Ashrem Bayle
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Will the game begin with us crawling free of the grave? If not, exactly how much time has passed?
Vampire: the Masquerade - The Sabbat [Rated R]
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Ashrem Bayle
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Shalimar said:
Well... that depends on what you need done, why you want it done, and what you can do for him.
Actually, once he starts down the Path of Metamorphosis he may stop altering others except to disfigure and hurt them. If you come to him because you want to look pretty, he will probably turn you down. If you come seeking "perfection", he might help you out. That is, assuming he agrees with your concept of perfection. He may instead decide to "perfect" you his own way.
However, at the start of the chronical, he will be more concerned with using his new powers for amusement. So yea, at first it will be pretty easy to convince him. However, he will probably want something in return.
After all, the vampiric form is unchangable. The Tzimisce are the only ones capable of change, and causing change. They know this, and they don't hand out favors lightly.
Mwahaha! This will be fun.
EDIT - The revised version of Ash that I am working on will be 9th gen. All changes he does to vampires of 10gen + will be permanent. Changes to vampires of 9th gen and lower will be healed as aggravated damage. I'm not sure if the damage is automaticly healed, or if it is done willingly. That call is up to Toki.
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Shalimar
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How about Kat won't kick his ass? She lets him work with the almost perfect canvas that is herself ? Er maybe he just needs a good lay? If he is a tatoo artist then he aand she have some of the same tastes, probably, well at least till he really starts down the path.
I think though her requests are going to be rather tame, at first. Maybe a row of tiny bone spurs going down her spine and ending over her butt, sharpening her nails maybe. Just cosmetic stuff at first. And may I say about the moving you ribs around and stuff like that, ICK! though maybe moving your heart up and into your skull could be cool, and pretty well protected.
? Er maybe he just needs a good lay? If he is a tatoo artist then he aand she have some of the same tastes, probably, well at least till he really starts down the path.I think though her requests are going to be rather tame, at first. Maybe a row of tiny bone spurs going down her spine and ending over her butt, sharpening her nails maybe. Just cosmetic stuff at first. And may I say about the moving you ribs around and stuff like that, ICK! though maybe moving your heart up and into your skull could be cool, and pretty well protected.
Ashrem Bayle
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Shalimar said:
He wouldn't have a problem with that early on. I'm sure it wouldn't take much to convince him.
My work here is done.
I'm adding a little more to Ash's personality and will be posting it in a few. I already had him pretty well worked out, but I feel better now that it is in ink ...err... pixels..... whatever.
Ashrem Bayle
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Shalimar said:
You could, but you may regret it once he attains the Horrid Form.
Mwahahaa just one little dot away.....
Ashrem Bayle
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Rough Draft #2 - A little less rough.
Ash Bratovich
9th Generation Tzimisce (Bratovich)
Nature: Visionary
Demeanor: Monster / Visionary
Concept: Pack Priest
Sire: Deitrich
Physical
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 3
Stamina: 2
Social
Charisma: 2
Manipulation: 3
Appearance: 2 (Originally 1, but increased with Vicissitude)
Mental
Perception: 3
Intelligence: 4
Wits: 3
Talents
Alertness: 2
Athletics: 2
Brawl: 2
Dodge: 2
Empathy: 0
Expression: 0
Intimidation: 0
Leadership: 0
Streetwise: 1
Subterfuge: 0
Skills
Animal Ken: 0
Crafts (Body): 3
Drive: 1
Etiquette: 0
Firearms: 0
Melee: 1
Performance: 0
Security: 0
Survival: 0
Stealth :0
Knowledges
Academics: 3
Computer: 0
Finance: 0
Investigation: 1
Law: 0
Linguistics: 1 (Spanish)
Medicine: 2
Occult: 3
Politics: 0
Science: 3
Disciplines
Vicissitude: 3
Auspex: 1
Virtues
Conscience: 1
Self Control: 2
Courage: 5
The Path of Humanity: 3
Blood Pool: 14 Max
Willpower: 7
Backgrounds
Resources:1 (Money is often taken from prey.)
Generation:4
Mentor:1 (Deitrich teaches Ash flesh crafting techniques and about the Path of Metamorphosis)
Clan Weakness
Ash sleeps with a handful of soil taken from the sight of his embrace and burial.
Possessions
Remington 870P: Dmg 8
Reinforced clothing: (Bashing: +2, Melee: +1)
Appearance
At first glance, Ash looks like the typical street punk of the times. He looks to have been embraced in his late teens or early twenties. Being a tattoo artist in his semi-mortal life, he is covered in various forms of “tribal art” and imagery. The centerpiece, is a black sun adorning his chest, with various patterns radiating outward. Dragons intertwine down his arms and it seems the only place free of art is his face.
As a revenant of the Bratovich family, he had learned a bit about the fleshcrafting arts even before his embrace into Clan Tzimisce. Born an unattractive child, Ash has made great strides to rectify this. His body is perfectly symmetrical and he still continues to this night to augment and “perfect” his physical form. However, it will take a great deal of effort to overcome the hand he was dealt at birth. A smaller change take the form of sharpened, black fingernails.
