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<blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 3932010" data-attributes="member: 3087"><p><strong>Cole's Prelude 1</strong></p><p></p><p>Everything comes back in a rush of pain and fire. You're drinking lava, it runs through your veins, scouring your body. In the wake of scouring pain comes a return of awareness. You can feel your body again. You bring your hands to your face, they're withered. Your skin is pale, like marble; your whole body seems to be made of wrinkled pale marble.</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Condition]</p><p>You've got 4 blood points; you're <em>hungry</em>. You've used the rest to reflexively heal. You still have 4 boxes filled with lethal damage: reflecting your body's withered state.</p><p>You have 2 Willpower points.</p><p></p><p>Your memories prior to the embrace are very blurry, and what can dredge up is unclear, muddled and bafflingly contradictory. You remember your sire and some details of your embrace but after that things get weird. You remember being in Egypt, in Cairo; adjusting to your unlife; trying to protect some business interests; meeting with your partners (in daylight!); an attack, first by a man with a gun and then by some kind of bazaar dog-men with knives.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>You are in a small windowless room, like an office. The room is dimly lit, with wooden walls on all sides, showing no hint of the time of night (or day). It's cool, the room is dry. You know you're not in Egypt anymore. Egypt's never this cool.</p><p></p><p>Your lying on your back on a long low wooden table. Your eyes are drawn to a distinguished looking white man with receding blond hair sitting behind a desk. You feel a sense of affection for him (Vinculum 1). He's also a vampire, and your beast roars feebly in your breast.</p><p>Other than the man behind the desk you see two other people. An attractive, pale skinned woman in a long green dress regards you. Your eyes lock, your beast snarls again. There is a pudgy Indian man is sitting in a chair by the door. His hands are clasped. As his eyes meet yours he smiles warmly, revealing fangs.</p><p></p><p>None of the three people say anything, they just watch you. You can taste blood on your lips, and smell it around you. Next to you, on the table is a large silver dish, filled with blood. The sight of the blood overcomes you, heedless of anything else you pull it to your face. </p><p></p><p>The sound of your frenzied slurping fills the otherwise silent room. </p><p></p><p>Eventually the bowl is emptied, with an act of will you manage to control yourself and set the disk down without giving in to the desire to lick it clean.</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Frenzy Checks]</p><p>Invisible Castle is acting up. I gave you the three predator's frenzy checks, so you didn't fly into Rötschreck and run around the room like a spaz when you saw the other three vampires. But I had Cole flub your Wassail (hunger frenzy) check, you were forced to immediately drink all the blood (your Vice makes it more justifiable -- and four successful rolls was a bit improbable). Since you're pretty savvy we'll say you managed to get control of the frenzy when you finished off most of the blood.[/slbock]</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Condition]</p><p>You've got 6 blood points; you're no longer <em>hungry</em>. You've used one to heal another lethal wound. You still have 3 boxes filled with lethal damage reflecting your body's withered state.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>The big man stands by the desk now he's tall with oversized hands; his face is dominated by a huge nose giving him a birdlike mien. His voice is deep, and agreeable "<span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Ah have to admit, you're the first mummy Ah've met. And a white fellow at that. Didn't know they made white mummies.</span>" The man's presence is overwhelming, for a moment it seems as if the room almost bends, like he's the central figure in some religious painting lines in the room point directly at the saint's head.</p><p></p><p>[sblock=LB Awe v Cole]</p><p>You've been <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?a=new" target="_blank"><em>awed<em> by the man</em></em></a><em><em>. With his four successes he's going to be rolling a total of 15 dice against you in social checks. Just so you know.[/sblock]</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>His paw like hands punctuate his speech. "<span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Ah'm Lucias, Lucias Bancroft. You can call me LB,</span>" He has a strong southern accent, he draws out his initials so that it sounds like he's saying "eell bee". He sweeps out a big arm catching you by the shoulder and guiding you toward one wood-paneled wall. "<span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Ah suppose we could try to do this slow. But ah figure that it's better to just give it to you straight.</span>" He taps something on the wall, with a thrumming sound the wall rises. Beyond the wall is a window.</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>You've seen pictures of the future; futurists tossing improbable visions about. You've known people who sneered about the improbably of the photos shown at the Brazilian expo around the 1900s. In front of you what can only be buildings shoot up like pillars. You realize you must be in one of those pillars, starting out over a canyon made entirely by the hands of man. Across from you, something, an oval body under whirring blades takes off, floating lazily through the sky.</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>"<span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">Welcome, sir, to the ____ing future.