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VtM - Review: Bloody Hearts: Diablerie Britain
What don't you get
Anything of much use for a political campaign; anything special about to the setting - the only reason for
choosing the UK was as a location at the fringes of the Roman Empire : Sudan, Jordan, Tartary,
Denmark all would have been just as plausible, and would necessitate changing only the map of the
country with the "X marks the Methuselah", and about 1/4 page of text.
It's not a UK-based supplement in any sense of the word; but this does have the advantage that it avoids
laying forth the usual misconceptions that USAns have of this country.
Diablerie : what is it and when do you get those funky black spots in your aura?
The lexicon - and other parts of the rules - suggests that it's simply the feeding off another vampire (not
necessarily to the extent of draining all the blood, let alone the avatar of the subject).
Which would mean that any vampire that indulges in "vampire sex" (the sharing of the blood), or has a
blood bond, would be included in the wider definition. Feeding mainly from other vampires would
certainly be included in the strict definition (this set-up may well happen as Belinda may well start letting
her own blood to feed Samuel, whose Ventrue limitation is not to feed directly from his prey, but to drink
blood from a cup, or plasma bag or similar vessel, and to act as a converter for Lt Bannerworth, whose
Ventrue limitation is to feed only from women : meanwhile Rupert, one of Crowley's line - or "little gang
of sodomites and charlatans", as Dee dismisses them - is soon to be initiated into the delights of feeding
from other vampires when he is drained and buggered by Crowley, then let to drink his fill of Crowley's
potent blood).
It's going to change the nature of the black-splodges stigma if virtually *everyone* has some smuts on
their aura.
Review by Deird'Re Brooks (17 Nov 93)
This Story supplement is yet another "Let's go find the Methuselah", but it has much more imagination
behind it than the first, and the 'victim' is much more difficult to reach. Unfortunately, once it's reached . .
. No, I won't say it.
There is a nice section on Justicars, what they do, how they do it, what Archons are for, and the sorts of
punishments they come up with, as well as the Toreadot Justicar (Madame Guillotine never sleeps). Also
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