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[Sialia]

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Basic game mechanics, rules, and armoury

How health works:
Your starting health is equal to your stamina.
At -2 or lower you receive -1 dice to all rolls
At -4 you receive -2 dice to all rolls
At -5 you receive -3 dice to all rolls
At -6 you receive -4 dice to all rolls
At -7 you become unconscious
At -10 you enter torpor (Permanent unconsciousness where you can only be revived by drinking blood). If aggravated damage (such as fire or silver, or the bite of another vampire) takes you to -10 or lower, you die.
If your head is cut off, you also die.

How leveling up works:
When leveling up, the costs are as follows:
Attributes cost 9 exp per level
Abilities cost 5 exp per level
Disciplines cost 7 exp per level
All these max at 5 for now.

At this stage I am limiting the clans available to the characters to a roughly physical class, roughly social, and roughly intellectual, as otherwise the sheer number of clans will have this game get out of hand very quickly, and because I don't want to implement things like changing forms into animals.

The Masquerade:
Vampires have an accord with each other that none shall breach the masquerade. This means they do not reveal themselves to the mortal world. Breach of the masquerade can result in imprisonment, slavery or death, depending on what the local law is.

Spoiler: Clans (click to show/hide)

Clans:

Brujah - Fortitude, Potence, Celerity. Clan flaw: +2 difficulty to all rolls requiring anger management, including frenzy.

Ventrue - Dominate, Fortitude, Presence. Clan flaw: Ventrue have a picky taste in blood and must feed from a sort of person with a predisposed attribute. Eg. some will not feed from the poor. Failure to do so will not refill the blood pool.

Malkavian - Auspex, Obfuscate, Dementation. Clan flaw: Malkavians have one permanent derangement. This is one way in which they are crazy, be it depression, paranoia, or hearing voices.

Blood pool:
The blood pool, filled with blood points. Each player starts with a blood pool of 10, this must be refilled by feeding on humans. Taking 10 from one human will kill them, and doing so regularly can become dangerous, as one becomes a serial killer (This may breach the masquerade). Only one blood point can be spent per turn.


New vampires will start with three levels to distribute among any of their clan's disciplines.

Spoiler: Disciplines (click to show/hide)

 
Fortitude (No roll required): Each point of fortitude soaks one point of damage in attacks against the character upon spending a blood point. This power requires no roll for success and occurs for each and every attack against the vampire that turn.

Potence (No roll required): The player may spend a blood point to add twice their potence level to their strength for the current turn.

Celerity (Roll Celerity level): The player may spend a blood point in the CURRENT turn to roll dice equal to their celerity level, then take an extra action in the NEXT turn for each success. When using celerity, players cannot also activate Celerity, meaning this can only be active every second turn.

Dominate (Manipulation + Intimidation): Being a social/intellectual discipline, this has levels which can be activated with a blood point per power used
Level one: You can give a one word command that must be obeyed
Level two: By holding the victim in your gaze, you are able to implant false thoughts
Level three: You may rewrite a memory of the target.
Level four: Over time, the target may be made a slave to no will but your own. This may be done without a blood bond
Level five: You may transfer your mind into a mortal body and control their will.

Presence (Presence + Persuasion): Spend a blood point for any of the below
Level one: The victim(s) have an extremely strong attraction to the user, and enjoy their company. They will remember this attraction upon future encounters. Works in AoE.
Level two: The victim (Singular) is placed into unimaginable terror. They may run or be frozen in place, and they will remember this and fear the user upon the next encounter.
Level three: The victim obsessively wishes to please the user, this occupies most thoughts.
Level four: The user can compel someone to come to them immediately from anywhere. This is limited by physical distance, the victim may require time to get there.
Level five: The user appears as a figure of absolute power and authority in the mind of the victims. Use is AoE.

Auspex (Wits + Divination): Spend a blood point for any of the following
Level one: Heighten one of the five senses to superhuman levels. This may be used to perceive ghosts.
Level two: You perceive the aura of a person. This may be used to tell their emotions and perceive when they are lying.
Level three: Learn some of the history of an object from touching it. Can be used on dead tissue, does not work on living organisms as the history is too complex.
Level four: Probe minds for information. Can also be used to send telepathic messages or plant a thought in a mind that may not belong to them.
Level five: The user may leave their body to roam the world in an astral form. They may use their other abilities whilst in this state but may not physically influence the world around them and cannot be seen except for their aura.
Bonus: Vampires with a certain level of Auspex may use it to see through obfuscate of an equivalent level without spending blood points (This occurs naturally). This may only be used with a roll of wits + awareness vs the obfuscator’s manipulation + subterfuge

Obfuscate (Composure + Subterfuge): Spend a blood point for each of the following
Level one: Remain hidden so long as you do not move
Level two: Remain hidden to others so long as you do not attract attention to yourself
Level three: Change your appearance, mannerisms and voice to mimic someone else.
Level four: Vanish completely from right in front of someone
Level five: Your powers may be used over a group of up to ten people, or to cover a vehicle.

Dementation (Manipulation + Empathy): Spend a blood point for any of the following
Level one: Dull or amplify emotions, increasing or decreasing the difficulty of frenzy, terror or other emotion related rolls.
Level two: Inflict maddening visions upon the victim
Level three: Gain insights through patterns that to others may seem random. The GM will give you a random piece of useful information upon success.
Level four: Suppress part of the victim's mind, making them confused, enraged or catatonic
Level five: Give someone five temporary derangements, making them utterly insane
Derangements will be implemented upon personal discussion with the GM. If you want more information, feel free to PM me. Any discussed derangements will be implemented and placed in a derangement section in this post.

Protean (Stamina + Animal Ken): Spend a blood point on one of the following
Level One: The vampire sees, hears and smells with their beast. Heightened sight, hearing and smell all occur at once, however this is very obvious as the eyes, nose and ears become that of the beast. This is a breach of the masquerade if viewed by a human.
Level Two: Morph part of the body into an animalistic weapon. May be tail, claws, or snout and teeth. Only one instance of level two may be active at a time. Costs one blood point every four turns. The vampire may only change their form back by refusing to spend that blood point, meaning this ability may break the masquerade easily. The damage provided by this ability is always aggravated damage and is equal to Str + 4.
Level Three: Meld one’s own form into the earth to hide and/or rest. This occurs instantly. City gangrel may only meld into concrete surfaces, where country gangrel may only meld into earthen surfaces.
Level Four: Transform into your combat or noncombat animal form.  Your combat form will have appropriate combat bonuses predetermined by the GM upon character creation. Your noncombat form will also be predetermined and may have such bonuses as enhanced vision in eagles etc. It is recommended that your noncombat form blend into the environment. A snowy owl will not be an appropriate choice in a desert environment, as you will not blend in very well. Protean transformations do not carry clothes or equipment, however some Gangrels do have special harnesses made for carrying equipment. Level four costs two blood points to activate and two blood points to slip back out of, changing back to human. You may spend these blood points on the same turn as though you were not restricted to one blood point per turn. Damage dealt by this form is aggravated.
Level Five: The vampire takes on the form of mist. They may slip under doors or anywhere that air may travel. Sunlight is not as damaging in this form. The mist is not blown about by winds and the vampire can move at the pace of a brisk walk. This form costs one blood point to enter and has no cost for returning to normal.

Animalism (Manipulation + Animal Ken)
Level One: Speak telepathically with an animal whose eyes you meet. Vampires with animalism 1 may blood bond animals.
Level Two: Summon animals of a particular type to you. You may choose the type at time of use. You may issue a one word command to the collective of animals.
Level Three: Soothe a creature, making them docile, and even help pull vampires from frenzy by calming their beast. This ability also works on humans.
Level Four: Possess the body of an animal. Costs one blood point every four combat turns, or when out of combat one blood point every ten minutes.
Level Five: When about to frenzy send your Beast into another person. Auspex level 4 or higher may roll Auspex level to see if they notice this.

Frenzy:
 In situations where the vampire becomes angry, scared, faces a large threat, is insulted or faces fire (an inherent fear for vampires due to the aggravated damage it deals) a frenzy check occurs. This is a willpower check to determine whether they will go into an uncontrollable state of fight or flight where their actions may not be their own. This will be a composure + resolve check. In addition, blood/feeding frenzies can occur in situations of exposure to an excess of blood.

During frenzy a vampire ignores all negatives to dice rolls that would occur due to low health,
A vampire in frenzy may only use melee attacks
A vampire trying to dominate, presence, dementate or otherwise control the thoughts or actions of a frenzied vampire has +2 difficulty to associated rolls.
A vampire must act accordingly to the kind of frenzy invoked. The character is not in control of their own actions, the 'beast' within is instead in control. This will occur until the stimulus causing the frenzy has been fled from, killed, fed from or removed from the vicinity for a period of time, as appropriate to the sort of frenzy involved.



