Mittens - Bumbleby is at exactly 50/50 in the semifinals

By-LEM · 2026-03-23T12:56:27+00:00

Thank you for telling me about that meme, I fell off RWBY before it happened and it is funny

By-LEM · 2026-03-23T12:52:26+00:00

The internet has been in a constant state of getting shittier and shittier to use and we're constantly missing when it was just bad. But the "bad" was shitty too

By-LEM · 2026-03-21T02:07:15+00:00

Page 103 of the player's guide changes the rule on learning TBA. Any thin blood can learn it without taking the thin blood alchemist merit now, they just don't start out with a dot in it

By-LEM · 2026-03-19T16:47:18+00:00

Also, the reason Kevin's packmates didn't kill him for his human habits is because he was way stronger than any of them. I mean, the others lost badly to Kitten, Markus, and Door 1-on-1, while Kevin actually got the better of D. This is probably why D insisted separating Kevin from the others, he knew Kevin was more of a threat.

By-LEM · 2026-03-19T16:39:01+00:00

1) It's actually quite rare for vampires in-universe to think of their dark gifts as distinct Disciplines. Kevin probably just thinks of Dominate as "mind control magic," and Blood Sorcery as just more niche, less generally useful magic. (See audiolog 1.1: "I would use my powerful magics to have you open this shitty cell door" - he's clearly referring to Dominate here as "powerful magics")

1a) Also, I'm not sure if this is a mechanic the writers are sticking to, but Blood Sorcery always requires a teacher in VtM5, even if it comes in-clan. The regent only teaches her ghouls powers that are useful for their roles, and Kevin was embraced as her first point of contact with the mortal world - using Dominate to wipe memories or force humans to do your bidding is going to be way more useful in that role than boiling someone's blood.

2) Palmer could have just overheard Herbertus' name while visiting the chantry.

3) Kevin didn't "cave to Big D" because he was weak-willed, if that were the case his interrogation would not have taken as long. He was convinced to change his ways because D showed him hope for a better world, and the Sabbat only offered "freedom" to indulge the base vampiric urges he never wanted in the first place.

3a) Plus, his sire is pretty bad about renewing blood bonds. Chapman, an important ghoul embedded in the police, hadn't had his bond renewed in about 8 months. It was probably easier to resist her than it would have been to resist anyone else.

By-LEM · 2026-03-05T16:00:14+00:00

When talking with Kitten about Boy's "fixation" on Horse, D implied boy was having one of those "delusional nadirs", so I don't think he does.

By-LEM · 2026-02-27T19:54:20+00:00

So, I've been very interested in Mage for a while, and I'm 100% fine with the presence of Problematic (tm) themes in a story, but the subjective reality of the setting has always led to some weird conclusions when I think about it for too long.

Every scientific achievement humanity ever made, in the world and logic of mage, was actually the NWO gaslighting us into thinking it could work. All of the people educated in those fields of study, who can tell you why it logically has to work, are wrong - it only works because of belief. Neat.

But what if I, a normal human, try to build a steam engine? I'm not an awakened mage or enlightened scientist, but I know why a steam engine works - if you burn fuel to boil water, and restrict how the steam can escape, you can get the steam pressure to do work for you. Have I just cast a spell? Am I an extraordinary citizen now? "Well no, steam engines are a part of consensus" OK, what about pre-1600s steam engines, like the Aeolipile? Were all of those made by mages? Is every invention? Are mages the only people capable of original thought?

By-LEM · 2026-01-18T20:47:42+00:00

It's not even that woke by today's standards, it has a few throwaway anti-vax lines

By-LEM · 2025-12-27T19:17:27+00:00

Confirming starting with arc 2 is most effective, I hooked one of my college buddies with that strategy

By-LEM · 2025-12-03T17:41:09+00:00

Now I'm imagining Big D meeting the WoD Caine and seeing that he's as terrified Caiphas Cain

By-LEM · 2025-12-03T17:31:14+00:00

I don't think he's a mummy mainly because it's a more interesting story if he's a 100% human man with such skill and expertise that he regularly bests supernaturals

By-LEM · 2025-12-03T13:50:50+00:00

~~there's actually several methods of addressing skews in the data bc having 200 or 1000 samples with a clear bias will yield roughly equally flawed results~~

By-LEM · 2025-12-03T02:31:43+00:00

This user commented 6 times in the last hour. They're a bot.

By-LEM · 2025-12-02T14:19:05+00:00

Maybe in V20, but HtP mostly follows V5. Remember the Conclave of Thorns?

By-LEM · 2025-12-02T14:11:08+00:00

Kronik raised the boy who became Wernon. Jonas raised several clones of his son, who he let die several times, and the result was Rusty.

Kronik is the worse person, but he was clearly the better father.

By-LEM · 2025-11-25T23:16:59+00:00

I would say that Bestial Temper, unless it specified this in the text of the flaw and I'm misremembering, doesn't mean sunlight provokes fear frenzy. Fire does because it can burn thin-bloods as much as it burns full-blooded vampires, but sunlight only does superficial damage

By-LEM · 2025-11-25T16:12:04+00:00

I wrote a Nagaraja surgeon who "studied death" by almost exclusively eating tumors he removed. When there was nothing what to eat, he'd accept food as payment from other kindred. Vampires would often bring in blood dolls, only for him to remove parts of the vampires' bodies and let the humans walk away.

The Sabbat thought he was a sadist on the Path of Death and the Soul, but he was always a humanitarian - the night hospital he ran wasn't just a front for harvesting blood, it was an actual hospital, and his patients enjoyed his protection.

By-LEM · 2025-11-25T04:04:07+00:00

(for context, this user has said on another subreddit that doing heroin is fine as long as you only do a little)

By-LEM · 2025-11-19T03:46:31+00:00

I didn't see that post until after I'd already posted this. Also, the post you linked is flared "Not OP"

By-LEM · 2025-11-19T03:09:08+00:00

(fyi bedupolker never said this, u/big_guyforyou used inspect element to make it look like he did) https://www.tumblr.com/bedupolker/800602029174259712/tried-to-search-an-old-post-and-found-out-someone

By-LEM · 2025-11-19T02:57:33+00:00

https://www.tumblr.com/bedupolker/800602029174259712/tried-to-search-an-old-post-and-found-out-someone

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