Inoffensive workshop notes

VtM ref+shipost, tzimiscecore ;) , tw: gore, body horror, explicit language, horriblehorrible jokes, "and so on"

[tzimiscecore]

About

This was a[n archive] collection of images and references used for a World of Darkness game character that kept growing.  TW: body horror, not tagged, mainly because it’s basically the entire archive and also I forget

I don't do "h0rnypostnig" or whatever.

Please enjoy this wonderful selection of inspirational pieces for home (and ghoul) decor #tzimiscecore <3

[artthemasquerade]

Vicissitude

I'm back! and I had been away lately due to getting sick which really knocked me out for a couple of weeks but I'm doing a lot better and have made some art for the @meat-week event that celebrates the Vampire the Masquerade clan Tzimisce on Tumblr! https://www.tumblr.com/meat-week/813178127099576320/this-is-intended-to-be-very-low-key-do-things-at?source=share

I thought I'd start with showing off my Tzimisce Aimi using her Vicissitude to transform one of her Ghouls into a colourful tentacle monster! Whenever Aimi does some intense flesh crafting she always dresses up in a pretty pink nurse's uniform as it helps her get in the swing of things. All of Aimi creations tend to be monstrous, colourful and unusual but never boring!

I had a lot of fun making this piece and it felt good to draw some body horror again, and drawing Aimi is always fun. :3 Honestly I wanted to do this event since I have been neglecting my vtm ocs, especially my Tzimisce ones and I thought this would be a good chance to give them some love. I can't promise that I'll be able to do all of the days in time to post them but I do plan to draw them all even if it's posted late.

[milk-crafting]

I know the pieces fit, cuz I watched them fall away

Meat Week day 1: Vicissitude, featuring Ilias~

[lucyacid]

5 Vicissitude

Alice at work

@meat-week

[wodconfessions]

I'm tired of Tzimisce being so underutilised and shallow in VtM media. Tzim characters only appearing out of the blue as Sabbat torturehobo boogeyman eldritch abominations so often in chronicles is sad

Their bane, compulsion and the vicissitude discipline combined with their generally individualistic clan culture should be a breeding ground for diverse characters from all walks of life, who end up being in all of the sects. There is so much potential not only for inhuman, evil monsters to be in the clan, but creatures who cling to their humanity for dear (un)life despite the odds, especially in modern nights

I think that, at the very least, every Tzimisce character should be treated as a wild card of sorts, someone who can shake up the status quo, and not someone to immediately become the antagonist

[divineandmajesticinone]

VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST (2000)

[wodconfessions]

Kinda disappointed by how many teen vampires there are in the VTM metaplot, but the horror of being stuck in a transitional stage is rarely addressed if it's addressed at all.

I'd also like to see VTM make up its mind about whether child and teen vampires can grow up mentally or if they're stuck at the age when they were embraced.

[tzimiscecore]

here's a thought: if a vampire gets embraced as a teen, besides the body horror, do they get permanently immature brains as well?

Because that would explain a lot.

Also, it should go without saying, but maturing academically is not the same thing.

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

‘Eye Can’t Believe It’ by Dolce Paganne is beautiful yet terrifying! Eye am simply amazed!

[luxlightly]

WoD lore is wild because you play the video games and you're like "okok cool. Vampires with some kind of cool bells and whistles and sort of a magic system. I get it" and then you read any of the lore from the TTRPG and it's like "The Tzimisce Antediluvian is a hundreds of mile wide fungal colony under the New York Tri-state area" and it's like "oh ok."

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Joonas Ryynänen

[gothredy]

[ryttu3k]

Playable clans by game, Justice and 'Bloodlines 2' update.

