#ASHFINDER????

[freak60000]

canon pathash exchange

[doggos-and-camp-songs]

Ashfinders: What, diablerie? No, that's what bad guys do.

*snorts the ashes of a dead vampire for power*

[diableriedoll]

Because how many ask games are too many? Trick question, there's never enough! We all know we adore talking about our Kindred and hearing about others.

Send as many Clans/ Cults of your choice to the reblogger, plus their OC name, let them answer the relevant questions about their Kindred. The questions are based around the Clan/ Cult rather than you have to send the cult or clan the OC is in. ♥️🩸

Add your OC's names in the tags and share!

Don't forget to send asks to the person you reblogged this from!

Clan Inspired

Banu Haqim - What's the worst punishment your OC has received? Have they given any punishments out? How was it handled?

Brujah - What is something your OC will always fight for? What's the reason?

Gangrel - What is your OC's Beast like? Do they get along.. more or less?

Hecata - Does your OC have a family? Be it through blood or chosen. Tell us about them.

Lasombra - What's the most ruthless thing your OC has done? Why?

Malkavian - Think of your OC as a mortal, pre-embrace. If someone showed them what's going to happen to them, from the night they were turned to now, would they let the embrace happen or would they try to avoid it?

Ministry - What's the best/ worst lie your OC have ever told? What was the reason? Was it believed?

Nosferatu - Your OC is now cursed. Again. Their favourite physical thing about them has been changed to their worst nightmare. What is it?

Ravnos - Is your OC a daredevil or are they more cautious? What's the most chaotic thing that they've done?

Salubri - Ignore how many dots in Humanity there are. In your opinion, what's your OC's humanity like?

Toreador - Describe your OCs aesthetic in the worst way possible, then tell us what it actually is.

Tremere - What is something your OC wanted and got it for themselves, no matter how selfish or high the cost was?

Tzimisce - What's your OC's most prized possession? How long have they had it? Why is it important?

Ventrue - Does your OC have any influence or sway anywhere? Are they respected?

Caitiff - Would you say your OC is quite individualistic or do they conform to their Clan stereotype?

Thin-blood - Has your OC ever been shunned or cast-out? Are they currently an outcast? Or have they ever shunned someone else? Why?

Cult Inspired

Ashfinders - Does your OC use social media? If so, which platforms and what's their following like?

Bahari - How well does your OC cope with physical and/ or mental pain?

Church of Caine - Does your OC have any religious/ Kindred beliefs?

Church of Set - Is your OC able to be their true selves? If not, why? Is there anyone they can be real in front of?

Cult of Shalim - What's the worst thing your OC has suffered so far?

Cult of Mithras - Has your OC been in a blood bond? Are they currently in one? Do they have anyone bonded to them?

Nephilim - What pleasures does your OC get out of their (un)life?

[kavalyera]

For V Peng ❣️

Tremere - What is something your OC wanted and got it for themselves, no matter how selfish or high the cost was?

Ashfinders - Does your OC use social media? If so, which platforms and what's their following like?

Bahari - How well does your OC cope with physical and/ or mental pain?

Tremere - What is something your OC wanted and got it for themselves, no matter how selfish or high the cost was?

�� Answered here!

Ashfinders - Does your OC use social media? If so, which platforms and what's their following like?

— Vivienne has barely any social media presence but she did use Instagram one time to find a target in my last sess with her!

Bahari - How well does your OC cope with physical and/ or mental pain?

— Vivienne sucks at handling pain, with both. All that smoking in her art? Yeah that’s her not being able to manage her own mental pain. Which is probably why her humanity plummeted from ten to six (I swear guys I’m not impulsive☹️)

vtm clan ask game !

[scribesofcalamity]

Tzimisce, Caitiff, and Ashfinders for Solomon please! 🎀

Tzimisce - What's your OC's most prized possession? How long have they had it? Why is it important?

Solomon's most prized possessions would be his daggers. They were part of the cache of Relics he found when he was a small child, and now they are an extension of him that he wields with unfettered fury and destruction. (They were also a custom item my storyteller made for him!)

Knives of the Broken Sun

Two flint blades of extreme age, these knives nevertheless retain a keen edge that rivals contemporary weaponry. They are embossed with silver and gold, and a glyph of the sun has been defaced on the hilt of each, replaced with the carved symbol of Set. Taken from a cult of the sun god, these pervert and profane the power of the light to serve the dark designs of the Minister that wields it. The two knives represent the two victories of Set: treachery and persistence. The left is more powerful in stealth; when used in an attack from stealth or the Discipline power Adder Strike, it bypasses all armor the target may have. The right is more powerful in open combat; whenever a critical success leads to damage on the Minister’s opponent, it also converts one of the foe’s existing Superficial damage marks into Aggravated.

