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Salutari.
Thank you for the invite!
Thank you for allowing me to join the story!
Thanks for the invite!
Lucian checking in. Now to sit back and see how the Tzimisce and the Old Clan Tzimisce get along ;)
Thanks for the invite!
Lucian checking in. Now to sit back and see how the Tzimisce and the Old Clan Tzimisce get along ;)
Admittedly, I'm not very familiar with the split between the two. I last played Vampire well over a decade ago, and none of the books I still have make reference to the Old Clan.
What I found online seems to mostly focus on the Old Clan's strong aversion to Vicissitude, but I couldn't find anything that said the two groups were openly hostile to one another. Basically, it sounds like Old Clan feels like Vicissitude (specifically) is a corrupting power that should not be used or propagated, and the standard Tzimisce see it as the ultimate tool of power, and that only fools would forsake its use.
Is that essentially correct?
If I remember right, that's pretty much it - particularly in this time frame. Things become a bit more strained after "Lugoj puts the big bite on the Eldest" and many Tzimisce elders are destroyed/diablerized during the anarch revolt.
Of course all of that assumes the timeline moves on as per canon. The Storytelling Cat may have other ideas.
Some of this goes back to Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand.
Basically the Old Clan has the same problem with Vicissitude that they have with infernalism: The Old Clan sees vampires as the dominant top of the food chain, the unnatural rulers over humanity, and they believe that Vicissitude is a kind of possessing spirit. Thus you are giving up your autonomy and authority to an outside force - that makes you a slave rather than a master.
Elders of the Old Clan consider Vicissitude to be a spiritual infection by a kind of paranormal symbiote called a Souleater, but that is Deep Lore and Elena doesn't know anything about that.
Thanks for the info! Elena, something that might be a humorous start is both of us meeting, and greeting each other as fellow Tzimisce, then later finding out (either from our respective sires or when I use Vicissitude and you are visibly disgusted) the other is one of those Tzimisce.
I'm sure something will push us into working together, no matter how much we might dislike it. :)
Just waiting for Alexander to check in.
Oh, hey, I got in. Huh. Hola everyone.
Well aren't we a motley crew: a gangrel, a lasombra, two tzimisce (that will despise each other), and an assamite - barely whiff of the future Camarilla here...
Should make for a dynamic party indeed.
God help any Tremere who cross your path...
In the old days, we used to roll a d10 to determine our starting blood pool. Is that still how it's done?
I believe so, with some bonuses depending on your background choices.
Yep: 1d10 for your starting blood pool.
In the interest of full disclosure. I decided to slightly change the languages Alexandru knows: I decided that he would more likely know the languages of the medical texts at the medical school than of countries he has never visited. So, I replaced German and English with Greek and Arabic.
Please let me know if this is a problem, and I will change them back.
Fantastic, 4 of 15 to start the game. Here comes the hunger frenzy...
Working on completing an introductory post now.
Also, I just noticed something: Altan, I can't seem to find where you put your Backgrounds dots in your character profile.
In the meantime, the introductory post has been made in the gameplay thread!
@Alexandru Ah, but if it is your goal to bring about the downfall of the Holy Roman Empire, would it not make sense to speak the language of the kingdom (namely, German) so as best to influence its nobility?
@Storytelling Cat So you are right! I just pasted them into my profile.
@Alexandru Ah, but if it is your goal to bring about the downfall of the Holy Roman Empire, would it not make sense to speak the language of the kingdom (namely, German) so as best to influence its nobility?
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Too late for me to switch again. I will work with it. It'll be fun!
And hey, it's something to put XP towards.
Looks like our ST has been sucked down the hole of schoolwork again.
Yep. Sorry. Been preparing for my national certification exam.
I'll post to move things along tonight.
No worries, I just guess that not everyone in this group has been in one of your games before and knows about your boom-bust school cycle. :)
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My wife has gone into labor with our first child, posting will be limited the next couple of days. Thank you all for the support!
Good luck!
Congratulations!!
Congrats!
Congratulations to your new family.
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After a lengthy battle, we have a son! Heading home with my wife and baby (everyone is healthy) shortly, will hopefully post later tonight.
Congrats are in order!
Congratulations! And commiserations on your sleep deficit.
Congratulations! Grabs naps whenever and wherever you can for the next 3 years, minimum.
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I figured it would be important to know the name of Alexandru's sire as a means of introduction when this formal gathering occurs.
At first, I just made up a name and concept, but then, through the miracle of the internet and the obsessiveness of White Wolf fans at collecting information from various resources into wikis, I found an 8th generation Tzimisce from the same region as my character who was embraced in the correct timeline to be my character's sire. How cool is that?
Alexandru's sire is Mircea Dzardescu.
Expect a post to move things along in the morning!
Sorry I've been taking so long to post, folks. Been dealing with a minor case of burnout and am currently getting my batteries recharged.
I will try to get up a post to move us along by noon tomorrow.
A couple questions for Storytelling Cat:
1.) Are Elena and Alexandru assumed to be both familiar with the split in the Tzimisce lines, and the fact that on introduction she named her clan differently from his? I just wasn't sure if this would be something our respective sires would have gone into great detail with us, or if is it a matter of our personal preference for our own characters.
2.) Hypothetically, if Alexandru were using leeches to treat a patient, could he later eat or suck the bloated leeches in order to obtain blood, or would the blood be considered changed or tainted by being drawn by the leeches first?
I took Tzimisce lore specifically so that I am familiar with the split.
I took Tzimisce lore specifically so that I am familiar with the split.
Good to know. I didn't, so it would stand to reason your sire educated you on this point and mine didn't. That will make things interesting.
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@Dottore Alexandru:
1) Elena would be, thanks to her putting points into Tzimisce lore. An Intelligence + Occult roll would perhaps allow you to know the difference as well.
2) Regarding leeches, I'll say that method of feeding would yield half the total blood points drained from a patient. So if your leeches took 2 points of blood from a human, if you were to feed on them you'd gain 1 blood point back.
Everyone okay? Things got a bit quiet all of the sudden.
Still around.
I'm still here. You can expect a post from me tonight.