Social rolls: some examples

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Note that for some of these you will be pitted against defensive rolls by the target
Credibility in telling the truth: Composure + persuasion
Credibility in telling lies: Manipulation + Subterfuge
Interrogation: Manipulation + Intimidation, target rolls defensively their willpower
Speechmaking: Presence + Leadership
Seduction: Presence + Intuition, target rolls Wits + Intuition defensively. If the player succeeds they must then roll Manipulation + Persuasion, target rolls Composure + Awareness defensively. If the player is successful, seduction may occur depending on environment and surroundings.
Providing comfort: Composure + empathy
Telling If someone is lying: Manipulation + Intuition
Impressing a noble vampire at court: Presence + Ettiquite OR Vampire politics (depending on context)

Mental/knowledge rolls: some examples

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Stabilising a bleeding character: Wits + Medicine
Performing rudimentary surgery: Inteligence + Medicine
Sourcing a weapon when none are available: Intelligence + Improvised Weaponry
Knowing how not to piss the Prince off: Intelligence + Vampire Politics/Customs
Starting a campfire: Wits + Survival/Streetwise
Hacking a computer: Wits + Technology
Divining information about the future: Resolve + Divination
Setting up a trap: Resolve + Crafts

Combat:

Spoiler: How attacking a target works: (click to show/hide)

A target may be attacked by rolling the appropriate dice to the attack. You may attack only once per turn.
To fire a firearm: Dex + Firearms
For melee attacking: Str + Melee
For use of improvised weapons, Dex OR Strength may be used depending on the sort of weapon.
Improvised weapons: Dex/Str + Improvised Weapons
A success for the attacker is generally any roll 6 or above.
The target then may dodge by rolling Dex + Dodge to a difficulty of 6 for Melee or 9 for Firearm damage (Though this may drop to 7 if the target is able to dive behind cover)
The attack hits if the attacker gets more successes than the defender. If the number of successes is the same, defender wins.
Critical hits occur when the attacker rolls more 10s than the defender does dodge successes.

Spoiler: How damage works: (click to show/hide)

Melee damage works by adding your melee weapon’s modifier to your strength value. Eg. If a knife is +3, and your strength is 2, it will do 5 damage. If you are simply using your fists, this will be your raw strength value in damage.
Firearms will always deal the ‘damage’ stat of the firearm in damage.
Armour must be taken into consideration as well. See the armour explanation.
 

Spoiler: Who shoots first? (click to show/hide)

Weapons have weight categories. The order of shot is as follows:
Fists > Knives > Pistols > Light > Medium >  Heavy >  Huge
So if someone with an assault rifle posts that they are shooting the thing, then someone on the same turn posts that they are shooting the thing with a pistol, the pistol will still shoot first, regardless of post order.

Spoiler: What happens if I take the time to aim: (click to show/hide)

If you dedicate an entire turn to aiming an attack (either melee or ranged), but do not actually make the attack, you are allowed to make an intelligence roll.  For every success you score, you get two extra dice for that attack, if you make it next turn.  You must be free to act to do this; you can't aim carefully at somebody while you're being shot at, or watched carefully by a guard.

Spoiler: Burst fire and automatic fire: (click to show/hide)

 Burst fire increases the difficulty of your attack rolls by +2, but for every extra success you score above your target's dodge roll, you hit with another bullet--up to three maximum. 
Automatic fire is much the same, except difficulty is increased by +4, and you can hit up to ten times. 
Regardless of how many times you hit, you expend three rounds burst firing, and ten rounds auto firing.

Spoiler: How does my range affect my attack? (click to show/hide)

At long range, you can take an extra +2 or +4 difficulty depending on how far you are, or have -4 difficulty at very close range (~15 feet or closer).  Be careful though; at that range, an opponent might be able to close to melee where your gun becomes mostly ineffective.

Spoiler: Can I utilize suppressing fire? (click to show/hide)

When auto-firing at an enemy or group of enemies near cover, you suppress them, forcing them to roll Resolve.  If they don't get at least one success, they hide in cover instead of taking whatever action they were intending to.  If you just want to make sure that they keep their heads down rather than try to damage them, you can fire more bullets; for every ten extra bullets you fire, the difficulty of success increases by one.  Fire thirty bullets, they need to roll higher than seven at least once.  Keep in mind that most guns don't have more than thirty rounds, plus you can't fire and reload in the same turn.

Spoiler: How armour works: (click to show/hide)

So now you know how to shoot and hopefully the basics of how to avoid getting shot, but eventually it will happen, due to luck if nothing else.  Armour can help with that.

Armour generally has four statistics; Armour, Health, Coverage, and Penalty. 
The first is what'll save your life, and it is directly subtracted from the damage you take.  If you get hit by a bullet that does 6 damage, and you're wearing a vest that has 4 Armour, you only take 2 damage.  That damage still exists, though--every point of damage that is absorbed by the armour lowers the Armour's health, and once the armour runs out of health, it stops protecting you, however it continues to apply its penalty.  Even full heavy body armour can eventually be defeated by many pistol shots, or a long burst from a submachine gun.

Penalty is the main downside of armour.  While wearing armour, your dexterity is constantly lowered by this amount, minus your stamina.  It's much harder to dodge and fight when wearing heavy armour, especially if it encumbers your legs, though again, Stamina can help to mitigate this. This is the reason most armour has Coverage--that simply states whether an armour protects your whole body, or just your torso.  In the former case, the armour will always mitigate damage (excepting critical hits, which ignore armour), but if the armour only protects your torso, it has a 50/50 chance of blocking shots.  Most bullet resistant armour comes in the form of vests, because full body armour is very heavy.

An alternative (or supplement) to armour is using a ballistic shield.  Shields are just as reliable as full coverage armour as long as you're facing your foe, and are lighter, but deprive you of the use of one arm. 
Most normal people can only wield a pistol one handed--if you have three strength, you can wield submachine guns too, and those powerful beings with five strength can wield outright assault rifles in tandem with a shield.

The Armoury:

Spoiler: Melee armoury (click to show/hide)

Small titanium knife
   Cost: $100
   Mobility: Knife
   Damage: Str + 2
   Special: If the weilder is concealed before striking with this weapon, one success that is not a 10 may count toward a crit.
   Concealability: Pocket
   
Machete
   Cost: $600
   Mobility: Light
   Damage: Str + 3
   Concealability: Trenchcoat/backpack
Rapier
   Cost: $600
   Mobility: Light
   Damage: Str + 3
   Special: +1 damage bonus for each strike that occurs within a celerity action if no off-hand melee weapon is used
   Concealability: Trenchcoat

Sword
   Cost: $3000
   Mobility: Medium
   Damage: Str + 5
   Concealability: Trenchcoat

Knuckle dusters
   Cost: $100
   Mobility: Fists
   Damage: Str + 1
   Concealability: Pocket

Sais
   Cost: $800
   Mobility: Knives
   Damage: Str + 2
   Special: When wielded in both hands, may be used to disarm a melee weapon from an enemy by halving the weilder’s attack damage for the turn.
   Concealability: Coat

Greatsword
   Cost: $6000
   Mobility: Large
   Damage: Str + 7
   Special: May be wielded with one in each hand only if strength is 4 or greater.
   Concealability: Not possible

Spoiler: Firearms armoury (click to show/hide)

M9
   Cost: $400
   Mobility: Pistol
   Damage: 4, Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 15, $15 per mag
   Concealability: Pocket
   
   The standard sidearm for the US military, it's reliable and accurate.  Won't do much to stop a vampire, but a round to the head will stop any normal man.
   
Mk.23 SD
Cost: $2000
   Mobility: Pistol
   Damage: 5, Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 10, $20 per mag
   Concealability: Coat
   Special: Suppressed
   
   Favored by SEAL teams, this silenced pistol is perfect for stealth, but doesn't sacrifice power.  Vampires still won't be falling before you, but they'll definitely think twice before angering you.
   
Bulldog .44
Cost: $1000
   Mobility: Pistol
   Damage: 6, Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 5, $15 per five loose rounds
   Concealability: Pocket
   
   Though it has painfully high recoil, this snubnose revolver is one of the best backup weapons you can carry.  It won't be obvious shoved in a pocket, and it hits like a truck—though you should mind the low ammo capacity.
   
MP5K
Cost: $3000
   Mobility: Light
   Damage: 4, Automatic
   Ammo: 30, $30 per mag
   Concealability: Coat
   
   The venerable MP5 is the most popular submachine gun in the world, being used by most police forces and militaries.  This is the compact stockless version, which is no less lethal, but easily concealable even beneath normal coats.

FN P90
   Cost: $5000
   Mobility: light
   Damage: 3, 5 AP
   Ammo: 50, $200 per mag
   Concealability: Trenchcoat/backpack
   Special: Cannot have Armor Piercing rounds.
   
   The P90 has a checkered past, originally being designed to replace the ageing MP5 in all NATO militaries, but never achieving that goal.  It's quite capable of defeating body armor that would stop normal pistol cartridges, though stopping power is an issue.  Still, the Secret Service decided that it's good enough for presidential protection, so it's probably good enough for you.
   
