WishIWasABrujah

[nwmysticprincess]

[goosemedoosa]

Odinn's Sons, Baldur and Hodr by Viviana Goosesummer (me)

[swoomoo]

Ngl my favorite thing to call a vampire in VtM is 'lick'. The anarchs cooked with that one.

[justghoulishthings]

BREAKING NEWS: I GOIG TO FUCKING GET YOU

[heartseeker]

[enchantillie]

this feels like such a basic thing that i should rly understand by now but ... are the anarchs actually defined by anything aside from being not the camarilla ... i thought i would have a better idea by now but i don't get it lol

while i'm at it what is up with their relationship with the camarilla because i feel like i'm getting conflicting things from my weird as fuck way of getting into vtm (played a bit of vtmb -> read v5 -> currently watching la by night/want to read v20 but 0 idea if i'll ever get anyone to play with)

[prophcassandra]

Unfortunately this is kind of a case of reading V5 is actually going to make you more confused. All the Sects got rewrites in V5 that changed their motivations and contradicted previous lore To understand the Anarchs you have to go back to the Anarch Revolt in the Dark Ages. Long story short, a bunch of elder vampires late into the middle ages started feuding with each other over territory in a big shit show called the War of Princes, which caused so much chaos from how out in the open their conflicts were that it led to a massive Masquerade breech and the Inquisition being founded to destroy all vampires. The elders, who had caused this problem, responded by throwing their neonate childer at the Inquisiton and getting a ton of them killed, either as a way of fighting the Inquisition or just distracting them. Neonates got really upset about this naturally, but at the time most Clans were blood bonding their childer so there wasn't much to be done, until the Tzimisce invented the Vaulderie, which would eventually become the central Rite of the Sabbat. The Vaulderie let neonates easily and quickly dissolve their blood bonds, and since said neonates were pretty peeved about being thrown to the Inquisition by their sires, they banded together and decided to fight back both against the Inquisition and their sires. This started a massive civil war called the Anarch Revolt, in which several Antediluvians died, many elders were killed, and kindred society was turned upside down.

At the end of the Anarch Revolt, the elders got together and finally decided they were going to do something about this problem, and decided to form a large, worldwide vampire organization that would strictly enforce the Masquerade and the Traditions, and preserve the old "elders on top and control everything" system. Trouble was, the war wasn't actually going well for them at this point. So when they got together to sign the founding document of the Camarilla, they decided to exploit some divisions in the Anarch movement and wrote some protections for Anarchs within the Treaty of Thorns, which basically let the Anarchs who agreed to join the Camarilla keep any territory they'd taken in-Clan, and let them ignore most of the Traditions as long as they agreed to keep the Masquerade. This effectively split the Anarch movement with the Brujah and Gangrel mostly joining this new Anarch sub-Sect within the Camarilla, while the Lasombra and Tzimisce refused and joined the Sabbat. So the deal with the Anarchs is that they're meant to basically be free-living vampires that get to ignore most of the rules of the Camarilla as long as they keep the Masquerade. They're theoretically protected by Treaty, which stops the average Prince from just sweeping out their neighborhoods and killing them all, but the Camarilla also wants to control them strictly. That 'so long as they protect the Masquerade' line in the Treaty does a lot of work because a given Prince can just say 'oh well that means they actually need to follow all the other Traditions since those, in turn, protect the Masquerade' and can try to do things like ban non-permitted Embraces or whatever. There's meant to be a tension with the Anarchs where the Camarilla sees them as a kind of designated opposition that keeps young neonates from running off to the Sabbat, but the Camarilla also wants to keep them under control. So the average chronicle will have a tense political balance of wondering how much the Prince will try to assert his control and how much the Anarchs will push back. Because the Treaty also gives the Anarchs the right to go back into revolt if the Treaty is broken, and some Prince have in fact been pushed out by the Anarchs when they got too tyrannical, which is why basically all of California is Anarch territory. The Anarchs are meant to be designating opposition to the Prince within a chronicle, and a place that the Prince can toss troublesome members of his Court if they bother him too much but killing them isn't expedient. And there's meant to be tension about what could happen if things boiled over. V5, for some reason, changed this entire dynamic by having the Camarilla basically suddenly decide to start ignoring the Treaty and waging open war on the Anarchs. Which effectively means the Anarchs are not much different from the Sabbat now as they've lost this designated opposition status which was meant to give them a place in the average chronicle and make them interesting.

