>>97871282
Oh yeah? And what's the price on this handsome mug up to now? Just curious.

>>97873121
Really? A showdown at high noon? Or I guess midnight in this case. How stereotypically Texan can you get? Ha!

Sorry, hombre, but only a sucker walks into a throwdown on his enemy's terms. If you want me, you're gonna have to work for it.

Besides, I'm more of a knife fight kind of guy anyways. I can still leave you the keys to your French whore's place if want though.

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>THREAD QUESTION
Chinese literature: too many classics to list: Shījīng, Dàodéjīng, Huáinánzǐ, Hánfēizǐ, Sānguó Yǎnyì...
Hindu literature: Mukhya Upaniṣads, particularly Bṛhadāraṇyak, Chāndogya, Māṇḍūkya, Taittirīya
Buddhist literature: Milinda-pañha (Questions of Menander), Prajñāpāramita-Hṛdayam Sūtra (Heart Sūtra).
Various Ancient Egyptian funerary texts.
The fragments of the Presocratic philosophers.
Plato's writings, especially the Phaedo, Symposium and Republic.
Plotinus' Enneads.
Corpus Hermeticum.
Bible, particularly the sapiential books of the Old Testament and Johannine literature of the New Testament.

I'm willfully excluding books by and for Cainites and other occult literature that aren't accessible to kine learning institutions, as I wouldn't call them media.

I'm also excluding a millennium of Japanese poetry anthologies since the Kokin Wakashū. But instead of a classic collection, my first recommendation for an English reader would actually be Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death, compiled and translated by Yoel Hoffmann.
I must point out that haiku as they are known today became popular as standalone poems a few decades after my embrace, and this name is a 19th century invention, they used to be called hokku (発句).

As translated by Hoffman:

Life is like a cloud of mist
Emerging from a mountain cave,
And death
A floating moon
In its celestial course.
If you think too much
About the meaning they may have,
You'll be bound forever
Like an ass to a stake.
- Mumon Gensen

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Hello Kindred.
I have words from the web, may they help you
>What's a man to a corncob?
>55 State Street, Boston MA
>There is a black star over the east
>The Blood in the sands is hungry
>Juneday! Juneday!
>DO NOT OPEN IT
>Trust the Heckin Hyperscience!
>Not sponsored by Pentex
>Openmaw was NOT inevitable.
>They're coming. Run.

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Travel log #14 [ Memphis, Tennessee ]-[*5/10 ]
>>>>>Pros
> This is a town where you can fuck up and people won't notice
> Even if the train networks on the continent aren't what they used to be this is still a safe centre to travel through
> Outside threats seem mostly focused on other things, so for once, the Blood around here slips under the radar
>>>>>Cons
> The Prince of Memphis is probably the most dangerous Toreador I've ever seen and tolerates no carpetbaggers or nomads
> Her sheriff is also the kind of person who'd make some of you blush in terms of raw cruelty
> For some fucking reason the First US civil war is being fought here among rival cliques between high and low clanns

Weird town, not for any of us. Did meet up with some old friends however. Hatshepsup and Hippy seem to have set themselves up well enough, even if the former hates the Bass-Pro abomination and the latter is still absolutely depressed about losing everything in Marquette. Most of us who survived didn't have large networks, but Hippy basically had a whole congregation of naturalists and pot-boys running her operation. Still a long way from recovered, but her sitting down with Mèo and our new companion did her some good. Left out some of the tribulations we've gone through recently.

We are still being followed and the creep who did it last night basically spent an hour atop an eighteen wheeler. Creepy as sin.

>>97874559
I've got a special place in my heart for 'Day of the Triffids' as a rip-off radio drama. Back in... God was it 58 or 59? Can't remember.
It was there for me for a nasty hide-out in a farm's attic. I can still recite lines from Dr. Voreles.

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>>97874559
>Your favorite media: books, films, anything
I'll get literally eaten alive by you people if I say a word about this, so, no, nuh, nuh-huh.

>>97875778
Hiiiiiiii, sorry for the delays, we are currently trying to not go back to the fucking stone age here! Everything that uses electricity now has a penchant for being haunted, short-circuiting and so on, and there's that fucking aurora in the sky, sometimes, but only if you look right and only from very specific angles. It's definitely not a regular electricity thing, and one of those mangy pizza-eating wolves is eyefucking our electronics while looking very, very worried. Not offering to help, Heaven forbid they do that. Betting ten bucks on that it's the Goriatrix tribe, or whatever I scryed for, sending a hello in a novel and annoying, yet not excessively harmful way. Theeen like five bucks on that it's something more caern-related, and maybe three on that it's a problem outside of our usual context.

It sure can't stop me from scrying though!

So, the creep. I'll go for three basic questions, and then let you ask further ones and let me scry for them, that'd be the most practical method.

>What is the creep's nature?
The Magician - Upright. Resourcefulness; skill; willpower. Praying it isn't literally what the card depicts, they're the worst.
>Why is the creep after the H0Trio?
Page of Wands - Upright. Creative spark; new beginnings; exploration.
>There's many paths - confrontation, avoidance, seeking outside assistance, bribery, trickery. Which way to go? Is there even a best way?
Six of Wands - Reversed. Unrewarded efforts; fall from grace; insecurity due to overreliance on outside assurance and not on internal clarity.

