Vampire the Masquerade Sabbat Game - Bloody Bastion [System]

Started by Esoterrorist, February 18, 2018, 04:23:59 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Esoterrorist

Welcome to the recruitment thread of Bloody Bastion. I am going to slowly build the world and hopefully quickly build the packs to allow you to join in them. This will not be an "all players in the same pack" game to make it more interesting in a PVP and intrigue style game. Also easier than trying to cram you all into the same threads all the time. HERE is the current "world" of Nashville by Night. Please post your character here however you see fit. I cannot code to save my life and haven't found a VtM code to copy here.


Character Creation

I will be using a bit of a different set up to this. There will be some restrictions, some leniencies, and some extras because I am such an anal retentive ST.


  • Time Dead: 11 Years max. You were most likely Embraced in the Week of the Threnody at that age. So earliest Embrace is July 4th 2007
  • Starting Generation: 13th (starting highest is 15th, starting lowest is 8th)
  • Attributes: 7/5/3
  • Abilities: 13/9/5
  • Disciplines: 6 (4 must be in clan, no Discipline can start higher than 3 before freebie points or higher than 4 after freebie points. Please use common sense for Out of Clan Disciplines)
  • Backgrounds: 5
  • Virtues: 5 (Conviction and Instinct start at 1 if chosen, not 0)
  • Freebies: 18
  • Max Flaws: 7 point cap
  • Banned Merit: Enchanting Voice
  • Banned Flaws: Child, Bound, Loathsome Regnant, and Probationary Sect Member

Vampire Ilk

The following list are the vampires that are okay to play and those that are not.

OK Vampires

  • Lasombra
  • Tzimisce
  • All Antitribu
  • Telyaveic Tremere
  • Daughters of Cacophony
  • Nagaraja
  • Salubri Antitribu - Note: Use the Dark Ages Weakness for warriors. Ask if you do not have this
  • Samedi

Maybe Vampires - Pitch me a concept before going ahead with character creation.

  • Ahrimane
  • Harbingers of Skulls
  • Kiasyd - Note: Use Dark Ages rules for these. Ask if you do not have this.
  • Old Clan Tzimisce

Not Allowed - Skrait up no, homez.
ALL OTHERS

Required Questions

1. What was your mortal life for/to you?

2. How were you Embraced into the Sabbat?

3. If you were a shovel head how did you survive the 2007 crusade? If you came later how did you entice your sire?

4. What fledgling or cannon fodder did you sacrifice for your well being? How did this go? Are they still around?

5. What pack(s) would you like to join?
Sloppy toppy for papi, I leave sloppy Joe shook - I only call you Captain because your dick off the hook!

Florence

O/O: I was going to make a barebones F-list as a rough summary, but then it logged me out and I lost my progress, so I made a VERY barebones F-list instead: Here.

Peanuts

I love their flaw and the filed teeth asthetic, very fun :)
If I haven't posted in a day or two check here, maybe harrass me a bit if there isn't a post :p

Haven't got an On/Offs thread, so check my RP preferences instead.

Esoterrorist

I'll be adding more and fleshing out current packs later today. It is 5:30 AM here.
Sloppy toppy for papi, I leave sloppy Joe shook - I only call you Captain because your dick off the hook!

Peanuts

Hmmm so I'm thinking either Country Gangrel, Salubri Antitribu, or Nagaraja... Will tackle it some more tomorrow.
If I haven't posted in a day or two check here, maybe harrass me a bit if there isn't a post :p

Haven't got an On/Offs thread, so check my RP preferences instead.

wander

I'm rewatching the Gentleman Gamer's Guide to Vampires on youtube to refresh myself on clans, though I am pretty much leaning heavily on a Tzimisce socialite type right now. :)

I'd love to have them all about that Vicissitude. I've been intrigued by the Tzimisce for some time and I am a large fan of body horror (early Cronenberg is one of mt fave film directors! ^^), so perfect time to play one methinks. :)

I'll be working on tweaking them together later tonight and tomorrow.

Peanuts

If I haven't posted in a day or two check here, maybe harrass me a bit if there isn't a post :p

Haven't got an On/Offs thread, so check my RP preferences instead.

wander

Will 'Lore of the Clans' be useable? There's some interesting Disciplines etc I like the look of.