[enchantillie]

this feels like such a basic thing that i should rly understand by now but ... are the anarchs actually defined by anything aside from being not the camarilla ... i thought i would have a better idea by now but i don't get it lol

while i'm at it what is up with their relationship with the camarilla because i feel like i'm getting conflicting things from my weird as fuck way of getting into vtm (played a bit of vtmb -> read v5 -> currently watching la by night/want to read v20 but 0 idea if i'll ever get anyone to play with)

[bitbd]

Just because the Sabbat are a cult doesn't make them unintelligent.

People tend to give the Sabbat the stupid stick in the World of Darkness. I like to go a more nuanced route. There was a recurring, antagonistic Gangrel by an occasional guest player in one of the chronicles I ran. Her Pack had 3 other Gangrel and a Toreador who all appended "Feralus" to their True Name as part of their Path of the Feral Heart. She was known as Terix Feralus; tall, sleek, yet strongly reptilian features made her stand out, even by Sabbat standards. Of course, they stuck to rural, wooded areas. The Coterie managed to trick, trap, and imprison her in the basement of a cabin they'd prepped beforehand. While they waited for the Sheriff and Deputy to arrive, they chatted with Terix who was a lot more articulate than other Sabbat they'd entangled. 

The Ventrue pointed out that the Sabbat ideology is fundamentally unrealistic even if the ultraviolence was somehow justifiable. Humans outnumber Kindred by a wide margin, after all. Civilization represents a potent weapon that necessitates conforming to the Masquerade. Terix argued that the Sabbat are the only ideology remotely realistic. The Camarilla are the ones who cling to civilization, culture, and conscience as if they're "more real" than biology, sustenance, and instinct. Hominids' existence is a tiny slice compared to sharks, crocodiles, and wolves who understand that the only reality is life and the only falsehood is death. According to the Feralus Pack, Caine understood this and judges his family by their willingness to change in order to live.

There was a time when sharks were but jawless fish, crocodiles but sluggish quadrupeds, and wolves but tiny rodents. Now there is a time when vampires are but hunters in the night. It's the will of Caine that Kindred accept this humble cul-de-sac of the Earth so that they will become the Apex of the Universe. The Sabbat are not content to merely be the inheritors after the Extinction, but the stewards of humanity's *own* humbling. The clouds will blind the Sun, the Cainite will be cleansed by the Darkness, the Fires will burn all fuel, and their celebrations will deafen God. This is not religion, Terix claimed, it's as true as the passage of the millennia themselves. Civilization represents an adaptation in the same way the dinosaurs used to be much larger and flightless. 

Yet, that size and groundedness was key to their downfall and the rise of the smaller yet lighter inheritors. The Feral Heart, big and small, beats everywhere forever.

Terix champions a relatively common worldview among Gangrel antitribu. There's all sorts of angles that Sabbat members can take relative to the supremacist and all-around pre-apocalyptic ideology that the Sword of Caine hosts under their umbrella. The Order of St. Blaise has Cainites who rub shoulders with Cenacles of the Society of Leopold in order to maintain the Silence of the Blood and nudge Hunters towards the Camarilla. They even forge alliances between certain Florentine Inquisitors, those with a latent sympathy for Kindred. In another chronicle I ran, there was a recurring Sabbat Coven who ran a correspondence school (oddly enough, this was years before 2019) as a front for subverting and ultimately dominating United States society. 

The opportunity to write even those who use terror to achieve their aims with nuance and intrigue is part of the World of Darkness' fun. 

[girlnextvore]

In blood stained love they had a list of weird rules a Prince might have and its a really good table

[girlnextvore]

What's your favorite

I like the one about your sire fucking your romantic partner first

Which is WILD

[girlnextvore]

Me when my toreador sire tells me to sit in the chair whole she "vets" my new partner

[trans-xp-ttrpg]

A sire may not have a romantic relationship with with your childe is wild. Whats even the point of playing vtm then shaking my smh

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[cherrispryte]

Some added 101-level context from someone (me) who’s worked in federal grantmaking for 20 years and is literally certified on this document - this is a document that governs all federal grantmaking. It’s been around for over a decade and is a mega-document that combine multiple previous smaller documents that have been around for ages. It is updated every few years and generally the updates are minor - a notable change in the previous update was raising the small procurement threshold from $10,000 to $15,000 for example. Deeply dry boring minutiae that no one outside of federal grantmakers need concern themselves with. It was also federal GUIDELINES, which means there was flexibility.

