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[Bo]

Vampire Template

Name: Sylvain Bastien Beaulieu

Player: Bo

Chronicle: Transylvanian Chronicles

Nature: Art snob

Sire: Arianne, the Instigator of Tragic Romance

Demeanor: Bon Vivant

Clan: Toreador

Generation: 7

Concept: artophile

Coterie:

Attributes

Physical: Tertiary 3

Strength: 1+1=2; Dexterity: 1+1=2; Stamina: 1+1=2

Social: Secondary 5

Charisma: 1+1=2 Manipulation: 1+0=1 Appearance: 1+4=5

Mental: Primary 7

Perception: 1+3=4; Intelligence: 1+2=3; Wits: 1+2=3

Abilities

Talents: Tertiary 5

Alertness: 0; Awareness; 0; Athletics: 0; Brawl: ; Dodge: 0; Empathy: 0; Expression: 0+3=3; Intimidation: 0+2=2; Leadership: 0; Streetwise: 0; Subterfuge: 0

Skills: Primary 13

Animal Ken: 0; Crafts (painting): 0+3=3; Riding/Drive: 0; Etiquette: 0+3=3; Firearms: 0; Melee: 0+3=3; Performance (dance): 0+3=3; Security: 0; Stealth: 0+1=1; Survival: 0

Knowledge: Secondary: 9

Academics: 0+3=3; Politics: 0; Finance: 0+3=3; Investigation: 0; Linguistics: 0+3=3; Medicine: 0; Occult: 0; Science: 0; Law: 0

Disciplines

Presence: 4
Celerity: 2

Virtues

Courage: 1+1=2

Conscience/Conviction: 1+3=4

Self-control/Instinct: 1+3=4

Advantages

Backgrounds

Beneficial

Allies:4; Influence: XX; Mentor: 1; Resources: 5; Contacts: XX; Generation: 5; Herd: 1; Retainers: 2; Status: XX

Adversarial

(Leave this section of your character sheet blank. This part is here purely for my use. If you gain any enemies or adverse backgrounds during your in-game time, they will show up here.)

Humanity/Path
8

WillPower

Permanent Willpower: 2

Temporary Willpower: XX

Health

Full; No penalty; 10/10

Blood pool

Points: 20 max

Points per turn: 4

Merits and Flaws

Merit:Acute Sense of Taste: (1 pt) (VPG)
You have an exceptionally keen sense of taste. To spot the taint of poison in blood or another substance are You are able to make precise distinctions in taste. Combined with Heightened Senses (Level One Auspex), this Merit can provide superhuman taste acuity.

Ambidextrous: (1 pt) (VPG)
You have a high degree of off-hand dexterity and can perform tasks with the 'wrong' hand. Can use both hands at the same time.

Calm Heart: (3pt) (VPG)
You are naturally calm and well-composed, and do not easily fly off the handle

Eye for Beauty (1-pt. Merit)

The Kindred is a natural critic. Reduce difficulties for Art Appreciation by four

Touched by God (3-pt. merit)

Your art is considered truly inspired and inspiring. There is an essence of life and beauty about your work that moves others. Perhaps you were always gifted, or the Embrace might have opened you to the Almighty in ways you hadn't expected. Your singing voice causes stones to melt, your paintings look as if their subjects might step off the canvas at any moment, or your storytelling holds people utterly spellbound. The difficulty on all Expression rolls is reduced by two. If the art being produced relates to God, the Church or similar high ideals, the difficulty is reduced by three instead. Such perfection, however, can engender jealousy in mortal or Cainite rivals. Some suspicious clergy may believe that you sold your soul to achieve your talent, or that you are guilty of hubris by reaching too high within your endeavors

Sweet Blood (1pt. Merit)
Your vitae tastes like the finest wine, sweet and heady without the slightest trace of salt or metallic tang. As such, you may hide your blood in a chalice or feed ghouls without betraying the true nature of their draught.

Flaw:
Eerie Presence (2pt. Flaw)
Mortals have an unconscious awareness of your undead nature, which makes them anxious and ill at east in your presence. Because of this, difficulties of all die rolls relating to social interaction with mortals are increased by two.

Fierce Bigot (2pt. Flaw): The uncultured
You hold particular hatred or disdain for a specific class or community of mortals, most likely the common rabble of serfs and servants. You make all frenzy checks at +2 difficulty around such individuals and always attack them first if you do succumb to frenzy.

