...
Evan?

>Not taking the bloodline that actually grows fatter to the point of seeming immobility.

Mind explaining this shit in English, OP?

Alternately, German. But I'm not picky.

>>17222739
Nope, sorry, should have namefagged. Posted this for a friend actually.

>>17222742
Aye, the Macellarius. It's who I'm talking about
>Projectile vomit attack while running

>>17222751
He's building a fat vampire that can run at super speed and projectile vomit as an attack.

I was making an obese vampire too, but was going to go Baddacelli with a bunch of Obfuscate and Celerity.

>>17222751
Blood Potency 10 lets your vampire increase his stats to a maximum of 10.

Speed is determined as Strength + Dexterity + Species Factor (5 in this case, can't be changed). The result is in yards (meters in metric) per turn, or roughly X feet per second.

Maxed out, he's moving at 10 + 10 + 5, or 25 feet a second. Throw in a Fleet of Foot merit, and he's moving at 28 feet per second, already pretty damn fast at 19 miles per hour.

Celerity and Forced March is where the magic happens. Normally you must spend a vitae EVERY TURN to use Celerity, which multiplies your speed by the level of Celerity you have, or 28 feet per second x 5, and Forced March lets you keep that speed up for hours x resilience.

We have a vampire now that's moving at 140 feet a second, or 95.45 mph.

Once we have all of our disciplines and devotions active, in order to hit max speed, we need to designate that our character is moving at twice his speed per turn. This means he moves his speed + his speed per turn.

191 miles per hour (307.385 kilometers per hour).

Watch out you don't hit any trees along the way

So VtM is now played like DnD? With shitton of EXP, yber characters and everyone plays just to make random or overpowered builds?

>>17222896
It's VtR, and it's just exploitation of the rules.
The character would be pretty crap in actual play.

>>17222896
It's been played like that since the Sabbat came out - slightly before D&D went that way. In other words: this degenerate tendency in RPGs is White Wolf's fault.

>>17222906
I got, i always mix those names of OWoD and NWoD
Well kind of yes and kind of no. Kind of crap for spent XP, but still godlike. Maybe its retarded superman or something. Because with such stats as 5 clerity, 10 dex, 10 str and 10 Blood Potiency yo uare still insanely powerful.

>>17222906
Why?
What If I'm roleplaying "Delivery Man"?

Fuck yeah, son.
I'm carrying bootlegged shit through borders and NO ONE can stop me!

>>17222920
What? You make no sense.

>>17222922
At that level of XP expenditure you could do so much more than just move a lot in one round.

>>17222930
Clearly you don't remember the Sabbat books.

I am happy for you.

>>17222838
>307.385 kilometers per hour

Glorious and impressive.

Ha, I want to play a fatpire. I usually play german bouncers and nordic ex-vikings and weirdo sorcerer vampires.

>>17222896
The only advantages to this character is if shit starts going down, you can run away from werewolves *REALLY FUCKING QUICK*

Hell, you might even tell someone that shits happening, but all you've got is "I run away fast".

>>17222944
I mean that WW and VtM players cant affect DnD.

>>17222950
well, but hes pretty likely to hit stuff, and stuff he hits is going to fly up in the sky with dex and strenght 10
but yeah, he hasnt any skills for armed or unarmed combat so far

>>17222952
Wizards' design for 3e was a clear response to calls for a less "strict" class system. WWGS had been carrying that banner with dots for some time. If you feel personally responsible for everything that company does, then my diagnosis is Stockholm Syndrome.

>>17222950
Strength 10, not counting physical attribute modification (up to +10 because of the blood potency), would amount to throwing very large cars around with your bare hands.

So its not just running fast, its cutting a swath of destruction that goes for hundreds of miles.

I'd play him like Mr. Creosote, minus the wafer-thin mint.

>>17222922
With enough XP, any WoD character becomes godlike. This shit took over a thousand XP to accomplish. That's a ridiculous amount of XP if you use the standard guidelines for XP rewards. This character should have conquered the world by now.

>>17222982
But it is such a tiny, very, very thin little piece of mint. What could it hurt?

Now I have a fantastic idea for my next character.
Obviously won't be as powerful as you are, but pretending to be the Flash is going to be awesome. Super speedy carthian parkour, go!

>>17222950
I kind of mad. So then you are REALY playing nWoD like DnD.
If 1056 XP characters ( or 500xp or even 250 xp) are such common occurence that you consider them crappy.

I havent played any WoD game for a long time but IIRC With 5 celerity 10 str and 10 dex he just could punch trough walls, and has no need for any kind of unarmed or melee skill to hit accurately. So he could grab enemy for its leg and smash him in cement wall 5 times per second, or rip out a lamp pole and beat him to the pulp in same amount of time. 10 dots is upper limit for any kind of stat, yes? Like for most powerful creatures in the world?

I need to check my Requiem rulebooks to refresh memory.

>>17223005
>playing nWoD like oWoD.

Fixed. Leave D&D out of this pile of shit.

>>17223005
You dont have to, its an outrageous and impractical build that no sane person would play let alone make in actual play. Hell, reaching 5 dots in anything is rare in itself.

>>17222974
Just no, because WW games never were so popular compared to undisputed monster like DnD. And i can explain why players 'could' be responsible - by spreading this concept to other gaming groups with other systems, thus creating a demand.

>>17222838
Er.. Bro?
You forgot to carry the one.

Celerity multiplies your speed by 1+the dots of celerity you have, so 168 feet per second, moving twice his speed a turn, 336 feet per second.

229 mph. 368km/h.

This guy is JUST SHY of being as fast as the McLaren F1 (231mph)

>>17223057
Now, a (relatively) new character..
2 str + 3 dex+ 5 + Fleet of Foot 2
12 feet per second.

Celerity 2
Resiliance 2
12 feet per second x3
36 feet per second

double that.

72 feet per second

49mph. 79km/h.
Which is a few miles per hour faster than the top speed of a 50cc bike.

>>17223057
Doh, that's 2 mistakes. I realized shortly after posting that that Macellerians take a -1 penalty to their speed, so technically he's moving at 27 feet per second by default. With x 6 for Celerity (Nice catch, btw), Fattys top speed would be 221 mph

>>17223057
After rereading the last sentence, I thought I'd clarify that it's the top speed of an F1, not the average.
So this road legal supercar is whizzing around the motorway as fast as it possibly can, no one in the way. Only then would it beat the vampire.

Now, if only celerity doesn't count as breaking the masquerade..

quick, what's the length of earths equator, you guys

>>17223144

6378.14 km, or 3963 miles for Americans

>>17223160
What? There's no way that's right. The circumference of the planet?

Okay, according to Wikipedia,
>The length of Earth's equator is about 40,030.2 kilometres (24,873.6 mi).

Our hypothetical vampire can run around the world in just under 11 hours.

Holy shit

>>17223184
The new kid can do it in 51 hours.
Not too shabby.

>>17223184
Does that mean he can out run sunrise?

Soo.. Carthian Courier Incorporated?

>>17223206
... I.. er..
Possibly?

That's.. a little insane.

Wait, with celerity, can you run on water?

>>17223184
off by a factor 10
still awesome, though

>>17223245
Aw fuck. Still, 110 hours to circle the planet is still pretty damn good. Assuming his Resilience was lowered to 1 (It can't be, otherwise he wouldn't be able to take Forced March, but play along), he'd blow through 330 vitae to get around. With a Resilience of 5, he'd only need to spend 63 vitae, or about 9 mortal lives.

Shit.

>>17223223
According to an article I just read, a person would need to break 80 kmh to break surface tension, so most probably definitely.

Is this how santa started?

>>17223274
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but can't Mages bless a person with extra speed?

And can't Prometheans pass their bestowments onto other? Centimani have a couple cool tricks that a vampire can use.

I know changelings can help our Courier out, if he were to make a pledge with them. I believe the rules are that you can add +3 to speed by taking powerful pledges, (Though how many pledges a vampire can have at once, I have no clue), meaning that with double running and celerity it will add an extra 36 feet per second, or ~24.5 MPH (39.4 KPH). Not too shabby.

If there is a token that can imitate the Oddbody contract, that's an extra +3 speed.

>>17223398
changeling pacts+Fatpire Worldstrider= Santa Claus and his elves

We need a drawfag up in here.

I demand writefaggotry about Santa Vampire.

The mehket palmed his face with both hands. After a moment of silence, there was an exasperated sigh. "You're shitting me. Right?"
The nosferatu slowly shook his head. "Sorry."
"You.. can't prove this. I mean.. who else thinks this is real?"
"Not a lot of people at all, understandably.."
"I mean, this is an Elder with a capital E. Someone older than the freaking prince and primogens of London combined.. Wait. He can't exist. The Devotion you're talking about only came about from the Movement, which is only a few decades old,"
"But no one knows where that devotion originated from. Usually, you can trace them, find some mention of who the creator was. Like that hacker who made Twenty Two Solid."
"Who even did the research to figure out how fast he can move?"
"No one knows. I think the guy who did the research was diablerised by him."
"Okay, that makes some sort of sense. If he's that old, he's going to need vampire blood to survive. So what does he do the rest of the yea-"
"Self induced torpor. The changelings find a few kindred, enough to feed him and with the pledges.."
"Fuck pledges. Never gonna let a changeling do that to me again."
"They can boost his speed immensely and with celerity and Forced March.. I mean.. it all points to one thing."
"Please.. Please don't say it."

"Santa is a vampire."

