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Fern, my Imbued guy, Martyr creed.

He's an NPC from one of games I've storytelled. He ended up in hands of Tzimisce. You can guess the rest.

I'll never condemn my players for not saving Fern and in fact making everything worse, but man, I still mourn him. Even if I knew what his fate would be the moment I wrote him to be found by players in local Tzimisce' basement, deep inside I still hoped for the best :')

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I've storytelled my first VtM one-shot :D

Here are NPCs with some lore™, as usual. Players were Anarchs (as were most NPCs), tasked with figuring out the culprit behind clearly supernatural murder of a human.

Lucas, Tzimisce

Very polite and friendly guy. Also a terrible monster, as Tzimisce do. Murder took place in his domain, so he was the one to ask players to figure it out. He was embraced into Sabbat, but he really hated his sire, so he ran away and chose to live on Anarch territory. One of PCs was his childe.

Agnessa, Lucas' Ghoul

Technically she's a revenant, was gifted to Lucas by his sire. Her life during her time at Sabbat sucked, as it usually does, but Lucas took her with him when he ran away, and just for that Agnessa is forever grateful. They have pretty good relationships with Lucas, which, of course, doesn't make them healthy at all. But everyone is okay with that, at least.

Fern, Imbued

Kid of Martyr Creed who, unfortunately, didn't understand true danger of Kindred, since he became Imbued by befriending one of them in hospital, when said Kindred was trying to get to donor blood and Fern offered his blood instead (since, y'know, donor blood should be there when it's needed, and Fern could share and regenerate a bit of his own).

He was caught sneaking near Lucas' house, thrown into basement and offered to players as a food source. Which led to his very fucked up and unfortunate demise (one of PCs was a Tzimisce, I remind you...). I am still sad about Fern's fate, even if I knew what'd happen to him the moment I wrote him to be tied up in basement :')

Diana and Hunter, regular Hunters

(Their father, another hunter, didn't care about names that much).

They were quickly obliterated by the player coterie, with Diana being turned into grill by Tzimisce and Hunter being blown up and turning into Wraith. A very vengeful one, demanding coterie to finish his sister off properly for the rest of the game. After refusal and mockery from Tzimisce PC he tried to burn everyone down several times, was stopped by Giovanny PC and then finally burned down local car scrapyard.

Simon, Wraith

Poor guy whose murder started this whole mess. He was a ghoul of Giselle (see below), finally managed to get free from her (she wasn't around for a while) only to be murdered the very same night for stupidest reason: local vampire was in a terrible mental state and single irritated phrase from Simon sent their Beast off.

Heather, Gangrel

My former PC, she wasn't that important, but she's a friend with murderer and final encounter happened in her domain. Dog-ghouls belonging to the murderer are now in her care. Also she has a lot of owl-ghouls. She's a professional forester, so don't worry about them.

Arabella, Nosferatu

Another former PC of mine. Childe of local Baron, hates him, so lives in car scrapyard in the outskirts of the city. Guess whose place got burned down after players tried to ask her for directions with Hunter still being enraged about his sister...

Giselle, Toreador Lasombra

Everyone thought she was a Toreador. Everyone was surprised badly when lights started to turn off... Giselle was Simon's domitor, so players first thought she was his murderer – they did have a messy break-up the night Simon got killed, afterall. It didn't help that Lucas said he suspects Giselle outright – he doesn't like Giselle very much out of fear that after she committed diablerie on his sire she is no longer quite herself. Giselle wasn't a murderer, though, and after a fight during which players made a mess out of local ballet school, she let them go, since Toreador PC agreed to become blood-bonded to her.

Blake, Brujah

The murderer. His older sister, Elba, is an agent of Technocracy (how do you like sudden MtAs in my VtM game?) and recently got socially processed for her crimes, so she doesn't remember her brother. Which naturally brings him a lot of grief and turmoil. Which led to him punching Simon after the latter was slightly rude... accidentally killing him. Blake was terrified of what he had done and went to Lucas in desperation, ready to get whatever awaited him for this mess, but Lucas suddenly proposed cover-up with blaming everything on Giselle.