Cast No Reflection (1pt. Flaw)
You actually cast no reflection. This can have a very detrimental effect trying to pass as a human. Vampires of Clan Lasombra automatically have this Flaw at no point benefit (and you may be mistaken for one of them if you possess it).

Repulsed by Garlic (1pt. Flaw)
You cannot abide garlic, and the smallest whiff of its scent drives you from a room unless you make a successful Willpower roll (difficulty based on the strength of the odor).



Magic

Rituals

XX

Paths

The Path of Power and the Inner Voice

Derangements

XX

Languages
French, German, Latin, and Romanian

Combat

Weapon/Attack: XX Difficulty: XX Damage: XX Range: XX Rate: XX Clip: XX Conceal: XX
(More will be added as needed)

Armor
Class: XX Rating: XX Penalty: XX
Description: XX

Expanded backgrounds
(Here you provide descriptions of your background)

Allies: see retainer

Contacts: XX

Influence: XX

Herd:
Donat Tar: Butler
Eduard Antal: Driver
Antonia Leverenz: Cook

Retainers:
Aldric Petru: A tall and lanky fan of Sylvian's art who was ghoulified to do Sylvian's day-to-day errands after attempting harass the newly-turned vampire over one of his paintings. Pretty much just treated like the pleb he is shit while simultaneously running errands and protecting the house while Odi is away.

Odi Rusza: The only surviving mercenary employed by Sylvian to eliminate a rival painter, Odi was rewarded by being given the supernatural ability of ghouls... and the supernatural bond that came with it. Now this gruff manservant goes on the prowl whenever Sylvian tires of his herd and desires the blood of an artist or art enthusiast. A creative genius like Sylvian can't be distracted by such petty matters, after all. When not hunting, Odi acts as a personal bodyguard to Sylvian and guards the door that leads to his loft.

Resources: Sylvian attainex his considerable wealth through the painting of art that has been considered by some to be masterpieces. Especially his work made with religious inspirations, which many claim to come from God himself.

Status: XX

Other: XX

Possessions
Two carriages, one that's smaller and used for around-city travel, another that's large enough to be loaded up with luggage for long distance travels.
Does my house include any land? That would decide if I have any personal horses in a stable or not (Horse rental options are presumably a thing? Had to get them from somewhere back in the day)

Various empty easels, a wide amount of brushes, SHITLOADS of paint, and blank paper to coat the floor of the loft. For paint, totally to catch the red paint <-<

A loooooooooooooooot of paintings to keep in the art gallery room.

Besides the saber he uses for combat, he will also have a couple daggers, one of which he'll hide in a boot while travelling. Let's include a fancy fencing saber as well - for duels and slaying his enemies and whatnot

Of course lavish furnishings for the estate. Toreador and whatnot.

I'm also going to include a wine cellar and several older vintages so he can sneak vitae to anyone at a viewing.

Gear (Carried): XX

Equipment (Owned):
Melee: Saber
Armor: Chainmail underclothes



Vehicles: Horse and Carriage

Feeding grounds: Art galleries, museums, and anywhere where an avid appreciater of the arts can be found.

Blood bonds/Vinculi

Bound to: XX (Rating: XX)

Havens

Location: Large House

Description: A large house consisting of servants' quarters, ghoul's quarters, a master bedroom, kitchen, sitting room, art gallery, library (nothing special), and a loft for painting on the top floor. The house is lavishly decorated and cleaned by the butler, Antonese.

History

His story till now: Sylvian Beaulieu was born to a French family that possessed very little wealth and even less prestige. However, you would never know that based on how he currently lives his life. After discovering a remarkable talent for painting and a sizeable market for his art he quickly found his way to moderate success, leaps and bounds ahead of what he used to live in. This is also what attracted his sire - Arianne - to him as one of her many lovers. Now Sylvian lives a very comfortable life as an immortal artist, spending his eternity expanding his mind as well as his art collection. After moving to Transylvia to capture the otherworldy landscape that felt could only be found in that region, he acquired a ghoul named Aldric, a raving fan of his art who happened to recognize him on the street despite his use of surnames (ironically based on an ego-fueled self portrait) and kept harrassing the artist until Sylvian eventually enslaved the young man just to make him shut up (or so he claims). Now Aldric handles Sylvian's day to day affairs - literally - while he sleeps and serves to protect his dwelling in Transylvania and to keep any troublemakers off of the premisis while his other ghoul - Odi - is busy fetching the master's dinner.

