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

changing clan or covenant chapter status one: • society covenant of the expulsion damned 285
group of Kindred with a sum total of the appropriate Status Merit (in the clan or covenant in
question) of at least 20 times the target’s dots must publicly announce that they are stripping
Status from the subject. At least fi ve of those Kindred must have Clan or Covenant Status (as
appropriate) equal to or higher than the targeted character’s before the loss. The victim cannot
be tricked or coerced into being one of the Kindred who reduces his own Status. Similarly,
participants in the action can’t be forced into it by Discipline use, although the application
of boons and similar social coercion is permissible. The same subject cannot be stripped of
Status by the same clan or covenant a second time until 90 nights have passed, even if the
second group of assembled Kindred is wholly different from the fi rst.
The public announcement must be reasonably accessible to all members of the clan or
covenant — a large society gathering is typical, often followed by some sort of veiled pronouncement
through the faction’s means of communication. A sanctioned in-character mailing list
can serve this purpose.
Before acting, Storytellers and players involved should make sure that the targeted character truly
has committed a sin against his group. The following generic table can be a useful reference.
3.12 — SINS AGAINST CLAN OR COVENANT
Status Deeds
••••• Deliberately disrespecting, lying to or giving bad information to a
clan or covenant member of equal standing
•••• Deliberately disrespecting, lying to or giving bad information to a
clan or covenant member of equal or higher standing
••• Unintentionally stealing from, betraying or otherwise directly harming
a clan or covenant member; unintentionally betraying a clan or
covenant secret
•• Deliberately stealing from or directly harming a clan or covenant
member; unintentionally destroying a clan or covenant member
• Deliberately betraying or destroying a clan or covenant member;
deliberately betraying a clan or covenant secret
Example: The Respected Inquisior Malachi of the Lancea Sanctum has long angered many of his
covenant mates, and adds insult to injury when his lack of caution leads to a group of Carthian rabblerousers
learning of the Lance’s plan to purge infi dels in Malachi’s city. Malachi has Lancea Sanctum
Status 4 and has committed an appropriate sin against the covenant. Messengers and legates travel from
city to city, gathering the support of an impressive group of Sanctifi ed (whose total Lancea Sanctum
Status adds to 80), including fi ve prominent members (Lancea Sanctum Status 4 or 5). The players
involved clear matters with the Storyteller, who makes sure everything is legitimate. These assembled
worthies then issue an edict that Inquisitor Malachi has sinned against his church and deserves to be
reprimanded, but is still Valued by the Holy Spear. (Malachi’s Lancea Sanctum Status is now 3.)
COVENANT EXPULSION
The two covenants with highly authoritarian power structures — the Lancea Sanctum and the
Invictus — have a mechanism for expelling Kindred entirely from their ranks. Ejection immediately
reduces a subject’s Covenant Status to zero. Blackballing functions exactly like stripping a
single dot of Covenant Status, save that the assembled group must gather 40 times the target’s
Covenant Status, and must include 10 Kindred of equal or superior rank as the target. A former
member of these covenants loses his true membership if that rule is in effect (see p. 135).
The Carthian Movement, Circle of the Crone and Ordo Dracul have no mechanisms for
such expulsion. They can reduce a member’s Covenant Status dot by dot until it’s zero, but
can’t strip him of true membership (if appropriate).