooms, but that is just dirty and she can write obscenities on her own foul web-device.

>>97594792
>the Anchorite Nos had followed.
It would not be right to leave you unguarded. While there was obvious risk that the wolves would spot us and take it for an act of perfidy, me and Victoria figured we most likely wouldn't be seen, and if we were, you could bill us as witnesses to whatever agreement is reached, as well as honor guard, as we're the oldest of the manor survivors.
Victoria is the one to thank for sharp-shooting, she's a menace with her rifle! Frankly, the Bat-Eater bunch are lucky she didn't bring her duck gun, if she had they'd be vapor.

>>97595378
I never asked myself if Boy Toy could have become a wraith... I just thought of avenging him. I am so unprepared for all of this.

>>97595426
I don't know what to believe myself, I can only iterate what the Cat writes out for me and what Bee and Polar said.
What I do know for sure is self-belief is one of the most dangerous things Mèo can afflict a person with, and is much worse than her sticking her tongue down your throat or mania in your brain.

The delusion of "I" ends and begins ages. It is the secret syllable of God for a reason.

>>97595466
I suppose I expected it, just like I figured the Loups had their own contingencies.
Thanks for the assistance regardless.

Also I should inform you some of the Wentiko consider you a Moby Dick figure. Both in the negative and the positive sense.

>>97595498
Better to not dwell with echoes and vestiges.

>>97595526
>Better to not dwell with echoes and vestiges.
Spider Lily is, if not the most powerful kindred we know, the most frightening by far, she even filmed herself walking under the sun for crying out loud, and I think the fact she's coming here in person will be a curse more than a blessing, and that would be... consistent with how the rest of the winter went.
Did my poor family not suffer enough? Oh my God I need a drink.

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>>97594797
>>even if Lavender was still twitchy and only felt himself when the night began to wane, and Mèo remains mute even now
I am having Librarian type this up, because I think my hands are kind of somewhat static-y, and I've managed to make my laptop's screen flicker with a touch, don't want to risk actual damage. Librarian is a remarkably good typist for somebody of her time, and is very patiently omitting and correcting all the excessive swear words I am, apparently, bound to use following my triumphant victory and the resulting spiritual hangover that feels like a truck ran me over, then reversed, then hit me with a tazer.

Any clue what I said while under the effects? I get very hazy recollections, and some of them feel less like actual memories, and more like... Some sort of stitched-together Frankenstein mess; a word I head said ten years ago, and five, and twenty, that sort of stuff. Not very coherent. I don't know if you remember how falling asleep felt when you were alive, but I still have very vivid memories of cases when I was dead-tired, in college, after an all-nighter or two.

Trying to drift away, closing my eyes, and I guess hallucinating stuff - hearing distant arguing, screaming, vivid conversation. Never anything actually real or decipherable, it was always this incoherent word-noise I somehow understood to be 'arguing'. Same goes here, I know I said words, but trying to remember what it was is just not working.

Librarian is also insisting I mention that she's very concerned about me beheading people, and apparently needs me to say it so she could write it, just writing it on her own is simply unacceptable.

Also.

>the little Trem

Offensive. Hurtful. Not incorrect, but still.

>Lavender got on Bat-Eater's back and decapitated him with a sawing manoeuvre
>For a moment apparently everyone just stared at him, shirt ripped off, holding the head and speaking in tongues
...Did I do the attached image, give or take? Tell me I did.

>>97595498
>>97595728
I just want the best for Boy Toy, living or dead. I told Blue Fairy and Scarlet to obey any and all requests from you and Spider Lily, no matter how unreasonable - the first being to obtain some twenty-five blood bags - as if they were your ghouls, and without delay, comments or questions - or they will have to face my wrath.

>>97596066
Okay we have staff on their way to get the first dozen. While we get the rest, any tips for how to behave when she's finally here?

>>97596109
She's not an Antediluvian, fortunately enough, but I want you to act as if Caine or Lilith themselves came to visit us.

>>97596135
Fuck.
Are you telling me this was the same woman that taught me jujutsu? She wasn't a mortal? Ok we're getting 30 blood bags and I don't want to know how she walks under the sun anymore.

