>THREAD QUESTION
Pochtli, patriarch of the Pisanob.
>>97735377
A Harpy is supposed to be a trendsetter in Elysium, somebody who judges everyone and knows all of their secrets. It's not unthinkable for such a Cainite to have multiple enemies.

>>97735596
I guess like... Maybe the 'Leader of the Judaisers.' Primogen of the 'torys' tries too hard.
Shit, wish I could make a temple for myself.

>>97735692
The one 'special thing' bout my caitif gift is I got a feeling when I see someone about their self. Like. Kinda like a taste.

Basically half the population feels off, an everyone that wanted to join on with them has a motive to zeroing Miss Qristou.

Prince and her disagreed and she was verbal on him bein petty. She was a tory, and her and the Primogen bickered constantly over him 'siring.' According to basically everyone the Cult Madame has been conspiring to get rid of the 'Sect' for years. While that jungle witch apparently wants to wipe out most people here. Especially the whites and the folk tied to the Settlers.

>// TQ //
Hard to say, different answer for physically, mentally, and spiritually.
There is a fuzzy little teddy-bear monster gambling with the Ravs in Vegas right now and that is as far as I will go.

>>97734517
I actually had one of those green books back in the day. 54, I think?
Just me having my discount Nos tendencies doing a public service.

>>97735084
We are not limited to a single trouble, and Cali is full of them. Pretty sure the antlered freak is still following us, beside a small menagerie of un-things. Though, the latter seems more out of curiosity. The Cat is 75% sure a shadow-moth is asking me to visit the channel islands.

Which, I might. Sou-Cal is a wasteland and I'd like to see them as a change of scenery.

>Very silly people.
As we all must be.

And, I would be happy to demonstrate, I'll admit I am curios to what you think of that form. It has become... Crinos like? So much time spent in Loup Spaces has had an effect on me, I think. Better than my 'pure' wolf form. I keep my losses in the shift and tripoding as a wolf is difficult.

>>97735121
Well, there are plenty willing to listen to you losing your mind of boredom.

>>97735793
Judaisers? Odd. Keep yourself safe kid.
Sorry about stealing your name as well, copy pasted the wrong thing from the lore section I'm keeping.

>>97736833
Its all good. Just made me double-take.

>on the first night and immediately he tried to stake me with a crucifix
Alas, my mastery of Serpentis is incomplete, otherwise I would be happy to hold on to your heart, mon cher. To protect you from being staked, of course.

>>97736833
>Taking on a powerful war-skin
My interest is piqued, Mademoiselle H0T. Is this form something that is unique to you, like my own nagini form? Or is this form something that anyone with sufficient mastery of of Protean could achieve?

>>97735121
>>97735208
I love my home but it’s big enough that it’s weird. The amount of autarks outside of major metro hubs is likely a cultural one. Some gangrel likely embraced a cow boy or ranch hand about a century ago and despite the cammies and ventrue’s best efforts, we stay as hard boiled in unlife as we were in life. If you can run by Tyler and Nacogdoches, mind running by my old estate and seeing if there’s actual fucking knights around? If so it’s nictuku and watch your damn back if you’re a nossie/low gen. Nacogdoches just to tell that smarmy prince his tithe of gold and blood wine ain’t coming any time soon! Ghoul someone in charge of mineral rights at the county seat. That way unclaimed ones end up in your “descendants” or shell companies names. It’s what I did eventually. Houston, Brownsville, and El Paso are good sabbat strongholds. Galveston somehow is without cainite leadership or strong one at least. Dallas and Fort Worth prices hate each other like the cities do. It’s weird. San Antonio Is cammie run, with a decent lasombra presence if that Diego guy is to be believed.

>>97734456
>powerful war form
While I COULD pursue metamorphosis and REJECT MY HUMANITY like my sire and most tzimisce neonates do, that is not my chosen path. I’d rather just say
>burn
And see the whole room burst into flames. Such is the power of the koldun.

>>97737260
I’m flattered my dear that you would want a piece of me with you always. Surely for no other purpose. Always did like the Egyptian funerary practices. When I was mortal, I had requested friends and family that should I HAVE to be cremated to do so in that way, with linen, cnoptic jars, and myrhh. Just a simple sarcophagus with a smattering of semin precious gems here and there. Nothing pharaonic. Sadly that’s not to be.

>tq
Dunno the nicktuku were the oddest personality wise. Seeing full plate in these modern nights was anachronistic to say the least.

Apologies for not checking in as usual, been busy getting Scarlet settled as a member of House Scholar now that she's joined us for the time being. if anyone has questions I'll take them -Scholar
>TQ
easy, my sire, the only kindred I've known who made garou nervous simply by proximity.

>>97737362
Welcome back Chelys, how have you been, amici?

I haven't been on in a while, sorry if anyone missed me (not bloody likely). I couldn't post for a number of reasons and I know I missed some replies. My ip address rotated to one that was banned on 4chan, finally rotated back

I gave myself Wolverine-style retractable bone claws because hey why not? I think I figured out protean by reverse-engineering vicissitude and hanging out with my wolf. Now my eyes can go all wolfy and help me see in the dark better. Combined with auspex it's like seeing in broad daylight.

What have I missed over the last week or so?

>>97737551
Under the services of an apostolic (not sabbat) bishop at the moment and trying to survive to return a favor to him at the moment. Got ran out of the old bar and farm by a band of nicktuku if you missed it. Was a hell of a fight. I went down swinging. Oh. Had an idea for vitae root beer. Use diabetics! Infuse with sarsaparilla and sassafrass syrup. Enjoy!
>>97737640
I’ve had that happen when off wifi. Shit is odd.
Look into the metabolisms of funnel web and wandering spiders. Some are known to concentrate metal ions into their fangs to harden them even moreso!

>>97738009
>Oh. Had an idea for vitae root beer. Use diabetics! Infuse with sarsaparilla and sassafrass syrup. Enjoy!
So if I combine that with the vitae-rum I got from scholar I could basically have a rum and coke again?
>Look into the metabolisms of funnel web and wandering spiders. Some are known to concentrate metal ions into their fangs to harden them even moreso!
Intriguing.

Kindred in my city have begun to smoke crack using some sort of method.

>>97737260
All shifts are unique, but I think I know what it is you ask.
Most Gangs I've known to show me their skins rarely took on something like a Loup. The most dangerous ones were chimeric, like a guy who had this weird fusion of beaver and grizzly up in Quebec. Funny in concept, terrifying when you saw how fast he was in water.

Mastery isn't enough it requires... Experience? Temperament? Hard to say.

>>97737362
We are basically at the exact opposite ends of our respective gifts brother. Couldn't dream of using the Earth for killing when I have claws and fangs.

I am not telling you to reject your humanity, far from it. Master yourself, so that no matter what skin you wear your heart remains your own.

Unless you want to give it to Blues. That's your prerogative.

>>97737640
Much noise and change nïa, me an mine are now on the road again. Glad you're back.
Also, I'd recommend a single larger blade at the centre of your arm rather than several smaller ones. It's more effective a weapon.
Glad it isn't just me that's been getting that.

>>97738962
What? You mean just drinking from a crackhead?

Now entering Sabbat territory.

Let us see how those prophecies hold up.

>>97735793
>her and the Primogen bickered constantly over him 'siring.'
It's a small town so the typical fights over who gets to have childer can only be more intense, given the Cainite population is too much to be supported by the kine.
>According to basically everyone the Cult Madame has been conspiring to get rid of the 'Sect' for years. While that jungle witch apparently wants to wipe out most people here. Especially the whites and the folk tied to the Settlers.
Yes everyone is fighting for control over the city both on the front of the vampires and the humans.
>>97738009
>Use diabetics!
The taste of a diabetic's blood is quite variable: it depends on the medication and diet. Some kine don't even suspect they have diabetes mellitus, those are the sweetest. Others are actually in hypoglycemia. Then you have diabetic ketoacidosis which is in my top five medical conditions for worst possible flavor.
>>97738962
>>97740438
I assume they add some blood from a user into the mix. Is that correct?
>>97739176
>Also, I'd recommend a single larger blade at the centre of your arm rather than several smaller ones. It's more effective a weapon.
That is how I prefer my bonecrafted zombies, yes. Smaller claws tend to get stuck in a victim's ribcage, making the arm and the zombie it's attached to next to useless.

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Sadly, I saw neither shadow-men nor nightwalkers in Colma the other night. Only a number of very fancy graveyards and some very questionable selection of Cain's chosen warriors.

Hardest thing was getting the meeting set up and dealing with the skirmishers sent ahead to scope us out. After recent events, I feel confident in myself and my ability to cause harm. Can't say the same for the Cat or Gün in their current states.

Couple of close calls before the Bishop and the Priest showed themselves, and once they knew what was on the table they started talking. Again, a couple of close scrapes, Mèo started hissing when we got the pitch for packhood. Can't even blame her.

Ultimately struck a bargain for intelligence, a cup, and ritual for very pertinent internal documentation. Gossip, dirty plans, rumours of selling out a sizable portion of Mexico city to an Aztec death god who might be Italian... If it works it works. And if they use one of their own computers in checking out that USB drive? Even better.

Still need to work out the finer points of the end-goal internally, Mèo's been vehement about not breaking the bond we have for any length of time. But, hopefully I can tinker this out.

Currently camping out down at the ass-end of Monterey County. Sand and surf are rather nice.

>>97746195
>rumours of selling out a sizable portion of Mexico city to an Aztec death god who might be Italian...
A marvelous deal, in my unbiased opinion.

>>97735596
there was one abominable dragon who preferred to 'play with his food' and liked making his prisoners eat one another before finishing them off. met his final death back in the hellenic independence war.

some of my degenerate neighbours do deserve an honorable mention.

>>97737551
you dwell in austria these nights do you not? can you tell me of any pertinent goings on in slovenia? recent trends, particularly. things that might have started in belgrade.

>>97739176
>>97744461
If my claws ever get stuck in a ribcage I can always retract them to get them free, or use vicissitude to fuck the target up even harder while in bone-to-bone contact. They're mostly a novelty anyways, I'm not going to pop claws and go toe-to-toe with a werebear. I'd be more likely to run away and hide. I gotta learn to turn into a bat...

>>97747543
>austria
I have a haven there but it's not my primary home. However the balkans are as usual, no wars broken out, typical fights, not as lively as it was in the 90s... -Scholar

A healthy disposition to have. Served me well enough for decades.

And good! That is a noble goal to have. The path to mastering the skins begins inside yourself, with a healthy dose of experience to internalize things. Handling is usually the best place to start, through whispering and companionship. And you've already started yourself there! Albeit, closer to the path most of mine start with, wolves. Gangs wearing canine forms are the best known for a reason.

While I'm opposed to my clan's habit of leaving Fledglings COMPLETELY to their own devices, shifting shapes is a very personal art. I'm happy to advise you where I can, but, it is on you to shape yourself into those skins.

>>97748335
>>97748088
Need to stop typing these messages when I'm looking over the damn map.

>>97746195
>Mèo started hissing when we got the pitch for packhood. Can't even blame her.
Did you choose another Sect? When the Apocalypse comes, who will fight alongside you, after your cat?

Fellow Cainites, good evening. I’m needing some advice. I am a former member of the Sabbat, having left that cultish unlife behind,but not completely. You see, I became pretty good at killing other Cainites. So good that my new Prince saw my skill and took me in. I worked with the Sheriff, a Gangrel, and took me under his wing since I am an offshoot of his clan.

Outside of work, I’m miserable. The thrill of the hunt, for vitae or thinbloods, is the only thing that gets me. But even those are just moments among hours. I do not play with my food or make it into a game like others do. The fledglings and neonates are terrified of me. Other members of the court are cold and keep me at arms length. The thins I hunt… some are just children. Figuratively, until I the one I found a few nights ago. Caine and Lilith, I saw it in his little eyes. Hunger swirling about the trapped innocence inside. No child embraced could keep the silence. He had killed his own family, three mortals. I turned him to ash, but now I feel strange. A dull awareness of mortals. I have been a Knight of Honorable Accord for so long… I think being exposed to the Camarilla and being among the kine is changing me. I need help with these new sensations. How do you deal with these feelings?

>>97746195
>some very questionable selection of Cain's chosen warriors.
Hitch and Widow send their respective regards. Posh sends threats to tear out your throat if she sees you, but idle threats are her love language. Truth is you picked a hell of a night to visit. If Widow didn't see that sleeve we would have taken you for back up for the other OTHER night's gatecrashers. Speaking of, I better get back on Patrol.

>>97749671
>I do not play with my food or make it into a game like others do.
Then why join the Ivory Tower? The kine do not concern themselves with the social life of their own cattle, but the Camarilla think it's their purpose. Open your eyes. Playing with food is all they ever did.
>I turned him to ash, but now I feel strange.
You ended the suffering of an unwanted offspring whom no son or daughter of Caine would bother training. That is a Scourge doing a good job. By Camarilla logic you should be a happy good Kindred.
>I have been a Knight of Honorable Accord for so long…
To what end? To become a traitor? To take an easier road? To take the fight to those of the generations most removed from Caine instead of those most proximate?
>I need help with these new sensations.
They're not new sensations. You hunt the weak instead of the strong and now you wonder why you aren't respected or happy enough?
Take what dignity you have left and use your position to further the goals of the Sword of Caine.

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>>97749919
愚か者め
I already saved you, you ungrateful little cumstain. Some discipline is in order.

>>97749508
We choose no sect.
And if some ingrate thinks to bring about the Apocalypse; the Crows, the Wild Ones, and the Moon-Beasts. I am no thrall to the hungry god, nor the god of bondage.

>>97749696
Tell Posh if she wants to dance I will only slightly maul her. There's like to be more gatecrashers as well, past few weeks shook the hornets nest.
And before I forget Grin I feel I should warn you. I didn't give your people anything false, but I have additional context. The stuff about that Quebec coalition getting 'frustrated' with events down here. Likewise, that stuff about the Hand isn't as absurd as it seems.
Endure, brother.

>>97749671
>a Gangrel, and took me under his wing since I am an offshoot of his clan.
Call me curious, but what exactly is that?

Now I'll be blunt. Hunting like that is a bad thing, it fucks with you and I can only think of 1 person who made it work, an ogre absolutely swollen with power. He's an exception. Not the rule.

You have to live for yourself, and eating Blood vitae is a bad addiction. In mundane terms it is basically a meth habit that is colouring your world and making everything else dim. Leaving other joys diminished. Master yourself, and kick this addiction as much as you can. Ration down if you must to wean yourself. Stop devouring outright.

Then... Well. That falls to you. What do YOU want to do with the rest of your life?

>>97749919
I'll see what I can do.

won't answer a thread question when it could be someone reading

>>97738962
share, i could use a new hobby

>>97749671
those idiots upstairs can scream about serving the dark daddy till caine comes back from picking up his ciggies. sunrising an actual once-mortal child though? bad shit.
most of us deal with that by NOT DOING IT but you can stop. already have elsewhere

get into painting maybe. silvia did that and she seems mostly sane now
mostly

Nice to stop over at an actual business that caters to me. I got to sit in the lap of a goth girl and complain. First time I've been full since shit went sideways in the Big Apple.

