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Inaugural speech transcript, Metropolitan Museum of Art (1/3)

MC AURELIA ‘ASSOLUTA’: “Ladies and gentlemen, from Clan Ventrue, attorney, jurist, politician, the former Chancellor of New York, and a Founding! Father! Of the United! States! Of America! Please welcome your new Prince of New York City! John! Ten Eyck! Lansing! Jr.!”
PRINCE LANSING: “Good evening! Thank you, thank you. We have a lot to talk about, haven’t we?
First: why do I look so pale? Exactly.
Second: why did I disappear on 12/12/1829? The historians say I drowned. What, you don’t trust the opinion of the experts? Come on, this is not a laughing matter, folks, it’s my first day on the job and I’m 200 years late-”
SENESCHAL MORENA: “Point of order, Prince Lansing, you’re only 196 years late.”
PRINCE LANSING: “You heard the lady, only 196! Meaning I’m not getting fired! Whew! This woman’s job is to save my life every night.
Third: where the hell have I been? Well the truth of the matter is, learning to run a city is a lot like sorcery, even if you’re genetic freak you have to go to school. So I did. Many schools, years, teachers, countries. My views changed a lot, like those I had on the marriage I’ll officiate later, a happy marriage, a gay one even. Here are some views that didn’t change: I don’t like dictatorships, democracy, our federal Constitution, paying taxes.
Fourth: why did I come back? All these years I helped the city from behind the scenes, like I never really left it. One night in a dirty bar in Asia I met a young man, not a local, he asked me: ‘What’s an old kindred doing here?’ So I said: ‘A journey of self-discovery.’ He added: ‘Involving a bad woman.’ I said: ‘It’s the journey that counts. When the shit hits the fan, here’s how you can find me.’ I’d like to be the kind of Prince you can look in the eye like and not immediately think of mind control, like that man. Then the shit hit the fan. Here we are.
Fifth: what happens next? I’ll tell you what happens now: we’re all screwed!”

>>97621961
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SENESCHAL MORENA: “Excuse me?”
PRINCE LANSING: “Yeah yeah, let me finish. Look around you. What a fine gathering of ladies and gentlemen from the Old and the New World, right? This isn’t the greatest game of kingmaker of the new millennium, it’s called PROMOVEATUR UT AMOVEATUR. All of you were too young to be allowed in the control room where the real decisions are made, and at the same time, too old and cumbersome to be ignored. Your sires, superiors, Elders’ Elders sent you here to rid themselves of you, your influence, your growing independence, and the threat of Diablerie. And our mission is to clean up a monumental mess we did not make, and that the people in charge don’t want to deal with directly. This city hasn’t even recovered yet from 9/11, the pandemic and now a goddamned dragon and Caine knows what’s in store for us next. Did any of you ask yourselves why did nobody older than the previous administration wanted to bother with running this place? We’ve been betrayed, backstabbed and quite possibly, bamboozled. You’re welcome.
Sixth: why did I bother showing up if I think we’re screwed? Because this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Newest Carthage’s delusional cult and ensuing war ended up thinning the thinblood and Anarch populations. The Archbishop fucked off. Yes, we’re still screwed, but look at the carnage around you. How many of our enemies ancient and new were screwed even worse than us? A wise man once said: ‘Buy when there’s blood on the streets. Even if it’s on your own.’ I say: ‘We buy.’ It’s now, or never. Let’s rebuild this city into our impregnable fortress and finish the job, starting with some executions. Who’s first?”
SCOURGE HYUN-AH ‘BLUE FAIRY’: “Quit struggling.”
[REDACTED]: “MY FUCKING LEG!”
PRINCE LANSING: “Good evening. What’s your name, son?”
[REDACTED]: “AARGH!”
PRINCE LANSING: “Mr. Aargh, did you develop a way to simplify the creation of abominations with your expertise in Thinblood Alchemy? ANSWER.”

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>>97621965
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[REDACTED]: “Yes! Please have- GYAAAA!”
SCOURGE HYUN-AH ‘BLUE FAIRY’: “His name is [REDACTED].”
PRINCE LANSING: “Mr. Aargh, does anyone else besides you know how to do it? ANSWER.”
[REDACTED]: “NOOOOOO!”
PRINCE LANSING: “Sweet! My good Miss Scourge, please take out this trash, then the rest of the trash over there, and clean yourself up for your wedding ceremony. I’m kind of in a hurry, I’m 196 years late after all.”
SCOURGE HYUN-AH ‘BLUE FAIRY’: “At once, Prince Lansing.”
[REDACTED]: “AAAAAAAA!”
PRINCE LANSING: “And where’s your bride? Ah, there she is. Come here. Good evening, welcome!”
PRISCILLA ‘PRINCESS CHARMING’: “Good evening. It’s an honor, Prince Lansing.”
SCOURGE HYUN-AH ‘BLUE FAIRY’: “Thank you again, Prince Lansing.”
PRINCE LANSING: “Priscilla of Clan Ventrue, Hyun-ah of Clan Toreador, you stand here today to give yourselves to each other in Blood Marriage. If anyone knows of any legal reason why these two may not be married tonight, please speak now. Thank you. Priscilla, do you take this kindred to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
PRISCILLA ‘PRINCESS CHARMING’: “I do.”
PRINCE LANSING: “Hyun-ah, do you take this kindred to be your lawfully wedded wife?"
SCOURGE HYUN-AH ‘BLUE FAIRY’: “I do.”
PRISCILLA ‘PRINCESS CHARMING’: “I give you this ring and this ARTERIA RADIALIS as tokens of our love and devotion.”
SCOURGE HYUN-AH ‘BLUE FAIRY’: “I give you this ring and this ARTERIA RADIALIS as tokens of our love and devotion.”
PRINCE LANSING: “By the authority of the Traditions of the Camarilla, I pronounce you women and wives! Priscilla, you may kiss Hyun-ah, but in moderation. In moderation I said. SIGN HERE AND HERE. Thank you. Finally, stand with me now. It is my distinct honor to present to you for the first time: Mrs. Feroldi Antonisi de Rosa and Mrs. Jang as wife and wife! Can we have some song and dance in here?”
MC AURELIA ‘ASSOLUTA’: https://youtu.be/DOW6n1q2t2A
PRINCE LANSING: “What a beautiful night! It’s good to be back!”