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

So yes, please comment. You don’t have to read all 400 pages before doing so, it’s dry and dense as fuck, but I thought this information might be helpful. Also, while there is a public comment period, this isn’t voted on by Congress. The OMB just fucking issues it. Pressuring your elected officials into publicly saying “hey what the fuck are you doing here” is good, though.

[mikkeneko]

Please note the comment period is open through JULY 13th, not JUNE 13th. I saw a lot of relogs yesterday saying "last day!" and I just want to say it is very much not too late.

[grison-in-space]

As of today, 7/8/26, we have five days for public commentary on this to go through. I am begging y'all: if you care about independent science in the country that produces the most global science funding in the world, please leave a comment.

[systlin]

Note as someone who has visited and driven in most of the 48 lower contiguous states of the 50 small countries in a trenchcoat that make up the USA;

The drivers of all states suck, of course, this is a given. HOWEVER. There are some very special places that stand out among these. In order of how in fear for my life I was.

3. Houston. Drivers in Texas in general treat speed limits as a lower limit for how fast you should be going and the drivers in Houston show no regard for life or limb.

2. Atlanta. The drivers of Atlanta do not fear death for themselves and would rather you both die than let you merge.

Fucking. New Jersey. If I never drive I-95 or the Turnpike again I will die happy. You've never known fear until you see someone neglect to use turn signals and Jersey Slide through 4 lanes of near bumper to bumper 80 MPH traffic and cut in front of you to make their exit as you slam the brakes on and miss rear ending them by about half an inch.

On the flip side, the BEST driving I've ever seen? Suprisingly, New Orleans. Now, I went NOT during Mardi Gras, but I found the drivers there to be courtious and cautious with a very few exceptions. 10/10.

[notthesomefather]

Devotional to Hel

There was a loss in my family recently. While our collective feelings about this person are complicated, his death has prompted me to reflect on Hel's teachings and guidance.

--

Queen of the setting sun and wilting rose, In your name, we praise the preciousness and passing of all things. Keeper of the unknowable secret, implacable yet serene, You inspire us not to flee from the sorrow that grief brings. Shadow-shrouded goddess, mistress of the barrows, By your grace, may our hearts stay warm despite mourning’s stings.

Lover of the Fallen Son, we praise you now. In your name, may we genuinely inhabit each day. Queen of the mists beneath Yggdrasil’s roots, You inspire us to make the most out of this brief stay. Guider of souls, when their times come, By your grace, we will not live tearfully, come what may.

Baldr’s companion, holiest of Helheim, In your name, may we accept mortality as life’s dear friend. Lady of the lasting slumber, Death half-cloaked, You inspire us not to fear what we cannot comprehend. Keeper of resting souls in your hall below, By your grace, we see that death is not the end.

[enchantillie]

i think vtm will remain my favorite ttrpg for many years to come simply because no other game i've seen has the same amount of potential for making powerful hot unhinged woman who can and will actually kill you and this is not even restricted to any clan so you could just have an entire game of different kinds of intimidating women

[purpurea-lucensis]

im probably beating a dead horse here, but once again i am really ticked off by v5 making nosferatu looking like plain disabled, disfigured, deformed or homeless people.

my previous posts about it were pretty emotion filled and thus i haven't explained myself how i wouldve liked (hence why im posting about this again)

the biggest problem, and what makes this change ableist to me, is the fact that by making nosferatu, in RAW, appear like normal disabled, disfigured or homeless people, instead of supernatural looking, and making this something that risks the masquerade more then any other clan bane (Corebook: 'any attempt to disguise themselves as human incur a penalty to your dice pool equal to your character’s Bane Severity') pushes, wether purposely or accidentally, the idea of members of different clans as always visibly able bodied, or if not that, the idea that members of other clans cannot look deformed or disfigured.