For my main concept I was considering a dilletante, possibly old money. Though I do like the struggling artist archetype, embraced for their talent and now using flesh as their canvass. Perhaps combining both by having this poor young artist taken in by a benefactor, which happens to be a rich old Tzimisce. There would then be a disparity between the pauper of their mortal life to the princely visage they keep as a Kindred. I feel the character as a mortal would have been before the embrace around the age of 21, enough to be out of higher education/art school and finding their place, though yet to actually find it.

I feel the best concept in Lore of the Clans is that of The Weaver for my character. A Roma would be a fairly simple label to place on them for the chosen Clan, though I was thinking of playing a Japanese artist of the guro genre as a mortal.

Florence

I took one look at the pack list and I 100% love the Friends of Dorothy.

I'm a bit torn as to whether I wanna roll a Nagaraja or a Daughter of Cacophony though.

Hmmm, brings me to a question.

Do trans Daughters of Cacophony exist?

Like, they're female only, but would that include trans women, or is it strictly cisgender women?
O/O: I was going to make a barebones F-list as a rough summary, but then it logged me out and I lost my progress, so I made a VERY barebones F-list instead: Here.

Esoterrorist

@Wander: Yes. Check the worldbuilding thread for stuff. It says what books are definitely useful.

@Florence: V20 went back to 2nd edition rules where the men were never purged from their ranks. To paraphrase Lore of the Bloodlines: "If a man has a problem being called a "Daughter of Cacophony" than perhaps they don't deserve the gift." Also the 3rd edition DoC character was a MtF transgender who was sired by a male. The Archbishop of Nashville was also sired by a male. So in short: He? She? Inbetween? JUST SING!
Sloppy toppy for papi, I leave sloppy Joe shook - I only call you Captain because your dick off the hook!

wander

Niku is a Kindred physically 21 years old after being Embraced at that age by his Tzimisce Sire. A Japanese-American born in the summer of 1987, Niku manifested early an artist talent growing up. Due to nightmares and a need to understand the strange dreams he was plagued with, this art soon drifted towards guro and body-horror in his early teens. Niku was lucky enough to have his looks and a gift with words... What may have struck him as being an outsider actually marked him as cool and brooding. He was never really a lad to make friends though, so he usually kept a small circle around him and at arm's length, treating people mean to keep them keen.

It was around there that a particular scion of the Zantosa Revenant family began to take notice of the youth. It can't really be said if it was down to Zantosa that a spaight of deaths seemed to hit Niku's family and what involvement this had in swaying the youth in the direction needed... Either way, Niku was soon left in his teens surrounded by the taint of death and as if just when needed, a mysterious silent benefactor began to help. By his later highschool years and the struggle of the big bad world would take notice, Niku had the backing to be able to be sent to college, schooled in etiquette and academically both in biology and the history, along with the ways of old world aristocracy.

In those years he was adopted into the family all to easily, it was clear something was learned behind the scenes by the Roma Foundation by the peers he was brought into by his benefactor. Niku would have little want for anything, due to his youthful good looks and general skill with manipulation. His artistic talents, bolstered by the gained knowledge of body-sculpting and an ability to show biology beyond the ability of most doctors and scientists is what caught the eye of his actual Sire. It was however only after the 2007 shifts had occured that his Sire was able to reach him, in 2008 at the age of 21, Niku was invited to a Zantosa party.

A party of some celebratory abandon and come the dawn as body fluids coated every wall and ceiling, Niku had been Embraced. As usual Niku was able to take becoming one of Clan Tzimisce and gaining ability with Vicissitude all in his stride, brought into the fold Niku was more than able to teach the advances of more modern biology methodology to his elders. In his unlife Niku continues to be an artist of brilliance, though now rather than the sketchings of guro manga, his canvass has moved onto that of the actual flesh. It is through this and continued blog he updates online detailing the oddities of his continued nightmares along with his guro manga content that he gained a following in the alt crowd to set up a night shop for body sculpting.

Atop of that whilst he follows a Path of pain that is able to bring him satisfaction and his place in life, he acts courageously the part of Knight under his Lords, carrying even a tanto with a 10 to 10.5 inch blade on it like a traditional knight wielded a sword. Niku lives in a luxury studio apartment where he can continue his 'artistic experimentation in the macabre' where he generally has stable access to alt, goth and fetish models who define his herd. He is never really in want for those who wish for him to show the majesties of pain and bodysculpting on their flesh, both experienced and fresh. Whilst he holds the resources to take on a retainer, at current times he prefers to be more 'hands on' with his dealings.



Name: Niku 'aka Nick or even Nico' Zantosa

Concept: Artist Dilletante.

