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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 16:05:53 BST
From: Peter Wake <peterw@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk>
Subject: Clan Hollwood
Clan Hollywood (-: or is that Hammer :-)
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Take with a large pinch of salt. This is supposed to be humor OK.
Background:
Clan Hollywood are a small clan that is confined to a few tiny
geographical locations. Their largest enclave is an island of
insanity in the Anarch freestates. They originally came from a
desolate pat of southern England but have since relocated lock-stock
and clan holdings.
The clan is not part of the Camarilla and does not follow the
masquerade. They are cautious however and do not reveal themselves to
mortals unless there is a fast buck to be made. They consider the
Camarilla to be restrictive and filled with cowards and whiners.
The clan is hostile to the Sabbat and neutral to the anarchs, whom
they consider trendy teen-brats.
The clan are a diverse group and rarely ever meet. Despite this they
have a strange sort of unconscious desire to gather together. They
decline to comment on what might be the reason for this. Occasionally
they will help each other and are somewhat similar to the Gangrel
loners in this respect.
Humanity:
The clan member often have no humanity and can follow 'Sabbat' paths
and also create their own paths.
Clan Disciplines:
Protean, Potence, Dominate
Clan Weakness:
Whenever a member of clan Hollywood feeds it always mixes its blood
with that of its victims. The clan members cannot control their blood
properly in this respect and it leaks out into those they feed on.
Even those mortals who do not die immediately are affected (such as
those who die from anaemia a few hours later). For rules purposes any
mortal fed upon by a Hollywood has of their blood points replaced with
one vampiric blood point. The Hollywooders cannot drain this last
blood point either. If the victim lives they are a ghoul. If they
die while the blood is still in their system then they will become a
vampire. If a mortal has no 'human' blood points left (i.e. only the
vampire blood point) then she is dead for the purposes of this rule.
The clan members are usually careful to feed at least three times on
any victim to ensure that they are blood bound.
Usually they will try not to drain humans to death. Those they do
drain that they do not want to become vampires they dismember. Often
their victims enter a temporary torpor and are mistakenly buried
alive. As a reslut many of the clan members have no humanity.
Sometimes members of this clan have weaknesses found inother clans
too. This seems to happen when they learn new disciplines that are
normally associated with that clan. For instance a Hollwooder with
Obtenebration might well be invisible in mirrors.
The Path of Lost Loves
----------------------
The path of lost loves is about dealing with lost humanity and fniding
new depths of slef pity to wallow in whenever possible.
Please note that references to sex assume that the vampire is of
heterosexual persuasion. This is not meant to discriminate against
homosexual Hollywooders.
Risks:
10 Failing to pursue the object of your affections even though it
is certain death.
9 Feeding on a person of the same sex (i.e. not realising that
persons of the opposite sex are more like their lost love and
therefore ought to be vampires.
8 Failing to pursue the object of your affections even though
your life is in serious danger - such as fire or imminent sunrise.
7 Failing to pursue the object of your affections even though it
may be hazardous or you are low on blood.
6 Taking proper precautions against hunters. See below.
5 Not toying with a hunter. Nothing can stop your fated reunion
with your lost love, least of all hunters.
4 Failing to stare mournfully at photographs of other
people's loved ones.
3 Failing to be obsessed with at least one person you believe is the
reincarnation of your lost love.
2 Failing to dress to impress any potential replacements of your
lost love.
1 Not mentioning the tragedy of your lost love at least once an
episode.
Objectives of the path:
When you were mortal you were able to love and be loved in return.
Now you are a monster and cannot be loved. You must find your lost
love and regain their affection. Through this you will become human
again, even if you die - it can be the death of a mortal if you have
truly earned love.
Anything that stands in the way of this is contembtible, be it mortal
hunters, other vampires, lupines or simple 'food' shortage. Nothing
can stand in the way of your fate.
You must infilict your suffering on others. That way they can
understand your misery a little. But theirs is nothing like yours.
The brief lives of mortals allow so little time for pain and misery
compared to the eternity you will suffer.
You must show great pride. Your suffering has made you strong and you
have faith in your fate. Nothing can humble you. You must show this
in how you dress and how you look after yourself. Mirrors are bad,
"they just don't reflect enough".
You should try and keep the same retainers for as long as possible.
They will come to understand your misery and will serve you better as
they understand the path.
You should feed on people tha most resemble your lost love, in sex, in
hair colour, whatever. the closer they are the more you should feed
on them. If they are close enough then perhaps you should make them
into a vampire so you can feed off them all the time.
Mortals are all stupid,the less they resemble your lost love the more
stupid they must be. Underestimate them at all times.
Read it and weep babies :-)
--
Peter Wake