Already hitting the Appalachians again. Will be laying over near the Mississipi until I get the message.

>>97735596
Probably one of those Nos who was terrified of Nickies. Only saw that girl once but her spine was warped so bad she had to go on all fours when walking.

>The weirdest Kindred you ever met
huh, I came over to America when it was still new, I and my sire was here for the Indian wars or at least the middle of them. I've seen things that I guess were fey or creatures of the dark of some kind, creatures of hunger and hatred. Foul things, but there was one vampire I think that was worst. We never got a proper name for him, everyone just called him Indian Joe and his old lady. A few referred to him and his partner as Ohdaig and Squaw but I don't think that was his name. He was the only Vampire among the native's who's lineage I couldn't trace to Europe.

He looked like a tall and strapping native man, middle aged. Braids, Broad Back, never rode a horse. He towered over his peers, and even we found him tall, easily 6' 6 or more. Moved Fast, faster then I've ever seen a Brujah move, stronger then most Brujah. Real unfriendly kind. Squaw was worst. she just looked like a indian woman, deathly pale but if you saw her she would always - skitter- away. If you held her in view more then a few seconds, you could watch her leave around a corner, a tree, a horse, and disappear from view. If two of you were watching, you would both swear she moved in different directions. She moved unnaturally on all fours, and the light only seemed to bother her a little. She would take care of Indian Joe in the day, whether he was in a Wigwam or just huddling in a bison fur in the shade. She fought like a feral creature but her finger's rent flesh in an unnatural way. I only saw them a few times and Squaw ate blood didn't drink it. Joe was an old Brujah maybe but she didn't seem like kindred. Haven't seen them in centuries, doubt they're still alive.

As for Texas I'm sending out feelers. I was officially told that Dallas was being kept 'waiting' for someone, there's a few independents in the area that presumably are loyal. Fort Worth is a bit more interesting.

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>>97737362
>Always did like the Egyptian funerary practices.
It would be nice if they were more widely practiced these nights. The rites may have been handed down from Osiris, but we have managed to make some use of them ourselves.

Oh, and you will never guess whom I happen to spy the other night. Just passing through from what I could gather.

>>97739176
>All shifts are unique
For the gifts of your clan, and those of the Tzimisce, perhaps. The shape-changing arts of my clan are more uniform in nature. If myself and another of my clanmates were to both assume The Form of the Cobra, we would appear as a pair of identical black cobras. Whenever one of us assumes the form of the Typhonic Beast, it is always the same form. I've never seen anyone take on the form of Apep, but I imagine it too would always appear the same regardless of the individual.

This is why I'm intrigued. I'm given to understand that, with rare exceptions, those not endowed with the blood of Tefnut are limited to the form of a bat or a wolf. Would that limitation hold true if one from outside your clan were to learn to take their own "war form?" Or would it be unique to them?

And does your war-skin provide any advantages? Aside from a no doubt considerable increase to your physical prowess, of course. When I assume my nagini form, the serpentine coils that replace my legs are capable of crushing a grown man, true, but the main advantage it grants me is the ability to mesmerize all who look upon my body, rather than requiring me to meet their gaze as with The Eyes of the Serpent.

>>97749973
Oh là là, what uncouth language. Do try to remember your upbringing, "Dame" Asano, and have some class, would you?

>>97752929
After consulting Polyglot Girl, I came to the conclusion that another spirit slave I entrusted with this device and with writing that particular message dislikes Boy Toy intensely, on a personal level, and sneaked some explicit English swearword without my permission.
Another back that needs to be straightened.

>>97749919
Please don't impersonate the dead, it's rude.
>>97750148
>I'll see what I can do.
Don't, that isn't Boytoy. Merely an echo, nothing and I mean nothing comes back from what happened to him, at best it's a wraith using his echo, at worst..... best not to think about that. -Scholar

>>97751712
Keep your head down until the time is right.

>>97752211
Old Brujah? That is an outlier outside of one story alleged down in central America. There were a few transfers from before Colombus but they were either Siberians, Gaels, or Norse.
Odd couple though.

>>97752907
>This is why I'm intrigued. I'm given to understand that, with rare exceptions, those not endowed with the blood of Tefnut are limited to the form of a bat or a wolf. Would that limitation hold true if one from outside your clan were to learn to take their own "war form?" Or would it be unique to them?
The lore of the Wildness is eclectic and filled with half truths, boasts, lies, and fish that were thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big. In theory, not unlike with what we call Animalism, any could learn it they were willing to engage with their 'Beast.' And if sufficiently devoted, master it. Not many have the fortitude for it though.

In theory it is possible.

>And does your war-skin provide any advantages?
I'll get into some conjecture because I will make a division between my own form and what I'd heard before and my own form. The skin was traditionally like a frenzy, allowing the wild to reach out and let it rage without detriment, and in myriad ways. Raw terrible might, adaption to environments, uncanny resilience. It was also much more easy to frenzy and much more harmful if you did lose it.

Mine is different to that. Lacking the... Viscerality that often makes it easy to tell that the shape belongs to one of the Blood. Drawing it closer to the Loup war-skin it resembles. And, to a lesser extent can inflict the Loup Terror, I fear. I need to do more testing with this skin to learn more though, this breakthrough was recent.

And I don't know why the change. Again, it could be experience. Disposition. Perhaps even mastery of my Beast.

>>97753231
I utter a prayer to the hounds beyond the fog. What they do with that? Up to them.


Now, Santa Barbara.

>>97752907
I'll also ask; how much of your gifts stem from ritual mastery? I can't help wonder if that is a shared manifestation or, maybe it is the direct same form. Only ever heard rumours of it and information would be helpful.

Those tape strips better have been electric tape. My Cat suffered indignities to duct-tape.

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>>97749508
>When the Apocalypse comes, who will fight alongside you
I will, for young H0T had been of tremendous help! And my assistant also will, because she has a deeply-buried heart of gold and comes around on such matters eventually.

>>97735596
Oh, all this discussion of Gangrel magicks reminded me of an incident from a while back!

Around a hundred and ten years ago, me and Victoria were far north. I will not say exactly where, beyond it being in Canada, for your safety and for safety of what we found. I will say that we were looking for remnants of an old Kine expedition we suspected were hunters chasing some ancient.

Deep in the Canadian taiga, far away from the barest signs of human habitation, where the things that flee humanity are the boldest, we went. Dangerous grounds, especially if you're Kindred, even if you're used to the wilderness and the outdoors. I do not think most Kindred belong anywhere except where Kine live.

We found the expedition first, or its remnants, rather. Their encampment was ruined with no sign of struggle; just dozens of corpses scattered about in and outside tents and near snowed-in campfires, long-withered into nothing and dragged to pieces by animals. Most of it was somewhat reclaimed by nature, excluding items of metal, crosses and such.

It all looked as if they went this far north, and then simply stopped and decided they will die here, in the depth of the taiga. I didn't see many signs of suicide or fratricide, but they certainly must've been low on provisions. Granted, it's hard to tell what they ate, and what the scavengers and time got to, over the decades.

It was midnight, still. We had time to do things right by these strangers, even if they, given the crosses and the markings on some of their water skins, were no doubt hunters. They did no harm to us, so there is, I hope, little hypocricy in us doing this but not doing the same for the Anchorite attackers. Burying innocent dead is a good and right thing to do.

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>>97754899
So, we dug out a brother grave for the hunters, put the remnant bones and trinkets in there, said some words.

And then the trees shook, even as the wind was deathly still, and not a single beast made a sound.

Not willing to tempt the ghosts, which is what we figured the tree-shaking was, we set about burying the bones. In my hurry, I've struck a tree root with the shovel, and as I brought the tool away, I saw vitae seep out of the cut. Thick, amber-like, yet the scent and the sight were impossible to mistake for anything else.

I acted as calm as could be, and pointed the cut out to Victoria. She, in turn, leveraged her remarkable outdoorswoman skill - quietly and calmly, to not aggravate our host, she pointed out that the tree was a Siberian pine. Not a variety native to Canada.

Then she pointed out that it was all Siberian pines, for as far as we could see.

The trees shook again, and harder yet when we tried to retreat. So we, for lack of options, chose to at least finish burying the hunters. That seemed to calm the unliving forest. However, the the night was ending. We had time to rush to our earlier lodgings, if we really tried, but before we could try, the tree crowns shifted. They glacially slowly creaked together, bit by bit, groaning as they went, and formed a roof of sorts over the encampment. Not much at all - not being suicidal, we still put up a tent made of several layers of cloth, just to make sure.

In the evening, when we woke, the trees were back to normal. The grave was already covered with fresh grass, a sight that just did not sit too well with me, as it was middle of winter. We left as quick as we could, and silence followed us.

I do not know whether it was truly a prehistoric Gangrel. Perhaps it was an old Tzimisce of some sort, or, far more concerningly, a wholly separate branch of our curse that developed in a strange, niche way. Whatever it was, it let us leave it, and the buried men, alone.

>>97753436
With the exception of the nagini form - to my knowledge it is unique to me alone - these forms come to us as naturally as any of the other gifts of the clan (well maybe not the Typhonic Beast, I've heard conflicting stories on that one). I believe that the reason they are always the same is because we aren't assuming a conceptual form of "a cobra" or "a Typhonic beast" but rather we are becoming avatars of very real beings.

When we take on the form of the cobra, we are becoming a lesser manifestation of Apep, the serpent of darkness. When we become the Typhonic Beast, we are taking on the aspect of Set in his original animal form. To me, these forms are another piece of evidence that the story of Set's divine origins are the literal truth.

>Those tape strips better have been electric tape. My Cat suffered indignities to duct-tape.
I didn't have a chance to examine closely but they did appear to be strips of electrical tape, oui.

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>>97754899
Travel log #8 [ Santa Barbara, California ]-[*0/10 ] ( DO NOT VISIT )
>>>>>Pros
>No.
>Nuh uh no.
>You can leave as fast as you come in.
>>>>>Cons
>I have had to deal with some sleazy people in my life, the ghoul creep in the blood bank might be the worst
>Free State Gangs have basically made the town a kill zone, live nearby, hunt down anyone who tries to settle down
>There is something evil hiding here, and actively malevolent

There is something deeply wrong with this place. The Cat refused to let Gün go scouting and had the kind of episode that has been avoided since the early nights in Marquette. Murdered a bathroom window. Wouldn't even let me go far either. Couldn't even deal with the bloodbank, whoever has that ghoul on the inside? Cut him loose I'm pretty sure he tried to spike our drink. Avoid this town. There's some prophetic shit behind the walls and I'm giving this warning to others.

Only good news is we got tickets to the Channel Isles for tomorrow night. Time to return things.

>>97754899
Appreciate you William.

Hm. When the time comes to begin mastering myself again, I'll have many things to test. Wonder what sort of plant I'd end up as.

>>97756843
I suppose that is an extension of our respective relations with our ancestors. Yours left a clear cut path for you. Mine? Well. Not so much.

>>97753302
>Odd couple though.
Indeed. I presume that perhaps it came down thru the norse explorers? We knew nothing of them at the time but it seems more likely then the other option. I'm not quite sure the timeframes involved but if they had come across the asiatic land bridge? It would require a rewriting of my understanding of Kindred history at least.

>on a unrelated note
I sometimes wonder if I haven't kept my Ghoul too long. I caught him this late afternoon, just out standing by the fence, drinking a beer with one of the neighbors. Julian is a bit more personable then I, and I know this is part of his Job.
>He told me it was called day drinking
Bonhomme, I was mad. It was funny but I was mad. I informed him I was there when they invented day drinking in France. A few decades ago I would have murdered a ghoul for showing that much sass. Day drinking indeed. Julian let me know that we're not the only new arrivals in the neighborhood, but actually three houses (including ours) had all closed in the last few weeks. We will have new neighbors soon.

>tq
clan tzimisce

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>/tq/
I haven't met them yet! I think. Pretty sure that is.
Weird is... Not an easy word to Grok you know? Not when you have a funny talking trout hanging over your head like the sword of damocles.

Last night we went out to the channel islands. Something had been calling me. Or maybe her. It doesn't matter now, I guess, she took the invitation and the earth devoured her. For a few hours. Spat her back up and she's been- Delirious I think?

Stargazed with Gün on the beach while we waited.

He's empty. For now anyways. They will be alright in time I think.

Think we're hitting Los Angeles next.

I'd stay out of LA if I were you. Or any big city in the USA right now. You know how the kine are all rioting over...pretty much everything? That's us. I'm not saying anything the guys running domains haven't already figured out, so no need to worry about op sec here. We've got a new toy. Blood Alchemy. We've made Bruja Anger Management issues into a potion and aerosolized it. One Ghoul with what looks like a tube of pepperspray can find the angriest mortal in a crowd of protestors, give him a spritz, and start a riot that ends up with some dumbass commiting suicide by cop, which just sparks more protests. God, everytime I think my Sire is going overboard with the whole "Kine are just stupid cows that need to be saved from themselves" thing they go and prove him right.

>>97762500
Qu'est-ce que tu veux dire par là? The whole of Clan Tzimisce? Surely even the most queer of those empowered by Geb can't compare to the likes of the Sleeping Lord of Cairo's Dream Court!

>>97763937
I'd like to avoid trouble like I'd like my heart to avoid sharp wooden objects but... Kind of an experience we need for our gargoyle. If not now, when? Rather be here so he can grab onto someone who can guide him along.

Already got faced with the most nightmarish shit for Santa Barbara. It can only get better after that! :)

>>97764258
Does the sleeping lord bite his tale in his sleep? Is he a mushroom?

>>97764258
idk didnt meet those
thought u were sellers of vices tryna look pleasant now u say ur the bigger freaks
wait thats what the boss meant when he said u cant shake a snakes hand
cool ig

>>97764385
>Does the sleeping lord bite his tale in his sleep? Is he a mushroom?
It - and that is the only word that can be applied to the Sleeping Lord - is a putrescent, boiling mass of black and green flesh that constantly oozes foul liquids and emits noxious fumes. But as disconcerting as the Sleeping Lord's physical form may be, what is truly remarkable is the effect its dreams have on its surroundings; twisting and warping the sewers of Cairo into a labyrinth with walls that pulsate as though in time to a beating heart and air that feels as though you were walking through a heavy fog of vitae. And the Sleeping Lord has drawn unspeakable THINGS to its presence as well, which inhabit the maze ready to devour those who lack the Dream Court's protection.

>>97765218
The part of me clinging to levity asks if it has any lost siblings.
Otherwise I just- pity? Compassion? Who needs Hell when you can slide into something like that.
God I hope someone just kills me before I end up unrecognizable.

>>97758991
perhaps it is the fact i have a reliable network of people but such behaviour is useful. taking their siestas with drink and companions disarms them and allows them to absorb secrets. such that many a would be degenerate's thrall has slipped up in their presence.

did you inherit this subordinate gálloi?

>>97763937
hello Stripper, if you're the one I've spoken to previously. -Scholar

>>97766879
Yeah, It's me. Yer favorite Sabbat Pack Priest.

