We finally met up with our Gangrel's sire again. The elder vampire I basically tattled on to the Prince. The one who snuck into our haven one night to deliver our (staked, unconscious) socialite party member, and a demand for a meeting.
I had just received training in viewing auras. What I saw was... terrifying. I was hoping for some honorable warrior guy, who would appreciate my bravery in coming to the meeting. Who might give me a thrashing, but let me go.
His aura was purple, with a shadowy tinge. Veins of pure black ran through it.
Aggressive hatred, and the stain of diablerie. This elder vampire ate souls.
Our socialite had never met this elder. She held her ground for 6 seconds, turned, and ran as her beast screamed in terror. He laughed.
My beast was under control. *I* tried to run, terrified of the stain of diablerie. Instead, thanks to my derangement, I stood there narrating my horror out loud. He didn't laugh, just told me running wouldn't help. To approach. I had spotted his three allies skulking nearby. I trembled and obeyed, pinning all hope on this monster having mercy... or no, a purpose.
Well, it was close. He wanted to satisfy his curiosity before devouring my soul. My stammered explanations were... true, but not convincing. I tried to explain that I had badmouthed him to save his childe from the prince. But when we called her, she didn't answer...
Fortunately it was because she was sprinting to the meeting place after all. She appeared as a raggedy cat, missing most of her fur from serious aggravated damage. In summary, she (somewhat disinterestedly) admitted that I had helped clean up her... massacres, on at least 2 serious occasions. I had to desperately prompt her a bit, IC.
So yeah. It turned out okay in the end. My character kept his soul *and* is still
alive undead, and only had to promise a unspecified favor in the near future.
Situation...
Okay 5 hours later we're in the sewers visiting the Lancea Sanctum and we're covered in shit.
Our socialite vampire decided that instead of feeding off someone, she'd just drank 3 gallons of pigs blood.
She got 1 vitae back from it- Requiem is very severe about feeding from animals and from stored blood.
I was laughing my ass off with everyone else, but my character felt sick and left for a while. Being Jewish. And also it was 3 gallons of freakin pig's blood.
that's pretty amazing considering the normal human stomach capacity is a bit more than one gallon
Yeah, fortunately the blood is instantly transmuted into vitae as it's drunk. In this case, a veeery tiny trickle of vitae despite chugging gallons as fast as possible. Basically the rest of the matter is destroyed, leaving only the magic telekinetic "liquid" that powers vampires. Though she did have to make a will+composure to avoid throwing up, since animal blood tastes horrible. Particularly compared to fresh human blood.