OOC Thread

[Vanessa Marlowe]

Well, I don't want to misread your post then Luciferi. If you're talking about my character, rather than the painter, I would appreciate if you could make it explicit. I wouldn't want to imply anything about your character. It seems I have been "misreading" people's tone through posts here, that or I'm taking a lot of them the wrong way. Somehow I doubt it, but ~*shrugs*~ Better to be safe in understanding.

That is all.

[Vanessa Marlowe]

Oh joy! ~*laughs*~ Thanks for clarifying for me. Sorry if I sounded curt... It wasn't intentional. I've been under a bit of stress. ~*smiles and slips off to read some more posts*~

[Peregrine Daniels]

Ooh James, how do the Vampires in your world die? Anything different I read when you said that there only weak in sunlight and it'll take a couple of hours to kill them that way, but what about anything else? All the same type stuff? Decapitation. Holy water, stake through the heart?

Um is it Buffy-Esq? Turn to dust when staked or....??

[Isabella Rastafari]

James is AWOL himself for a few days, but I am sure he will answer you upon his return BB.

From what little I have discussed with him, I do know that both Benito and Isabella do cast a reflection in a mirrored surface, but only if they make the concious decision to do so. Thats about all I know though...
As far as Im aware, there hasnt actually been a conversation on exactly what kind of vamps everyone is playing in this plot, so its a good question BB.. Ill chase James up for an answer ASAP

Plotwise... While Isabella herself is in Rome, she has left many of her brethren home in Sydney, and if I cant get ahold of Anain to run the show on the home front, I might have to play another C... not like I'm in any other plots or anything...

[Vanessa Marlowe]

~*raises her hand*~ I have a small request. Whatever the "tradition" is that the vampires chose, caould we please have all the clans adhere to that? It makes it incredbly messy and disjointed story wise to have one clan playing by "traditional" rules and other playing by VtM and another playing by "Buffy" rules... It's a point we need to arrive at before any of the major stuff happens.

~*smirks*~ And no worries. The Playhouse isn't going to be attacked until Lilith returns.

[Isabella Rastafari]

I couldnt agree more..

[Peregrine Daniels]

EXCELLENT and Dawns right no attacking yet sorry, i may have jumped the gun a little but i'm not going any further!

[Isabella Rastafari]

*nods* I have not played VtM either, so I dont have a clue what happens in that genre... I am however a MASSIVE Buffy fan, so I can offer a bit of insight in that department, but now that I think about it..I dont realy see that they have differed much from the more "traditional" sense of what a vampire is.

Only differences I see in Buffy vampires, is that certain "lower" classes of the family or "brethren" generally seem to stay in their full vamp face.. I do not know if they can actually morph back and forth or not.. although the more established vampires such as Angel and Spike *dissolves into a puddle of drool before picking herself back up and molding the drool into something resembling the Mori* ARE able to morph back and forth from their "human faces" to their vamp faces.. The lower classes also seem to be generally more stupid, driven by their blood lust and not realy having much in the brains department. The more evil beings however tend to be quite intelligent and calculating..

Also.. Buffy vampires like to sleep in beds opposed to the "traditional" aspect of sleeping in coffins. Apart from that though, I dont realy see any differences...

To kill a Buffy vamp..Stakes through the heart generally seem to work well, as well as decapitation..UV light seems to do some major damage, and unless a vamp is well shielded by a big thick heavy blanket or coat, they tend to burst into flames. I dont know anything about silver killing vampires, as I thought that was more aimed towards werewolves.. *shrugs* But yeah.. they dont use silver in Buffy.

Of course, this doesnt mean that our Anima vamps have to be based on Buffy style vamps, I just thought I would post that info up for any people who arent familiar with that style. Perhaps someone who knows about VtM would be able to do the same? Just a list of similarities and differences would be beneficial... me thinks. Then, perhaps we could start a discussion, try and decide on the basic rules of our vampires?

As for Benito and Isabella casting a reflection.. that was James' call, and when he gets back, Im sure he can explain his reasoning. I however have read a few different vampire books where certain vampires were able to cast their reflection in mirrored surfaces... these stories were set in futuristic and modern times where the vampires had to merge with modern society and had learned tools and tricks to fool people into thinking they were human.. casting a reflection was one of these ways. As this is a similar type of setting, perhaps that was James' thought when he put it into place? I dont want to speak for him though.. *shrugs*

Ooooooooooooooh I just had a flash of The Lost Boys ( MAN I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!) where the Frog brothers and Sam invited Max (the head vampire) into their house. Max was able to cast a reflection, as well as eat garlic and the reasoning behind that was that if you invite a vampire into your house it makes all your tricks or weapons if you will, powerless... something to consider perhaps?