>>97596148
Good girl.

>>97595526
>Also I should inform you some of the Wentiko consider you a Moby Dick figure. Both in the negative and the positive sense
Oh good God. You have no idea what you just did. He will never shut the fuck up about this, ever. Next time he manages to pull off a Keno Hill reunion, he'll talk the ears off of other deranged old farts about it.

What does 'Moby Dick figure' mean, specifically? Is it something broad, or, Heaven forbid, is it related to Keno Hill?

For our side of the story, Keno Hill specifically went like this. Me, William and like fifteen or twenty other Kindred worked for a woman called Juana de Castilla. Old Tremere; probably about as old as the Pyramid. She was looking for a burial ground near a now-missing from maps town called Sixty Mile. The burial ground was called Keno Hill; we mostly tracked it down when Pinkertons showed up.

Pinkertons with cameras that shone sunlight instead of a regular flash.

Juana burned, her manor did too, most of us did not. We bailed, reconvened in town, and went barreling down along now-nonexistent train tracks to the hill. Ran into a literal Sabbat army, must've been a hundred near-thinblooded Kindred there in total, totally overwhelming the population of a smaller satellite town of Sixty Mile, ruffled feathers of local werewolves, ran one over with our locomotive, not fatally, sadly. We ended up finding the burial ground, to my bafflement found out it, just as the leads suggested, was one belonging to Norsemen, who got to Alaska God knows how, but I have some guesses, given that werewolves were crazy about not letting us near that place, and that it had some strong Kindred artifacts hidden in it.

Neither me nor William went inside or touched the shinies, we both were far too paranoid, but I take it if the Wentiko care about this little incident, they'd care less about that, and more about that once we were gone, so were the shinies, and the presumably-sleeping-wight inside.

>>97595728
Suffer enough? No one suffers enough to be granted escape from it. Just look at the poor creature who ended beside your Boy.
Do not trespass lightly with dead things, I've had enough of that shit to last me several lifetime courtesy of one fucking necrophiliac.

>>97595998
Librarian is a blessing.

As for what you said? I don't think anyone got it on record and the Cat was still in the mud. Though, were I to make an educated guess? Something like what she's been going through prior to this, transfered to you. She did say "fly" to you, though in what language it is unclear. Argument? Inherited memory? Emanations of the Animkiig which is... Not having a good time if anything can be gleaned from my Malk's tribulations and the feel of all this? I can't say.

It is within you now, though. For better or worse.

>Librarian is also insisting I mention that she's very concerned about me beheading people
It isn't the worst thing to be worried about.

>Offensive. Hurtful. Not incorrect, but still.
I can think of worse things. "My little Pogchamp" I consider to be a borderline slur.

>...Did I do the attached image, give or take? Tell me I did.
For a minute before you slumped into the snow when the survival instincts wore off.

>>97596171
>totally overwhelming the population of a smaller satellite town of Sixty Mile, ruffled feathers of local werewolves, ran one over with our locomotive, not fatally, sadly.
THAT is how you create a Moby Dick figure. Except instead of a White Whale maiming you, you get smacked by a train pushed by a very memorable Nosforatu cackling as he drives off into the night. Apparently that one tracked you all the way back down to Vancouver before they were forced to give up on the chase and return home.

The story spread as far as Nunavut and North Ontario, where it managed to find it's way here.

Hm... Better to let sleeping wights lie.

>>97596233
>Do not trespass lightly with dead things, I've had enough of that shit to last me several lifetime courtesy of one fucking necrophiliac.
I just think Spider Lily is going to come over here and do whatever the literal hell she wants. The woman I loved the most is now suffering a fate worse than death, all I'm asking is that the man I loved the most doesn't have a similar fate.

>>97596265
He won't.

>>97596270
I'm feeling dizzy, I need another drink.

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Ask an Elder anything.

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>>97551553
Can some fine kindred childe or neonate illuminate this old anonymous Ancilla on why the newest generation of kine culture is so queer?

