"Victor, the Beast does not define you," Alessandra starts. "It does not define who you are and what person you are wanting to be, and I know the voice in your head tries to tell you otherwise, but listen to me now when I say you are not a monster." She takes a second to put the tissue in her purse before taking both her hand and holding his, looking at him with gentle eyes. "You are kind, you are smart, you're everything but cruel. We all lose ourselves, but those moments in time do not make us who we are. If anything, they help us grow." She smiles a bit, chuckling lightly. "And I'm sure I make you feel a lot of things, sweetheart, but I hope I made you feel just a little bit better now."
Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Victor smiles as Alessandra speaks to him, seeing the gentleness in her eyes. "You did. You really did. Thank you" He kisses her, before standing up and helping her to her feet. "We should get back to Sorrin. He's been waiting at the top for a while now and I'm sure that he thinks we're ******* at this point."
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Alessandra returns the kiss happily, and thanks him for helping her up. She snorts at Victor's comment as she dusts off her skirt only to then smirk over at him. "Wanna?" She lets that settle between them for a moment before waving her hand with a laugh. "I kid, I kid, but yes, let's go congratulate the winner."
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Victor chuckles in response to Alessandra's joke. "You had me fooled there for a second, not gonna lie. Well, the good news is, you won't have to pay the full bill at the lounge, since we both technically lost the race."
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When Aless and Victor come catch up with Sorrin, they find him sitting on top of one end of the H, feet dangling over the edge. Spotting the two from a distance, he gives them a mock salute and smiles, "I feel like I lost something here, yet I should be the winner~" He chuckles at himself, "Oh well, did you guys find anything interesting?"
Victor salutes back. "Nah, we just had a talk for a bit and admired the way the city looks from up here. If we're all ready, I think that we should get to that lounge now. And since you won, the two of us will split the bill for drinks."
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"Baw, should've told him we found a dead body," Alessandra quips, giving Victor a light punch on the shoulder at the missed opportunity. Her hand then rests at her waist as she looks up to Sorrin. "You gonna come down here or what, mister showoff? Bar's waiting for us, and I even saved you a dance!"
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Sorrin smirks then hops down, landing like a cat, "Oh really?~ Shame, here I was hoping to steal one~" Laughing he wraps an arm around the two kindred, "Regardless, let's have some fun. We're in the city of Angels after all!"
“I’m hoping it’s better than the music we were hearing while heading to the hotel. So much screaming...” Alessandra sighs, rubbing a temple with one hand. “I’ll never understands today’s music.”
When they reached the bottom of the hill, she looks to the other two. “Someone order an Uber or Lyft. There’s no way I’m walking there, unless one of you want to carry me.”
Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Victor pulls out his phone and card and calls an Uber. "As tempting as that offer of carrying you is, darling, I'm beat. Fortunately, you can at least control the music the Uber driver plays."
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Chukles, "I to would love to carry you like a princess, but I doubt I'd get more than a few blocks before some ruffians or thugs got jealous and tried something~ As for the music, who knows, I heard they have a thing for jazz and classic rock~" (It's literally just the bar from Lucifer XD)
"Jazz and Classic rock. That shouldn't be too offensive to the ears." Victor says, as the Uber driver pulls up to them. He opens the door for Alessandra and Sorrin before getting in the car and instructing the driver to head towards the Lux.
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HEALTH AND WILLPOWER In Vampire, Health and Willpower measure your physical hit points and your mental hit points. They are both called Trackers because, like hit points, they go up and down during the game, but the difference is, in addition to what's stated, Willpower is a currency you can "spend". You can't "spend" Health, but you can "spend" Willpower to perform other things, like rerolling dice.
