Marcus T. Ventrue Cheff

I need wards that don't have to be redone every month ( ´～｀)

stringmeat

If we put more. Sacrifice into them. They might stay up longer.

Or find a way to feed them from the loose energy floating around.

...I might be able to figure out a transmutation circle for that. Actually.

Isn’t maintaining wards and the like what you have interns apprentices for?

It doesn't work like that. Curtis helps draw the sigils and circles and things since he's better at it. But he can't use them.

… why not?

He's still asleep. Or god didn't pick him. Something like that.

Well, tell god to get on with it? I don’t know how you wizards work.

I need wards that don't have to be redone every month ( ´～｀)

stringmeat

If we put more. Sacrifice into them. They might stay up longer.

Or find a way to feed them from the loose energy floating around.

...I might be able to figure out a transmutation circle for that. Actually.

Isn’t maintaining wards and the like what you have interns apprentices for?

It doesn't work like that. Curtis helps draw the sigils and circles and things since he's better at it. But he can't use them.

… why not?

I need wards that don't have to be redone every month ( ´～｀)

stringmeat

If we put more. Sacrifice into them. They might stay up longer.

Or find a way to feed them from the loose energy floating around.

...I might be able to figure out a transmutation circle for that. Actually.

Isn’t maintaining wards and the like what you have interns apprentices for?

pretend-pretend-vampire

I need to replace my blood with music

Is that…. A thing you can actually do?

throatslug

Most entertaining substance to dose someone who is public speaking with, go!

grandpa-dragon

...Would this be an instruction to take action? In order that one might gather enough observations, and distil one's opinion and result?

Depends on the audience and (to a lesser extent) the speaker.

Changeling blood is much less fun to inflict on a rival who knows auspex or dementation, likewise, blood in general would not work to dose a rival who’s some sort of sorcerer.

On a mortal, or at least biological target I would suggest DMT, unless you want something subtle that could discredit someone by making it look like that was their normal behavior

throatslug

I could make someone see shrimp colours. Or spirits! That could be very generous of me

Let the speaker be distracted knowing how his audience really feels

throatslug

Most entertaining substance to dose someone who is public speaking with, go!

grandpa-dragon

...Would this be an instruction to take action? In order that one might gather enough observations, and distil one's opinion and result?

Depends on the audience and (to a lesser extent) the speaker.

Changeling blood is much less fun to inflict on a rival who knows auspex or dementation, likewise, blood in general would not work to dose a rival who’s some sort of sorcerer.

On a mortal, or at least biological target I would suggest DMT, unless you want something subtle that could discredit someone by making it look like that was their normal behavior

hey now.

my sense of self is as high as it oughta be for it is TRUE.

You’re high right now? On whom?

I wish. but sadly I am not. Im hangry and working.

If you swing by the Boston area I could be persuaded to provide a quality draft

hey now.

my sense of self is as high as it oughta be for it is TRUE.

You’re high right now? On whom?

Being shot felt really weird.

First time?

Sort of. The first time I'd been shot while someone actually, really wanted me dead.

That makes sense. My sire trained my Fortitude by shooting me with progressively larger firearms. What was weird about your instance?

It was the only time I felt something with the impact and the pain that disconnected from each other. I got hit and it didn't hurt. Until it did.

Adrenaline or some sort of magical protection?

I had protective wards up, which is why it didn't kill me. And why the other two bullets didn't kill me either. But those were mostly to deflect aim and only reduced the bullet energy a little bit.

There’s your mistake. If you’re going to be moving in influential circles you will make enemies. You need to be sturdy enough that when someone shoots you, you can give them a pithy one liner about how you’re only upset they ruffled your new suit.

Oh, I'm not nearly important enough for influential circles. Or suits. But if I were, it would be impressive to do that.

Oh. Then that wasn’t assassination, just regular murder.

My apologies. Why were they trying to kill you?

I broke parole for my twin brother.

Family is important enough for criminality, and criminality is to many important enough for some people to kill

You’ve satisfied my curiosity at least

Being shot felt really weird.

First time?

Sort of. The first time I'd been shot while someone actually, really wanted me dead.

That makes sense. My sire trained my Fortitude by shooting me with progressively larger firearms. What was weird about your instance?

It was the only time I felt something with the impact and the pain that disconnected from each other. I got hit and it didn't hurt. Until it did.