In private, Ash wears a dark red and black robes cut to accent his heavily modified body. In public, he wears black leather pants, combat boots, and a long black leather trench coat. No matter what time of year, he wears no shirt underneath the coat. He prefers to show off his body art. He does however; wear a pair of small ruby red John Lennon style sunglasses when in public to cover his frightening eyes. His preternatural senses are only slightly hampered by wearing the glasses at night.
He has long black hair that is typically worn in dozens on tiny braids. His hair is very short on the sides and in the back and the length of his hair on top hangs down to the middle of his back. Intricate patterns adorn both sides and the back of his head. However, unless his hair is pulled up, you wouldn’t know the sides and back where so short.
Background
Ash came to Spain from Romania in 1972. His family was in the service of an influential Tzimisce who required them to make the move with him. Mere days after their arrival, their master Zantoff Dracov was diablorized by his childe, Deitrich. Deitrich had no use for the revenant family at the time, and so left them on their own.
The Bratoviches, along with Ash, decided to stay in Barcelona and make a new life for themselves free of their undead master. However, a year ago, Deitrich decided to check up on the former servants of his sire. When he encountered Ash working in a tattoo parlor, he decided the young revenant might make a good candidate for the embrace.
Ash was definitely different from the others his age. His revenant heritage gave him incredible strength, health, and he had managed to learn a little about the art of fleshcrafting. Despite this, he kept his background secret and went on to attend collage like a normal human though he knew there was more out there for him. It seemed Spain had a lot more to offer than the backwoods hills of Romania.
Ash continued going to school and with his work at the parlor, unknowing that he was being watched. His studies in the fields of science and philosophy, as well as his aptitude with the flesh, kept Deitrich interested. Finally, a mass embrace was to be held, and he decided to give Ash the gift of immortality.
Ash survived the ordeal, and quickly began adapting to life as a vampire. He had always known about them, but was never allowed to take part. Now was his chance. Unlike most fledglings, Ash took to his new form with zeal. Life had just gotten a lot more interesting.
Personality
Ash has always led a hard life. Despite being a very intelligent and deep minded person, he enjoys getting lost in the mindlessness of loud music and chaos. Having grown up in a family devoted to the servitude of a Fiend, Ash always admired his liege’s power and the respect he commanded. The few times he saw his master, he was shaken and awed. He dreamed of one day being like him.
Despite his pseudo-mortality, Ash has never been very humane. As a child he delighted at the sense of power he gained from killing small animals. As he grew, this only got worse. He was a bully to the other kids, and loved to hunt animals to prove his dominance. As he developed a limited use of Vicissitude, he would often capture his prey alive and experiment with it. Now, as an adult, he still has some of those same desires. He is very experimental and has a strong thirst for knowledge.
Perhaps due to his extremely dysfunctional childhood, Ash suffers from what almost seems to be multiple personalities. He can go from howling at the moon in an orgy of blood to a state of quiet introspection and enlightenment.
His desire to learn is only matched by his desire for pleasure. He lived a mortal life of “sex, drugs, and rock and roll”. As a vampire, his lifestyle has changed to “blood, soul, and rock and roll”.
He has always considered himself a step above the mortal cattle of the world. He has been in jail multiple times for arson, armed robbery, and assault and battery. Now, as a vampire, he knows that there are no boundaries that can’t be crossed and he intends to cross them all.
Ash Bratovich
9th Generation Tzimisce (Bratovich)
Nature: Visionary
Demeanor: Monster / Visionary
Concept: Pack Priest
Sire: Deitrich
Physical
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 3
Stamina: 2
Social
Charisma: 2
Manipulation: 3
Appearance: 2 (Originally 1, but increased with Vicissitude)
Mental
Perception: 3
Intelligence: 4
Wits: 3
Talents
Alertness: 2
Athletics: 2
Brawl: 2
Dodge: 2
Empathy: 0
Expression: 0
Intimidation: 0
Leadership: 0
Streetwise: 1
Subterfuge: 0
Skills
Animal Ken: 0
Crafts (Body): 3
Drive: 1
Etiquette: 0
Firearms: 0
Melee: 1
Performance: 0
Security: 0
Survival: 0
Stealth :0
Knowledges
Academics: 3
Computer: 0
Finance: 0
Investigation: 1
Law: 0
Linguistics: 1 (Spanish)
Medicine: 2
Occult: 3
Politics: 0
Science: 3
Disciplines
Vicissitude: 3
Auspex: 1
Virtues
Conscience: 1
Self Control: 2
Courage: 5
The Path of Humanity: 3
Blood Pool: 14 Max
Willpower: 7
Backgrounds
Resources:1 (Money is often taken from prey.)
Generation:4
Mentor:1 (Deitrich teaches Ash flesh crafting techniques and about the Path of Metamorphosis)
Clan Weakness
Ash sleeps with a handful of soil taken from the sight of his embrace and burial.
