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Vampire: The Requiem

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What comes to mind when you think Gothic Horror?

Horror is not just terror, but revulsion. Aversion. The anticipation of pain and danger. Gothic is characterized by gloom, mystery and the grotesque. The out of the ordinary, the unexpected and the odd or strange. A sense of a thing belonging to an era of time gone by, lost to the annuals of history.

Gothic Horror is as much atmosphere as anything else, filled with certain symbols that we've come to associate with the genre. Fog. Rain. Moonlit nights. Windblown heroines on clifftops. The mansion in the woods where the eccentric family keeps to itself. The castle on the moors. The heiress left to discover the horrors of her True Family. Finding out no one is whom they seem to be and that yes, Virginia, something is in the woodshed.

Playing in the Vampire sphere, we'd like you to keep in mind several themes and help us propagate a sense of Mystery, Isolation and Horror. Dracula. Varney the Vampire. Dark Shadows. Any number of Hammer Horror Films.

This is the sort of story that we'd like to tell here.

Dunlin's Reach has so many vampires drawn to the coast by the unexplained pull of the Nexus that space and blood is at a premium. Elder and Childer a like must scheme and scrape for their small patch of Domain. They are the things that go bump in the dark, the chill in the night, the shadow that crosses your path.

Vampire Staff

Rules and Systems

  • Applications: All you ever wanted to know about applying to Vampire!
  • Books in Use: A comprehensive list of approved Vampire books usable by both players and staff.
  • Approved Merits: All Vampire-specific merits approved for use in play.
  • Approved Bloodlines: All Bloodlines approved for play.
  • Approved Rituals: Approved rituals for all blood sorceries in play, both book and player created.
  • House Rules & Clarifications: House rules and clarifications of base systems from the Vampire series.
  • Commands: Commands used by Vampire players in-game.
  • We do in fact use VtR 2nd Printing Errata [1]

Local Kindred

Vampires by Clan

 

Vampires by Covenant

Ghouls


Character Generation

  • Vampire is presently open to new applications. Please see App Standards for game-wide application standards.
  • Chargen begins in the Chargen Rooms. Please go all the way through those to set your mortal stats. Important settings are done behind the scenes on your character object, so please don't skip over this! During the Merit section, should you not wish to set any mortal Merits, just set a placeholder Merit and we will change it later.
  • A job will be autocreated once you have finished. Please read +jhelp myjobs for any commands that aren't clear. Add a comment to the job which shows your XP spends and anything else that you want set on your sheets. Please submit the following format for your template into the job.


Starting XP

  • All players start with 50XP to spend on their characters. Players can opt to forego this initial 50XP in favor of taking transfer XP from a PERMANENTLY retired PC with the following option:
    • Option 1: Transfer 1/2 of the total XP in place of the initial 50xp plus any incentives. Previous tier boosts are subtracted from the total XP for transferring purposes.


Bonus XP:

  • 10XP for a Neonate
  • 5XP for Ancillae
  • 5XP for least populous Covenant
  • 5XP for least populous Clan
  • 5XP for Covenant-specific bloodlines in primary Covenant
  • 5XP each for PC/Ghoul application together
  • 5XP each for Coteries (3+ People)
  • Ghouls Only: 5XP for PC Regnant prior to approval


Restricted/Unavailable

  • Rogue Ghouls
  • Bloodlines other than those listed - Some limited - see below
  • More than 1 Discipline at 4+
  • Vampires older than 120 (Combined Mortal + Vamp years - Torpor does not count towards this number) Typically we will not allow an 'Elder' to app in with less than 200xp


Limited Openings: (Please contact Vampstaff)

  • Bloodlines: Iltani (0), Asnam (0), Bohagande (0)
  • Covenants: Sworn Ordo Dracul (0)


Application Guidelines
The Vampire sphere follows the Mortal/Mortal+ Application Guidelines located here with the addition of following what the other 'super' spheres do, in that Blood Potency may not be higher than 4 after XP Spends, and the 4th dot must be bought with XP, not Merit dots from CG.

Vampire is a heavily Status based game. Status can not be bought with XP, only Merit Dots in CGen or by RP. You get a free dot of Clan, Covenant and City Status.


Tier Slots Available:

All tier positions require the designated tier to run 2 PrP/Events on a monthly basis. These events must be logged and posted to the wiki. Each event must include 2+ members of the sphere within the scene. Once the log is posted, please submit a +request to Vampstaff with the copy/pasted link so that XP may be awarded.

Requesting a Tier: Players may request one of the opening slots via +request. The Request should include a summary regarding the type of stories you plan to run as well as a general idea of available times the player is online. If approved, the players will have a 1 month test run in which they will be required to run 2 events/PrPs/scenes for the sphere without the XP incentive. If they do so successfully, they will receive the Tier bump and requisite XP. If at anytime the tiered player fails to complete the required scenes for the month, their tier status can be removed and they will need to rollback their PCs to repay the initial XP bump received. There is no Incentive XP allowed for Tiered PCs aside from the tier boost, aside from Morality drops, but XP may be awarded for the individual scenes run.

Tier Openings:
Tier 3: One Slot Available (experience in Vampire required)
Tier 2: 7-slots


Application Backgrounds

  • Character backgrounds can be as short or long as players wish, but should at least consist of a few paragraphs. While no one expects a novel, players wishing to choose the bullet point/timeline format may do so as well. However the following questions must be covered at least somewhere amid whatever options you choose:


Questions:


1. How old are you? When were you born? Where were you born?


2. What was your childhood like? Who was your family? What kind of background do you come from?


3. What kind of person are you? What's your personality like? Strong/Weak character traits?


4. What was your first brush with the Supernatural like? How did it change you?


5. How did your embrace/ghouling come to pass? Who embraced/ghouled you? Why? How did you encounter your sire/regnant?


6. What is your relationship with your sire/regnant like? How did they treat you? Are they still alive? If dead, how did they die? Did they have any Covenant affiliations?


7. Vampires Only: Were you presented to kindred society? Was your embrace legal? Did others accept you? What's your relationship with other Covenants?


8. Vampires Only: Where is your Haven? How do you fortify it during the day? Do you have any Retainers/Staff/etc? What are they like?


9. What motivates you? What sort of goals do you have? Passions? Hatreds? Do you have any enemies? If so, who are they and why are they enemies?


10. Vampires Only: Have you ever been in torpor? When and where? What memories have you lost during that time? Upon awakening how have you adapted to the changes around you?


11. What brings you to Aleswich? What do you hope to accomplish when here?

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