Cards are feeling Somewhat Fucky still, after my Goriscrying, so tread carefully.

>>97876499
>I'll get literally eaten alive by you people if I say a word about this, so, no, nuh, nuh-huh.
It's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, isn't it?

>>97876499
>Hiiiiiiii, sorry for the delays, we are currently trying to not go back to the fucking stone age here! Everything that uses electricity now has a penchant for being haunted, short-circuiting and so on, and there's that fucking aurora in the sky, sometimes, but only if you look right and only from very specific angles. It's definitely not a regular electricity thing, and one of those mangy pizza-eating wolves is eyefucking our electronics while looking very, very worried. Not offering to help, Heaven forbid they do that.
No worries. Also, if that's who I think it is tell him that the boys in San Francisco expect him to help PROACTIVELY. Because god knows we all need to actually get over our hang-ups.

I met his sister.

I was told of the 2008 incident. I'm not afraid to share it if need be.

>That Scrying
This thing is creepy sister, it's pretty focused on me and if it wanted the kill it would have gone for it after the attack. Pulled stuff on Gün I've never seen and it SMELLS like my bloodline but... Off. Weird like. Closer to the un-things that congregate around the Caern but distinct from them.

Could you ask the mistress of the library for information on bloodlines related to Gangs like me? My knowledge base is a lot of circumstantial stuff and filled with hearsay from old farts and I've neglected some of that research.

>/tq/
pretty bold question, i bet most people lie or chicken out rather than fess up
best answer is probably my telenovelas
i got a pit full of vhs tapes i go through

>>97874691
more than you've ever had cabrón

>>97871550
good work newt but i'll be real these are nifty little novelties for defending the burrow
doubt even he is dumb enough to attack us at home
shame that

>>97873577
to be a meat griller in czexan country
bein real and serious with you, that seems like an amateur move holding the camera steady, unless its a deliberate bait i guess.

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>>97878226
>that seems like an amateur move holding the camera steady,
You're not wrong. Perhaps I should visit or perhaps he doesn't care because he knows he's on a observation mission and he knows that licks have keen senses during the worst of times.

>Thread Question
I will admit a fondness for cowboy or western literature. My favourite would likely be Robert Lewis Taylor but there are many good ones. Hell it even got a theatrical adaption at one point.

so just came out of a long sleep. My human gf was working for the cammies sense before I met her. I thought working at a blood bank and her liking me were just luck but no. My regent never trusted me and put her on me like a collar thinking I'd go rabid or some shit. I don't know why she covered for me or hell if she covered for me when I got hit by a car but she fucking sold me out. I never drank from somebody and she was told I had a time limit and if I didn't hit I'd be forced. She told me when I woke up in a cage with a homeless guy I was friends with. He knew about vampires and was apart of some group called the union or unit I couldn't make out what they were saying at first but he was handcuffed and he kept saying you don't have to do this but I hadn't had a bag in a month. I was so hungry. I let it win. They let me out and she drove me home telling me I did good I protected the masquerade but they won't let me see my dogs until I drink from someone else with her reporting on me. Pray for me for all the good that does. God i hope they aren't monitoring this phone
>>97874559
>TQ
i like guy richie movies

>>97878307
Prove to them you can keep the Beast at bay and they'll stop testing you at some point. An upcoming rite of passage will probably involve a blood doll or a less willing mortal you'll feed from, and you mustn't drain him or her to death in order to pass.

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>>97876515
It's fucking Homestuck. She's foreseen me ratting her out, and I've forseen her, as she's doing right now, banging on my door, so I locked it. Too bad!

>>97877363
>Could you ask the mistress of the library for information on bloodlines related to Gangs like me? My knowledge base is a lot of circumstantial stuff and filled with hearsay from old farts and I've neglected some of that research.
I've gone to check since the Mistress of the Library™ is feeling extra iffy about electronics and wouldn't go online to tell you stuff herself, and HSE is barred from the place following a recent incident involving a phone going on fire.
From what we can see thus far, there's a lot of very shallow and poorly-developed stuff, mostly footnotes, myths and third-grade information piled on with the cohesiveness of a hoarder getting things just because. Like, I'm right now looking at two profiles, from the same book, which seem to describe basically the same fucking thing, a watery Gangrel, except there's minor cosmetic differences between the two, so they're filed as two distinct bloodlines.
Just on a glance:
>two water Gangrels, with one extra deep-sea Gangrel recorded in an instance where carcass was fished out by a commercial vessel, woke up, proceeded to eat everybody aboard, excluding the fish, broke the ship hull apart, and sunk with it, with this incident only being recorded thanks to compromised cameras aboard (Nossie agents of some dipshit Ventrue were trying to snoop on workers of on of his shell businesses, or whatever, and the tape got sold and re-sold five times before my Sire got it)
>A variety of Gangrel for every combo of climate and human habitation style
>Druids?
>Druids but Norse, for some reason?
>Norse Gangs, but not druidic??
>Four different pre-Columbian North American varieties???
>Doggerland Gangs, supposedly?????
>'Hybrasil survivors'?????
>'DROGEO DEVOURERS'???
So, uh, anything specific you want us to try and dig up?

roleplay thread? On fucking 4chan?