Caitiff - Would you say your OC is quite individualistic or do they conform to their Clan stereotype?

Solomon conforms pretty well to the clan stereotype. He is far more interested in exploring the path of becoming a god himself and breaking his own chains however, rather than being content to just build a following that simply turns away from societal norms. He has always been about that choice. The choice to join him, to follow and worship him, and then to destroy yourself when he is ready to move on.

Ashfinders - Does your OC use social media? If so, which platforms and what's their following like?

Solomon uses social media but not so much for posting as himself. The Montreal compound runs several pages and websites to help target new potential cult members who are looking for help or down on their luck.

[hazelenergy]

☕️ + Thoughts on Necromancy

I have zero idea how this works and honestly I'm afraid to ask. I know like...ashfinders do some of this but it's honestly easier to get a Ventrue to talk about their feeding restriction and that's saying something.

[paint-lady]

Absolutely baffled and in love with our three thinbloods working so beautifully as a team after a year cold with Tampa Thinblood Chronicles, but damn we really just decided to wake up and take a swing at the Ashfinders and the Circulatory system, huh?

[jakey-died]

INFO POST

This in an in-character vampire the masquerade rp blog run by @styxnbones for my oc Jakey, a thinblood alchemist who is part of a play by post chronicle set in New Orleans. Jakey has Fame 2 as a drag king/tiktoker and is part of the Ashfinders, so if your muse is tapped into either of those scenes, they might already know him. Usual rules of "don't be a dick" and "this is wod don't play morality olympics" apply. More info can be found in the #jakey oc tag on my main. Pics under the cut

[styxnbones]

blorbos continued

Everest Milliner, they/them, 10th gen Premascine, Hecata, bastard child of Primo Giovanni, prized childe of Livia Giovanni.

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"Jakey," he/they/she (but only when it's funny), 14th gen, Ministry Thinblood, Alchemist, Ashfinder, Sunfucker, NOLA drag king and internet microcelebrity.

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Aster Lloyd, they/them, 10th gen, Hecata (Nagaraja), Las Vegas' premier crime scene cleaner and masquerade breach cover-up expert. (My character for the Las Vegas 2024 Darkness Emergent LARP)

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styxnbones oc masterpost

reference list for all the silly little brain blorbos in order of their creation

Cassandra "Cass" Briar: she/they, 9th gen Carrier Malkavian, Anarch/Sabbat-sympathetic Autarkis, information broker, free roaming at the moment but formerly based in Los Angeles and New Orleans

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Kellen Merot: they/them, 12th gen Tzimisce, Autarkis, museum conservator based in Montreal

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Minerva: they/he, 8th gen Malkavian Antitribu, Sabbat, Black Hand, ductus of The Pantheon Pack

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Corin Antoine "Liber" Deserres: he/him, 11th gen Ventrue Antitribu, Sabbat, former Seneschal of Ottawa, now Minerva's boyfriend in Montreal with The Pantheon pack. (Was also based on both the protagonist of Parliament of Knives, and Bloodhunt's Ventrue Enforcer)

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Harper Matheson: they/he/she, 12th gen Nagaraja Hecata, Camarilla, Scourge of Baltimore (or New Orleans in an au)

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Peona/Thorn: she/they, 10th gen Tzimisce, Sabbat, member of The Pantheon pack, priest for The Path of Cathari

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Pluto (Silas McAllister): he/him, 10th gen Lasombra, Sabbat, member of The Pantheon Pack

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Adaline, The Obsidian Mask & Francesca Faustina Fioranti (she/her for both), 8th gen Harbinger/Hecata and the even older wraith of a former Cappadocian/Harbinger, nominally Sabbat (mostly in pursuit of their own goals/as a hobby), recently awoken from a 7 year torpor under the Atlantic

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Sev, he/they, 11th gen (secretly Caitiff ) Lasombra Primogen of Kingston, recently ex-sabbat having defected to the Camarilla after their pack was purged by hunters. My character for the Kingston By Night: Aftermath larp.

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Damien Kimber, also known as Naviel, Architect of Wishes (and former Angel of the Beaten Path), they/it/he, Ravener Malefactor, bomb specialist and wanted criminal in Las Vegas

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Caleb Quincey, he/him, 9th gen Gangrel organovore, ex-sabbat turned anarch post-100 Year Dirt Nap (also, ex-boyfriend of Harper's sire). Loosely based on the protagonist of cult classic build engine fps BLOOD (1997). Also, my character for the Canada At Midnight Good Intentions Chronicle larp.