Clan: Tzimisce.

Nature: Sadist
(regain 1 point of willpower whenever you inflict pain on someone else for no reason but your own pleasure).

Demeanour: Celebrant (art/body sculpting).

Chosen Pack: Qui Vivra Verra.

Attributes;

Physical (3 dots)
Strength: 00xxx
Dexterity: 00xxx
Stamina: 00xxx

Social (5 dots)
Charisma: 00xxx
Manipulation: 000xx
Appearance: 000xx

Mental (7 dots)
Perception: 000xx
Intelligence: 0000x (Creative)
Wits: 000xx

Abilities.

Talents (5 + 2 from freebies);
Alertness 0xxxx
Athletics xxxxx
Awareness 0xxxx
Brawl xxxxx
Empathy 00xxx (2 freeby pts).
Expression 00xxx (2 freeby pts).
Intimidation xxxxx
Leadership xxxxx
Streetwise xxxxx
Subterfuge 0xxxx

Skills (13 + 1 from freebies);
Animal Ken xxxxx
Crafts 000xx
Drive xxxxx
Etiquette 000xx
Firearm xxxxx
Larceny xxxxx
Melee 0000x (specialisation: knives) (2 freeby pts)
Performance 0xxxx
Stealth 000xx
Survival xxxxx

Knowledge (9 + 5 from freebies);
Academics 00xxx (2 freeby pts)
Computer 00xxx (2 freeby pts)
Finance xxxxx
Investigation 0xxxx
Law 0xxxx
Medicine 0000x (specialisation: Bodysculpting) (2 freeby pts)
Occult 0xxx
Politics xxxxx
Science 000xx (specialisation: Biology) (4 freeby pts)
Technology xxxxx

Disciplines;
Vissicitude (in-clan) 000xx
Auspex (in-clan) 00xxx
Potence (out of clan) 0xxxx

Backgrounds; (5 Background + 5 freebies)
Allies 0xxxx (Good Lawyer)
Domain 0xxxx (studio apartment)
Fame 0xxxx (alternative art community)
Generation 000xx (10th Generation) (+3 freeby pts)
Herd 0xxxx (alt. body-mod models)
Resources 00xxx (+1 freeby pt)
Status 0xxxx (+1 freeby pt)

Path:
Path of Lilith: 5.

Virtues;
Conviction 000xx
Instincts 00xxx
Courage 000xx

Willpower: 5/10 (freebies spent; 2 dots)

Blood Pool: 13/13

Merits: Pain Tolerance (+2)

Flaws: Unblinking (-1), Nightmares (-1), Beacon of the Unholy (-2), Revenant Weakness (-3; Zantosa Family).


FREEBIES AVAILABLE: 18 (+5 flaws) = 23pts
-2 dots on willpower
-16 dots on abilities
-5 dots on backgrounds

Florence

I'll probably be doing a Daughter of Cacophony after some thought. As much as I love the nagaraja, my ideas for a DoC character are too strong to ignore.
O/O: I was going to make a barebones F-list as a rough summary, but then it logged me out and I lost my progress, so I made a VERY barebones F-list instead: Here.

Peanuts

DoC it up! I'll be going ahead with a Salubri antitribu

Here she is! May be subject to change, but probably not :) Need to fill out her background a bit more, but she was a MMA fighter that caught the attention of a powerful Warrior Salubri who decided to embrace her and bring her into the Sabbat. Ever since she's taken her career more... underground after she developed a taste for the flesh of her opponents. If they fight particularly well she takes their heart to gain their strength! Otherwise she just takes an arm or leg or whatever suits her taste at the time.

Character Sheet - Julie Smith
If I haven't posted in a day or two check here, maybe harrass me a bit if there isn't a post :p

Haven't got an On/Offs thread, so check my RP preferences instead.

Drowdeviant

Anyone know what pack they’re joining?

I’m kind of thinking either the Rejects or Charnel. :3
My F-list: https://www.f-list.net/c/wolf%20king%20ii
My A/As: https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=223237.0 -My RPs and how many I can do at one time

Peanuts

Haven't decided yet, no. Just edited a short character bio and sheet in the last post though :)
If I haven't posted in a day or two check here, maybe harrass me a bit if there isn't a post :p

Haven't got an On/Offs thread, so check my RP preferences instead.