</span>"</em></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><em><em>When you manage to tear your gaze away from the window you find LB smiling genially at you his long arm encircling your shoulders, "<span style="color: DeepSkyBlue">So, tell me a bit about yourself, mah friend.</span>"</em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graf, post: 3932010, member: 3087"] [b]Cole's Prelude 1[/b] Everything comes back in a rush of pain and fire. You're drinking lava, it runs through your veins, scouring your body. In the wake of scouring pain comes a return of awareness. You can feel your body again. You bring your hands to your face, they're withered. Your skin is pale, like marble; your whole body seems to be made of wrinkled pale marble. [sblock=Condition] You've got 4 blood points; you're [i]hungry[/i]. You've used the rest to reflexively heal. You still have 4 boxes filled with lethal damage: reflecting your body's withered state. You have 2 Willpower points. Your memories prior to the embrace are very blurry, and what can dredge up is unclear, muddled and bafflingly contradictory. You remember your sire and some details of your embrace but after that things get weird. You remember being in Egypt, in Cairo; adjusting to your unlife; trying to protect some business interests; meeting with your partners (in daylight!); an attack, first by a man with a gun and then by some kind of bazaar dog-men with knives.[/sblock] You are in a small windowless room, like an office. The room is dimly lit, with wooden walls on all sides, showing no hint of the time of night (or day). It's cool, the room is dry. You know you're not in Egypt anymore. Egypt's never this cool. Your lying on your back on a long low wooden table. Your eyes are drawn to a distinguished looking white man with receding blond hair sitting behind a desk. You feel a sense of affection for him (Vinculum 1). He's also a vampire, and your beast roars feebly in your breast. Other than the man behind the desk you see two other people. An attractive, pale skinned woman in a long green dress regards you. Your eyes lock, your beast snarls again. There is a pudgy Indian man is sitting in a chair by the door. His hands are clasped. As his eyes meet yours he smiles warmly, revealing fangs. None of the three people say anything, they just watch you. You can taste blood on your lips, and smell it around you. Next to you, on the table is a large silver dish, filled with blood. The sight of the blood overcomes you, heedless of anything else you pull it to your face. The sound of your frenzied slurping fills the otherwise silent room. Eventually the bowl is emptied, with an act of will you manage to control yourself and set the disk down without giving in to the desire to lick it clean. [sblock=Frenzy Checks] Invisible Castle is acting up. I gave you the three predator's frenzy checks, so you didn't fly into Rötschreck and run around the room like a spaz when you saw the other three vampires. But I had Cole flub your Wassail (hunger frenzy) check, you were forced to immediately drink all the blood (your Vice makes it more justifiable -- and four successful rolls was a bit improbable). Since you're pretty savvy we'll say you managed to get control of the frenzy when you finished off most of the blood.[/slbock] [sblock=Condition] You've got 6 blood points; you're no longer [i]hungry[/i]. You've used one to heal another lethal wound. You still have 3 boxes filled with lethal damage reflecting your body's withered state.[/sblock] The big man stands by the desk now he's tall with oversized hands; his face is dominated by a huge nose giving him a birdlike mien. His voice is deep, and agreeable "[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Ah have to admit, you're the first mummy Ah've met. And a white fellow at that. Didn't know they made white mummies.[/COLOR]" The man's presence is overwhelming, for a moment it seems as if the room almost bends, like he's the central figure in some religious painting lines in the room point directly at the saint's head. [sblock=LB Awe v Cole] You've been [url=http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?a=new][i]awed[i] by the man[/i][/i][/url][i][i]. With his four successes he's going to be rolling a total of 15 dice against you in social checks. Just so you know.[/sblock] His paw like hands punctuate his speech. "[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Ah'm Lucias, Lucias Bancroft. You can call me LB,[/COLOR]" He has a strong southern accent, he draws out his initials so that it sounds like he's saying "eell bee". He sweeps out a big arm catching you by the shoulder and guiding you toward one wood-paneled wall. "[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Ah suppose we could try to do this slow. But ah figure that it's better to just give it to you straight.[/COLOR]" He taps something on the wall, with a thrumming sound the wall rises. Beyond the wall is a window. You've seen pictures of the future; futurists tossing improbable visions about. You've known people who sneered about the improbably of the photos shown at the Brazilian expo around the 1900s. In front of you what can only be buildings shoot up like pillars. You realize you must be in one of those pillars, starting out over a canyon made entirely by the hands of man. Across from you, something, an oval body under whirring blades takes off, floating lazily through the sky. "[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Welcome, sir, to the ____ing future.[/COLOR]" When you manage to tear your gaze away from the window you find LB smiling genially at you his long arm encircling your shoulders, "[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]So, tell me a bit about yourself, mah friend.[/COLOR]"[/i][/i] [/QUOTE]
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