----
"And what do the changelings even get out of it?!"
"They get to feed off the happiness they created."
"...
Freaks."

>>17223431
DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW, DON'T GET IN MY WAY, OVER THE HILLS WE GO, SPREADING PRESENTS ALL THE WAY. (HAHAHA)
I HAVE JUST BEEN FED, WOKEN FROM MY YEAR-LONG SLEEP, NOW I AM OBLIGATED TO GIVE PRESENTS FROM THIS HEAP!
OH! I AM BOUND BY MY BLOOD AND MY WORDS ARE TRUE! I GO 'ROUND, MAKE YOU SHEEP HAPPY SO CHANGELINGS CAN FEED ON YOU, TOO!

>>17223550
>>17223589

I want to play a fat, female vampire but can't find any good character portraits.

>>17223637
JOY TO THE WORLD, FOR I HAVE COME!
LET COWS RECEIVE THEIR GIFTS!
LET EVERY CHANGELING RECIEVE THEIR GLAMOUR
AND I RECEIVE MY BLOOD
AND I RECEIVE MY BLOOD
AND I RECIEVE MY BLOOD FROM THE WEIRD-ASS FREAKS.

JOY TO THE EARTH, BUT FUCK THE SUN
IT'D BURN ME TO CINDERS!
I GIVE YOU GIFTS, MADE BY THESE FREAKS,
WHO WANTS TO FEED OFF YOU
WHO WANTS TO FEED OFF YOU
WHO WANTS TO FEED OFF THE HAPPINESS THAT THESE TOYS BRING.

"You know he pulls the cart, right?"
"Huh?"
"You know"
"Ugh..."
"The old stories? About how he rides around in a sleigh pulled by reindeer? It's bullshit."
"It's some kind of bizarre toboggan. He pulls it across water so fast it doesn't have time to sink. He keeps his Changeling pets in there and they wait on the roof while he feasts"
"Jesus Christ how horrifying"

>>17223641
Here ya go.

>>17223807

I love this thread so much.

>>17223398
Still waiting for Magebros to log on so I can get an answer

>>17223550
Sorry, I can't help but think that this would be a fucking malkavian breaking the news.

People would be like "Shut up malk you're fucking crazy" then the malk would be like "NO MAN, SANTA'S A MALK TOO" and people would be like "SHUT UP MALK YOU'RE FUCKING CRAZY"

Then cameo appearance and people are like... "WHY ARE THE MALK'S RIGHT ABOUT THIS SHIT... WHAT THE FUCK".

Slightly related, I've never played VtM before, but I'm going to be a in a campaign soon. I was thinking of playing a Tremere, but I'm a bit confused as to how the paths of Thaumaturgy work - can you only put dots in one path, or could you have them in several? So ideally I'd have Auspex, Dominate, Biothaumaturgy and Hands of Destruction.

All jokes aside, I could totally believe solstice celebrations as efforts by Spring to undermine Winter while simultaneously boosting themselves. That goes for Christmas and otherwise.

>>17224130
>Christmas
>Family holiday
>whole family together on one spot
>not full of despair, wrath and fear
really?

With regards to VtM: Yes, you can have several paths, that's kinda the thing about Thaumaturgy, it's a bit more flexible than other disciplines.

bump

someone archive this thread

>>17224843
>>17224843
Been.

>>17225188
ooooh mister egbert ooooh
lets do it

>>17225213
Pardon?

>>17222906
what? man, with that speed you only need to think of a target and ram the motherfucker at FATSPEED

i mean if only fatpire could survive that encounter

>Vampire Santa on sup/tg/

Really? This thread talks about a lot of things, but Vampires Santa? That didn't even come up until near the end

You really couldn't have called it "GOTTA GO FATS"?

>>17225320
No eyes here. The fact is that it all leads up to it . Also It makes more sense . And I did not archive it

This thread hath filled me with mirth.

Overweight vampires are something I see on /tg/ more than anywhere else. Whether it's the glorious saga of Mister Bombardini, or this interesting development, /tg/ never does me wrong re:horrifically heavy hemotarian shenanigans.

>>17225792
The second one is new to my ears . Link?

>>17225815
Search the archives. It's a glorious tale of one man's quest to troll the fuck out of a Vampire group, by creating a somewhat humorous-yet-still-fitting-with-the-idea-behind-Vampire character.

Then there's the second tale, which involves the return of the character, in a non-serious game of Vampire that makes me wonder what sort of bizarre drugs his group is on.

now where was the story about the fat ghoul dude in a vampire game? they would make an awesome pair

>>17225792
>>17225969

fatpire hivemind

>>17223550

>>17223798

>>17223851
Give me a second to get the info from the Acanthus player in my group - he combines Forces and Time to run around at ridiculous speeds on a regular basis, but I can never remember the exact numbers.

>>17226344
Alright, that took a bit longer than expected.
Base speed of 27 * 6 for celerity is speed 162. If you add that Changeling contract you're looking at speed 180.

Now we add spells.

Time 5 Acceleration does the same thing Celerity does, except it's 1 mana for a scene. So we're now up to speed 1080 if we've got one casting from a Time Master. Get a Disciple (or better) of Forces to cast Forces 3 Burst of Speed and you're now adding (successes*1080) to your speed of 1080 (if they stack multiplicatively, otherwise add successes*180 if they don't). There is no upper limit on this but it will burn through 1 mana per turn, so you're only going to be running arbitrarily fast for 3 seconds unless it's got an imbued item to draw from or something.

The above assumes you can stack Celerity and spells on top of one another, as Mage is actually unclear on the subject.

>>17226587
speed 1080..
736.36 Mph. 1185km/h

Just.. you know, as comparison, that's the top speed (at sea level) of the Supermarine Scimitar, a british naval fighter aircraft.

Elves = Changelings. Santa = Vampire. Mrs Santa = Time Mage.

>>17226626
I'm pretty sure at jet plane speeds, the changelings aren't there, because i have no idea how they would survive.

>>17226344
Mage is stupid when it comes to speed. There's a forces spell that lets you multiply speed of any object. Use it on a car and you can be hitting people for hundreds of dice of damage.

>>17224137
Read again, friend. He said it was a Spring ploy AGAINST Winter.

>>17227903
>implying all Courts couldn't harness the various emotions of Christmastime
Santa is the Fat Speedster Vamp
The Changelings are the Elves
Mrs Claus is a Time Mage (lol Acanthus)

Would some kind of lycanthrope be the deer? We kind of eliminated the need for them here, but would a clan of reindeer-people guarding the North Pole make sense somehow?

New idea. Scrooge is a Hunter with resources in five dots. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present , & Future are a Krewe of Geists who're getting pissy about his business's operations causing the dead to grow restless?

Let the usual treat commence - how many rocket engines is the character in question worth?

Force = mass*acceleration

>>17228660
Are we including Forces spells? Because there is no upper limit to the speed attainable with that one.

>>17226658

Isn't it obvious? The sleigh he pulls behind him doesn't carry any presents itself. What it does carry is a door, built into it. That door leads to the Hedge. The Changelings, in advance, set up caches of tokens and fae-gifts. Santa Vampire sprints from place to place, the changelings pop out of the door with the tokens and feed on the happiness produced, then Santa Vampire heads to the next cache, leaving behind some very satisfied Changelings.

Santa Vampire obviously also feeds on the Changelings a little at a time, so throughout this whole experience, he's tripping more balls than the world has room for.

The Time Mage is just in it for the good feel of giving out gifts to children.

>>17226626
Interdesting. So a metagaming mage can break the top speed of a Vampire, but its calculated in turns rather then hours like with our Santa.

Can you cast these spells on another character as opposed to an object? Lets assume we have a DM that okays it, what kind of modifier are we talking about here?

>>17222728
You do realize that Fat Bastard has 10 dots in Obesecate, Fartean, and Lardspex.

So my players are going to be soooooooooo suprised when they find out their antagonist is santa.

And that the person they're working for (cleverly unnamed thus far) is the Grinch.

I'm rewriting as we speak.

>>17233354
HOW THE PLAYERS STOLE CHRISTMAS

>>17230550
While a mage can outrun a vampire with celerity 5 provided she has the proper arcana the effect is quite vulgar while vampiric disciplines aren't. I can see the mage getting hit by paradox in the attempt.

>>17233384
Paradox will hit any Mage using magic to hasten themselves, in the form of stepping on a banana peel.
It's now canon.

>>17229686
>Santa Vampire obviously also feeds on the Changelings a little at a time, so throughout this whole experience, he's tripping more balls than the world has room for.
So... A Malkav tripping balls?

I love the idea of were-deers pulling the sledge. Are there any abilities in nWoD to have them increase speed?
Though time stop would be even better to make the whole gifting thing more plausible.

Well, now we get Vampire Santa.
But there's another aspect that we didn't elaborate upon:
Outrunning sunrise. Does a vampire actually need to sleep? Do they ever need to stop if the sun never goes up?

>>17233546

As I understand it, you can spend a willpower point to stay up during the day, but you still take damage from the sun. That might be an Ordo Dracul coil though.

Equally, our Santa Vampire is probably Ordo Dracul anyway, since he'd need it that way so he can survive on Changeling blood rather than absolutely having to drink from Vampires.

>>17233575
>you can spend a willpower point to stay up during the day
Well, my premise is that it's *never* day.
Does any of the books say something about jetlag and its effect on vampires? If jetlag doesn't affect vampires, they can probably stay up endlessly.