>>97767190
are you caught up with recent events or would you like to be informed? -Scholar

Ha. Road time.

>>97718340
Can you tell your neighbours there is good news from the far south? Stolen relics returned, the mother-beast with hair of bats and eyes of sapphire woken from a long rest.

Gave me a gift as thanks. Also let me claim grandmother rights to Bee.

>>97752907
That’s awesome! Hope she’s doing well!
>>97749973
Wait, you’re a giovanni but you’re not Italian? I thought it was an ethnic exclusive to the blasted dagos.
>>97739176
The issue with visiccitude upon one’s self is it inherently starts to morph the soul. Especially when “self-taught”. >>97752211
I’ve heard tales from the natives of Minnesota that there was a creature similar to us. The first was a woman who was to br given as a sacrifice to the lake god. Instead she was changed into a kindred, and that was the kindred the european cainites met. I assume her “clan” and the garou were at least on passable terms in that millenia?
>>97754899
Those trees. My forest on my old farm, I could see through. I could give a categorical list of all living things in it. I knew when someone new was trying to sneak on my land. I don’t think the trees had vitae in them though. Of course I had only been “corrupting” the land for maybe 5 years tops.
>>97767190
>>97763937
Welcome back stripper! How have things been?
In other news, his excellency the bishop of Galveston, has officially condemned the members of the society of leopold for their attempts on my life. As he states, “our diabolical enemies have taken the largest metroplex not just in our state, but the whole nation. When Our LORD offers us one of his resuscitated children to fight our enemies with their powers, we are to accept it with love and purpose. Our cross is his, and in desperate times those who we once would have had killed might find themselves being embraced.” He then turned to look at me as if he meant something by that. I’m not siring him. Anyways, the sabbat has been trying a shovel head attack from the channel via the shipping trade. I’m meeting with the society tonight to see about making the channel non-passable by various means. We’ll see how this goes.

>>97767471
if you need soldiers for defense, I can loan you some Cauldron-Born, Draugr or some of my newest creations.... -Scholar

>>97767471
>The issue with visiccitude upon one’s self is it inherently starts to morph the soul. Especially when “self-taught”

So can pacifism, meditation, panic and sucking on a beached whale.
Visiccitude is dangerous because it is unbound from natural constraints or even unnatural constraints, but it is still subject to you. What you determine is if you are conscious and in control of it.

>I assume her “clan” and the garou were at least on passable terms in that millenia?
There is a reason you could make deals with tribes in the south and the planes, while the ones in the far north always tended to end up in torpor and buried beneath the permafrost. Different kinfolk, different loups.

>We’ll see how this goes.
Knock them dead.

>>97767235
I've been vaugely aware, just really fucking busy.

>>97767471
Nasty. Like I said, the 'Bat has been pushing across the North American continent using riled up kine to sow chaos in the big cities. It might look like carpet bombing Lunatic Eruption, but no. Mortals really are just that imbecilic all on their own. The damage to Kine infrastructure cripples those feckless Cammy "elders" that spend more time gaining influence and power through mortal institutions than properly developing the Gifts of Cain, the chaos blinds them like a jammed radar, and our hunter killer teams move in to take heads and create power vacuums. Then our enemies fight over the scraps bucause the Sabbat are a bunch of murder happy anarchists who couldn't possibly have a complex plan to do anything more than throw shovelheads at a city, right?

Pffft.

What freaks me out is the shit going in with the cartells. Sure, we nudged some mortals who were already in tge edge if violence over the edge, but we never sent mortals to kill vampires on purpose, you know? But now I'm trying to figure out if it's coincidence or if the Caamarilla had anything to do with it? Did they know Maduro was a ghoul? Fucking Hell, my head hurts.

But no, seriously, If you see the Choir just fucking run. My Sire's pack has a Tremere Antitribu in it, and if you know anything you know how scary that sentence is right now. Personally? I think that mad bastard cut a deal with Satan to escape the Tremere's wrath.

>>97767471
>Wait, you’re a giovanni but you’re not Italian? I thought it was an ethnic exclusive to the blasted dagos.
Let's just say my Sire was degenerate enough to commit the sort of degeneracy your typical Giovanni wouldn't dare to commit back then - or even today, and the education he received from his mother couldn't save him from my wiles - or maybe he was a simply a gentleman of superlative taste.
Still, bloodlines of kine and Cainites tied to the Giovanni who not only do not have Giovanni as their last name, but are not ethnically Italian, exist since the nights of the Pisanob in what is now Mexico, Dunsirn in Scotland, and Milliner in the United States. It works a lot like a clan from my days in the Sengoku period: there is a dominant family in the centre, ensuring loyalty with ties of blood, and there are vassals born to other families that serve it in the periphery.
These nights our Clan is undergoing a lot of changes. I even received the invitation to April 4th in Venice for the first time in my unlife - lest we forget, it's Easter's Eve - and I heard some rumors that my own bloodline could be formally acknowledged by the Giovanni - that is nothing short of a miracle considering what a disgrace my grandchilde and great-grandchilde have been.

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>>97767471
>The issue with visiccitude upon one’s self is it inherently starts to morph the soul. Especially when “self-taught”.
May I do the American thing, and ask you to "elaborate" on this subject? I always found Vicissitude the single most fascinating Discipline after Necromancy.
Westerners say the face and/or eyes are the mirrors of the soul, for example, Cicero: VT IMAGO EST ANIMI VOLTVS SIC INDICES OCVLI; and the Gospel according to Matthew: LVCERNA CORPORIS TVI EST OCVLVS TVVS.
Would you say a minor change to the color of the irises is enough to change one's soul?
>>97767670
>So can pacifism, meditation, panic and sucking on a beached whale.
Food for thought. I've been in a philosophical mood lately.

>>97767803
>I've been vaugely aware, just really fucking busy.
That doesn't exactly answer my question, do you require a TLDR as Kakophoni put it or not? -Scholar

>>97771314
You know what? Sure, knock your socks off. Not like the mods'll let me do that any other way. ;-)

>>97771892
tldr: some fools created an abomination, a shoddy one at that as the craftsmanship was disgustingly amateur, it got eaten by a boytoy kindred belonging to a toreador dominatrix, said boytoy died a day later. A caitiff who was an old flame of previously mentioned dom pulled a coup in new york and tried to make a new carthage, demon worship and all, turns out the ones who made the abomination were backing her, war broke out in the city, my forces joined and either captured or killed the caitiff's forces, I turned said Caitiff into a living statue and gave it to the dom as a gift because I thought it fitting, the dom later had issues with the new prince and one of her childer is now living with me and Kakophoni. if I missed anything then apologies. -Scholar

>>97771892
with what the snake gets away? pish.
but oh i upload a picture of my den back in 2002 and they have yet to give me back image privileges.

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Travel log #9 (10?) [ Los Angeles, California ]-[*Can't give this one a star rating ]
>>>>>Pros
>If you want to fight and die for the Anarch Cause you could do much worse
>Also if you like watching the Camarilla get beaten like a dead horse in some kind of humiliation ritual
>Or if you just want to watch peers die
>You can even get twisted with the hunters if you really want
>>>>>Cons
>See above
>Apparently everyone came down with schizophrenia back a few years ago, feels like it didn't dissipate
>The complexity of the fighting around here makes my head spin
>Who designed this city? It is an affront to life itself.

I can't believe I miss Seattle and San Fran. Granted, still a better situation to acclimatize in than what it could be for the gargoyle, but I'm not pleased regardless with the current status quo. Getting him trained up for the modern nights myself as the cat's 'customer' the other night was off his ass on DMT or something and she's been zonked since. Did the rounds, did a drop-off with the Anarchs I've been in contact with, and come nightfall we are getting the fuck out of this town. There's something big out there. And I much prefer when those big ominous things are Loups. I like them. I think I recognize what's out there and I'm really not in the mood.

>>97766089
No I picked him. He is honestly very good at what he does and had more tours in Vietnam then most. He was a mess but between the bloodbond and a steady hand he's turned into a real resource. Got a real honest to god danger sense although that might just be PTSD put to a useful end. Frankly I'd put better then even money on him taking out more or less any neonate in a fair or even not so fair fight. I guess you might say I feel a little pride in the man.
>Which is why it's so frustrating when he spends the afternoon drinking at the fence.
Chalice as they say nowadays. He's talking about getting a Truck like some sort of common workman, installing something called lifts to 'fit in'. I know I chose this venue but it is annoying that I am more frustrated with it than he is.

>>97767190
The Sabbat even has whores? Has someone told the Torrey's. They'll be sorely vexed, or was that vorely sexed you can't ever tell with the degenerate types. I used to think the Torrey's were the worst forms of excess in existance but after having the internet and some personal time to peruse it, humans have taken that spot back I see. I don't supposed you have any information of the sabbat packs in texas? Perhaps just one's you dislike? Surely there is someone who is ahhh blunting the sword of caine and would be better off as dust? What do you say, a little tit for tat? That's you're trade apparently?

>>97767471
Perhaps, I try not to navel gaze too much, but if something happened once it seems reasonable to presume it happened more then once (after all what is truly unique in all of this creation except god). As for the wolves truthfully, I had not heard of them in the america's until well into the 1900's. My interest in bloodlines is a bit more academic for vampires, but I would guess they followed a similar path as vampires. Some people here have much more extensive knowledge of it here, are there bands of native garou out there? I didn't see them for damn near 150 yrs.

>>97772303
the city of the angels would fit right at home beside mosul these nights.

>>97773600
becoming a texian so fast! were it so that some of my network could have had such adaptability.
though as someone who dreams of annihilating the ancestral holdings of the degenerates in my nation, you ply too gracelessly on both them and the little priest. start with a wager. else, don't bother.

as for the native loupines, we do have a few experts present, and their recent antics have made me almost miss dealing with the sons of asena.

god. i was made too late.

Gonna be another long night.

>>97773600
Plenty. I like some of them more than some of the Blood. Most have better things to do than hunt you.

>>97774247
I have to admit, I don't believe the sabbat post here. I'm not sure why the stripper is pretending. As for a wager, I'm not sure what is appropriate. I am purchasing something called a F150 which I presume is the truck. I do think that feeling of being sired too late is more a symptom of advancing age or perhaps declining humanity. I'm hardly a liberal, I am a soldier at heart, but there is something to be said about learning to be and act human.

Julian is trying to convince me to make an appearance at the fence, after sundown, and he might be right. Perhaps I've played out at the shallow end of Eldar politics too long. I suppose I could wander the streets, start from the bottom up. Or perhaps I should just stand silently at the fence holding a lager in a can.

>>97772222
N'importe quoi! Je n'ai été rien d'autre qu'une parfaite dame!

>>97774455
>I have to admit, I don't believe the sabbat post here. I'm not sure why the stripper is pretending.
He said, without a shred of irony or self awareness.

For those of you who were wondering. You can fit 12 coffins filled with Salt and Dismembered Cammies into the back of a 26' truck. But only if you stack.

>>97775661
Whenever I nudge in a Sabbat cell I don't find a lot of laptops. You would think the sabbat could find a use for widespread decentralized communication network but turns out they are even more skiddish about it than cammie eldars. That whole shovelhead philosophy really runs thru the whole organization.

But I am sure you are a very high ranked member of the Sabbat and definitely not a poser talking to the Cammies because of the atrocities of your peers. And I am also sure that the Shovlehead Stripper is definitely a stripper. I checked my wallet and I was missing all of my two dollar bills. Truly the powers of a Stripper are unnatural.

>>97774455
>I am purchasing something called a F150
I was going to tease your ghoul for picking a stereotypically gay truck but I don't want to piss off a 'Nam veteran who served multiple tours. If the man wants a Ford let him have a Ford. At least he didn't go for a Dodge Ram or even worse, a Honda Ridgeline...

>>97767461
On it. I've no clue what all that means, but I'll do my utmost to appear mysterious, aloof and do my best to look like I am saying a lot and mean even more. There's a remarkable amount of new guests as of late, and a whole lot of them seem to somehow entirely miss the part of the local events where I ate shit and nearly died. It's, on one hand, good, we've had barely any assassination attempts or challenges because we've got a mostly unearned reputation carrying us, but on another, if any one of them ever actually tests me and the Aniimkiig won't feel like smiting them for me, and I won't have Igni, other wolves or numbers to throw at them, I'll probably get hand-skinned like you would a rabbit. Eugh, hate Victoria for showing us how it's done. Horrid woman.

God help us if any of the visiting wolves steal a phone from us and log on here.

>Also let me claim grandmother rights to Bee.

Want us to keep it a secret, let you pull a surprise on your new grandchild?

>>97772303
You survived the shittiest city on the planet! Going to tell the wolves that, too, make them fear and respect you more.

>>97763937
>God, everytime I think my Sire is going overboard with the whole "Kine are just stupid cows that need to be saved from themselves" thing they go and prove him right.
What's your Sire's view of the fact that the elders you want to turn to dust view their lessers that exact same way, mostly? Every time I hear what some many-centuries-old fossil have to say, it always, given enough time, devolves into some sort of tirade about how necessary it is to control the young and stupid masses, lest they doom us all to extinction.

>>97776762
>But I am sure you are a very high ranked member of the Sabbat and definitely not a poser talking to the Cammies because of the atrocities of your peers.
And I'm sure you are most definitely a former Archon who has been relieved of his position and settled down in Arlington, Texas. One who has decided to regale us all with tales of his ghoul being sociable with the neighbors as if having a ghoul to network with mortals were some fascinating new experience.

I am, in fact, quite sure that you are an elder who was "there when day drinking was invented in France" and not some neonate trying desperately to convince everyone that he is much older and more interesting than he actually is. After all, such a capable individual could not possibly fail to review the archives and see that, if there is anyone on this network who is definitely who they say they are, it is the one who has personality interacted with another user and posted a photo of herself.

There is little point in doubting that everyone on this network is who they claim to be or has done the things they claim to have done, monsieur. I am, however, willing to extend the courtesy of believe that one who was formally in a position that is often reliant on the ability to investigate could not possibly commit such a novice error and that it was merely an episode brought on by the stress of a sudden change in life style.

Voilà, maintenant nous pouvons redevenir amis.

>>97776326
Damn, Colma. What on earth did you get up to last night? You and the boys party too hard or somethin'?

>>97777257
WARUM HAST DU DAS GESAGT KYNDR?! Maria Knotenlöserin. WENN ICH MEINE KRALLEN IN DICH BEKOMMEN KÖNNTE-
Oh nein, haben sie euch überhaupt Österreichisch? Scheiße. SCHEIßE.
Oh, warum habe ich das nur-

Need guidence- Attacked last night- I flinchd up hid- Anti-tribu- Goratrixian- Hunters. Big mess
Kitten MIA aber Alive.
H0T + I hiding. Need help, they staked her mit (through?) harpoon. SHE IS STILL MOVING- WRITIHG- WHAT I DO?

>>97778762
Festivo lasted a little longer this year I guess.

>>97778802
Oh god a German. Take the stake out obviously.

>>97772067
...Jesus Christ. And I thought rolling up on that Primogen in Touqueland having a baby play with his herd was the most degenerate thing I would see...