Vector SD 
(Note that the stock folds, and that's a particularly long silencer)
   Cost: $15000
   Mobility: light
   Damage: 5, Automatic
   Ammo: 20, $40 per mag
   Concealability: Trenchcoat/backpack
   Special: Suppressed
   
   The Vector submachine gun makes use of innovative design to tame the normally brutal .45 ACP cartridge.  With the included silencer, this gun can be a true monster, threatening even vampires, without being audible a few rooms away!  Sadly, it's harder for us to get illegal guns that aren't military issue, so you'll have to drop a pretty penny for it.
   
Sawn-Off Double-Barrel shotgun
   Cost: $700
   Mobility: light
   Damage: Special - See Shotgun Section, Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 2, $6 for two shotgun shells
   Concealability: Trenchcoat/Backpack
   Special: Takes heavy penalties outside melee range. Rolls to hit using Str + Firearms or Dex + Firearms, whichever is the greatest value
   
   A classic, as cheap as it is effective.  Sawing off the majority of a shotgun's two barrels is quick and easy, resulting in a very concealable, very powerful (if short-ranged) weapon.  It doesn't have any ammo capacity to speak of though, so be careful.

M4A1
   Cost: $3500
   Mobility: Medium
   Damage: 7, Automatic
   Ammo: 30, $90 per mag
   Concealability: Gun case
   Special: Dissassembled, can fit under a trenchcoat or in a backpack.  Takes several minutes to disassemble or reassemble.
   
   The most modern incarnation of the historied M16, the extreme popularity of which make it the second-most common gun in the entire world, the M4A1 improves upon its ancestor in almost every way.  It's light, powerful, accurate, and reliable—no wonder it's the standard rifle issued to the majority of America's troops.
   
Honey Badger
   Cost: $6800
   Mobility: Medium
   Damage: 6, Automatic
   Ammo: 30, $150 per mag
   Concealability: Gun case
   Special: Dissassembled, can fit under a trenchcoat or in a backpack.  Takes several minutes to disassemble or reassemble.
   
   Designed to meet the demands of Special Forces soldiers who wanted a hard hitting and long ranged silenced weapon, the Honey Badger is just as impressive as its namesake.  Even supernatural creatures won't be able to stand up to a burst from this gun, and their allies will have a difficult time hearing the shots.
   
Mossberg 500
   Cost: $2000
   Mobility: Medium
   Damage: Special - See Shotgun Section, Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 6, $18 for six shotgun shells
   Concealability: Gun case
   Special: Takes heavy penalties outside close range
   
   Some say shotguns have no use in modern warfare.  Those people are foolish mortals who have never watched a vampire burning to death before them.  Shotguns can load a myriad of unique payloads, including dragonbreath rounds which will incinerate and terrify most kin.

Mk.14 EBR
   Cost: $5000
   Mobility: Heavy
   Damage: 9, Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 20, $80 per mag
   Concealability: Gun case
   Special: +1 to all aiming and shooting rolls with this gun
   
   The premier long range sniper rifle of the US Military, this is the ideal weapon to take if you need to end someone from beyond visual range.  Any reasonably competent marksman can kill a man in one shot with this firearm, but don't think that will be enough in a pitched firefight; this is a specialist's weapon.

SCAR-H
Cost: $13000
   Mobility: Heavy
   Damage: 9, Automatic
   Ammo: 20, $80 per mag
   Concealability: Gun case
   
   A battle rifle specifically designed for SEALs and other special forces, this is arguably one of the most powerful personal weapons a military actually uses.  Yes, it's good for killing even armored people in a firefight, but you could do serious damage to a vehicle, if you use full auto.
   
AA12
   Cost: $30000
   Mobility: Heavy
   Damage: Special - See shotgun section, Automatic
   Ammo: 20, $60 per drum mag
   Concealability: Gun case
   Special: Takes heavy penalties outside close range
   
   I mentioned how powerful the SCAR-H is, yes?  This gives that gun a run for its money, at least at close range.  A point-blank blast from a shotgun is very powerful, and this one fires 300 of them per minute.  Pity it's only a prototype, that makes them hell to get ahold of.
   
M249   
   Cost: 8500
   Mobility: Huge
   Damage: 7, Automatic
   Ammo: 200, $200 per mag
   Concealability: Ahahahaha!
   Special: -1 to automatic fire difficulty
   
   One of the heavier weapons frequently issued to troops, this machine gun is designed to lay down continual suppressive fire.  Normally, it's operated by a team of two mortals, but you're better than that, aren't you?
   
M107
   Cost: $15500
   Mobility: Huge
   Damage: 15+4 incendiary AP 5, explosive.  Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 5, $300 per mag
   Concealability: Ahahahaha!
   Special: +1 to shooting rolls.  Cannot use other ammo types.
   
   This monster isn't a sniper rifle; it's an anti-materiel rifle.  That means it's used to destroy unexploded ordnance, vehicles, even aircraft, potentially from over a mile away.  With thi—Huh, what did you say?  Is it effective at shorter ranges too?  Well, yes, of course, but nobo—What?  No, you're not gonna carry this thing into a firefight, get out of my shop.  Moron.

   

Spoiler: Special Ammo (click to show/hide)

Most guns can use multiple types of ammunition.  This invariably increases the price, but different ammo types can often mean the difference between killing your target, or barely scratching him.

Standard Variants:
   Match Grade Ammo - 500% price
      Adds +1 to all shooting rolls.
      Match Grade ammo is rigorously tested for high accuracy.  It's not a difference in design, just quality; any ammo type can be match grade.

   Armour Piercing Ammo - 200% price
      Adds four AP, at the cost of two damage      
      It might not sound like much, but sometimes AP rounds can be the only way to deal any damage at all.  Too bad they have a habit of over-penetrating unarmoured targets.

   Hollow Point Ammo - 150% price
      Lowers damage by half rounded down, but any damage that isn't mitigated by armour does triple damage to the victim.      
      Okay, you're just being cruel now.  Hollow points are only effective against unarmoured targets, and they'd die quick anyway.

   Silvered Ammo - 700% price
      Lowers damage by half rounded down, but it is aggravated damage against supernatural foes.
      Silver bullets are terrifying little things for kin like us.  Better hope your enemies aren't rich enough to afford them.

Shotgun Loadings:
   Oh, shotguns are fun!  The assortment of terrible things you can fit inside a twelve gauge shell is endlessly entertaining!  There's something for everyone inside a shotgun shell, somewhere.
   
   Buckshot - 100%
      Damage is 2, dealt seven times.  Unarmored people take fourteen damage, armormed people can mostly ignore it.
      Usually, buckshot is used to hunt, well, bucks.  It's quite good for mortal game as well, however.

   Slug - 100%
      Damage is 8, with 2 AP.
      A hefty slug of hardened steel will punch through virtually anything placed in front of it.  Even kin will think twice about taking one of these.

   Silver Rounds - 700%
      Can be applied to either of the above two ammo types.  Damage is halved, but is aggravated to supernatural creatures.      
      These rounds are rare, and extremely expensive, but for hunting werebeasts there is no substitute.  A faceful of silver buckshot will put a quick end to them.

   Dragon's Breath - 500%
      Fires a plume of flame that will deal 6 incendiary damage to targets within ten feet.  Has a habit of setting things on fire, and may force a frenzy roll for vampires--even the user.
      It is terrifying.

   Flechettes - 300%
      Damage is 1, dealt seven times, each time with AP 5.
      Don't you hate mortals that insist on wearing body armour?  It makes them take so long to whittle down into death.  Flechettes are thin metal darts that punch right through most body armour.  A good way to end the odd policeman that walks in on a feeding, not that I endorse such risks, of course.

   Frag-12 - 5000%
      It's a shotgun slug that's filled with high explosive, and has a contact fuze which normally sets it off after it's already inside your target's body.  Guess how much damage it does.      
      Technically, these don't exist.  Even for us, they're extremely expensive, nearly impossible to get in any meaningful numbers.  Still, a sawn-off with two explosive rounds is one of the greatest emergency weapons you could ask for.

Spoiler: Armours (click to show/hide)

Most of these are difficult or impossible to conceal, but they're easily the most effective way of mitigating damage.  Armour is directly subtracted from the damage of every attack that hits you, though it has limited HP itself, and once it loses all HP, it's just dead weight.  Additionally, the "Penalty" of each type of armour, minus your stamina, is directly subtracted from your dexterity score while wearing the armour.  If you have five dexterity, and three stamina, you are considered to have a dexterity of one while wearing full Interceptor armour, which has a penalty of seven.  Finally, "Coverage" tells you how many attacks will be absorbed—"Full body" means it will absorb every attack, while "Torso only" means it will absorb only half of attacks.

Rugged Jumpsuit:
   Cost: $400
   Armor: 1
   Coverage: Full body
   HP: 20
   Penalty: 0
   
   A heavy rugged jumpsuit.  It doesn't really do much, but it's tough enough to take the edge off most attacks.  It also is baggy enough to conceal guns with a concealability of "Coat".  Too bad it's somewhat conspicuous.
   
