Vampire: the Masquerade - New York by Night OOC Thread

[Catulle]

OK - back to a question about storing old blood for vampires:

It says in the book (pg 140, as Shalimar referenced) that old blood is not as satisfying as fresh blood.
The only other thing it says (about non-elder blood) is that many vampires refuse to drink old blood.

Catulle - what is "many"?

Well, how long is a piece of string?

More seriously, and like an awful lot of questions in the World of Darkness milieu, there aren't any definite answers.

I think that's a way of saying old blood is like the McDonalds of vampire cuisine. It keeps them going, but they could be having so much better. It's a subsistence diet, and potentially the hallmark of an inept hunter (one reason the Sabbat tend to people, rather than blood).

On the other hand, it's the sign of a genteel host to provide something for ones' guests... and there can be a connoisseur angle to it all (just ask a Ventrue).

That said, look to the way the Camarilla treats those clans that tend not to feed after the 'traditional', or 'done' fashion (all broad generalisations, of course); the biggest blood-bankers are likely the Giovanni (partly out of the necessity of their clan weakness) who are most definitely persona non grata in higher Kindred circles. The notoriously untrustworthy Tremere rank in a little way after, with a bewildering array of magical means to store, read and affect blood. The ostracised Nosferatu and Gangrel often don't feed on humans at all (yuck!).

The 'higher' clans all tend to emphasise maintainance of a herd rather than blood-banking, and for a variety of reasons, not simply the human contact, pride in the tradition of the masquerade or the more pleasing flavour but also for considerations such as it being less suspicious to have a full address book than a 'fridge full of human blood. As Ashrem points out, necessity often calls for desperate measures, and that's when the dirty, dirty blood bankers clean up (so to speak)...

Of course, the 'harvesting' you mention is almost exactly what the Tzimisce did about the 11th-12th centuries, rearing entire populations to serve them after a certain fashion (or fashions). All before the inquisition, though.

All that to one side, defining 'old' is whole other question, though I tend to read a silent 'c' in front of it.

Regards,

Barry

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Of course, the 'harvesting' you mention is almost exactly what the Tzimisce did about the 11th-12th centuries, rearing entire populations to serve them after a certain fashion (or fashions). All before the inquisition, though.

Your talking about the Revenant families. They still exist in the modern nights, though in fewer numbers.

The Lasombra wanted the Sabbat to destroy them, but the Tzimisce wouldn't have it. In the end, the Lasombra backed down to let the Tzimisce keep their "pets" though not as many utilize them in the modern nights and they pretty much do their own thing. Those gifted enough are sometimes recruited into Clan Tzimisce.

My favorite vampire PC of all time was Ashe Bratovich, a Tzimisce embraced out of the Bratovich Revenant family. He was a mean bastard who had a hobby of sculpting kittens into more "interesting" forms.

 

[Catulle]

I was referring to their means of maintaining a herd, but it's a fair comment - it does read like a description of the revenancy 'programme', doesn't it? What was I thinking this morning? (Answer: not much) I've edited to get rid of the repeating 'of course' construction, too; nasty habit.

To my mind, the Bratovich weigh in just behind the Obertus (the Constantinople connection had me sold from day one).

Regards,

Barry

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Man I'm itching to play in a Sabbat game..

 

[KitanaVorr]

Man I'm itching to play in a Sabbat game..

me too, all this talk about it has made me very interested in playing one myself.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Catulle said he was interested as well. So that makes 3 of us. Now we need a storyteller...

 

[Tory Adore]

Catulle said he was interested as well. So that makes 3 of us. Now we need a storyteller...

4 if you'd have me - Tzimisce or if independant would be allowed, Followers of Set.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

4 if you'd have me - Tzimisce or if independant would be allowed, Followers of Set.

The Sabbat branch of the clan are called the Serpents of the Light and they aren't considered independant from the rest of the Sabbat like the Setites are from the Camarilla.

Yea... the Tzimisce are cool. That is definatly what I'll be playing.

Still need a storyteller. Should I start a thread begging for one?

 

[KitanaVorr]

Yea... the Tzimisce are cool. That is definatly what I'll be playing.

Still need a storyteller. Should I start a thread begging for one?

That was what I had in mind myself...a lovely evil cold-blooded killer that quotes poetry and literature while she does her damage. Gives me a chance to play my Brujah-Scourge wannabe as Tzimisce. (though I'm seeing a pattern here with all three of us...hehe)

Holds up a recent severed head " Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?"

ok start the thread a rolling! Let's see if we can find a storyteller

 

[Catulle]

Still need a storyteller. Should I start a thread begging for one?

Absolutely. Sabbat gooood....

Regards,

Barry