Adrenaline or some sort of magical protection?

I had protective wards up, which is why it didn't kill me. And why the other two bullets didn't kill me either. But those were mostly to deflect aim and only reduced the bullet energy a little bit.

Oh, I'm not nearly important enough for influential circles. Or suits. But if I were, it would be impressive to do that.

Oh. Then that wasn’t assassination, just regular murder.

My apologies. Why were they trying to kill you?

Being shot felt really weird.

First time?

Sort of. The first time I'd been shot while someone actually, really wanted me dead.

That makes sense. My sire trained my Fortitude by shooting me with progressively larger firearms. What was weird about your instance?

It was the only time I felt something with the impact and the pain that disconnected from each other. I got hit and it didn't hurt. Until it did.

Adrenaline or some sort of magical protection?

I had protective wards up, which is why it didn't kill me. And why the other two bullets didn't kill me either. But those were mostly to deflect aim and only reduced the bullet energy a little bit.

Being shot felt really weird.

First time?

Sort of. The first time I'd been shot while someone actually, really wanted me dead.

That makes sense. My sire trained my Fortitude by shooting me with progressively larger firearms. What was weird about your instance?

It was the only time I felt something with the impact and the pain that disconnected from each other. I got hit and it didn't hurt. Until it did.

Adrenaline or some sort of magical protection?

Being shot felt really weird.

First time?

Sort of. The first time I'd been shot while someone actually, really wanted me dead.

That makes sense. My sire trained my Fortitude by shooting me with progressively larger firearms. What was weird about your instance?

Being shot felt really weird.

First time?

@kissthevampirecook hi

No It’s part of the curse, not being able to see m-oh hello

the good news is that is i bet that is mad good 4 ur self esteem aha. right. cant e ugly if u casnt see urself. anyway lol. i have the thing. its powered by a small starlight filament that you need to air out like 2-5 years n soak under a full moon. wheres my roaches

They’re on the table in the stacked Tupperware. Thousands of live Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. They’re sold for fishing and reptile feed. Normally fairly cheep but when you want thousands all at once it adds up.

Is there anything in particular I should soak it in?

As to my ego, of course. I can only see myself in paintings and those all have the built in filter of “I’m the one paying you”

Same reason basically all kings have paintings that depict them as rugged and elegant with the smoothest of skins when they lived back before moisturizer, dieticians and showers.

nice nice. i can hear them. im not fusy on the species bu ti apreciate it. the hising ones r actually often more pets but im an expert

thne light. it just needs moon and starlight.

have ui tried putting ur head in slunch and getting a cast, like one of thos wax cassts. u could slap ur own self that way aha i wouldnt advise it tho the sympathetic connection on wax busts is crazy, ive been doing evil things to madame tuasands.

al that n they stil look busted.

That was just the only variety I could find in such bulk. Presumably because they function as both pet and pet food.

You could probably find some poetry in that

You realize this is an absurd number of roaches yes?

I tend to avoid magical vulnerabilities like leaving around sympathetic connections like that. The paintings will have to do until I master astral projection. So far I’ve only managed it when using blood from someone on mushrooms… or that one time I drank from a changeling.

Regardless, How do I make the starlight powered implement work? Is there a magic word or is it more intent based.

cool cool i'm going to start printing them.

thjis ia regular amount of roaches.

changeling blood is a great ingredient, I should get more but im lazies. naturaly i love mushroms as well. how are you managing that when u are uh ventro .

It'll work, just feel around, think of ur intent n it'll work

It’s pretty easy when you can throw money at people to get them to take drugs and then erase their memory of anything particularly incriminating.

A couple of my employees are under the impression that they are white collar drug dealers who have an unfortunate habit of getting high off their supply on occasion.

As to the changeling (singular, since I’ve only found the one), sufficiently magic blood tends to work for most Ventrue regardless of whether it would otherwise meet our standards.

You have to be careful though. Some of the older Ventrue have gotten to the point where *only* supernatural blood will work for them anymore.

i dont believe in money. I could erase peoples memories but most of the time i odnt care to. u see what u see aha.

damn ur in itttt. thats crazy aha how old are u again .??

FR?? If i were u id be sucking that shit daily. taking a hit of some pooka ass day and night.

thats crazy id just off myself but i dont want to be a vampire to be gin with

Money makes the world go round. It’s more magic than any trick with a bolt of lightning or summoned daemon.