>>97773600
Oh shore thing Missah souper auld vamp badass, a-hyuk. Whatchu wanna do is head to Loo-see-anne and start asking 'round Nawlins fer directions to what them thar locals be calling "Da Bayou" a-hyuck hyuck. Once Ya'll found the place just yell as loud as you can "HEY FAGGOTS!" Then just wait. You'll get what's coming to you pretty quickly.

>>97777257
What does my Sire think about having the same low opinion of mortals as pretty much every supernatural whatsit running around? Gee, I don't have a clue...

>>97778802
Zieh verdammt noch mal zuerst diesen Pfahl heraus!

>>97778762
It's more like the party came to us. Redding, Sac, some SF locals. Ugly scene. Speaking of which..
>>97778802
Es ist mit Widerhaken. Hor auf zu ziehen. Druck.

>>97779604
Hush, you! I'm trying to return some civility to this conversation!

>>97779604
>>97779751
Lob sei Christus
Ich habe es versucht, aber- Es ist lang – wie eine lanze. Und sie behält - kickend. Der torpor - Es hat sie nicht erwischt. Nicht vollständig.
Ich kann nicht daran ziehen und sie lässt mich nicht daran schieben.

>>97778802
>>97780131
he is worse than a germanói, may i be forgiven for utter such words, he is afstriakói. terrible
if it is too long then snap the weapon and if you are panicking then calm yourself

and please try to use english if at all possible, my deutsche is worse than my french.

It is out. Writhing stopped. Gonna curl up - die now.
Thanks.

>>97781113
I hope you all end up okay. I'd miss H0T, they are always nice to me on here. What's the status on MeoMeo?

>>97781214
Vermisst. Missing. They - goons - kine in masks - staked her first. Pakhdonim. Cowards. Dragged meomeo off.
They tried it on H0T after MeoMeo - didn't work fine.

Remember their rieche. Hunting them come night.

Can't it be just an innocuous prank by Méo-Méo. For once? For once in this godforsaken world?
Please? Pretty please?

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>>97779604
Oh, we both know I didn't mean Kine by 'their lessers'. You are to elders as Kine is to you. No need to play dumb about the very power dynamic you're trying to get rid of.

>>97778802
Evening to you too.
>need guidence
I'd say 'point at at the sky and stand very still' but you're very far and if I tell the Aniimkiig to strike your foes with lightning, he might hit the wrong city.
Don't make any dumb and bold moves. Stay safe. Try and get H0T in a fighting order, she'd know who to reach out to for help. If you need to, make deals in our name with the locals, we'll pay it, if you need to, make rituals, we'll send you the guidance in private. We'd look into getting Mercury going for this, to back you up fast, but it isn't the right range, and a ritual has a way too high mishap chance. So, we might just catch a flight, that would be decently fast.

Though failing that, we could get our guests to help, andh fuc fuck laptop thef

HSE HERE!! YOU!!!
Okay, let's figure this shit out. Eunuchs involved? You confident? Absolutely sure? If it is them, I'm going to scry for two things. First, three cards for you. Then, without talking here, thirteen cards for them. It's so loud a scrying, they should be able to tell they should let cat go and leave you alone before we fucking get to them. And if they won't be good enough to tell, I'll get to them, and skin them, and keep skinning them until I got thirteen sets of cards to sell.

King of Pentacles, upright. Maturity, leadership, provider.
Knight of Swords, upright. Action, ambition, drive.
Justice, reverse. Self-doubt, need to let go of limitations, the wisdom of trusting your inner voice.

Love what the cards have to say.

>>97782240
Ja. Yes. Staying Safe. Dusk- Soon as, getting back to kutsche. Still- don't know how bad it is. Sitting beside H0T in rest.
Do not trust mich mine self. Just- need to get the fridge. Blood in there.

Don't sednd Wöf I'll implod.

>Okay, let's figure this shit out. Eunuchs involved? You confident? Absolutely sure?
Durchaus. Absolutely sure. Absolutely before I was was requisitioned I was trained for alertness. Learned it. Sge H0T she slaughtered after it attempted Mentis Imperium. Frenzied H0T. She was up to the Ellbog in it. Split them.

und danek danke. Wisdom lies with her. Teacher. Need to - feed restore her.

>>97781504
When has it ever been the 'funny' Malkavian who gets themselves tied to the tarmac?
It's always the useful- semi-functional ones who get wiped. Leaving us with the vermin. Who do we even have left?
Brainclot? He's in Mexico which might as well be a level of purgatory.

>>97783855
Not to enter the debate on the side of the crazier malkavians, but wouldn't that suggest that the 'useful-semi-functional' malkavian is less fit? As someone who's Job description has included 'Chief Tard Wrangler for the next 400miles', I agree with you. I don't know how the crazy ones keep getting away with it, but they certainly seem to.

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Alright. Gonna keep this brief.

Last night as Gün informed you we got jumped. Near the ass-end of Orange county, near a gas station. One, maybe two Packs followed us out of LA. Went to shit pretty fast and the only reason I'm still alive is Gün dragging me into the sewers after they nearly disabled me. Fuckers even busted the RV and ripped off most of our supply. Didn't check the back though and my brave little gargoyle woke me with the emergency blue. Feel like Hell still but,

Gün and I are going hunting. Now. "Eunuchs." Fine by me. Full report when I get back.

>>97782591
>Don't sednd Wöf I'll implod.
this is so fuckin funny. peak stuff to read on a late weekday evening

>>97785145
Good thing you're upright enough to type and even want to go on a hunt in the first place. We've told the wolves to try and help if they can do so without making Gün 'implod' as he put it. A few others are going, too. Igni and a few of her fight club members, most prominently, but the news of the cat getting kidnapped made it so Igni is not very airline-safe. No clue how she intends to get to you anywhere near in time. She'll get to you, though. We'd struggle to keep her from getting to you, if anything.

Stay safe, we owe you too much to let you get dusted.

>>97779821
Civility? Vampires can't be civil! The best they can manage is "Don't provoke it until you're sure you can kill it."

>>97782240
>You are to elders as Kine is to you. No need to play dumb about the very power dynamic you're trying to get rid of.

I doubt that. My Sire is a Templar; he takes orders from Bishops half his age without complaint.

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>The Death of "House Gorgon"

Last night the trail of the Antitribu led us to a small manor in a rotten side of the Orange County. Their ghouls for the attack ran right back to their den. Was basically a red-string for Gün. The freaks in Vienna at least gave him a useful skill. Scouted for about an hour, identified four Trems and a half dozen ghouls before entry, most of whom were screaming at each other about 'pyramid scouts' retaliating and debating if they were to summon their ductus over the loss of the priest.

To everyone reading, 2x4s are not sufficient to protect against intrusions. Started things by ripping out one of the Trems through the Window. Gün cut the power. Turned that shit into a horror show with the first ghoul to run getting picked up by Gün and dropped like a turtle by a hawk. They panicked thinking we were either from the Pyramid or that I was a Loup.

We gave them a chance to yield. They didn't take it, their pack leader would kill them for desertion, apparently. Number two swore eternal loyalty to Goratrix and screamed when I dragged his ghoul outside. Tried to cut and run. Fatal mistake. Gün got him. I'm so damn proud of my scout.

Last one went nuclear using a talent similar to what Igni possesses and went room to room burning the place to the ground. Would have cornered me if I didn't recognize ceilings were a social construct. Not that number three knew that, howling he was going to watch me pop. Got a little too close to a mirror. Only one of Lavender's neighbours reached us last night, and the poor Trem didn't even get a chance to shout before Horns got him.

After, we tore that building apart and found the last of the Antis hiding in a cell in the basement. A fledling apparently who for all his tough talk is as far from the Sabbat as you get. Can't be more than five years fresh. Staked him, going to interrogate him.

No Mèo. No sign of her.

Currently hiding out the day, we'll see how things pan out with the Trem.

>>97786615
Upright sure, but every time I have an episode my dental situation gets worse. Only Horns managed to reach us through the gauntlets and he's been texting back and forth since we settled in for the day. Going to kick him out sod he can get something to eat when I'm done here. I'll tell you more when I finish extracting information from the fledgling.

Also, per that earlier post, if you need me to serve as your champion, feel free. And let Bee now I've forcefully adopted him.

And we will stay safe, much as we can. Tell HSE Gün appreciates the kin he never got to know. You're included in that.
Gün has been a joy to build up even as he defaults to this unholy combination of Bavarain-Austrian German.

>>97787527
Your sire's pack, the Choir, do you have any information on their Tremere Antitribu? I want to know if I'm dealing with an actual diablerist and not just the standard wretches.

>>97774247
You don't know the half of it.

Roses are red
Violets are PURPLE
You're a strong and independent woman that don't need no sect or an even number of arms
We have YOUR cat
Yadda yadda
Superstitious and cowardly lot
With Liberty and Justice for all!

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>>97787843
Sounds like you did us a favor there. If those dumb fucks could have you guys panicking after a good ambush and then DIDN'T have the balls to fully commit they got what they deserved. So no hard feelings.

>>97787935
I doubt they're still in LA. They're like an A10: Loiter around till guns free, anihilate the target in 30 seconds of terror, and fuck off.

All I can tell you about him is what my Sire told me: He'll show off bog standard Tremere tricks willy nilly but if you see him pull some shit he considers a Trump Card it's because you've cornered him and he's panicking, you've been taking the Vaulderie with him for over a century, or he's planning on obliterating you so completely not even a Giovanni will be able to get info out of whatever left of you. So yeah, probably just scrubs. Now I kinda wonder where in the fuck they even came from... Guess it doesn't matter since in a few nights they won't even be matter anyway. Gonna have to whip up a sermon about this teachable moment.

Dustin Beuller. Age; Younger than the Cat. Failed lawyer. Real estate paper pusher.

They embraced him because they wanted to keep their shitty fucking chantry house and none of them could be bothered to learn zoning. Best part? That thing was still going to get bulldozed at some point. Didn't even need to break out the good wolf bad wolf routine, he flipped to give us plenty of useful information. Someone in the Sabbat fed his people bad intelligence on us to either wack me and mine or him and his. It mostly has worked out for the latter. Although it seems that 'House Gorgon' still has some fight left in it and the nominal envoy between their progenitor down in Mexico is still at large. Worse these goons weren't the ones to kidnap my cat, the reason the ghouls panicked so bad was the second group was either envoys from a Tzim rival over in San Bernadino, or worse, hunters.

Busy night tonight, not revealing until all is done.

>>97788404
Hot air.

>>97790270
This whole thing was a fucking trainwreck. Bad intelligence. Reliance on ghouls and pyramids. Zero internal trust. Not pulling out the real fire power until it was much too late. Compromised intelligence. Antagonizing people who ARENT YOUR FUCKING ENEMY.

Worse, shittier version of the damn pyramid.

>>97790270
Figured I oughta tell you since you and your pack helped me establish the place. It was burned down and I fled after being attacked by a band of Nicktuku knights. I know fully understand our mod’s fear and hatred for them. They killed my ghoul and his nagaraja lover. I did kill a couple of them but damn they’re fast. Also I love you most sabbat higher ups I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, but the shovelhead siring does need to stop. Just a smidge more selectiveness with the childer would make yall unstoppable. Primarily the shitheads in Houston need to stop siring preteens. Just fucking creepy it is.


>>97779314
Ach, das Deutsch ist nicht schlecht! Es ist der lieben auf der Vaterländ!

Well that went up in flames. Meeting was unsecured and some shovelhead through a cocktail through a delightful stained glass window. I escaped in the ensuing chaos, and thankfully am assumed dead. Deader at least. Gonna go see if I can talk to the non catholic Bishop of Houston and see why they’re so aggressive to take over a small island.

Well tonight was eventful. Scholar said he was "going for an enthusiastic walk in the pale moon's light" which means he's gonna get into trouble, either a fight or cause all the sabbat in an area to break into a mini-civil war or go bully werewolves or one of the many, many ways he has of earning the ire of another. FML. At least he isn't pranking anyone.... -Kakophoni

>>97791096
>Zero internal trust.
Who needs trust when you can just drink the Kool-Aid? The Sabbat as we currently know it has no chance of surviving this century.

>>97793340
We have the Vinculum for this reason and 'Tremerisms' should be grounds for excommunication.
You left the pyramid. Why did you bring that shit back?

>>97793387
The Tremere will take over both the Camarilla and the Sabbat and focus on the real enemy.

>>97793399
What, the concepts of trust and decency? You gonna take a crack at diablerizing Caine glutton?

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Ignis arrived and terrified the Fledgling legalese.
To the point one of her 'disciples' had to get her to back off, which would have been very funny if DB wasn't cowering. He didn't give anything new but it guaranteed what I'd already gotten. Horn also retrieved some documents from their former Chantry that gave us some leads for the last night. We split, Gün and Horn went off to follow the Cat's scent from ground zero while the rest of us went hunting.

The last of 'House Gorgon' is gone. With what Ignis brought with her it was brief.

Gün and Horn located Mèo at least. It was hunters. Most likely people that had tapped the Chantry, small independent group. The problem is they're in a VERY populated area and these are some freaks. But at least we know she's alive and lucid enough to signal.

>>97787527
>I doubt that. My Sire is a Templar; he takes orders from Bishops half his age without complaint.
So he's basically a child to the elders that are the actual horror show and the ones pulling all the strings per the usual Sabbat reading of reality. Or at least per the reading I heard whenever I got to ask some Sabbat for their thoughts. I suppose it stands to reason that sensible Sabbat fossils have to exist, can't imagine how the movement would still be around, otherwise.

>>97787935
>Also, per that earlier post, if you need me to serve as your champion, feel free
I think that'd be good. Much as Igni does her best to try and take on every task even slightly related to excessive violence, it isn't good for her, and there's probably some sort of cosmic consequences to making her out dedicated executioner.
Bee's bee-n informed. We've avoided telling the rest of the wolves, to not have another incident of a visiting dipshit screaming about heresy - we've had like three, this week. Bee's taking it pretty well though.
>Tell HSE Gün appreciates the kin he never got to know. You're included in that.
That's outrageously sweet. HSE's trying to rob me of my laptop again to say something sappy, fyi.
Gün is a delight to read! Fun character that isn't quite a one-note gag, enjoyable all around.

>>97793658
>Ignis arrived
Without ending up on the news in the shape of an increasingly peculiar string of arson incidents forming a line? Huh. Maybe her fight club's more useful than I thought, and helped her stay low. Try and keep her collected, if she loses her shit your main option will be just waiting until she burns out on her own.
>The problem is they're in a VERY populated area
Doubling down on the suggestion to keep Igni calm.
>at least we know she's alive and lucid enough to signal
Thank God. HSE's telling me to inform you that she's got the juice to scry for the group, if you have any specific questions you want.

>>97793748
>I suppose it stands to reason that sensible Sabbat fossils have to exist, can't imagine how the movement would still be around, otherwise.
A host of reasons. You're lucky enough you didn't need it, but there is a reason I bartered for a certain chalice in Colma. For Gün. It was said here before, but the Sabbat is ten rituals and a declaration that attracts a lot of different people.