>>17233589

Good points.

I've got nothing. Though the idea of this vampire running round and round the world constantly loses some of its magic instead of him only being awoken from his frozen slumber at Christmas time.

>>17233488
It depends really on the effect and how fast the mage "hastens" herself. Using Mind to increase one's brain efficiency for multitasking in order to get things done faster or lessening wind resistance with forces is covert. But to physically speed yourself up beyond mortal limits is vulgar in whatever fashion. Even if used in a comical situation luke a banana peel it's still vulgar. And please specify where it says it's canon.

>>17233546

There was a postapocalyptic scenario presented in WoD: Mirrors that described what life would be like if the sun stopped shining. I think vamps still had to sleep, but only for an hour.

>>17233527
Oh I am all up on this answer

Lets go with the usual 10 strength, 10 dexterity and 5 human species factor to give our changeling a starting total of 25 yards per turn. Throw in a level 3 Fleet of Foot merit for a total of 28.

Next we pick a Kith and Seeming. There are 5 that might work for us:

If you want a consistant running speed:
- Runnerswift Kith (+2 to speed, stacks with Fleet of Foot). An added consistent extra 1.36 MPH. Equinox rules grants another +2 at Wyrd 7, for a total of 2.72 MPH
- Swimmerskins swim at full speed (An added 0 MPH, but higher maneuverability. Equinox grants Swimmerswifts +3 when swimming, for a gain of 2.04 MPH in the water.)
- Windwings get 20 minutes of flight if you're using Equinox rules (2 minutes per Wyrd). Otherwise no extra speed gain.
- Any Wizened if using Equinox rules, which adds +10 speed at Wyrd 10 (6.18 MPH)

If you want to spend glamour for a substantial increase:
- A Waterborn Elemental can spend glamour to swim at twice her speed for a scene, or three times if using Equinox rules (Though she must remain underwater during this time, she will begin to suffocate on the surface.)

Pledges:
Wyrd 10 Changeling = 13 Pledges can be active on him. Dunno what the upper limit is, but lets say he's going for 3 speed per pledge, granting him an extra +26 speed (An extra 17.72 MPH).

Tokens:
Hedgespun Rainment - +2 speed per dot, up to 5 dots can be applied to a single piece of gear. Can wear multiple pieces of armor for cumulative effect. FUN FACT: Other supernaturals can wear Hedgespun armor!
Cost: 0 Glamour
Gain: +10 speed per piece (6.81 MPH)

Dawnspear - 5 dot token, doubles Speed (Does not designate for how long, assuming for one scene, as per token rules.) Screws with your destiny, you can never not be in trouble
Cost: 1 Glamour (Or accept your body permanently transforming bit by bit)
Gain: x2 Speed for 1 Scene

Contracts: An extra 15.98 MPH (and a x2 bonus) for spending 9 glamour a scene.

Mirror 4 - Oddbody infers a speed bonus of +3 for a scene
Cost: 1 Glamour.
Gain: +3 Speed (3.04 MPH for 1 scene)

Darkness 4 - Boon of the Scuttling Spider doesn't offer a speed bonus, but helps our Changeling maneuver by allowing him to run on walls and slippery surfaces with no penalties.
Cost: A steep 3 Glamour.
Gain: Maneuverability

Fang and Talon 4 - Tread of the Swift Hooves - By choosing a running animal as your aspect the Changeling doubles her speed for one scene (Potentially until the next sunrise or sunset with an Exceptional Success.)
Cost: 2 Glamour
Gain: x2 Speed for 1 scene or longer

Stone 3 - Display Grandiose Might - Increases your strength by your Wyrd (Bringing it up to 20, holy fucking shit) for one scene. This can't be used to fight, though
Cost: 2 Glamour
Gain +10 Speed (6.81 MPH for 1 scene)

Eternal Summer 3 - Noonday Grasp - Maximum of +3 from rolls
Cost: 2 Glamour (Or eating naturally formed ice)
Gain: +3 (2.04 MPH for 1 scene)

Eternal Autumn 4 - Riding the Falling Leaves - Flight, with -3 to speed, or full speed with an exceptional success.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Gain: -3 or +0 (Lose 2.04 MPH or 0 for 1 Scene)

Wild 3 - Viridian Embrace - When outside or surrounded by plants, you get +1 speed for every success. Lets assume the Changling has 10 Expression + 10 Wyrd, and assume an average assuming 6 successes.
Cost: 2 Glamour
Gain: ~+6 Speed (4.09 for 1 Scene)

Final Speed

By default, our Changeling will have:
28 speed, +26 through pledges, +10 hedgespun for a normal speed of 64 (43 MPH).
Spend 10 glamour to activate contracts and tokens (+22, x2 for Tread of Swift Hooves, x2 for Dawnspear) for a speed of 344 (234 MPH).
Double running speed is 688 (469 MPH)

Runnerswift
+4 kith for a normal speed of 68 speed (46 MPH).
Spend 10 Glamour for a speed of 360 for one scene.
Double running is 720 speed for one scene (490 MPH)

Swimmerskin
+3 kith when swimming for a speed of 64 (43.63 MPH) on land and 67 (45.68 MPH) in water.
Spend 10 Glamour for a speed of 344 (234 MPH) on land and 356 on water for once scene. (242 MPH)
Double running is 688 speed on land (468 MPH) and 712 on water (484 MPH) for once scene.

Windwing
As a regular changeling, but with up to 20 minutes of gliding.

Wizened
+10 kith for a normal speed of 74 (50 MPH)
Spend 10 Glamour a speed of 384 (261 MPH) for one scene.
Double running speed is 768 (523 MPH) for one scene.

Waterborn
Regular speed as a default changeling.
Spend 11 glamour (1 for kith to activate for x3 in water) for a speed of 344 (234 MPH) for one scene, 1152 speed in water (784 MPH) for one scene.
Double running speed is 2304 (1569 MPH) for one scene.

Keep in mind, though, that speed for Changelings is almost negligable. They can all use the Hedge as their shortcuts, with the core book using a path from Miami to Seattle in 8 hours is a possibility. Likewise they can hop around from dream to dream to reality using Contracts of Dream 5.

>>17223589
JINGLE BELLS "WHAT THE HELLS" IS WHAT THEY USUALLY SAY
WHEN THEY SEE A GLIMPSE OF ME, THE CHILDREN RUN AWAY (HEY!)
BUT I AM HERE TO SPREAD MIRTH, AND JOY AND TOYS GALORE
IF YOU DARE GET IN MY WAY, I'LL BOOT YOU INTO THE FLOOR!

>>17233546
The nomads book expands on this

Places with weeklong nights don't affect the vampire; He doesn't need to sleep until the sun comes up. However, when it does, he sleeps until its gone again, burning one vitae every night until he either wakes up or goes into torpor

>>17233806
...You don't understand the concept of jokes, do you?

I would actually love to see a True Fae Santa who uses a unique and bizarre goblin contract which requires so much glamour to power that it can only be used on the massively emotionally charged night of Christmas. It allows him to stop time. So, he walks through the hedge to get to select places, causing "Christmas Miracles" while parents continue his legend in a more mundane way by lying to their children. Aside from the small miracles he performs, he does things like snatch people away into the hedge to be his elves and assassinate people in his way. The game would involve a group of changelings who have been wronged by Santa trying as hard as they can to find and kill in before Christmas or else he'll kill them come the 25th of December.

>>17234942
Ok, now we fucking need to optimize a never-sleeping elder.

Lemme pull up some vintage Touhoufag copypasta.

Wealth can buy one many things, from conveniences to weapons to friendship to more wealth. Indeed, in this modern age, it can even purchase you immortality. For this, we shall assume that we possess Resources 5, a merit that happens to be within the grasp of a 0 XP character fresh from character creation. Our method of immortality shall be through a Blood Bather ritual, as delineated in pages 32-37 of World of Darkness: Immortals. The goal here is to adjust our cost factor to +0 to render it a valid ritual.

• Bath: Specific Material, Resources 5. Our tub is made out of solid diamond (-5).
• Bath: Symbols and Carvings. The bath has to be adorned with fabulous esoteric charms before the ritual (-2).
• Bath: Attendants: Six attendants must be present (-5), and they have been trained to perform a complex performance of song and terpsichorean motions (-1).
• Bath: The Stars are Right. The bath must be performed during summer equinox (-2).
• Blood: Age. The blood has to come from adults and adults only (-2).
• Blood: Half the Population. The blood has to come from people of our sex, whatever that is (-1).
• Blood: Race, Creed, or Color. The blood has to come from black people (-1).
• Blood: Left Alive. The victims need not die for the ritual to work (+5).

• Blood: Coat the Skin. All we need is a total of one gallon of blood in total (+2).
• Blood: Fresh. The blood needs to have been drawn from the donor's body within one day of the ritual (-3).
• Effects: Immortal. We do not age, do not die of natural causes, are immune to mundane diseases, and are highly resistant to supernatural diseases (+5).
• Effects: Attribute Increase (Permanent). One of our Physical attributes (Strength, Dexterity, Stamina) is increased by 4 dots (+12). For comparison, 2 in an attribute is roughly equivalent to 10 in D&D, and 5 in an attribute approximates to 24 in D&D, so this is a huge boost.
• Frequency: Five Years. The ritual has a duration of five years, and can be renewed (+3).
• Preparation: Infusions, Resources 5. The blood needs to be mixed with hilariously expensive herbs and reagents (-5).
Total cost factor: +0. This is a valid ritual.