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Palimpsest, mirror pronouns, 10th gen Kiasyd, broadly Camarilla affiliated, former changeling and Sickly Victorian Orphan

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YJ, also known by stage name NOSICAÄ, they/them, 13th gen Caitiff, Anarch, Uncle Fangs to a gaggle of duskborn and home base to a hive of wasps

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Carillon, he/him, 9th gen Tremere of House Goratrix, Camarilla (functionally), former Sabbat Inquisitor turned Infernalist.

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Agent Avery "Mayfly" Felix, he/they, NWO Operative, based out of the New York Construct front "Axiom Security," brightest upcoming agent in his division, and personal pet project of the Director. (NPC I wrote/played for Darkness Emergent in Chicago)

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[xyhez99]

Based on a twitter post from months ago

[freak60000]

READMY FANFIC!!!!

HI☺️ my FIRST EVER FANFIC is on ao3 go READ IT and let me know if it’s awesome.. Xp

[madetobeyourman]

Dave and Tico at a high school circa 1986 (I believe this may be Xavier High School in New York City)

via "seedsoflovecares” on Flickr

[diableriedoll]

Hiii 👀 For Ava: Banu Haqim, Ashfinders, Church of Caine. For Evangeline: Ministry, Tremere.✨

Hello you <3

Ava- Banu Haqim: In order to get punished, you need to get caught ;3 The worst she's been given is given the responsibility over a Coterie. As for punishments she's given out, she dragged her coterie member back from trying to flee the domain after he did some stupid stuff and handed him over to the Sheriff. He ended up being beheaded in front of the everyone in Elysium to be made an example of.

Ashfinders: Ava's business is on social media, like Instagram and such, as advertisements and such, and she has accounts for her Burlesque to advertise her, but she doesn't have a personal account.

Church of Caine: Ava doesn't have any firm beliefs at the moment, though if one more traumatic experience happens because of a man, she's joining the Bahari quicker than you can say Ahi Hay Lilitu!

Evangeline- Ministry: Already answered, found here <3

Tremere: Just answered this one too, found here <3

Thank you!

[kittymsmithwritesstuff]

Hi, I saw someone do a request for ash x rev hcs I wanted to know if you can do one for ash x pathy, I shipped them since day one (:

RIP Pathy he deserves a good GF so here's Ash being a good GF

-Pathfinder brings her flowers because Mirage said girls like flowers. Ash never cared for flowers, but...well, they do sort of brighten things up in her monitoring room for the Arenas. And they do have a sickly appeal when they're dead, too.

-He helps her train her rat to do that whole thing where it walks on her sword. He puts the cheese at the end.

-Pathfinder takes Ash grocery shopping. When she asks him why the hell two hunks of metal are grocery shopping, he says, "because that's what couples do!" and for that trip it was enough for her to see (hear?) him happy, which was a strange feeling.

-Ash doesn't like doing things without meaning, purpose or goals, though, so any future shopping trips are usually for one of the other legends, and usually, that other legend is Mirage.

-Ash thinks Mirage, besides his tech, is a moron. She never tells Path though because she doesn't wanna hurt his feelings.

-Not wanting to hurt his feelings is the moment she realizes she might actually care about him.

-Ash likes dead flowers, reality television and playing with people in the Arenas like they're toys. Pathfinder thinks that her liking dead flowers and psychologically torturing people is weird, but it's okay, he loves and supports his weird, morally unsound girlfriend!

-Begrudgingly, Ash finds herself tag-teaming with Mirage to remind Pathfinder to not let himself get manipulated and to see warning signs.

-Also if anyone does try to manipulate him she will use her knife legs very creatively.

-Pathfinder just likes to be there while Ash works. And...well, she likes it when he's there.

-Bubbly and somewhat oblivious was never her type, but Pathfinder grows on Ash and soon she finds herself missing his presence if they've been apart for a while.

-Pathfinder is pretty sure he's never been happier in his life before he got with Ash, and Ash...Ash is pretty happy too. Though he's the only one that knows.