Things seemed stable if a tad queer a decade ago on the userwebs of things
But now this lunacy and absurdity that would mock most standards of common decency seems to have permeated unto to the common kine, drenched in strange feelings of apathy and resentment
Are the kine in due for their next series of chaos and societal uphevals?


>posted from my iPhone via taptalk

Kakophoni privately messages Scarlet with concerns that this Spider Lily might be a setite trying to manipulate Venus' grief and that if Scarlet needs help, to call him through the shadows like he taught her.

>>97598335
Did a Japanese artist make that painting? Can you tell me a bit about your origins? How can you help Boy Toy?
>>97598952
Scarlet answers the DM with another: "Venus seems scared like a mother who took her son to the emergency department and he needs urgent surgery, she's gonna be scared even if the doc is skilled. I'll let you know if we have problems."

>>97599069
Yes the painter is Japanese and so am I, I was a young noblewoman from clan Asano and was embraced towards the end of the Sengoku Period, shortly before the unification.

Europeans didn't just bring gunpowder weapons and Christianity, they were interested in the slave trade, and whereever there is carnage and slavery, the Clan of Death finds it's way in, even if they have to cross entire oceans.

The circumstances leading to Boy Toy's death are highly suggestive for him becoming a wraith, and as a necromancer I could save your boyfriend from suffering in the Underworld.
I could also let you talk to him again.

>>97598820
Forgive me, but where were you during the protests 1968 and the Stonewall riots of 1969? Were you in torpor? Any activism I see today is rather mild compared to those days and nights.

>>97598820
What fuckin were you on? When dudes were shoving bottles up their asses and the most famous gif was a guy swinging dong? That decade ago?
are you even old enough to remember the Great War and the shit after?

Ill take the brats posting basedjaks over doing a pogrom and burning my upstairs stuff.

>>97599091
Would you say your clients are afraid of your profession, of ghosts and what you can tell them about the afterlife?

>>97599091
>Europeans didn't just bring gunpowder weapons and Christianity
Oui, you left out sunflower seeds and chocolate, ma chérie.

>>97599640
My art deals with a profoundly emotionally and spiritually traumatic subject matter: suffering is the main argument against living, and most people are not prepared to confront the notion that the afterlife is exactly as this English word says: "a life, after", instead of a place of rest, and especially that the undeserving may suffer down there much like they do on this side of the pond.
Entire books could be written on each religion's relationship with death and social taboos concerning the dead, and even among my fellow Cainites the members of my Clan is often seen as terrifying.

>>97599719
I was more fond of Chinese silk and other goods, because the Ming banned direct commerce with Japan and the Portuguese were the middle men, then books, clocks, refined sugar, chile peppers, iron armor...

>>97598820
Do you mean queer as in gay or queer as in weird? I have to ask for clarification in this year of our lord 2026 because it really is weird and gay all over the place, with lots of overlap.

>>97598335
sorry I've got to be the prick and ask this: what does introducing this character add to the shrecknet chronicle? What's the point of adding another character to your already bloated cast if it doesn't allow for any meaningful interaction with the other posters in the thread? For that matter, why make her a japanese elder vampire necromancer? It comes off as another deus ex machina for the already super perfect venus who knows everyone to solve all her problems with. I'm talking scholar-levels of wankery.

Its so sad to see shrecknet, which, as the vampire information and news sharing network has the potential to bring characters cross-cronicle with collaborative storytelling, be reduced to vampire reddit AMA or my life as a vampire skank blog.

>>97596233
>the Animkiig which is... Not having a good time if anything can be gleaned from my Malk's tribulations and the feel of all this? I can't say.
Terrific, that makes two of us. Once we summon the thing, me and it (him? Her? It? Something else? A royal Them?) can shake hand-and-claws, hug, and Librarian is refusing to finish this with a figure of speech I am actually saying.

