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Post by ziggy on Apr 9, 2010 13:24:50 GMT -8
Lord and Ladies,
I am sincerely sorry to intrude upon your time. It appears as if master Ziggy is in a dire situation. If I am to presume, it appears that the hunger is upon him. It seems he has received little to no nourishment from the mortals he has consumed. Also, I am at a loss as to why his veins appear black.
He is returning now from his early hunt, and he is making the strangest of noises. Please excuse my presumptuous request, but master Ziggy needs your help. I don't think he is in any condition to aaaaaaaaaap]lghrhhtzd
So hunrge mauste feeed ned blood
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Post by Camille on Apr 9, 2010 18:33:36 GMT -8
I think it's the blood that he drank from that clone guy, I'm feeling weird too, not as bad but my hunger has not been sated by my recent feedings. What could be causing this? Is there anything we can do to cleanse that taint from our blood? I tried not to swallow the foul stuff but I guess that was enough contact to feel the effects. Someone should check on Jack, he tasted the Vitae to learn more about the creature, he could be having similar problems.
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Post by Silky O'Sullivan on Apr 9, 2010 18:54:28 GMT -8
Perhaps the best thing to do is to allow yourself to fall in to torpor until we can figure out what is causing this.
Though I was not at the blood warehouse I am aware of the vampire (he was a vampire, right?) you fought was hooked umbilical cord-style to vats of blood, yes? If so, then perhaps he was also suffering from the same inability to gain nourishment? He may not have gained nourishment from the blood, but he was so pumped full of blood that he could still fuel his Thaumaturgy. Its a hypothesis, and I'm still working out other possible causes, but if we don't do something soon then Ziggy and Camille may fall into a deep and uncontrollable blood frenzy. Torpor, in this case, may be your greatest ally.
Who of the group that went was shot with a dart?
A good place to start to get answers would be from the mind of the vampire himself. Tommy and Jack, can you probe his mind while he slumbers in torpor? He would still be dreaming, but in a very deep sleep; much deeper than the one we enter before sunrise.
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Post by Wade Garrett on Apr 9, 2010 23:26:34 GMT -8
Greetings,
I am comfortable in saying that I seem to have suffered no ill effects from mereyl tasting but not swallowing the tainted vitae of the Tremere puppet.
Silky, Tommy and I have both been inside this creature's mind while it was in torpor. It knew almost nothing beyond a few recent, vague memories, and seemed to have almost no sense of self. It was clearly some engineered weapon organized by the Tremere, and I am convinced that they were observing outr battle with it. I can only hypothesize that it was a guardian to the room, a prototype for the cloned revenants that were kept in giant cloning tanks. Unfortuantely it didn't seem to have any of the answers we were looking for. We will need someone with rather expert skill in mind control to plumb its depths further. Unfortunately, Camille's skills in that area of her clan's purview are currently rather limited.
As for the state of Ziggy and Camille, I am familiar with a thaumaturgical technique that could purge their systems of whatever foreign substance is polluting them, but it is a ritual that they would have to cast upon themselves.
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Post by Camille on Apr 10, 2010 4:33:20 GMT -8
I was not hit by any dart, as far as I know.
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Post by Silky O'Sullivan on Apr 10, 2010 8:38:36 GMT -8
Hm. Well, then perhaps the dart isn't a factor because if you are both suffering the same inability to nourish yourselves on mortal blood then its got to be because of the Tremere blood. This only further proves my hypothesis that the Tremere was also suffering the same malady.
It may take too long for the two of them to learn the proper ritual, depending on its rarity and power.
I've been pondering something else, and let me know what you all think. Perhaps this young Tremere was not, in fact, using his Thaumaturgy against you. Perhaps it was someone else watching you, and this young Tremere was there to distract you and "take" all the damage you inflicted on it? If you probed its mind and gathered that it knew very little, then perhaps it didn't know enough to even invoke Thaumaturgy?
The dart, however, may have been a sub-dermal tracking device? Has Ziggy examined the wound? They could have figured out that Ziggy is the pack member with a lot of Obfuscate, and if so, could track him with technology.