>>97880009 a shocking concept, I know; a roleplaying thread, for a game built for literal actual physical LARP, on the traditional games board, which typically are fairly roleplay-focused. We should close these threads and go jerk off to elves or argue about local lords or bitch about how nobody paints minis instead, that's productive.

>>97879996
>It's fucking Homestuck.
My spirit slave Polyglot Girl, who lived and died recently enough to know about these works, was shocked by this revelation. My Great-grandchilde believed it was Twilight, while another ghost of mine, Architect Prime, thought it was something called My Immortal by Tara "XXXbloodyrists666XXX" Gilesbie.

>>97879996
homestuck runner is good.
"everybody~ everybody!everybody la-dee-dah-dee-dah!" classic.
>>97880041
i hope you were right because they had me feed off of my girlfriend to both of our surprise. Guys she actually likes me I could taste it! And she was a little woozy after but she's fine! We watched In Bruges (hilarious btw) as she went to sleep. Anyway suns dawning so I'm out of here for now. I still feel terrible about Bobby but nothing I can do other than not let it happen again.

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Travel log #15 [ St. Louis, Missouri ]-[*3/10 ]
>>>>>Pros
> While St. Louis is a Camarilla city, the hold is weak, a lot of the population is Nos split between different dens
> The Low clans basically control the night to night in a way that I haven't seen elsewhere
> Big arch is alright I guess
>>>>>Cons
> If it isn't my cousins the County-Gangs making attacks, it is the Loups
> This place doesn't have the 'fun' or 'easy to exploit' type of instability, being closer yo Yugoslavia apparently
> The Firedancers down south never got over being pushed out of and Atlanta wants to raze this city

Well I got to see the silly half circle and I got to make a little pilgrimage to Cahokia. Not much else to say other than I get the feeling at some point something terrible is gonna hit this city. Again. It's basically ground zero for any jyhad-crusade-insurrection shit in the States. Also lacks a defensive space unless you do what our hosts did and dig.

>>97879996
To be fair, a lot of that's the experience in-clan. it took me being scholarly for decades (egh time flies) to get the information I have now sorted. I should write a paper at some point on my pre-columbus cousins, but I digress.

Focus on the 'Druids,' I think I can place most of the other things for the most part. Anything you can pull up that isn't completely unverifiable or obvious slander.

>>97878226
Awww c'mon, humor a guy, would ya? And which baron decided to add to the fund? The Samedi? Or the Ventrue?

>>97880187
There's always finding out who gave the order and killing them.

>>97880312
It's also where the Midwest CanaDanavian meets Southern Drawl to create a truly mystifying dialect.

>>97880499
>>97874691
192.168.3.7
10.3.7.2

Found you
mods this is not an actual IP attack please don't nuke my post like you've done in the past.

>>97881620
If you want to be the one to bump off Janus in a glorious act of REVENGENCE, I'm okay with that.[/spoiler ]

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>>97875000
>Yes
>Maybe
>No (thank FUCK)
>Oh no why that one?
>No
>No
>Yes
>Maybe
>No...?
>Yes :)
>Yes :(
I miss being out of my mind when you hit me with this shit brother-brother. It's like someone hits me with a stained glass window.

>>97879996
Way to be a narc LL. Let he who was never cringe cast the first stone.

>>97878307
You just need need to find your legs for it, sucks, especially cause you can't really do the 'lure in' I can do. But you'll manage. God isn't here. But we are for you. :)

>HIS FACE AFLAME IN RUIN AND WET WITH SLAKING THE PAUPER KING FOUND NO KINSHIP IN BETRAYLS AND DIED IN CHRYSALIS, AND THE BEAST OF THE STAR FOLLOWED, AS THE PRIESTESS OF THE BEAR SWALLOWED THE SUN, AND THE LORD OF MONSTERS SOUGHT AFTER, AND THE STARRY DISTANCE LOOKED ON. OH MAGUS, SUMMON THY SPLENDID ARTS AND DISCIPLE ABANDON THY MASTER TO HIS WRETCHED COCOON. THE WHEEL COMETH, AND ALL MEN AND MONSTERS ARE CRUSHED BENEATH THE COMING CHANGE. LET HE WHO JUMPS ASTRIDE CALAMITY AND DANCES INHERIT THE RUBBLE.

>>97881620
>>97881774
Sorry for the second OOC post. I was just thinking that if you make it a team up with Necrophage, that's even cooler. It would be kind of a shame to leave him out.

>>97881774
>>97882031
that'd be cool. One glorious act of revengence for such an unceremonious death of Bleu. Do you also do necrophage?

>>97882031
>>97882165
No, he's not me, I'm me. I'd be down for a climax with Janus though.
Granted I've just been thinking about the old man just enjoying his new ghoul's company, so I'll follow your leads before hitting the gas.

>>97882200

>double dubs
>I am yu, he is mi
alright. I'm not full on thinking of ending things like the next post, but likely before the end of this thread or beginning of next thread. A bit of cat and mouse along the eastern sea board, like a reverse of Sherman's march to the sea.

>Question for the kindred at home

How many 'lethal accidents' have you caused feeding during your present unlife? One of my coterie's boys had a little mess when he was finishing up tonight, hit me that I've got no point of reference outside of the withered testicle that is my sire.

