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<blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4021751" data-attributes="member: 3087"><p><span style="color: Orange">Nice didn't <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3981011&highlight=traditions#post3981011" target="_blank">mention the first tradition</a>? Wow.</span> <strong>Snicker </strong>looks at <strong>Gorilla</strong>. T<span style="color: Orange">hat's not so OK. I mean. He's gotta get with the program.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Orange">OK. The first tradition is like the big rule. Everybody, even people who are stupid, or really really evil, protect the first tradition. </span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow">The Herd Shall Not Know</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">Right. The herd's bloodbags, mortals, humans whatever you want to call them. They don't know. You don't use disciplines in front of them, or show your vampire side or whatever.</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange"></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">Beating a guy to death with a baseball bat? OK.</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">Leaving behind bloodless corpses with teeth marks? Not OK.</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange"></span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow">Good answer.</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">Huh? Oh yeah. So right, generally the first tradition is super-important</span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow">Sacrosanct</span>.</p><p><span style="color: Orange">Right OK. Sure Sacro-whatever. But it only applies to mortals. So you pick up a car in front of a mortal and the whole city'll want you dead. You get into a fight with a lupine, that's a werewolf, someplace deserted, and hit him with a big rock? Cool. </span></p><p><span style="color: Orange"></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">That's why we don't show up in mirrors, or on video, or whatever. Supposedly. Cause the first tradition is like, mystical and breaking it is like a violation of... of...</span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow">the natural order?</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">Sure. OK.</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange"></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">So that chick in there, behind the counter? Not a vampire. Not human either. She's a.... well... just between you and me she's a ghoul.</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">Now that's a violation of the second tradition. Cause you can't make new vampires or new ghouls. Now the guy who made her, he's a putz.</span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow">Young</span>, Gorilla huffs.</p><p><span style="color: Orange">He's an idiot. He's made her his ghoul. He's still acting like a mortal. Wants to have a girlfriend, all that noise.</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange"></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">She's not a proper ghoul though. She doesn't protect him during the day, or help him feed or the stuff that ghouls are supposed to do. But if he keeps up with her being his ghoul, then she's gonna get blood bound. And then she'll be following him around, forever.</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange"></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">So we're gonna help her, help his ass, by showing her that maybe she doesn't want to be a ghoul no more. But, you know, not so much as to get <strong>LB</strong> finding out, cause right now he's itching to dispense some justice. And this idiot, he's still a Nos.</span></p><p><span style="color: Orange"></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">So, go in there, and freak her out a bit.</span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow"><em>Monstrous Countenance.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">Right, so when you go in, try to <s>hiss and bare your fangs. If you're just a normal vampire you look, kinda dumb. Like you're constipated or whatever.</s> show her the nasty. </span></p><p><span style="color: Yellow"><em>Channel your beast</em></span></p><p>yeah totally focus on just letting the beast into your features. It's like letting it borrow your face.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: Orange">It's a Nos thing man. You get it right? Total freakout.</span></p><p></p><p><em>OOC: edited to correct for errata to Monstrous Countenance.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graf, post: 4021751, member: 3087"] [COLOR=Orange]Nice didn't [url=http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3981011&highlight=traditions#post3981011]mention the first tradition[/url]? Wow.[/COLOR] [B]Snicker [/B]looks at [B]Gorilla[/B]. T[COLOR=Orange]hat's not so OK. I mean. He's gotta get with the program.[/COLOR] [COLOR=Orange]OK. The first tradition is like the big rule. Everybody, even people who are stupid, or really really evil, protect the first tradition. [/COLOR] [COLOR=Yellow]The Herd Shall Not Know[/COLOR] [COLOR=Orange]Right. The herd's bloodbags, mortals, humans whatever you want to call them. They don't know. You don't use disciplines in front of them, or show your vampire side or whatever. Beating a guy to death with a baseball bat? OK. Leaving behind bloodless corpses with teeth marks? Not OK. [/COLOR] [COLOR=Yellow]Good answer.[/COLOR] [COLOR=Orange]Huh? Oh yeah. So right, generally the first tradition is super-important[/COLOR] [COLOR=Yellow]Sacrosanct[/COLOR]. [COLOR=Orange]Right OK. Sure Sacro-whatever. But it only applies to mortals. So you pick up a car in front of a mortal and the whole city'll want you dead. You get into a fight with a lupine, that's a werewolf, someplace deserted, and hit him with a big rock? Cool. That's why we don't show up in mirrors, or on video, or whatever. Supposedly. Cause the first tradition is like, mystical and breaking it is like a violation of... of...[/COLOR] [COLOR=Yellow]the natural order?[/COLOR] [COLOR=Orange]Sure. OK. So that chick in there, behind the counter? Not a vampire. Not human either. She's a.... well... just between you and me she's a ghoul. Now that's a violation of the second tradition. Cause you can't make new vampires or new ghouls. Now the guy who made her, he's a putz.[/COLOR] [COLOR=Yellow]Young[/COLOR], Gorilla huffs. [COLOR=Orange]He's an idiot. He's made her his ghoul. He's still acting like a mortal. Wants to have a girlfriend, all that noise. She's not a proper ghoul though. She doesn't protect him during the day, or help him feed or the stuff that ghouls are supposed to do. But if he keeps up with her being his ghoul, then she's gonna get blood bound. And then she'll be following him around, forever. So we're gonna help her, help his ass, by showing her that maybe she doesn't want to be a ghoul no more. But, you know, not so much as to get [B]LB[/B] finding out, cause right now he's itching to dispense some justice. And this idiot, he's still a Nos. So, go in there, and freak her out a bit.[/COLOR] [COLOR=Yellow][I]Monstrous Countenance.[/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=Orange]Right, so when you go in, try to [s]hiss and bare your fangs. If you're just a normal vampire you look, kinda dumb. Like you're constipated or whatever.[/s] show her the nasty. [/COLOR] [COLOR=Yellow][I]Channel your beast[/I][/COLOR] yeah totally focus on just letting the beast into your features. It's like letting it borrow your face. [COLOR=Orange]It's a Nos thing man. You get it right? Total freakout.[/COLOR] [I]OOC: edited to correct for errata to Monstrous Countenance.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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