Drowdeviant

Quote from: Peanuts on February 18, 2018, 08:19:42 PM
Haven't decided yet, no. Just edited a short character bio and sheet in the last post though :)

Well I might go rejects and snag the priesthood. Mordecai could use someone to help him keep the other murder kids in line. xD

Though sadly as a serpent of light I can’t have the cool ass corpse shrine that eventually lets you cause businesses to collapse Osiris’ing one of their spokespeople or execs. xD
My F-list: https://www.f-list.net/c/wolf%20king%20ii
My A/As: https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=223237.0 -My RPs and how many I can do at one time

InoshimaLance

#16
Many new concepts for me, but I will see some YT vids to learn more, and I hope you accept me. I have some questions though:

1) So clans are like groups of vampires that share same goals (like a covenant) or are they like subdivisions of the vampire "sub-races" (I know is not like sub-races when we speak of Lasombra and Tzimisce but I seriously need to check all the info)?

2) Is there any kind of Vampire that specializes in growing extra limbs that are harder, sharper, stronger than actual flesh and can also be shaped by desire?

3) If anyone (GM better) would like to make recommendations and guide me through the process, I'll be more than happy. I would not mind shaping the concept as I am told to at least learn a bit.

Peanuts

Alright, having looked the clans over, I'm leaning towards Boss Bitches :)

@Inoshima
1. The thirteen clans are all descended from one of Caine's (yes the biblical Caine) vampiric grandchildren which are the antediluvians, as in they've been around since biblical times. The bloodlines are various different offshoots or other corruptions/bastardizations of the original 13 clans, and antitribu are factions of a clan that decided to not follow the main clan's direction/allegiances. Sub-races is the closest comparison, yeah.

Also vampires are split into 3-4 main factions Camarilla are the sneaky political 'lets keep the human cattle placid by pretending supernatural shit doesn't exist', they work behind human society, controlling the politicians and the big companies and generally trying to be bloated ticks. Sabbat are the opposite end of the spectrum, generally more violent and care-free, they know not to draw attention unnecessarily, but humans are vermin to feed on and if you even bother to pay attention to them, boss around and make serve us. Their main goal however is to prepare for the return of the antediluvians, who are basically gods and they believe are the biggest threat to modern vampires. Then there's the Anarchs and the Independants which I'm a little more fuzzy on their goals.

2. Tzimiche are the ones that do permanent body alterations, gangrel can grow wicked animal claws and turn into and talk/control animals, Lasombra can form shadows into solid tentacles... there's probably others I'm missing.

3. I can help you if Ferret/Eso is too busy. I'm by no means an expert, but have a fair experience with most of the big concepts.
If I haven't posted in a day or two check here, maybe harrass me a bit if there isn't a post :p

Haven't got an On/Offs thread, so check my RP preferences instead.

Esoterrorist

Inoshima 1. Peanuts summed it up pretty well here. Covenants came from the Sects of VtM (the Camarilla spawned the Invictus, the Anarchs spawned the Carthian Movement, and the Sabbat spawned the Ordo Dracul, Lancea Sanctum, and Circle of the Crone!).

2. The sects can be surface scratched that way. The Camarilla "pretend" to still be human, basically. They are the Anne Rice vampires and the Twilight vampires who are "sappy." The Camarilla standpoint is that the Antediluvians do not exist; they are faerie tales and Sabbat superstition. The Sabbat don't do the "boo hoo, I'm damned!" bit nearly as much and tend to see humans as we see animals: Food, pets, and servants. The Anarchs are somewhere in between, with some willing to do anything for freedom while most are so young they really still identify as human and the elders were often spawned during human revolutionary periods. The Independents vary dramatically.

3. Making extra limbs can be done by Tzimisce but the only Discipline that spontaneously allows you to grow extra limbs is Sanguinus by the Blood Brothers and you are technically borrowing the limbs from another Blood Brother - and most Blood Brothers are very..."limited" lets say. Though the 4th level of Vicissitude does let you craft a custom "war" form.
Sloppy toppy for papi, I leave sloppy Joe shook - I only call you Captain because your dick off the hook!

Orange Marmalade

This has my attention - may revive a Lasombra I've been itching to play.

Florence

Quote from: Drowdeviant on February 18, 2018, 08:11:51 PM
Anyone know what pack they’re joining?

I’m kind of thinking either the Rejects or Charnel. :3

As I've already indicated, my character will most likely be intended for the Friends of Dorothy.

I'm thinking a trans, non-binary (they/them) Daughter of Cacophony. I'm still ironing out their personality and such, but I've got an image in my head.

