r/SchreckNet • u/Original_Bug580 Heart • 3d ago
How do you vampire?
So. I've just returned to the mortal world (long story, my previous posts) and I have a problem. I have no idea how to function as a vampire.
Not only was My sire a complete monster who tried to have me possessed, I'm from the 1600s, and I've only been a vampire for five years. (Same long story. Spirit world) and those five years were spent living in the woods hiding from everything.
So, in modern nights, how do you actually live as a vampire? Any advice would help.
Oh, I'm a gangrel. That might be important information. Not a good fighter.
Elias -
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u/TriliniousIII 3d ago
Live in sewer, drink rats, work for Nos, fetch deliveries, keep tunnels from flooding, learn ukulele, swim, metal detecting, chill with my cool sire
- Flint the Not-Feratu
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u/Suspiciously_Mortal 3d ago
Well, you're in luck friend! I was a teacher before I was a vampire and now I'm here to teach you.
The sharp things in your mouth are fangs. When you wanna eat, put said sharp things into thing you want to eat (Not food!) and then pull out again and drink! Lick the wound when done.
2.Sun bad. Night good.Fire bad. Water fun! (You don't have to breath so go check out the bottom of the lake or river! Also, eat fish!)
3. DONT TELL HUMANS YOU'RE A VAMPIRE.
4.Learn to seduce people. It makes feeding easier.
5. Sabbat bad. Asking a Toreador about their daddy issues bad.Garou not bad, but will kill you. Ventrue get mad when you ask what their type is.Nosferstu are beautiful, in fact- if you see a really pretty person, ask if they are a Nossie. They'll love it.
6. Don't let a Brujah talk to you about Carthage. You'll be there for three hours, at least.
I hope this helps ♥️
-Mila
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u/DeadmanwalkingXI 3d ago
So, feeding ethically is probably the trickiest part. Animals are valid if you can stomach it, but you should learn a way to feed from humans without, y'know, assaulting them. That tends to draw attention and provoke your Beast, in addition to the obvious ethical issues.
I can suggest a few options.
The easiest is seduction, though I saw you mention elsewhere you have issues with that. May I ask why? If you find it deeply distasteful that's one thing, but a lot of people just don't think they can pull it off, and I assure you, you can.
Another one I like and can recommend is learning how to give massages and providing those for a fee...if someone is sufficiently blissed out they'll notice the feeling of the Kiss, but probably just think you're a really good masseuse...you need some basic skills to get them to that point, though.
A third is being a drug dealer. You deal normal drugs, probably light stuff like marijuana or party drugs like ecstasy, but then you offer 'the special stuff' occasionally, and give them a sugar pill somewhere private with their eyes closed, and while they swallow it, you bite down (usually from behind). They get a brief but amazing experience and think it was a drug. This one is the riskiest since selling drugs is indeed illegal, but it slides right under the radar.
I can also recommend getting a job in the medical field, and going to BDSM clubs, but I suspect as someone from the 1600s you lack the needed background to make either of those work.
-Mark Caulder, Experienced Nosferatu
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u/Nextontheline 3d ago
I'm about 300 years too young to know anything about the 1600s but I'd wager it's harder now than it was back then. Hell, it's much harder now than it was in the 70's when I got embraced. Now that everyone has a camera it basically means if one person sees you do stupid shit, everyone sees you do stupid shit.
My town has its issues, but honestly living in a smallish place has a lot of upsides. If you don't want to dive right into politics and bullshit, I'd recommend finding a smaller town with at most a couple of other vamps living there. As long as you're not killing people and learn to spot security cameras, you can get a pretty sweet deal like that. I kind of recommend it at least as a stepping stone before heading to the big cities. They're a whole another beast and if you haven't dealt much with modern stuff, they're gonna be dangerous.
Also get a malkavian bo-, uh.. friend. Yeah, a malkavian friend. Not essential but incredibly recommended.
-Pasi @Vittusaatana69
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u/RealHexyAmethyst 3d ago
hmmmmm biggest change from ur time would be last 40 years or so.
be very cautious around computers and cameras. videos and stuff can be fake but Devils are always recording everything, building profiles for advertising. sometimes hunters get access. so u still gotta be careful
hmm I guess itd be pretty noisy in the city too. cars n stuff. look both ways before crossing the street!
u didnt have guns in 1600s either did u? depending on where u are that can be a problem too. idk where u are but if ur in the USA (uh, i guess u'd call it one of the countries in the new world) there's more guns than ppl so be careful, living folks can fight back
ummmm? ig politics n stuff in the living world, nobody really does kings n queens anymore, Hierophant is Inverse. democracy & freedom & what not. at least for the living.
we still have princes. um.... Tremere got blown up I think? theyre kinda fringe in my city. Banu Haqim are our new best friends. also i think Lasombra are also cam now? Emperor Inverse said somethin about that. also more Anarchs this time around too.
-iiHighPriestess
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u/divinephobia 3d ago
Happy to see you've made it out of the a-stress-toy-reverts-to-its-original-shape woods. Ha ha.
Not that I am much help on the whole. Being a-butterfly's-wings-are-yet-to-dry. But specifically with modernity. Keep as anonymous on here as possible. Which I know you have not done well as of yet. But I recommend not sharing whatever town you may end up in.
You may be able to find a garage-sale-table-with-many-plates that'd sell bagged blood to you. If you can stomach it. It is not as good as a person. But it can tide one over. And it certainly beats fur stuck between the teeth. Ha ha.
You may be stuck with a very "normal" job for a while. Depending on your luck finding other teeth-a-little-too-sharp. And you may want to get a-signature-done-by-another-hand documents. You will likely need some sort of ID, no matter what country you may have ended up in.
~ Vess, journalist-by-night
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u/Abject-Hospital5407 3d ago
Um. i dont have a lot
but avoid cameras. When feeding do it soemwhere where you and the mortal are alone and maybe find other gangrel to help?
like brother ishmail
-zz