>>97881620
Damnit, why are all you super persistent types always so fucking quick? Can't a guy have a few nights of peace to himself?

>>97883806
I've never counted. I mean, you've never bothered to count the number of times you've stepped on a bug in your life, have you?

>>97881899
>>97879765

I got shot tonight but it wasn't so bad! I was me and J and R in a truck out in Angeles Forest. Apparently someone else had been hunting there for a couple weeks and they weren't drinking but instead just stabbing people and leaving them by the road. This is a dumping ground for my boss so this couldn't stand. They wanted us to find him and go wild. I found him in a tent 10 minutes off the road in a tent laughing at a piece of flesh (gross). I thought I had the drop on him but he turned on me and shot me in the chest with a glock. It sucked but not as much as I did >:). Didn't even drain him! I kept the beast (i hate giving it a name) in check. We tossed him in the back of the truck and took him back to LA to the deputy. He said I did good finding the guy and I got to see my dogs again. Things are good! My buddies from the help group even reached out to make sure I'm doing ok. Thanks guys.
>>97880041
I would never say I would do something like that! See I'm getting smarter (I think)

>>97883806
This took me back to my fledgling nights when I mostly fed off corpses. In over four centuries, many vessels died, none by accident.

We busted a tire and it stopped us from reaching Kansas City.

Wonderful.

>>97883806
I've never had a 'lethal accident' with a person. Plenty with creatures of the forest when I was young and half-feral. Would be remiss of me to say I never caused a 'freak bear attack' intentionally though.

>>97881620
It seems the duel is being postponed yet again...

>>97889074
And good 'ol boy better get used to it.

Getting sick of these modern voodoo practices

My 120 year craft boiled down to Fat Women
> and Tremere
Putting black dyed sand in circles with candles to curse some random internet personality

So close to do stupid things that will call a bloodhunt

>>97889937
You're doing the same thing as the Roman Catholics.

>Oh I can't believe it! I don't bring on new people who know the actual Gospel while zealously guarding it and now some peasant has decided GOD IS THE BAD GUY, but only one third, but it's the third I actually like because it lets me flog landowners >:(

You gotta spread that shit or you go the way of Mithras.

The religion. Not the dicky.

>>97884618
>>97889368
Your proximity to the exit and my flair for the dramatic saved you. Sadly the F3 tornado that hit the tornado about 2 minutes after you left didn't spare the rest of the inhabitants. Hope you enjoyed the lack of brakes though. There will be no rest, respite, or peace for you. For I am my brother's keeper. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquity of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is THE LORD when I shall lay my vengeance upon thee!
>>97890190
hey, we still take the side of the poor by default. Otherwise Lawrence of Rome wouldn't have been grilled alive and died cracking jokes!

>>97881899
>It's like someone hits me with a stained glass window.
The wisdom is in the cracks. That's where to look. Most birds don't know what a TV is.

>>97889937
>voodoo practices
>curse some random internet personality
This reminds me of a story from five years ago.

There was this influencer who built his fame by combating scammers. His modus operandi with alleged mediums was pretending to have recently lost his mother and seeking a way to contact her in the afterlife - only to reveal that the mother was still alive by videocalling her in front of the camera and the medium's face.

A young man from the main Family was his next target and asked a disciple of mine for advice, and the disciple asked me in turn. The advice was: "Do the session as scheduled, put on a mask, don't blink, close your eyes for at least a second if you must, do not laugh, my associates will take care of the rest." You will never guess what happened next! Can you believe the influencer's mother went to the Other Side right before the session started? How very unfortunate - but it makes for good content, doesn't it?

If you overhear a fledgling or neonate from the Clan of Death saying: "I'm dead, you idiot!", "Answer the damn phone!", "The hospital is calling you!", or "What are you doing!? Tell the rest of the family!" and giggling like a schoolgirl, mostly when using the phone, this is the reason.

Those are all "memes", as my spirit slaves call them, from this fiasco.

Shortly after, we found out a Malkavian gave the influencer our youngster's contact information, and since we had so much fun with this practical joke of his, we returned the favor by sending his soul to the nearest Rossellini camp next to mother and son, that he may offer his condolences.

>>97890495
You wish to continue the hunt?

Alimania. His time is limited without his pack. But I know that does not sooth insults.

Come down to the town of Willacoochee, on the road south, you will find me there.

I have a price. Pay it, and I shall aid you.

>>97889937
Voodoo? Isn't that a Serpent of the Light thing? Their own cool kids' version of blood sorcery or something?

>>97890495
I gotta say, your indiscriminate carnage is pretty impressive there, cowboy. I mean, I hate that is directed at me, but other than that? Mmmwah! Chef's kiss! Love it!

>>97891083
Heh! Got 'em! Epic prank!

Children of the corn bullshit.

> Oaoahao look at me I'm the worst version of the wild blood, please acquaintance help me with the child cult I run

The things I do for 'friends' and support. I guess we're staying in Yellow-Brick road country for an extra night. Damned concrete nightmare.

>>97890495
Please don't throw out multiple tornadoes, I've been told creating a Dead-Man Walking could be very very very bad.

>>97891386
Genuine question, when were you bitten?

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>>97883806
Accidents? None really. If I'm pissed off I set out to drink em dry, otherwise I restrain myself. I think it's cuz of tge way my Sire gave me my first meal. God, I'll never forget that...