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I was in Venice when I first learned that a Cainite Diablerized an abomination and died. I scoured the Schrecknet archives for any message on the subject, then sought the man himself: Boy Toy, as he was known on the network.

Venus in Furs, his Sire and mistress, lived with her Childer under the same roof, like a family, one from the Clan of the Rose, not my own, the Clan of Death. She was in the USA and I received a warm welcome with many gifts. Boy Toy’s room was full of items she thought useful to my research: guns, photos, a fur coat he gifted his Cainite girlfriend, his preserved tears, the keys to a heavily upgraded Subaru. I carefully examined those, and my attractive host.

This family wrote him letters: the older sister’s traumatized him to the core, I can’t post it here. Boy Toy died to protect the second sister, she wrote nothing, Venus just said the girl is married and employed. His girlfriend and youngest sister wrote: “Do you think something I ain’t ever gonna see or touch is a bf?”

I let Venus talk to him, it degenerated: “You loved my whips, furs, heels! Did you ever love me as a woman in all these bloody years?” He said he was Blood Bound. She hissed: “I disown you, Sirio. You are dead to me.”

Like other wraiths, he discovered of how quickly the living move on. Venus’ philosopher-operator, wracked by guilt and self-loathing long before his Embrace, said he made many terrible mistakes.

I gave him a new Fetter, slapped him, and said: “Your first rule as my slave: no one, not even yourself, can torment you - except for me.” He accepted his fate: better than dying and suffering alone on the Other Side.

I showed Venus my Necromantic power that tames even the sun itself. I was human enough to sneeze, transfixing my host. I have to agree with her: furs are a basic necessity of a woman’s life, not luxury items.

I listened dispassionately to Boy Toy’s story as I drove his car towards a harmless sunrise. When was the last time a death made me so curious?

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As I sit on the “throne” of this Empire of Dirt, an eager and a little too pale blood doll kneels before me and brushes his face on the golden tiger fur covering my legs, hoping I’m feeling hungry. I stroke his hair and dismiss him, I’m not in the mood, I need some time, time to think back about everything that happened this winter.

Uncle The Devil Wears Me, stylist. He finally avenged the wife he lost in a concentration camp, then left me to start a business, he believes I don’t know he thinks of remarrying.

Assoluta, opera singer, my ambassadress to Clan Ventrue. My first and last masterpiece, she became a permanent fixture of the rotating Elysia of New York City, the designated Mistress of Ceremonies.

Blue Fairy, just-married French-Korean martial artist. Now she is the Scourge of New York, and in this very instant, I think she’s doing things to thinbloods that make the trigger-happy cops and robbers in this country look like the Dalai Lama by comparison.

Boy Toy, my poor son and philosopher-operator. My slave, taken away from me, avenged, then taken away once more.

Mercury Lamp, doll who makes dolls. Is she tired of playing with dolls? Is that even possible? She just said goodbye, her miniscule hand held by my adopted Ventrue, Princess Charming, as they left for “college.” Scarlet, my youngest, is also continuing her education elsewhere.

I am now the last vampire left in this mansion, alone with my old flame Revelation turned into a statue, and my furs, whips, my servants, my misery.

Could I ever find true love, let alone have a relationship with an equal? Nay! Utter bollocks! That necromancer I invited was right: I am THE Venus in Furs! I have no equal! I’m in control!

But where is my happy ending, I wonder?

However... I do, in fact, have one companion left! An equal, even! I walk into my room and she’s there, ever faithful, waiting for me! All I have to do is smile, and the gorgeous lady in the mirror smiles back. Spring is coming. Love is in the air.

SPECIAL EDITION
MEET THE NEW LEADERSHIP OF THE CAMARILLA IN NEW YORK CITY

PRINCE
CLAN VENTRUE: John Ten Eyck Lansing Jr., childe of Doran, 7th gen, M, US
SENESCHAL
CLAN VENTRUE: Morena, childe of Datura, 7th gen, F, US/MX

PRIMOGEN COUNCIL
CLAN BRUJAH: Maxmillien "Maxwell" Rousseau, childe of Altamira, 6th gen, M, FR/HT (colony of Saint-Domingue)
CLAN MALKAVIAN: Luna Rochester, childe of Bedelia, 7th gen, F, US
CLAN NOSFERATU: Arne de Briey, childe of Nikolaus Vermeulen, 8th gen, M, BE
CLAN TOREADOR: Louis Le Prince "Father of cinematography", childe of Edward Williams, 8th gen, M, FR
CLAN TREMERE: William Morgan, childe of Madeline Coventry, 9th gen, M, US
CLAN VENTRUE: Lisabeth Verena Sprecher von Bernegg, grandchilde of Purissima Geiss, 7th gen (?), F, CH

SHERIFF
CLAN BRUJAH: Leodegar, childe of Vera and grandchilde of Guillaume, 7th gen, M, CH

DEPUTY SHERIFFS
CLAN NOSFERATU: Calebros, childe of Augustin, 9th gen, M, US
CLAN TREMERE: Eugenio "Gene" Estevez, childe of Octavio Korrol, 9th gen, M, ES

HOUNDS
CLAN BRUJAH: Pankraz Hartings, grandchilde of Jaroslav Pascek, 9th gen, M, DE/NL
CLAN MALKAVIAN: Eris Catlow, childe of Juliet Parr, 10th gen, F, UK
CLAN TOREADOR: Maude, (grand?)childe of Diana Iadanza, 10th gen, F, US/CA-QC
CLAN VENTRUE: Ronan "Ron" Fitzpatrick, great-grandchilde of Lucinde, 9th gen, M, US/IE

KEEPER OF ELYSIUM
CLAN VENTRUE: Najwa Akram Sharaf, childe of Anushin-Rawan, 7th gen, F, QA/AE

HARPIES
CLAN NOSFERATU: 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
CLAN VENTRUE: Emily Carson, childe of Robert Parkhurst, 9th gen, F, US

MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES
CLAN TOREADOR: Aurelia "Assoluta" Hierschel de Minerbi, childe of Diva Mastix Lasch "Venus in Furs", 10th gen, F, IT

SCOURGE
CLAN TOREADOR: Hyun-ah "Blue Fairy" Jang (장현아, 張賢娥, Jang Hyun-ah), childe of Diva Mastix Lasch "Venus in Furs", 10th gen, F, FR/KR

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>>97621945
I think Scarlet will stay at Kakophoni's place then, it's much safer over there.