>I think that'd be good. Much as Igni does her best to try and take on every task even slightly related to excessive violence, it isn't good for her
No doubt. Better to share burdens like that and I got something special down in the Channel Isles.

>Bee's taking it pretty well though.
Good lad.

>Try and keep her collected, if she loses her shit your main option will be just waiting until she burns out on her own.
Aye. After the steam-roller ran over the last Goratrixian she wound down, currently resting as I listen to the den bickering about ordering a Pizza.

>Thank God. HSE's telling me to inform you that she's got the juice to scry for the group, if you have any specific questions you want.
Strength and intentions.

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They got a new Harpy an I finally got my meeting.
This mother fucker, this seven foot tall Broo-Ha wearing sunglasses in a dark room spooked the fuck out of me.
Couldn't see his eyes but he was giving me this the whole time. Made me feel like a gibbon in a starchy suit.

After, like- he got me agree I'd work for him third and never go against him. Because we're both trying to avoid ending up like the former harpy. So like- one bullet dodged man. Still need to deliver rumours because fuck me but hey one threat not so much a threat?

Fuckin gonna buy myself a place first.
So long as it's got a basement that Bernie can dig into he's willing to help with the down-pay.

Missed some shit here huh?

I am an Artist and these entrails are my brush.

>>97795553
Are there any kindred artists who just do regular art to a high degree anymore? Feels like every artist is trying to tie prayer knots in entrails or cram their entire clan's history in a tattoo or build living statues. Isn't it bad enough for the fiends to be taken over by this nonsense

I suppose to give a query to the air, how many of you are experienced in Animal Ghouls?I'm not looking for anything fancy but all this downtime in Texas is certainly giving me an itch to ride horses and I never had my clan's particularly way with animals. I've never gotten more then one's night wildest ride out of wild horses because they give up the ghost per say. I know people frown on the practice to certain degree, but it would be glorious to ride aside a moonlit river again.

>>97795972
nobody gives a shit about me knitting a new sweater, and i don't want nobody to. i do it for me.

but per the actual query? if you ever find yourself on hispaniola and see a big rat, odds are it is one of ours. some of them are basically revenants that lil hobby has been running so long. dont really engage with it though. all i know is ghouling most plant-munchers is hard and rats are easy

we also got that fledge FearTheOldBlood whose been experimenting with animal ghouls. fresh tho. others also here, H0T is a sponge for stories about that sort of thing.

>>97795972
>I suppose to give a query to the air, how many of you are experienced in Animal Ghouls?
I have a few but I'm no expert. H0T_G4R0U3S has some knowledge of them and imparted some sagely advice to me. My sire specifically used to have a fleshcrafted horse so I could ask them about it for you. What do you want to know exactly?

>>97795972
>Are there any kindred artists who just do regular art to a high degree anymore?
I learned several arts from my homeland, but I consider myself a master only in hidden weapons (隠武器), iaijutsu and bondage.

>>97795972
I have experience with ghoul serpents, naturally. Though I confess that my knowledge of Animalism does most of the work.

However, I recall Mademoiselle Stripper saying that her sire breeds destriers to use as ghoul mounts. Perhaps she can acquire one for you, or provide some advice?

And since you are in Texas, Monsieur Chelys has experience running a ranch with ghoul livestock... and crocodiles. He may be another source of advice.

>>97793748
>>97793839
I see what's going on here. Okay. So the Sabbat have three circles of membership, right? We've got "prospects" that get to hang around, get hazed, and do all the scutwork until they prove they're smart enough and want in badly enough to pick up the unwritten rules on their own. Then the full fledged members like me, then the "inner circle" that get to sit at the big table and call the shots.

Biggest mistake the Sabbat ever made was making too many shovelheads and promoting tgem past the prospect level just for surviving a few fights, diluting the sect as a whole. Sounds like lightningbolt has only talked to the kind of dipshits that have no business being vampires let alone members of the Sabbat.

>>97795972
Yeah, my Sire has a ranch where he breeds these enormous coal black warhorses that he ghouls to ride into battle. Gorgeous creatures. The trick is to train them thoroughly and feed them well. Vitae, I mean. You want them to develop the the three physical disciplines and have all the vitae they can hold before you take them out for a serious ride, or they'll insticinctively push themselves to hard. Remember a horse is a naturally a prey animal whose only method of defense is being in a herd and running really fast and you're trying to get them used to being a predator now. A pinch of Animalism goes a long way, Being able to talk to 'em directly speeds this all up.

>>97791252
Fucking hell I liked that place! Am grumpy now. Wish I could say for certain name droping me would help with the Bishop, but a few of the higher ups already don't like how I'm trying to course correct the sect, and I'm not sure how Houston feels about me.

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You know in hindsight the funny b8 name I used to get people who wanted to fight me into Loup country might have been a poor choice.

So... Last night when we were staking out the Hunter Clan? Gün vanished and came back with a kid.
'Regular' human kid. Age 13 with a remarkable tolerance for resisting Loup terror. Among other things. Gave us some intelligence on his familial group of hunters. A trio of brothers, a 'great aunt' not related by blood, as well as an orphaned cousin of the kid, and the kid's mother. We're calling this kid Five-Eyes, as that was the cognomen Mèo assigned her.

She's been driving the Hunters up the wall as while she hasn't 'lied' Mèo has been creative. Also kind of broke down Five-Eyes' worldview that all supernaturals are all man-eating abominations. Our captured fledgling who has requested he never be forced to the name 'Dustin' ever again will also get a cognomen; 'Sorcerer.' The Hunter kid's testimony got him screaming about the housing market and that he hate's mankind more than even the 'Pyromaniac's flee-bitten Groupies' and had a full on breakdown when he realized we aren't even with the Camarilla. Ignis eventually showed great restraint and was 'the better woman.' After several creative curses such as 'you dress like a cattle baron and act like Tremere himself pissed in your Cheerio's.'

Still don't know what we're doing with him as Ignis 'consigned him to exist rather than grant him an easy escape.' And the plan Five-Eyes and Mèo concocted is a stretch. Even for me. But clan have things that counter Obfuscate apparently, along with a frankly distressing amount of guns, emergency Vitae, and silver dust explosives. Attacking them directly is not an option, so, we'll see if they bite for a 'trade.'

>>97795371
Just don't get too comfortable, you are in a cold war space and vulnerable.

>>97795972
Ironically the best advice also applies to regular horses. Diligent training, routine infusions, stress practice, ensuring they get enough space and work they don't just start killing small animals out of boredom. I'll admit though where I've walked the practice wasn't used much. Horse and Cattle ranching up north aren't easy.

>>97798428
There is an active competition for worst mistake of the Sabbat in the past century.
Letting Trems in and letting them keep shitty tumorous fiefdoms is up there. House Gorgon was barely compliant with the Sabbat doctrine and two steps away from starting up the Blood-Bond human-centipede. It's real easy to run into dipshits when some people crank them out at record pace. They're most of Portland and half of Seattle. They just happen to be in competition with the 'let me make the Camarilla but shittier' crowd who I detest more.

>>97791350
Live long enough and you eventually just find ways to keep yourself busy.

Most of which make your neighbours want to toss you in a mine shaft.

Imagine being a kine, bold enough to capture a cainite, and you end up nabbing a Malkavian.
It would be like winning the lottery and you receive a live crab for your fortune.

>>97798669
This sounds like practical advice, I wasn't particularly trying to change the horses nature. I didn't want a new animal, just an improved one. Then again, I haven't considered the speeds possible for the Destriers that the stripper mentioned. Either way I don't have the privacy I really need to do the work and I want to do the work.

>>97793839
BluGHHHHHHHHH sorry for the delay! Scrying for the entire Goriatrix tribe was a bit overambitious for the cards as I used them. I think I definitely shined a fucking flashlight in faces of some people, though, so maybe the Trems giving you trouble will back off. It'd be very bold to not back off, given that they now know you do have ties with somebody who can look in their dirty little eunuch secrets. If I try harder, at least.

As for the hunters, you already know some things, enough to scry for specifics.
>Is their strength true or deceptive, illusory?
Four Of Pentacles - Reversed. An encouragement to let go of scarcity and of hanging tight onto your wealth, or of being reclusive and wary, or an indicator that such grasp is flimsy, that spending will be, or is, reckless.
A fun and convoluted card to read.
>Their intentions, what is the nature of them, their core, beyond the justifications and self-deception?
Empress - Reversed. Self-neglect; insecurity; material obsession, or perhaps stagnation. Not a pleasant card, usually. Here... There's some options. It could be read to focus on the insecurity, perhaps the hunter group truthfully acts out of trauma and fear, not any sort of reasonable plan and a grim and hostile awareness of Kindred. That would sure explain the hunter kid. But this is just me trying to read into the cards, and tread softly if you plan to use their guidance, they could still be uppity after me trying to use them for things above their usual paygrade.

>>97798637
>Pyromaniac's flee-bitten Groupies
This was offensive. I do not abide uncleanliness. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and those who persist on staying in my company will be cleaned with fire, or will clean themselves with water. And flea shampoo.

>Attacking them directly is not an option
It is not a good option. But it is always an option.

>>97798428
>Sounds like lightningbolt has only talked to the kind of dipshits that have no business being vampires let alone members of the Sabbat.
We as a whole had little contacts with worthwhile Sabbat, yes. Some rare trade of ingredients, parts and information. Also chatting here. I believe Lavender attempted to assist one of you whose soul and mind were being eaten by an Un-Thing, a while ago. Shame it did not seem to work out.

>>97793839
The bickering reminded me of a thing I was witness to a week or so before I headed out to assist you. A set of particularly mangy guests assembled in that patio area near the front gate of our territory, and were bickering over ordering pizza. It was a whole event, seeming to center on who wants what toppings, who actually will be calling, as most of them did not seem to speak very clear English, how they intended to pay for the pizza, and who will be running to grab it from the parking lot. Such are the costs of us not stocking a lot of food mortals need, I suppose. Something to correct. Or something to make the guests correct. Make them bring us less-perishable offerings, and simply feed those offerings to newer guests.

Alright the 'kidnapping exchange' note was delivered. Let us hope they bite.

Kid has been nice though. Downright amicable.

Especially when the only other person in this can of sardines has been oscillating between cartoonish threats and depression.

>>97803584
That does track with what I've heard, and what the kid has danced around. You don't survive stalking the real shit out there without 'quirks.' And you don't keep doing that without other 'quirks.'

>>97803630
Which is why we're making better options.

Also the traditional temple method of giving useful things and using the physical components is something we should do more in this age.

>>97802890
I'd recommend animal husbandry if the current track record for Texas wan't in the gutter with large properties.

>>97804576
>I'd recommend animal husbandry if the current track record for Texas wan't in the gutter with large properties.
Hey that's actually a good business venture for me, I have a medium chunk of land up here, plus I've got animalism. Enough room to raise a few head of cattle if I get some ghouls to help me out as farm hands, and to do the daylight business to keep appearances on the up-and-up. Now... dairy or beef... both could be tweaked with vicissitude as well... hm...

>>97804925
Shieeeet this ma jam! I'd start with chickens tho and see how you can optimize egg layin.
+ Avoid messin up on the animal product, people are reeeal sensitive to meat being off. but eggs you got a little leeway with. You can just call weird eggs duck eggs, and as long as the taste is righteous? You get the pass.
Not to say you don't wanna get all in on cows and that bro, but you wanna get a feel for that. Plus, milk is a lot safer to do. It's like- Just tasty sweat. You can fool around pretty easy with coews and they can be super. Also heard about a brother in Saski that tried to ghoul himself his pigs big-like and they ate him alive.

>>97805304
>Plus, milk is a lot safer to do.
I read online a while back that milk is 98% identical to blood, so I tried drinking it. Did not work. I took it as evidence that the curse is magical rather than scientific.
>Also heard about a brother in Saski that tried to ghoul himself his pigs big-like and they ate him alive.
Damn, gotta watch out for opportunistic omnivores. Surprised the blood bond didn't get them to stop though.

>>97805482
Weeeeeeeell like- Pigs that like LIKE like you will all up eat you if they gotta.
Think I owned them at one point cause they can eat bodies. Not gonna lie though. Memory ain't great and that was like... 70's? I think?

>>97805482
I think that's more egg white. You can make Meringue out of blood for example with no additives. It was not a stellar dinner party but I guess I have choosy guests.

>>97806954
Egg whites make sense too, serves a similar purpose to milk.

>>97806979
>>97806954
I've heard you can get away with human milk if you 'bite the source' but I was never bold enough to try it.
Yea I ate a dude back in 2008 but that is beyond the pale for me.

>>97806979
>>97807015
Look, I know we all want to pull one over on God or whatever, but come on! You can't beat the curse of vampirism by drinking milk and eating egg whites! Anyone who claims otherwise is either yanking your chain or leaving out some crucial bit of info.

>>97807418
Enjoying eggs and milk would be a triumph enough for me man.

>>97807418
I thought it was a virus at the time, I was an atheist before my embrace. I know now that we are truly cursed by God.

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The 'prisoner exchange' was as successful as it could be. I was mildly shot. They had to shove the Cat into a rug. No one was happy.

Bloodbath avoided though thanks to the kid.

The hunters have vacated the state, while many of them were ignorant, the matriarch of their little clan possessed disturbingly extensive knowledge.

Ignis and her disciples are on a road back home. While we have a staked Sorcerer in the trunk. Until we have an actual base for the long term we're just going to keep him in torpor. Sol we can actually get him down from the self-loathing cycle. Also, find him a teacher. He's unbelievably irritated he never got to learn his 'cool sorcerer powers.'

Currently no longer in Cali. Glad to have visited, glad to be gone.

>>97808474
Incorrect. Each of us was struck by the one who bit us. And you shouldn't fret much on the whims of Demiurges. Or Caine. The dork.

>>97809426
>He's unbelievably irritated he never got to learn his 'cool sorcerer powers.'
They're always in high demand.

>>97805482
>milk is 98% identical to blood
what

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>>97813485
I'll Google it for you since you may be an elder who's not used to the internet.

>>97813697
Could you imagine living from the time of the crusades to the point your distant ancestors can tell you you're like 96% the same as a bonobo.

>>97813697
98% is too much
>>97813843
*descendants

>>97813876
>98% is too much
Like I said, I read it on the internet and it didn't work.

>>97808474
this has roused me from my digital torpor for I recall a vivid memory of my life, reading old Conan pulps and asking my grandfather if there were snake gods. upon hearing my question, my father undid his belt and struck me, before departing in a huff. after, my grandfather told me there was more between heaven and earth than I could ever know. one of the last things he said before his heart gave out
I think I prefer a world of snake gods and stranger things, truthfully

>>97805530
are you alright in the head kin? such memory loss can be deeply debilitating, especially in mere decades

>>97809426
I would never think a hunter could yield
then again, the only known kindred killer of kine up here is infamous for his cruelty, more like a hook-handed campfire story than a mortal
I am glad you and your partners persist and, I shall admit with some timidity, I live vicariously through some of you here

were it that I had the safety to travel, or else, inquire into farming!

