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The Storyteller overseeing the domain determines activity. If a player attends a game in
character, that character is clearly active. Posting on in-character mailing lists or other remote
activities may also qualify at the Storyteller’s discretion. Players can maintain several characters
so long as activity requirements for each are upheld.
ADJUDICATING STATUS CHANGES
City Status is very fl uid and changes largely at the discretion of the players portraying the
Prince and Harpies. Storytellers always have the right to step in if they feel an offi cial’s player
is being abusive, however. Favoritism and pettiness among characters is altogether appropriate,
but is unwelcome among players. To help players and Storytellers adjudicate when an
increase or decrease in City Status is justifi ed, the following table presents a series of sins and
praiseworthy deeds ranked by dots in the Merit.
In general, Princes and Harpies are justifi ed in stripping City Status from characters who
commit sins at their rank of City Status or below. Meanwhile, a character who regularly does
a praiseworthy deed of a rank higher than his current City Status can qualify for an increase.
Avoiding sins and praiseworthy deeds can also justify changes in Status. Those who stalwartly
avoid Status sins (especially those above their current rating) may be worthy of an increase,
while those who fail to accomplish the deeds associated with their current dots or below may
well be in for a loss of Status. As always, individual judgment should come into play.
When referring to these tables, Storytellers and players can take into account the bonus
City Status dots awarded by eminence or ascendancy. Members of a city’s leading clan or
covenant gain extra standing, but they must also hold themselves to high standards.
Example: Santini the Nosferatu has City Status 4 and is thus a very important member of the domain.
He fi nds out that the Daeva have organized a party, inviting all the local Ventrue and Mekhet — but
no Nosferatu or Gangrel. Annoyed at this display of snobbery, Santini crashes the party, appearing with
a number of uninvited guests, and proceeds to let them trash the place — tipping over tables, prodding
guests into frenzy, and so on. The Prince’s Harpy, outraged that someone who is held in such high esteem
would dare act so boorishly, strips him of a point of City Status right then and there (since “Actively
disrupting a gathering of the area Kindred” applies). The Harpy doesn’t think in terms of “Santini
committed a level-4 sin,” but rather states that “Santini didn’t display the grace expected from one held
in such high esteem in the domain.”
3.13 — SINS AGAINST THE CITY
Status Deeds
••••• Speaking ill of the city or its leadership in public
•••• Failing to attend regular gatherings of the local undead; actively
disrupting a gathering of the local Kindred
••• Hindering a local industry or resource; killing a local mortal in a suspicious
manner without good cause; a Prince and Harpy exchanging
City Status awards with one another more than once a year; ordering
about or sanctioning a Sanctifi ed character when the Lancea Sanctum is
ascendant (unless the one doing the ordering is Sanctifi ed, a Prince or
a Harpy, see p. 292); refusing to change one’s vote among the Prisci or
Primogen as a result of Nosferatu or Ventrue eminence (see p. 293)
•• Accidental public violations of the Traditions; deliberate private violations
of the Traditions; murdering prominent local mortals without
dire need; actively disobeying city elders
• Deliberate public violations of the Traditions; wanton slaying of
mortals or destruction of property; betraying resident Kindred to
outsiders (Lupines, foreign vampires)