>It is within you now, though. For better or worse.
I appreciate the network's Toreadors not making innuendos about this, and am currently being assaulted by HSE making those.
It's a strange feeling, now that I am more aware, I guess. It's like an ethereal equivalent of having something stuck between your teeth, or maybe a less directly unconfomfortable equivalent of having a bullet you can just about feel scrape against your bones, that kind of stuff. Not superbly pleasant, but it does make me more aware of a part of myself.
What's more concerning is, retrospectively speaking, it feels an awful lot like this feeling was always there, to a slight level. Probably ever since my Embrace, and maybe while I was alive, even? Very, very, very different, in that case; maybe it were other petty gods messing with my head, or something. I really don't know if this is actually me figuring out how to feel for a presence looming over my shoulder and sticking its beak where it shouldn't, or it's just pareidolia.

>"My little Pogchamp"
Profuse sounds of pain that Librarian, helpfully, omits, all while trying to ignore the screech-like cackling of her youngest sister.

>For a minute before you slumped into the snow when the survival instincts wore off.
This is great, actually, I am no longer in pain.

>>97600320
>>97600320
I've been meaning to effectively retire House Venus and their supporting cast, with Spider Lily as a little post-credits scene for Boy Toy after the ending.

Kind of a passing of the torch, or passing of the ghost. I don't think Venus is going to like the "solution" to her problem, and I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear that Venus feels miserable about Boy Toy's fate, her fear of Spider Lily is founded, and the necromancer, who wants to see Boy Toy personally "for science", invited herself, and would have never been Venus' fist choice.

I just thought older, powerful vampires screwing you over by adding insult and injury to your personal horror was a fairly WoD thing to do.

>>97596233
>"My little Pogchamp"
I'm trying very hard to not make comments about who is your actual little pogchamp. I hope you, and the pogchamp, appreciate my efforts.

>>97591390
>you are a most coy weaver of riddles. or perhaps you are merely in possession of ironic cards.
It's both! Though truthfuly, the cards are also coy, and I am also ironic. Don't dig too much into that, recreating the way they were made is fairly painful and you'll take forever to regenerate.

>regardless, i have sent you back a few cursed trinkets. less out of recompense, more out of a gesture of good will. keep them in their snuff boxes and you may release them at your leisure.
Ominous as fuck, Zarrie! I'll keep an eye on, uh. Nosferatu couriers? Ghouled pigeons acting as little cargo drones? Whatever is your preferred method.


On the subject of cards, since we're hopefully past the parts of this whole mess I could safely try and path out, and since my gift yearns to be used, AND since getting free bling brings me great joy, I'm still offering free scryings! If anybody wants one, go ahead and ask your questions.

>>97598335
How old are you exactly? -Kakophoni

>>97600875

>Boy Toy personally
gonna be difficult as if he does have a shade, it's in Scholar's place as that's where he died and I doubt that methuselah is gonna let some rando necromancer waltz into his home.

>>97601753
444 including my mortal years.
>>97601769
Spider Lily not going to the place of Boy Toy's death, she is going where Boy Toy's Fetters are.

>>97600086
>>97599347
>>97599239
Gay as jolly and elated or? Oh it seems language has shifted
It’s seems people no longer use the term queer for common strangeness but strangeness of the homosexual variety

I am asking because there seems to be societal frustration and strangeness but no actual chaos or change like there was in the time of the great war
The common kine seems frustrated with the way things are but very perplexingly nothing is changing

The kine even joke about this wealthy pedophile which I am unsure if he is a ghoul of some kind
A scandal if made public would have destroyed most involved officials such as the currently elected president with the ludicrous amount of traction it has gained
Yet strangely not as much as one would expect seems to be happening

This chudjack as the youngest generation of the kine call this newspaper caricature
Seems to be very telling of this modern era

Though it utterly perplexes me
In some ways the lack of upheavals is rather pleasant compared with the utter chaos that occurred around the turn of the century
Though I do wonder if we are due for that again in a decade or three

>>97602133
>It’s seems people no longer use the term queer for common strangeness but strangeness of the homosexual variety
How queer indeed!
>The kine even joke about this wealthy pedophile which I am unsure if he is a ghoul of some kind
>A scandal if made public would have destroyed most involved officials such as the currently elected president with the ludicrous amount of traction it has gained
>Yet strangely not as much as one would expect seems to be happening
What if I told you the real inventors of the Masquerade weren't the Toreadors, but the kine? In order to manipulate the kine into submission, inaction, impotence and despair, we learned from their best.