The new administration wants to hoard all the glory methinks, but I will do all I can to make sure you, the real heroes, don't remain "unsung" and unrewarded - unless you deliberately choose to be.

Either way, in Bridgeport or New York or elsewhere, I pray everybody does a good job, because I sure as hell don't think I was a good mother, mistress, sire, kindred.
I hope all of you enjoyed my tomfoolery.

>>97622026
I personally enjoyed it. While it veered a bit too much into ceaseless BDSM fucking, the contrast with all the other mini-chronicles usually focusing wholly for murder, Kindred warfare, strange encounters of paranormal kind, ominous prophecies, threats, extinction and whatever else was pleasant, and it does fit Toreadors as a clan. And, above all else, it did help keep the threads alive, and that's good no matter what.

>>97622113
Yes we all have our ideas of what the World of Darkness looks like, or should look like, and I just thought there was an element of sensuality and hedonism (and coomerism...) that was more prevalent in the manuals than in these threads.

I don't know if anybody wants to use this sort of thing in a chronicle, but I kind of used the "world of SM" as a large, hidden, private social network.

For example when Lansing told this story:
>One night in a dirty bar in Asia I met a young man, not a local, he asked me: ‘What’s an old kindred doing here?’ So I said: ‘A journey of self-discovery.’ He added: ‘Involving a bad woman.’ I said: ‘It’s the journey that counts.[...]
the old man meant Boy Toy and Spider Lily. If anyone cares Spider Lily taught bondage to Venus in Furs, the Japanese tea ceremony to Mercury Lamp and jujutsu to Blue Fairy.

Since a few characters in the previous threads brought Epstein's nonsense up - in which an utterly mediocre man like Epstein, with really bad boomer takes, gets to shake hands with the big leagues: royalty, unimaginably richer people like Bill Gates, politicians from the left and the right - imagine that sort of thing being like a social network organized the way the Sabbat does things, and this world of SM I'm rambling about being a Camarilla-like counterpart, wherein a mediocre kindred like Venus in Furs could win far more influential friends.

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>>97621954
>SCHRECK.NET
Literal theater kids.

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Let me get this straight: the Sabbat's plan to free themselves of blood bonds is drinking the Kool-Aid, literally, living under vinculi that can last a century? Don't blood bonds last for months?

The new prince hates taxes? That's my kind of leader.

>>97623240
I got excited too, but PAYING taxes is what he said he doesn't like, tho

>>97621954
>/tq/
Important? Probably that ruin in Michigan, simply by virtue of involvement. Apparently it's now a hazard with all the asbestos the fires kicked up.
Feels like it ain't the right question though. 90% of my time spent out in the sticks and 7% spent in small towns makes it the exception, not the rule.

>>97623275
The Prince doesn't like violence? Well great guess we can all expect to get our hands dirty. The Prince doesn't like risks? Wonderful, us riff-raff are getting escorted to the town borders.

The only time I've ever had a prince be honest was when he said he hated Gangrels to my face. Oh, that was rare and refreshing.

>tq
Was my hometown but being run out by a matauding bunch of nicktuku kind of ruined that. I do wonder how the land sale is going to go though. Might have to find some rando who looks vaguely related to ghoul temporarily and then drain him just to get financial control again. Least I still have the etsy store for miscarriage/period amulets. Free vitae via magic. It’s honestly amazing what the settites have figured out.
So did some research on this seal skin thing. It’s called a selkie. If I take its skin, they have to stay on land. Might hide out and talk to one that way. What mysteries lie beneath the depths.

>>97623385
Sejlkis?
Colour me curious with your investigations.

Words of advice though. Across all the stories of seal maidens, on both sides of the Atlantic, they're usually very magnanimous. And colonies of them hold the sort of grudges that make elders blush.

For some reason of all the 'animal wife' folklore it isn't slight bears or wolves or foxes that go full scorched earth wiping out entire islands. No, it is the humble grey seal.

>>97621954
>THREAD QUESTION
That is a tough question but I would say Alexandria is the most important city to me. After I was (thankfully) separated from my sire, I received most of my training from The Court of Miracles there. After Alexandria would be Luxor, where I was first taught sorcery, and then I suppose Cairo. St. Augustine and Jacksonville are slowly growing on me.

>>97623385
>So did some research on this seal skin thing. It’s called a selkie. If I take its skin, they have to stay on land. Might hide out and talk to one that way. What mysteries lie beneath the depths.
You always attract the strangest things!

>>97621940
my thanks charmer. the Queen has allowed me to move into her dominion for the time being, until further notice so hopefully more light will be shed on all those, even if I'd prefer it to be more secular matter of shyness.

as an aside is it common among your number to have a... no, suffer rather a... serpentine jawline? the last few times I've noticed it growing on her, so much so she needs an interpreter.

>>97621954
halifax. I was sent to the city from my native vermont and ended up being turned there. usually avoided cities since.

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>>97623460
Very early test sketch, he's figuring out the composition, style, how to draw all these vamps and so on. Feel free to ask for edits, it's a sketch for a reason, very adjustible at this stage. He's going for a shaded black-and-white style, no color, this time.

>>97624123
From left to right if I can guess: Ignis, Halfseeing Eye, Lavender, H0TS, Meo-Meo. With the Nosforatu in the background?

>>97624225
Yep. One Nossie is being as difficult as she normally is, looking off into the distance oh-so-ominously, while the other one's waving politely. There's lots of little things to adjust, Ignis is looking very rough for a woman who's as stiff as a board, H0T looks maybe a bit too old, etc, but I'm glad they're reading clear enough as-is.

