Venice by Night - Bloodlines - V20 Dark Ages (Inactive)

Game Master Dennis Harry

Finale Battle Map

Prince Narses Elysium

The Original Bloodlines Thread

The Second Bloodlines Thread

Dramatis Personæ

Our Protagonists

Geoffroi de Clairvaux - Clan Salubri
Lorenzo Cappelli - Clan Cappadocian
Michele Querini - Clan Setite
Ranerius Bernerius - Clan Toreador
Alessandro Khadaji - Clan Ventrue


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Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Travel day today, will catch up as I can... those questions, too.


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Folks, it's 4 days till the 13 year anniversary of the beginning of this game!

As always, take some XP on me for just hanging in there, 13 XP for 13 years!

I am trying to get us to the end of this chronicle as soon as I can without rushing it. The next Chronicle will be shorter, I swear it! and utilize the same characters as well as this same thread.

The one after that, will be as we have discussed off and on the last few years, your new characters and we will move the timeline forward a century with a new thread.


5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 29/40 | Willpower: 8/8

Thanks for the XP! Now what to spend it on...

EDIT: That was a quick decision. Valeren (Healer) 2 and Occult 4 (Specialty - TBD)


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Lorenzo Cappelli wrote:
Thanks for the XP! Now what to spend it on...

If you want to pull back that last bit you spent for brawl I'm ok with that as you just spent it and I just realized the date today. Had to do some data mining into past threads which is what jogged my memory of the looming anniversary.


5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 29/40 | Willpower: 8/8

Thanks for the offer, but I'm happy with the XP expenditures.


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Lorenzo Cappelli wrote:

Thanks for the XP! Now what to spend it on...

EDIT: That was a quick decision. Valeren (Healer) 2 and Occult 4 (Specialty - TBD)

It's pretty cool that you're a former Doctor and a Cappadocian with Valern :-)


5th Generation Cappadocian | Bloodpool: 29/40 | Willpower: 8/8
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
Lorenzo Cappelli wrote:

Thanks for the XP! Now what to spend it on...

EDIT: That was a quick decision. Valeren (Healer) 2 and Occult 4 (Specialty - TBD)

It's pretty cool that you're a former Doctor and a Cappadocian with Valern :-)

That was intentional when Lorenzo made his deal with Andrew. I think it fits into his obsession that sent him down this path in the first place.


Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

First, thanks for the Reminder on Gino!

Second, wow, it has been awhile.

Third, THank you SO much for the exp. I will try to spend them in the next day or so at latest


Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

Heck with it. My character will be an Elder one day, and I might as well get ONE Discipline to Level 6. Auspex

••••• • Far Sense
The character no longer needs to take to Soul’s Flight
to observe distant but familiar places and people. She can
project her senses to a place in order to stalk any person she
is familiar with. She observes her victim while remaining
aware of her own surroundings.
System: The player rolls the character’s Perception
+ Empathy, difficulty 6, and describes the person she is
trying to spy on. If successful, she may observe her victim
and his surrounding area for one turn per success. She may
use other levels of Auspex where she is spying. She remains
aware of her own situation. While this use of Auspex splits her senses it does not hamper them.

Which at a hefty 25 EXP Is all I an afford


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Ranerius Bernerius wrote:

Heck with it. My character will be an Elder one day, and I might as well get ONE Discipline to Level 6. Auspex

••••• • Far Sense
The character no longer needs to take to Soul’s Flight
to observe distant but familiar places and people. She can
project her senses to a place in order to stalk any person she
is familiar with. She observes her victim while remaining
aware of her own surroundings.
System: The player rolls the character’s Perception
+ Empathy, difficulty 6, and describes the person she is
trying to spy on. If successful, she may observe her victim
and his surrounding area for one turn per success. She may
use other levels of Auspex where she is spying. She remains
aware of her own situation. While this use of Auspex splits her senses it does not hamper them.

Which at a hefty 25 EXP Is all I an afford

Awesome power!


Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

As he's been at the Doge's party, it has interesting options


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The Ghoul has given you all the framework of an idea, you all will of course need to implement it by deciding what to say through Michele's Brother. I think it makes sense to RP that out first.

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Once that's settled, you can get to the matter of the Ghouls plight and then the meeting whether in front of everyone of you alone Lorenzo to hear what Isaac has to say that he thinks may interest you.


Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

While Ranerius wouldn't want to admit it, any ghoul with an Appearance 4 or 5 would also have a chance to be 'preserved'


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Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Sorry guys, crack work trip... hardly have time to breathe. One time being a vampire would be very useful.