Once every five years, the day before the summer equinox, we gather six trustworthy black adults of our sex, pay them an astronomical sum, and have them come to our mansion. We rehearse a performance of, in this example, Summer Sunshine by the Corrs with them until they can execute it with impeccable grace and skill, and then have them stay the night. We then bring them over to our solid diamond tub, adorn it with a variety of charms and sigils, extract one-sixth of a gallon of blood from each of them, and dump the sanguineous fluids into the vat. Finally, we climb into the tub and have our assistants perform their extravagant act. We are now immortal for five years and either 4 Strength, 4 Dexterity, or 4 Stamina more well-off to boot.

Also, you are endowed with either retard strength (+4 Strength), the agility and deftness of a Touhou character (+4 Dexterity), or the physical tenacity of a cockroach (+4 Stamina). In D&D terms, this is equivalent to +20 Strength, +20 Dexterity, or +20 Constitution, so you really do become a ludicrous physical specimen.

>>17236694
So you've pumped the fuck out of a Mortal. Cool beans. But how does this apply to a vampire?

>>17236714
Bonus question:
How does this apply to making an insomanic/Santa vampire?

Do you know any splat that could further our cause? Giving Santa a mage seems to be a bad idea due to paradox - How can we boost his speed even more, maybe even give him timestop?

>>17234505
>1569 miles per hour in the water

Jesus that's like half a mile every second.

That's 30 meters over mach 2

>>17236748
I now know what I want Crytek to do:
An open world Crysis sequel. With a Mach 2 speedmode.

>>17236728
Paradox could be mitigated by Demenses, Demenses everywhere. the jolly red suit is in fact a carpet with a Mage's soul woven into it? A mobile demense?

I'm still of the opinion that Geists would be most useful here. Apparently they're like mages, but without the problems of paradox. Can we have the literal Christmas Spirit or Ghosts of Christmas past/Present/future lending a hand?

>>17236792
> Can we have the literal Christmas Spirit or Ghosts of Christmas past/Present/future lending a hand?
Good idea.
And Santa's son is the holy child, who was born on 24th of december. He's a magus and helps Santa with this awesome birthday celebration.
(His son loves to make children happy)

You're confusing ghosts with spirits. Geists do not have power over spirits. While the ghosts of A Christmas Carol were called ghosts, they are quite spirit-like.

Ghost: dead person
Spirit: little god/manifestation of concept

>>17222753
Aibaleet, is your name a reference to the Russian character "Doctor Aibaleets" (roughly translated as "Doctor Owthathurts")?

>>17236839
Yep. Born in Latvia, immigrated to America. Watched the shit out of the cartoon as a kid, didn't have any vidya till I was 10 or so, so I managed to memoriz most of that shit.

>>17236857
Holy shit. I watched that show a bunch in my Russian classes. Trippy as fuuuuuuuuuck.

>>17236817
I recognize that distinction. I just wondered if there was some way to make Geist mechanics work for us here, given that Geists (the things which inhabit Sin-Eater's bodies) are technically a hybrid of ghsts and spirits, i.e. a formerly human thing with governance over death.

From what I've heard, the game Geist has kick-ass powers that can approach Mage-level broke, but without the nasty bitchslap of Paradox coming for you if you get a little trigger-happy with your abilities.

Mages have spells that can alter another person's physical/biological properties; do Sin-eaters have that kind of power, too?

>>17236896
Fun fact:
German doesn't have this distinction. It uses "Geist" for "spirit" and "ghost".
This makes the distinction via the Geist splat very weird for me.

>>17236839
>"Doctor Aibaleets" (roughly translated as "Doctor Owthathurts")?

I suppose that would be analogous to the English-speaking world's Doctor Ben Dova.

>>17236907
Oh, crap. Sorry, bro. My Anglophone arrogance strikes again.

I don't have the Geist: the Sin-Eaters book, and the PDF is on another machine. Can anyone clarify the kinds of powers Sin-Eaters get?

Also: were there any splatbooks for GtSE aside from the Core?

>>17236896
Not really

>>17236932
They get necromancy and a ton of powers that can mimic pretty much every 1-2 dot mage arcana. They're doomed on the other hand to eventually go insane as their Geist takes over.

>>17236932
Sin Eaters are "bound" to their Geist, which is more like a blend between a spirit and a ghost. It's a ghost, because they definitely were human at one point, but it's also a spirit, because they come to embody aspects of death. It's likely - as likely as anything in nWoD can get - that a Geist is a ghost that consumed a spirit or vice versa.

Through the union of mortal and Geist, the Sin Eater has all sorts of powers that don't quite fit any one category. The powers are unlocked with quasi-metaphorical "keys". There's Elemental Keys, the Stigmata Key, the Primeval Key and more. Which key you unlock your powers with flavors how those powers work. So, if you unlock the Marionette power with an elemental key, you can create little elemental homunculi. If you unlock it with the Stigmata key, you can instead raise zombies.

>>17236932
>Also: were there any splatbooks for GtSE aside from the Core?

They got one dealing with the Underworld, which is actually pretty awesome and I recommend it for all splats. All supernaturals can find a reason to visit the Dead Lands.

>>17236968
I'm having flashbacks of that crappy christmas movie Jack Frost, where the kid's dad becomes a reincarnated snowman. Perhaps frosty is a Sin-Eater's Geist of Snow and Cold?


OOOH!

Frosty the Snow-Man is a Promethean! Unfleshed, bound with elementals in his body, etc...

>>17236996
Haha. Creepy as hell.

I think we are working on destroying every childhood story ever...

Anyone got ideas for the easter bunny, after we settle this one?

>>17237010
Beastheart Changeling? Hiding Eggs which contain charms against True Fae?

These stories don't HAVE to be horrifying, you know. Santa might be an Elder Vampire, but who says he has to have low Humanity? He agrees to this arrangement with the Changelings because he genuinely loves children as much as his absurdly high blood potence. The Changelings get Christmas joy. A mage gets to study a unique form of life, and spread joyful ho-ho-ho everywhere.

Who needs Grimdark when we have insane festive BS & rule loophole abuse?

>>17237044
I didn't want to imply grimdarkness.
I think corruption would've been a better term.

If we go on with this, we have a /tg/ version of absolutely everything, which will seperate us from real life even more.

>>17237044
Beast Seeming, you mean. Probably Runnerswift, since he's a rabbit. He's got a pledge with a True Fae he has to fulfill that keeps him living and free, but he's got to hide eggs...

It seems too easy to suggest that the Easter Bunny is some sort of Changing Breed.

>>17237044
As I said:
A mage is Santa's son and loves children. Santa wants to make his child happy, so he organizes christmas on its birthday. In the past, it was easy with so few people, but then he needed help and started diplomatic relations to the changelings.

>>17237063
>It seems too easy to suggest that the Easter Bunny is some sort of Changing Breed.
Well, it could always be a Malkav.
(Are nWoD Malkavs like the oWoD ones?)

When is Tarrasquemas celebrated, again?

September 9th?

>>17237078
depends, there is the the ventrue Bloodline, which is not and everyone tries to forget.

And then there is the transmitted disease, which brings all the crazy back in, plus the fun of being contagious.

>>17237078
There's a Ventrue Bloodline called Malkovian, which is the Venture's predilection towards crazy pushed to new heights. Then there's the Malkavian disease which is more like oWoD Malks.

>>17237105
Remember, remember, the ninth of September
The Tarrasquemas feasting and joy
I can think of no why that Tarrasquemas should die
when it brings everybody such joy

>>17223018
Speak for yourself, I have a 5 Intelligence Genius character in my game. Sure, she may have arms like noodles and the type of person nobody ever notices, but if you want some serious thinkin' doing, you call her up.

>>17237224
>implying Genius characters are allowed in my game

I'd let in Outsiders from Outsider: The Calling before I let in Geniuses.

...you are ahead of Princesses, though.

MORE idea fodder for this thread!

Santa has a True Fae Nemesis: the Krampus!

[http://io9.com/5868042/austrias-krampus-parade-celebrates-santas-child+eating-monster]


On a related note: damn, I wish we'd adopt this custom in North America. there's be SO fewer cases of screaming children in retail

>>17237230
>implying Genius isn't a better idea than Outsider
I mean, come on. There are about three or four Cthulhu mythos games, why don't you just play one of those as cultists or something?
But yeah, fuck Princesses. At least mad scientists have a basis in horror: I mean, who made the Frankenstein progenitor?

>>17237252
I thought Genius had a lot of potential, but the execution was lacking. Despite liking a lot of the pieces, it didn't congeal for me. At the very least, Outsider felt like a WoD adaptation of the Cthulhu mythos. It is, however, totally unfinished and dead in the water, so it's a moot point.

I would like to see Genius stripped down and rethought.

>>17237231
St. Nick and Krampus work together!

And there has actually been growing acceptance of Krampusnacht in certain regions of the U.S.

>>17237324
Try telling that to the children he captures/enslaves.

Ooh! Idea! WoD Innocent's game, with the Krampus as the BBEG

>>17237336
Segueing into a Changeling the Lost game.

>>17237336
Sounds like Changeling to me.

In fact, I think I have my next character concept.

>>17237343
I was thinking the same thing.