>>97808474
I don't think that's quite it. It might be more acurate to say we are part if Cain's curse. Cain killed Abel because Abel was the thing he most loved in the world and thought that if God didn't want Cain' s fruit basket then Abel would be tue best sacrifice. It was Cain's pride, and refusal to acknowledge he had done anything wrong that led the Curses to be laid upon him, and his time Awakening at Lilith's hand (and his own, eventually) that turned Cain into the Dark Father and truly birthed the curse of vampirisim.

Rember, Cain loved and and respected his little brother Seth and all his get. So when we suck a mortal dry, it hurts Cain. Not as bad as the Third Generations unforgivable betrayal, but still.

What? Don't give me that look. I AM a Pack Priest, you know.

>>97809426
You do realize if we ever meet in person I obligated to smack you one for blaspheming the Dark Father, right?

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>>97796161
>nobody gives a shit about me knitting a new sweater, and i don't want nobody to. i do it for me.
Come now, monsieur. I, for one, would be delighted to see you dressed in a newly knit sweater. I'm sure you'd look quite fetching!

And speaking of putting skills to use, I've received the most unusual request for a favor from Baron Christopher. I can't very well refuse a request from the one who provides me with extra safety and security, so I guess I had best make some preparations.

>>97814951
>You do realize if we ever meet in person I obligated to smack you one for blaspheming the Dark Father, right?
Tempting as it may be, I'll refrain from interjecting with my own beliefs this time.

>>97809672
Need to find him a teacher at some point.

>>97814457
Give people an escape and they'll often surprise you.

>>97814951
>You do realize if we ever meet in person I obligated to smack you one for blaspheming the Dark Father, right?
Everyone gets one for free, it is your due.

But at this point between the Tzim Dharma I've internalized and the gods I've seen? The only thing the Dark Father ever did worthy of my respect was leave.

How do I POLITELY invite a Nosferatu to leave the sewer underneath my place without angering them, using another Nosferatu, or making an enemy out of the rest of their Clan?

>>97817128
Like you were using that sewer

>>97817237
Most of the kine walking through my place won't either, however somebody is going to reach for the surface to feed and eavesdrop at some point in time.

>>97817128
fetching? probably not but i am comfy in them. that is all that matters.
and ey, we do what we gotta do.

>>97817391
>>97817128
if this is a 'reasonable' extension of a haven you gotta demarcate that shit and KEEP it. paper law don't extend far down
otherwise, just ask without being weird. if it matters to your neighbours they'll ask for a favour. give it. its a lot easier to work with mutuals than bad neighbours

Do you think we ever had a chance in the first place?
Like, if back in the day the first dickheads in the bronze ages haden't gotten blood fever we could live semi-normal llives.

Som thinbloods over by the homelss camp got vanished and I'm feeling really mortal r-n ngL.

>>97820254
No. It's a curse for a reason. No one says it is the Lord God pulling you into this life with his embrace. If those bronze age kindred existed in the way they speak of in the history books, they were no closer to living a good life then we are no matter what their generation was.

Truthfully our histories don't strike me as grander then humans, spite, greed, envy, It's the same nonsense. Just written by a slightly more powerful hand.

Julian's lift kits have arrived. One of our new neighbors has joined Julian's Drinking Post at our back fence. I'm fairly certain, and Julian agrees, that he's a hunter.

>>97817128
If it's a single Nosferatu and not a brood, perhaps it's an Autarkis loner that would shudder at the idea of being discovered and having any sort of social interaction, let alone being dragged into the local politics.
I once went into the sewer dressed as a Ventrue carrying a giant check for a donation to an orphanage, asked for the newcomer Rat's signature and if he'd like to be in the Primogen Council.
The poor Cainite fled the city faster than a wraith witnessing me hit another Dead with my purification rod (haraegushi, 祓串).
>>97820254
Back in the day living a normal life was not pleasant for me. Sure, it was far better than breaking your back in the fields as a peasant, but from pretending to be near-invisible around the house, to avidly reading Chinese literature while having to call it garbage in public, I had a Masquerade at home on top of all challenges women of all walks of life faced everywhere across time and space.
The archipelago I came from taught me there is no "back then" I could ever "return to", I have to continue to reinvent myself like the country itself does across the ages.

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Good to be back in the middle of nowhere. The desert might not be my preferred wilderness but it's good enough.
Wasn't meant for the metropolitan.

Companions aren't doing hot but things are on the up. Decided on an end-point to this odyssey.

>>97820254
We can create 'normality' if we seek it out. Better not to worry about 'if.'

>>97820874
Huh. A hunter over there in Suburbia? Odd choice on the surface... But our experience there is relatively recent. All things considered Texas does have some similarities to Cali and Brazil, probably a decent hunting ground for independents. And others, judging by Chelys' recent predicaments.

Suggestion; low profile and stock large Colt.45s to loosen tongues.

>>97817128
Probably start with an invitation to parley if you're anxious about it. And if you have Nos contacts to set it up? All the better.

>>97822061
>Standard Autarkis reaction
Can't lie, for most of my life being confronted by that? I would probably have done the same.

And that... Brings back some very old memories. Bu chouir dhom barachd Chanadach a bruidhinn.

>Bu chouir dhom barachd Chanadach a bruidhinn
What even is Canadian in this context? Calling someone a hose-head? Français? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvR6-SQzqO8 ?

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>>97822708
Do you know that feeling of sheer terror when you receive a warning from one of the Seers but enough time passes that you begin to think it was nothing more than maddened rambling, only for you to suddenly encounter that which you were warned about? Encore merci à Mademoiselle Mèo-Mèo.

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

It seems we have more unexpected arrivals to our fair city. I'd best inform our relevant authorities about these newcomers.

J'ai un très mauvais pressentiment à ce sujet.

>>97823312
Forgive the rustic clunk, that's amateurish of me and God knows how it sounds in modern vernacular.

When I say Chanadach I mean the Gaelic you find over in Nova Scotia. Mostly Cape Breton these days, there isn't much left. It's still my favourite tongue. Even if I'm far out of practice. My Quebecoiuse is probably better. Or worse my Chiac.

>>97823503
Familiar enough that it has gone away. I'll pass on the thanks, she could use it.

And stay safe.

>>97824381
Oh cool, I didn't even know that dialect existed. I learn something new from you every night.

>Why do most children kill their sires
WELL IF YOU WERE EMBRACED WITH A SUNBURN YOU'D UNDERSTAND

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>>97826539
based
Trying to get my next VtM game together and I wish I had someone pull something like that. My main guy would just make Heisenberg.

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>>97820254
Sack up, Cainite. You're a fuck mothering vampire. YOU EAT PEOPLE! Dive into the power of your Vitae, and if that isn't enough you have THUMBS. Get some kevlar and a big fucking gun.

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>>97815291
>>97823503
Mmmm tummy. Midriff is best riff, asides from The Ocean by Zeppelin. On the checkered suits though, he might shoot you in the head. Pretend to be dead for a bit. When he sees you again in a few months, you’ll scare the shit out of him. Saw it in a game once. Got a cool gun out of it. Pic related.
>>97826739
Seriously. I’ve probably one of the most “adjusted” kindred I’ve met, as conceited as that sounds, but we eat people at the end of the day. Just what we do. Does the eagle bother itself with the worries of the lamb?
>>97814951
>>97817054
Don’t worry. She sucks dick harder than she punches.


Well Houston went to shit. There is no bishop. Just a dozen different packs all trying the best power play against distant princes to establish themselves as bishop. It’s so stupid. Explains the mass shovelheading. Well that was all disapponting. Such is life though. Now onto San Antonio. Stop by and Remember the Alamo as all good texans should, living or undead.

>>97825238
Actually Nïa I've got a favour to ask of you. Do you have any contacts or means to gather intel on what's going on in Winnipeg these nights?
If not, no worries, but I am looking north now that all the 'business' I've had is settled.

>>97826591
God I can't wait to get a new group together. Still not sure what sort of Chronicle I should run but I want a mix-up.

>>97826947
>>97826739
Predators we might be, we still possess minds and very human components. The Bald Eagle isn't a few drops of vitae away from the lamb is it?
No. We are removed from that. Especially when most 'eagles' don't have the decency to tan their prey and butcher the meat.
Also neat gun.

>>97826947
>Pretend to be dead for a bit. When he sees you again in a few months, you’ll scare the shit out of him. Saw it in a game once.
Ain't that a kick in the head.
>>97827132
>Do you have any contacts or means to gather intel on what's going on in Winnipeg these nights?
I'm a basement-dwelling NEET so not personally. Maybe my sire would know someone, I'll have to ask. They must have contacts.

>>97829723
>Ain't that a kick in the head.
Suddenly I feel the urge to play a game of Nines with the boys tonight.

>>97829723
I'd appreciate the check, as I'm looking into that 'plan' I had a while back.

Could use some good news as we'll soon be driving through my worst nightmare. Texas.

>>97823503
Who the fuck still wears a checkered suit outside of a damn Ska band? Grin! Wake up! It's the Eighties!

>>97820254
>Like, if back in the day the first dickheads in the bronze ages haden't gotten blood fever we could live semi-normal llives.
Best not to dwell on that.
>>97820254
>Som thinbloods over by the homelss camp got vanished
Especially when you've got shit on your plate. You got Auspex?

>>97829955
I got a shotgun nd kevlar vest and a dream.
All I ever figured out was how to be quiet and to give people liver poisoning via slap.

>>97829937
my boss still dresses like disco is popular man.

>>97826947
>Don’t worry. She sucks dick harder than she punches.

Funny thing about that...I had the chance to try out a new trick you can pull off with enough potence and celerity, If you don't care about anything othet than how quickly you can get blood in you while feeding... I suck so hard I can exagiunate a human in a few seconds ;-)

>>97829937
>>97830167
Kindred tend to get stuck in their ways. That includes their sense of fashion. Even when it was bad to begin with.

>>97829937
>Who the fuck still wears a checkered suit outside of a damn Ska band?
A Malkavian? Since we're talking about Cainite fashion, in my defense, as much as I'd love to, I'm not always wearing a kimono, and when I do it's with 21st century patterns, under- and outerwear, makeup and accessories

>>97826539
Atleast you weren't embraced at 600 pounds to see what happens
Lost 450 pounds by puking up fat chunks that are still moving today
I store in case it's got some value

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>>97803584
Thank you Seer brother-sister! Sorry I haven't been able to steal a device to commune. Tell everyone else the same, even if they won't believe you.

>>97803630
Thank you Igni. Sorry I wasn't myself before you left I just wanted to thank you for everything. You're a great teacher. Even if you hate that fact.

>>97814457
He isn't alright, and that's a good thing. :)

>>97820254
The moment they devoured Great Auntie Z we were destined to be crushed into nothing.

But no harm in that. We were always doomed.

>>97823503
I'm sorry ahead of time. Remember a rib-cage can be opened like a flower, and cruelty oft masks REPULSIVE FUCKING COWARDICE.

>>97829723
Sire has irons in the fire beside a long leash little kin. Hear what isn't saying.

>>97830623
There are worse things to die in than a kimono. I should ask for one.

>>97831153
Keep those refrigerated Brother-brother. Or burn them. But whatever you do never never never ever LET ANYONE know about them.

>>97831591
>There are worse things to die in than a kimono. I should ask for one.
Why not an áo dài? I own a few myself.

>>97831153
Of what blood are you?

>>97831591
>>97827132
"Nothing good" my sire says:
-Werewolves are holed up in the north end.
-There are some Anarchs in St. Vital who oppose the Sabbat so they've been killing each-other on the south end of the city. The Baron goes by "Trelaine" and I think he's a Toreador.
-Camarilla from Alberta are trying to move in downtown but they've lost a lot of people to the Sabbat and the werewolves. Some Ventrue leading them, sire didn't catch her name.
-Sabbat almost everywhere else, no idea who leads them. Now that they're fighting a two-front war the sabbat needs more recruits who aren't shovelheads and they've apparently tried to recruit my sire (and by extension me) through familial clan ties. My sire has no interest in anything other than their own metamorphosis and vicissitude research however. I think their command center has moved to St. Boniface from downtown, since they got pushed out by the Cammies.

>>97832363
Honestly I don't know much about Asian fashion. My family has lived in Ontario for decades. Still does. I made the mistake of checking.
Egh, rambling- Like the Kimono more I think for casual wear and stuff.

>>97832658
That kind of complicates things. Annarchs and Sabbat fighting ove

>AND I SAW THE CASTLE SHATTERED AND THE BLOOD OF HANNO SPRAYED INTO THE DIRT AS THE RED SWORD LOOMED ON HIGH-
>AND WITH ARMS SPREAD WIDE WITH PALMS SEEPED IN STRENGTH- AS I SAW THE SONS OF GUGNIR AND VALLO TAKE FLIGHT-
>AND THERE THE VOICE ISSUED FROM THE EARTH TO WARN THE SWORD-BEARERS: OH CHILDE OV CAINE NIPHEW OV MATER IMOEN, FLEE THY BARREN TAKING, FLEE THY LOOT AND THY CONQUEST FOR THOU HAST INVOKED THE NAMELESS THINGN-
>AND THE SWORD RAISED HIGH GLUTTED WITH MURDER TO SHATTER SPEAKING STONE-
>AND FOUND EARTH WITH TEETH-
>AND THE LAND TURNED BLACK AS THE MOON AND STARS FLED THE SKY, AS THE SWORD WAS DRIED AND RED ROTTED INTO GREEN-
>AND THE HAND WHICH HELD IT TREMBLED AS MERE KINE BEFORE THE WOLF AS IT MADE TO WRENCH FLEE THE BLADE-
>AND FETID METAL SPLINTERED- AND AS THEY TURNED TO FLEE THE EARTH LAUGHED-
>AND SWALLOWED THEM WHOLE.

r ohghoddamnitwhyDOESthat-=
Fuck.

Sorry. Keep doing that. Going to need to wake her up to ask more about this. Sorry sorry sorry. Again. Ignore it.
Plans will work ouy. Trust us.

>>97832771
If that's a prophecy like I assume it is I'd say the werewolves (earth with teeth?) are going to eat the sabbat (sword-bearers?)?

>>97832813
DO NOT
Do not don't try to place it first
Okay. First rule of this stuff is to never internalize it outside of cursory stuff because that is asking to be trapped in it at worse.

It's not prophecy but it's something ajdacent. Like- Dejavu. Except too much all at once. With excess sensory information hanging on it. I used to be basically crippled by this stuff and the only reason I'm functional is I got a nice voice in my head that balances out all the fucking garbage and hallucinations.

Something will eat something else. But we can't- shouldn't try to get too much in terms of details.

>>97832859
Aaaaaand this is why I don't pay prophecy any mind. Younpay too.much attention and YOU make it happen. Or drive yourself insane. You don't pay enough attention and it makes no sense until somebody eventually gets aroubd to convincing you it was about that thing that happened last week. Train. Drink Blood. Rip the heads off cammy licks. And never forget: Tomorrow never comes.

>>97833295
Do you always talk about who's coming and at what time?