Possessions
Remington 870P: Dmg 8
Reinforced clothing: (Bashing: +2, Melee: +1)
Appearance
At first glance, Ash looks like the typical street punk of the times. He looks to have been embraced in his late teens or early twenties. Being a tattoo artist in his semi-mortal life, he is covered in various forms of “tribal art” and imagery. The centerpiece, is a black sun adorning his chest, with various patterns radiating outward. Dragons intertwine down his arms and it seems the only place free of art is his face.
As a revenant of the Bratovich family, he had learned a bit about the fleshcrafting arts even before his embrace into Clan Tzimisce. Born an unattractive child, Ash has made great strides to rectify this. His body is perfectly symmetrical and he still continues to this night to augment and “perfect” his physical form. However, it will take a great deal of effort to overcome the hand he was dealt at birth. A smaller change take the form of sharpened, black fingernails.
In private, Ash wears a dark red and black robes cut to accent his heavily modified body. In public, he wears black leather pants, combat boots, and a long black leather trench coat. No matter what time of year, he wears no shirt underneath the coat. He prefers to show off his body art. He does however; wear a pair of small ruby red John Lennon style sunglasses when in public to cover his frightening eyes. His preternatural senses are only slightly hampered by wearing the glasses at night.
He has long black hair that is typically worn in dozens on tiny braids. His hair is very short on the sides and in the back and the length of his hair on top hangs down to the middle of his back. Intricate patterns adorn both sides and the back of his head. However, unless his hair is pulled up, you wouldn’t know the sides and back where so short.
Background
Ash came to Spain from Romania in 1972. His family was in the service of an influential Tzimisce who required them to make the move with him. Mere days after their arrival, their master Zantoff Dracov was diablorized by his childe, Deitrich. Deitrich had no use for the revenant family at the time, and so left them on their own.
The Bratoviches, along with Ash, decided to stay in Barcelona and make a new life for themselves free of their undead master. However, a year ago, Deitrich decided to check up on the former servants of his sire. When he encountered Ash working in a tattoo parlor, he decided the young revenant might make a good candidate for the embrace.
Ash was definitely different from the others his age. His revenant heritage gave him incredible strength, health, and he had managed to learn a little about the art of fleshcrafting. Despite this, he kept his background secret and went on to attend collage like a normal human though he knew there was more out there for him. It seemed Spain had a lot more to offer than the backwoods hills of Romania.
Ash continued going to school and with his work at the parlor, unknowing that he was being watched. His studies in the fields of science and philosophy, as well as his aptitude with the flesh, kept Deitrich interested. Finally, a mass embrace was to be held, and he decided to give Ash the gift of immortality.
Ash survived the ordeal, and quickly began adapting to life as a vampire. He had always known about them, but was never allowed to take part. Now was his chance. Unlike most fledglings, Ash took to his new form with zeal. Life had just gotten a lot more interesting.
Personality
Ash has always led a hard life. Despite being a very intelligent and deep minded person, he enjoys getting lost in the mindlessness of loud music and chaos. Having grown up in a family devoted to the servitude of a Fiend, Ash always admired his liege’s power and the respect he commanded. The few times he saw his master, he was shaken and awed. He dreamed of one day being like him.
Despite his pseudo-mortality, Ash has never been very humane. As a child he delighted at the sense of power he gained from killing small animals. As he grew, this only got worse. He was a bully to the other kids, and loved to hunt animals to prove his dominance. As he developed a limited use of Vicissitude, he would often capture his prey alive and experiment with it. Now, as an adult, he still has some of those same desires. He is very experimental and has a strong thirst for knowledge.
Perhaps due to his extremely dysfunctional childhood, Ash suffers from what almost seems to be multiple personalities. He can go from howling at the moon in an orgy of blood to a state of quiet introspection and enlightenment.
His desire to learn is only matched by his desire for pleasure. He lived a mortal life of “sex, drugs, and rock and roll”. As a vampire, his lifestyle has changed to “blood, soul, and rock and roll”.
He has always considered himself a step above the mortal cattle of the world. He has been in jail multiple times for arson, armed robbery, and assault and battery. Now, as a vampire, he knows that there are no boundaries that can’t be crossed and he intends to cross them all.
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Shalimar
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Well she wouldn't know he could eventually enter into the form, so she would kick his butt now anyway, Create a cloud of darkness so he couldn't see, then go to town on him with her potence enhanced, and possibly blood enhanced strength. We might turn out to be too tough for anything but a war pack.
Ashrem Bayle
Explorer
Shalimar said:
To a degree, war is a way of life for the Sabbat.
As far as the Horrid Form goes, I have to say I love it for its role playing potential as much as it's butt kicking potential.
There is the universal question: "Why do all the Tzimisce have the same war form?"
Which reminds me, I never got an answer from our illustrious Storyteller about Vicissitude being a disease. If I get a vote, I'd say yes. I like the fact that some Tzimisce can learn it faster at the cost of their sanity and I have already played upon that a little in Ash's background. He isn't exactly 100% stable.
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