>>97624123
>>97624413
Genuinely radical brother. Only thing I'd critique is H0T's missing arm is the same side as her eye so the sleeve should be rolled up. Other than that it looks great.

>>97623986
>as an aside is it common among your number to have a... no, suffer rather a... serpentine jawline? the last few times I've noticed it growing on her, so much so she needs an interpreter.
Sometimes members of my clan do develop serpentine features, but the few I have known always developed them following their Embrace or very shortly afterwards. I've never heard of such features developing later in a manner reminiscent of a progressive disease, so such a thing would make The Queen a very unusual case.

Or rather, it would make The Queen an unusual case if she is of Set's lineage. It is possible that The Queen is in fact a Gangrel who was initiated into The Followers of Set later in her unlife, and the serpentine jawline is a manifestation of the curse which afflicts the chosen of Tefnut.

>>97624123
Lavender [singing]:Me and my boys are gonna mess you up.
HSE: I rolled a one.
H0T: I rolled a one.
Lavender: Fuck!

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Figure I'd lost the updated version of one of the sketches while I'm at it.

>>97625388
my boys are otherwise engaged so I’m gonna bring it all myself!

>>97623891
Now now, don’t speak so poorly about yourself my sweet.
>>97623460
Noted. Don’t just steal it lest I face the wrath of blubber. I’ve seen the face of terror. And it is 600 kilos of pure wrath. Pic related. His name is neil. Vid related.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/OE_cPVOe2uY

>>97621954
>The most important city in your unlife
What can I say, it's in the name.

>>97625388
I'd doubt she's a Gang. It's rare you get twists like that which are so specific and without other consequences. There's a reason why most of my folk with souvenirs either have a few small ones or undergo the full cryptid treatment.

>>97626439
Aw, how precious. A lot larger than the ring seals I saw when I was at the Winipekw up north. But I have to admit that when I was a lot younger I got startled and knocked on my ass by a Ringed seal. 100 pounds of muscle and fat darting for the water isn't anything to turn your nose up at.

Hm. Should return to the great bay some day.

>>97626500
Colma the town? Is it true they basically have a necropolis down there overrun by shadow men?

>>97621954
I need the news, kindred. Tell me what you're up to.

>>97628137
Showing my newest ghostly servant the ropes. He's still quite shocked and frightened, but makes up for it by being polite, obedient, a fast learner, and easy to motivate and correct. His WRX can do everything except being quiet or fuel efficient, making it a superb vehicle.
He wanted to say hello to "the good folks of Schrecknet" and apologize again for the mess he made. Cute.

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>TQ
Venice, then Luanda where I met the Ghiberti.
>>97623182
Religious fanaticism.
>>97623460
>>97626439
Seals may have, indirectly, inspired Gojira, the King of the Monsters himself. This is a Hōnengyo (豊年魚), a yōkai that is sometimes depicted with the face of a seal.
>>97624123
>>97625839
Very good

>>97623357
>The Prince doesn't like violence? Well great guess we can all expect to get our hands dirty. The Prince doesn't like risks? Wonderful, us riff-raff are getting escorted to the town borders.
As an Independent, I find relatable. But how are you still a riff-raff when you are clearly no ordinary Gangrel, mediating between supernatural enemies and having developed the patience to listen to a Malkavian? What else do you have to accomplish before the city Cainites believe you are no longer a riff-raff?
Sorry for the triple post but "Our system thinks your post is spam"

>>97628137
Not enjoying the quiet of ignorance? I can share.
>The Sword of Damocles hangs over us
>Embers and ash are drifting Westward over the mire
>The pines are speaking Finnish(?)
>Someone somewhere realizes the archbishop isn't near as powerful as he claims
>No passwords for you today :)
>It is a bad day to live in Reno
>The pavement is hungry for flesh and blood and sacrifice

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>>97624433
Fixed! If there's nothing else to adjust for Meo and H0T, he'll do a few edits I got in mind for the rest of the pic and get to lining it. Editing it then will still be fine, just a bit more time consuming, so best get the changes in early.

>>97625388
>>97626439
shortly after this he gets electrocuted, burned, bitten, and a werewolf loots that body LOOTS THAT BODY

>>97625839
Peak!

>>97628137
Trying to get some sleep.

>>97628526
>What else do you have to accomplish before the city Cainites believe you are no longer a riff-raff?
First, I'm still... Well me. A fool who lived in Loup Country long enough it rubbed off on me. Second, I will always be riff-raff, or worse. A wild animal that will always be a risk.

>>97628633
Stop stealing that.

>>97628761
Radical. Half Seeing Eye has big gnome energy and the contrast between Igni and LL is amazing. And it's great to see Mèo and H0T dressed up.

Any general tips for talking to an elder? I was summoned but I don't know the reason.

>>97631333
dont panic, dont do anything stupid, and keep your ears open for what the old fart aint saying
and if youre already disposable thats a (you) problem

>>97631333
It would be optimal if you were to discover that reason before the conversation takes place.
Do not antagonize the underlings, secretaries, et cetera of your superior under any circumstances: they will turn the Elder against you, and the Elder trusts them more than you.
Always wait for your turn to speak.
There are two types of servant. After doing something bad, a smart servant will try to downplay what happened, come up with excuses, shift the blame onto somebody else, and so on. A loyal servant will reach out to the master first and say: "This is what happened. I did something terrible. I deserve punishment." Elders tend to prioritize loyalty over nonsense when choosing and rewarding their servants.
Your options are limited, making your path closer to a straight road, the easiest and shortest path there can be.

>>97631333
Don't flinch. Even when (not if) they start making it weird.

>>97628137
Well, New York became a free-for-all all and was terrorized by a "dragon" for a time. The whole situation has been resolved and a new Prince and new regime is in power. What's that saying again? Out with the old, in with the new?

Monsieur LavenderLevinbolt fought a duel to the death and managed to strike an accord with the local Lupines, as well as a powerful spirit of some kind, thanks to the aid of Mademoiselle H0T. Everyone seems satisfied with the arrangement thus far.

Oh! My secondary haven has been completed. Much more secluded than my primary haven, with a touch of home added. It's almost a shame to not to reside there permanently.