So the Horseman was all theatrical about my Embrace. Burries me in a shallow grave (symbolisim, I think) and there's a raging thunderstorm to boot. I dig my way out, no clue I'm already dead. Wearing nothing but mud and rain (cuz babies are born naked, i guess...?) And a bolt.of ligutning shows me the biggest motherfucker I've seen in person on the biggest horse I've seen and while my mind is trying to decide if it shpuld try and make sense of all this or if it should just give up and break down now the Horseman scoops me up with one hand and takes off riding at full gallop.

I think he was hitting full force with his Majesty, because I never even thought about trying to fight my free, even though I had no idea who he was or qhat was hapening. Hell, I didn't even wonder about feeling so damn cold; I was wet and naked on a galloping horse!

Anyway, we get to the Horsemans ranch, I meekly follow him inside, and tge first thing I see is a naked dude tied to a chair and gagged. Horseman walks up ro the guy, lifts a fancy silver table knife, and lightly pricks tge guys throat whike he's struggling and screaming into the gag.

Seeing, smelling that one drop of blood...oh God. That little sparkling ruby. I didn't know it at the time but I full on Hunger Frenzied. I tackled that poor guy to the floor, straddled him...and ripped his throat out. It was MESSY. And because of the Kiss, even as he knew I was killing him, he had a raging hard on the whole time. Even came before he died.

I've NEVER let myself lose control to my Hunger since. Not after that shit.

>>97891083
The prince of Eastwood still has a blind bloodhunt for you
>>97891829
Speaking of corn I've seen a new group Tzimisce creation being let loose in crop fields that have been described as
>Fat burnt soggy screaming hams
That keep the "Ghoul Food" safe

>>97891829
June of 1988. Why? You've been hanging around the cat long enough, you should know the kind of things we consider pranks.

>>97892104
>And because of the Kiss, even as he knew I was killing him, he had a raging hard on the whole time. Even came before he died.
See! When I say stuff like this, I'm a "sick fuck." Oh but when you say it's "a heartfelt retelling of my first kill." This shit's not fair!

>>97892104
as humiliating as it is to reference a german, this reminds me of 'die fröhliche wissenschaft'. how self-important a ceremony. how base. but it would be a lie to say such results were not sufficient. so often my degenerate high clan neighbours sire mewling worms that have no idea what they truly are.

which is why my social is composed of nosforatu, ghouls, and kine.

>>97892474
The difference your degenerate ass can't see is that the whole damn thing was so traumatic I've never succumbed to Hunger Frenzy since...which was the whole point, I guess. You, on the other hand, would have been just as hard and dry humping the corpse.

>>97892511
Funny that. My Sire is German. Hessian from way back when.

>>97892625
curious. were he from hesse-hanau, there is a not zero chance he shot at me once.

back in the 'good old days' when i was technically fighting on the same side as the assamites and things got messy. the landeskinder might be famous for their occidental forays but they had a reputation down here as well.

Night draws near. Time to pay the 'Rat-King' a visit.

>>97892104
Good grief. I can't add much but that is something.

>>97892422
Do you got more information? I'm morbidly curious and due to help with some stalking through corn country tonight. No that there's much corn grown but better to learn.

>>97892474
>Why?
You sound like a belligerent mortal teen who shoots squirrels for kicks.

And the curse of Malkav takes many forms. I'm very familiar with my Cat's condition, and it is why I tolerate the Blood Bond woith her.

>>97892853
Sure, I kill for kicks. Or because I'm hungry. Or because I'm angry. Or because I'm annoyed. Or as part of the Sabbat's mission. Or as part of my experiments to find where exactly the soul resides in a body. Or for any number of reasons, each as equally valid as any other. We're killers, it's in our nature. I'm comfortable with that fact. Are you?

Since we're sharing with the class, how about you, H0T? When did your heart stop beating, and what drives you to kill?

>>97892898
>When did your heart stop beating, and what drives you to kill?
Ironic...

I was mauled back when the Great War was being fought I'll admit, the specific year is fuzzy. Either 16 or 17.

We are predators and haemovores. At the end of the day all that is required of us is blood. When I hunt I hunt for sustenance, mine own or others. The same reason people hunted back before the bite. Except I did not have weapons when I started, I was hurling myself at deer and moose like a wolf does.

Nature kept me and humbled me. Still does. I return the favour more literally.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to flog one of my upstart cousins because he has decided to wage a rodent-corvid-child war.

ATTENTION YOU MISERABLE DIRTY-NECK-SUCKERS AND BENDY BACKED HARLOTS
I HAVE ESCAPED THE CABOOSE

I'll admit I didn't think I'd get this far and as I've wiped out the fridge (REPULSIVE VILE SWILL so glad there was an excess or I wouldn't be able to think straight) I must I am at a bit of a loss. The foul servant of the Loupines and her thralls have, for the time being departed, this vehicle and I do not have the keys. Currently it is daylight, and I do not have a means to escape without being annihilated by the power of Sol Invictus.

Please advise. I am certain the VILE and DUPLICITOUS House of Tremere want me dead. No doubt also the TREACHEROUS AND STUPID AND ARROGANT House of Goratrix... Also probably want me dead.