Goals/Destiny: To one day capture Transylvania's landscape in the perfect painting

Why he is willing to join the cotterie (besides sire's request): To travel the countryside in search of inspiration

Connection to other characters: XX

Description

Age: 33

Apparent Age: 24

Date of Birth: XX

Death: XX

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Green

Race: White

Nationality: French

Height: 5'11

Weight: 186 pounds

Sex: Male

Physical description: Rich Frenchman more likely to walk with his nosed in the air than not. Typically wears the finest clothes he can find. His eyes seem to constantly be surveying the background, as if looking for something that nobody can see. Has an eery presence that puts mortals ill at ease.

[Drakilian]

Oh, Bo, one thing: I see that you're looking at the attributes page for Mage, but it's worth noting that vampires can, unlike mages, soak Lethal damage.

Also, vampires, unlike mages, have their disciplines powered by their attributes and abilities (instead of Arete, you roll a combination like you would for a normal action). So you might want to coordinate your attributes with your Disciplines - Perception/Empathy for Auspex, Charisma/Appearance/Manipulation for Presence, etc.

Also, you might want to take a look at the Vampire Blood pool uses - Blood is very useful.

[Bo]

Hmm, I might hold off on this until later. I have some stuff going on right now and this seems like a lot of reading.

[Drakilian]

Oh yeah, soooo much. But you should be good since you already understand the basics (Attributes, Abilities, etc.)

[Bo]

Oh yeah, soooo much. But you should be good since you already understand the basics (Attributes, Abilities, etc.)

Sorry I had people over at the apartment and now apparently my roomate left meat in the cabinet while we were gone for a month and my apartment is now infested with fruit flies.

I hate being an adult -_-

[Bo]

Ooooooh yes. All the presence. All of it.

[Bo]

Oh, Bo, one thing: I see that you're looking at the attributes page for Mage, but it's worth noting that vampires can, unlike mages, soak Lethal damage.

Also, vampires, unlike mages, have their disciplines powered by their attributes and abilities (instead of Arete, you roll a combination like you would for a normal action). So you might want to coordinate your attributes with your Disciplines - Perception/Empathy for Auspex, Charisma/Appearance/Manipulation for Presence, etc.

Also, you might want to take a look at the Vampire Blood pool uses - Blood is very useful.

So perception for Auspex, Dexterity/agility for Celerity, and Social skills for Presence? I think I have it where I want it then.

[Drakilian]

Celerity doesn't rely on anything, it just gives you more actions (you get as many actions as your celerity rating after spending a blood point at the beginning of the round). Yes, in case you're wondering, that's what the elder Assamite is currently using to Fark you, Nazario and Damus all simultaneously.

[Drakilian]

Ooh, i've got the perfect sire for you. Only Toreador character so far too, but you suit her tastes perfectly.

[Bo]

So what you're saying is I just need to wait for an elder vampire to run out of blood? How can that go wrong?

And by that you mean an art-loving Toreador? it should work out pretty well, I'm gonna have him be a semi-famous artist, that's how he makes his money. After his centuries of being immortal he'll just use psuedonyms XD

[Drakilian]

Hehehehe

[Bo]

So would painting go into knowledge or skills? I'm guessing skills

[Drakilian]

It's a specialty of crafts. Just put Crafts (painting) XX

[Bo]

Big question, what does "Finances" mean. Like, taxes or investments?

[Drakilian]

Business savyness.

[Bo]

Sweet, will probably invest in that instead then. And Horde? How does that work? Just followers or all ghouls (cuz I could use a ghoul army)

[Drakilian]

They are completely useless other than for blood. Think of cult members in mage - they provide you with a service (the cult gives you automatic successes on magic rolls, the herd gives you blood) and they pretty much suck at everything else. look at Berka's thread for examples.

Retainers are ghouls, but troubled ones. They are bound to you but they are not perfect. If you spend ally points to make retainer/ally ghouls, then they increase in usefulness. If it gets strong enough, you can even have another vampire bound to you.

[Daedalus]

Pfft, give all your ghouls to Lucien. He'll make them glorious for you!

