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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 622671" data-attributes="member: 1194">great questions.Since you mentioned it, I'll address both.The reason that Caitlyn has such high skill in this arena is because of the 21 freebie points, where I still don't know where they came from other than the bottom of the human sheet.Having a human with such high ability is problematic in 2 ways:1) If a human can be THAT good at something (9 dice), than it kind of devalues the powers that vampires possess (since very few vampires have that much).  Humans normally can only start with max of 3 in skills.2) Caitlyn has nowhere to go now. Her powers can't go higher, since 21 freebies was in lieu of gaining vampire powers. When you're Embraced, the only way I can think to make it work is to only have her gain 3 Disciplines and make her 13th Gen (since she wouldn't have any freebies to put in Generation).I'm not making ANY judgments about Caitlyn, or the characdter sheet - I'm just giving observations about how the game is impacted by rules decisions (it's kind of my bailiwick.Well, that and using rare words that I hope people don't mind having to maybe have to look up from time to time... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />).And how Ash handles this is totally his call, of course.About Victoria - I went into a bit more detail on my story page (linked a few times) on my website.Nikolai's Victoria was an up-and-coming, about-to-make-it singer of the early 90's.She was not nearly as charismatic or beautiful as Caitlyn, though.Talent she had, but not in a very commercial genre (think Loreena McKennit, or Milla Jovovich, etc)While publicity might easily have entered into it, my story didn't have it as a highly-publicized case.I'd actually never thought about that.(Let me think)It WAS a while ago, and it never made a big splash.Nikolai was acquitted, and the murderer never found. (of course, Nik couldn't tell them what had ACTUALLY happened)Nik has changed much through the long years (over 10), and dropped out of society long ago.I guess it's a matter of public record, so if his identity became known to the general public, someone might recognize him.He doesn't exactly interact with the public that much these days, and he's fairly recently moved back to the States.He spends his time in the Chantry a lot, but does go out for excitement and research.Open question: Do we as Vampires have NY State ID's? Passports? How would we establish an identity when a lot of our ages just don't jive with our looks?I guess we are all recent enough to still use our real identities - hmm.. interesting thoughts.I like bringing the characters more to life by thinking it thru...</blockquote>

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