Man I just want cool Sorcery powers and all I got is poo poo garbage
Bullshit.

I could be beach bumming back in California if I'd just gotten into drugs. BUT NO FOR SOME INANE HIDEOUS REASON I DECIDED TO GET INTO HOUSING AND I AM TRAPPED IN MISSOURI. FUCK.

>>97891353
Alright, we'll discuss the price then continue hunting this wretch.
>>97891386
My lack of a plutonium core is the only reason there's not a fission bomb in your car. Thankfully I'm not being hunted by the technocracy again, so that's spared you and a sq. mile around you from nuclear hellfire.
>>97892104
honestly this scene and the ULTIMATE SUCC you described last thread sound worth/10 for the average dude. Though, when you came to
>heh
was it the realization that you killed someone via your hunger that traumatized you or something else? Any remarks from your sire?
fuck these IP range bans. Seriously, it's like every two or three days my home IP just gets cut off from posting due to abuse, it says.

>>97892954
Oh shit, a great war vet! Literally born in a man made hell. What side were you on? Any favorite arms of that conflict? I'm partial to the SMLE mk. 2.
>>97894011
howdy! I too also hate the majority of tremere! Sad to hear you're stuck in Missouri though. A fate no kine or kindred deserve.

>>97892954
Sounds to me like even after a century, you haven't faced the reality of who and what you are, sister. You're just deluding yourself about your true nature. We are born of murder; killing runs in our blood. No need to be ashamed of acting in our nature, now is there?

To illustrate my point: you have a trapped Tremere in your care right now. What happened to his friends, huh? You didn't let them off with a light scolding, now did you? Suppose you and I were to cross paths tomorrow night, what would you do then? Nothing pleasant for me, I imagine.

>>97894011
I hate to be the bearer of bad new buddy, but your future is outside of your hands, unless you can figure out how to hotwire a car real quick. Silver lining is that they probably don't intend to kill you, or you'd already be dead. Try begging to be dropped off in the next town.

>>97894132
No shit. When you're held together by the threat of bloodbonding, being bloodbound, or threatening your brothers and sisters with camarilla political plays there is almost NOTHING for you. And I'm still just- WAITING FOR THE MAGIC ANY DAY NOW. God what a joke of a vampire lineage.

Worst part is I think I'm in walking distance from Kansas. I hate the great plains. It's just so flat. Nothing should be this horizontal. It's unnatural.
It sucks honestly, the banning system is showing its age.

>>97894140
Is this-
Some kind of psy-op thing?
Did she pay you to exhale through that underbite, as a means to make me amendable to her lunacy?

Because you sound like that book-chewing knuckle dragging IMBECILE Sanchez. Oh yea he was a real natural borne killer until he got yoinked out into the night. And he screamed loud enough I heard him in the basement. Unsurprising I guess. That he and that Consanguineous GOON of a Ductus were so easily tricked into "suicide by Gangrel."

And I will become a POWERFUL SORCERER I DO NOT BEG NOR HAVE I EVER BEGGED SHITTIER-SANCHEZ

>>97894011
Touch a payphone in the pouring rain in the middle of the night, and you will find the way out.

>>97894267
Just laying out the straight facts for ya. Whether you make it out or not is frankly no concern of mine. You're alone and in the middle of nowhere. You can either take your chances with the sun or take your chances with your captors when night falls.

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>>97894103
Honestly? It was a bit of all if it. The dude KNEW I was killing him, and I forced him to get off on it. That plus the fact that my brain was just, like, OFF and my body was doing what it pleased...it was all just too fucked up.

And no comments from my Sire. Aside from the fact that as far as I know his vocal chords got cut when he was still mortal (wicked throat scar) he's only ever communicated in writing, or one of his Pack mates tells me what he wants to say. I'm pretty sure, though, he wanted me to figure out what he was trying to teach me in my own instead of regurgitating rote memorization in command.
>>97894011
Scream louder. Cry like a little bitch. Make sure everything within a hundred yard radius knows you are prey, and you are weak and wounded. That oughta straighten this mess out.

>>97894132
There's a difference between being a predator and playing with your food.

>>97894267
So are you a tremere who was taught nothing of blood sorcery? If so, damn, how did you piss literally everyone in the tower off? Also, as weird as it sounds, I think Florida is actually the flattest state.

>>97894659
Creepy mother fucker.

>>97894692
I can only assume something has gone amiss, and unless they're waiting in a nearby sewer I have some time when night falls.

>>97894742
Let a man have his outlet. This funny little caps-lock is the extent of the-
MIND BENDING AMARANTH SLAVING STONE SHATTERING RAGE I CURRENTLY FEEL AND CAN SHARE WITH YOU

The venison drippings are growing on me. God have mercy.

>>97894744
I was not "Blessed" with being sired by the debauched triangle known as the House of Tremere. I was dragged into the house of Goratrix because they are ILLITERATE TO ALL ZONING LAWS OF THE KINE AND BASIC FUCKING MATHEMATICS! I was strung along constantly with the promises of power- yet never receiving it- despite my higher Blood standing than some of my koala-minded 'siblings.'

Gave those bastards the best years of my unlife and they go invoking actual Loupine retribution. I had to sneak through the floors and steal keys to acquire my current knowledge-base. They did not even permit me tuition on the Domination and the Auspex, and threatened me often should I fail as their legal warrior.