Current game total: 12 (Redemption, Bloodlines, Coteries of New York, Shadows of New York, Night Road, Parliament of Knives, Out for Blood, Sins of the Sires, Bloodhunt, Swansong, Justice, 'Bloodlines 2')

Ventrue: 8/12 (Bloodlines, Coteries of New York, Night Road, Parliament of Knives, Sins of the Sires, Bloodhunt, Swansong, 'Bloodlines 2')

Toreador: 6.5/12 (Bloodlines, Night Road, Out for Blood (ending only), Parliament of Knives, Coteries of New York, Bloodhunt, Swansong)

Brujah: 6/12 (Redemption, Bloodlines, Coteries of New York, Night Road, Bloodhunt, 'Bloodlines 2')

Tremere: 5/12 (Bloodlines, Night Road, Sins of the Sires, Bloodhunt, 'Bloodlines 2')

Malkavian: 4/12 (Bloodlines, Sins of the Sires, Parliament of Knives, Swansong) Nosferatu: 4/12 (Bloodlines, Night Road, Parliament of Knives, Bloodhunt) Banu Haqim: 4/12 (Night Road, Sins of the Sires, Justice, 'Bloodlines 2')

Lasombra: 3/12 (Shadows of New York, Night Road, Parliament of Knives)

Caitiff: 2/12 (Night Road as biological Caitiff, Sins of the Sires as ‘unknown clan’ Caitiff) Gangrel: 2/12 (Bloodlines, Night Road)

Thinblood: 1.5/12 (Out for Blood (ending only), Sins of the Sires)

Hecata: 1/12 (Night Road) Ministry: 1/12 (Night Road) Ravnos: 1/12 (Night Road)

Tzimisce: 0/12

Society has progressed past the need to play as a Ventrue let me play a Tzimisce.

[faeric-ephemerality]

Tell me about it. All I can do to sort of play one is either the Antitribu mod for Bloodlines which is a hot mess either way, or by playing a Caitiff with Protean and Dominate at the start. I do kind of get the fact that animating Vicissitude power would probably be more difficult in a bloodlines style game, but it’d be perfect for something like Night Road.

Alas, we fiends are left high and dry in this day and age. I’d also like to play a Salubri as well, but hey, guess that’s the fates of the Dragons and Unicorns. We’re all just mythical creatures that don’t exist outside the tabletop. Also is it just me or is it a bit ridiculous that both clans have their signature disciplines hidden under Dominate amalgams?

[ryttu3k]

I do have my baby Aleki in SotS - gave him Animalism and Auspex, so he came out as a thinblood, but he's of Tzimisce background (he's actually descended from the Dracon! Probably thankfully, not via Gesu's line, just via some unspecified other childe). I do want to try a Night Road caitiff run with Auspex, Animalism, and Protean, since that's as close as I can get to a V20 Tzimisce in a V5 game. I'd probably (mentally) use my V5 Tzimisce homebrew.

And holy shit for real. It particularly annoys me because the Tzimisce not having Dominate is what informed the entire structure of the Sabbat! Lasombra, strict social structures and hierarchy with Dominate, becoming the leadership side. Tzimisce, intellectually and magically inclined with Auspex, becoming the spiritual side. Yeah, they may have cut the Sabbat out a bunch in V5, but it was still! pretty important! for the last five hundred years!

The justification for making Vicissitude Protean-Dominate is ridiculous as well - it's about bossing around your body and telling it what to do :| As if you couldn't perfectly justify it being Protean-Auspex by saying how important that close self-knowledge is, and that having Auspex is what differentiates Tzimisce Vicissitude from Gangrel Protean? And yeah, the Salubri definitely also got screwed over too! I think the Tzimisce and Salubri should ditch the rest and make our own cool club. No Tremere allowed XD

[tzimiscecore]

I have been revisiting the scenarios of Gehenna and Tzimisce clanbooks. And so, there is this scenario where the Eldest really lives in every drop of his blood that has been shared, and that enables him to consume any vamp that has consumed his blood, from a distance. At this point he is just a sort of organism that grows and consumes and consumes...

Apart from the mess of an ending of that story, hell it's different to look at it now, isn't it. The beast that consumes everything that consumed even a part of him.

And what if it was cyclical. Periodically we have The Blob taking over somehow.

[horygory]

The Thing (1982)

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Thomas Theodor Heine

[artmagine]

Closed! Frieder, do you realize what that means by Mead Schaeffer

[meat-week]

This is intended to be very low key! Do things at your own pace, follow the prompts or don't! Just make things about your fave Dragons and we're golden.