Entry Suit:
   Cost: $2500
   Armor: 3
   Coverage: Full body
   HP: 50
   Penalty: 3
   
   A heavy suit worn by SWAT officers when raiding a high risk target.  It's not really meant to stop bullets, but it will help against smaller calibers.
   
Full Interceptor Armor:
   Cost: $10000
   Armor: 10
   Coverage: Full body
   HP: 150
   Penalty: 7
   Special: 5 Armor vs. melee attacks
   
   Hated by our troops, this stifling suit makes you exceptionally hard to hurt.  As a cost, you look like you stepped out of a high-risk warzone, and it's so heavy you won't be able to avoid many shots.
   
Light Bullet-Resistant Vest:
   Cost: $2000
   Armor: 5
   Coverage:Torso only
   HP: 30
   Penalty: 2
   Special: 1 Armor vs. melee attacks.  Can be worn under clothes without being obvious.
   
   Worn by most police, and by overly paranoid civilians, this vest will reliably stop most handgun rounds.  It will not, however, save you from higher calibers, or shots that hit elsewhere on your body.  But hey, it's concealable, so why not wear one?
   
Heavy Bullet-Resistant Vest:
   Cost: $5500
   Armor: 8
   Coverage: Torso only
   HP: 40
   Penalty: 4
   Special: 2 Armor vs. melee attacks.  Can be worn under clothes while being very obvious.
   
   Much heavier armor, capable of absorbing most rifle rounds without giving you much worse than... well, some bruises and cracked ribs, if not new ventilation.  Might save your life from a sniper, but it will be quite obvious to casual observers.

Interceptor Vest:
   Cost: $8000
   Armor: 10
   Coverage: Torso only
   HP: 80
   Penalty: 5
   Special: 5 Armor vs melee attacks.
   
   The best our military can provide, this is rated to stop armor piercing sniper rifles at point blank range, while still not being completely over encumbering for most people.  It's still quite obvious, however.
   
Light Ballistic Shield:
   Cost: $3500
   Armor: 5
   Coverage: Full Body from enemy you're facing only.
   HP: 100
   Penalty: 3
   Special: Cannot wield weapons two handed.  With one strength, can wield a pistol.  For every extra two strength, you can wield one mobility category larger.  Additionally, shield can be collapsed and disguised as a briefcase, though it isn't on close inspection.
   
   Probably the best "armor" we can give you.  The Secret Service likes to carry these around, since they don't scare the populace, but are great for protection.

Heavy Ballistic Shield:
   Cost: $7000
   Armor: 11
   Coverage: Full Body from enemy you're facing only.
   HP: 200
   Penalty: 5
   Special: Cannot wield weapons two handed.  With one strength, can wield a pistol.  For every extra two strength, you can wield one mobility category larger.
   
   Absolutely impossible to conceal, but very useful for serving as mobile cover to your allies.  Cowering behind a shield isn't exactly respectable, but at least you won't die.  Just remember to mind your flanks.

Other items:

Spoiler: Miscellaneous items (click to show/hide)

Rope- $200
Flashlight- $100
Change of regular clothes- $100
Change of role-specific clothes (Includes costumes, uniforms)- $250
Formal clothing- $500
Fake passport- $1000
Laptop (Requires Technology 1 to use)- $2500
Remote controlled drone with camera (Requires Intelligence+Technology roll to use)- $6000
Smartphone (Requires Technology 1 to use)- $2000
Binoculars- $300
Collapsible grappling hook- $300
Bandages- $50
Basic first aid kit- $200

Spoiler: Vehicles (click to show/hide)

Stats for vehicles work as follows. Speed is how fast it goes. For the purposes of this game, it will mechanically work as how many times faster than a regular running vampire the vehicle will move. HP is how much HP the vehicle can be shot for before having problems. Armour is how much protection is provided to the occupants inside and works much the same as regular armour. Armour does not protect the car’s own HP. Cargo room we will RP as would logically work.

Street Motorcycle
Cost: $3000
Seats 2, small cargo room
Hitpoints: 14
Armour: 0
Speed: 4

Sports Motorcycle
Cost: $7000
Seats 2, nil cargo room
Hitpoints: 14
Armour: 0
Speed: 7

Sedan Car
Cost: $15,000
Seats 4, medium cargo room
Engine hitpoints: 20
Cabin hitpoints: 40
Armour: 2
Speed: 4

Pickup truck
Cost: $15,000
Seats 2 large cargo room.
Engine hitpoints: 20
Cabin hitpoints: 40
Armour: 2
Speed: 4

SUV
Cost: $40,000
Seats 5 medium cargo room
Engine hitpoints: 30
Cabin hitpoints: 60
Armour: 2
Speed: 4

Small truck:
Cost: $60,000
Seats 2 Huge cargo room
Engine hitpoints: 40
Cabin hitpoints: 80
Armour: 2
Speed: 3

Armoured truck:
Cost: $80,000
Seats 2 Huge cargo room
Engine hitpoints: 90
Cabin hitpoints: 180
Armour: 5
Speed: 3

Supercar:
Cost: $120,000
Seats 2, small cargo
Engine hitpoints: 25
Cabin hitpoints: 50
Armour: 2
Speed: 7

Small propeller plane:
Cost: $1,000,000
Seats 4, medium cargo
Engine hitpoints: 25
Cabin hitpoints: 60
Armour: 1
Speed: 16, requires takeoff and landing. Speed is 1 when taxiing, must reach speed 4 to take off.

[Sialia]

As the GM I will at times be intervening as the party's handler, Mirella. Mirella was once a character in Inquisition and was awarded experience at the end of last mission, the same as Trump and Nikolai.

Mirella will only intervene if I require her to do so for some reason. For the most part she will remain uninvolved.

Spoiler: Mirella (click to show/hide)

Name: Mirella
Player: GM Sialia
Bio:
Mirella, too, was once a hunter. She was however the only one of the hunters to choose the embrace. Never subjected to a blood bond, she stepped into the embrace due to fierce ambition and a small, but ever growing, loathing for the hunters coupled with the fear of a boring existence.
Mirella was embraced earlier than the others in the group as a result, and has now been tasked with becoming their handler.
Mirella will never be doomed to a boring existence, as in choosing her sire as Malkavian she has subjected herself to the dementations held therein. Her delusions of grandeur have her believing she is above the rest of the party. She has been chosen. Her ambition is still her greatest drive, so she desires the party’s success.

Clan: Malkavian
Derrangement: Delusions of Grandeur

Attributes:

Physical
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 2
Stamina: 2

Social
Presence: 2
Manipulation: 4
Compusure: 1

Mental
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 3
Resolve: 1


Abilities

Talents
Athletics
Awareness
Dodge-2
Empathy-2
Intimidation- 2
Intuition- 2
Leadership- 1
Subterfuge- 2

Skills
Crafts
Demolitions
Drive- 1
Etiquette
Firearms- 1
Melee
Persuasion- 1
Stealth- 2

Knowledges
Academics
Divination- 5
Technology- 1
Vampire politics/customs- 3
Improvised weaponry
Medicine
Occult- 3
Streetwise/survival-1


Disciplines:
Auspex 5

Health: 2

Willpower: 2
Blood pool: 10

Inventory:
-Hidden-

Current Player Characters

Spoiler: Cesar Sterling, Quick-witted Lunatic (click to show/hide)

Name: Cesar Sterling
Player: Mallos
Bio: A quick-witted young man with a history of being the odd one out, Cesar was always laughed at or even feared for his eccentricities. It may not sound normal to you to have a spoon as a best friend, but it's completely acceptable by his standards. Besides, the spoon never judged Cesar(Well, maybe the spoon has judged him, albeit inside it's head) for preferring to wear his shirts backwards and befriending other inanimate objects.  Life may have sucked for Cesar before, but.. well it's still going to suck. Just in a different way.
Clan: Malkavian
Dementation:
Acute Schizophrenia
-1 to all social rolls.
Frenzy check when anyone insults the inanimate objects Cesar has formed an attachment with
+1 to all rolls where inanimate objects have discussed and agree with Cesar’s decisions prior to execution of the action


Attributes:

Physical
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 2
Stamina: 2

Social
Presence: 2
Manipulation: 3
Compusure: 1

Mental
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 4
Resolve: 1


Abilities

Talents
Athletics - 1
Awareness - 2
Dodge - 1
Empathy - 3
Intuition - 2
Subterfuge - 3

Skills
Crafts - 1
Firearms - 2
Melee - 1
Persuasion - 1


Knowledges
Occult - 2
Technology - 2
Improvised weaponry - 2
Streetwise/survival - 1


Disciplines: Dementation(3) Auspex(1)


Health: 2

Willpower: 2

Blood pool: 10

Inventory:
Smartphone(2000$)
Bulldog .45(1000$)
Loose casual clothes(100$)
Titanium knife(300$)
Light bullet-resistant vest(2000$)
20 rounds for .45(60$)
740$ cash
Silver spoon named "Count Spoonicus"(free?)

