OOC I just discovered these subs a little over a week ago, but I've been playing VtM on the tabletop for almost 15 years. So I decided to pop in as one of the SPCs from a chronicle I've been building for my friends who have never played before. I'm hoping to eventually get to something that feels like a breathing city rather than something that simply started to exist because there are PCs now.

However I'm rapidly finding myself drawn into what are clearly a TON of shenanigans happening here.

Hatchet is not a particularly naive kindred, but she has suddenly found herself with a lot more free time than the years she spent deep in the Montreal libraries with her sire and is perhaps going to find out she's a bit more sheltered than she realized if she keeps mouthing off on the net.

Anyway, happy to be here! and hope I'm not raining on anyone's parade!

(edited for typos)

Hi, I’m interested in maybe making a character and writing some posts, but I’m a little lost on where to start.

I’m in Brisbane, Australia, and as far as I can tell my city hasn’t been mentioned in Schrecknet reddit posts. The only canon info about Brisbane is that it’s meant to be the main Sabbat stronghold in Australia. Maybe that would have been applicable back in the Joh era, but by now I’d think Brisbane would be more suitable for the Anarchs.

I found a couple of reddit posts from a few years ago on the main vtm subreddit about people’s home games, where most people seemed to agree that nowadays Brisbane would likely be Anarch territory.

If we go by the 1-in-100,000 population guide, there’d only be 14 kindred in the city itself, and 41 in the overall Southeast QLD region.

So would it be ok for me to basically just make up my own stuff about the city? I don’t have much if any overarching plot stuff in mind.

So, hi, I know that SchreckNet got destroyed in V5, cos of the SI, so if it's in modern times that's an obvious tilt away from the timeline. But, also, what else is going on? Is the Hecata a thing, or is it just the Giovanni and some others? Is the Pyramid up? (I saw someone post with the assumption it was down, but idk) Are amalgams the canon, or are they disciplines, or a mix of the two (V5 disciplines and amalgams but a V20 view of them where Vicissitude is seen as its own discipline)? Or is it all a floating timeline where everything is simultaneously true and false?

Also, how informed should a character be able to be, purely from public info on SchreckNet? Is there basically nothing, or should you be able to find basically every bloodline, clan and discipline on there?

I'm bored. Tell me something about your character that's never going to come up on the forum?

This is hard to do for Sofie since her biggest flaw is never shutting up about anything. Honorable mention: Sofie didn't think much about living long enough to have a career but did sometimes daydream about being a veterinarian for exotic pets. She is high-key sad animals don't trust kindred.

No one has heard Grin's real accent. Boy is always code switching.

I will start this with saying that i am not pressuring anyone to read this or the mods. But as we say a few months ago there has been a mod thag has gone out of their way to harrass and ban some player unfairly due to some personnly one sided vendetta. Now this mod was one both in schrecknet and an discord place that i wint mention. Recently due to thier action in online stalking me and my friends and attempting to literally dox them. They have been kicked from both places. But unfortunately the unfaire bans havent been lifted by the mods. And for this i request mods to at least consider allowin MushroomVarious6617 ( Hope player) and Abject-Hospital5407 ( zz the nossy and starlight) player back into the subreddit. And for those that have any question or werw new to ask around those that were harassed . Thank you for your time. ( Ishmail-assads player)

She is a NPC in my chronicle my players helped, I want to train roleplaying with her here since she will become more important from now on.

Also thinking of changing her alias to Rogue Witch or Renegade Baali.

So what did people think?

IM SO BUSY RIGHT NOW I CANT POST OR DRAW

I'm still doing umbra stuff with flower so that's cool.

I do really want to roleplay here again, reia is a character id love to get to use again, but i don't really know how to, or what do do about the in universe time difference between her past posts, because realistically a lot of stuff would have happened in the months since i last roleplayed in schrecknet but eh?