The nosferatu 'look' of previous editions, the fact that wether they wanted or not they were gonna look supernatural set them apart from any member of another clan that was simply disabled. The loss of this distinction gives an implicit idea that any vampire that looks disabled should be a nosferatu, especially when v5 removed a lot of the merits and flaws that made disabilities mechanically relevant, leaving the only way for them to be so (without homebrew) being making the character a nosferatu

and sure, previous editions of the game were anything but perfect, especially when it came to portraying minorities, but one thing ive been loving about v20 since i started playing it is the amount of traits i could give my characters to make both their disabilities AND peculiar abilities (both natural and supernatural) mechanically relevant instead of just being flavortext the game doesnt care about.

that's not to say that v5 doesnt have ANY merits that make your character mechanically disabled, but all of these merits and flasws only disable you in the supernatural way.

there is no mechanic for a hard of hearing vampire, there is no mechanic for a blind or bad sighted vampire, there is no mechanic for vampires with limps or cannot walk on their own, there is no mechanic for vampires with deformities or disfigurments (other then 'they risk the masquerade'). (note: previews editions did have most if not all of these, plus several more supernatural disabilities compared to v5

shit, even when it comes to nosferatus themselves, the representation of disabilities only comes down to them looking 'ugly', as before the recent bloodlines 2 body deformities in v5 weren't really represented in any official v5 book or game, all the nosferatus had facial differences or looked homeless at best.

i guess my real critique here isn't really about how 'they ruined nosferatus, making nosferatus disabled is ableist', but rather the fact that v5 took away any meaningful way of having a disabled character besides them being a nosferatu, then again taking away that too in recent books claiming that a lot of nosferatus simply look like disabled people and masquerade related mechanics can be ignored because of it (Live from the Succubus Club: '[...] the truth of it is that there are a lot of deformities among the members of the clan that don’t appear particularly supernatural. If someone looks like a burn victim, the first reaction among the living is often pity, not suspicion of vampirism.')

And yes, a lot of nosferatus DO get disabilities due to their embrace, and yes, nosferatus in vtm HAVE always been a metaphor for disabilities and othering of people, but up to v5 this has been mostly hyperbolic (as in the nosferatu look has been hyperbolic/metaphorical to represent disabilities and how they get treated irl) with their supernatural looks acting as that which made them being rejected by both other supernaturals ('they risk the masquerade! we can't associate with them or they will put us in danger') and humans ('that's a monster!'). V5 makes this explicit, yes, but at the cost of making the disabilities relevant in the life of the character.

[autogynophelia]

I was just called a "flat earther" by a "Gender Critical". It's quite funny because I've been thinking about how the study of oppression is often similar to something like astronomy in the sense that the scientist can observe their subject but can't directly affect it.

We can't study misogyny via an experiment where we put one woman in a world with misogyny and another woman in a world with no misogyny and see what happens, we just observe this world and come up with theories to explain it, theories that can be tested when new data comes in.

The "Gender Critical" theory (if it can be called that) is that your birth sex (or chromosomes, or gametes, or intended gametes (???)) determines whether or not you experience misogyny. OK, we can test that quite easily, and it explains misogynistic oppression for well over 90% of the population. Great.

One problem though, there's this specific category of people for whom it doesn't seem to work at all. The data that comes in from our sociological "telescope" is stuff like the gender pay gap statistics, and that tells us that, accounting for other marginalisations like race, sexuality, disability, there's around 1% of people who according to GC theory should be at the top of the pile but are actually right at the bottom.

Their theory cannot explain the observations that we see, so there must be something that their theory is missing. It's just like the Michelson-Morley experiment that disproved the existence of aether or Eddington's observation of light being deflected by the sun's gravity. The old theory cannot explain what we observe, so we need a new one.

We can try out a theory from Julia Serano that says that sexism actually has two forms: one that venerates masculinity and abhors femininity; and another that rewards adherence to the gender expression that society has decided is appropriate for your birth sex, and punishes deviation from that gender expression.

It follows from this theory that someone who was assigned male but has a gender expression that society has decided is "female" will be uniquely hurt by sexism twice over, by virtue of being at the intersection of these two forms of oppression. And that group is also precisely the group at the bottom of the gender pay gap statistics! Awesome, the new theory can explain the observations, so we adopt it going forward.

"Gender Criticals" are like adherents of Newtonian Gravity who not only refuse to accept that it has been experimentally disproved, but also go out of their way to disrupt further observations by smashing all the telescopes sensitive enough to measure the relevant phenomena and use their political power to close down University departments that believe in General Relativity Ideology. And yet they call me a flat earther.

[prophcassandra]

White Wolf seemed continually shocked that, no matter how many times times they wrote “vampires have no sex drive” or “the vampire sex drive is re-wired to center on feeding as a replacement for sex” across the first two editions of VtM, most players or writers just ignored them because the amount of players that want vampire smut is pretty much always going to be higher than those that want to subvert expectations around sex and intimacy with vampires.