Alas. While I was able to liberate such knowledge thanks to their inadequacies, I have not had much time to apply it.

Also yes Florida is very flat but the swamp hides that fact.

>>97894804
Pick a direction and start running then. And don't stop running until you reach civilization or the sun starts to come up and you need to hide. If they don't care about you, they won't bother coming after you. If they do care, then you won't get far anyway and we're back to you sucking it up and begging to go free.

>>97894804
>creepy motherfucker
I didn't drink unicorn blood. I know what you did. I know what Old Man Trembly did to the Healer.

>>97894923
Your suggestion is integrated.

>>97894994
>I didn't drink unicorn blood.
Doubtful cur.

>I know what you did.
You know what you fucking schizoid? Fine. I have already been proverbially stripped naked by this affair.
Just don't share the stuff I did to get into school, my parents already think their kid died blowing up an electric car dealership.

>I know what Old Man Trembly did to the Healer.
That better not refer to my grandsire. It would be fitting, but I don't need another inherited black mark from that creature.

>>97895195
Sadly ALL tremere inherit the black mark of killing off the one objectively “good” kindred of Saulot. I’m not familiar with your house but if it’s in the same clan vein as tremere, yall actualy stole immortality from mine, the proud tzimisce. And we call the tremere usurpers for this reason. And hate them.

>>97892422
>The prince of Eastwood still has a blind bloodhunt for you
So blind the Prince doesn't know the Malkavian overstepped the boundaries set by the Promise of 1528? I was almost tempted to have a disciple of mine deliver this body and collect the reward, but then I remembered where is Eastwood.
I don't have time for my practical jokes, my hands are full with this strange torpid Cainite my associates found in Nicaragua.

>>97895783
>yall
There is no 'WE' in any house of Tremere I can say for certain, but there is a 'MINE-MINE-MINE' of whoever sired you.

All derives from the arrogance of Goratrix and Tremere however, and considering the literary one-handed-symphony they so often produced... That is believable. Tracking with the pattern of 'rehabilitating' the Gifts of the 'low-graced and spiritually desolate' clans. Even now, the House of Goratrix detest the Tzimsce, as much as the Gangrel, Ravnos, and Nosforatu.

The million metaphorical paper-cuts I've endured since my embrace have given me no love of the Antribu, nor the original House of Tremere who seem to replace sadism with control issues. Which is why I have decided to peel myself away from the idiocy of the Tribu and Antribu and climb atop a mountain.

AND I WILL SHOOT LIGHTNING AT WHOEVER APPROACHES MY DOMAIN

Just need to figure out the lightning first. Preferably in a way where I don't need to raid a chantry or kidnap someone.

>>97895981
If you can make it to St. Augustine, FL there's a certain haven down there that's probably full of sorcery shit you can use. Might need to brush up on your Egyptian though. Or your French. Heh.

>>97896109
Sure. Now I've got a date with a telephone box that's been taunting me for the day.

MAY I DAY IN GLORY AND MAY MY BLOOD POISONS WHOEVER EATS ME

>>97896109
Noted. Now I've got a date with a telephone box that has been mocking me all day.

MAY WHOEVER EATS MY SOUL CHOKE ON IT AND DIE

Fucking noted alright time to beat the shit out of a fucking phone booth piece of shit flyoverstate MAY WHOEVER BITE ME CHOKE ON MY SOUL

>>97896132
>>97896137
>>97896292
Woah calm down there, amigo. You sure you're a Tremere and not one of us?

Stupid posting issues.

A neonate was called for an exorcism in Nicaragua for one of the most common complaints by clients: spooky night noises. An ancilla noted there were similar requests from nearby towns, except the complaints were describing the noises as "growls" and other animal sounds.

Sometimes Cainites of the Clan of Death are called to exorcise things that aren't ghosts, and we'll happily take care of your stray animal or kine madman - as long as the reward is the same.

Eventually local urban legends about a "man-jaguar" haunting the night reached our neonate... Afraid of being ripped in half by some species of urban shapeshifter, she implored me to take over the investigation.

We may have discovered a possible kernel of truth behind the legend: not a fera but a fellow Cainite, buried, naked and drained.

I gave him a sip from my wrist, and in those few instants before I slid a stake in his ventricle, he resisted mind control and easily kicked away the boulder we placed on his legs.

Two more nights and I'll have a civil conversation with this new friend, he looks European.

>>97894103
The price is paid.

His death is yours, do not squander it and shame us.

god you can almost feel this basket weaving forum falling apart man

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Travel log #16 [ Kansas City, Kansas / Missouri ]-[*2/10 ]
>>>>>Pros
> If you aren't picky, the slaughterhouses and farming industry provide
> This used to be a very Sabbat held town but recent events have weakened them and their sect enemies
> Plenty of 'recently opened up real estate'
>>>>>Cons
> The new 'Baron' is a of the East is a lunatic and I say that as someone who is nominally his ally
> Feds monitor the shit out of this town and use it as a training ground for kill teams apparently
> If someone really wants to take Kansas City, with enough boots they'll be able to take it

What a circus. I can't complain but fuck me the things I do for favours. Can't in good faith recommend this place to anyone unless they're desperate or a nasty combination of ambitious and stupid.

