The hibernation thing is a classic example of not understanding how evolution works. Evolution doesn't solve problems, it rewards success. In the case of a population of vampires hunting a population of humans to extinction, the first vampire to have a hibernation-inducing mutation wouldn't experience greater reproductive success, it would wake up from its hibernation to discover the other non-hibernating vampires had eaten all the humans and moved on or starved.
White Wolf's World of Darkness
Maybe they were smart enough to notice the problem and intentionally evolved hibernation through willpower and training.
Lamarckian≠Darwinian
Lamark was right, Comrade. Darwinism is for Captialist Pig-Dogs.
Master: The Taming
There are monsters living among us. Your friends can't see them, your parents think you're crazy, but you know they're there, in the corner of your eye. Some of them prey on the unsuspecting humans, some seek to protect. They fight each other for dominance. You find it one night in your room at the mental hospital. It's injured. You give it water, you sneak it food. It can only say one word, but you learn to decipher meaning in its tone and inflection. You're not alone. Others can see them, too. The ones who hurt it had a master, a human who gave them orders. They were stronger with a master, could work together as a team. It was scared. Without a master, it would be easy prey. You couldn't let it be killed, so you said yes. It asked for a command in its odd single-word language. You commanded it to make an exit. The next day the papers reported that it was a natural gas explosion that blew open the wall of your cell.
There are monsters living among us. Your friends can't see them, your parents think you're crazy, but you know they're there, in the corner of your eye. Some of them prey on the unsuspecting humans, some seek to protect. They fight each other for dominance. You find it one night in your room at the mental hospital. It's injured. You give it water, you sneak it food. It can only say one word, but you learn to decipher meaning in its tone and inflection. You're not alone. Others can see them, too. The ones who hurt it had a master, a human who gave them orders. They were stronger with a master, could work together as a team. It was scared. Without a master, it would be easy prey. You couldn't let it be killed, so you said yes. It asked for a command in its odd single-word language. You commanded it to make an exit. The next day the papers reported that it was a natural gas explosion that blew open the wall of your cell.
Kalzky
The Patron Saint Of Thowing Stuff In The Sun
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Grimdark pokemon.
Huh.
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Couple of videos fkr the kind of VtR ganes i want to run. Also yall will get a kick out of them
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TenfoldShields
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Statistically the 3rd worst kind of Pokemon. Right behind Slutty Pokemon and Uranium.
Kalzky
The Patron Saint Of Thowing Stuff In The Sun
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Your an example to us all.
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That was pretty cool, it reminded me of Changeling in all the right ways, and also a bit of Mummy actually.
Especially this part:
"They are old as the stars, the heartless creatures you have made your masters, and they have seen every love. They know that every heart has a crack they can use to destroy it.
And this is the law, written in the stars and seeds: in the end, all things must fail."
It reminds me of the Shan'iatu.
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Grimdark Pokemon, or Digimon Tamers during the early episodes (in fact, I believe there's an OWoD fangame about that somewhere).
What's wrong with Uranium? In spite of what the Big N did, the game seems enjoyable and fun.
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I've been wondering whether I should do a Mummy quest for some time.
Start the players out as a Mummy that's awakening, and then having them determine the Mummy's powers and life through the choice of Guild, Decree, Judge and why their cult awakened them, etc.
Then have them slowly uncover their past as their memory rises while their Sekhem falls.
Start the players out as a Mummy that's awakening, and then having them determine the Mummy's powers and life through the choice of Guild, Decree, Judge and why their cult awakened them, etc.
Then have them slowly uncover their past as their memory rises while their Sekhem falls.
Indeed, I posted a link to that somewhere in this thread.
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I wonder at the dynamics of breaking out of prison for Changelings.
Because you *know* that if a Changeling actually got caught murdering someone, no way would most of them want to be locked up in the penn for 30 years or whatever, no how.
So how would they escape if they actually were pushed that far without drawing attention to themselves? I have to assume that once they got out they'd move far away and have someone fake up a new identity for them.
Because you *know* that if a Changeling actually got caught murdering someone, no way would most of them want to be locked up in the penn for 30 years or whatever, no how.
So how would they escape if they actually were pushed that far without drawing attention to themselves? I have to assume that once they got out they'd move far away and have someone fake up a new identity for them.
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Opening a Hedge gate? Seems like the most obvious way if avaliable.
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I meant more that that seems like something someone would see, though I suppose a Changeling does have a lot of ways to make wandering eyes look the wrong way.
I'm now imagining a Summer Courtier starting a big fight in the caf (talking shit about everyone and stirring up anger) and then slipping through a Hedge Gate while the guards are trying to keep people from murdering each other.
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Hey, if some other recluse wanders through the gate and ends in the hands of the gentry, well, that's not my problem right?
TenfoldShields
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Would they even care about not drawing attention to themselves? A Changeling about to be imprisoned is a Changeling in full panic, clawing and climbing the walls, mode.
Most of the designs don't impress and it mostly seems like it's trying too hard to be a GRITTY poke-thing which always feels like you're spectacularly missing the point y'know?
Also Idgaf tbh it was mostly just an easy target.
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Would they even care about not drawing attention to themselves? A Changeling about to be imprisoned is a Changeling in full panic, clawing and climbing the walls, mode.
Most of the designs don't impress and it mostly seems like it's trying too hard to be a GRITTY poke-thing which always feels like you're spectacularly missing the point y'know?
Also Idgaf tbh it was mostly just an easy target.
I'm not actually sure if that's true. I mean, in terms of how they'd react. Some are in full panic mode, others might fall apart and withdraw, others might be desperately trying to use their contacts and money, the weapons that they've used to escape the Fae before, to get through the situation.
Like, I can definitely imagine one of my characters, Lord Happenstance, if locked before trial not trying to escape and just sitting and smirking and hiring the biggest lawyer he can have, and trying to hide any hint of old panic clinging to him, because he's not the scared young man he was before, and he has money and power and that's what makes you safe. Money, power, and a dignified bearing that allows you to stand abve the boorish colonials.
Which is a long way to say that while I don't think any Changeling would react positively to the possibility of imprisonment of any kind, the kind of negative they react, and how soon they fly off the handle, would depend.
At least a few would be like Phoenix Wright villains, where they're calm and collected until they realize that they aren't going to actually bluff and bribe their way out of this, and then they just go absolutely apeshit.
"Sure, fine, throw me in the local jail while we're waiting for trial, you have nothing copper. I ain't never going back."
*one trial latter.*
"You!!!! You!!!!! *goes berserk*"
Most Changeling would react like this; "Oh God Oh God Oh God! I'd rather call on my Keeper and take my chances than stay here."
And then there are those that rationalize things as "I'm not really being kept here against my will if I could leave whenever I want, right? Yeah, this might not be the best place, but it's stable and has lots of handy guards. I'm gonna be the one running this damn place within a month."
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
Are Mages effected by their own nimbus tilt in 2e?
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I believe so.
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Okay, just checking for clarification. Can the blood bond survive across posthumous embrace?
Like, if a ghoul is killed, and then three days later or whatever, they're Embraced as a corpse, would that ghoul take back up the blood bond in the same way they might take back up their list of skills and their Attributes?
Also what would happen to their Disciplines?
Like, if a ghoul is killed, and then three days later or whatever, they're Embraced as a corpse, would that ghoul take back up the blood bond in the same way they might take back up their list of skills and their Attributes?
Also what would happen to their Disciplines?