@Pondscum said in Kushiel's Debut:
I think all we really need is to close ALL GAMES and make one giant melting pot game so we lords and ladies lovers can go smack the fuck out of those WoD and Westeros bitches.
Too late. We ate all your folk and sterilized your Bloodline.
I think I have had that before. It seems familiar, in a, 'I was drunk and drank something in front of me.' kind of way.
@WTFE said in Kushiel's Debut:
I've come to accept that people in this forum are very specifically targeting my brain cells by forcing me to drink this stuff.
So share, motherfucker.
Probably. But I mean, if I ever get brain-cancer I now know how I am going out. I'll take three. Mostly to stare at, sometimes to sniff. Probably to never drink, unless I ever read shit like these past few pages again.
@Cupcake I disagree. Shame is a powerful tool, depending on the culture using it, and in our culture? So cliquish are we, that to be exposed, and be publicly shamed, is about the same as some cultures branding prisoners.
MUSOAP NEVER FORGIVES. MUSOAP NEVER FORGETS.
(Insert Evil Laughter)
No. Seriously. Don't fuck up, kids.
I FUCKING LOVE NAPS, NAPS ARE AWESOME, GIVE ME MORE NAPS, NOW, NOW, NOW!
@Coin said in RL things I love:
@mietze said in RL things I love:
@Coin Are you pregnant, girl, or just really fat?
I am none of these!
Can't a man just love naps and oatmeal with brown sugar? Gosh. So oppressed. ;_____;
Wait...are we not supposed to love naps?
@Coin said in RL things I love:
@Kanye-Qwest said in RL things I love:
@Coin Yes! I build AP nasus and get kills under turret as soon as we push in. Nobody expects that damage.
I'm horrible at League of Legends, to be perfectly and brutally honest.
Like, until I picked it up again recently, I used to have record deaths and shit. I didn't even give a fuck. I still don't, really. Nothing makes me grin like a sadistic monster more than watching people lose their shit because I'm bad at a game and they need this win against these bots omg.
So when I was the one carrying the entire ARAM team on Ashe of all squishysquishes, it was fucking hilarious. And then the rest of my team surrendered. Who the fuck surrenders in ARAM? Bunch of wusses.
Play Smite. The reactions are hysterical.
@dontpanda said in RL Anger:
@Cobaltasaurus I used to work in the lumber yard part of a hardware store. 15 mins before close, dudebro pulls his truck into the lumber lot (without having made a purchase), and heads into the store. 14 mins later, he returns with an invoice. Guy bought enough stuff to build a garage - including insulation and shingles.
He hands it to my coworker who looks at it and says, "Nope. Come back tomorrow." Dudebro gets cranky, but none of us are backing down. He wants the manager, who comes out and gets the story (keeping us open with his truck, etc) and tells Dudebro that he can come back tomorrow at 6, or spend the evening with the guard dogs that we hire to protect the yard, but the gate will be locked.
I loved that Manager...
I do that now.
I have told DHS and FBI who forgot their passcards into a facility to get stuffed, they shrug and walk off for an unpaid day.
Contractors at this yard I am at blow their top. It is glorious. I love it. I LOVE IT SO MUCH.
"SIR. I NEED YOUR HELP."
"SIR. IT IS FIVE. PISS OFF."
I love my 5.4 ft Dwarf Red-Tail Boa.
I do not love the sense of bewilderment and confusion when he opens the lid to his terrarium, by himself, overnight, and goes to sleep on top of my Water Dragon's terrarium. Nearly had a fucking heart attack.
Vampires have more to offer Wolves than visa versa. Blood Tenebrous outlines why Vampires and Wolves never really get involved:
There is no Blood in The Shadow, and there is nothing worth controlling in The Shadow.
"But I am Kane, ruler of All Nosgoth!"
Except Kane had a bleak understanding of anything not Of Nosgoth.
"But what can Vam-"
Vampires control, everything.
You know how you kill a whole Pack of Uratha? You buy their land, intimidate lawmakers, bribe cops, and bulldoze their precious trees and stones. Then you sell it all to Wal-Mart. End.
Now..
..@DnvnQuinn, @thebird and I have seen a game where such interactions in an Apocalypse setting worked. Sort of. But as you said, it needs a backbone, and I think that is where you need to enforce mechanics, and also present Covenant's.
The Invictus controlled three Hunter splats. Lancea controlled two. Circle of Crone was responsible for two. Ordo Dracul, openly, worked with probably all of them.
The Covenants know where all the toys are, guys. You might be Billy Badass and Duke Dollar. But we have fucking Fat Man's and Plasma Rifles.
Now, @Coin is spot on, too. Don't nuke anything. It just ends poorly. I would actually suggest going over to Fallcoast, and cgen a vampire. Then a werewolf. Look at your sheet, and then, redo it with -30xp. Barebones. Because at 50xp any supernatural Splat no longer gives a shit about your Deathclaw Nest. Not the Rahu's, not the Irraka's, not the Nosferatu, not the Gangrel.
I'll start messaging you privately once I get my laptop, but:
What you have with your theme is something akin to Dark Metal, but, with this particular theme, and a different system, you have the ability to play Vampire just as you would in a Dark Ages theme. How is that?
Knights aren't a one-man army. A Knight has weapons, armors, beasts and things that need tending by multiple people.
A Vampire is no different, really, if you strip away the awesome that is Bloodlines and look at the Clans, each Clan uses the world in a different way, and offers the world a unique face. Gangrel can be as bestial as Beast from Grimm Fairy Tales...or can be as intelligent and terrible as Khan, from Star Trek. Nosferatu. Lords of Terror, who project that terror outwards -- or let their lands degenerate into properties of paranoia. Ventrue manipulate the world as if it was machinery, and they have a whole shop to fix things how they need. Daeva, who could easily use passions such as Faith, Charity or even Greed and Gluttony to rule.
Vampires are Masters of their Domain. End of story. That is why politics is so important, because they are also solitary predators...unless, you have Bigger, Badder, Bullies present -- and you do. Draugr. Draugr are no joke. Some can be terrible monsters of terribleness, and some, you'd never know, until it was too late.
So, to my point, enforce a particular edge to both views: You want to be Cowboy Carl, or wish to emulate Candy Cane (American Vampire, guys. Look it up.) Go ahead -- but you have zero resources, because your ass has zero squire's, zero serfs, zero homesteads, zero, zero, zero.
...which sort of enforces your idea for cooperative roleplay. I am Billy Badass, and you are Duke Dollar. We work. Except all of our shit is useless, because we have no idea what this loot is useful for, without Smith Sanders.
Modern vampires are mostly parasitic. Dark Age vampires must be symbiotic, otherwise, how do you know your herd isn't also carrying Spanish Flu?
And this one. Holy shit.
http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/GTraceCarsNoiseGenerator.php
This is...absolutely amazing. Nnnnngh. So. I had to share.