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Sanguine Temptation
The content of World of Darkness and Vampire the Masquerade is mature in nature. Explicit events can and will happen in the course of our game and we make no effort to control these events/scenes. Storyteller Staff does not review these scenes unless an action caused by the event requires Storyteller involvement. Many things change for an individual after the embrace, chief among them is the endless craving of blood. This desire surpasses all others. Although Kindred do not deprive themselves of other pleasures they find it difficult to abstain from their natural pleasure while enjoying these "other" pleasures. THE EMBRACED observes a House Rule called Sanguine Temptation to represent the blood-lust that Kindred must overcome during sex; specifically sex with another Kindred.
During the course of a sexual scene (if you've chosen to play it out) we will require a single dice roll (difficulty equal to 10 - Willpower). If this roll is successful you will proceed in the event with complete control over the actions of your character. If this roll is failed you will succumb to the Sanguine Temptation and will bite, and drink from the Kindred you are engaged in intercourse with. This will result in a step toward a Blood Bond with this individual. This rule is also applicable to any FTB scene where it is assumed that the characters proceeded with intercourse. The roll needs to be made before the FTB occurs.
Each character will be given one "pass" in the event that you forget to roll this House Rule. Further failures to observe this House Rule will result in automatic failure.
Okay, as you can see there. We allow this. But we make it have a consequence....
The problem, however, that we're seeing and we're facing is that some of you do this ALL the time in bot watched channels. We really -really- REALLY do not want to see your sex-capades when we go looking through logs to find information. If you are going to do sex scenes they need to be done in PM.
THAT said. I poked you guys this week about the news and some of you got the hint: THANK YOU. I'll recap: the city is falling apart due to pay freezes for the Police, the Churches shutting down, and the homeless being turned out on the street... And the reason why I'm even posting this is because some of our characters are more interested in getting it on and tempting fate with blood bonds; than they are with working with the other characters in city to fix the problem.
The news section is something you guys need to keep an eye on. NOT all of it is SL related, because we want to keep you guys on your toes and not let you 'figure out' when we're going to throw a new SL at you. We will be doing things in the forums to add flavor; and not necessarily scream "NEW SL" at you; but you still need to react to them.
SLs are PLAYER DRIVEN. They occur due to how you guys react to things, how your characters act and what they DO; sure we might throw a pack of sabbat at you guys off and on - but that isn't a SL, thats just a shake up. If you guys don't respond IC to stuff then we can't work SLs around you. Yes, that could be one of the news posts that we hadn't intended to work into a SL, but it stirred up so much player focus that we would be silly NOT to make it into at least a min-SL.
We really love our player base, and we know you guys love the fact that we run SLs. But if you don't respond to what is going on in the city; we get frustrated and we wonder why we're focusing so much effort into doing SLs if they're going to be ignored for sex-scenes. I hope everyone understands where we're coming from on this.
Thank you!
- Jo