>.>

<.<


(for a cost)

[Bo]

All right, I spent a point in Ally and Retainer for a useful-ish ghoul. I think the ghoul is going to be Transylvanian (Sylvian is French but knows a shitload of languages) and named Neculai Unger. A raving fan of Sylvian's art who was ghoulified to do his day-to-day work. Pretty much just treated like the pleb he is shit

[Drakilian]

Hmm, okay, in that case he won't be a combat God or anything, but he'll possess other useful disciplines. Stuff like Presence, Auspex and Obfuscate.

[Drakilian]

Note: Generation is one of the most important things in ever, you'll want to raise that as high as you possibly can.

[Not Aman]

Basically, more important then arete for mages.

[Bo]

I'll put points into it when I do freebies, probably.

[Bo]

I'm really liking the path of Power and the Inner Voice. It's cool if I pursue that, right?

Also, do you have any info on my sire?

[Bo]

Freebies:15
-5 for Generation
=10

[Drakilian]

I'm really liking the path of Power and the Inner Voice. It's cool if I pursue that, right?

Also, do you have any info on my sire?

Yep, it's cool.

Check out People of note - it's Arianne (I put at the bottom that she sired you).

[Bo]

Freebies:15
-5 for Generation
=10

-2 for Resources
-1 for Ally (make him a little more powerful
=7

[Drakilian]

Ah, though I put it on there you guys don't start with any status (you don't want to start with status either, trust me here, it's a waste of points).

[Bo]

Yep, it's cool.

Check out People of note - it's Arianne (I put at the bottom that she sired you).

All right, now how do the points in paths and willpower work? Do I strictly have to do that based on freebies or is it done a different way?

[Bo]

Ah, though I put it on there you guys don't start with any status (you don't want to start with status either, trust me here, it's a waste of points).

Alright, can I put it on influence or is that also a waste?

[Bo]

And also, are the merits and flaws the same for vamps as they are for mages?

[Drakilian]

Alright, can I put it on influence or is that also a waste?

Also a waste, yes.

And also, are the merits and flaws the same for vamps as they are for mages?

Hahahahahahahahaha

No, definitely not the same XD

You can check in the explanatory links section or ask Aman for good merits/flaws.

All right, now how do the points in paths and willpower work? Do I strictly have to do that based on freebies or is it done a different way?

Listed in the char creation guide - they're both based off of virtues. Your will power is your Courage before spending freebie points (bumping courage later with freebie points does not raise your willpower), your path is based on your other two virtues added up before spending freebie points.

[Bo]

How many people do I get in my horde? 3?

[Drakilian]

Yep

[Bo]

All right, three herdsmembers (all transylvanian and live in the mansion, he can have one with five resources?):
Antonese Nicolescu: Butler
Valerian Costin: Driver
Alina Balan: Cook (Ironic I know).

What generation does that put Sylvian at?

[Drakilian]

A 5 in generation puts you at 7th generation - this means you can raise your abilities, attributes and disciplines up to the 6th level.

Yes, you can have a fancy house in a big city - Arianne is in Radu's city of Bistritz so I assume you come from there.

Not retainers, herd members.

[Bo]

Kinda want the Acute taste perk just to go along with the artistic snob routine.
You have an exceptionally keen sense of taste. To spot the taint of poison in blood or another substance are You are able to make precise distinctions in taste. Combined with Heightened Senses (Level One Auspex), this Merit can provide superhuman taste acuity

So -1=6

[Bo]

Ambidextrous: (1 pt) (VPG)
You have a high degree of off-hand dexterity and can perform tasks with the 'wrong' hand. Can use both hands at the same time.

-1=5

[Bo]

Calm Heart: (3pt) (VPG)
You are naturally calm and well-composed, and do not easily fly off the handle

Thought it would go well with his regal demeaner if story events didn't freak him out

-3=2

[Bo]

Eye for Beauty (1-pt. Merit)

The Kindred is a natural critic. Reduce difficulties for Art Appreciation by four

I mean, duh.
-1=1

[Not Aman]

You may want to have taken
http://reference.l2fury.com/index.php/Touched_by_God

[Bo]

You may want to have taken
http://reference.l2fury.com/index.php/Touched_by_God

veeeeeery nice. So how about

Eerie Presence (2pt. Flaw)
Mortals have an unconscious awareness of your undead nature, which makes them anxious and ill at east in your presence. Because of this, difficulties of all die rolls relating to social interaction with mortals are increased by two.
+2=3

then

Touched by God (3-pt. merit)

Your art is considered truly inspired and inspiring. There is an essence of life and beauty about your work that moves others. Perhaps you were always gifted, or the Embrace might have opened you to the Almighty in ways you hadn't expected. Your singing voice causes stones to melt, your paintings look as if their subjects might step off the canvas at any moment, or your storytelling holds people utterly spellbound. The difficulty on all Expression rolls is reduced by two. If the art being produced relates to God, the Church or similar high ideals, the difficulty is reduced by three instead. Such perfection, however, can engender jealousy in mortal or Cainite rivals. Some suspicious clergy may believe that you sold your soul to achieve your talent, or that you are guilty of hubris by reaching too high within your endeavors

-3=0

Niiiiice?