HOW DO I TAKE DAMAGE? In a conflict, both parties roll dice pools, or the coterie has to beat a DV number. Either method works depending on the situation and simplicity to keep the story moving. You take your margin, add any bonuses for the weapon you're using, and that's how much damage you do. Unless otherwise stated, all Superficial damage a mortal or Vampire inflicts or receives in the game is halved. As you take Superficial damage, you mark off the boxes with a /. So, if you have five Health and you've taken 3 Superficial damage, it'll look like this: [/][/][/][ ][ ]. Superficial damage represents scrapes, punches, kicks, and bruises: non lethal damage. No one dies from it. However, if you fill up your tracker with all Superficial damage, you become Impaired. That means you take a -2 dice penalty on all physical dice pool rolls: (Strength, Dexterity, Stamina.). For Vampires, it's really no big deal, you're just beat up bad, you're not out of the game. For mortals, it means they're unconscious and out of the conflict. Any addition damage of any type defaults to Aggravated now, even if it's Superficial. Vampires can easily Rouse and heal Superficial damage. Also note that since Vampires are supernatural, knives and guns that would normally cause Aggravated damage to mortals only inflicts Superficial damage to Vampires.
Aggravated damage is much more serious. As you deal or take it, it's not halved like Superficial damage is. These are life threatening wounds like bullet holes, swords, knives, and supernatural weapons like werewolf claws and teeth. In additional, if your Health tracker is filled with Superficial damage, any additional damage you receive now becomes Aggravated. So, if are Impaired and take two points of Aggravated damage, your tracker will look like this: [X][X][/][/][/]. The superficial damage becomes aggravated. Also note that you can take Aggravated damage without having suffered Superficial damage first. You just indicate the damage with an X. If you fill your health tracker with aggravated damage you are, if mortal, dead, or if a Vampire, you enter Torpor.
Here's an example:
Misha gets clawed by a werewolf, taking two aggravated damage: [X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] Then, she gets hit over the head with a bat, taking three superdog damage: [X][X][/][/][/][ ][ ] She gets bit by the werewolf, taking another point of aggravated damage: [X][X][X][/][/][ ][ ] Finally, she gets kicked for another two superdog damage. [X][X][X][/][/][/][/]
Misha is now Impaired because she has filled her health tracker with all Superficial Damage. She's not out for the count, because Superficial Damage is not fatal, but she HAS suffered Aggravated damage during this fight just FYI. Since her Health tracker is full, either kind of damage she receives from this point on is considered Aggravated. So, if she got hit with the bat again, even though it inflicts Superficial damage, she's tapped out, so it's converted to unhalved Aggravated damage. If her health tracker fills with all Aggravated damage, she falls in Torpor and is out of the game for a while.
WHAT CAN I DO WITH SPENT WILLPOWER? Great question. Spending a point of Willpower lets you do three important things. First, it allows you to reroll up to three regular dice. This is equivalent of hitting this dot on the dice roller in Discord. Two, it allows you to take control of yourself for one turn when you are under the effects of supernatural coersion, like the Dominate or Presence Discipline, or under the effects of a Frenzy. Finally, it allows a Vampire to ignore the penalties of Impairment for one turn.
When you spend a point of Willpower, you mark off one superficial damage on your Willpower tracker. "/"
HOW DO I RECOVER WILLPOWER? Superficial: You recover an amount of Willpower equal to your Composure or Resolve each Session. You can also recover a point of Superficial Willpower if you work on your Desire. Finally, you can recover 1 point of Superficial Willpower by role playing a messy critical, a bestial failure, a frenzy, or a Compulsion in a sufficiently dramatic way as you briefly satiate the Beast. Aggravated: Aggravated Willpower is healed by being close to and benefiting your Touchstone, or during a scene where you uphold a Conviction against your own best interest. You also can heal 1 point of Aggravated Willpower damage by working on your Ambition in a meaningful way.
Victor nods his head as Sorrin gives his explanation. "Good man." He stops to think for a moment. "You know, as much as I don't enjoy these 'work trips', " Victor said, being deliberately vague to not break the Masquerade in the presence of the driver. "they do make for good opportunities to travel, see the sights, find out where all the good clubs are."
"And for pictures!" Alessandra pipes up, her phone out on camera mode. "Selfie!" She leans in close to Sorrin, her arm extended outwards to get all three of them in the picture before snapping a shot of them, ready or not. Not like it mattered, they both looked attractive, paying attention or not. She sat back straight with a little giggle, fiddling with her phone as she speaks. "Do you guys know how popular you two are on my Instagram? Goodness, I get many messages asking me if either of you are single!"