[djdjakko]

so any ideas for Ash x Pathfinder? Ashfinder, PilotHook, Revfinder 2.0

[hazelenergy]

Thinblood Mechanic Update 1: Homebrew Flaws

//ooc chronicle playtest updates

Tampa by Night is both a fun time to hang out with a couple of thinblood loving friends, but it also is to test out some concepts and fully fleshed out mechanics for homebrew thinblood content. We love these funky little Gehenna portents so much and we know it will either be a long while (or never) when new content for these alchemists arrive. (Yes the ashfinders in cotbg are accounted for).

So, I wanted to update you all with our findings and what new things we are playing with.

We built our three characters with the normal neonate 15 bonus experience at character creation. We each took at least 1 by the book thinblood merit or flaw- and at least 1 homebrewed thinblood merit or flaw.

Our selected Homebrew Flaws were originally written as follows:

1. Thinblood Homebrew Flaw: Harbinger- supernatural flaw "Bad stuff just seems to happen to you at the worst possible moment. Maybe you were unlucky in life, and unfortunately, it followed you in death. Whenever you roll a 1 on your hunger dice, it removes a success on the check. This renders you far more likely to bestially fail.” 2. Thinblood Homebrew Flaw: Deficiency- feeding flaw. "You have to eat food in order to lower your hunger. Your body requires necessary supplements that the blood alone cannot provide. You have to endure the pain of keeping food down if you do not possess the Eat food merit, the life-like merit, or high humanity (8+). If you do not consume food or supplements every night, you cannot lower your hunger below 2.” 3. Thinblood Homebrew Flaw: Hemophilia- lifelike flaw. You must take the Lifelike merit to take this flaw. You cannot will the blood to clot, it just bleeds and bleeds. Whenever you take damage from slashing and piercing weapons or environmental factors, you automatically suffer an Impairment, a -2 penalty to all rolls until you can properly cover the wound and help it clot. Any Vampire nearby at Hunger 4 must make a Hunger Frenzy test.

Right off the bat, we misread our own rules with Harbinger. We were subtracting successes whenever Damien rolled 1s rather than just on his hunger dice. The poor guy could not catch a break. Once we addressed this, we realized there is an accountability issue. Since we are using digital dice, it is easy to overlook subtracting 1s from the Hunger dice alone. Some dice rollers dont show the rolls, just count successes and failures and criticals. We believe that this flaw is actually fairly well balanced in comparison to some of the books, it just requires the player to be vigilant, just as they would be for vitae dependency or mortal frailty. Originally, the Harbinger flaw was a 3 dice pool given to the storyteller to use once per session to reduce the harbinger's successes. This didn't foster a dread inducing dynamic of when is harbinger going to kick in. Instead, it fostered a much more "you versus the dm" culture. While the storyteller has a lot of power, this is not a healthy dynamic to push- especially in a game of personal horror. So instead, we changed it to a static all 1s on hunger subtract successes. This way your character actively struggles against their even worse luck and probably more active beast- and can offset it with risky blood surges and willpower rerolls.

It took longer to recognize how Deficiency is much more lax in comparison to the by the book flaws. While it is continuously funny to watch Tommy sneaking microwavable burritos into their mouth when the Camarilla court isn't looking- if caught it's more played off as "well that's odd" not "wait a moment--thinblood!!" In a modern setting where there's something to eat at every gas station, convenience store dumpster, or neighbor's refrigerator- there's never an issue of getting food. Additionally, we never set how you must endure the pain of consuming food. So we started implementing that you must rouse the blood to use blush of life to activate your digestive system. This is fairly effective- so far. As written in v5, thinbloods always look as if they have blush of life active. However that does not mean they purposefully have it turned on. Another option is making the character roll Stamina or Resolve checks to hold the food down. This feels less optimal as the two dot Eat Food merit would get rid of these checks.

Tommy’s player has suggested that failing to eat food deals superficial damage to your hunger tracker. Reaching hunger 5 in superficial damage means you aren’t in torpor, but are rolling 5 hunger dice- or more. Upon consuming food, you clear a single box (1 scene spent consuming food = 1 box). Every time you eat, you need to rouse the blood, which may further raise your hunger. With higher hunger, you increase your chance of messy criticals and suffering compulsions. Ey also floated the idea of having any superficial hunger renders you unable to use voluntary rouse checks- such as supernatural healing, blood surges, or using disciplines. Our goal is to test the superficial hunger track first- and see how the thinbloods react to rolling a lot more hunger dice. If it feels too lax even then, we will test further punishing factors- but may need to go back to the drawing board completely.