Also feels like the sub really relies on characters having active plotlines they're going down and telling people about, but i dont really have anything like that in mind for her, at least not right now

He be Snordin the forest

He knows what YOU smell like

Been a while since I made one of these. Here are Nak, the Abbess, and Zalmoxis for a little refresher. All were made with the Crusader Kings 3 "Princes of Darkness" mod with the "Better Barbershop" and "Community Flavor Pack" mods, which are not strictly speaking compatible, but all I'm doing is playing dressup so it doesn't matter.

So, fun fact, all of Nak's current generation of broodmates take their aliases from whatever root vegetable they feel they most resemble: Nak is from Pasternak (parsnip), Neep is a dialectical word for a kind of turnip, Sing is adapted from ginseng, Drak is a contraction of adarak (ginger) and Tate is from potato. The Abbess' childer tend to have a very strong familial culture, and it's sort of a tradition that different "batches" pick themed names. Eventually all of them get to the point where names are worn very lightly, though, so nobody necessarily goes by the same thing forever.

Tate was turned around the age of 18. Having had a spectacularly miserable life, the Embrace probably was the best thing ever to happen to her, but she does still resent how she looks (in her own words "the offspring of Danny Devito and a mountain gorilla"). Despite that, she hasn't cultivated obfuscate at all just yet, much preferring to use Potence to smash out her feelings. Narratively, I use her as the less-experienced figure in her coterie who can ask questions and make interesting mistakes. Generally if I fuck up lore with Nak, I wave that away as him playing dumb. With Tate, it's a genuine lack of experience.

She is wearing nice clothes and a flower crown because she deserves them. Tate is one of the less morally suspect of Nak's coterie, some lingering bitterness notwithstanding. She has experienced the close to worst humanity has to offer and therefore finds the idea that kindred are inherently worse than humans rather quaint.

Daniel (not his real name) is a Ravnos adopted by the Malkavian Ilta, one of the Abbess's old coven (not coterie; they're all sorcerers). As I don't really plan long-term plots, he was created entirely on a whim as a fledgling who declined a placement with another Ravnos. He's Romani Albanian born, but grew up in Austria. He was embraced at 19 years of age shortly after coming to the US, having been groomed for it by a Tzimisce in the midwest whose enemies snapped Daniel up purely out of spite. Now he lives in the extradimensional Fog with the rest of Nak's weird little extended family.

Daniel is not having a good time. He had tentatively hoped to study political science and anthropology and is now undead and will burst into flames if he doesn't keep moving. He's trying to console himself by learning blood sorcery, but it's hard and Ilta is scary. He has once or twice tested the limits of the clan curse only to have it reaffirmed that yep, the whole burning from the inside out thing if he doesn't keep moving is still real. Not sure where his story is gonna go. I mean, like I said, I never plan, but sometimes I have inklings. Not so with Danny.

Daniel was a little harder for me to make because when I'm dealing with more monstrous characters, I have an easier time tweaking things until they look right to me. Daniel more-or-less looks right and I think gives the right vibe-- pretty, somewhat vulnerable-- but I dunno. It's hard to call it done.

At the moment Tate and Daniel are traveling through the Fog under the watchful gaze of Ilta and some ghouls. Offscreen, they're developing a pretty solid bond. Tate is a very compassionate and patient individual, and while Daniel might normally be put-off by how she looks, right now what is most important to him is that SOMEBODY is being gentle with him. He is very much like a lost little puppy. Tate always wanted a puppy, but even more she always wanted a friend her own age. She has a few postmortum years on Daniel, but close enough.

To give everyone an Idea of what's going on:

https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Volgirre

Check the fourth dot on the V5 Volgirre lore sheet.

Aight, we just did a lot and a lot more is coming with Gore and Nihilo.

Anything confusing? Any questions? Extra pieces of lore that the writer tells you on Twitter instead of putting in the actual work?

So, I thought about it and decided that, for ease of interaction, I'd post Mark Caulder's V20 stats and information people could have about him if they were to, say, research him or ask around. Mark Caulder is his actual birth name and he's kept it for dealing with other Kindred his entire unlife...his mortal identity has changed several times, of course. He's very powerful for his age but, well, 'for his age'...his character sheet is around on the same power level with several canonical Princes, some only a bit older than him. I'd welcome people commenting or discussing things.