Players figured the crime out either way. Brujah PC had a very sweet heart-to-heart with Blake during which her rage and determination to finish the murderer off changed into desperate desire to find a way for him to live. I, for my part, was sure Blake is done for, since Tzimisce PC really hated how Blake (rightfully) accused Lucas of lying to PCs, but suddenly Tzimisce PC decided to be only slightly cruel about it and simply sealed Blake's mouth shut with words "come back after a few nights and I'll fix you". In the end, Blake got away with pretty good ending for himself, considering the circumstances.

And that's where this messy ramble ends. Thanks for everyone who managed to get here.

Bonus art of one of PCs:

Cody, Tzimisce

Cute amoral creature responsible for most of terrible things that happened to my NPCs 😇

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My Hunter the Reckoning guy. Imbued of Judge Creed. He was actually among my first WoD OCs, so his lore is pretty silly in places, and not in "WoD is incredibly silly by itself"-way, but rather in "I wasn't aware of all the lore and was just creating whatever I wanted to without any canon or common sense stopping me"-way.

That's why this guy shares a flat with: a Tzimisce fledgling with high Humanity from VtM, an Ananasi (a werespider from WtA) and a Qualmi (werelynx from WtA). Is that an absolutely insane collection of neighbours? Probably. Do I want to change anything? Nah, these characters are my "I'm cringe but I'm free" zone 😌

Anyways, this Imbued really likes his Tzimisce roommate (insert obligatory joke about roommates here), and the feelings are mutual, so I started to forget that he actually y'know, destroys vampires. Not just cutely talks to one of them at night (when else, really?) and even shares his blood with both Tzimisce and Ananasi when their hunts go really badly. (And gets saved by them and Qualmi too when his hunts go to hell-)

So I drew this edgy picture to remind myself about how dangerous this dude can be while working. Not as dangerous as an experienced vampire, but still.

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❗cw: blood ❗

My sillies. I posted a bit of info and another art here. But in short, this is my crack-but-also-serious OTP of Imbued from Hunter: the Reckoning and Tzimisce from Vampire: the Masquerade... Yeah... Some yapping about lore™ under the cut

Mstislav, or simply Slava, is an Imbued of Judge Creed. When he was young, his father got turned into a vampire, granting Slava his Imbuing when they met after the fact. And then Slava's mother got turned by his father as well, because father was desperate to keep his family... Slava's turn never came, for both his parents were destroyed for breaching Masquerade and unauthorized Embrace, and Slava got adopted by his aunt, quickly figuring out that he needs to get a grasp on supernatural and how to deal with it if he wants to live, soon finding hunter.org and finding himself a mentor there.

And Eudokia, or simply Dunya, is a Tzimisce fledgling with surprisingly high Humanity. She was studying medicine in uni and caught attention of her sire with her project for local competition. It got declined from the competition for being way too weird and out of pocket, but Dunya's sire liked her ideas about human body... After Embrace, Dunya's sire tried to ease Dunya to Sabbat's ideas slowly, knowing that Dunya will need at least a few years to radicalize enough for Sabbat, and that if Dunya's sire rushes, Dunya will respond to Sabbat's violent nature very negatively. So once again, Dunya lived with her sire for a few years, slowly losing her humanity, but not as much as Sabbat vampires probably should.

And during those years Dunya accidentally found freshly captured Slava, whose hunt for Dunya's sire went very, very badly, in the basement. And Dunya was horrified. She wasn't as alright with idea of capturing and torturing humans as her had sire hoped afterall. A pity.

So these two banded together, ran away from Dunya's sire and now they try to survive in another city. They live together with Ananasi and Qualmi from Werewolf: the Apocalypse, because I made these characters when I didn't give much damns about common sense (and I kinda still don't in this case, these guys are my "I'm cringe but I'm free" zone, so I forgive myself for this crossover-abomination).

In short, Slava and Dunya like eachother. And sometimes they hunt eachother for sport because they have to train their survival skills :]

And these picture depicts one of such nights when hunt ended in Slava's defeat. Don't worry about him, Dunya will bully him a bit, then drink a bit of his blood, before they finally return home while holding hands. Not before Dunya vicissitudes her claws back to fingers, of course 🥰