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"Victor, the Beast does not define you," Alessandra starts. "It does not define who you are and what person you are wanting to be, and I know the voice in your head tries to tell you otherwise, but listen to me now when I say you are not a monster." She takes a second to put the tissue in her purse before taking both her hand and holding his, looking at him with gentle eyes. "You are kind, you are smart, you're everything but cruel. We all lose ourselves, but those moments in time do not make us who we are. If anything, they help us grow." She smiles a bit, chuckling lightly. "And I'm sure I make you feel a lot of things, sweetheart, but I hope I made you feel just a little bit better now."
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Victor smiles as Alessandra speaks to him, seeing the gentleness in her eyes. "You did. You really did. Thank you" He kisses her, before standing up and helping her to her feet. "We should get back to Sorrin. He's been waiting at the top for a while now and I'm sure that he thinks we're ******* at this point."
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Alessandra returns the kiss happily, and thanks him for helping her up. She snorts at Victor's comment as she dusts off her skirt only to then smirk over at him. "Wanna?" She lets that settle between them for a moment before waving her hand with a laugh. "I kid, I kid, but yes, let's go congratulate the winner."
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Victor chuckles in response to Alessandra's joke. "You had me fooled there for a second, not gonna lie. Well, the good news is, you won't have to pay the full bill at the lounge, since we both technically lost the race."
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When Aless and Victor come catch up with Sorrin, they find him sitting on top of one end of the H, feet dangling over the edge. Spotting the two from a distance, he gives them a mock salute and smiles, "I feel like I lost something here, yet I should be the winner~" He chuckles at himself, "Oh well, did you guys find anything interesting?"
Victor salutes back. "Nah, we just had a talk for a bit and admired the way the city looks from up here. If we're all ready, I think that we should get to that lounge now. And since you won, the two of us will split the bill for drinks."
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"Baw, should've told him we found a dead body," Alessandra quips, giving Victor a light punch on the shoulder at the missed opportunity. Her hand then rests at her waist as she looks up to Sorrin. "You gonna come down here or what, mister showoff? Bar's waiting for us, and I even saved you a dance!"
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Sorrin smirks then hops down, landing like a cat, "Oh really?~ Shame, here I was hoping to steal one~" Laughing he wraps an arm around the two kindred, "Regardless, let's have some fun. We're in the city of Angels after all!"
"So tell me about this lounge, Sorrin. What's it like?"
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"Lux? Don't know really, never been. It came recommend and was told they have great entertainers and music~"
“I’m hoping it’s better than the music we were hearing while heading to the hotel. So much screaming...” Alessandra sighs, rubbing a temple with one hand. “I’ll never understands today’s music.”
When they reached the bottom of the hill, she looks to the other two. “Someone order an Uber or Lyft. There’s no way I’m walking there, unless one of you want to carry me.”
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Victor pulls out his phone and card and calls an Uber. "As tempting as that offer of carrying you is, darling, I'm beat. Fortunately, you can at least control the music the Uber driver plays."
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Chukles, "I to would love to carry you like a princess, but I doubt I'd get more than a few blocks before some ruffians or thugs got jealous and tried something~ As for the music, who knows, I heard they have a thing for jazz and classic rock~" (It's literally just the bar from Lucifer XD)
"Jazz and Classic rock. That shouldn't be too offensive to the ears." Victor says, as the Uber driver pulls up to them. He opens the door for Alessandra and Sorrin before getting in the car and instructing the driver to head towards the Lux.
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HEALTH AND WILLPOWER
In Vampire, Health and Willpower measure your physical hit points and your mental hit points. They are both called Trackers because, like hit points, they go up and down during the game, but the difference is, in addition to what's stated, Willpower is a currency you can "spend". You can't "spend" Health, but you can "spend" Willpower to perform other things, like rerolling dice.
HOW DO I TAKE DAMAGE?
In a conflict, both parties roll dice pools, or the coterie has to beat a DV number. Either method works depending on the situation and simplicity to keep the story moving. You take your margin, add any bonuses for the weapon you're using, and that's how much damage you do. Unless otherwise stated, all Superficial damage a mortal or Vampire inflicts or receives in the game is halved. As you take Superficial damage, you mark off the boxes with a /. So, if you have five Health and you've taken 3 Superficial damage, it'll look like this: [/][/][/][ ][ ]. Superficial damage represents scrapes, punches, kicks, and bruises: non lethal damage. No one dies from it. However, if you fill up your tracker with all Superficial damage, you become Impaired. That means you take a -2 dice penalty on all physical dice pool rolls: (Strength, Dexterity, Stamina.). For Vampires, it's really no big deal, you're just beat up bad, you're not out of the game. For mortals, it means they're unconscious and out of the conflict. Any addition damage of any type defaults to Aggravated now, even if it's Superficial. Vampires can easily Rouse and heal Superficial damage. Also note that since Vampires are supernatural, knives and guns that would normally cause Aggravated damage to mortals only inflicts Superficial damage to Vampires.