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>>97832771
>Honestly I don't know much about Asian fashion. My family has lived in Ontario for decades. Still does. I made the mistake of checking.
>Egh, rambling- Like the Kimono more I think for casual wear and stuff.
I have a strong suspicion that what you found were mostly simple, classic colors and designs. A friend from the Della Passaglia family sent me this picture and I just had to add a modern lace and satin áo dài to my wardrobe. I wouldn't call it casual, sure, but it's far more comfortable than it looks.

Of course, I see nothing wrong with preferring the kimono, in fact, I'll bring some of mine to April Fourth in Venice later for myself - and for the most curious in the family.

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>>97833857
...Did you just call me a slut? I'll have you know that while Bleu is like a snake and can unhinge her jaw, I'm like a pitbull; I can lock mine. I don't let go until I've sucked my prey dry.

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Travel log #10 [ Albuquerque, New Mexico ]-[*6/10]
>>>>>Pros
> Little in the way of Populace for a big city outside of a single Anarch Gang that keeps up security. Don't even have a baron.
> Most of the Loupines are significantly less aggressive than what you'd find up north. Disconcertingly cunning though.
> Still not one for the desert and scrub, but, it is really gorgeous.
>>>>>Cons
> There is some fucking nightmare shit out here. The kind of thing that makes Tzims seem quaint.
> Limited population means a fuck up will be very visible.
> The locals will vanish any rivals who disrupt the status quo.

Belated report but when I was driving I had other things on my mind. This is a decent place. But I'm not joking with some of the shit I got out of the Cat, to the point I just let her have my tech. Things far beyond our ken. For myself I'll admit I'd have people to fall back on. For the rest of you? Not so much unless your full Anarch. This outfit is probably better at their job than Cali and Texas put together. Helps that Sect fighting has better targets to die over than the ABQ of all things.

>>97832658
Curious. More recent pack arrivals and Alberta Cammies making moves? That complicates the plan. But it doesn't change it. Honestly, the Anarchs might be harder to deal with, especially if they have a baron. And over Winnipeg. Wasn't nearly as busy as when I was last present. The fact the cat keeps tweaking doesn't bode well either.

We can work with this, especially with your sire having their own priorities.

>>97833295
The Fool is the closest thing to the Divine for a reason.

this cookie shit makes me nervous

i miss zines

I dream of blood cheeses and bone marrow bread

>>97835652
Overall the kindred population is high per capita but still low overall. I'd say about five or six Camarilla, fifteen Anarchs and thirty Sabbat. It's pretty easy to give yourself a title like Baron or Prince here when presiding over jack shit. The killing is mostly between ghouls and shovelheads, though at least fifteen fully-fledged kindred are dead, there used to be twenty Anarchs, forty Sabbat, and ten Cammies.

>>97836708
Those are numbers like from the Orange Club purges in Toronto way back when. Too small to hamper packs and gangs, but enough to put them on edge, making our job more difficult. Cammies might be a worse pain if they are in contact with Ontario and Alberta. Plus Loups from over Ontario if my intelligence is correct. Two mixed packs, not native. Other things maybe and the shit I don't want to endanger you with...

Still, that is doable. If the numbers concerning 'true' Sabbat and leadership dirt are accurate. They might not even be the real danger.

But I'll need to work out the finer details and start coordinating with the allies I've made. But I will keep you in the loop. And I'll avoid calling an Allthing with my cousins and running a train over all of your neighbours.

>>97836102
The age of micro-print is gone for now, replaced by the age of weird blogs and video channels.

It appears Kakophoni is practicing in the arena, let's get an audience for the show.....

'Stripper, Bleu and Chelys are suddenly engulfed in shadow and a cold rushes over them, when it fades they are in what looks to be a viewing platform. Next to them is Scholar, all 7.5ft of him, motioning for them to be silent and watch. down in the arena there stand Kakophoni, clad in what they'd guess is normal clothing and wielding a sabre of unknown make. Across from him is someone similarly dressed though their face is obscured. As their sabres clash Kakophoni starts to sing; images and sensations begin to erupt from within those watching.' song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RvBFTXW85U
felt like doing one of these again but couldn't find a clever way to fit it in so back to the old reliable of "Scholar just kidnaps them" routine. hope this is at least entertaining.

>>97839111
'when Kakophoni is finished Scholar quickly sends the guests back to their previous locations before Kakophoni sees them. It's obvious that Kakophoni was unaware of their presence...'

>>97839111
i've got to know. Have you actually read any of the V20 or DAV20 books? Because the way you write your character suggests to me that you haven't

WE DROVE FOR SEVEN FUCKING HOURS WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE STILL AREN'T IN SAN ANTONIO

April Fourth in Venice is a special day for my Clan, more so this year because it's on the eve of Easter, and all the changes the Clan is going through, which now include my invitation and the formal acknowledgement of my bloodline: the Asano.

Let me share some of my adventures.

As I was close to losing my way through the calli, my Sire spotted me, gave me a hug from behind and said: "You're as beautiful as the day I met you." I reminded him my body is now taller than his, but he insisted.

I met the Baron of Naples, a surprisingly young Cainite of the Rossellini family. She and her kine relatives brought a traditional tart from Campania, and I finally had a slice of the famous pastiera napoletana. I loved the flavor it gets from the orange flower water, I wish my mortal body I occasionally restore (more on that later) wasn't lactose-intolerant. I also found out she loves Asia, and especially my country, more than I do. I gifted her a 70 year old kimono and taught her how to wear it. She was ecstatic.

For the sake of entertaining her, as well as testing my Great-grandchilde, who decided to bring a sword to the party, we gave her a little demonstration in private. I ordered him to attack me, he hardly knew how to swing a sword, had no killing intent, and with the tiniest flick of my wrist, Mr. Transportation Industry had his back on the floor and his own blade pointed at his throat.

Our young Baron enjoyed me scolding my blood and Blood descendant, as she understood 90% of what I told him, I only had to explain that he has exactly one year to sort his martial arts out, and if he fails, I will disown him. Mrs. Rossellini found the Japanese of his pathetic, frantic apology to be more challenging.

She offered to escort me to the Other Side, a perfect occasion to punish my most recent, unruly wraith slave. I forced him to experience what the Rossellini do to disrespectful ghosts, as well as the power the Dead call Moliate, which is like Vicissitude for ectoplasm.

>>97843688
Boy Toy was remade into a brick. I told him: "It's not just the Rossellini among the Dead who do this: ghosts have been doing this to each other since time immemorial. That castle you see over there was built by ghosts, for ghosts, and of ghosts. Ghosts just like you. There is a reason no religion promises this afterlife to its believers. You wish to be saved from being my spirit slave for eternity, did you not? This is the fate you chose. 左様なら."

I dropped Boy Toy and walked in the opposite direction. He cried his eyes out for forgiveness, pleaded in Venetian, then declared his willingness to serve me in Japanese. Me and Mrs. Rossellini kept moving, cackling like her favorite cartoon characters from my homeland.

The real party was the day after, the Fifth, a celebration of Easter only for a select few Elders, whose mastery of Necromancy allows them to return enough mortality into their bodies that they no longer suffer under the sun.

I met, to use some nicknames: Santa Muerte of the Lazarenes, Hel of the Nation of Blood, and none other than Brother C of the older Clan. We had a walk through the old town, ate spaghetti al nero di seppia, played briscola, and discussed many topics: philosophy, death, my latest spirit slave, and the future of Cainites: ourselves, our Clan, the other Clans and Sects.

Brother C didn't find Heidegger that enlightening: Aquinas already knew the ontological difference - the ACTVS ESSENDI is not an ENS - and our existence disproves the foundation of being-towards-death, as it is not certain that a mortal will die.

He concluded that we can't agree with Socrates: the culmination of a philosophers's life is not a good death.

Boy Toy had actually predicted Brother C's responses, he knows his philosophy. We went to pick him up. His shape was restored, and he was as happy as a dog meeting its master returning from a war, and just as eager to resume his eternal servitude.

He learned his lesson, he just needed a little motivation.

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>>97843695
I shared my concerns for the future, or should I say, the present state of my bloodline with the Elders. They were unanimous in suggesting I should start over, seek somebody worthy, have him or her marry into the Asano, and share the gift of immortality when he or she is ready.

I told them my talons cannot reach into the Communist Party of China, but they do reach into the Confucius Institutes, and those and other contacts of mine should help my search for promising candidates.

Brother C also suggested I should research the Necromantic arts of the Nagaraja, while the other Elders were skeptical.

>>97840964
Even ETAs ae bigger in Texas.

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>>97843695
Has this worked for you before? Generally, once you start to break someone down you have two options, dust or rebuild them. And you don't seem to be giving ahhh brother boytoy an option here. Sounds like even your elders are seeing the bind you put him in, as merely grinding him to dust but slowly.

He doesn't seem that useful according to you/ I would give him what a 50/50 chance year over year at this point. Normally if a master craftsman makes a cruddy tool, that's on the craftsman regardless of what you do with the tool. Perhaps your Eldars were too polite to say that outloud. Perhaps I'm just playing into your own fetishes here but I'm genuinely curious what you want. Will some perfectly servile thing really complete a compelling collection of yours? Ha, this is probably why I'm on the short leash with the powers that be. Because the more overweening the eldar is, the more fragile they seem to me. Sort of like a wolf chasing its pray out onto the thin ice. Maybe that's just the difference between High and low clans.

>>97843774
>Brother C also suggested I should research the Necromantic arts of the Nagaraja
Indian licks?

>>97844622
Kind of.

>>97831591
To teach is to suggest that you are superior and capable of passing what makes you better on to others. I do not like that. Only things I am routinely capable of passing on are incineration, cuts, and pain.
And I appreciate you no matter how yourself you are in the moment. I am myself often not quite myself. My kin accepts me, regardless. It stands to reason that we ought to accept and appreciate you, too, and I will do so happily.
And I am currently being robbed.

HI HSE HERE God Igni is harder to snatch a phone from than our resident twink is. Got those strong hands. I think I could fold Lavender if I tried. I'm not sure there's many people who couldn't fold Lavender if they tried.
Anyways-
>Sorry I haven't been able to steal a device to commune
No matter if you can text us or not, we know we're in your heart somewhere! And you're in ours, Mèo-Mèo. Glad you're safe.

>>97840964
That you all do all this driving and traveling without ghouls around to do stuff in the day is, like, somewhere between 'impressive' and 'almost reckless'. I guess Kindred all over the world manage this kind of a trick all the time, but, like, you're in middle of nowhere dustlands.

>>97833295
Best part is, once a prophecy exists and you know of it, there is no such thing as truly not paying attention to it! Because if you, for instance, draw a pretty picture of Japanese countryside, you're either drawing mount Fuji because it's the thing to draw, or you're specifically excluding it from the picture because it's the thing to draw. But even excluding it means including it, by way of forming a Fuji-shaped gap and by way of visibly not doing the thing everybody does, right?
Same thing happens with trying to not pay attention to a prophecy you know exists. Recognize it, refuse to recognize it, once it's in the air, it's got its influence regardless! They're parasitic and invasive like that, trying to manifest into the world through their hosts, almost.

>>97844611
According to Scholar and Kakophoni, who oversaw Boy Toy's death, he was already broken before it came into my possession.
The reason I'm keeping him as my spirit slave is, first and foremost, scientific, as his death was quite unusual, as he's committed Diablerie on an abomination, and I never owned a vampire turned wraith before. The other spirit slaves I've employed never attempted to beg others to rescue them, and my knowledge of vampire wraiths is largely limited to our family, friendly ghosts from the Clan of Death.
Overall, this is quite the new experience to me. Boy Toy swore he'll become an obedient and competent servant. Will he? Will he fascinate me again by doing the unexpected? Will he continue to add to my admittedly limited knowledge of vampire wraiths, their uses and their limitations, their malleability and resilience?
Or will I discard this already broken tool within a year, as you say? I want to find out.
>the difference between High and low clans
The difference I care about is the Lasombra and Tzimisce not having the Camarilla sign an equivalent to the Promise of 1528 like the Giovanni, which lead to the current fighting between the High Clans.
Me and the other Elders claim to have perfected the "one [kine] Family, one Clan, one Sect" way of unlife like nobody else, and predict that the Clan of Death will be the last truly Independent Clan in the future.
>>97844622
Exotic Cainites who are cursed to eat the flesh of the kine instead of just feeding on their blood like we all do. My interest in their Necromantic powers is that they let them gain sustenance from ghosts.

A foul robbery was reversed.
We need to stop letting short women in tall hats steal our electronics. It's unacceptable on the grounds that it may teach the little tall-hat evils in the woods to be bolder in their attempts to harrass us, if they ever break the current peace. I do not like them and I do not want them to be bolder.

>>97820254
If the ancients were not maddened with a lust for blood and power, we would not exist as Kindred or as Kine to be turned into Kindred.
It is silly to daydream of a world where you could not daydream in the first place.

>>97831153
Burn them. Do your best to destroy the ashes.

>>97845757
>We need to stop letting short women in tall hats steal our electronics.
Do you not have a Ward against such entities?

Make a deal with Tecnocrats they said
All the wonders of modern technology at your finger tips
Now all I have for a 30 pound gold and 400 pound crack investment are robot spider crabs with 22lr gatling guns
I'd have been happy with a Mecka Man but Nooooo
Fuck this modern age

>>97845759
The entity in question has enough clairvoyance to get past at least some wards. She also has the credentials to not be hit by the wards in the first place. And she usually steals the electronics from us by simply snatching them from our hands, if the hands belong to a Lavender. If they belong to a me, she steals them by doing little grabby hands and explaining that she forgot her phone in her study, but she direly needs to message somebody on here, and walking all the way back to her room would be immensely detrimental to her psychic war effort.

>>97845939
Would removing her hands work?

>>97845983
HEY I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I CAN SCRY FOR YOUR DOOM WITH NO HANDS >:0

>>97845983
It would. But then she'd just get louder, and require us to type her messages out, and try to intuit what sort of foul emoji she wants us to use. It would also put her in a debt spiral with our surgeon, who'd sew her hands back on, only for her to steal again, lose the hands again, and require them to be reattached. Debt spirals are not good.

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Travel log #11 [ San Antonio, Texas ]-[*3/10 ]
>>>>>Pros
>At time of writing there is a temporary truce between the Camarilla and the Sabbat in dealing with a Methuselah Cult
>The inner city seems largely insulated against Loup activity and hunters have bad intelligence on this place
>Relatively low population of kindred, the Camarilla (nominal suzerains) are willing to tolerate a lot from travelers and autarkis because of this
>>>>>Cons
>The Moment the creeps are dealt with (for the third time now) this town is immediately becoming a front-line for Sect war
>Supernatural residue is all over, Cat has been speaking Spanish since we cruised in and she can't understand it
>Some higher ups in the Camarilla have a weirdly high presence and they aren't exactly 'gentle' in their approach

Won't lie, a lot of my opinion was coloured by a bad encounter with local police and Gün having an encounter with our stalker. That thing wasn't nearly as well composed as it usually was, might have frenzied, hit the poor gargoyle with something I can't even guess. I spent the past hour digging inch-long thorns out of his flank. Between that and the guys bad enough Mexico City zealots and a full dyed in the Masquerade Ventrue are working together? Fuck it. May the scrublands reclaim this city one day.