Spoiler: Nikolai Kakashosnof (click to show/hide)

Name: Nikolai Kakashosnof
Player: S34N1C
Bio: Nikolai is a member of the KGB, sent by Putin to protect his best buddy ally, Donald Trump. He comes from the town of [REDACTED], and was trained in the KGB facility at [REDACTED]. He is well versed in the art of intrigue, and is one of Russia's top spies. He will do anything it takes to protect Donald Trump, and bring glory to the Motherland.
He was embraced after his first mission in the Inquisition, a group of vampire hunters. He is still having problems adjusting to working for the vampires instead of the Motherland. He will still take Trumps orders, as long as they don't conflict with his vampiric superiors.

xp remaining: 2

Attributes:

Physical
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 2
Stamina: 1

Social
Presence: 1
Manipulation: 3
Composure: 3

Mental
Perception: 1
Intelligence: 3
Wits: 2

Abilities:

Talents
Subterfuge: 3
Intimidation: 3
Expression: 2
Leadership: 1
Awareness: 1
Brawl: 1
Dodge: 1
Streetwise: 1

Skills
Demolitions - 1
Firearms - 3 (18)
Performance - 1
Security - 1
Stealth - 1

Knowledge
Technology - 1
Investigation - 2
Law - 1
Vampire politics/customs - 2

Clan:Ventrue
Feeding stipulation: only feeds on communists and socialists.

Disciplines:
Dominate 1
Fortitude 1
Presence 2

Health:

Willpower: 5

Bloodpool: 10


Inventory: $2600 remaining
Trenchcoat - owned
Business Suit - owned
Light bullet resistant vest - owned (concealed)
VSS Vintores (disassembled, in trench coat)- This has the same stats as a honey badger
x2 30* VSS mag- $150 each
x2 30* VSS AP mag- $300 each
Mk.23 SD - $400
x2 10* Mk.23 mag - $20 each
x2 10* Mk.23 mag - $30 each
Smartphone - $2000

Spoiler: Father Gerald (click to show/hide)

Name: Father Gerald
Player: Aigre
Bio: A former puritan pastor; All his life he has served God. Until one day he found the God in himself. Now he walks the night of the Requiem, gathering mortal followers to himself, and leading all into embrace and salvation.

Clan: Ventrue

Attributes:

Physical
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 2
Stamina: 2

Social
Presence: 4
Manipulation: 2
Compusure: 1

Mental
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 1
Resolve: 3


Abilities

Talents
Intimidation 2
Leadership 2

Skills
Etiquette 4
Persuasion 4

Knowledges
Technology 1
Vampire politics/customs 3
Occult 2

Disciplines:
Presence: 3
Dominate: 1

Ventrue feeding stipulation: Fundamentalist Christians


Health: 2

Willpower: 4

Blood pool: 10

Inventory:
$5400 in cash

Puritan Preacher's Suit. ($200) A formal suit, that's less ostentatious, cheaper, and more durable.

An Authorized King James Bible, 1769. (I have one of those to quote from if needed)

A bible holder (like a diary holder) with assorted notepads and stationary. ($100 with the bible)

(Father Gerald will probably spend his resources in investments. Actual fighting is wasted on him.)

Spoiler: Morgan Glasshand (click to show/hide)

Name: Morgan Glasshand
Player: Egan
Bio: As the daughter of a prominent marine captain, in a long lineage of middling-high military glory, Morgan was prepared to take up the mantle of commanding the troops of the glorious United States Armed Forces. A surprise dunking into the world of supernatural bullshit (vampires and such) might change things slightly.

Clan: Ventrue (Flaw: Only feeds on those with some combat experience and/or training.)

Attributes:

Physical
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 3
Stamina: 2

Social
Presence: 2
Manipulation: 2
Composure: 3

Mental
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 1
Resolve: 2


Abilities

Talents
Athletics 0
Awareness 2
Dodge 2
Empathy 2
Intimidation 1
Intuition 3
Leadership 1
Subterfuge 2

Skills
Crafts 0
Demolitions 0
Drive 1
Etiquette 0
Firearms 2
Melee 2
Persuasion 0
Stealth 2

Knowledges
Academics 0
Divination 0
Technology 2
Vampire politics/customs 1
Improvised weaponry 0
Medicine 1
Occult 1
Streetwise/survival 0


Disciplines:
Presence 3
Dominate 1

Health: 2

Willpower: 5

Blood pool: 10

Inventory:
Light Bullet-Resistant Vest
Smartphone
Small titanium knife
Sawn-Off Double-Barrel shotgun
Two shells of Dragon's breath
Sawn-Off Double-Barrel shotgun
One buckshot shell, one slug

Spoiler: Ash Alpine (click to show/hide)

Name:Ash Alpine
Player:Rautherdir
Bio:
She could remember a few fragments of her life through the chaos raging through her mind. She was running from someone - no, chasing after them. I ran. I couldn't beat her. I couldn't kill that wretched wolf. What wolf? How could you not kill a simple wolf? I believe she's talking about me. Or at least, the real me. The real you. I can't believe I somehow infected a werewolf. You didn't. I'm human. Were human, now - Be quiet. Lyssha, you made a mistake climbing back into my mind - Didn't you hear me? I'm not the real Lyssha. I'm the counter to the vampire. Past-failure you is the counter to future-success you. How long have you been focusing on your failure? Vamp, now that Ash is destabilized you can take control. And how would that - Red eyes opened on the world. The chaos within had subsided, her eyes now opened to the world around.

Dementia: Fragmented Mind.
Ash's conversion shattered her mind. There are four fragments:
Vampire Ash is a vampire. Is normal for a newly turned vampire
Reckless Ash has no sense of self-preservation. Expect lots of chaos. -1 dice to all dodge rolls due to nonexistent instinct of self preservation, -1 to all rolls involved with empathy, etiquette or compassion toward others. +1 damage to successful attacks.
Cowardly Ash is not one to stay at fights. She's pretty good with people though. -2 to all fear related frenzy rolls. Frenzy check at the start of any combat. +1 to all social rolls
Lyssha is a wolf. She only cares about surviving. -1 to all frenzy checks (a beast is bad at holding the beast at bay), +2 strength whilst Lyssha is active, Lyssha is a wolf and therefore unable to use firearms or large melee weapons. She may use knives, machetes and knuckle dusters only.

Whenever the current personality is destabilized(by being confronted by failure, a fear, getting hurt, experiencing something completely unexpected, etc.) one of the other personalities can take over if a willpower roll is failed. Ash will change to the personality who can best cope emotionally with the failure you have experienced. For example social failure could cause reckless Ash to come out because she copes well emotionally with social failure. Physical threat may cause cowardly Ash to come out and flee from the combat. The GM will dictate which persona Ash will switch to when these changes are triggered.

Clan: Malkavian

EXP unspent: 7

Attributes:

Physical-55
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 2
Stamina: 1

Social-20
Presence: 1
Manipulation: 2
Composure: 2

Mental-35
Intelligence: 1
Wits: 2
Resolve: 3

Vampire Ash's Abilities

Talents-30
Athletics
Awareness-1
Dodge
Empathy
Intimidation
Intuition
Leadership-2
Subterfuge-3

Skills-18
Crafts
Demolitions
Drive
Etiquette-2
Firearms
Melee-2
Persuasion
Stealth

Knowledges-60
Academics
Divination-2
Technology
Vampire politics/customs-4
Improvised weaponry
Medicine-1
Occult-2
Streetwise/survival-2

Reckless Ash's Abilities

Talents-30
Athletics
Awareness-2
Dodge-3
Empathy
Intimidation
Intuition-1
Leadership
Subterfuge

Skills-60
Crafts
Demolitions-1
Drive
Etiquette
Firearms-2
Melee-5
Persuasion
Stealth-1

Knowledges-18
Academics
Divination
Technology
Vampire politics/customs
Improvised weaponry-3
Medicine
Occult
Streetwise/survival

Careful Ash's Abilities

Talents-60
Athletics
Awareness-3
Dodge
Empathy-2
Intimidation
Intuition-1
Leadership-3
Subterfuge-2

Skills-30
Crafts
Demolitions
Drive
Etiquette-2
Firearms-2
Melee
Persuasion-2
Stealth-1

Knowledges-18
Academics
Divination
Technology-1
Vampire politics/customs-1
Improvised weaponry
Medicine-1
Occult
Streetwise/survival-2

Lyssha's Abilities

Talents-18
Athletics-1
Awareness-2
Dodge-1
Empathy
Intimidation
Intuition-1
Leadership
Subterfuge

Skills-60
Crafts
Demolitions
Drive
Etiquette-1
Firearms
Melee-2
Persuasion-1
Stealth-5

Knowledges-30
Academics
Divination-1
Technology
Vampire politics/customs
Improvised weaponry
Medicine
Occult-2
Streetwise/survival-3


