VTM campaign about the massive, bloody vampire turf war between each of the clans as the fight for control of their most desired resource: the only Hot Topic in a 50-mile radius.
Alessandro Abbadelli, 7th gen Lasombra and a Sabbath Bishop on a path of Power and Inner Voice. Atheist and hates religion, but enjoys forcing people and kindred to confess their sins in order to manipulate them after. Absolute power whore for whom it is never enough. Probably Vergil’s best friend. Probably Littlefinger’s (more) evil twin brother. But definitively an asshole.
The funniest clan infiltration in Vampire: the Masquerade lore was Marcus Vitel/Lucius Aelius Sejanus, who posed as a Ventrue and became prince of Washington D.C.
He was a Lasombra.
How the fuck did the Camarilla not even check to see if he had a reflection? Why are they not TF2 spychecking with a little hand mirror before they appoint princes? Hand mirrors are a clan logo.
Then they went, oh, he has this superspecial Obfuscate power that cloaks his linneage, which is great until you have multiple assholes with Auspex 6+ running around. And that same write up gave him Thaumaturgy without any of the concealing rituals
Yeah, specifically a magic pin clasp, which is really fucking funny
One of these babies overcame a curse laid upon the clan by Caine
It’s not like it’s a particularly evenly-layered-on curse, to be fair.
Nosferatu get the double whammy of “you forever look balefully inhuman” and “literally nothing can fix this, ever; anything that would, even actively rearranging reality, wears off after one night Cindarella-style”
Meanwhile, the Tzimisce have to invest in plastic baggies and shovels. Awful, truly.
Caine had the whole third generation gather up in the circle of shame and kept going back to Absimiliard.
“Arikel, for thy vanity, your childer shall be enraptured by beauty. Malkav, for your mocking prophecies, you and all whom you sire shall be mad. Ennoia, for your savagery, your face shall remember the features of the beast when you succumb to your rage - might workshop that a bit if it gets too problematic. And speaking of problematic, oh, Zapathasura, you’re going to be soooo problematic. Ah, Abisimilliard, you fuck. You’re going to be uglier than the ugliest ugly person if they were trying to look uglier. Like a stub-nosed bat fucked a mangy rat and took a shit. You’re going to look like the shit. Tzimisce, you’re going to be bound to your homeland, but you can cheat it with a jar of dirt. Ventrue, uh, you’re going to be kind of picky. Set…uh, so all of you are killed by sunlight and fire, but you’re going to be super extra killed. Absimiliard again! You asshole, don’t even try to cover it up, because your ugliness will shine through any disguise, physical or supernatural. Fuck you, I hate you so much. Also you, Cappadocius, you’re going to be kind of ugly too. You didn’t even do anything, but just by standing next to Absimilliard means you’re in the ugly splash zone. So you’re ugly, too. But not Absimiliard ugly. Alright, running out of ideas, so, uh, no reflection, short-tempered, uh, blood addiction, I dunno, I’ll get back to Saulot, and oh, Absimiliard, fuck you again, you’re not even getting cool disciplines. No unique in-clans, no cool sorcery, just fuck you, obfuscate, potence, and animalism, yeah, fucking animalism, and that shitty first edition version that runs on Appearance, yeah, fuck you and your dice pools.”
The funniest clan infiltration in Vampire: the Masquerade lore was Marcus Vitel/Lucius Aelius Sejanus, who posed as a Ventrue and became prince of Washington D.C.
He was a Lasombra.
How the fuck did the Camarilla not even check to see if he had a reflection? Why are they not TF2 spychecking with a little hand mirror before they appoint princes? Hand mirrors are a clan logo.
Then they went, oh, he has this superspecial Obfuscate power that cloaks his linneage, which is great until you have multiple assholes with Auspex 6+ running around. And that same write up gave him Thaumaturgy without any of the concealing rituals
Malkavians posing as members of other clans has been a thing since their write-up in the first edition corebook, but not enough members of other clans pose as Malks. Tremere and Old Clan Tzimisce are particularly-well tailored for it, if you take a dot or two of Obfuscate at character creation and never touch it. Just be a wizard or a big dracula who’s kind of off
soo long story short(not really). It’s against vampire laws to work and hunt on other vampire’s territory without permission. However from 1970 to 1974 when Adzone Visconti - the oldest vampire of the city(who’s rumored to eat a lot of vampires in the past) was away, Charlie worked in this vampire’s clinic and drank his hoomans.
