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@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@RDC said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Rinel There are two religious sects in VtR, the Circle of the Crones (basically every pagan religion banded together to be numerous enough to not burn wholesale for heresy separately) and the Lancea et Sanctum, a splinter of Catholicism that believes Longinus (the dude who stabbed Jesus with a spear) is the vampire antichrist and that all vampires are, by their nature, Damned. It's their job to sin a bunch and to punish mortal sinners and to be an example of what not to do.

Also don't read the in-game book of theirs if you're squeamish about non-consensual sex acts and...basically just everything someone might put into an Aristocrats joke but played straight as if it were the most serious, badass shit ever.

Uh. Are there any ones who aren't, you know... awful?

Lance dogma taken to it's extreme can be pretty awful, but the average newbie vamp who ends up in the Lance does so because they're the only covenant who really offers a reason 'why'.

The Circle will tell you that vampires have always existed and are as natural as anything else, get over it.
The Ordo Dracul cares more about what comes next than why.
The Invictus and Carthians are more interested in political power and money etc.

The Lance will tell you that unfortunately you're Damned, and God hates you now, but you know what? There's still a place for you in The Plan and even God NEEDS someone to be Damned.

For someone who's had their life literally turned upside down and found themselves a blood drinking creature of the night, I imagine that can be kind of comforting, and the average quite Lance member just wants to 'live' their Requiem in peace and doesn't shy away from the fact they need to drink blood now and again, or even if they frenzy and accidently kill a person or three, they can use their faith to find their footing and kind of justify it. Or at least cope with it. It's awful, sure, because they are monsters.

They don't have to be super awful and monstrous though. Plenty might, as time goes on, but at a basic level it's a simple message.

@auspice I see how it is you just want me for my train games :<

@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Livia said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Auspice said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

I like this if and only if the possibility exists for a vampire to constantly fight the evil and not just give in and lose forever. Being a vampire who wants to be good and has all of eternity (or is damned for all of eternity) to keep scrabbling toward the Light in her attempts to get there is very compelling to me.

There are certain things in the Lancea / Theban that require a high Humanity but that is part of why it is compelling to ME. You embrace that you are Damned. You embrace (ha ha) that you are an example to humanity as to why they should not sin and why they should walk a righteous path.

My last Lance helped in the Embrace of another Mekhet and while she was thrilled to see him join them, at the same time: she kept warning him away. She kept telling him that being around them was wrong. That he should stop. That he was a good priest and staying a priest was the smart thing and that if he knew what was best for him, he would forget all about the vampires and keep to mortal life.

.....but he didn't and they killed him and then they brought him back and she taught him how to murder.

Meanwhile she shoved my Lisa down holes

Why you're more concerned about being shoved down that hole than bullied into murdering a human alongside all the other baby vamps I'll never know.

Lisa wasn't bullied into murdering humans she did that on her own.

Very occasionally do I use soda which is mostly just when speaking to people online so they know what I mean, I think.

Mostly I call 'em 'soft drink'.

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Livia

I just want my Sharia El-Sama back ;_;

I'll look into the ladder peeps tho.

Even I've been tempted to make a Sworn of the Ladder. Technically they're a secret society within the Ordo Dracul and there's no rules for them in 2e but they could be made easily. Mostly they get benefits for having high humanity, which seems like your jam!

I dunno about the Sharia El-Sama, I never really played Masquerade. Except the video games, and a whole stack of the card game.

@Rinel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

@Arkandel said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

How active would you say the game is? I see a lot of action on the administrative end (which is good) but is there enough RP to go around?

I've had some trouble finding people to RP with, but I am probably logging on late. I've had a scene, and it was very enjoyable.

ETA: I've only been on for about two weeks
and during that time only actively pursued scenes about five or six times.

You do often show up a bit late! My issue is I don't have a lot of time left at work when you're often searching for a scene. But I wanna play more.

@Ominous I was trying to get a page of all skeletons

@Cobaltasaurus said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

Would anyone be interested in playing a sire to Nev? I warn that I play sporadically on most games (I haven't even scened yet here yet :[...). But someone who can be disapproving and always oh-so-disappointed with Nev would be fun to play off of.

Everyone is tempting me!