I’m relatively young by our standard. I’ve only been kindred for a little over a century. But it’s been an active century. An ambitious time since January 12th 1920.

Perhaps it is for the best that you don’t have the strength of will to persist beyond that which should kill you.

i resent that an i dont think thats true. money is fake and in my reality i will destroy it. we will barter with pieces of the stars i wil never own a piece of currency.

ohh oksay a c entury wow aha, thats crazy so like wat do you do for a lviing. ? ?

its no the death i just dont want to be beholden to a slunch beyond my control

That’s the magic of money. Now star pieces are money

A variety of things. You don’t get this level of wealth with only a single revenue stream. But my *passion* the profession I spend most of my time and effort on is being a professional chef and otherwise managing my own restaurant, The Gilded Moon. What about yourself?

If you say so. What’s a slunch?

except it woulkd eb arter and divided among dark wizards.

huh. interestging. sometimes i reheat 2 week old ramen in my fridge sometiems aha, also ieat radiaoctive rocks sometimes ? im an evil wizard. I brew potions and cast spells

in this context its ur blood, but its sludge but with more ge jen nais sa quack

So money is fine if the proper In Group are the ones to have it?

I’d ask if being an evil wizard was a reliable revenue stream but I have empirical evidence that it nets you thousands of roaches from Madagascar, so it seems like it, at least by your standards

can you add blood to protein shake. does that make it more uhh, protein?

-- Juan

Yeah, but it won’t magically let a kindred process the shake parts any better.

I had a ghoul that preferred to receive her allotment of vitae in tomato basil soup, a protein shake should be fine.

If you’re talking about mundane blood for a normal mortal though you’d be better off solidifying the blood through freezing or dehydrating before blending

oooh yeah i mean, i know it wont do anything for vampires, im thinking about. for me. uhh i, i guess i could try dehydrating, yeah. probably less fuss just to, you know, just bleed into the cup a little before mixing but. it's worth an experiment?

haha. i get vitae via soup too :)

-- Juan

Using your *own* blood as food would be less than useless. You’d have the energy requirements for digestion on top of having to extract it

Apparently the vitae tomato basil had a particular tang that was especially pleasing.

it's, uh. well. it's, if im being perfectly honest, it's not, for food it's just. I just. kind of like it? haha, uh

hm. ill need to try that some time. the kind Dragon makes is more uhhh, more, bone stock and, meat and vegetables and, sheep brain and soil i think? and. you know! good home cooking.

-- Juan

If it’s just for flavor that’s another consideration entirely. In terms of taste the customer is always right.

Why soil? Is it that diatomaceous earth fad I heard about a few years back?

tell that to Jackie, haha.

uhhhhh. no. it's like, uh. well. ok, ok im not really actually totally sure on that but, it's probably, i figure it's probably connected to how Dragon has his special dirt, why i always sleep better with some near by, why i always have to keep my emergency vitae vials in some to stop them spoiling etc etc. uh. home soil, you know? it's, important stuff. like why not in the soup? it probably does something.

-- Juan

I’ll tell it to whomever. But I emphasize the “in terms of taste” it’s not a general statement.

That’s very strange. If it affects you like that, it *might* enhance the soup, but you could still experiment to do better, try using relevant diatomaceous earth like with the fad, if possible, try using coal dust or locally extracted salt, try using root vegetables grown in the soil. See if any of those options work better for you by satisfying that weird dirt craving you have without sacrificing other qualities of the soup

can you add blood to protein shake. does that make it more uhh, protein?

-- Juan

Yeah, but it won’t magically let a kindred process the shake parts any better.

I had a ghoul that preferred to receive her allotment of vitae in tomato basil soup, a protein shake should be fine.

If you’re talking about mundane blood for a normal mortal though you’d be better off solidifying the blood through freezing or dehydrating before blending

haha. i get vitae via soup too :)

-- Juan

Using your *own* blood as food would be less than useless. You’d have the energy requirements for digestion on top of having to extract it

Apparently the vitae tomato basil had a particular tang that was especially pleasing.

it's, uh. well. it's, if im being perfectly honest, it's not, for food it's just. I just. kind of like it? haha, uh

hm. ill need to try that some time. the kind Dragon makes is more uhhh, more, bone stock and, meat and vegetables and, sheep brain and soil i think? and. you know! good home cooking.

-- Juan