So then in Revised they changed approach from saying “vampires have no sex drive” to “well if you have sex as a vampire it’s actually really icky.” They added details like vampires having all their bodily fluids replaced by blood and were not shy about saying "yes that means you cum blood and all sex is period sex." They were trying to gross out the fandom and make people stop playing horny vampires, but were again, shocked when players either ignored this, or were into it. Then when they finally acted like they had acquiesced to fans and made an honest to gods VtM smut novel it was filled with incest, necrophilia, and more SA than a late-stage L. Ron Hubbard book.

Yet they still were baffled by the amount of vampire smut being produced, realizing that, if anything, they had only encouraged the player base. Then when V20 came out they were line "fine, fuck you, vampires can have sex now and it's normal, the Blush makes all your bodily fluids normal and stuff, you win." Dark Ages V20 even leaned into this and is I think the only VtM gameline that took what I would describe as a "normal" attitude towards romance, sex, and intimacy within a TTRPG. For a moment, I thought maybe they'd finally gotten over themselves. Aaaaaand then V5 came out and we got Bloodstained Love and had to experience the lovely drama around the "Here's how much Humanity you need to fuck" rules and the "Bleed is always good and you should always strive for it" lines they put in. So like, any thoughts on V6? What weird drama is VtM going to get into around portrayals of sex and romance at the table? I wonder what strange and unique controversy they'll give us this time

[1-800-leo]

Evening, night owls.

If you're hearing Hall & Oates, congratulations! You're on the public frequency.

If you're hearing me...

Well.

Welcome to the late-night programming.

I'm Leo, your host, Malkavian, DJ, amateur agony aunt, and often the only person in town willing to report on important local affairs. You know, things like who's feuding with who, whose haven mysteriously exploded, whether the Nosferatu are actually living under that bridge or the other bridge, and what song best accompanies a bad decision.

If you've somehow stumbled in here by accident, welcome. Pull up a chair. Ask me a question. Request a song. Tell me about the weird dream you had three Tuesdays ago. I collect oddities the way some people collect stamps.

So tune in whenever the mood strikes. The request lines are always open, even when they really shouldn't be. Especially then.

Until next broadcast—

Keep the volume up, keep an ear on the static, and if the sink starts asking you personal questions...

Answer nicely.

You never know who's listening.

OOC

Hello Hi everyone @peachesncremate here, welcome to my VTM oc. I am terribly shy but if I can break into one RP community and watch it suddenly bloom I can try it with another.

I'd love to introduce you all to Leo, a seventh gen Malkavian prodigy, embraced in 1982 at age 24 while blazed out of his entire brain on shrooms and blow in a nightclub. This left his gray matter wide open for the madness network, the cobweb sinking in deep. He hears the cobweb primarily through running water, radio static, and people on the tv. He has to burn blood to do it, but Leo can function like a switchboard of sorts within the network, connecting any two Malkavians he needs to connect. Of course, he usually just uses this ability to annoy his sire, whispering 'would you still love me if I was a worm' into the running sink until his sire gets the message.

He would, in fact, still love him.

He runs a kindred radio show, talk and music, news on the local Camarilla affairs, hot Nosferatu gossip, layered over with enough obfuscation that any mortals tuning in just hear Hall & Oates. He is still very liable to pop down to the club and catch a vibe and get a bite from whoever looks like they're tripping the hardest.

He was my DMpc for an ill fated vampire game that had a single session sobs. Hence his crazy use of Auspex. He was never meant to be balanced, he was meant to be prophetic and unhelpful with it. He's Cammie through and through, a vampire nepo baby grandchilde of the primogen and bitterly useful thanks to his grasp on the madness network as much as he annoys the Prince.

I would love to interact with other people's ocs and get to know you guys! Please don't be shy, I have no idea who here is active so pop on over so I can follow you!! I'm keeping where he is vague on purpose, so you can all just assume he's in your city. He's everywhere. He's an invasive species.

[monetmightexist]

i was explaining certain vtm mechanics to my mom so that i could tell her about my campaign and when i got to true faith she rolled her eyes, but then i told her "your faith can be in anything! you just have to believe in it hard enough" and she goes

"Flat Earth."

a whole new world has opened up to me. i can give conspiracy theorists true faith. made up of nothing but delusion. this is the funniest fucking thing ever

[prophcassandra]

I don’t think it’s actually from a real source, but there’s been a rumor shared in the VtM community for years that there was an official book at one point that showed a vampire being repelled by a credit card from a stock broker with True Faith