Canon Q&A With Storytellers

[Roderic]

Shadow blood is still physical.

A Shadow does not have red blood, but black. It does not glisten or shine in any light, it is an impenetrable blackness, as if it is able to swallow all light it comes into contact with. Stranger still are the properties of a Shadow's blood, which doesn't drip or ooze, it splashes on the fabric of reality and hangs in the air. It is as if the blood hits an invisible object and simply floats there, spattered on nothingness, until it disperses a few moments later in the same fashion a shadow will disperse when killed.

Okay, maybe I'm stupid, but the part Doc made blue/green/whatever color it is...reads to me like this: Shadow blood doesn't ever drip or ooze...blood drips when you are trying to give people blood via siring...ooze-when injured. stabbed/shot/whatever. It sort of hangs there in air next to them, like it goes no where. Just sits there in air. Then it just fades/vanishes out in a minute or two.

Is that wrong in how I am reading it? Because I know people have been rping it like that for the entire game's existence which got me wondering how do people that are shadows, sire? I figured some creative methodology which is cool by me

[Caligrace]

It has always been played as disappearing. It 'disperses' - aka, vanishes after it hits that invisible object. It's a oily, shadowy substance that poofs. Has everyone been writing it wrong, then? That's literally how I was taught to play a shadow years ago. D:

[Azraeth]

Okay, maybe I'm stupid, but the part Doc made blue/green/whatever color it is...reads to me like this: Shadow blood doesn't ever drip or ooze...blood drips when you are trying to give people blood via siring...ooze-when injured. stabbed/shot/whatever. It sort of hangs there in air next to them, like it goes no where. Just sits there in air. Then it just fades/vanishes out in a minute or two.

Is that wrong in how I am reading it? Because I know people have been rping it like that for the entire game's existence which got me wondering how do people that are shadows, sire? I figured some creative methodology which is cool by me

If you want to get into the specifics of how a human can ingest Shadow blood:

• If the human bites the vampire hard enough to draw blood, they could suck it out or lick it out of the air/off the skin.
• If the blood is in the air, a human could just open their mouth and like. Drink it. Think astronauts in space with zero gravity. Little balls of fluid floating around they can drink (only not quite, because Shadow blood doesn't inherently form spheres the way a fluid would.
• The vampire could cut themselves and leave a streak of blood in the air.
• Etc.

Really as long as you're adhering to canon, it's your call how the siring goes down.

[Azraeth]

It has always been played as disappearing. It 'disperses' - aka, vanishes after it hits that invisible object. It's a oily, shadowy substance that poofs. Has everyone been writing it wrong, then? That's literally how I was taught to play a shadow years ago. D:

If you were taught to roleplay that Shadow blood disappears as soon as it leaves the body and hits the air, then yes. You were taught incorrectly.

The wiki itself states:

until it disperses a few moments later

Until it disperses, it's completely physical.

The blood disappearing was never written to be, nor meant to be instantaneous. It also isn't oily, because oil is reflective whereas Shadow blood is not.

Though I've already answered this question now multiple times. From what I can tell, it goes back to my previously mentioned 'game of telephone' analogy. Hopefully I've cleared this up?

[Caligrace]

Not really, no. I admit that oily wasn't the right word choice [not used to being up this early D:], but I'll PM you what's confusing me, as to not clutter the thread up further!

[Caligrace]

If this has been asked and answered, sorry, but do blood thieves get any stronger with the blood? I know they get 'blood strength', but does that mean that they are as strong as a vampire with the blood in their system - or, at least, stronger than a human?

[Azraeth]

Blood Thieves gain supernatural strength, yeah. As for whether or not it's on par with a vampire, depends on the two characters and their stat placement. Which I recognize is a 'grid' thing, but it applies here as well. So a blood thief who is very strong, could be stronger than a vampire who is physically weak. But as a general rule, a blood thief is going to be stronger than a 'squishy' human.

[Caligrace]

Oooh, wonderful! My plan will work, then! Thank you!

[Trahir Trahison]

Question: Can memories that have been erased through the Selective Amnesia RP power be seen by the following?

Read Memories, Blood Memories (RP Power)

If so to what extent? Would a power like Image Telepathy (RP Power) then be able to be used to restore the memories of the amnesiac?

Could this be done against their will?

[Doc]

Good question.. would make an intriguing plot line