>>97600872
That's the hope.
Keep in mind, as much as you're kind of a fucked up orphan, the Animkiig is an entity that probably still grieves for it's tribe. Not children, but something like it.

>I really don't know if this is actually me figuring out how to feel for a presence looming over my shoulder and sticking its beak where it shouldn't, or it's just pareidolia.
Is there a difference? Some Gang make no distinction between physical and spiritual matters.

>>97600946
I'll appreciate you not making those comments.

Being serious though? Once the matter with the Animkiig is dealt with, I imagine I'll be leaving. I still owe Mèo a sabbatical in a warm place.
So, if you could do two readings for us that would be appreciated. One for what is waiting South, and one for what is waiting for us up North.

>>97602133
Change comes eventually. Whether it's a death of the Soviet Union, a French revolution, or a collapse of the Western Roman Empire, that remains to be seen.
Also uncle the term you're using has transformed... Thrice now? You either need to drop all pretenses of your words or keep a pulse on the lingua franca shift.

>>97567747
Perhaps. It’s just the fitting reply when you’re trying to play Kaa. One of use has to be coy.

>>97567822
I mean define “dragon”. A tzimisce, I’d be biased against doing so, fratricide is widely frowned upon. An actual dragon would be a treasure of creation and the fulfillment of every little child’s wishes come true.
>>97600028
It’s hard to find good silk these days. Too much rayon and nylon. A pity. We spent a thousand years cultivating silk worms just to be replaced and potentially doomed by cheap petrochemicals.

Huh that’s weird. The ocean is singing. Are sirens real yall?

>>97602300
The way gramps writes reminds me of of the novellas I read back in the 70s
Well.. before this and the way JRR tolkien wrote was still rather antiquated for the time

It’s funny and genuinely heartwarming seeing fossils get unfronzen from cryostasis
Reminds me of better days before we had to deal with all of this shit
It’s not as good as watching a type of kine you like go about their lives when the sun goes down but it’s still very bloody hilarious

>>97603322
>I mean define “dragon”
A Tzimisce-made horror, with a great number of heads, a cauldron of self-replicating acid for a torso, limbs that rotate freely along every joint, a breath of fire that has successfully crisped up a werewolf, stuff like that. And it can go invisible. It's composed of, if I had to guess, a zoo's worth of ghouled animals, a lot of Kine, Kindred, and, at this point I am convinced, at least one chantry of those that a while back went missing a while back. Or, perhaps, elders that went missing? It's doing far too much to be made up of just one old Tremere and his acolytes.

It's currently at the level where it seems to need half an apartment building's worth of kine as feed daily. We don't want it to actually start eating apartment buildings, so we're trying to give it snacks; I've burned through most of my cash and assets just buying out industrial slaughter areas outside the city and funneling their produce, live and already butchered, to the city. All the while, the dragon's refusing to leave the city limits, and is circling in on the Arcanum building. Why it didn't just go right for it is beyond me. Playing with its food, maybe? Or it maybe it wants to, in a circular, winding fashion, cover all of New York?

The dragon's maker is still on the loose, trying to avoid fights if she can help it, so technically, I suppose, this is still a fellow Tzimisce you'd be assaulting. So, not an option, sadly.

My Grand-Sire's pet occultists suggest there is a solution to be found, but we'll need the Arcanum to cooperate for it, apparently. I'm dubious, but I'm also at a loss for options, I'd try to crash a jet into the fucking dragon if I didn't know that'd not work.

We'll be visiting tonight, however fundamentally fruitless trying to find valuable material in the nonsense the Arcanum typically studies and collects may be. If Arcanum just so happens to have friends or secret benefactors reading this, for the love of God, make them listen.

