LegionPothIX

The best rp moments in your life.

@Ellri You really need to read your old testament,

before you try getting into the new testament.


We called them the "Black Book" and the "Red Book" locally at our LARP and they were our bible. Without the Mind's Eye Theatre book to start from I can't imagine anything in any of the other Requiem books making any sense at all. The MET book establishes all the basics of being a human before you apply the supernatural templates. More specifically the "lore" of a world in the MET book says it's the same as the real world. Just a little more shadowy, a little darker, a little more corrupt.

Basically the lore in the Red Book is supposed to be more myth than fact: a hot mess of he-said-she-said bullshit. The Red book is largely designed to be "factually incoherent" in the lore department, presenting each side's opinion, because nobody's supposed to be able to accurately remember far enough back to know the truth. If you delve into clans and covenant books it makes a big deal of telling about the same events from different perspectives, and making a point of saying everyone thinks they're perspective is right even when no one's perspective is accurate.

Now, I'm not sure if you used the LARP version (MET books) or the tabletop version, and I've no experience with the Table Top versions but the MET versions are phenomenally easy to work with in my experience. They have to be because it's for live action roleplay.

Mature / 18+ Tag - What do you think when you see it?

@Light the Dark I am always cautious when I see anything that says 18+. It's been my experience that the type of people who create those types of games--that is to say games requiring an age limit--are the kinds of people who themselves wouldn't be let into exactly such a game.

There are as many ways to weed out immature RPers, and stupid people in general, as there are people to weed out. Some arbitrary number suggests (to me at least) that the person who created the RP is to lazy to do any of them. It's just a big red sign that says "lie convincingly".

Well, that, and my instant gut reaction is that I've stumbled into Edgy Edgington run by Mayor McEdgy from Edgyborough.

Were it me trying to create a mature game I would state in the OP that I will not censure my players. But I will not accept any players who either are required to be censured, or require others to be censured.

The best rp moments in your life.

@EllriThe only ones I'm familiar with is Masquerade, and Requiem. Malks were standard in masquerade but are bloodlines in Requiem. My malk was eternally a child whose family was killed in a car accident. He was deathly afraid of them. It took place in modern day Chicago. When asked why they embraced a kid the accepted answer was "because fuck you".

The best rp moments in your life.

@Ellri

Truely the malkavian game is Maplestory then.



But, yeah, Politics is a huge part of the Camarilla Club. Almost 95% of the game is player driven story. The players come up with the story usually by fucking with other players.

Weird Roleplay Ideas You're Afraid To Pitch?

Ponies of Darkness - Equestria the Requiem. It's exactly what it sounds like. A World of Darkness game set in the MLP universe. If you spin it just the right direction each major clan and covenant is represented by one of the main six including the caitiff.

Sum up your week in roleplaying in just 3 words

Character sheet revisions.

The best rp moments in your life.

@boomloverYeah, I'm late to the party but I got one for you. A quote from that moment was in my profile for a while. It was a Vampire the Requiem LARP. Me, and about 25 other people were gathering every week to play at the university student union building. We were in the Shrouded Arbor's branch of the Camarilla Club (the official White Wolf group). I was playing a gangrel vetrinarian and had just opened my pet clinic to the other vampires for the night for gathering where we sit around and shoot the brease, when my AST (assistant storyteller) pulls me to the side and says "Your character might actually be dead right now. I got a down time action from four new players saying they went to your house to kill you, but I told them that's way too big for a DT action so they want a side scene."

Newbs, ya'know? Always gotta show up and piss in the coolaid but whatever, my character was active and over two years old (lots of EXP wisely spent) so I'm like sure I can take these clowns, so we go to the side scene and it's happening at my character's house. "How'd they know where I live?" I ask, and was told they hacked the security of my clinic to see where the bills went. Unnecessary, because the address is on the licence which is public record (not to mention in the white pages of the phone book), but he's got the stat spread to do it so I roll with it.

Anyway, the four guys show up and say "Anderson we're here to kill you." I look them up and down and force out a condecending laugh. (That's how gangrels roll.) "No your covenant leader has sent you here with orders to kill me. There is a distinction." It was something that was painfully obvious since I as a covenant leader myself had been beefing with him for almost the entire time I've known him. Mr. Moon was his name and he was nearly four years my senior (of actual play time). I asked the players in character what they had been told about Dr. Anderson and to no one's suprise a lot of important facts were left out.

So, I enlightened them of my exploits, while punching up the language some (that's just how Carthians roll). Anderson was the only character in the domain to kill one or more player characters in every other venue that White Wolf had books for (Mage, Changeling, Wearwolf, Spirts, Ghiest, etc). The equivalent in rank to their covenant leader, and a leader of my own right. My age in the city (two years is a large combat advantage) and my connections. They would not be persuaded to back down. Intent to proceed and earn status as fresh kindred to kill an elder (quallified by exp amount not actual status in the city) they made the poor decision of saying: "Shut up, Anderson. You can't take all of us."

I prepared myself for combat and admitted: "True, but I defiantly can kill two, if not three of you." This stunned them for a moment and I happily added: "Which is really strange, because I cannot kill Mr. Moon. So, it would be at most an inconvienence for him to kill me himself." Producing my gangrel claws I asked: "Which of you are willing to die for Mr. Moon's convienence?" None were eager to step forward so before combat truly began I bluffed: "Oh, and you should know, that my wife has already called the police. They will be here within five minutes. So, the survivor wins a masquerade breach and will most certainly be delt with severely."

"Fuck you Anderson!" They muttered as they started backing away to regroup and reconsider if what I had told them was true. And, before I let them leave I reached into my pocket and produced a business card. "If you ever feel like you want to stop being disposable long enough to move up in the world. You call this number."

They looked down and asked if it was mine. "No, it's someone whose opinion actually matters." I responded, "Careful though," I cautioned, "unlike myself he could actually kill all of you if you rub him the wrong way."

It wasn't my card. It was the card of another player character: the one who was the Carthian leader before me.

After the side scene I sit back down in the scene happening in Anderson's clinic. Mr. Moon walks in and is shocked to see me wearing my Dr. Anderson badge. I get up and fetch a rat and basically rub it in his face asking: "Can I offer you a beverage?"

That player I mentioned called me the next day and told me he got 7 new players (the four players and their girl friends) asking to speak with his character, and asking if I really gave them the card, and if so for the circumstances surrounding that interaction. He told me they told him they went to kill my character and were invited to join the covenant instead and, not only that, they were going to take me up on the offer. He just couldn't quite wrap his head around it.

Well, that's a Ventrue for you.

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@Spoopy Scary Sorry, I didn't see PM part of the application process. I was waiting for a notification from the site to remind me to check back in about it. I'll send it straight away, right after re-reading the OOC OP to make sure I didn't miss anything else.

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@LegionPothIX I never see you in the pad so I just had the feeling you hosted me. :(
I thought I might have offended you or something and I didn't want to explore that potential conflict (cause I got enough of that in my own brain, right now)

@Phoenix

I am super hard to offend, because that's something I gotta choose to be, and its generally not worth the effort to hold on to.

However, I didn't really feel my post required any more editing than it already underwent. When I first made it I was trying to capitalize on the emotion of the conflict without the specificity of the timing because I didn't think my character was going to make it to see the direct aftermath. I figured we were ready to move on to the next part of the story.

I was more or less just waiting for a reply post rather than going through to completely rewrite my last post.

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@PhoenixI'm still here. Don't I get a mention D;.