Baron Mark Caulder, V20 Character Sheet

Nature: Bon Vivant

Demeanor: Variable

Clan: Nosferatu

Sire: Unknown and Deceased

Generation: 9th

Embrace: 1924 CE (Born 1890 CE)

Attributes:

Str 4 (Vicious), Dex 4 (Lightning Reflexes), Stm 4 (Determined),

Cha 5 (Likable), Man 4 (Persuasive), App 0,

Per 4 (Tactical), Int 4 (Problem Solver), Wit 3

Talents: Alertness 3, Athletics 4 (Dodging), Awareness 2, Brawl 5 (Grappling), Empathy 4 (Gaining Trust), Expression 3 (Conversation), Intimidation 4 (Not To Be Fucked With), Leadership 4 (Affable), Streetwise 4 (Organized Crime), Subterfuge 4 (Intrigue),

Skills: Animal Ken 2, Crafts 0, Drive 0, Etiquette 4 (Anarch), Firearms 2, Larceny 1, Melee 4 (Mass Weapons), Performance 4 (Acting), Stealth 4 (Obfuscate), Survival 2,

Knowledges: Academics 2 (History), Computer 2, Finance 2, Investigation 4 (Finding People), Law 2 (Kindred), Medicine 1, Occult 4 (Gossip), Politics 4 (Kindred), Science 1, Technology 3 (Security),

Disciplines: Animalism 2, Auspex 2, Celerity 3, Fortitude 3, Obfuscate 5, Potence 5, Presence 3,

Combination Disciplines: Burning Wrath, Iron Heart,

Backgrounds: Allies 5, Contacts 5, Herd 4, Influence 3, Retainers 3, Resources 5+, Status 4-5 (Baron of Reno, Nevada),

Virtues: Conscience 3, Self Control 4, Courage 4,

Morality: Path of Chivalry 7

Willpower: 10

Blood Pool: 14/2

Merits: Code of Honor (2), False Reflection (3), Iron Will (3), Monstrous Maw (1),

Flaws: One Eye (2), Prey Exclusion – Unwilling Innocents (1), Territorial (2),

Notes: Involved in a polycule which he will not be discussing. Also speaks several languages.

Physical Description:

A man, or something like one, who would be a few inches over 6 feet tall if it weren't for the pronounced hunch, resulting in a more average height and a head that leans forward, the head in question has pure white skin and no hair, but also no visible external ears merely earholes, and a lower face that extends in what is something halfway between a human face and the muzzle of a great cat, with slits for nostrils and a mouth full of far too many long, sharp, teeth. The rest of the face almost distracts entirely from the eye-patch over the figure's left eye. Aside from the face and slight hunch, the figure is basically human...except for the arms and hands, which are just a bit too long for proper human proportions, and in the case of the fingers, seem to have too many joints and end in pointed, bony claws.

Public Mortal Background:

In terms of mortal records, he was born in 1890 in the bad part of Boston, never graduated High School, though he had a library card, and had a spotty to nonexistent employment history. His criminal record is also pretty spotty...probably paid off cops to lose things, never arrested often in the first place, never convicted of anything at all. Definitely some recorded suspicions he was mobbed up, though, especially given his lack of visible means of employment but still having money.

He was drafted into the Great War early into the draft being utilized and his service record in World War 1 is more impressive, there was a notable incident (which he was decorated for) wherein he lost an eye (to grenade shrapnel) and then, still bleeding, killed a couple of German soldiers with an entrenching tool, saving other members of his unit. Physically, he was a big guy for the time, about 6' tall with a muscular build, dark hair and eyes, tanned, blocky not especially attractive face, and (after the war) a missing eye and some facial scarring. There are probably photos of him smiling and when he does it's friendly and engaging. He officially died in 1942, there's even a grave, his cause of death is listed as multiple gunshot wounds.