[Drakilian]

Yeah, that's good. You can get an additional 8 freebie pts through flaws.

[Bo]

oh yeah, is my hord approved before I put it in? I just accidentally typed retainers because that's what I'm used to with Nazario

[Bo]

alright, random questions for your approval before I log off for the night:
1.) Is it ok if my guy was sired in 1150? I mean it says we start the game in the twelfth century, and my vampire is supposed to be fairly older (so he could acquire multiple languages and resources and whatnot) but his sire was only turned in 1120. Unless we could have him be the first of many to be sired? I would be cool with that.
2.) So he should have four languages learned thanks to his three in linguistic (Idk why the third level grants an extra level but there it is) I'm thinking French for his native land, Hungarian because that's where they are (unless Transylvanians speak a different language?) English because it was close to France and interacts with it pretty often, and Italian because they controlled trade in the Mediteranean where he spent the majority of his life (or unlife? Idk when I have him moving to Transylvania). Any other language you think I could use due to upcoming plots or regions in the game? Hopefully Sylvian will be a translator of sorts.
3.) I noticed in the setting (well, the setting you said was important. I'll probably read it all.... one day) that Nobles are starting to create new settings and trade routes in Transylvania. I was wondering if that could be the reason why he came. While he's a "noble" he does have a few levels of finance and being a lover of the arts he might have come to the "fronteir" to get more inspiration. Is this cool with you since his Sire dissapeared from his life?
4.) Can Vampires have sex? Will you teach me the Bats and the Bees?

[Drakilian]

1). No. You're all Neonates. Anyone who wants to start older than 20 years as a vampire will earn my almost immediate ire and annoyance.

2). Get Latin.

3). Sire hasn't disappeared. He knows exactly where his sire his. She just doesn't care about him anymore - or at least, she gives that impression. He's even starting in the same city as her.

The chronicle takes place here for the next 8 centuries. You need a better reason than that, unless you decide to say that you're so enamoured with the land that you decide to abandon everything else to stay here.

[Bo]

1.) Cool with me, I'll just say he's rediculously smart. Get on my level, plebs <-<
3.)That's really cool, do they have a link with one another? I'm not entirely sure what stories I've heard from The Masquerade and what I've heard from other lores
4.) I was actually being half serious on that one. Was curious how exactly his sire tricked him into a turning as I remember that in the video game you were turned during sex but they also hint that vampires may not be able to have it.

Toreadors have random flights of fancy, right? So he could easily just be obsessed with a certain inspiration he found in Hungary?

[Drakilian]

Who said he was willing? All it said was that she turned him.

Vampires are made by draining all of the blood from one's body and then giving them a trickle of your own vitae. That creates a childer.

Yes, they can have sex. They just don't receive any pleasure from it. Sometimes. Check out Bulscu, that guy's into some nasty shit.
You have to spend a number of blood points before you can use those functions though. I think it's something like 8 - your path rating.

Random flights of fancy do not last 800 years.

[Forge]

Who said he was willing? All it said was that she turned him.

Vampires are made by draining all of the blood from one's body and then giving them a trickle of your own vitae. That creates a childer.

Yes, they can have sex. They just don't receive any pleasure from it. Sometimes. Check out Bulscu, that guy's into some nasty shit.
You have to spend a number of blood points before you can use those functions though. I think it's something like 8 - your path rating.

Random flights of fancy do not last 800 years.

The setting clearly indicates that the demon and its black heart has affected the landscape and all who dwell within it for any length of time giving it an otherworldly feel and look. Even though it started as a flight of fancy, he could become obsessed with emanating that in his art, achieving the high level attribute available to certain Elders of capturing feeling and emotion into the work, and he wants to capture the feeling of this strange twisted place.

[Drakilian]

That I would accept, but I need to know if Bo is willing to go with that.