*casts resurrection on thread*
I've a red court infectee who is about to join my game and so I find myself pondering this question again. So I come to bounce ideas and seek help with a brainstorm
Especially since, unless he changes his mind, said infectee will _not_ be part of the Order of St. Giles and will thusly lack the tattoos.
He will therefore have no warning about the rising power of his red vamp motivation and traits and would in stressful circumstances risk being lost to red vamp compulsions and seeking blood and turning. Result very short character life.
Solution, find alternative way of achieving similar result to magical tattoos - risk not tried and tested method so unknown failure modes.
Would drinking donated blood help or only make things worse?
Risk of going red vamp instantly. Blood is the trigger and may work regardless of the need for life energies in the blood. If life energy is required and donated blood has less/none he could be a very weak red vamp power wise.
Should I require that the blood be fresh or would some from the bloodbank help? (how to acquire such from the blood bank though would be a challenge in of itself). . .
Get a job there, own the premises, etc. But it is humanity character death. I've thought of this issue before but it was so long ago I've forgotten much of my conclusions in relation to susan but drinking blood was out.
Would drinking some rats or other animals help at all, or would it count as killing and thus trigger a turning?
Risk of turning and resulting in weakened vamp.
Textev says blood is trigger for change.
My thoughts were the blood taken is physically incapable of supporting Rvamps (not enough nutrition) so is used either for carriage of life energies or to (my spec) establish a thaumaturgic link to donor's body where the rvamp's physical needs are magically siphoned from the multiple donors supporting each rvamp, number needed depending on the take e.g. take 1/10 of donor's nutrition need 10 donors for human strength more for superhuman strength.
Life energies, ahhh uncalculable
but is rpg possible solution for player. Find way of obtaining life energies off living animals or slaughtered animals - work at/access slaughter house (chickens, sheep, etc) or terminal hospice/execution site (humans) but this is risky.
Best idea - get tattoos and eat lots of high calorie food to provide energy needs of superhuman strength, or scrap character.
Stephen
Stephen