Aggravated damage is much more serious. As you deal or take it, it's not halved like Superficial damage is. These are life threatening wounds like bullet holes, swords, knives, and supernatural weapons like werewolf claws and teeth. In additional, if your Health tracker is filled with Superficial damage, any additional damage you receive now becomes Aggravated. So, if are Impaired and take two points of Aggravated damage, your tracker will look like this: [X][X][/][/][/]. The superficial damage becomes aggravated. Also note that you can take Aggravated damage without having suffered Superficial damage first. You just indicate the damage with an X. If you fill your health tracker with aggravated damage you are, if mortal, dead, or if a Vampire, you enter Torpor.
Here's an example:
Misha gets clawed by a werewolf, taking two aggravated damage: [X][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
Then, she gets hit over the head with a bat, taking three superdog damage: [X][X][/][/][/][ ][ ]
She gets bit by the werewolf, taking another point of aggravated damage: [X][X][X][/][/][ ][ ]
Finally, she gets kicked for another two superdog damage. [X][X][X][/][/][/][/]
Misha is now Impaired because she has filled her health tracker with all Superficial Damage. She's not out for the count, because Superficial Damage is not fatal, but she HAS suffered Aggravated damage during this fight just FYI. Since her Health tracker is full, either kind of damage she receives from this point on is considered Aggravated. So, if she got hit with the bat again, even though it inflicts Superficial damage, she's tapped out, so it's converted to unhalved Aggravated damage. If her health tracker fills with all Aggravated damage, she falls in Torpor and is out of the game for a while.
WHAT CAN I DO WITH SPENT WILLPOWER?
Great question. Spending a point of Willpower lets you do three important things. First, it allows you to reroll up to three regular dice. This is equivalent of hitting this dot on the dice roller in Discord. Two, it allows you to take control of yourself for one turn when you are under the effects of supernatural coersion, like the Dominate or Presence Discipline, or under the effects of a Frenzy. Finally, it allows a Vampire to ignore the penalties of Impairment for one turn.
When you spend a point of Willpower, you mark off one superficial damage on your Willpower tracker. "/"
HOW DO I RECOVER WILLPOWER?
Superficial: You recover an amount of Willpower equal to your Composure or Resolve each Session. You can also recover a point of Superficial Willpower if you work on your Desire. Finally, you can recover 1 point of Superficial Willpower by role playing a messy critical, a bestial failure, a frenzy, or a Compulsion in a sufficiently dramatic way as you briefly satiate the Beast.
Aggravated: Aggravated Willpower is healed by being close to and benefiting your Touchstone, or during a scene where you uphold a Conviction against your own best interest. You also can heal 1 point of Aggravated Willpower damage by working on your Ambition in a meaningful way.
"By the way Sorrin, who told you about the Lux? You didn't mention knowing anyone here."
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"Hm? Oh, one of my newer friends that I met while we were in Vancouver, he was the same one who recommended the hotel last time."
Victor nods his head as Sorrin gives his explanation. "Good man." He stops to think for a moment. "You know, as much as I don't enjoy these 'work trips', " Victor said, being deliberately vague to not break the Masquerade in the presence of the driver. "they do make for good opportunities to travel, see the sights, find out where all the good clubs are."
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"And for pictures!" Alessandra pipes up, her phone out on camera mode. "Selfie!" She leans in close to Sorrin, her arm extended outwards to get all three of them in the picture before snapping a shot of them, ready or not. Not like it mattered, they both looked attractive, paying attention or not. She sat back straight with a little giggle, fiddling with her phone as she speaks. "Do you guys know how popular you two are on my Instagram? Goodness, I get many messages asking me if either of you are single!"
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\