Disciplines:
Auspex-1
Obfuscate-2
Dementation-0


Health: 1

Composure: 5

Blood pool: 10

Inventory:
Greatsword
   Cost: $6000
   Mobility: Large
   Damage: Str + 7
   Special: May be wielded with one in each hand only if strength is 4 or greater.
   Concealability: Not possible

Machete
   Cost: $600
   Mobility: Light
   Damage: Str(4) + 3
   Concealability: Trenchcoat/backpack
   
2 Sais
   Cost: $800
   Mobility: Knives
   Damage: Str(4) + 2
   Special: When wielded in both hands, may be used to disarm a melee weapon from an enemy by halving the weilder’s attack damage for the turn.
   Concealability: Coat
   
1 M9
   Cost: $400
   Mobility: Pistol
   Damage: 4, Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 15, $15 per mag
   Concealability: Pocket
   
4 M9 Mags, $60

Mk.23 SD
   Cost: $2000
   Mobility: Pistol
   Damage: 5, Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 10, $20 per mag
   Concealability: Coat
   Special: Suppressed

4 Mk.23 SD Mags, $80
   
Sawn-Off Double-Barrel shotgun
   Cost: $700
   Mobility: light
   Damage: Special - See Shotgun Section, Semiautomatic
   Ammo: 2, $6 for two shotgun shells
   Concealability: Trenchcoat/Backpack
   Special: Takes heavy penalties outside melee range. Rolls to hit using Str(4) + Firearms(0 or 2) or Dex(2) + Firearms(0 or 2), whichever is the greatest value
   
5 Buckshot Shells, $15
5 Slugs, $15
2 Flechettes, $30

Backpack, Free
Flashlight- $100

Change of regular clothes x2, $200
Change of role-specific clothes (Waitress/Bartender)- $250

Bandages x5- $250
Basic first aid kit- $200

Street Motorcycle
Cost: $3000
Seats 2, small cargo room
Hitpoints: 14
Armour: 0
Speed: 4

$500 cash left

Spoiler: John "Wesson" Smith (click to show/hide)

Name: John "Wesson" Smith
Player: MidnightJaguar
Bio: A good old boy from Texas, he fancied himself a modern cowboy, before he got turned. Now he's determined to prove himself a true gunslinger to the ones that have been around since they invented gunpowder.

Clan: Brujah

Attributes:

Physical
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 4
Stamina: 2

Mental
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 1
Resolve: 3

Social
Presence: 1
Manipulation: 2
Compusure: 2





Talents
Athletics
Awareness
Dodge 3
Empathy
Intimidation 1
Intuition
Leadership
Subterfuge 2

Skills
Crafts 3
Demolitions
Drive
Etiquette
Firearms 4
Melee 3
Persuasion
Stealth 1

Knowledges
Academics
Divination
Technology
Vampire politics/customs
Improvised weaponry-1
Medicine-2
Occult
Streetwise/survival-1


Disciplines: Brujah

Celerity 4

Health: 2

Willpower: 5

Blood pool: 10

Inventory:

Bulldog
15 bullets

MK14.EBR
One mag

Clothes x1 set

First aid kit

Spoiler: Arete Zolotas (click to show/hide)

Name: Arete Zolotas
Player: syvarris
Bio: Arete has lived an unlucky life, born into the underclass of west Athens, her mother addicted to drugs and her father completely unknown.  At a young age she learned to be a fighter, a necessary trait which has saved her life on several occasions, and has allowed her to command a measure of respect from her peers.  Even so, throughout her life she's been forced into working with the local mafia out of necessity, generally as a thief, a skill she has a particular talent in. 

She strives to be a very independent person, and hates the power struggles core to the mafia--but she realizes that they're constantly trying to gain dominance and leverage over her.  While Arete has made plans on escaping, ideally from the country altogether, she has largely held back out of a fear of the unknown; here in Athens she knows where the power lies, and how to survive.  In a place like the UK, everything will be different, and she'll be a fish out of water.  Better the danger you know than the danger you don't, after all.

Clan: Greek Gangrel


Attributes:

Physical
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 4
Stamina: 1

Social
Presence: 1
Manipulation: 2
Composure: 3

Mental
Intelligence: 1
Wits: 2
Resolve: 2


Abilities

Talents
Athletics - 1
Awareness - 1
Dodge - 3
Empathy
Intimidation
Intuition - 1
Leadership
Subterfuge - 1

Skills
Crafts - 1
Demolitions
Drive
Etiquette
Firearms
Melee - 3
Persuasion - 1
Stealth - 3
Animal Ken - 3

Knowledges
Academics
Divination
Technology - 1
Vampire politics/customs
Improvised weaponry
Medicine - 2
Occult - 1
Streetwise/survival - 1


Disciplines:
Protean Rank 3 (Stamina + Animal Ken = 4)
Animalism Rank 0
Obfuscate Rank 0

Health: 1

Willpower: 5
Blood pool: 10

Inventory:

DEAD:

Spoiler: President-Elect Donald J. Trump (click to show/hide)

Name: President-Elect Donald J. Trump
Player: syvarris
Bio: A scant few weeks ago, Donald Trump began secretly leading a second life, joining part of humankind's offensive against everything supernatural--The Inquisition.  As a vampire hunter, Trump led only two missions, the second ending with him falling under the sway of a vampire school teacher, then personally killing half his team, and inadvertently leading the other half (himself included) into becoming embraced.  Now, with his already preternatural charisma being enhanced by his newly supernatural nature, who's to say what will happen to America during his presidency?

Clan: Ventrue (Flaw: Only eats "winners".  The definition of this varies wildly; as an extremely general guideline, winners are not foreigners, ugly, poor, dishonest, nonwhite, insulting, dangerous, cowardly, stupid, female, selfish, weak, corrupt, reserved, evil, reckless, or mortal.  Of course, sometimes Trump might forget some of these categories if a person absolutely exemplifies other "Winner" traits.  Or if he just gets really hungry.)

Exp unspent: 2

Attributes:

Physical
Strength: 1
Dexterity: 3
Stamina: 2

Social
Presence: 3
Manipulation: 3
Composure: 1

Mental
Intelligence: 1
Wits: 2
Resolve: 2


Abilities

Talents
Athletics
Awareness
Dodge - 3
Empathy
Intimidation - 1
Intuition - 1
Leadership - 3
Subterfuge - 3

Skills
Crafts
Demolitions
Drive
Etiquette
Firearms - 2
Melee - 1
Persuasion - 5
Stealth

Knowledges
Academics
Divination - 1
Technology - 1
Vampire politics/customs - 1
Improvised weaponry
Medicine - 1
Occult - 1
Streetwise/survival - 1


Disciplines:
Presence (Presence + Persuasion = 8):
Level one: The victim(s) have an extremely strong attraction to Trump, and enjoy his company. They will remember this attraction upon future encounters. Works in AoE.
Level two: The victim (Singular) is placed into unimaginable terror. They may run or be frozen in place, and they will remember this and fear Trump upon the next encounter.
Level three: The victim obsessively wishes to please Trump, this occupies most thoughts.
Level four: Trump can compel someone to come to him immediately from anywhere. This is limited by physical distance, the victim may require time to get there.

Health: 2

Willpower: 3

Blood pool: 10/10

Inventory:
Too-Large Fancy Suit - Kept from last mission
Light Bullet-Resistant Vest (Concealed)- $2000
   Armor: 5
   Coverage:Torso only
   HP: 30
   Penalty: 2 - 2 stamina = 0
   Special: 1 Armor vs. melee attacks.  Can be worn under clothes without being obvious.
MP5K (Concealed) - $3000
   Mobility: Light
   Damage: See below, Automatic
   Ammo: 30/30 Match Grade Hollow Point  - $225
      +1 to all shooting rolls.  2 Damage, damage tripled if armor doesn't mitigate it.
   Concealability: Coat
Small Titanium Knife  (Concealed) - $100
   Mobility: Knife
   Damage: Str + 2
   Special: If the wielder is concealed before striking with this weapon, one success that is not a 10 may count toward a crit.
   Concealability: Pocket
2x Bandages - $100
$50 in cash.

[Sialia]

-reserved-

[Sialia]

You are lying in a room, in filthy, torn old clothes covered in dry blood. The room is musty, the once vibrant wallpaper now peeling and tearing from the walls. The interior of the door is covered in scratch marks and blood- some of it fresh.

You wake slowly, as though from the deepest sleep of your life. In fact it was, you were dead for a few minutes there. Perhaps you still are, but you can’t think clearly enough to figure it out because the scent of blood is driving you mad, the desire is creeping into your mind and occupying every thought.

There is no wound from when the vampire drained the human you of every last drop of your blood. There is a trace of the small amount that was trickled down your throat as you lay there dead in your future sire’s arms. The taste, once metallic and unpalatable now seems the sweetest thing you ever tasted.

All you can think about is that blood. You need it. You can smell it. The part of you that senses the pulsing blood within the humans that are the only other creatures to share this room is kicked into overdrive before your eyes even open. As you wake, you see before you the most wonderful of feasts- three humans huddle in the corner. One of them has been scratching at the door. Fresh blood is on her fingers. The smell is driving your need impossibly stronger.