>>97603322
>Are sirens real yall?
If you ask a changeling: "Yes, of course Merfolk are real."
If you ask a mage: "Yes, of course those and other things humans called myths, cryptids, yōkai and much more could very well be 'real', so long as enough people believed in them."
If you ask me: "Pfft. 'Real', you say? Asking the 'real' questions, I see."

this morning when I laid down to sleep I dreamed a horrible dream

a doll-faced girl with skin like porcelin and hair like straw laughed in my basement, I dismissed this creature as a figment of my imagination, and turned about to return to my home. when I'd ascended, I turned around to see the girl looming up behind me. her limbs extended by uncanny means, laughing like a demon with a smile too wide. I kicked her in the jaw and woke when my foot struck my sleeping nook's roof.

I'm not sure what to do with this. it felt too real to be a mere bad dream, but I'm unsure what to do with a horror I can roundhouse kick

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>>97604532
>I'm unsure what to do with a horror I can roundhouse kick
The answer lies within the question itself.

>>97604532
Perhaps you could consult with one of Isis's scions, if there are any in your area. Trying to get useful information from one of the Seers is always a long shot, but this does sound like something that they could provide useful insight on.

Or you could always ask Mademoiselle HalfSeeingEye to consult her cards. Mayhaps they could provide a road to the answers you seek?

>>97605571
not the worst idea. been a while since I last made my twice-a-decade respects to the 'Queen of New Brunswick.' been putting it off since them and the cleopatrans formed their weird ossuary/temple/palace thing out in the city. are you snake-kin yourself? have you heard anything from your kin up here in acadia if this deal they have with the nosforatu is going to stick?

>>97604599
sure I've got a mean heel but I'd like to avoid cutting anything else out of my sleeping nook.

>>97600946
seer? may I request a reading on a foul dream I had? I'd like to know if I need to practice my escape plans more or if I need to stop buying cheap blood bags and drinking them room temperature.

A lone wolf wandered onto my property and ate one of my giant crickets. I talked to it for a few hours and ultimately ghouled it. What should I name it?

I'll also let you all in on my next project: a gauntlet of living bone for werewolf hunting that fires 18" silver spikes via muscle contraction. So far I've got the muzzle velocity up to 400 feet per second but I think it could go higher. Currently struggling with the aesthetics of it.

Waiting for my birthday next week to open the vitae-rum. I can't wait. Praying it's not some kind of trick that melts me from the inside out or blood bonds me or something.

>>97602133
>Gay as jolly and elated or? Oh it seems language has shifted
It has, my apologies, I should have specified homosexual instead of gay.
>I am asking because there seems to be societal frustration and strangeness but no actual chaos or change like there was in the time of the great war
The common kine seems frustrated with the way things are but very perplexingly nothing is changing
The kine feel powerless in the face of automatic weaponry and the fact that many kine who try to change it via political means end up dead in suspicious "accidents".
>The kine even joke about this wealthy pedophile which I am unsure if he is a ghoul of some kind
100% a revenant, have you seen the pictures of his supposed corpse? Someone fleshcrafted it hastily to look like him, the ears and nose are off.

>>97608484
Obvious question, boy or girl?
Girl wolves have all sorts of good naming options; Asena, or Capitolina, or Rudrih.
Boys are kind of lacking, but I suppose Blaise or Tutyr would work.

>>97608514
>>97608925
Oh crap I messed up, when I searched "Tutyr" on the internet to learn it's origins I read "Caucasus" as "Carpathian" (huge mistake). My blood is not from that region. Probably plenty of Tzimisce are from that region but not my lineage. My sire tells me we come from The Eldest by way of Ruthven and Dracula, which kind of makes us black sheep and the reason we're autarkis.

>>97608514
Lone male wolf. He was pushed out of his birth-pack once he came of age like normal, to establish his own pack. He's about two years old. I initially thought Freki or Geri, but I'm not Scandinavian so I'd feel like a poser. Tutyr is a good one. Got any Welsh ones?
So I tried to delete my post and it didn't disappear, then when I posted my correction it finally disappeared, but that left my second post with no reference, so I'm posting my first post again slightly edited. Sorry for wasting posts I know these are limited and means someone's going to have to make a new thread sooner because of me. I'm very sorry.

