{Vampire: The Masquerade - OOC} New York by Night

LOL okay reaper where do I begin in answering all your questions?

Well, at the risk of sounding totally vain I took Caitlyn's example from my own life. So if you need an example of how someone could leave medical school, a wealthy family, and all those lovely connections to run half across the country and start over from nothing...that would be me.

Basically all that privledge comes with a cost of her own personal desires, and she didn't want to pay that cost anymore.

Hey and she does sing ballads! And it definitely easy for her to do, but she loves Garbage more than Mariah Carey even if she sings Mariah Carey better. I'm a first soprano, I could hit every note Mariah could but I can't sound as incredible as Shirley Manson (waaah) but I still sing her anyway!

And yes she has great talent, but not everybody who has great talent gets to be discovered right away. It normally takes alot of work and luck,and for Caitlyn she hasn't had that moment yet.

So she is someone with a good heart, who is innocent in some things, wise in others depending on her life's experience which at this moment, she's quite young and its quite varied.

You also have to understand that what drives Caitlyn is not money. All she needs to have money is to go home. What drives her is to prove to her parents that SHE was right and not them. Also to prove to herself that she's not one of them (her parent's social circle).

oh uh I'm not a struggling singer btw. my brain is more powerful than my voice and so i'm an engineer

oh I should make clear

Caitlyn is not me. I am not Caitlyn. I just used some stuff from my past to fill up her past.

She has her own set of problems as well, like her being so naive. (I am soooo not.) And she's more put together (I am sooo a nutcase).



And I did not run away to New York to become a singer. I...uh...let's not say why I ran away to New York shall we?

I'm almost certain this was brought up in The Gilded Cage and it is mentioned to some degree in the Storyteller's Guide as one of the Q&A answers.

I'll post some of that tonight when I get home. I don't know if I can explain it in a way that will make a lot of sense.

It basicly boils down to this:

Liberal usage of high levels of Auspex, Presense (read Majesty), and Dominate would cause any sort of social structure or hierarchy to collapse. Vampires would stop attending Elysium if they had to fear their minds being read, their memories getting wiped, or being driven insane by dementation.

A Prince cannot gain and hold respect if someone in the room is using something like Majesty. Likewise, a Prince who uses such powers to gain resect will be resented because those who fall victem to it will know that their respect was not real, but forced upon them.

From the Storyteller's guide:

oh, hell yeah - high vampiric powers that take over the actions or control the emotions have no place in a civilized society.

However, (IMO) just "seeing the world with your Vampire eyes" shouldn't be included in the same context as Dominating someone's actions.

About Caitlyn - I'll have to wait to reply till we get back from our celebrating - it's Vych's and I's 10th anniversary, so we'll be out till tomorrow night.

I would like to say wow, we were almost down a perky singer. Ash, your dice don't like me actually that turned out the way I expected, Sabrina has much lower self-control then my other characters, though Ash might disagree about Shalimar(Sabrina at least hasn't hit anyone yet).

Hopefully I got to feed soon, or the Sheriff might exercise his ideas about my destruction. I also have to add 'What a jerk' he sees a child and thinks, hmm better kill it. Though I do agree with the Sire killing.

reapersaurus said:

it's Vych's and I's 10th anniversary, so we'll be out till tomorrow night.

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Congratulations!

edit: heh only one word and I still manage to misspell it.

ok the song's done, lol I didn't realize that no one could move around until after she's done singing. I didn't realize she was going to be THE act, I thought she was just background music...LOL although after those rolls I suppose no background for her.

Just think of all the ramifications of her performance: The Toreodor are talking record deals, One of the richest Kindred families is talking parties. If she keeps it up like this, I don't think she'll have low resources for long.

Right now Sabrina is struggling to keep control of herself, which she will probably be doing until the mortals vamoose, though she doesn't know that that is what she craves.

Hmm, maybe it will just always be slow on the weekends, eh? Oh and when will the mortals have to vamoose exactly? I'm guessing they don't really get to intermingle with the vampiric crowd, eh? Too tempting?