[OOC] The Autarkis

That's an excellent education!

No chop-socky vamps!! :p

Under the Linguistics merit, everyone gets their birth language, and the dominant setting language, both in perfect fluency. For Hong Kong, the setting languages are English and Cantonese, so that takes care of both, or if your character isn't of English nor Cantonese speaking descent, you'll still get one of them. (And go ahead and rationalise that, eg if you don't have Cantonese, it's probably because you haven't been here that long, etc)

Also means it's perfect timing for me to craft our starter posts! Thanks everyone for putting together a solid concept, can't wait to see them in action.

Some reminders: you know what you're getting into with VtM, so I haven't been as considerately circumspect as I often would be to ask about lines and veils, no-go areas, etc. I am expecting we're okay with darker themes and descriptions, but please raise flags anytime if we're going somewhere not all of us are comfortable with, either in thread, or direct message.

Other expectations: as you know, this game intends to give V5 a run for its money, so it's okay to like some of its changes and dislike others. I intend to trial the newer mechanics to see if they hold up, and will occasionally nudge us to consider them (loresheets anyone?). There will be zero 'dungeoncrawl', and as much 'social' development as you can put up with, and combat will not typically be the ultimate solution to everything.

Let me hear your expectations for this game too, if any!

Yeah there won't be a Hong Kong specific one, so we'll custom it once you see something you like and we can collaboratively create some narrative behind that.

Am here for social mechanics! And yeah, let’s kick the tires on the new mechanics in general, like Hunger. Combat is mostly boring in Vampire games imho, but I’d be willing to try it once, to see if it’s different.

As for lines/limits, I’d like to keep the sexual violence and child abuse to a minimum. But otherwise bring on the darkness

Thanks, clear line that, and that aligns with what I prefer as well.

I've got everyone's character sheet in! Which means we can get started!

You can still be making final adds and tweaks along the way, that's fine.

Hooray!

Thanks for the patience everyone! I did take longer than usual to mull over what a good start point might be. You all have your individual threads to start with, and these threads double up as session 0s so that we can work out any bits of detail there which might be missing or need filling.

Stalker05 says he'll be a bit held up this week, so I'll wait for a bit more background from him before I flesh out a good intro for the character.

Also, we all start a game with a die roll! Everyone better get used to the idea of Rouse checks, that's the currency of the system.

Let's get to the thick of it!

So, quick one on Rouse checks:

Everytime you wake, you'll need one to see if your Hunger rises. I've assumed everyone slept in the day and woke as night fell, so that's the first roll I asked for.

Next, to have some semblance to humans, you need Blush of Life. This lasts for one night, makes you look like you have some colour on your skin and life to your eyes etc, and in this smartphone era, enables you to swipe touchscreens. (I know there are styluses for that, but let's bear with the fiction for a while more).

Any other Rouse checks have to do with use of disciplines. We'll come to that.