Hemophilia has yet to showcase how dangerous it can be. I play as Hazel with this flaw, and am overly cautious about how close I get her in fights- because I wrote the flaw, I know how bad that -2 impair is. We recognize that this flaw should be coming into play much more frequently, as Hazel utilizes the calcinato method to brew her alchemy and must have her vessels drink her vitae for it to work. This requires the vitae to come directly from her, requiring a cut or open wound to pour it into the mouths of her vessels. There are a few thoughts to this flaw. Firstly, it does not feel necessary to restrict this flaw with the lifelike merit. The flavor text on how vitae, thinned vitae, and regular blood look and taste varies from table to table and storyteller to storyteller. Originally, we wanted to showcase the negative aspects of having lifelike- such as feeling cold, sweating, and never unlearning the need to breathe. But these feel more like flavor text than actual debilitating flaws to a thinblood- and maybe an astute vampiric eye would pick up on these behaviors.  Secondly, the player is allowed to supernaturally heal the wound closed despite the wording on the flaw. We will have to specify if it is superficial or aggravated damage when a wound is self inflicted, such as when Hazel opens her vein for her alchemy. By the book, thinbloods take aggravated damage from almost anything except sunlight without the Vampiric Resilience merit. To heal aggravated damage, it is three rouse checks on the next night to heal 1 box. This can be potentially debilitating for a character without an easy supply of food. Additionally, in combat, it takes a full round or more to heal. Thinbloods are already at extreme disadvantages in combat without proper planning, this would exacerbate it. However that is the point of the flaw- you don’t want to bleed. We will have to keep exploring to see how limiting this is when in full effect. Which means I gotta get Hazel in a knife fight.

The other thing we noticed is that a lot of the by the book flaws tend to not have mechanical disadvantages. They are narrative disadvantages that can have mechanical effects. Some sessions we do not roll any dice other than a nightly rouse check to awake. Some sessions have us rolling checks for every other action. Ultimately, as we explore and finalize these flaws, we aim to craft them that they are less reliant on the dice. However, that might mean we have to completely rewrite them. This is not too big of a concern, as some of the by the book flaws give static mechanical penalties, such as Bestial Temper (frenzy like a full-blooded vampire), Clan Curse (retain your sire’s clan curse), or Dead Flesh (-1 to all applicable social tests). There are some other flaws we have written that fit this mold a little better, such as Tagged and Tracked, and Blacklisted.

Tagged and Tracked: You have been captured by F1rstlight. Operatives are not only aware of your existence, but actively keeping an eye on you. The character may or may not know about their surveillance. They may also be aiding the agents that claim them. Regardless, if other thin-bloods (or kindred) find out what you are, at best you will be blacklisted. More likely, you will be killed.

Blacklisted: Even your fellow mercurians keep their distance from you- at least the ones in the know do. Whether you have been deemed dangerous in their small circles, crossed a leader, betrayed them in some way, or have been set up- you are a scapegoat among the scapegoats. 

So, here are some rewrites to our Homebrew flaws we selected:

1. Thinblood Homebrew Flaw: Harbinger- supernatural flaw "Bad stuff just seems to happen to you at the worst possible moment. Maybe you were unlucky in life, and unfortunately, it followed you in death. Whenever you roll a 1 on your hunger dice, it removes a success on the check. This renders you far more likely to bestially fail.”

2. Thinblood Homebrew Flaw: Deficiency-  feeding flaw. "You have to eat food in order to lower your hunger. Your body requires necessary supplements that the blood alone cannot provide. For every night you fail to consume food, increase your hunger superficially by 1. This superficial damage is not alleviated by daysleep. For every superficial slash through your hunger, you must spend a scene consuming food. In order to properly digest it, you must use blush of life or possess a relevant merit. If the thinblood reaches Hunger 5 with superficial hunger- they do not go into torpor or frenzy.”

3. Thinblood Homebrew Flaw: Hemophilia- kept the same You must take the Lifelike merit to take this flaw. You cannot will the blood to clot, it just bleeds and bleeds. Whenever you take damage from slashing and piercing weapons or environmental factors, you automatically suffer an Impairment, a -2 penalty to all rolls until you can properly cover the wound and help it clot. Any Vampire nearby at Hunger 4 must make a Hunger Frenzy test.

Next up is our Homebrew Alchemy. Some of us spent experience to take new alchemical powers, and im certain we will see how quickly they break everything including the masquerade. Tommy has taken steps towards Hermetic Alchemy, which brings old Alchemical Thaumaturgy into V5, Hazel has taken upgrades to her far reach and eventually will take recipes for Thermotics- melting things! Thanks for reading! Can’t wait to tell you all about our findings next time!