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Mooncalf wrote:

Lancaster wrote:I'm sorry if someone already asked this question:

During the day, all vampire pass out completely, right? Soon as that sun rises, they're out. Except those with Daywalker, of course. How does this work for those who get their resting EXP in public places? Like the library, and the clubs - how does one explain all the people sleeping in booths and corners?

I was sure I had an explanation for this ... but now I'm stumped, LOL! Anyone remember me explaining this before?

The simple solution would be to change the wiki saying that vampires go more docile and weaker when the sun is up. But I'd rather figure out why I decided rest EXP was a good idea instead of changing the wiki.

Each path now has a certain type of resting area that will give them an automatic 30 spirit EXP if they are there when the sun sets. I might increase it to 50 eventually.

Shadows gain experience from resting in sewers, where the least light can penetrate (later, caves too).

Necromancers draw power from resting in graveyards or the morgue.

Allurists gain experience from being around as many people as possible, so clubs give them experience (not bars, sorry).

Killers are either anti-social or they need lots of space to practice, so they gain strength by resting in areas marked as "abandoned" or "deserted".

Mystics grow in power the closer the are to the rip between the physical realm and the shadow realm, so any building in the quarantine area will help them draw spirit experience.

Telepaths thrive in places of learning, so go to the library, museum, gallery or net cafes to rest.

This update was made partly on a whim (a 2 AM whim), but partly as an additional incentive for people not to hide in their lairs constantly. Stay cooped up if you want, and hide away, but if you're not resting in the appropriate areas, you're missing out on bonus experience.

I was going to add Daywalker as a mastery path power, because let's face it, daywalkers in vamp fiction have always been the uber ones. However, when I thought about it I realised that in this game it's not a huge advantage. Staying out of the sun isn't hard, and it's not like being in the sun during sunrise is something anyone has to do, because it's not like you can hide in the wilderness without getting nuked by Fae. The only major advantage is combating teleportation slightly, so I decided to add it now.

The drawbacks of this constant power are that, a) you still lose an extra blood during sunrise if you are caught in the open (you gain no wound), and b) if you're roleplaying being a Daywalker, there will be some MAJOR disadvantages of moving around in the sun from an RP point of view. I'm talking vulnerability, weakness, falling asleep constantly, not being able to use any powers, and being more likely to be IDed as a vamp.

Even still, it makes one feel all warm and uber to have the power. Don't go running into the sun just yet though because I need to test it myself. I'm pretty sure it's fine but I wont know until the sun rises.

I'm going to add a little something extra to this power. Because Killers are slightly more awake during the sunlight, I think I'll give them a certain amount of energy that gets automatically replenished when the sun sets, to reflect the fact that they were able to move around outisde while the sun was in the sky.

Mooncalf wrote:

3.) Does a Killer's body decay while uninhabited by a spirit?

Yes, but more slowly than normal, which could give a human a certain amount of pause, but wouldn't immediately violate the vampiric secret.