Krampus itself is almost certainly an Ogre of some sort, but what kind of Seemings does it engender? Ogre, naturally - it's said to eat particularly naughty children. But, given that the children are taken BECAUSE they're naughty, they might become Darklings. It's also fairly bestial, and a durance in which you help Krampus hunt children might lean towards Beast. If, instead, you're forced into servitude, you might go Wizened...but it's not likely. Nor is Elemental, save for some associations with winter. Fairest is probably the LEAST likely.

>>17237252

Geniuses should never, ever be allowed to make progenitors. Pyros and any other magical energy source are like oil and water, and it should be the same for Inspiration as it is for vitae or The Wyrd.

>>17236839
>>17236857
>>17236886
Guys... I love you. Nostalgia'd hard.

>>17237536
bump for original content

>>17237320

>At the very least, Outsider felt like a WoD adaptation of the Cthulhu mythos. It is, however, totally unfinished and dead in the water, so it's a moot point.

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons death may die.

You'll all see, poor human fools.

>>17237320
>It is, however, totally unfinished and dead in the water, so it's a moot point.

>unfinished
Yes

>dead
Not in the least. Development continues, tho slowly.

I actually really like Genius and really dislike Outsider. WoD's philosophy seems to be that of twisting old-school movie monsters into interesting play things that fit into the cosmology they created. Genius fits that. Outsider, on the other hand, while fitting the really nifty Lovecraftian cosmology, doesn't fit WoD's at all. I would never, ever run it as a WoD game simply because it doesn't fit at all. Mind you, I probably wouldn't include Genius either, but I would sooner include it than Outsider. It's the same reason I wouldn't include something awesome but terrible non-D&D in a D&D game - I would just use another system if I wanted to do that.

So, what else can we add to the story of Elder Kindred Santa Claus?

He has a kid who's an Acanthus Mage, who loves seeing people happy, so vamp Santa spreads Christmas Joy every Dec 24th.

Santa uses Changelings, who organizes prezzies in the Hedge so that he can distribute them without too much hassle.

He has a frenemy in the Krampus, who torments ungrateful little bastards and takes 'em into the Hedge.

And, somehow, Frosty the Snowman is a Promethen and Scrooge's Ghosts of Christmas are a pissed Geist Krewe..

Did I miss anything?


Can we fit other WoD beasties into this?
I want to suggest that, while Changelings have the whole Presents thing down pat, they alone can't help Santa V. while he's in his yearly torpor. Perhaps he's protected by Reindeer Uratha, who guard against the malevolent spirits of Spite & Grinchiness?

>>17239815

If it makes it any better, you could imagine them as people corrupted by things from the Abyss or the Lower Depths.

Alternatively, if you want to imagine them as "B-Movie Monsters except well-thought-out and creepy", then take a look at any number of "Weird Alien shit is happening" B-Movies. Like The Crawling Eye. Tell me that shit isn't straight outta Arkham. Or Die, Monster, Die! Or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Hell, even some of the things from the Quatermass series would work, though whether they're B-Movies is up for debate.

Take cheesy old school alien invasion monsters, add Lovecraft, make them more personable, and you've got Outsiders, I suppose.

>>17240253
Esh....

>>17239815
See, for me, I thought that Genius didn't get twisted enough to fit in - mostly I feel like Geniuses don't have reason to DO anything but work on their own shit in seclusion. I WANT mad scientists in the WoD, but Genius falls short for me. Outsider, on the other hand, put something that I didn't think would fit and made it work, in my opinion.

>>17240237

>Scrooge's Ghosts of Christmas are a pissed Geist Krewe..

I'd say they make more sense as Spirits. Actual, proper spirits, not geists.

Now Jacob Marley, there's a geist in the making. Condemned by his life of avarice and greed, he should have known his evil deeds would put him in shackles. Now the Marley Geist hunts down other people who face the same fate it has, and tries to convince them to change their ways. If they're unredeemable, it'll make them suffer as it does.

Oh, and while there was mention of a Hunter acting as the Grinch here, I reckon there's a bigger force at work. Beyond Santa Claus, the most important thing about Christmas is crass commercialisation. The Cheiron Group have got wind of this real-life Santa Claus and want in on the action, so they can monetize it properly. Cue Black Helicopters and Augmented Hunters trying to catch Santa Kindred while he's up and about before he goes back into hiding.

Alternatively, some Long Night and Malleus Monstorum hunters decide that this vampire abomination has stolen the true meaning of Christmas: celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus. They aim to put a stop to this incessant gift-giving any way they can.

>>17240253
It would make it a lot better if that was the canon fluff rather than me "thinking of them" that way. They are, of course, not fluffed that way at all.

>>17240294
Cool, Outsiderbro. I'm really glad you like Outsider and really disappointed that you don't like Genius - by the same token, I'm really disappointed that I don't like Outsider. The way I feel is that NEITHER of them have been twisted to fit WoD fluff enough, but Outsider fits even less than Genius. I think Outsider works better as playing cultists in one of the many legit Lovecraftian games rather than trying to shoehorn it into WoD.

>>17240305
Cherion Black OPs trying to capture Santa for further study and/or marketing campaign?

The Long Night & Malleus Maleficarum join forces so that can unify on keeping the Christ in Christmas?

Fuck, if I didn't have an exam tomorrow, I would SO be writing a SAS mini adventure based on this shit.

>>17240351

So I'm one of the guys still working on Outsider. And it's really cool to hear you say that. A few people just bitched about the whole idea, it's weirdly nice to hear that someone's disappointed. It means the premise is good, but the way we implemented it was less so. And that's fixable. Closer integration with the rest of nWoD is something we'd definitely be interested in looking at in the future, but our priority at the moment is finishing off the skeleton of the system. Once we do that, we can work out exactly how they fit.

Of course, the core idea of the system won't change, but like anything in nWoD, we can provide any number of explanations for what's really going on.

The plan is to start a dedicated thread tomorrow (which, incidentally, is Outsider's first birthday) once the people involved are all online to contribute. We'd be glad to hear whatever criticism you've got to throw our way.

>>17240400

As I see it, any game based around this will mostly not involve the Santa Vampire directly, because when he shows up, if the players are trying to stop/capture/kill it and they don't have an incredibly good plan and everything they need to carry it out, they're going to fail. The sheer amount of xp barrelling towards the players at hundreds of kilometres per hour is going to take a lot of stopping.

While all this talk of genius is grand, WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH HOLIDAY SPIRIT?

>>17240451
My plan was to have the PCs stumbling upon something bigger than they are, and possibly siding with Santa. (because, cynic or no, I've got a soft spot for goofy spirit of christmas BS like this)

A changeling motley comes across this weird conspiracy which puts the Scarecrow Ministry to shame, a pack of Uratha which finds spiritual activity in their city goes apeshit involving spirits of mirthfulness/commercialism, a coven of vampires investigating the abduction of vampire bigwigs uncovers a Changeling kidnapping ring which has ties to the North Pole, etc

>>17240400
>>17240305

Ooh, just had another thought. It adds more Hunters to this clusterfuck, but what the hell.

So you know how NORAD track Santa? I'm willing to buy that Task-Force: Valkyrie are involved in this. But they're on the side of Santa. They broadcast false coordinates so that the real Santa Kindred doesn't have any interference. They might also fly covering missions if shit gets real.

Why do they protect a massively powerful vampire? Because that vampire is doing something good for AMERICA.

>>17240539

The more I think about it, the more it seems that the Changelings are at the centre of this. They're the ones who sneak into the bedrooms of children while they sleep and enter their brains to find out whether they've been good or bad, and if they've been good, exactly what presents they really, really want from Santa. They're the ones who take the mince pies and milk left out over night as part of a pledge that families inadvertently sign that means that Santa and his elves give gifts, the family give glamour and access to their dreams for the next year. They're the ones who kidnap high-ranking vampires to drain their blood to wake Santa from Torpor every year. And they're the ones who ensure that Santa never remembers anything besides giving gifts out every year. Torpor will do that to you.

Speaking of which, is it possible for a Changeling to enter a vampire's Torpor dreams like they would an ordinary person's? Cause that would explain a lot.

>>17240542
Would a Vampire be able to visit EVERY house across the world? Even with superspeed, there's the whole notion of locked doors (which are mysteriously shattered the next morning), as well as being able to avoid the whole shockwaves that would come with travelling at ultrahigh speeds.

Does Santa have a Changeling Token which gives him access to the Fair Entrance Goblin Contract?

How in hell doesn't Santa violate Masquerade like a motherfucker?

>>17240785
>How in hell doesn't Santa violate Masquerade like a motherfucker?

No rational adult believes in Santa.

>>17240800
Dear god. That is so simple yet so brilliant. I am laughing so hard right now.

>The plan is to start a dedicated thread tomorrow (which, incidentally, is Outsider's first birthday) once the people involved are all online to contribute.

I will be watching! As the Anon who originally suggested "Alien: The Outsider" as an idea and then watched people run with it, I like seeing it continue.

>>17240785

MAGIC

Alternatively, the fair entrance one works. The Changelings open doors for him by using the contract.

And he doesn't visit every house in the world. Only those with nice children. Who've been visited by his Changelings in advance to prepare the way.

>>17240800

And even the irrational ones have their limits.

>ZeroSum has logged on to irc.NetworkZero.com
>GUYS GUYS, I'VE TOTALLY GOT VIDEO FOOTAGE OF SANTA. HE WAS RUNNING FUCKING FAST AND LEAVING PRESENTS BEHIND AS HE WENT.
>Pft, the old running Santa myth? Give us a break. A cell in Scotland thinks it's got really good video of the Loch Ness Monster this time.