Has anyone even spoke with Ziggy? Shouldn't we plan a visit to him as a pack to see how he's doing?
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Post by Wade Garrett on Apr 10, 2010 16:28:34 GMT -8
When I tasted the blood of the Tremere, it registered to me as being 7 steps removed from Caine (8th generation), yet contained within twice the quantity of blood one of that power holds. I know a little something about thaumaturgy, and there is tremere magic that allows one to distill the potency of their blood. And the Tremere itself was quite convinced that it had the power to "burn things." Every other power it demonstrated could have been done by another hidden entity onsite, but I am convinced that it did possess prodigious mastery over some of their techniques. I could also tell that the tremere had recently committed diablerie, but it had no memory of doing this.
As for this dart thing you speak of, I did not witness Ziggy being struck with it, as the fights were chaotic, but a subdermal or isotopic tracker is certainly feasible.
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Post by Camille on Apr 10, 2010 18:52:18 GMT -8
If it was the blood, then why isn't it affecting Jack too? I'm confused, he tasted the Viate too, I didn't swallow either. I have no experience with such things, I am completely out of my depth here, I will willingly follow your lead on this one. I do think we should check on Ziggy, he could be in some major trouble if that was a tracking device.
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Post by Silky O'Sullivan on Apr 10, 2010 19:21:59 GMT -8
As of now, I have not heard a word from Ziggy since yesterday. I think, as a pack, we should go to his haven and check on him. I was telling Tommy that if he did not feed soon that he'd drop into torpor sometime between now and the next few nights.
Oh, and out of curiosity, did anyone attempt to stake this young Tremere? Tommy was telling me that anyone who touched him suffered grievous wounds, which would indicate to me that the safest route would be to stake him. I checked on him tonight and I didn't notice a stake in his chest, nor a stake wound at all.
Camille, can you be more specific in describing your current situation? Are you unable to sustain yourself on mortals? Are you able to retain blood in your body? I'm trying to come up with a basis for comparison to help you and Ziggy. I need to isolate the details that matter from those that are ancillary.
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Post by Camille on Apr 10, 2010 21:18:31 GMT -8
I am unable to sustain myself on mortals because I am not able to retain the blood in my body, I can feed but I am not retaining the Viate, think mortal with food poisoning. Their bodies reject nourishment because they are trying to purge the poison, I am not sure if it will pass on it's own like it does with mortals but I doubt it. I have been limiting my blood usage since the night of that fight, I haven't been using diciplines or healing at an advanced rate since I figured this out. Because of the blood feast I didn't even get close to exausting my blood supply that night ((by my count I should have had 15 blood left at the end of the night)) that's why I didn't stop to feed off of any of the mortal guards while we were there. That's probably part of the reason I haven't felt the effects as much as Ziggy has, another reason could be that I didn't consume as much as he did. In mortals severe food poisoning is sometimes fatal while mild cases pass in time. I am hoping this is the case with my condition but in case it is not I am open to trying other avenues. I don't know anything about such things so I don't know where to start.
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Post by Silky O'Sullivan on Apr 10, 2010 23:00:09 GMT -8
Lol. Yes Camille, I'm sure we all know about food poisoning; we were all mortal before this vampire life. It is smart of you to withhold from using the blood in your body for anything other than the most important needs. You must use some blood (one trait) to wake up at night, but not at any other time. When we all next gather I will want to check you over, get a sample of your blood and see whether or not you can nourish yourself on vampire blood. Same goes for Ziggy, and Jack for that matter.
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Post by Wade Garrett on Apr 11, 2010 8:42:10 GMT -8
Agreed. We should definitely all check on Ziggy. As for testing the blood, I am happy to cooperate, though I am still perfectly capable of processing human blood.
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Post by Silky O'Sullivan on Apr 11, 2010 10:28:14 GMT -8
Thats good news, Jack. I need a sample of your blood because you had the least amount of that Tremere's blood but you did come in contact with it. Its a medical thing; I need a basis to of comparison.
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