For Trump, one of his secret service mooks from when he was part of the inquisition is looking at him, eyes wide with terror. It is one of the three humans given him in his room.

For Nikolai, the other mook stares at him, knowing its fate is sealed. The two others hide with him in the corner.

Each new neonate is in their own small room with threadbare, blood stained carpet, each with three humans, each with the overwhelming hunger, desperation, need for blood that a new neonate experiences. Never have you hungered this deeply, needed something this much as you need blood now. No willpower rolls can overcome this. You must feed and you can just FEEL the blood coursing through those humans. That small part of your brain that has been pushed to the side for the hunger realises you are no longer one of them. You’re not human anymore.

Several of the humans scream now they see you waking. You hear the faint screams from rooms nearby. If you had your senses about you, you would know this room is one of many in this complex. As it stands, you can’t seem to think straight.

Blood.
You need blood. You need it now.

((Ventrues may ignore feeding requirements for this first feed))

[Mallos]

"Smells.. very nice. Very.. nice. Let.. LET ME TASTE!!" Cesar sits upright and stands from the ground, hunched over very slightly. This hunger, this thirst for blood is far too much for his already fragile sanity to handle and he bares his newly acquired fangs. "Come closer to me.. come CLOSER!". Seeing him approach, the woman clawing at the door began clawing even faster as if she could ever hope to destroy the door with only her nails. Despite this, it just made Cesar hunger more as the sweet crimson ambrosia seeped from her worn down fingernails and tempted him. Viciously pulling her back by her shoulder-length hair, he shoved her left wrist into his mouth and mercilessly bit down, slamming his free hand into her face repeatedly as she tried to escape from his grasp. Eventually she passed out from what must have been the sheer pain of having her hand gnawed off. Cesar finished the hand-appetiser and bit into her neck for the main course.

Looking up from the devastated corpse under him, he noticed a silvery glint in the dark and approached it, the remaining two humans backing away as he did so. A tiny yet regal and commanding voice resounded through his head as he saw what exactly the source of the shine was, a spoon wedged in the floorboards. You aren't like the rest of them, are you Cesar? Even your name is one of royal roots.. I like it. Lift me from this oaken prison and take me with you, Sir Cesar Sterling. Cesar was shocked, albeit pleasantly so. He figured people would only ridicule him even more if they found out he was a murderous cannibal in addition to already being weird and liking pickles and peppermints in his chicken noodle soup. "A friend! A friend! What is your name friend?" Cesar excitedly pulled the spoon from the floorboards and began to converse with it, unaware that he was the only one hearing the voice. I am Count Spoonicus of Silverware, the third of my lineage. Surely you are a noble as well with that name and sheer power? Cesar shook his head at this inquiry as if he was inside of a human centrifuge. Then I annoint you as a knight with the power invested in me by the gods themselves. Finish the other two off, Sir Cesar. Cesar was giddy at this point, hopping up and down and laughing happily. His two remaining victims were even more terrified, not only are they to die by the hand of some kind of a monster, but the monster is also an absolute fucking lunatic.

Cesar turned slowly, holding Count Spoonicus closely to his body in his left hand and snarling at the unlucky couple. "Spoonicus says to kill you, idiots! Idiots, idiots IDIOOOOOOTSSS! Filth-eating maggots, I'll devour your viscera!". The screams only got worse, halting only when an outsider could assume the monster within the chamber finished his meal.

Converse quietly with Spoonicus after finishing my meal.

[Rautherdir]

Overwhelmed by the sudden, unexpected, and overpowering hunger, Ash doesn't even hesitate to bound over to the nearest victim and drink her fill.

Drink their blood till they're dry. Edit: I guess we're doing that now.

Ash doesn't hesitate to grab the human and throw him into the wall to stop the struggling. Something tickles the back of Ash's mind, but she pays it no attention, instead sinking fangs into the human and drinking that precious liquid from the trembling creature. The other two only scream louder when she finishes drinking the man dry and turns with wild eyes towards them. The screaming annoys her, she hits one hard in the head and grabs the throat of the other before biting her in the neck and draining her as well. She turns to the last, now unconscious on the floor; and tenderly bites down on the throat. The glorious blood bursts into her mouth, and she gulps it all down until she is forced to suck the last of it into her mouth. Her mind now clearing, she lays back, listening to the world around her.

[S34N1C]

Nikolai jolts awake, eyes - well, not bloodshot, considering his lack of it at the moment, but similarly crazed - wide open, and takes several deep breaths, breathing in the scent of blood. As he spots the humans, he licks his lips and quickly gets up. He rushes towards the woman scratching the door.

Nikolai attacks the human, sinking his fangs into its neck and drains it dry.

Once this one has been drained, he throws aside the corpse, throws back his head and gasps for air. After several seconds of this, he notices the humans cowering in the corner. He licks his lips again, his pupils dilated to pinpricks. He scrambles to his feet, and launches himself at the mook. The mook fights back as hard as he can, but is brutally beaten down by in Nikolai's bloodlust. After the mook was rendered unconscious by the barrage of fists, Nikolai sets to work draining him as well.

Once the mook has been drained. He turns to the third. If he is still thirsty, he will drains them as well. If not, he will leave them alone and try to regain his senses.

[syvarris]

Trump stares into the wide eyes of the mook, failing to notice the screams of the woman beside him.  Vaugely, a distant part of him recognizes the face, remembering turning and seeing that very same face wearing the very same expression of confusion and fear.  A slight spattering of blood, and a knife coated in the same substance.  Trump's mouth salivates at the memory as he stares at the cowering man.  He creeps closer to the familiar face, mouth opening wider, preparing to redecorate it to match his memories--then a fist slams into his quivering jowls from the side.

Trump screeches in rage, reeling away for a moment, glancing at the person who hit him.  The brown man.  Unlike the other two, his eyes were filled with hatred, not fear.  Illegal.  Before he could conciously process his movements, the man was below him, trying to scream without a throat, and desperately trying to hit the orange monster tearing him to pieces.  Trump hardly noticed the blows, slowly digging deeper inside the man, trying to find the blood at the source, like he always did with wealth.  Eventually, the man stopped moving, but the heavenly substance within him still flowed, so Trump dug further, breaking through a gateway of bone to try and get closer.  Finally, Trump could reach, and he ripped the illegal's heart free from his body, feasting upon the classiest meal he had ever tasted.

A classy meal requires classy accompaniment, though.  Halfway through his bloody dining, a distant part of his mind registered the lack of such music--and in fact the exact opposite.  A shrill, unending scream, utterly frustrating, like a woman who didn't appreciate his tremendous respect.  He turned to look at the source.  A tiny little woman, who only screamed louder under his gaze.

"SHUT UP!" he screamed, lunging across the room at her.  She failed to comply; he decided to devour her face, which did little to silence her discordant din.  Frustrated from the tiny amount of blood be be found in her skull's thin covering, he resported to simply smashing his way inside.  This yielded somewhat more success, at least quieting the ugly little thing, but little in the way of blood, and too much disgusting pinkness.

He shifted downward, starting to more carefully tear pieces away from the corpse, ripping fat and muscle away to get at the arteries beneath.  His mind was clearer now, at least able to recognize the need for efficiency in harvesting the body's blood.  He smashed bones, using one as a tool to more effectively rip and tear the flesh, and in short order the body was no longer recognizably female--or even human, frankly.

Trump rose from the gore, turning to survey the room once more.  Disgust crossed his face as he examined his slobby surroundings; he was the President!  Then, his eyes fell upon the mook once more, now in the far corner.  A surge of hunger returned, and he visualized the face with blood spattered over it again--but this time he remembered more.  The corpse below him, Tangorn the traitor.  That face, that man, he had saved Trump.

Trump crept closer unconsciously, staring at the man.  He could feel their heartbeat, calling to him, asking to be released.  The hunger demanded it.  He could imagine the delicious flesh splitting beneath his fangs.  The taste of the--no.  Not this one.  Trump turned back to his first kill, the brown one, where there was still whole flesh, ready to be consumed.  That was fine, that one wasn't loyal.  He dove back upon his first meal, rending and ripping with relish.

Even after that one was finished, he would refuse to kill the loyal mook.

((Sialia rolled for that in IRC, Trump resisted attacking the mook.))

[Egan_BW]

For a moment, Morgan focuses her whole mind on wondering just what was going on he- Just a moment. The poor, abused resource management part of her brain quickly allocates a full third of her processing power on considering Hunger. Then half. Then seven eighths. Somewhere on the tip of that remaining slice of mind-pie balances the obvious, helpful, pertinent question; nobody bothers to speak it. How odd.
While what's left of rational thought wrestle over the thousand responsible responses to this sort of situation, that Hunger gets right to work on one of the infinite responsible reponses. Isn't supernatural nature lovely? I didn't even know humans had that much fluid in them! Who knows, maybe they don't; magic is pretty bullshit after all. Bloody thing, always fucking with minds and giving the finger to thermodynamics, it would really not be out of character for it to stick more liquid in a container than said container could possibly hold.
Uh, right, back to the blood. And the screaming, oh my.