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Wasn't there some creature/entity there that was neither dead nor alive?


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Alessandro Khadaji wrote:
Wasn't there some creature/entity there that was neither dead nor alive?

Ah, you refer to the entity that dwells beneath Narses Elysium! Yes, it's still not entirely clear what that is.

Plus there's the monster in Talisman's Haven, but that's a bit different as well.


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Within a day, if no one wants to discuss anything further at the Querini Household, I'll move the Coterie to Narses Haven. I will assume that you will all fall under the Cloak of Onfroi now except Michele who can Obfuscate himself, with the Knights gone, the Nos can now cloak Lorenzo and Lydia.


Salubri | 6th Gen | BP 30/30 | WP 5/5

Hello all. I’m about 170 posts behind, but I will see if I can catch up soonish. The explanation for my absence is a long and sad story - I won’t bore you with the details. I’ll try to see if I can get back into the swing of things


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Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

Wow, blast from the past. Welcome back!
Sorry to hear you've had troubles


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Geoffroi de Clairvaux wrote:
Hello all. I’m about 170 posts behind, but I will see if I can catch up soonish. The explanation for my absence is a long and sad story - I won’t bore you with the details. I’ll try to see if I can get back into the swing of things

OK!

I decoupled you from the PCs but we can do some solo RP for a while.


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FYI, as it turns out, I need to take a brief pause due to plans with my daughter tonight and some work I'll have to get to tomorrow night. I'll have an update moving the group forward into Narses True Haven probably Saturday morning the latest Saturday evening.

On second thought Geoffroi, instead of sending you out solo, I'm just going got have you return with Andrew at full blood after extended Hunting and run into the group as they make their way to Narses True Haven, considering we are not that far from being done with the chronicle, I want to make sure that I don't sidetrack that momentum.


Salubri | 6th Gen | BP 30/30 | WP 5/5

Roger that


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Narses Haven on Sant'Erasmo is a hyper-link so you can see it in relation to Venice proper.


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Anyone out there? :-)


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

I'm here but leaving first dibs to my betters. :)


Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

Whenever I'm slow I just assume my Toreador paused to look in a mirror


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Lorenzo isn't feeling so hot in RL. I'll give Alessandro the evening to chime in if he wishes, if not, I'll move us along again tomorrow.


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Last call to spend XP for the rest of this night in game!


Salubri | 6th Gen | BP 30/30 | WP 5/5

I’ll get Geoffroi leveled this AM


Male Italian (Toreador) Bloodpool 25? out of 40

I traded all but one of my EXP for ULTIMATE PEEPING TOM POWER!

Nosferatu eat your heart out!


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

I think I missed the part about 13XP...

So, how many did we get all together, in total?


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Alessandro Khadaji wrote:

I think I missed the part about 13XP...

So, how many did we get all together, in total?

Not sure when the last time you checked was, I always post it in the Discussion Thread. I don't really track how much I give out.


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
Alessandro Khadaji wrote:

I think I missed the part about 13XP...

So, how many did we get all together, in total?

Not sure when the last time you checked was, I always post it in the Discussion Thread. I don't really track how much I give out.

Looks like 1 XP, night of Khadaji Manse shenanigans.

Then 13 XP for anniversary!

14 XP total.


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Alessandro Khadaji wrote:
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
Alessandro Khadaji wrote:

I think I missed the part about 13XP...

So, how many did we get all together, in total?

Not sure when the last time you checked was, I always post it in the Discussion Thread. I don't really track how much I give out.

Looks like 1 XP, night of Khadaji Manse shenanigans.

Then 13 XP for anniversary!

14 XP total.

Spend away!


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Looking like:

Awareness 3 = 4 XP
Brawl 2 = 2 XP
Melee 5 = 8 XP
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If anyone can think of better things to spend on, let me know... don't be shy.


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Alessandro Khadaji wrote:

Looking like:

Awareness 3 = 4 XP
Brawl 2 = 2 XP
Melee 5 = 8 XP
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If anyone can think of better things to spend on, let me know... don't be shy.

What is your current Auspex, Celerity, and Potence? Are they 2, 1, 1? I see asterisks next to them so I'm not sure if that's further dots or not.


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
What is your current Auspex, Celerity, and Potence? Are they 2, 1, 1? I see asterisks next to them so I'm not sure if that's further dots or not.

Those are indeed the current values.

I believe the * are because you had hand-wa(i)ved certain aspects... like taking pity on me and just granting/increasing or assumed some story telling aspect. Learning Potence from Alyssa, Celerity from an ally and granting a bump in Auspex.