>>97631333
In addition to the excellent advice provided in >>97631555, >>97631615, and >>97632376 I'll add that when you are called upon to speak, stick to the facts of the situation. Avoid any form of speculation, unless invited to do so by your elder.

Is there a way to cure the affliction?

A few days ago I got mauled by some- Person(?) In my apartment and when I woke up I managed to overpower and kill him. However I think he cursed me with whatever it is you people have and I'll be honest I have college classes to attend and I cannot be asked to deal with this. I had to dig through my attacker's things after he turned to dust in my living room and all I've got to go on is some credentials to get here.

I haven't discounted I've completely lost my mind.

>>97635731
Sunbathing.

>>97635731
There is no cure for either the hunger you feel or your madness, the only escape is Final Death.

>>97635731
lets make the assumption you aint trolling, right?

this is something you are now stuck with. no way youre getting out of it and anyone who tells you to go kill the president or has a magic potion to sell you is full of it. you got blood sucking autism for all you can change it. it sucks. youll get used to it or youll die.

now make sure you dont share it, make sure you keep yourself fed, and dont do anything stupid.

>>97635731
Killing him may have been a huge mistake, we have rules around when and when not to kill kindred. Plus he would have been the one to show you the ropes on your new unlife, now you're kind of screwed.

>>97635731
Yea... No there's no cure worth your time. There's no conventional or supernatural cure for what you have now. But that's not the end of the world kid, plenty of people have suffered it, and plenty more will. What's important is that you still exist and you now have a lot of your needs condensed down into;

>(1) Blood is now water, ambrosia, and meth to you, so long as you have it you'll just keep going.
>(2) The sun is anathema to you and your second lease on life is over the moment you see it.
>(3) The night is nowhere near as empty as it was before, it is filled with a lot of unfriendly things, although, it doesn't have to be.

If you have more questions ask them. Ignorance will get you killed.

>>97636912
This reads like a panic embrace. IE; Their sire fucked up a feeding, went too far, and tried to ghoul them, only embracing them instead.

>>97635731
Many of our kind promise treatments, only a fraction ever achieved the results that were promised, and only after a long and arduous journey. I myself can become "more human" for a day, quenching my thirst and quelling the Beast - there is a Beast inside of you too by the way - and that is the best I could manage after over four centuries and mastering the Necromantic arts. Your priority should be adapting to your new nature, for changing it into something else is going to be difficult to the extreme, and besides, how can you change what you don't know?

>>97635766
Fuck you.

>>97635917
Also fuck you.

>>97636206
Oh yea because I was going to go screaming to the heavens about this shit.
What am I supposed to eat? I can't keep food down or even water?

>>97636912
Are you serious? That creep shows up in my house, mauls me, knocks me out, tries to kill me AGAIN when I get back up and I'm supposed to show restraint!? Self defence mother fucker are you kidding me?!

>>97636996
So like whatthefuckdoyoufuck
Alright. Fine. No really this is just fuck

How do I get blood and not like- make people into vampires? Is this like AIDS or some shit or how does that work. Also what the fuck do you mean 'the night isn't empty?' Has there been an outbreak of vampires or something and the world even more fucked up than I was told?

>>97638629
Okay. I am done having an episode and I'll ask you to clarify/ What do you mean "our kind."

>>97639661
We are vampires, and so are you. Try biting a human's external jugular vein or radial artery. For all vampires and most of their prey, it's a pleasant experience (I'm an exception~ my prey suffer pure agony~). Blood is your new power source, forget food and water. As long as humans aren't the ones ingesting your blood, they will remain humans - or corpses if you drink too much.

Forgot to put my name on. I'll try to give you a quick run-down while answering your questions.

>>97639661
>What am I supposed to eat? I can't keep food down or even water?
Blood, seriously just blood, you can learn to eat and taste food again one day, but it won't fuel you, only blood will. Animal blood works, but isn't as efficient.
>>97639661
>Are you serious? That creep shows up in my house, mauls me, knocks me out, tries to kill me AGAIN when I get back up and I'm supposed to show restraint!? Self defence mother fucker are you kidding me?!
I didn't know he tried to kill you when you woke up. Definitely sounds like a feeding gone wrong then. You still might be in a world of shit with the local kindred though, I don't make the rules or enforce them. The local vampires might want to find and kill you so I'd skip town or go into hiding. When that dude's friends come looking for him you won't want to be there. Stay out of sunlight, garlic won't do shit to you, a stake to the heart will paralyze you but won't kill you. A point-blank shotgun to the face or a .50BMG might kill you, but you can shrug off .38 and 9mm like they're paintballs.

>How do I get blood and not like- make people into vampires? Is this like AIDS or some shit or how does that work.
To make a kindred (what vampires call vampires) you have to drain them dry and then give them your blood. If you give someone some of your blood without feeding on them you temporarily make what's called a "ghoul", a semi-mind-controlled servant with limited vampire powers, they get addicted to it too and the withdrawal is hell, so be careful.
>Also what the fuck do you mean 'the night isn't empty?'
Werewolves, ghosts, wizards, faeries and mummies are all real and usually don't get along with kindred.

>>97640223
>>97640232
I'd avoid giving out any more information if I were you folks. This smells of a trap.

A freshly created fledgling is able of overcome the blood bond and their sire, who happened to conveniently carry a device and credentials to access ShreckNet.

This fledgling is able to deduce that they are a vampire in one post, and even express fear of spreading vampirism like it's some kind of disease, then in the very next post they ask what is ment by "our kind" and acts ignorant as to what they are.

This is obviously a trap to lure in unwary, sympathetic Kindred. Don't fall for it.

>>97639661
You don't need food and you don't need water. I wasn't kidding when I said it is Everything to you. Some old farts have lived off dregs for ages.

>Are you serious?
They are. Unfortunately you are now in a society that at its most charitable has its own social contract. At worse it's a mob or a cult.

>How do I get blood and not like- make people into vampires? Others have described ways, but so long as you aren't picky you can get old bio-material.

>Next question.
You'll figure it out. Just be cautious, hold your cards close to your chest, and recognize you can't trust what you 'knew' before. Words won't do it justice.