Meanwhile, a Task-Force Valkyrie hit team is dispatched to deal with a potential leak.

>>17240866

Excellent news. Glad to hear you're still around and on board.

Shit, this is awesome.

Milk & cookies is a changeling pledge? I don't know whether to feel ripped off at Christmas or just plain happy.

I kind of wonder how it works, though, when parents buy their kids stuff. Is there just some mystery present (actually a Token) which appears under the tree which no one is quite sure who gave it to whom? A secret present which, if not the thing little Sally asked for in her stocking, somehow stays with her throughout her life and serves as an odd curio/gift that for some reason she can't help but feel fondly towards?

Doing two things; One

bumping this awesome thread

two: outsider guys!

I keep meaning to show up to y'alls IRC channel but haven't been able to do so for one reason or the other. (I'm teh guy who wrotefag up both versions of Reject Reality, Obtain Cookies). I'll finally have some free time this weekend to do so, is it still on suptg's network?

I think Vampa Claus would only visit a few locations each year. Even for a magically massively fast being, it would be way to hard to stop at all or even most places on Earth in a single night, let alone even circumnavigate it. But those places that are stopped at are carefully chosen by his cohort of elves for maximum strategic mirth and belief-spreading. The fact that people are playing right into an ancient pledge with the cookie ritual is just icing on the cake.

>>17240294
Well, it depends on the playstyle of the Genius in question. Introvert Inventor will probably stay on his basem- secret lab, making gadgets and stuff, but Active Archaeologist would probably go around the world and research stuff. What little gadgets they make are used to further their research (like perhaps a compass that points to their destination or things of interest). Something like that. Geniuses don't have to be the mad scientist cooped up in a lab or a secluded island somewhere, just as Vampires don't have to be Nosferatu-clones or Dracula-wannabes.

>>17240305
>Alternatively, some Long Night and Malleus Monstorum hunters decide that this vampire abomination has stolen the true meaning of Christmas: celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus. They aim to put a stop to this incessant gift-giving any way they can.

They try to kill Jesus' (Or whoever is the *actual* child of christmas) undead father to put a stop to the fact that he's celebrating his child's birthday?
Awesome!

>>17240891
>Who've been visited by his Changelings in advance to prepare the way.
That will make the whole story a lot easier.
Still, he needs to fly halfway across the world in a single night (though thankfully there's timezones).

>>17240776
This is too grimdark for my taste.
Imo it should be a genuinely happy aspect of the WoD - Santa Claus is real and he just wants to make children happy for his son.

>>17244109

Personally, I find the idea of a Spring Court conspiracy in the heart of Winter to spread joy and happiness throughout the world pretty heartwarming in itself. Maybe rhe Santa vampire signed up voluntarily, looking to do a little good. It's just some unpleasant things like spying on kids and draining some high blood potency kindred has to be done for the good of the Season.

>>17244087

Nah, they try to kill Santa (anagram of SATAN), so they can return Christmas to a celebration of Christ.

>>17243153

I can see the Changelings locating only the best behaved children and only those that really need something. Of course, the consequences of some children getting exactly what they want could be another scenario entirely.

His parents can't understand it, but Junior is more interested in that toy sword he got that neither of them remember buying, than the PS3 he'd been wanting all year.

>>17244109
It need not be grimdark, though.

The Changelings run a big operation, true, but they're not dicks about it. Scouting out the kids in most need of something worthwhile in their lives, they do just that.

Santa might not be the most intellectual Elder, but perhaps, in the mists of time, he did this voluntarily, in honor of his kid. he can manage a continued existence, still hold on to his humanity, and make people happy.

I keep wanting to make Santa's kid a girl. She's aged, over the years, to the point where she almost looks like a female version of her father. Still, her magic has allayed age to the point where she'll probably last as long as he will. Still, folks who heard of the rumor where she sits at the base and keeps shit running smoothly god warped over time, and now folks think she's his wife rather than his daughter.

>>17245939
Could this become a Changeling Entitlement? The Midwinter Mirthfuls, which grants special abilities in making/procuring goodies, extra abilities in opening doors to the hedge/harvesting (but not using) glamor, etc

>>17245939
Shanda hated Christmas. Mom tried her best to make it all festive and stuff, but she knew she was putting on a show. "Things'll be good this year, you'll see!" her mom chriped, her smile not quite reaching her eyes. "Put the past behind us, we're going to have a great Christmas this year!"

Shanda had heard this before. She remembered this was mom's usual attitude before the day, before she locked herself in her room trying to drown out her dad's yelling and her mom's sobs and desperately trying to pretend the crashing noises were just bad dreams.

She doubted the fact dad was now in jail would somehow make things so very different

>vampire santa
/tg/, never stop jinglin'.

>>17246386
"Look what Santa brought this year!" mom chimed, gesturing too emphatically at the small pile of wrapped parcels laid out on the kitchen table.

Shanda knew Santa didn't deliver the presents in a van from the Boys & Girls Club she saw at the door a few days earlier, and that he sure as hell didn't employ a scrawny recovering druggie with a tanglewire goatee as one of his elves.

Still, she played along. Mom wanted to believe in this stuff. Someone might as well be happy this time of year.

Most of the loot was pretty good, actually - a new Barbie and some plushes with dorky-yet-kinda-cute smiles and stuff like that that mom'd never been able to afford before. But it was the one package without a body that stayed with her.

It was wrapped without a box in a crinkly green parchment which smelled of fresh sawdust and maple leaves, with a bare tag tied around the end. Clearly whoever wrapped toy sword hadn't bothered to conceal it's shape or purpose. On the note on it ("To Shanda, braver than she knows") had any semblance of a traditional Christmas gift.

Shanda peeled away the wrapping like the skin of a fruit, marveling at the craftsmanship on the pommel, which looked-for all the world-like the stem of some exotic flower. The blade was graceful, like a thistle's leaf, and, as she touched the blade, she could have swore she had a flash of some knight - her hair tied into a bun and her armor polished bright - charging boldly at some fearsome dragon.

Shanda held the thing in wonder, feeling it like an extension of her hand, and, as she gave it an experimental swish, , caught sight of a second note, pinned to the tip.

Plucking the note, she unfolded its neatly-folded creases, and read it aloud in spite of herelf.

"Fairy Tales are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

>>17246307
>I keep wanting to make Santa's kid a girl. She's aged, over the years, to the point where she almost looks like a female version of her father. Still, her magic has allayed age to the point where she'll probably last as long as he will. Still, folks who heard of the rumor where she sits at the base and keeps shit running smoothly god warped over time, and now folks think she's his wife rather than his daughter.

So the christmas child is also Santa's wife...
Well, it does make sense. Though who was the child's mother? A mortal?
Is that the reason why Santa made this pact? He wanted to good for the sake of his daughter, yet couldn't stand existing consciously after the death of his wife?

It would fit the theme - Bittwersweet. Heartwarming, yet heartwrenching.

>>17246640
>to good
>to do good
derp

>>17246567
Her mom made a sound halfway between a choking and laughing. Shanda instinctively looked Shanda went to look up at her mom, and found she couldn't ee right, her eyes were blurred with tears.

"I think that's the first time I think I've seen so smile in I don't know how long," Mom sobbed, sweeping her daughter to her chest in a tight hug.

Despite herself, Shanda grinned. This Christmas was different, that's for sure.

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"Big Red's on the move again," Stephenson barked, the stream of data on his monitor updated flashing frenetically. "Bogeys 2 &3 are primed to engage. Teams Watchdog and Blueberry are in range. Awaiting your instructions, ma'am"

Shanda flicked the plastic badge pinned to her lapel absently for a moment. The words Taskforce: VALKARIE bobbed in the command room's light, and she smiled wistfully.

"Tell them to engage at will, Mr. Stephenson."
She smirked, with mixture of professionalism and satisfaction. "Those fundie freaks should know that I owe the old fat bastard a favor."

>>17246648
Awesome. Awesome and heartwarming.

...Though the amount of typos is quite extreme.

>>17246688
Sorry. Caffeinated & about to write an exam. i need to cool myself down with some writefaggotry.

>>17222728
what if you got on a bicycle?
400mph for 4 hours?

TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW OF SUSPECT INVOLVED IN CONFIRMED RED PRIORITY INCIDENT

SUSPECT: "I don't know what the fuck you're holding me here for. I've got rights damnit. We never did anything wrong. Who the fuck are you people?"
OPERATIVE: "We'll be the ones to decide that, [REDACTED]. And we're the ones who'll be asking the questions tonight. Now. Tell us why you and your friends were waiting in the car outside [REDACTED] last night."
S: "Alright, fine. We were waiting for someone. We didn't know who, all we know is he was gonna do something to our kids. And the police wouldn't listen. So we were gonna protect them ourselves."
O: "How did you know this someone was going to come for your kids, and why then?"
S: "It started a few weeks back. [REDACTED] was just going to bed and checking on the kids, when he saw this... guy leaning over his son's bed. So he goes in and tries to ki- incapacitate the fucker. But the guy heard him coming and ran out through the door to his other son's room and when [REDACTED] got through the door the guy was gone. [REDACTED] says the room got cold and he swears that he saw some snow melting on the floor, but no sign of this guy. So he called us up."
O: "Why did he call you up, rather than the police?"
S: "We'd dealt with some weird shit before. That's all I'm gonna say till I get a lawyer in here."
O: "Fine, what happened when he called you up?"

