Bloodsuckers: Difference between revisions

=Basics=

'''''I'm a bloodsucker! How do I survive my first sunrise?'''''

* '''Get some materials.''' At minimum get at least 5 wood so you can build a coffin. A more robust base will need wood, metal, cable, and a set of tools. You can get wood from Botany or by deconstructing wooden structures.

*'''Set up a base.''' Pick a place that you can access quickly and where you won't be disturbed. Hidden walls are a good way to get quick access, but don't be seen by security!

*'''Set up your coffin.''' The most basic coffin only needs 5 wood, but more advanced coffins can be built in the structures tab of the crafting menu.

*'''Sleep in your coffin.''' Drag yourself into the coffin and 'Rest' to lay down, then close the coffin on top of you. This lets you rank up, heal quickly, and survive the rays of the sun.

If you are caught outside of your coffin when the sun comes, '''you will quickly burn to death.''' In an emergency you can hide in a locker; you'll get burned, but will survive.

=== Feeding===

Bloodsuckers need blood to use their powers and stave off starvation. Remember that not all races have blood; you cannot feed at all on a Plasmaman or Skeleton. Note that sucking blood near a mortal who is not your victim risks breaking the Masquerade.  

====Aggressive Feeding====

If you have someone grabbed aggressively, you can use the Feed power to start drinking their blood. This is obvious to them and everyone else, but once the feeding actually starts they'll be paralyzed and eventually put to sleep.

==== Stealthy Feeding====

If you're standing next to someone or pulling them passively you can feed on them without them noticing. You'll continue feeding as long as your victim remains adjacent, though keep in mind you'll be briefly paralyzed after starting to feed. '''This is invisible to the victim, but can be noticed by everyone else!'''

====Animal Abuse====

If you're desperate you can feed on a monkey for a tiny amount of blood. You'll get much more if you humanize the victim first through genetics, though still less than if you feed on a conscious human.

===Torpor, Burn Damage, and Final Death===

By entering your coffin while injured or while Sol is ascendant, you will enter the deathless state of Torpor, rapidly healing damage and appearing as a corpse to most onlookers. You will also enter this state if you are damaged to the point of death but do not meet the requirements for Final Death. Even without Torpor, bloodsuckers not using the Masquerade power will naturally heal most types of damage; The exception is burn damage, which must be treated medically or by entering Torpor in your coffin.

*Having your body destroyed through cremation or gibbing.

=Bloodsucker Powers =

|'''Feed'''||Draw the heartsblood of living victims in your grasp. You will break the Masquerade if seen feeding.. Blood is sucked faster if the target is passively grabbed. Additionally, the target will be put to sleep if aggressively grabbed. Feeding on a rat as non Nosferatu/Malkavian, or feeding on a human until they die, will cause you to lose Humanity. Aggressively feeding on a human while near another non Bloodsucker/Vassal will cause a Masquerade violation. ||0 blood||3 seconds

|'''Vanishing Act'''||Single use power, only given when Sol is near. Teleports the user to their coffin in exchange for a considerable blood cost. If someone watches you teleport, you drop all your current belongings on the floor before teleporting. ||100 blood||100 seconds

At level 4, you get the ability to bash airlocks open, as long as they aren't bolted.||8 blood||9 seconds

|30 blood||8 seconds

| 10 blood

|5 seconds

| 30 blood

|20 seconds

|8 seconds

Ranking up will improve the powers you already have but not powers you haven't chosen yet, so if you want rank-related benefits from a power you should choose it early so it ranks up with you. Some powers don't benefit from ranks at all.

==Sol==

==The Masquerade ==

If you begin feeding on a human while someone is within 2 squares of you, you've risked discovery and exposed the existence of Bloodsuckers to humans! If you do this three times, you break the Masquerade:

 

 

 

Accepting the Lasombra clan grants you the ability to build a resting place altar from metal, rods, and cloth.  This structure works the same as a normal blood altar, but you can ascend it to unlock special features exclusive to the clan. You may ascend the altar using '''abyssal essence''', which you can harvest from '''reality smash''' locations on the station. These locations appear randomly and are invisible to mortals; you may harvest one unit of essence per location.

Once you've ascended the altar, you can use it to permanently upgrade your purchased skills for points.  The first upgrade point is free, but you need to spend ranks to gain more.  '''Accepting the Lasombra clan adds an objective to ascend 4-5 skills at the altar.'''

Lasombra bloodsuckers gain the ability to build Subservent Armor using metal and rods; this suit of armor looks inanimate but comes alive if a non-bloodsucker passes too close.  Once awakened, it will chase and attack anything around it until subdued, '''including you and your thralls.'''  As a Lasombra, however, you are immune to brute damage so this may not be a problem.  When killed the armor reverts to its inanimate and unanchored form, allowing you to reuse it.

 

 

''Also known as 'Werewolves', the Gangrel are closely linked with their inner beast, being quicker to fall into Frenzy and more powerful in its throes.  The more often they survive a Frenzy, the more animalistic and dangerous they become.''

 

 

* You gain the ability to transform into an animal once per night.

* You lose a large amount of humanity, making it easier to go into a Frenzy.

* You lose your Masquerade ability.

 

Gangrel bloodsuckers become Frenzied more easily due to their initial loss of humanity.  The first two times they enter Frenzy after accepting the clan, they get no special effects.  '''On the third Frenzy after entering the Clan, the beast awakens and you become a full werewolf.  Accepting the Gangrel clan adds an objective to enter Frenzy 3-4 times in total.'''

 

As a werewolf you are fast, durable, and do a lot of damage.  Instead of biting people to feed, you can use the '''Devour''' power to consume a corpse whole and heal yourself.  Your normal Bloodsucker arsenal is unavailable in this state, but you can gain wolf-themed powers depending on which standard powers you have unlocked.

 

 

 

# Under 500 blood you permanently turn into a Felinid.  If you're already a Felinid, you become a lizard.  Either way, you punch slightly harder and gain natural 30% damage reduction.

 

 

 

The Tzimisce clan can only be played as a ghost role and cannot be selected by ordinary bloodsuckers.  They begin with the '''Dice''' power, which allows them to cut muscles off of corpses or cripple limbs in combat.  Tzimisce cannot use the Masquerade or Veil of Many Faces abilities, as they do not care about blending into mortal society.

 

 

Tzimisce can harvest muscles from dead humans by targeting their limbs and using the Dice power.  Muscles can be combined freely into larger muscles or separated into smaller ones with a sharp object.  All limbs can be Diced except for the head and the chest.

Dice can be used in combat by targeting arms and legs.  The effect depends on the rank of the power:

# Below rank 3, deals a large amount of stamina damage to the limb, usually crippling it.

# Between rank 3 and 5, deals stamina and brute damage to the limb.  Regardless of what you were aiming for, the victim drops items in their hands.

# At rank 6 and above, outright severs the targeted limb.

Note that Tzimisce bloodsuckers cannot build an altar, but they can use altars built by others.

==Vassals==

==Monster Hunters==