Canon Q&A With Storytellers

[Mooncalf]

Yes they can smoke
but only if they have the rpp curse "weakness to toxins", Allurist or not, can they feel the effects of any drugs or alcohol.

This.

[Mooncalf]

Image Telepathy allows a vampire to send images via mind link. Can they also send images they've seen in the past, part of their memories? Or would that require Memory Telepathy, meaning for Image Telepathy, only images of the immediate present can be sent?

It'd require Memory Telepathy, because otherwise that RP power is kinda useless.

[Mooncalf]

Is it possible for someone to have turned and immediately go to the shadow realm, or would they have to die as a vampire before going there?

It's possible that they might die immediately after the turning, or perhaps during the turning. It could happen.

[Mooncalf]

This is super minor, but what is a jorogumo cocoon? Jorogumo are spider-like creatures, but cocoons are formed by holometabolous insects. Spiders aren't insects and don't form cocoons, so wtf is the cocoon?

I've read elsewhere that they do form cocoons, of a sort. Or some of them do. Regardless, Jurogumo are not spiders, they merely resemble spider-humans while in their natural form. So they form cocoons.

[Mooncalf]

I'm wondering what we can say about what relics look like, there isn't any image on grid (yet?) and nothing in the wiki but I suspect that;
as there are plans for us to be able to dress up our grid avatars and that plan includes some wearable relics from what I understand, this will change. So in the meanwhile, can we get written descriptions of some of them that might be being given as gifts in an rp? Like what is a 'Sanguivore`s Bane' for example? Can it be worn like an amulet, is it made of bone, etc.?

There's quite a lot of these, so I wonder if anyone else would like to write a wiki article about their descriptions? I'd create the images based on those descriptions.

[Xian]

I'm wondering what we can say about what relics look like...

There's quite a lot of these, so I wonder if anyone else would like to write a wiki article about their descriptions? I'd create the images based on those descriptions.

I'd originally imagined that relics appear different from each other, though with certain qualities that make them similar to other relics of the same type. Say, a modulation monocle is generally a piece of glass or wire-frame that's worn over the eye, but the glass could be tinted, the wire frame made of different substances. Or a sanguivore's bane was some object with a cursed/enchanted drop of blood locked within it, like a piece of amber, gemstone or even glass, then worn as a pendant, ring or earring.

I know it would be a lot of work when it comes to creating images though.

I could draft a rough "what-if" of the typical appearance of some of the relics, if nobody's gotten started on this yet.

[Myk]

Quick question from a RP perspective.

If you encounter a person in a thread, how soon can you Appraise them?

According to the Wiki explanation below, I get the impression that one could size up a target the moment they become a target.

On grid, you have to know their name before you can use Appraise because you have to type in the target’s name first. Does that translate into RP or was the former explanation truer to RP scenarios? Example: You look at them and you can appraise them?

Appraisal
From a roleplay perspective, this power grants telepaths the constant ability to size up a target. It does not give "stats" as you see them on their character sheet, but in roleplay terms it would allow the telepath to get an idea of the powers and strengths the target possesses.

[Reanna]

So, I'm not sure this was asked or not. I clicked on all the parts in the beginning of this to see if I could find it and didn't.

With the Pathfinder power, it states:

Although you started off exhibiting the usual gifts and curses associated with one vampire path, you have slowly evolved to exhibiting, instead, the traits of one neighboring Path (for example, Necromancer or Allurist if you started as Killer). Roleplay only. (Not inheritable for bloodlines)

Does this mean that as a telepath with this power, they'd be able to eat, taste and digest food like allurists can? I know there is the natural digestion power, but with Pathfinder, it doesn't state specifics and eating is an allurist trait.

Some that I've asked said yes, you can, others say you can't. So, any insight would be awesome before I purchase!

[Remington Rothfelder]

Path traits refers to this stuff: Clicky

I think.

[Mooncalf]

Quick question from a RP perspective.

If you encounter a person in a thread, how soon can you Appraise them?

According to the Wiki explanation below, I get the impression that one could size up a target the moment they become a target.

On grid, you have to know their name before you can use Appraise because you have to type in the target’s name first. Does that translate into RP or was the former explanation truer to RP scenarios? Example: You look at them and you can appraise them?

Appraisal
From a roleplay perspective, this power grants telepaths the constant ability to size up a target. It does not give "stats" as you see them on their character sheet, but in roleplay terms it would allow the telepath to get an idea of the powers and strengths the target possesses.

You don't need their name. The reason is that people can appraise those they become aware of, even by being shown a video or a photo of that individual. So you could appraise somebody when you know they exist and you have a reason to take notice. So yes, that would be instant.