>>17248998

S: "We got together and made a plan. If this guy was targetting our kids, it wouldn't be long before he tried again. So we'd all be watching and waiting, ready to fuck 'em up when they tried anything. It was me he went after next. I was waiting up in the next room with my shotgun ready when I heard him, creepin around like he fuckin owned the place. I surprised him, got the gun pointed at him and made very clear my intent to defend my property and make a citizen's arrest until the proper authorities arrived. He wasn't trying any funny stuff this time. And then the proper authorities arrived."
O: "Those being your friends?"
S: "Yeah. We tied the fucker up and... questioned him vigorously until he started talking. He wasn't admitting anything. But he said that we needed to let him go, that he was just trying to help the kid. And that soon 'He' would be coming to give our kids exactly what they deserved. Solstice time, he said. So we gave the fucker another working over and left him to think on it. When we cam back, there was just a chair, some loose ropes and a big pool of blood."
O: "So what happened next?"
S: "We got ready. We found out that solstice was what they called Christmas before Jesus was born. So we didn't tell the kids, but we had to spend more time getting ready. [REDACTED] was the smart one, so he did the reading but he didn't find anything much out. So we got everything. Silver, flares, holy water, the whole shebang. When it came to Christmas Eve we put all the kids in one house and set the wives to watching them, and we parked outside, ready to get the fucker when he tried to come back. We didn't expect what happened next."

>>17249010

O: "And what was that?"
S: "[REDACTED] saw it first. This... blur, visible even in the dark. Red and white. And moving so goddamned fast. Just as soon as we saw it, it was on top of us, then it was stood outside the house. This fat fuck in a Santa costume, dragging a sledge or something. He went for the door and then more guys starting getting out of the sledge, more than could ever have been in there. So we get down to it. We pile out of the car and open up with everything we've got. A couple of the sledge guys drop, but the fat fuck barely even flinches, he just calmly goes for the door, this big bag over his shoulder. Then it all gets hazy. I remember seeing one of the sledge guys right up close, like he fucking teleported into us and starts cutting, then one of them this big, mountainous motherfucker just charges over and lays one of us out flat. I remember hearing one of them shouting about how we should have used iron or something. And then I heard my family screaming, but that's all. I musta gotten knocked out. Next thing I know, these guys in suits are dragging me into a helicopter, and I can hear my kids shouting about Santa Claus. What the hell happened?"
O: "Exactly what's supposed to. Sorry your kids have to lose something this year, as well as getting something",
S: "What the hell does tha-

END INTERVIEW

Bump

I think this should become mandatory part of nWoD canon for any self-respecting fa/tg/uy.
Anyone up for doing an 1d4chan article?

So... did we establish an explanation for the reindeer?
Lycantrophs? Any meaningful abilities they could have to aid Santa?

>>17249080

The problem as I see it is that the reindeer are somewhat superfluous. They're never going to keep up with Vampa Claus with all his magic and blood. Maybe if they're ghouls with lots of celerity, but even then, they'll be needing fed constantly.

>>17249104
Yeah, that's why I wondered about the abilities.
But what if it's just another mis-interpretation?
Instead, he's pulling lycantrophs along on his sleigh (What happens if he drinks their blood? Is it just very potent or frenzy inducing?), which then do something.
...Imagine a pack of werewolfs sitting on a sleigh pulled by an over-weight vampire running over water. The vampire is tripping balls due to drinking changeling blood.

>>17249120

I'll confess to not knowing shit about Werewolves. What would they gain from helping out with this little expedition, other than the good feeling of giving out gifts to children?

Though I understand that werewolf blood is especially potent but it increases the difficulty of resisting frenzy. And the last thing we want is Santa Claus to go into a frenzy

>>17249176
Well, I'm pretty much trying to force reindeer into the equation to have the whole mythos.
Unfortunately, I know as much about nWoD werewolfs as you. Otherwise I probably would've found a justification for helping Santa already.

Are nWoD vampires tainted like oWoD vampires?
The lycantropes could be a clan of were-reindeer (Does this exist in nWoD) with a blood feud against this vampire. He did something in the past and every Christmas they try to kill him. The rest of the year they are searching for his hideout.
One of their specialities is speed, as they want to keep up with him.

>>17249244

One of the things I do know about nWerewolves is that they've got no particular beef with Vampires. They're mostly concerned with Spirits and maintaining the balance between the spirit world and the real world. And I know very little about the spirit world either.

And the closest thing to were reindeer are probably from Changing Breeds. Which I'm not even going to look at, even for this.

Oh, my god, /tg/. Oh my god.

Vampire Santa. Okay. This is the sort of ridiculous awesome nonsense I have come to expect from you. Explaining the particulars with a Changeling pact. Good. Yes. You've always been good with fluff.

But your refusal to grimdark this is what strikes me. On a board that loves some grimdark, in a setting made entirely to achieve grimdark, there's this. Some of the most horrible monsters the mind can fathom, powerful beyond words, working together every year for centuries upon centuries... to bring a little joy into the lives of those that need it. Who believe that the solstice, or Christmas, or whatever they're calling it these days, should be jolly, with holly, and... other words ending in -olly.

I'm go donate some money to charity. It's Christmas, dammit.

Santa was a loving guy with wife and daughter once upon a time.
His daugther turned out to be a mage, he became a vampire and his wife died.
His daughter, already off-age, loved children and Santa couldn't stand his existence without his wife.
So he turned to the changelings - He promised them much joy to feed on if they helped him to make his daughter's birthday a time of celebration for children all over the world. He would go into torpor, only to be awakened by the changelings once a year and the changelings would give him vampires to feed on for his awakening and scout the homes of children to find the ones that could spread the most joy. Children whose lives would be changed to the better with just a little well-done present.
And so he would go out every christmas and give these children these presents, presents which would create joy beyond the feelings of this one child - This joy would follow the child for its whole life and the act of spreading these gifts would keep the tradition alive, making children all over the world happy. Hey, even wars have been stopped for one or two days because this guy just wanted to make his daughter happy.

>>17249481
(Yes, I know that my writing is crappy. English isn't my mother tongue)

Guys...Santapire doesn't need to go into torpor 364 days a year. POLAR NIGHTS. So he can have half-year long day which burns...one vitae, if "sunrise to sunset".

Or he can just, y'know, stay active half the year, then switch poles.

>>17249481

And a few kidnapped Vampires drained for their blood is a price worth paying for that.

>>17249649

He doesn't have to. He chooses to. He chooses to be awake only on those special nights where he travels the world giving gifts. That's all he really wants to do any more, and he knows that if he was awake for years at a time, he might get distracted from his newfound purpose. So he sleeps, until his Changelings wake him and it's time to feed up and go out into the world.

Spirits are animistic ethereal critters which dwell in the Spirit world and which preside over certain domains. Domains can be anything from Housecats to Paper to Lying to Consumption to Truth to Time.

They're supposed to live in the Spirit World, and remain separate from our own. (the Spirit World, or Shadow, is kept apart from the phyisical world by way of a metaphysical barrier called the Gauntlet). Spirits are eternally tempted to cross over into our own world and raise mayhem (possess a human, and you've got all the tasty, tasty [PORTFOLIO-RELEVANT-PHENOMENA] here).

Wereworlves, which are half-human and half-spirit (wolf spirit, to be exact) are the border patrol, and who keep the worlds separate.

I still think having were-reindeer bodyguards who guard Santapire while he torpors is a good thing. If he's using that Fair Entrance Goblin Contract Onna Stick as much as I think he would, he'd need to have someone guard him from vengeful hunters or hungry spirits. Ooh! Spirits hunt him because he's such a powerfully ancient spiritual entity? The were-reindeer serve as guardians?

>>17249652
Perhaps this is where Taskforce VALKARIE comes in again?

Mortal populations have some particularly nasty and masquerade-risking vampires, so Taskforce goes in & nabs them. vamps of this power level don't go down easy, but some Changeling tokens help to even the field.

Then, VALKARIE collects the blood from the vamps and pass it on to the Changelings.

Mortals have one less malicious ubervamp to contend with, vampires get to keep their masquerade, and Santa gets to keep on ticking!

>>17249042
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Santapire

I created it. Don't expect it to be much good, it's a very rough piece of work from a very sleepy dude.

>>17253063
Maybe TFV just collect intel for the Changelings. Changelings then cross-check this intel with their own so that they find the 'naughty' vamps. Then (the changelings/reindeers/third party) neturalizes the vamps, then the Changelings bring them to Santa. TFV gets to scratch off the list of dangerous individuals, changelings get the vamps, reindeer/third party gets changeling benefits.

>>17253208
Were-Reindeer black ops! There must be reindeer black ops!d

>>17234505
Bro.
Bro.
Bro.

Miami to Seattle is ~3330 miles. The changeling could run that faster than the Hedge would get him there.

>>17254065
Well, yeah, assuming our fastest Changeling (The Waterborn) had a straight shot (He doesn't, would have to swim around one of the Americas or the Panama Canal if he times it right). He's also only got 9 pumps of speed that he can use before he expends all his Glamour and has to recharge (Wyrd 10 grants you 100 glamour, 11 glamour per boost). Also keep in mind that scenes are malleable, inconsistant units of time, in the end it comes down to what the individual ST wants it to be.

You're better off as a Dracula in terms of practicality, or just using the Hedge, whatever means are available

You are now realizing that Santapire utilizes the Hedge to travel the world.