>"our kind."
Everyone who shares your 'affliction.' V word has all kind of superstitions. And baggage, both inside and out, as I know how disorientating getting dragged in gets.

But here's an important question for you. Did your attacker have any visible physical deformities? Possess any abilities you could pin-point in their attack? Critically, when you killed them did you bite them?

Still can't believe the Nos didn't reinstate PDF support, we could just send him an electric pamphlet so it sounds less... Delusional to a normal person. But living in the age of shit-ass hunters executing network attacks has its downsides.

>>97640295
Maybe. Maybe not. It is worth interrogating, but there are vectors of 'safe' information, and I've had it described to me what getting embraced in the past decade is like.

Alas, the poor wretched zoomers.

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>>97640295
>is able to deduce that they are a vampire in one post, and even express fear of spreading vampirism like it's some kind of disease
I was very purposefully led into the Embrace, and mostly knew what it'd be, but, come on, man. You tell me that after all the shitty Camarilla-approved vampire media out there, you'd not be able to figure out why you're cold, dead, even, don't have any normal living bodily functions, can't eat or drink anything normal, crave blood on an instinctive level? You'd have to be in some absurd quantities of denial to not get it.
The spread-of-vampirism thing fits a Fledgling who knows fuck-all except generic shitty media laced with disinfo, too. There's a million shitty novels, games, movies and so on where vampirism is a disease you can spread with a bite, instead of the convoluted process it actually requires.
And, honestly, hunters know the basics already, smart ones, at least. And not smart ones won't be able to get much more out of us than they would out of torturing some dipshit Thinblood.

>>97634187
>as well as a powerful spirit of some kind
This one is a work in progress, technically.
>>97640348
Art's complete! Here's your two girls. I'll get on writing the update in a day or two, might put up the whole thing before that, if anybody wants to see it early.

>>97640525
"What kind of dumb person would actually fall for a Malkavian Siren? Oh. Oh no." Save it for the update I can wait for high-grade quality.

>>97640525
When you've lost everything, you can deny things being what they are for a long long while.
That said I'd like more information, though, not enough to get the baby bat killed.
The girls together, amazing. Save the whole piece for the whole release I want to see the gang all at once, and I've gotten started on the epilogue.

Those digits on your profile better not be your birthday young man.

The sun is gone
But I have a light.
The fire is coming for us all.

>>97640525
>you'd not be able to figure out why you're cold, dead, even, don't have any normal living bodily functions, can't eat or drink anything normal, crave blood on an instinctive level? You'd have to be in some absurd quantities of denial to not get it.
That's exactly what I'm talking about, Lav. Just look at our little "Fledgling's" post and tell me if it doesn't smell like a fish market to you.

>I think he cursed me with whatever it is you people have
Before this "Fledgling's" post, nobody in this thread has mentioned their dietary requirements or sleeping habits, yet somehow this believes he might have "whatever we have." The only thing that stands out is Lily talking about being a necromancer, but you don't exactly get "cursed" with being a necromancer, now do you?

>Fuck you.
Okay, so he knows sunlight = bad. So I guess he's managed to reason out that he's a vampire, but not the kind that will sparkle in the sunlight like some of the shitty Camarilla-approved media you mentioned.

>What am I supposed to eat? I can't keep food down or even water?
So he's figured out he's a vampire, but he somehow doesn't know that vampires drink blood. Even the afore mentioned shitty sun-sparkling vampires can't eat normal food!

>How do I get blood and not like- make people into vampires? Is this like AIDS or some shit or how does that work.
Hey, a reasonable question. But again, he's already put together that he is a vampire, and because he thinks he has "whatever we have" we must be vampires too.

>What do you mean "our kind."
So despite his initial post already concluding that he has "whatever we have", and already making the connection that he - and by extension the rest of us - are vampires, he still needs clarification on what "our kind" are.

I'm telling you, this smells of someone trying to dig up more info and lay a trap. Could be a hunter, could be some eccentric rich guy hoping for immortality or something. Could be anything. But my gut says: don't trust it.

>>97641772
I'd rather not at all. Chalk that up to some traumatic memories.

>>97640232
Every part a me wants to scream this ain't fair. I didn't work my fucking ass off to get into a good aeronautics program and now some dumb motherfucker decided to take it away from me. But nothings fair and I got to go eat shit.

Fuck me I'm going tonight then. Tired of this shit-ass country and this fucking bull.

>>97640295
OH SORRY CHAMP AM I NOT ALLOWED TO HOPE MY LIFE AINT OVER? THAT I DIDN'T GET FUCKED OVER BY SOME SHITHEAD WHO DECIDED FUCK THAT BOYS ASS IN PARTICULAR IMMA RUIN HIS WHOLE FUCKING LIFE!? O SCUSE .ME YOU STUPID ASS, I"M JUSTHERE TREADING WATER AWARE MY FUCKING HEART STOPPED AND THINKIN IM IN HELL A PURGATORY A SOME OTHER SHIT

I ain't a fake. I ain't going to ask for anything dangerous out a you people but I'm at my limit. Can't take that shit no more.

>>97640348
Cool. Great. Like the fucking NoI bullshit again great no cool I get that. That- A lot of that helps. Thanks.

So. Guy who bit me. Had a fuckin pentagram carved on his forehead, tall, dark hair, pale. No deformations outside of looking like his teeth been kicked in. Bite sort of numbed me but it hurt. I didn't see him at first- like, I think I didn't see him at first like it was- Like I saw through him. But he was kind of fucked up now that I look back. And I bit down when I woke up after to hold on as I started beating on him. And I'll be honest I kind of like- Wasn't all there for a while, until a bit after, and I still thought that shit was a bad dream until I woke up the next day and the sun damn near burned by hands off.

What's that tell you big boss? Anything you wanna share because I got like- the ultimate emergency plan.

>>97641772
Yea yea see above am done crashing out. Life's over and I'm a fucking rat now cool.