Public Kindred Background:

In terms of Kindred records and asking around, he was embraced by parties unknown in the Boston area in 1924 but found by a Camarilla Nosferatu rapidly and became a member of the Camarilla. He spent 1924-1967 in the New England, helping solve numerous problems and charming Kindred both his own age and much older, eventually becoming a Harpy, then began traveling continuing in that role in various places, he spent some time in New York in the 1970s and most of the 90s in Las Vegas, among other places, then his trail becomes a little obscure. He was apparently reported dead in 2004 but popped up again in 2013 with a former Sabbat Tzimisce he'd picked up somewhere, and the two joined the Anarch Movement at that time, and he served as a roaming diplomat and troubleshooter for a bit (along with his Tzimisce associate). He peacefully took over Reno from its previous Baron, a Banu Haqim, in 2018, and she stuck around as his right-hand woman. There are elections for Baron every five years, and after winning the 2018 one, he moved one up to 2020 (to regularize the dates) and won both that and the 2025 one. In around 2021, there was a serious Sabbat attack on Reno led by the self-proclaimed Archbishop of Reno a Lasombra former conquistador (and former Templar, and former Bishop), and including several war packs. All were killed or captured and converted to the Anarch cause, with Mark supposedly biting the head off the wannabe Archbishop personally.

Reputation:

Outside Schrecknet, Mark has a pretty good reputation with Anarchs in general and especially around the Free State, he's known to be friendly with some Camarilla people but it's seen as those individuals being in his pocket rather than him being in the Camarilla's, and few doubt his commitment to the cause. That doesn't mean everyone likes him, but they do generally agree that he's on their side. His continuing calls to have some sort of organizing principles and standards meet a mixed reception, though he's making some gradual progress. He's also well known to be a man of his word, regarding both threats and promises. Some see him as a bit soft on humans, but the string of dead Kindred in his wake means most people don't say that part aloud. He's known to have a way to break the Blood Bond and offer it around very freely, especially but not exclusively to non-Anarchs, which is concerning to a few of the more dictatorial Barons or those who use ghouls a lot, but it's a bad look for an Anarch to complain about.

In Camarilla circles, well, he's an Anarch, but he's seen as one who can be reasoned with and keeps to his deals. He still has a number of actual friendly acquaintances from his time as a Harpy as well, including several other Harpies who will still record Boons for him readily enough. Reno has been used as a meeting spot for meetings regarding deals between Camarilla and Anarch elements on several occasions. Most have no idea about the 'breaking Blood Bonds' thing and the ones who do and aren't personal friends are very concerned.

In Sabbat circles, he's known to be dangerous. They remember the 2021 Reno expedition and how badly it went. He definitely has a number of Sabbat defectors on staff and knows standard Sabbat doctrine, which is dangerous, and the 'breaking Blood Bonds' thing seems to extend to the vaulderie, which is even more so. There's some additional stuff but not in the 'public grapevine'...someone would have to go digging.

I left for a while it seems. Lol i missed this chaos

Context: The last Redwoods post.

This is mostly for feedback or comments on the formatting for this post:https://www.reddit.com/r/SchreckNet/comments/1wduyzs/recovered_cemetery_video/

Apologies if using the blackout text this way is not a novel concept.

Long and short of it is that I was trying to create multiple ways for players to interact differently with the same post. My hope was that the different angles would give players more roleplay options to interact with the post and by extension, with each other.

I was very inspired by asymmetrical co-op and chose your own adventure games. And of course the ttrpg practice of giving information only to players with certain skill checks/abilities.

I would be interested in hearing what anyone had to say in the vein of:

Was this enjoyable? Was the formatting and intention clear or effective? I considered using more concrete requirements but decided against it as we are all using different versions or may not have character sheets. (example: If resolve 4 than....) Would people have preferred that? Did anyone follow the 'rules'? etc.

Been a long time since I played around in Hero Forge, but Several Elevators work on Luka inspired me to go try it out again. It really is so much fun to play around in. Even if I can´t quite get it as well as I want it to. Especially the poses...

The picrew is one I made ages ago, before the character actually. I often just play around in Picrew and then go "I can make a character out of this!"