>>17222728
Seems halariously over powered.
Im pretty sure a 191 mph tackle by a 500 pound man would burst through someone. Hell, just clotheslining them while running at that speed should decapitate them instantaneously, or just turn their brain to a pulpy mush on impact. For better results, use a random object. A cast iron skillet should do.

>>17234491
>3 speed per pledge
That's a big assumption you're making there. Normally pledges work by adding merits.

enter friction knife: 1L damage per yard travelled.

>>17222728

OP, please tell me you jumped 300 feet into the air, and used your freakish mass as a human cannonball.

>>17254596
WHAT

How is that fluffed, exactly?

>>17254632
A forces spell, quite vulgar, I think the idea is that you boost the air friction to something insane.

>>17254792
So you run into the scene at insane speeds with a knife of "cutting your shit right in half" and make a dynamic entry that will spread an mile-long arc of fine blood behind us after the knife connects and you just keep on going?

At least you can't do this stuff without getting a lot of XP.

>>17254599
BROTHER, EX TORNODA

>>17254823

Nope

Target suffers lethal damage from friction from the
wind or even moving around. 1 lethal for every
movement or wind that equals 3 yards in 1 turn.

>>17222935
You're missing the point.

He's a 500 pound Louisiana dandy moving at Mach 0.3.

That's fucking retarded and I love it.

>>17223872
They're called Malkovian in nWoD and they are by default strongly encouraged to be played as the quietly insane type. Think Patrick Bateman as a soft-spoken Victorian gentleman who is ceaselessly polite to the people whose bones he removes while they're alive and awake. A Ventrue bloodline, if I'm not mistaken.

>>17225213
Yes

and I will leave my hat and pipe on

>>17254898

Yes. And now that the disease Malkavia has been printed, it was revealed that the entire bloodline carries it. Effectively giving the bloodline two extra disciplines... But two severe derangements, and this turns the character into a kind of monster.

>>17254940
Well... Malkavia was never linked to MalkOvians in the write-up.

>>17254974
Really? Hmm. Was probably mentioned on the DevBlog then.

>>17255045
Nah, but they do talk about using the discipline for a Malkavian bloodline.

>>17255089
Hmm. I could've been sure. Ah well, jsut goes to show: don't trust your brain when you've exceeded 30 hours awake in a row.

Why did you derail the thread?
Let's go back to reindeer black ops.
So we've got spirits, hunters and changelings guarding this old guy?
What's the stance of other vampires? And are there any were-beasts that hate him?
We do know that one Hunter faction tries to take him down.

>>17255346

Three hunter factions. The Malleus Monstorum and Long Night team up to save Christmas from Santa, and the Cheiron Group want to turn a profit from him.

As for other vampires, well the guy's a massive walking Masquerade breach. That, if nothing else, will get their attention, and not in a good way. Though they'll have a hard time stopping him. Maybe, somewhere in their black, souless hearts, a lot of vampires, when they think about it, think that maybe it's best just to let Christmas continue as it has for centuries.

I edited the 1d4chan page.
Now it has both pieces of writefaggotry and the consensus about Santa's life.
Unfortunately I suck at formating Wikis, so I'd like someone to change it to fit formating guidelines.
I also edited most of the typos in story 1, but didn't bother to do so in story 2.

>>17255435
Thing is, no rational adult believes in Santa. What luck would you have convincing them that Santa is real and a freaking vampire?

Is there a drawfag who can sketch up Santapire doing his thing?

The world must know of this.

Changeing Breeds is the werewolf book that has for non-wolf breeds, right?

>>17256871
...Is there NO ONE on /tg/ with knowledge of the changing breeds?
Why do we lack this kind of knowledge?

>>17258088
>>17256871

Because Changing Breeds is a godawful, furry book. Not even joking, it's properly furry.

It's nothing really to do with werewolves, it's just people who are so in touch with nature that they can transform into stupid sexy animal forms and fight against those nasty hoomans that try to hurt mother nature.

It's an abomination.

>>17258805
But is there something useable in it?

>>17258805
Technically, it isn't even a werewolf book. It was like Skinchangers - a WoD core book that just happened to include some supernatural mechanics. Part of the "we're offering a toolbox approach to storytelling' stuff.

I'm reading the PDF now

>>17258958

So far the book has a lot of Fern Gulley level moralizing over nature, but there seems to be at least a few non-Wolf critters that dabble in the spirit world like the Uratha.

"Clever mystics among the changing breeds summon and bind spirits as the werewolves do. Though less favored by ancestry, these mystics learn potent tricks from their spirit allies. Most times, such ferals deal with the spirits of animals or plants; every so often, though, one might forge pacts with the weirder spirits — conceptual spirits, artificial entities or the hybrid outcasts called magath. Wind-Dancer and Root-Weaver accords seem especially drawn to such experimental thinking, which seems to run counter to Nature’s earthly order. All in all, ferals avoid the eerie Shadow. Most beast-blooded folk would rather feel Earth’s air across their feathers or Earth’s mud beneath their paws."

>>17259110
"All feral characters, regardless of breed, share the following common traits:

• Shapeshifting: The defining talent of the werebeast, the Changing Gift allows the feral to shift between human, animal and a ferocious hybrid form.

• Healing: All ferals heal at a phenomenal rate.

• Fury and the Berserk: Bestial instincts and innate disgust with Man’s depredations imbue every feral with a Fury that can take several different forms.

• Weakness to Silver: The vulnerability to Moonbane remains a puzzling but constant thorn in every feral’s paw.

• The Delusion: The illusions of Man cannot handle certain truths. Faced with the Changing Gift, the Berserk or a feral in mid-shift, human minds or technologies suffer the Delusion . . . if only for a moment."

Seems pretty Uratha to me

>>17259139
> innate disgust with Man’s depredations

...Wow. It actually *is* furry. I'm really surprised at this not being a hyperbole.
WHAT IN THE FUCKING HELL? Gypsies is nothing against this.

>>17259139
I found which 'race' Reindeer would fit into: "Wind-Runners: Horses, elk, deer and other lean,
fast creatures."

As for the 'class' political associations:

Den-Keepers - "The den is the heart of safety in the wild. Therefore, the den must be nurtured and protected. Just as the mother bear watches over her cubs, the Den-Warder guards his protectorate. He may be devoted to friends,
family, animal kin or even complete strangers; in any case, his devotion keeps them alive."

>>17259200
I agree. The book was written (in part) from some oWoD werewolf writers, and it kinda shows the ecoterrorist angle of some of those books. Still, the crunch is fairly solid, and if you wanna discard the "DESPOILERS OF NATURE MUST PAY" line, it's pretty feasible.

I mean, hey: There's a merit for Rudolf's nose in here!

>>17259253
"Bioluminescence (•) In the deep canyons of the ocean, sunlight never goes. Nevertheless, weird constellations of light drift and circulate in the darkness, as bioluminescent fish live out their lives in the abyss. Likewise,lightning bugs pulse with incandescent glows. Their gift is rare among the Changing Folk, but a few ferals share this talent, too. A character with this Favor emits light from some portion of his body — or perhaps all of it. The light is roughly equal to that of a powerful fl ashlight; in game terms, the light eliminates up to two points of dice penalties for acting in darkness. The character can turn this Favor on or off at will, as a reflexive action, and the Favor costs no Essence to employ. The store of luminescent chemicals must “recharge” after each usage, however; this process takes 10 minutes. The effect lasts for one scene and then fades. In darkness, other characters gain a +2 bonus to attack the feral while he glows.

>>17259253
It does admittedly give one concession to easing up on the heavy-handedness: it emphasizes keeping your animal and human aspects in balance rather than letting EITHER one take too much control. It's just as bad to go full human-hating Red Talon wannabe animal as it is to just stand back and do nothing.

Are we going to have the were-Reindeer be like Uratha & dabble in spirits? if so, there's this Trick:

"In game terms, a feral with this Aspect can select Gifts from Werewolf: The Forsaken, provided that character has at least one dot in Language (First Tongue) and a working (and often high-maintenance) relationship with the spirit realm. Each dot in this Aspect purchases a single Gift of that rating; Gifts over the ••• level cost two dots each instead of one."

>>17259361
Shit, forgot the trick was called Spirit Gift. There's a whole whack of Spirit-related Tricks & Merits they can take.

I think, mechanically, the Elken-volk would work well if we were to have body-guards who share a connection to the spirit-world. Just ignore some of the /d/ style art.

Mechanically, they work like this:
"War-Beast: Strength +4, Stamina +4, Manipulation –2, Size 10, Health +9, Speed +9 (species factor 10), +1 to perception rolls

Primal Beast: Strength +3, Stamina +3, Manipulation –3, Size 10, Health +8, Speed +8 (species factor 10), +1 to perception rolls"

Pretty solid for bodyguards/black ops?

I'm still not entirely sure about the werewolves/were-reindeer. I mean, I'd like them to be included, but I'm struggling to think of a way to do so that makes sense. I mean, how'd these guys get involved with Santapire and all his little Elves?

>>17261333
Perhaps Finnish shamans who protected the Northern regions & the human inhabitants of the area. Santapire & his changeling friends seem to please the local spirits of winter festivities, and so they agree to defending the Jolly Man in Red to keep the spirit world content?

>>17263273
That's actually not that bad.

>>17259222
> "Wind-Runners: Horses, elk, deer and other lean,
fast creatures."
That actually fits perfectly - They don't need to be fast to work, but it definitely fits the scheme.

Bump

So is anyone capable of formating a wiki page?