[Aigre Excalibur]

As Father Gerald:

I was born again... not by water and spirit, but by blood. Not into the Kingdom of a dead god, but into the lingering night and unlife everlasting.

Called back into the pulse of life. Three souls writhing before me. Warm. Wet. Full of energy. I ravish the first one. She claws at my arms and back as I lower myself unto her. I feed, drawing life from the fountain. It was as if I was standing upon the top of a mountain, overlooking a valley of dry bones. Then I was on fire. Rain fell from heaven unto the dry parched land wherein my flesh longs and thirsts. And in that moment I was in the hidden place of God. It was like a vision of his glory and power unveiled. The blood flowed forth, sweeter than life itself. My lips worshiped the vessel with a joy profound and delightful beyond measure. It seeped into my bones and nourished my very marrows. The light before me, undimmed, became me. The Holy Grail and the King were one. I drank from the cup, to its fullness, to its very last dregs. I wrung out the very last drops, and drank the wine that is red...

And then I wanted more.

The other two offerings were huddled wide-eyed in a corner. Wild, feisty, but throbbing with the human emotions of panic. All natural emotions of course. But I would have this divine moment sanctified.

"Come unto me, my children." I embraced their bleating consciousnesses with my own mind, overshadowing them with the power of the almighty. "Let us draw water out of the wells of salvation." Placing my hands on their crowns in benediction I declare with divine will, "I forgive all your iniquities and heal all your disease. Now being free from sin, be ye servants unto God and have fruit unto holiness, joining into the everlasting life."

And then I slew them. I feasted and reveled in my new Godhood. Yet something was missing inside of me. It was as the Lord God said: My servants shall eat, but be hungry; my servants shall drink, but be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but shall be ashamed. I was gnawed from the inside by the worm of guilt. I was lashed by the fires of conscience. Yet I was resigned... to this requiem of endless temptation, of desires rich as ash and false as peace. I will try vanity and pleasure, holiness and debauchery, and every blend of force from heaven and hell. And in that experience will I know myself and realize the fullness of God.

[MidnightJaguar]

Smith blearily starts to pick himself up from this threadbare carpet and crouches down on all fours as though he were a wolf spotting prey; right as on of the men kicks him sideways in the chest sending him rolling along the threadbare carpet. The man following up on this advantage the man tries to stomp Smiths head. Angered now, Smith grabs the foot and bats it out of the way, knocking his assailant off balance and sending him to the ground. He lands heavily and smith partially arisen lunges onto him. Smith slams his fist into the mans face, and he goes down. Back when he was human Smith would have just stopped there, but the hunger is too much. He grabs the man head in his and slams the mans head into the floor twice, howling with glee when the mans head cracks open like egg and blood and brains spill out. Smith Eagerly wrenches the mans neck around and begins to feast greedily thrusting his fingers into the head and devouring the brains before stomping open the ribcage and devouring the blood rich organ within, as the other two humans watch horrified. The other two humans finally snap they realize that they are going to die and decide to go down fighting.  They both hurl themselves at them. Smith his hunger now reduced to a dull roar in his ears easily dodges them, a fact that surprises both him and his opponents. He lazily throws a punch into the womens head and as his fist slams through her skull the hunger comes back in at full force. He dodges the other assailiant moving faster any human could possibly move  before diving at him and sinking his fanges into his neck, sucking greedily smith watches as the man goes pale and collapses. Finishing this meal Smith sucks the other corpses dry of blood before staring around at the carnage and muttering to himself. Hoss, what the hell did I get myself into to.

[Sialia]

Mirella strides into the corridor. There are 12 doors off into the individual rooms. The smell of rot seeps from the carpet as the decaying blood clinging to it could never be cleaned. She takes out a key, unlocks the first door on her left. Inside, pieces of what may once have been three humans lay strewn about the floor. An unnamed fledgling sits in the corner, wide eyed, rocking back and fourth. Mirella strides up to him, and can see his aura mixing between fear and hopelessness, his mind is shattered. He will not recover, and if he did, he would not be useful as a neonate. She smiles in a motherly fashion to him.

‘It’s ok now, childe. You shall be set free now.’

She pulls a pistol, holds it to the whimpering fledgling’s forehead. He doesn’t move, just looks at her with fear. Mirella pulls the trigger, releasing the fledgling from his torment.

Mirella will open each door in succession. The next one has a whimpering and hopeless fledgling. She euthanizes it in a similar manner to the first, always smiling at them. She is a mother to these fledglings. The next that she enters is Cesar’s room. She strides in, crouching and smiling at him.

‘Cesar, it’s good to have you here. I hope you and Count Spoonicus are not too uncomfortable. Would you both like a shower and some clean clothes?’ Her motherly persona shone, comforting, warm. She saw in his aura a fledgling Malkavian she could raise to good use as the Prince has ordered her. Were he to accept, she would lead him out, down the corridor and to a lounge. It’s basic, but clean, unlike the rooms the fledglings woke in. There is a shower block at one end and a kitchen at the other. The carpet is old but intact. The walls are painted a basic cream, and are clean. There are no windows, and the only exit door is locked. Mirella will repeat this action for each fledgling.

She moves to Trump.
‘You were human, weak, but now you have ascended, above all humans.’ She will offer him a shower and clean clothes. The mook will be locked back in the room. Should he argue, Mirella will explain.
‘He is weak, a mere human. Mortals die, we never will. We are above them. He saved your life, so he will live because he is of importance to you, but out amongst the others he would be in danger. All the fledglings here must feed and cannot yet control it.’

It is Ash’s turn.
‘Ash, it must be hard to get used to the other voices in your head. You need time to get to know them. Come and get cleaned up, dress in fresh clothes, and you can talk with them.’ Mirella smiles at Ash. She leads her to the lounge and provides her with her set of clean clothes.

Mirella unlocks the next door. The fledgling there dies quietly, of no use to the Prince.

She moves to the next door. She quietly helps Smith to his feet.
‘You are better than human now. You are fast and strong. You will live forever. That doesn’t mean you can’t be a gentleman.’ She smiles and leads him to the lounge offering him clothes.

Mirella enters Morgan’s room. This one doesn’t have a shattered psyche either.
‘Morgan, you are welcome here. You will always have food and clothing. Come, and lets get you cleaned up.’

Mirella moves to Father Gerald
‘The hand and voice of God has never been so powerful. You now have the means to achieve the will of the most powerful. To being forgiveness to all those sinners otherwise doomed to hell.’ Her motherly smile is ever present. She helps him to the showers.

Mirella enters Nikolai’s room.
‘It is good to see you well, my friend.’
She steps forward toward him. ‘Lets get you cleaned up. I have you fresh clothes.’
Mirella leads him to shower and dress.

The rest of the fledglings are killed. Their minds shattered by the possibility of what they had done to others or driven mad by the existence of what they are, they could not have been saved.

The lounge is warm and inviting. Mirella seats herself in an armchair. She will offer explanations once everyone is cleaned up.

[Mallos]

"Spoonicus.. should we trust her? She could be an assassin here to end you!" Cesar whispered to Spoonicus. That is always a possibility, but we can't let it hinder our progress Sir Cesar. Trust her for now, but keep close watch. Cesar nodded slowly and understood what Spoonicus meant. He then looked himself over quickly, noting his blood-soaked rags. "Can't walk around like this or the normal people will know I'm different, that's never worked out well." Cesar remarked, thinking of times in his childhood where he was bullied and harassed for his odd behavior by peers and superiors alike. Reaching the conclusion that these would be the only people to possibly tolerate him, he knew he couldn't afford to say no.

Get clean, change into fresh clothes and await explanations while chatting with Spoonicus.

[Egan_BW]

Morgan simply follows this person, not speaking a word. She still thinks, perhaps, that she can find some way out of this, and go back to that life that she was looking forward to living.

Someone apparently drained all my blood out. This does not seem like an experience that I'd forget. Who killed me?

[S34N1C]

When Mirella enters, Nikolai snaps his head in her direction and immediately takes a defensive stance. After a few seconds he feels a feeling of recognition, lowers his guard, and steps closer. He still doesn't quite know who she is, but he knows that he knows her somehow. The adrenaline from his feeding frenzy has worn off, and his mind is still cloudy.

Mirella enters Nikolai’s room.
‘It is good to see you well, my friend.’
She steps forward toward him. ‘Lets get you cleaned up. I have you fresh clothes.’
Mirella leads him to shower and dress.

He nods feebly at her, still not lucid enough to respond coherently. He lets her lead him to the showers, where he stands there for the first five minutes letting the water splash over his face, not even removing his filthy clothes. After this, he regains some semblance if his former self, and he showers and dresses in the clothes she set out. He goes to the room where Mirella is waiting. He takes a seat, and begins to process what is going on.