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usually results in punishment by a Harpy or the Prince. This ability can be used only once
per targeted Kindred per meeting.
In addition, Harpies may remove only a single City Status dot from the Prince (if a Ventrue),
the Ventrue Priscus, and the Ventrue with the highest City Status sitting on the council of Primogen
(if any). Harpies may remove only one dot from each over the course of the month.
Finally, any dots in the Resources Merit held by a Ventrue character are largely inviolate
while the clan in eminent. The actions of other characters cannot reduce an eminent Ventrue’s
wealth. (The Storyteller adjudicates this, telling others who attempt to undermine a Ventrue’s
wealth that their efforts fail.)
CONTENDER/RIVAL BENEFITS
Being the member of a group that is perceived as the legitimate threat to the throne has
its benefi ts. Above all, it is harder for the powers that be to act against you. The members of
a contender covenant and rival clan are thus somewhat protected from their ascendant and
eminent opponents.
If an ascendant or eminent Prince or Harpy wants to remove a dot of City Status from a
contender or rival Kindred, he must spend twice the Status points he normally would. This
usually means spending two points per dot, but this effect can combine with the protections
offered by some clans and covenants. This extra cost applies even when crossing clan/covenant
lines — a Harpy of the ascendant Invictus still fi nds it more challenging to put a rival
Ventrue in his place.
PRESTATION
Boons are a means of openly formalizing agreements of debt between Kindred; the system of
boons is known as prestation. Owing a boon is a formal acknowledgment that one Kindred owes
another a service. When and how that service is performed is at the discretion of the Kindred
holding the boon (i.e. to whom the favor is owed), within the limits of the type of boon.
BOON TYPES
Prestation is a very formal affair among most Kindred and boons come in different types.
Each type refl ects the importance of the favor that creates the debt; repaying a boon requires
an act of similar weight. Kindred revealed to have engineered dangerous situations — either
to vampiric survival or to the Traditions — to attain boons are likely to see those boons
invalidated by a Harpy.
• The simplest type is a trivial boon, which represents a minor favor. Examples include an
introduction to an infl uential Kindred or granting feeding rights for a short period.
• A minor boon denotes a notable favor, such as protecting or saving a treasured property
or valuable Retainer, or granting feeding rights for some time. A minor boon is roughly
equivalent to three trivial boons.
• A major boon represents a considerable favor, such as protection from near destruction or
a long period of service above and beyond the call of duty. It is roughly equivalent to three
minor boons.
• Above all stands the life boon, which is granted only in the most extreme cases — usually
when a Kindred saves the existence of another without having any formal obligation to do
so. Allies don’t owe each other life boons; such a debt is owed only under exceptional circumstances.
A life boon cannot usually be repaid through multiple lesser boons.
DISPUTES AND FORMALITIES
Kindred who owe each other any sort of debt often seek to formalize it by having a Harpy
record the type of boon owed, which is then made known to the Harpy (or Harpies) of any
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