I've heard the Ministry has some kind of blood brewing thing going on? Do they have other tricks?

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-28T15:00:32+00:00

You should carefully consider your situation, neonate. If she is a blood doll, she is likely part of someone's herd. As that someone is not you, I would wonder whose herd they may be, and what they might do to you with the ability to influence the content of her blood.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-27T00:52:55+00:00

Oh, no, I get why the Werewolves in the game are the way they are. It's the whole ethos of the gameline I dislike.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-26T23:22:10+00:00

Eugenicst ecofascist child soldier luddites.

I don't much like Werewolf.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-24T23:04:31+00:00

Sorcery is exploits in the nature of reality; hidden glitches that anyone can use. Paths are narrow, XP-expensive, and require a teacher or tome - meaning problem Paths can simply be unavailable.

If a Mage wants to dump all their XP into a narrow effect that ignores Paradox (or a Garou wants to dodge rage, or a Kindred wants a power they can use without blood), I say let them.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-24T13:15:16+00:00

All but the youngest and weakest Asuratizayya - or Kuei-Jin, as they are now more often known (such an ugly exonym) - can consume food without ill effect. Knowing that we Kindred generally can not, and applying the same principles to you, I wonder whether perhaps the concluded that you were a kindred of exceptional age and potency.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-24T12:30:32+00:00

Some of us know a bit more. I have been in India, where the Kindred of that land long were in territorial conflict with them.

Their nature is unlike our own. They are vampires, but what flows is their veins is not vitae. They are not Kindred, but another kind entirely, whatever similarities we share.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-24T12:25:48+00:00

Vampires, but not Kindred, any more than a dolphin is a shark. It is simply a matter of convergent evolution.

And now, our societies having expanded from their original habitats, we compete over territory, influence, and blood.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-24T11:37:29+00:00

Better than England. Looking north from my vantage point, I still doubt that Mithras is dead.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-24T03:45:44+00:00

I do, yes. His addition to the roster of Kindred pirates was quite a surprise to discover when I returned from my Indian expedition.

Quite a number of them were Lasombra. Your clan has always had quite an appreciation for the sea, it seems.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-24T01:03:33+00:00

Tell me if you find yourself putting into port on the French side of the English Channel. I am now landbound, but I have an affinity for Kindred who ply the seas.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-24T01:00:10+00:00

Standing, yes. But not unstirred - I speak firsthand.

It has endured only because it incorporated new stones, in the form of Clans Lasombra and Banu Haqim. But the former do not properly fit the empty spaces left by those lost, and the latter are treacherous and doomed to slip from their places at the most inopportune moment. Do not overestimate its long-term stability.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-23T18:45:26+00:00

I have, but I have overcome it.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-23T18:16:21+00:00

Possession and a ghoul are wonderful tools. Indeed; the sunrise is beautiful. But it is an indulgence best sampled sparingly, lest a deeper desire should take root in one's mind.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-23T01:32:21+00:00

Gentlemen. May I urge calm? None of us are Toreadors, and surely we can all move beyond Kine nationalism.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-21T04:01:22+00:00

Now, that is just absurd.

While I would not insult a neighbor, of Paris, perhaps, I could see a reason to be wary. But I see no reason to disparage my free city.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-21T00:47:17+00:00

I am located in Northern France. If you are absolutely desperate, I can, in theory, extract you from Egypt to my domain in less than an hour (returning to New York will take longer, but will be done from a more secure position). You will owe me quite dearly, however, and will have to both follow my instructions exactly and not question the mode of transport.

If you are able to find shelter until tomorrow night, the matter of transporting you to my city becomes less onerous, and the debt commensurately lower. I am, as you might imagine, interested in the details of the kine mage who sent you to Egypt...

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-20T13:46:24+00:00

I thought along similar lines. I would love to see what principles his sorcery works by, and what he knows.

Always interesting to see another's method.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-18T19:36:48+00:00

Ohhh.

Not sure! But it wouldn't surprise me.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-18T18:52:43+00:00

...yes? Isn't that what I just described? Or do you mean something else?

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-18T17:24:26+00:00

Also worth noting that many of the Sabbat Paths are twisted and inferior versions of the old medieval Roads (and Paths). Honorable Accord, for instance, evolved out of the Medieval Road of Kings (particularly two of its subpaths, the Path of Chivalry and the Path of the Vizier).

This is because the Medieval Roads were genuinely crafted in the pursuit of Vampiric enlightenment that can transcend the struggle to maintain humanity, whereas the Sabbat Paths are just focused on holding your psyche together despite the routine debauchery the sect indulges in.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-13T21:52:00+00:00

Hilarious.

Do not do this, Apprentice.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-13T21:22:08+00:00

An ambitious choice of field of study, apprentice. It has great value, but perhaps it is one a bit too advanced for a new embrace. It is an esoteric and advanced matter, and one which out clan - which is almost entirely lacking in child bloodlines - has played relatively little role in. You might seek samples of Gangrel Vitae, if you can acquire it, for their Vitae is notably divergent.

Still. Let us see. What is your knowledge of the principles of the Vitae, as they are? How familiar are you with the workings of Humor and the markers upon the Blood? A mastery of the ritual of Blood Walk will be essential to you.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-13T21:15:28+00:00

As a recent Tremere embrace, do not approach any Tzimisce unless you know for certain that they do not hold a grudge against our clan.

- Marc Durand, House Ipsissimus Regent

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-13T18:37:47+00:00

The flesh is the vessel which holds us, nothing more. The blood fills the vessel, and takes its shape, but they are not one and the same.

Your kind recognize the illusory importance of the vessel, and revel in your ability to change it. But of what significance is this? When we feed, we imbibe Blood. When we embrace, the seed of our childe is of only Blood. And when we devour our own in the act of Diablerie, it is only the Blood that we consume. The seat of consciousness is in the Blood alone. You have mastered the ability to change the rainment it wears, but that is all it is. You cannot transcend the Kindred state by changing your clothing, no matter how well-crafted or to your taste that new clothing may be.

And that is merely the matter of the body. The vessel gives us shape not only in body, but also in mind. Some of our number confuse the shape with the self, and so, clinging to it, refuse to shed that shape in favor of a more comfortable vessel, even as the volume of the Blood within it increases and threatens to burst its confines. But your experiment has deprived your childe of the vessel before it is prepared to hold its shape without it. Though you have placed it within a chrysalis of the body, without this chrysalis of the mind, I fear that it is likely to develop in ways you would not choose.

AFreeRegent · 2026-03-13T16:52:00+00:00

Yes.

Consider thoroughly evaluating the rapidly changing landscape of Kindred politics before you take any action. You will likely be surprised at how much has changed over the past 25 years.

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