>>97846699
>Mexico City zealots and a full dyed in the Masquerade Ventrue are working together? Fuck it. May the scrublands reclaim this city one day.
It sounds like someone is hungry for Methuselah vitae.

>>97843688
>>97843695
>>97843774
Giovanni politics almost makes me content in my own folk's traditions. Almost. Also. Hideous display.

>>97845730
We love you too Igni. Also, remind me to teach HSE how to leg-sweep at some point.

>That you all do all this driving and traveling without ghouls around to do stuff in the day is, like, somewhere between 'impressive' and 'almost reckless'. I guess Kindred all over the world manage this kind of a trick all the time, but, like, you're in middle of nowhere dustlands.
Over my years I learned a lot from Ravs when I was in 'civilization.' This was a sabbatical, but it's also teaching Mèo and Gün those lessons I learned from people who aren't with us anymore. And even all this has been... 'Turbulent' they pulled us through because of it.

>>97846731
These are the freaks you don't pull that shit with unless you're rotting. Demon Worshippers. They got their teeth kicked in by the Sabbat in the 70s, came back to get their heads caved in back in 2006 I think, and now for a third time they crawled back in.

>>97843688
the times are changing if they're letting far eastern kin in
and just like every year, half of my contacts along the adriatic get nervous while the lest sensible ones get 'ideas'

Hey, does anyone know any good tricks for pest control? Specifically for oversized rats and snakes that like to eat scraps from rotting corpses. My pack just set up shop in town and our place is positively crawling with vermin! I would have thought the hyena would be better at sniffing them out, but noooo!

Anywho, if anyone has any tips, I'd appreciate a DM. Can't invite others to the party if our place is infested, you know? Gotta be good hosts and all. Thanks in advance!

>>97847712
You know what the answer is.
DONT HAVE FUCKING ROTTING CORPSES ALL OVER THIS IS SIMPLE

>>97848094
Well, when the rotting corpses have the annoying habit of moving around and hiding it makes it hard to get rid of them!

>>97848193
On the one hand that's at least something reasonable to ask.

But man on the other hand that's where you get into the need for a pig farm days before. A hyena is a wonderful animal. But when you want to dispose of corpses you get a number of swine, acid, or fire. Of course if your shit is already so cursed that you are getting haunted and the bodies are roaming? Burn the place down and try again. No fetter, no problem.

>>97840872
ngl I've just been shitposting and messing around, not trying to be serious. I mean we've had a nazi megalodon; koldun tzimisce gomez adams; a cult leader with an army of abominations baali and werewolves; and a normal french woman so an eccentric mad scientist elder with non-standard powers shouldn't be too out of place. Though I would like to know what I did wrong so I can improve.

>>97845919
>22lr gatling guns
What are those even good against? An army of squirrels? A flock of sparrows? A whole lot of nothing is still nothing. I feel bad for you, I could make you an organic spider-crab that can shoot 18 inch spines at 450 feet per second. Straight through a car door! Plus you can blood bond it to use disciplines through it. I should charge ten grand but I'll do it for a thousand.

>>97845919
thought i misread that but holy jesus. 22lr? 22LR?! what a fucking piece of shit
get yourself a refund brood

>>97848607
you accept dominican pesos or hatian gourdes? transferring to loonies always is a pain in the ass
could use me a new security 'pet'

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>thread full of namefaggots
>talking about rp shit
You are all predditors

>Enter a garden
>Moan about potatoes
Xwitter behaviour

>>97849428
You forgot to mention he posted a image created by an actual predator

>>97845759
Mostly cold iron
It's a silly name but all it is wrought iron never heated past the bar
Regular iron works too but nowhere near as well
Also if they stink even if your of 7th generation RUN
They are called Nastys and one kiss or drop of blood will turn you into a bigger cyst than a Toredor bug chaser

>>97849374
Bizarrely enough, namefaggotry was actually more popular on 4chan back before reddit came into being. Roleplay was also reasonably tolerated on /tg/, though most boards considered it cringe and despised *actions* posting. This too has been reversed on neo-nu4channel, as self-inserting and "sex with X!" greentext fantasies are considered "based" by the new wave of users.

>>97846324
I was thinking... may I get a reading for my quest to eventually find a suitable childe? Yes, you may keep your hands.

>>97849298
>you accept dominican pesos or hatian gourdes?
No. Do you have US dollars? Most people use USD for clandestine international purchases.

msuchacheappieceofshiiiiiiiitfuckincashiningotsfuckyoujezus

check your invoices and your paypall, should have the original asking price (10k usd, think it transfers to 14k cad) there. also check your dms. my mailing address should be right there. send me 2 of those crabs, make sure they get down here alive and before june. need to get one of my roomies an embrace day gift.

enjoy the payday welp.

>>97850294
you see >>97850474
fuckinpendejoauucabron

>>97850474
>>97850498
I'm on the job! Should take a few days per crab, and I'll have to figure out how to ship them. Now off to the grocery store to buy some live crabs from the seafood department.

>>97850474
>>97850498
Oh I almost forgot, any special requests on size shape and colour? Number of limbs? How many spike launchers and where? I want you to be happy with the product.

>>97850816
>>97850816
a crab is a crab, legs don't matter so much as long as it looks like a crab. six spines, legs about that, claws.
probably safer to make them on the thicker side though for the journey
we got a gangrel over in haiti who keeps ghouled crabs as sentries. keep em fed and theyll probably outlive ye.

but for colours? one violet and one green.

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>>97848233
I guess I deserve that for speaking in metaphor. But hey, we made some progress in our pest control! Caught ourselves a rare invasive species of snake! Can't wait to see how it tastes, yum yum! Now if we can just deal with our rat problem.

Whoops, there I go with the metaphors again. Silly me!

>>9A851091
God you are fucking stupid.

Shit keeper.
Shit servant of Caine.
Shit fashion taste and shit posting security.

Did you really think skipping borders would let you avoid those debts lacheur?

>>97845730
It's mostly for my peace of mind. If I tried to make sense of that goobledegook I'd end up as batshit as a Malk.

>>97846731
>>97846699

I have it in good authority a Bishop is taking his squad of Paladins and a few Packs of heavies there in the near future.

>>97851253
Is this about the suit? Look, I needed a new one, and it fit! It's not like the previous owner was going to need it anymore, you know?

>>97851091
Are you winning, Bleu?

>>97852502
This is about the things you borrowed up in Atlanta, and the people you promised to kill in Mobile little Crowley. You fucked it again.
Now I know precisely where you are sleeping in Florida.

You're not going to bring me any closer to Caine. But I'm still gonna enjoy making you into a keg.

>>97853708
Woah, woah, woah! That's unjust resentment! The thing in Atlanta wasn't even my idea! That was Michael and his "I need this to complete my Lasombra dark priest look." How was I to know what he had in mind?

And as for Mobile... okay, I'll admit I went a little crazy there and maybe, MAYBE, might have mucked things up. But c'mon! That was a shit show right from the start! You can't blame me for everything that happened!

Look, I've got a thing going in right now, and you don't actually want to come to Florida looking for me, do you? I mean it's Florida. FLORIDA! Let me finish things up and I promise I'll square everything up with you. Sword of Caine's honor and all that.

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Travel log #12 [ Dallas, Texas ]-[*0/10 ]
>>>>>Pros
> No.
> Nuh uh no.
> There is NOTHING here.
>>>>>Cons
> Gangs of literal child shovelheads, the Society of Saint Leopold, independent hunters and worse.
> A wight toddler tried to diablerize the Trem I have slumbering in the undercarriage.
> As I said, nothing good. Nothing at all here worthy of your time.

Bold decision of this side of Texas to make South Cali and Portland look good. I didn't believe what Rex said until I had to kick a child off the vehicle. And another just ate the first kid. Put the poor creature down, after. Can't advise anyone to come here and at this point it might as well be a sacrificial lamb for the Jesus freaks. Time to hit the swamps.

>>97852157
What a shitfest.

>>97855228
That's traumatizing enough to read, I can't imagine actually living it. I now love Winnipeg, holy shit.

>>97855070
Waitaminut... Are you that Pack with the dumass Hyena Gangrel in it?

>>97855310
Sometimes you have to do someone the mercy when they suffer Wassail. A fate worse than death it is. Like endless rabies.

>>97855070
I'm already in Florida.

And you? You are unworthy of the Dark Father's gifts.

Run. I want to pluck Michael's teeth out first.

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>>97855502
Oh, hey Stripper. You know, we met a couple of your sire's pack mates who were passing through Gainesville a little over ten years ago; the German chick who sings opera all the time and the Arab cowboy. A bit touched in the head if you ask me, but they helped us out of a tight spot. That kinda makes us like... family friends or something? You wanna join the party we're starting down here?

Oh, and Clyde isn't so bad when you get to know him. Though Ooka is definitely the dominant partner in that relationship if you ask me.

>>97856331
Wait, what!? Caine's sake your fast! Now, I know you're angry but just think for a moment! We've got a chance to finally make some headway for the Sabbat here after all these years! It'd be fucking stupid to ruin all this over Atlanta and FUCKING MOBILE! Be reasonable for fuck's sake!

First picture I started for Bleu's diablerie was way too lewd. So I decided to go for a Hellsing homage instead.

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>>97857267
Anything degenerates like you make is worthless to us. Que te corjan mil cabras.

But would you look at that? Night is falling...

Here I come.

with bleu it was always going to be horny. is she getting permanently retired?

>>97857267
...did...did you.just DIABLERIZE her!?

...oh hell to the fuck no...

Bleu's been diablerized? somebody inform Chelys, he'll be heartbroken... -Kakophoni

>>97857267
Stupid? You just showed your ass to everyone paying attention. Camarilla. ACTUAL Sabbat. The House of Set. Her friends. Your enemies.

I think you're better off trying Monomacy with the freak showing up first. Because a little cat told me a secret.

Want to hear it?

>>97857436
Y-you crazy fucker! They say I'm crazy, but that was a whole new level! We all could have died back there! The whole building went up in flames during your little "it came from below" rampage! Gah! My fucking eye!

And how the fuck did you find us so fast!? Did that fucking Ventrue Baron sell us out!? Or was it his Tremere lackey!? WHAT IN FUCKING CAINE'S NAME IS GOING ON!?!?

Yeah, I've been thinking about retiring Bleu for a while. Figured I'd use the hook provided by Mèo-Mèo to retire her in a suitably dramatic fashion courtesy of my Sabbat character and his pack.

>>97857593
Yeah, what's the big deal, Stripper? I took my due from an enemy of the sect. What's got your panties in a twist?

>>97857994
Knock yourself out. But better warn you, if you got it from your cat I might already know it. We're on the same wavelength she and I, if you catch my meaning.

To whom it may concern, starting with fledglings and neonates: since Diablerie destroys the soul of the victim completely, there is no way to contact the him or her on Other Side. Should a Necromancer, or more probably a charlatan posing as one, offer you any service related to interacting with the soul of a victim of Diablerie, he or she is a scammer.
Please DM me the location of any such scammers so that me or my associates can enact the appropriate corrective action plan.

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Finally in Louisiana. I suppose it is time to visit some old friends before we begin the long treck out of the States.

>>97858276
No. You're not. You are insulated in ego, your vices protect that squishy self.

Someone's going to turn you into a flower. If you want it to be later rather than now, consider taking steps.
Or don't. I quite liked that person you killed.

Bold choice but I can respect it, it's always good to have a shakeup even if I'll miss my favourite Serpent's utility. Lets see what this Himbo of Caine can get up to.

>>97858276
HAGO ESTO PORQUE ERES DEBIL - PRUEBA TU VALIA ANTE MI - MONOMACY

EN NOMBRE DE KAINE

UNTIL ONLY THREE REMAIN

DO

IT

PROVE YOU ARE WORTHY OR I WILL COME BACK FOR THE OTHER EYE TONIGHT

neat. I've been been sitting onto this freak for a while but I never got the chance to use him. if you want to wipe him or use him to prune the pack feel free.

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Oh for fucks sake...I've been bitting chunks out of cinderblocks for an hour and I've only just got the Rage under control. But it's like I've been edged for a week straight! I NEED RELEASE.

>>97858276
Fuck it. Confession is good for the soul. I wondered for the longest time why my Sire chose me. Like, what did a gaint Hessian who used terror tactics BEFORE he got turned in the Revolutionary War see in some five foot nothing ginger bleeding out in a strip club parking lot? (Fucker didn't handle me telling him I didn't know him and wasn't his fucking girlfriend well)

But I get it now. It wasn't about what I WAS, it was about what I COULD BE.

You know how many times my sire has used shovelheads in 250 years? None. You know how many times he's committed Diablerie? Once. After personally putting a fucking Methuselah into torpor. He's watched the Sabbat go from the enemy of the Antediluvians to a strutting pack of foppish monkeys gamboling about in the dark without a god damn clue at best, and psychotic lunatics like you who only pay lip service to our mission to deflect when you get called out in your behavior.

I implied my pack and I were starting riots in Cam cities. We weren't. We were culling the Sabbat of the unworthy. Now drop your socks and grab your toes.

I'm gonna show you where the wild goose goes.

They are so mad at the Amaranth
They call the Hunt, now he's fair game
They rid this world of weak Sabbat
They are Camarilla in all but name

>>97859895
Is that really the best your cat could give you? Ominous foretellings of my untimely demise? Oh please! You can take your cat's mumblings and stick 'em where the sun don't shine!

Seriously! Necrophage I get, we have some history together. But why on God's green earth do YOU care!?

>I quite liked that person you killed.
You liked her? Bitch, you didn't even know her!

My roommate (Stripper's player) was trying to convince me to let someone save Bleu. I admit I'll miss her, but I don't feel like she was really adding much to the chronicle at this point

>>97860735
You caught us by surprise because we didn't know how fast you would move on us, freak! It won't be so easy next time!

I'll probably have him knock off some of Janus's pack mates before he makes an escape and throws off the trail. At least until the next time he loses his cool or gets too cocky and ends up giving away his location again. Can be the Hakumen to my Terumi (BlazBlue reference, served as the major inspiration for the character).

>>97860884
Really? Et tu Stripper? Look, save yourself the time and gas money and don't come here then. Newsflash, you little slut: your sire? He might be someone. His pack? They might be someone. You? You're nothing but gutter trash! So don't get any delusions of grandeur and stay in your fucking lane.

this is why i try not to like anybody
oh a aitian is getting chummy?
burned alive by leclercs boys
one of the newcomers isnt insufferable?
hunters got him

dog shit

>>97861322
brave words for gutter trash with a bounty now on his head
a bounty that got a little bigger i think- if anyone produces a face, but i'll take a skull with those ugly fillings of yours
i get it, having a settitte around even if they aren't doing much is cool and serpent opened up some utility. but death is good for a healthy game. thread. whatever we classify this as. adds stakes to things and lets us get in new characters.