>>97641981
Oh fuck me I'm done
>I'd rather not at all. Chalk that up to some traumatic memories.
Meant that for u my fuckin bad >>97640223

>>97641772
Or we're dealing with a newbie that was turned, killed their sire, tried to eat but failed and was burnt by sunlight. It's a weird circumstance, but it's not much different from my own first week as a Shovelhead.

>>97642007
Does bring me back to my lacheur nights.
God damn though, getting eaten by your own whelp? Pathetic.

>>97641981
>>97641989
>Chalk that up to some traumatic memories.
Your traumatic memories are yet to start.
>Had a fuckin pentagram carved on his forehead, tall, dark hair, pale. No deformations outside of looking like his teeth been kicked in.
>But he was kind of fucked up now that I look back.
It's becoming clear why you emerged victorious.

>>97641981
Not Nos, not a Malk you sound like you still have your faculties. Not a witchman bite, you'd know that when it hits you, bunch of crossouts. The Obb? Maybe?

Fledge that's a real nasty thing to identify. So let's try and pin this down. And be honest, you're now on your own until you can carve out a niche or figure something out for yourself. I hope you have a plan. FeartheOldBlood is correct, now is the time to get out of dodge with everything you can carry and sell.

>Have you noticed a serious bloodlust?
>Can you see yourself in the mirror?
>Have you noticed any increased compulsions you had prior?
>Have you noticed an increase or decrease in your internal volatility?
>Have you a repulsion of objects of spiritual note (crosses, things like that)?

>>97642415
Enough of us had a bad time we can call it a valid start auntie. Unless you're old enough you've forgotten yourself.

>>97642527
>a valid start auntie
Valid, you say, when he hasn't even hunted yet, and his first thought was looking for a cure, as if this was an illness, a puzzle to be solved with the judicious application of scientific rigour? Do refresh my memory: wasn't your clan's patience for these types lower than my family's?

>>97642611
Patience? Oh that implies there's a care in the first place.
You get patience if you live long enough to survive a winter on your own. Some have the decency to give their subjects the basics, but some get much less. I never even met mine.

>>97621989
I sort of like the idea of Chronicle being presented a bit more like a play or an Epistolary type short story instead of kindred just rapping tapping on the keyboard keys. Maxwell as a NY primogen still lusting after chicago no doubt is a nice flourish.

>>97640525
That's real snazzy, I enjoy the brushstroke type texture to it.

A stranger walks into town, but where and who remains to be seen. Huh, I never really considered WoD for Soloplay despite it being probably one of my least 'hours played' games that I actually play. Anyone else have suggestions for Autoetpo... Mastur...Solo Chronicaling?

>>97640525
very nice but sorry i think all four fingers on the one on the left should be visible from that angle, if you stand like that in front of the mirror youll see why

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They should have called it "Code of Milan" Fashion Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fz5DK09iqw&t=11m26s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_auhIEp90AQ&t=14m9s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFnnlZPPoSk

>>97642180
Well, getting speculative, he sounds like he was a bit pre-cooked by an earlier fight. Probably figured on healing himself and getting a minion in the bargain.

>>97642958
It depends on what you want to do. What's happening here is a lot more mixed than just solo, more running on the forum structure. Personally I'm doing the minimum of dice rolls and going on the inputs from the forum anyways, with a few pre-existing ideas I want to get into. So what are you interested in doing?

>>97644716
He might have just been a real nasty Nosferatu and the lick hasn't looked in the mirror yet?
Actually was that pentagram fresh?

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>>97644653
Why is this the same everyyear!
>Is our gay fetish shit popular yet? No
STOP IT TOREADOR. Back in my day you were lucky to catch sight of an Ankle and let me tell you. Men would have killed for that ankle. And now you have whores everywhere. Let me ask you
>Are you making more cattle that way
No you're not. This is obviously a Sabbat plan to weaken our Western Holdings. We used to raise Prime Beef and now we're lucky to get inbred half breed retards. Have you no regard for your cattle? Do you really have to stick your dick in them too before you eat them, is not their life enough, Did you really have to take their family and meaning away from them. The Kine are for eating, fatten them up, let them prosper for a time that you may eat the very salt and fat of the land when you do harvest kindred culture is not healthy for the cattle, Birth rates down, Let me say this in terms our vaunted culture warriors should understand.
>Nothing of Artistic Value has been made in 30 years, That's three lost decades of art because you fansy ass retards are still buttmad about your daddy from when you were alive.
The Ventrue have better taste then the Toreadors these days. At least when you're money laundering and dealing in stolen art you need ot make it look good.

>THIS IS WHAT TOREADOR STANDS FOR
Growing a potato in ones own ass? This is what transfixed the high clans these days? DISGUSTING. The Kine need Kine art, Kine culture and you vultures are busy burning the farms that we eat from because your human art teachers were bad at their jobs. When you were still alive. Disgust is not even the word for it.

>>97644990
Butt pots? Ha, that's kinda cute bro
I should get one for my garden, wicked pain to maintain but ma ghouls and ghoulettes appreciate good ol cassaroles

:o)

>>97644990
>you were lucky to catch sight of an Ankle and let me tell you. Men would have killed for that ankle.
In my archipelago, the neck was enough. The man that calls me his muse often makes it the focus of his artworks.

>>97644879
I don't know. I sort of want to try something on the higher end of the power curve which would still leave me lots of prequel room if I wanted. There's a lot of neat stuff in the WOD and I feel like we don't always get to see that. Maybe an Archon being told to take a few personal decades after a questionable decision? being told to hold Dallas and maybe install a friend as prince if he wanted to but basically just marking time there.

>>97644990
Tzimisce are the best at art. Nothing of Toreador blood says they have to be GOOD at art, they're simply easy to distract with it. Tzimisce make people, and people make art.

>>97645177
With the level of disparity between Archons? Yea, that's believable as long as you level up the plausible deniability and keep things interesting in Dallas.

>>97645181
>Tzimisce are the best at art. Nothing of Toreador blood says they have to be GOOD at art, they're simply easy to distract with it. Tzimisce make people, and people make art.
I think I heard this joke from a Toreador wearing a costume. Where was I, and when?

