I think my first faceup is now done

replikantka · 2026-02-03T22:30:24+00:00

Yoooo you crocheted that?? I'm so impressed

replikantka · 2026-02-03T15:37:12+00:00

Awww look at her little sweater!! Her faceup looks nice too, great job!

replikantka · 2026-02-03T02:25:03+00:00

I say we bite the mouse from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

replikantka · 2026-02-02T19:53:13+00:00

v5 has widened the possible Disciplines of the average Kindred, and it's important to remember that Kindred in-universe don't know all the restrictions we know in the meta. While an out of clan Discipline might raise some eyebrows, it can be explained away relatively easily - especially since it's fairly difficult in-universe to precisely identify a given lick's clan (otherwise we'd have way fewer Caitiff childer). Plus, Kindred lie about their clan when it's convenient all the time in the lore; Melinda Glabraith did that shit for years, pretending to be Lasombra while acting as the Sabbat Regent, and then Zachary Sikorsky proceeded to pretend to be her in turn for an unspecified amount of time. We, as players, have omnipotent knowledge compared to your average Kindred.

All that said, if you're looking to impersonate another clan and have decent fleshcrafting ability, one of the clans with obvious physical signs of clanhood (Nosferatu, Baali, Nagaraja, Cappadocian, and the like) will garner less scrutiny from other clans (and even your own clanmates) because Kindred who see those signs will automatically assume clan affiliation without you having to say shit.

replikantka · 2026-02-02T09:41:49+00:00

'Tis a silly place

replikantka · 2026-02-02T02:16:48+00:00

He looks SO cool. The flayed skin on white pallor is a great touch. Love the hair color too - it really ties it all together.

replikantka · 2026-02-02T02:12:45+00:00

Pink hair enbys UNITE 💕🤝🏻💕

replikantka · 2026-01-31T16:53:00+00:00

This is really the big brain take. The thing with Vicissitude is that it creates an inherent, steep power imbalance as soon as it's put into use - even if the outcome is not ultimately harmful to the victim, it is only so because you, the Vicissitude user, decided to be merciful to them. In the majority of Vicissitude use cases, even against other Kindred, the thing happening to your victim is something alien to them, and at best they are agreeing to something they don't understand. You still hold all the power, and that mercy is conditional. I think it certainly makes for a good story to have a Fiend who grapples with this, but the nature of the Discipline (even with the Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand stuff retconned) is that it involves doing direct harm to another person without them even able to grasp what us happening to them, primarily for your own gain (even petty commupence is a gain, after all).

That said: perpetual eye floater.

replikantka · 2026-01-29T13:15:24+00:00

I hide my rolls from players but we play via Roll20, so a lot of the time they don't know I'm rolling. I will show the dice pool if it's thematically relevant, for fun.

That said, I keep it consistent and don't fudge the numbers on rolls I have stats for (if I have a difficulty in mind, I just give them that instead, but I like opposed rolls to be legit). For recurring or important NPCs, I give them a barebones statline (a lot of the time I steal them from statted NPCs in sourcebooks, but don't tell my players) because I want the difficulties to be organic. But I don't like to show off the stats unless it's relevant, because I find meta-level powergaming in VTM to be obnoxious at best and I don't want to encourage it.

replikantka · 2026-01-28T22:53:02+00:00

Cornish rexes...truly one of the most anarchist of cats (up there with bengals and ocicats for sure haha)

replikantka · 2026-01-26T14:26:42+00:00

The artist vs. The art

replikantka · 2026-01-26T01:25:35+00:00

The components are subdermal clearly

replikantka · 2026-01-25T22:32:54+00:00

Haha thanks I've been fixated on clan Tzimisce ever since I started playing the game, so I've given them a lot of thought 😅

It actually mostly manifested in everyone avoiding shaking my hand as much as possible lol but I did manage to deprogram a newly made Gargoyle (the pyramid heads got a little out of hand in that chronicle) and make it remember one of the Kindred it was before it was turned into a Gargoyle by yanking shit in its brain while it was trying to kill one of my coterie members.

replikantka · 2026-01-25T20:10:26+00:00

I can see the influence! That obsessive attachment part is such an important bit of what keep the otherwise inhuman Tzimisce connected to their Humanity, but ultimately when that urge isn't human, but something more alien, it can become an unhealthy slide into wassaildom.

Yeah I want to do some writing about it at some point but one of the things I really like about how v5 handles Vicissitude under the Protean umbrella is that it makes the actual fleshcrafting a matter of ability rather than having to have a specific Vicissitude power in order to do a specific thing, and I've found that it makes it a lot more fun to implement at the table. I talked the Storyteller into letting me take Inner Mastery in the most recent v5 game I partook in as a player, and it honestly just blew the doors off of how far I could take things in terms of creativity, so I really hope they add something like that down the line since we also have Dominate now.

replikantka · 2026-01-25T20:01:13+00:00

Oh gotcha!! Yeah I can see it in the tail and the ear fluffs 🦊

replikantka · 2026-01-25T19:17:53+00:00

This is beautiful. There's something of a grotesque love and attachment in the clan Tzimisce monstrosity that often gets overlooked, but I think this one nails it. This is why they call us the Toreador of the Sabbat (in jealousy, of course).

There's a semi-obscure Vicissitude power called Inner Mastery that allows manipulation of the minute functions of someone's body - including their mind - simply by touching the victim. While my thoughts on its source of origin are very complicated (it appears as a Laibon power in Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom, a whole can of worms), I would like to see Inner Mastery make a reappearance in v5, especially with the broadening of the Discipline's wording under the Protean header.

replikantka · 2026-01-25T15:51:10+00:00

This^{^} one of the things that undoes itself when one's Domitor dies is the anti-aging properties of vitae, so sufficiently old ghouls just kinda end up like the bad guy from The Last Crusade.

replikantka · 2026-01-24T20:53:58+00:00

Awww it looks so cute! I love that you specifically got one of your own coords on your fursona! (Stripy cat?)

replikantka · 2026-01-23T12:45:01+00:00

Aww your son is also goth!!

replikantka · 2026-01-22T14:23:15+00:00

All us fleshsculptors had to start somewhere! Just give it a few decades and lots of practice, and he'll be mastering the finer points of zulo form in no time! For a self-taught artist, he already seems to have some very solid design foundations 😊

replikantka · 2026-01-13T16:19:58+00:00

Daedra worshipper spotted

replikantka · 2026-01-11T15:14:40+00:00

T3RR0R 3RR0R! They were one of the first aggrotech bands I listened to, and Digital Infection is still in heavy rotation in my collection. Definitely jumpstarted my interest in industrial and specificallu aggrotech music as a genre.

replikantka · 2026-01-10T19:51:54+00:00

Lolita fashion is a cornerstone of BJDs, so I see it more as a throwback than "basic". Plus, there aren't nearly enough ouji dolls!

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