Mind's Eye Theatre - Vampire The Requiem.pdf - RoseRed

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Example: Fever seeks to feed by seducing a vessel at a rave, going off to a dark corner and slaking
his thirst during a feigned act of passion. The Storyteller decides that the appropriate test pool in this
situation is Presence + Persuasion. The Storyteller decides on Presence over Manipulation because
Fever’s not being too terribly subtle — he wants his prey to know that he intends for her to take him
someplace private.
Example: Thomas Bain is ravenous after a physical confl ict in which he has barely triumphed. He
staggers out of the gallery where he was ambushed and grabs the fi rst derelict he can fi nd, intending to
drink him dry. The Storyteller decides that Strength + Subterfuge is the appropriate test pool. Strength
represents the fact that Thomas’s plan is to simply trap his prey in his clutches, but Subterfuge is necessary
to keep potential victims from discerning his malign intent and fl eeing him immediately.
Draw Results
Failure: The character is unable to fi nd a suitable vessel, or the vessel proves somehow
elusive.
Success: The character obtains a vessel and may take as much Vitae as he wishes. (Wise
Kindred don’t take too much, though. The risk of harming the vessel increases with the blood
consumed — see “Blood Supply”).
Unless otherwise noted, each hunting draw requires half an hour of real time during a
chapter. During this time, the player is required to sit in an out-of-game area to simulate the
time her character spends out hunting. If a player wants her character to hunt before entering
play, perhaps to ensure that she has enough Vitae for any potential surprises, she must enter
at least half an hour after the game has offi cially begun. Needless to say, this is an excellent
time to encourage players to roleplay or at least imagine the circumstances of the feeding, so
it doesn’t just seem like a “time out.”
If this proves too troublesome for the sake of game effi ciency — say, everyone routinely
wants to make a feeding test before the chapter begins — allow all the players to make a feeding
draw before the session, and don’t penalize anyone any time. If a character doesn’t like
the results, however, or needs to go out and feed during the game, each subsequent feeding
draw requires half an hour, as normal.
Hunting times may be increased to represent characters taking a lot of time to feed carefully
or who are hunting in desolate locations. The minimum time should not be reduced
below half an hour, however.
3.1 FEEDING MODIFIERS
Modifi er Situation
+2 The character seeks an animal vessel or some other source of
Vitae that poses less risk than active human prey (such as a
blood bank).
+2 The character hunts in the Rack or some other place where
vessels are both plentiful and comparatively willing.
— Vessels are neither especially numerous nor reckless with whom
they share their company.
-2 The character takes efforts to hide his identity from other Kindred
(whether present or through secondhand accounts).
-2 The character hunts in the Barrens or some other place where
vessels are scarce or particularly suspicious of others.
-3 to -5 The character seeks a very specifi c vessel, such as “brunette
women less than 40 years old” or “children of Eastern European
descent.”