As a Daughter of Cacophony, though, I figured music would be good to inspire the character, and I think is sort of their 'themesong'.


Really, I've been kind of listening to Florence + the Machine's entire discography while working on them.


That one, I think, is a bit on the nose for a Daughter of Cacophony... but I'm still listening to it because I love it, lol.
O/O: I was going to make a barebones F-list as a rough summary, but then it logged me out and I lost my progress, so I made a VERY barebones F-list instead: Here.

wander

Jus' saying... I'm making a Tzimisce myself. On that, onto editing in skills and doing more towards my character's sheet! I'll have some justifications for certain dots I expect explained in future posts here in this thread as I go along the process. :)

As more artistically inclined, I feel like going Mental for their attributes given the descriptions made most sense. I doubt I'll throw any freebies into these, instead putting more in where their Abilities land up. I think things will come together more as I sort out their Disciplines.

EDIT: Have decided to go with Potence as an out-of-clan Discipline, whilst others may have been more fitting to concept, I saw 'Flaying Touch' as a Combination Discipline and fell in love with the chance to get that later! ^^ Part of the 'dilletante' feel of my character in their Abilities was I bought Melee at a fairly high level, to represent them being taught the very noble art of fencing/sword fighting, with PvP being a thing, Protean + Sword is a fairly nice combat mechanic as the character being an artist, I couldn't justify a regular high strength attribute.

Also need to remind myself to add in some freeby dots later to Empathy, for the Aura Perception ability. In the original set-up of concept I went for a more sociopathic viewpoint (so skimped on empathy entirely), though Auspex is very much the 'artist's perception' discipline and makes perfect sense to have and be good at using.

Lockepick

I'm thinking of going a Tremere Antitribu -- a hacker that wants to create more free exchanges of magical knowledge, with the idea that it's a gift for all vampires, and Thaumaturgy has grown and evolved once it's given to other groups/clans. I'm leaning towards Anteblleum Rejects right now.
Like what you see? I am currently looking for new plots!

Detailed List of O/Os and Plot Seeds

All of my image links were previously photobucket and broken -- I'm fixing them as I use the avatars again, or for current games. Please let me know if there is something that needs updating!

InoshimaLance

Thanks for the answers guys. I have been investigating in the 20th edition book and I want to ask some stuff about these final questions:

Quote from: Esoterrorist on February 18, 2018, 04:23:59 AM
1. What was your mortal life for/to you?

2. How were you Embraced into the Sabbat?

3. If you were a shovel head how did you survive the 2007 crusade? If you came later how did you entice your sire?

4. What fledgling or cannon fodder did you sacrifice for your well being? How did this go? Are they still around?

5. What pack(s) would you like to join?

First off, what is a shovel head and what is the crusade of 2007? Why would I need to entice my sire if I came after? Is normal for the Sabbat to use cannon fodder, for what? As I belive by what you guys say, there is a set list of packs I can join? Is it in the Core Book? Would we join all the same pack or be of different ones? Thank you.

Drowdeviant

#24
Quote from: InoshimaLance on February 19, 2018, 09:58:42 AM
Thanks for the answers guys. I have been investigating in the 20th edition book and I want to ask some stuff about these final questions:

First off, what is a shovel head and what is the crusade of 2007? Why would I need to entice my sire if I came after? Is normal for the Sabbat to use cannon fodder, for what? As I belive by what you guys say, there is a set list of packs I can join? Is it in the Core Book? Would we join all the same pack or be of different ones? Thank you.

*cracks knuckles*

Ok shovelheads refers to a controversial practice usually utilized by the Sabbat now in war time. the process being that you're turned using the least amount of blood possible, bashed over the head with a shovel and buried in a mass grave and made to dig your way out to prove you had the possible potential of becoming a full member of the sect.

Normally you would need to convince a prospective sire to want to turn you. What makes you so special that they should give you the blood kiss and make you one of their Childer? Basically what did they see in you that persuaded them to make you one of their childer?

It is normal for Sabbat to use cannon fodder, though lately they only use it during war time. Basically it's used to raised on big fucking expendable armies to fight in the Sabbat's wars (after all they see human life as worth very little).

The pack list and setting info linked to in Eso's first post on this thread Ino, look for the bolded word in blue. :3



Though the 2007 crusade has me stumped just as much as it has you. :P
My F-list: https://www.f-list.net/c/wolf%20king%20ii
My A/As: https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=223237.0 -My RPs and how many I can do at one time