>>97894132
I was on the wrong side of the Atlantic for fighting, too young, lacking the piece for conscription. I was never one for guns.

Grenades though? Those have their time and place.

>>97894140
His 'friends' thought they could attack and kill whoever they pleased, and were paid in turn. Our Serendipitous Sorcerer the only one who was wise enough to realize he could not win. And yielded. And for that reason he has opportunities when this trip ends.

There is a reason likewise I suggested we stay away from one another.

>>97897784
He was having an episode when we found him, turned around, shouted 'I make my own fate' and staked himself.

Odd. But there is potential in him.

>>97898060
European? From whereabouts?

>>97899056
>European? From whereabouts?
Looks southern but not swarthy, he'd pass as a Ventrue or Lasombra. Definitely not the phenotype I'd expect after chasing rumors of a jaguar prowling a city in Central America.
He'll tell me after two nights, once he's blood bound to me, and fed, in this order. Until then he gets nothing but a sip of my vitae and the stake each night. I wonder how many of the Cainites exchanging messages here would just try and Diablerize him instead, and how many of those would win the ensuing battle of wills. Next time I won't try my luck with eye contact.

>>97899056
>Grenades though? Those have their time and place.

The time is always. The place is the prison pocket of the fucker anoying the shit out of you. I ran into a mad bomber malk that was in the IRA back in the 80's before she got turned. Taught me some things. Turns out I've got a knack for it. And explosions are fun.

>>97899056
>Odd. But there is potential in him.
So, have you decided what to do with the little tyke? Seems odd to keep carting him around like a sack of potatoes if you don't intend to teach him anything.

>>97899296
>and how many of those would win the ensuing battle of wills.
That's just an old wives' tale elders use to scare fledglings. The only thing that happens upon devouring the soul is a transfer of power and the ultimate feeling of euphoria. Kinda like a Highlander Quickening now that I think about it.

>>97899296
Sometimes, it is better to let the lion roam in the jungle without a Safari.

>>97900006
I disagree. Mostly because the element of surprise is a mean mother fucker.

Nothing as stunning as a self-proclaimed master of obtenebration getting undone by a metaphorical monkey with a grenade.

>>97900789
>He is lacking critical information
I was always going to do something for him, such was a condition of his yield.

But now? I think there is a more concrete plan.

>>97895981
Hmmmm I’ve often wondered if one could delve into the mysteries of mathematics and arrive at a magic of sorts. Anyways. I can send you baby’s intro to koldunism if you really want to learn something. It’s not easy to learn for anyone but results tend to be standardized.
>>97896109
I will tar and feather you. I will have your limbs severed and flay your face, carving a ritual into your torso that sells your soul to the ass stuffing pineapple demon.
>>97898137
Very well. I hope it serves you well and I appreciate your assistance in this matter. We shall be victorious. He shall not live to see the calends of May.
the glory days of mongolian weaving forums are far past us anon. It’s a sad reality we live in.
>>97899296
Sooo, vaguely northern spanish/italian or occitan french? While living, I was told I looked the image of some conquistadors. Phenotypes and genotypes are weird. >>97901580
>monkey with a grenade
Is it possible to learn this kind of power?

>>97901580
Ohhhh, that's a good idea for Handsome Jack. He's a new packmate; one of them Nausferatu from Naustralia. I definitely need to get Mad Bomber in the pack though. Nack or no I damn near blew myself into torpor last time I tried cooking something up.

>>97883806
I, and the mob of shovelheads that would be winnowed down to become my lack, drained about thirty people, came to about two or three per shovelhead, not that I could tell you who drained who, I was in a fugue state for most of it.
One of which was a Ghoul the Prince of Colma was grooming for The Embrace™, prior day Goth Girl who looked like a poet he knew back before Radio.

>>97901985
Whaaaaaat? I'm just trying to help out the new guy. That's what we do on this network, yeah? Help each other out? Don't you want him to grow up to be the best vampire wizard he can be?

>>97901985
>Is it possible to learn this kind of power?
It's all in the surprise and looking not like you have conventional threats.

>I can send you baby’s intro to koldunism if you really want to learn something. It’s not easy to learn for anyone but results tend to be standardized.
That would be appreciated by myself at least. My variant of the Koldunism is not exactly 'awe-inspiring' and my tuition was not with formal materials.

>>97901992
Reliability is always king.

>>97902921
I’m just telling you what’s gonna happen. It’s not a threat, it’s a promise. >>97902959
Very well. Consider it a boon little lady!

The second night with the mysterious torpid and anemic Cainite in Nicaragua who supposedly turns into a jaguar.

I caressed his dark hair as I fed him from my wrist for the>>97901580
second time. As soon as I took off the stake, he instinctively seized my arm with both hands. I told him to forgive me as I'm saving his life in Castellano, though I'm not completely convinced whether he understood everything, his grip relented.

Either way, once again I'm impressed with his strength, and now self-control as well. I slid the stake through his ribs again, of course.

My living associates will provide some clothes while my Dead one, Polyglot Girl, is looking up local Mesoamerican languages.
>>97901580
>Sometimes, it is better to let the lion roam in the jungle without a Safari.
I might be biased, but it feels more like I'm saving a panda from extinction. It's a nation of Diablerists and it wasn't us that buried or drained him.