I believe the intent was to bring me more in line with the rest of the coterie in terms of "power" though I'm more of the Captain America / Batman (no pun intended) sort without SUPER superpowers.


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OK then, here's what I suggest.

Spend the 8 for Melee 5. That leaves you with 6.

I will award EVERYONE 1 extra XP. That leaves you with 7 instead of 6, spend that 7 XP on Celerity 2.


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20
Storyteller Shadow wrote:

OK then, here's what I suggest.

Spend the 8 for Melee 5. That leaves you with 6.

I will award EVERYONE 1 extra XP. That leaves you with 7 instead of 6, spend that 7 XP on Celerity 2.

Who can refuse? Thank you, kind Sir.

And, only because I was just discussing microeconomics class with my college freshman son... this feels like you are grading on a curve :)

And, I just helped everyone in the class by SUCKING! Love you guys!


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Alessandro Khadaji wrote:
Storyteller Shadow wrote:

OK then, here's what I suggest.

Spend the 8 for Melee 5. That leaves you with 6.

I will award EVERYONE 1 extra XP. That leaves you with 7 instead of 6, spend that 7 XP on Celerity 2.

Who can refuse? Thank you, kind Sir.

And, only because I was just discussing microeconomics class with my college freshman son... this feels like you are grading on a curve :)

And, I just helped everyone in the class by SUCKING! Love you guys!

Hah!

You and our resident Knight are actually at the same power level having both come to the game a bit later than the rest (plus you had a bit of a hiatus there).


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Not certain of the mechanic, but I'm thinking Alessandro will only be able to help so much (less than others) because of generation and blood point limitation.

To replenish, he will need his herd. Or to hunt similar blooded mortals.


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Alessandro Khadaji wrote:

Not certain of the mechanic, but I'm thinking Alessandro will only be able to help so much (less than others) because of generation and blood point limitation.

To replenish, he will need his herd. Or to hunt similar blooded mortals.

What is your restriction again?


Salubri | 6th Gen | BP 30/30 | WP 5/5
Storyteller Shadow wrote:

OK then, here's what I suggest.

Spend the 8 for Melee 5. That leaves you with 6.

I will award EVERYONE 1 extra XP. That leaves you with 7 instead of 6, spend that 7 XP on Celerity 2.

Actually that sounds good for Geoffroi too :)


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Geoffroi de Clairvaux wrote:
Storyteller Shadow wrote:

OK then, here's what I suggest.

Spend the 8 for Melee 5. That leaves you with 6.

I will award EVERYONE 1 extra XP. That leaves you with 7 instead of 6, spend that 7 XP on Celerity 2.

Actually that sounds good for Geoffroi too :)

Perfect!

You might want to dig into the Discussion Thread as of your LAST IG post, there may be some more XP from that stretch available to Geoffroi.


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
Alessandro Khadaji wrote:

Not certain of the mechanic, but I'm thinking Alessandro will only be able to help so much (less than others) because of generation and blood point limitation.

To replenish, he will need his herd. Or to hunt similar blooded mortals.

What is your restriction again?

Adult female, no children.


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Alessandro Khadaji wrote:
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
Alessandro Khadaji wrote:

Not certain of the mechanic, but I'm thinking Alessandro will only be able to help so much (less than others) because of generation and blood point limitation.

To replenish, he will need his herd. Or to hunt similar blooded mortals.

What is your restriction again?
Adult female, no children.

There are a few female Ghouls here so you may be in luck.


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For those of you that have not, please place your Blood Point totals in you profile where I can see them when you post, let me know if you need me to explain how to do that :-)


Salubri | 6th Gen | BP 30/30 | WP 5/5
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
For those of you that have not, please place your Blood Point totals in you profile where I can see them when you post, let me know if you need me to explain how to do that :-)

I could certainly use a refresher


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Geoffroi de Clairvaux wrote:
Storyteller Shadow wrote:
For those of you that have not, please place your Blood Point totals in you profile where I can see them when you post, let me know if you need me to explain how to do that :-)
I could certainly use a refresher

Sure!

Open your Geoffroi Avatar.
Select: Edit My Profile
On the "Race" line, simply type in the stats you want to appear and they will appear each time you post. That makes it easy for you and for me to track the key character stats.

In Pathfinder that would be HP/Ac/etc. etc. in Vampire, Blood is the most important thing to track.


Ventrue | Gen 7 | Blood 20/20

Traveling but trying to follow... did I forget something?

What is Narses' conversion (and Simon's involvement)?

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