>>97608964
Gelert?

>>97609138
That would be kind of ironic since he did eat my szlachta. Easy to pronounce as far as Welsh names go though, so it's up there.

>>97604169
Tying off the New York bloodbowl today to free up the area and return it to business as usual for future stories; if anybody wants to join in in some way, have your vamps do something either to the actual bloowbowl, or under the cover of it, feel absolutely free to, it's such a big mess that that'd just add to the fun of it.

As broadly outlined here >>97588502, unless something else happens, the death of the dragon will be a Necrosis-adjacent, Necromantic ritual that affects a 'needle', aka a spear, inflicting intense withering upon whatever it pokes. The New York Arcanum building houses the documentation for this ritual, along with other variably-useful garbage like a real dragon skull, either a Mokole or a Bygone or whatever else. Could even be a Baba Yaga dragon head, that's a fun potential plot hook. Palatine's after it, as she's very upset her dragon isn't the real deal, and that's why the dragon was spiraling onto the Arcanum building. No sensible Tzimisce elder of her level would bother beating up the Arcanum for knick-knacks, they're mostly worthless weirdos who know next to nothing and are as pathetic a public occult study organization as can be, but she's not sensible.

Assuming no interruptions or interventions, Nobleedge will be the spear bearer: he's got high Fortitude so he can take some damage, he's expendable enough to be forced into it by older Kindred present, and the dragon doesn't like him, so it won't just leave. He'll get puppeted around by his Grand-Sire to make sure he dodges well, still end up hit with fire and acid, and, while getting eaten alive and looking downright skeletal, slay the dragon and fall into torpor. Might even do the final hit while in torpor already, high enough Dominate, like his Grand-Sire, permits ordering torpored vamps around. Palatine will take the skull and other assorted worthless Arcanum bits and pieces, and just bail on her horrid little spider legs, she's a survivor like that.

>>97609505
>have your vamps do something either to the actual bloowbowl, or under the cover of it

Yes: while the decisive battle rages, the new NY administration will destroy it's predecessors: the old "Camarilla."

Then, after the dust is settled, I will finally have the new Prince reveal himself, give his inaugural speech in one of the new Elysia, officiate a certain marriage and oversee the first executions.

Spider Lily will visit House Venus, or rather, Boy Toy, and I wrap this whole chronicle of House Venus up.

Once I finish re-reading the Core Rulebook, I'll decide which one (1) character to rp as next, I'll try to avoid a cast so large in the future.

>>97577342
>No, it's more of an amber-coloured substance.
Well. There's a new one. Maybe the Trems committing some more discipline copyright infringement. Or, the serpents had some inspiration from their neighbors.

>>97608953
>>97608953
No frets Nephew.
Gelert, Ci'Annwn, Dormath, Gwyllgi... There are a lot of special canines in Wales apparently.

>>97610366
I'm inclined to think it's a failed test of something. More in line with the old fart's collection of embarrassing possessions and weird knick-nacks.

>>97607400
I am indeed a Follower of Set, but have been out of contact with the clan at large ever since my unexpected arrival here in Florida a few years ago - and there doesn't appear to be any of my kin within 100 miles. Without knowledge of the political situation up there, I'm afraid I can't make any useful predictions on whether or not any deal with the Nosferatu will hold. S'il te plaît, pardonne-moi.

>>97609505 #
What will Nobleedge wear for the event? I'll try to make a sketch, even if it's a rough and dirty one.

>>97610767
let there be no worries. the maratimes are an odd insular realm that most people seem to forget about.
not without reason, there aren't many of us here and those who are are usually isolationists with odd habits.

the temple the Queen set up under le coude, or moncton as most call it, is because of the annabaptist cults. some idiot thought it was funny to embrace a bunch of menonittes back in the 60s, and they've displaced the niche once held by the sabbat around here.

I think I should make the trip tonight, it might be paranoia but my home feels cramped. unsafe even.

>>97610456
>Gwyllgi
I think I'll go with this since he's black. Thanks Aunty.