[amberlae]

>.>" On a note I have seen several movies (not necessarily good ones) that had silver as a vampire's...irk...ness..."<.<

[Peregrine Daniels]

Yeah Blade i think had Silver.... but thats all i've ever seen for it... pfft Silver. good old wood will do it!

[Luciferi]

For whatever reason, nothing that the Qchat window is on will load.. the only reason I got to this is that I had this plot linked by itself.

I cannot log in, read PM's or go to the main area.

Why?

[Discord Lasarythe]

Do you have any pop up blockers on at all? All tool bars come with them these days, so you may have more than one blocking pop ups. This is the first time this has happened? Your account isn't disabled or anything so I'm not sure what the problem is. Terry probably has other ideas.

[Discord Lasarythe]

Glad to hear it.

[giuliana]

Not that I'm -in- this plot at the moment... debating, but not yet in... but I thought I'd offer a little help on the VtM style, since nobody else has already. I promise I'll try not to ramble my arse off, as I have a tendency to do with things associated with this particular game. Promise.

~ A stake through the heart does not kill in VtM rules. It merely paralyzes the vampire completely. S/he retains his mental capacities and abilities, but cannot move or speak. Instead, the vampire has to deal with hearing and seeing everything around until someone removes the stake.

~ Fire is VERY bad. Very, very, very bad. Not only does it cause serious damage, as it tends to do with most flammable things, it inspires an innate, primal terror in the vampire unless s/he passes a self-control roll. Even vampires with high self-control can utterly botch these rolls, so nobody's really immune. I could go into stories from my RP group, but then I'd be writing epics here, and nobody wants to read it.

~ UV light is bad. Even black-lights are bad. ~-eyes shift-~ A character in my group found that out the hard way when he tried to install blacklights in his club, but for some reason, he's still got them under his car. Quirky. Sunlight is still bad, too.

~ Teeth and claws and bones (the Tzimisce clan has a discipline called Bonecraft that allows them to mold and shape and even let their bones or the bones of others protrude from the skin. It can look really freakin' wicked) from other vampires do what's called aggravated damage. Aggravated damage is more difficult for a vampire to heal. It takes five of their blood points (a paper-and-pencil thing to keep track of health) to heal ONE point of aggravated damage per night... and only one per night. Agg damage sucks. Big-time. The teeth and claws and bones of shape-shifters also cause aggravated damage to vampires. A vampire's blood, his/her own or otherwise, can also cause aggravated damage, but that involves an Assamite (Clan) discipline called Quietus. Lots more explanation. There's also a discipline called Fortitude that allows a vampire to "soak" aggravated damage, but that's more complexity than I need to get into.

~ Some vampires have flaws (a game-concept that I'm not entirely sure how to go about explaining beyond the fact that everybody has plusses and minuses, vamps not excluded) that prohibit them from crossing running water or looking upon crosses or dealing with garlic. The whole no reflection dealy is actually the Clan flaw (because every clan's gotta have a weakness, or it's no fun) of the Lasombra, the shadow manipulators, but it's not limited to the Lasombra.

~ Decapitation still works. Also, if one severs a vampire's brain stem, it's off to Final Death for the vampire.

~ Punching (if you can hit hard enough) will cause what's called bashing damage. Other things that cause bashing damage: bullets, punching, kicking, brawling-type stuff, blunt force, clubs, and so on. A vampire can heal two points of bashing damage with one blood point, so bashing's not a big thing to be concerned about. Lethal damage can be caused by things such as knives, swords, anything sharp and bladed. A vampire can heal one point of lethal damage with one blood point. Neither bashing damage nor lethal damage can completely kill a vampire. What it can do, however, is send it into torpor. Torpor simply means that a vampire has taken more damage than s/he can sustain, or that no blood remains in the body and they cannot wake from the next night's sleep, or the one after that, and so on and so forth.

I promise I'm done! I promise!! If you have any questions at all, please feel free to write me a PM so I don't go clogging up this thread with any more of my inane ramblings. I, personally, really like the VtM style vampire and... I confess... I actually have a character sheet, a legitimate character sheet, written up for this li'l Harbinger. Please, though, if I've not been clear on something or you wanna know more, I'm so happy to share information and stories!! Hope this helps!

And by the by... what clan needs more peope?

[Peregrine Daniels]

Thanks Laura,

I think all the clans could do with some extra help, the Londan guys could use some people i think? Even the Enemy, we could use some Leaders in Britian and Italy