Half mauled some poor meth-head but I got my shopping done and dropped the poor bastard off at a hospital.
Now, come tonight I'm doing something my great uncle did and I'm leaving the states. Pretty sure I'm being tailed but the plan I got is enough. If it works? Great. Failing that I guess I'll be dead for good. Not whatever half-dead this crap is.

Also if all goes well I should be gone for like- Maybe a week or two. If everything goes right.

Actually can I cross water? That's like- One of those bullshit things right? Please tell me that's not actually a problem.

>>97642007
Well. Guess I'm glad that some folk are familiar with this. What's a shovelhead, and do you got any advice for someone carrying out the dumbest plan they have with nothing to lose?

>>97642415
Yea. Should be dead I know.

>>97642527
You gotta be more specific with this shit. And uh- for the questions?
>I guess but not so much after that altercation, fuckin felt good for a few seconds but the moment I realized what I was doing I tossed the thug into a wall
>Yea I can still see myself
>Imma be real I was kind of an anxious mess before but now I feel less anxious? Like before this I felt like I was going insane but now that am off that I feel like I got nothing left to lose? Like- Like when I was expelled from high school back in grade nine for a month. After the denial stopped is kinda liberating, yea?
>I honestly couldn't tell, but like- still me I think?
>I can't even look at JaeHov Jehovah's Witness pamphlets my cousins dropped on me last Christmas. Little cross necklace literally burns me.

That answer your questions?

>>97644879
I can see my face just fine and I wasn't exactly a model before but I don't look much worse.
And no, pretty sure that was a scar.

>>97645381
>Half mauled some poor meth-head but I got my shopping done and dropped the poor bastard off at a hospital.
I guess I failed to mention NOT TO DO THIS AT ALL. If you bite someone you can close the wounds with your saliva, and dropping them off at a hospital was probably THE WORST DECISION EVER. Now the doctors and the police are going to ask questions. Secrecy is key to the survival of all kindred.
>Actually can I cross water? That's like- One of those bullshit things right? Please tell me that's not actually a problem.
Total bullshit, not a problem at all.

>>97645474
I just made up some bullshit about him losing a street fight man! Fuck with some of the shit the junkies get up too in these parts they didn't none flinch!
>Total bullshit, not a problem at all.
Thank god.

>>97645496
All we're saying is they could find out he's anemic but not the source of the bleeding that could explain the loss of blood, but if it's the US healthcare system, or one like it, and he has no insurance, then they may not research the cause of his anemia too deeply.
I would worry more about who runs the blood bank and has to provide packed red blood cells to save your victim, as they'll record that the cause was "anemia of unknown origin."

I have been won over to the idea he's legitimate and dumb. And painfully painfully fresh.

>>97645582
It won't happen again, and my fuck-ass State is one of the worst for health-care. The most they do with crackheads is make sure they don't die ouright.

>>97644990
>Back in my day you were lucky to catch sight of an Ankle
That's funny, because in my day a woman's formal dress often exposed a generous amount of décolletage.

>>97645156
>In my archipelago, the neck was enough
You japanese always have been incredibly prudish.

>>97645181
>Tzimisce are the best at art.
For a certain value of "art", oui.

>Nothing of Toreador blood says they have to be GOOD at art, they're simply easy to distract with it.
This is true. I often hear a jest that for as obsessed as they are with art, Toreador are utterly ineffectual at creating any original art.

>>97645662
>>97645582
>>97645474
>>97645496
one fent addict with anemia is an anomaly
a repeat is a death sentence with a lot of folks sharpening their knives, dont do it again

>>97645381
>I can't even look at JaeHov Jehovah's Witness pamphlets my cousins dropped on me last Christmas. Little cross necklace literally burns me.
I'm afraid you are a member of an especially cursed lineage, wayward scion of Bast. You are in for a very difficult road ahead of you. If you encounter any other Kindred in your travels, do not under any circumstances let then learn of your heritage. If you must provide an answer, tell them you are Caitiff. You will experience a great deal of discrimination this way, but the alternative is much worse.

>>97645381
Oh that's real bad kid. You drew one of the worst lots you could have.
Good news; You don't have to worry about any of that clan stuff because you're officially a Caitiff. Perpetual outsider. You just need to pretend you're really fucked up because that effect can be picked up by sufficiently messed up people. So just... Avoid symbols of faith, holy ground, the works. And keep a hold on yourself because it is real easy to fall into things even worse.
Bad new; You're probably of the clan that has sullied itself so badly it can't process symbols of faith or even some forms of hostile veneration. Most of those you're related to are arguably little better than monsters and have earned the ire of everyone else. Which is why you are now a Caitiff. Right?

Also for future reference, you keep your existence hidden as best you can. I can't complain about saving folks, but if you have a bad situation that could implicate you, you let nature take its course alright?

>shovelhead
Someone embraced as fodder, usually en-mass.

And you're a goddamn Baali too, man you are fucked!
I can't resist because this was my legitimate reaction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ino425voCs0


>>97645755
>>97645156
I'd rather be without shirt or skirt than just have my neck exposed. Feels more naked than being in my own skin.

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>>97645615
You forgot entertaining! I may have to get the old plum liqueur for this one. Kids these days.
Never in my unlife I needed to be told that I had to lick the wound, because my education made sure I would not waste food, out of respect for all the people who worked to make it, from the field to the cup - and how much less was I going to waste, when it's a person's precious blood, and it's so delicious and addictive - and in my particular case, the kiss is so distressingly painful to boot?!
>>97645662
Drink responsibly, waste not, and try an animal too one night, so you can savor the difference.
>>97645755
>You japanese always have been incredibly prudish.
Have we? Always? Were you not a French speaker, I'd be baffled by your statement.
From my point of view, it looks like we were just a little better at hiding our degenerate ways, until we weren't. International travel and mass media let this little 'Masquerade of the kine' made of Honne (本音) and tatemae (建前) - the inner nature and outer demeanor - fall apart, now there are all these young people overseas who cannot tell Japan from China, but who heard all about love hotels, host clubs, prostitution, pornography, fetishes and more.
>>97646476
>I'd rather be without shirt or skirt than just have my neck exposed. Feels more naked than being in my own skin.
Ah, my long lost innocence...