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World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 from Hardsuit Labs

Longes

Augur
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But if you are a blood descendant of Carna you can buy the ability to cast rituals without spending blood, and make blood bonds through heavy dicking.
I'm gonna ask for more explaination on all of this, but I want special attention given to whatever the actual fuck this is supposed to be. Do you mean there are literal vampire blood orgies going on here? That sounds less like feminism and more like someone watched way too fucking many Jesus Franco films. We need a smiley of that meme of a fat kid warding off evil with a cross.
In V5, the Tremere have a new clan weakness - they can't blood bond vampires, and they need to feed more blood to mortals to blood bond them.
If you are a Tremere, you can buy a Loresheet (basically a collection of merits) named "Descendant of Carna". This means you are a vampire descended from Carna. The four-point merit in that loresheet is called "Reimagined bond". If you have it, then every time you have sex with someone, you create (or advance by one level) a blood bond with the person. This bypasses the clan weakness. Additionally, the person gets blood bonded to Carna, so the whole merit is a scam and Carna's Tremere are unwittingly creating a web of sleeper agents for Carna's personal use.
 

Semiurge

Cipher
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But if you are a blood descendant of Carna you can buy the ability to cast rituals without spending blood, and make blood bonds through heavy dicking.
I'm gonna ask for more explaination on all of this, but I want special attention given to whatever the actual fuck this is supposed to be. Do you mean there are literal vampire blood orgies going on here? That sounds less like feminism and more like someone watched way too fucking many Jesus Franco films. We need a smiley of that meme of a fat kid warding off evil with a cross.
In V5, the Tremere have a new clan weakness - they can't blood bond vampires, and they need to feed more blood to mortals to blood bond them.
If you are a Tremere, you can buy a Loresheet (basically a collection of merits) named "Descendant of Carna". This means you are a vampire descended from Carna. The four-point merit in that loresheet is called "Reimagined bond". If you have it, then every time you have sex with someone, you create (or advance by one level) a blood bond with the person. This bypasses the clan weakness. Additionally, the person gets blood bonded to Carna, so the whole merit is a scam and Carna's Tremere are unwittingly creating a web of sleeper agents for Carna's personal use.

Whoever wrote the clan Carna didn't even pretend it would be anything other than a premise for blood orgies and hot lesbian witches.
 

Vincente

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What in the fucking fuck have they done to the Tremere?

Kine hack schrecknet nosferatu database and find out about the existence of vampires, so they raid the tremere chantry in vienna and kill all the big tremere players which causes the pyramid to crumble real fast, karl schrekt tries to fill the power gap but the damage is done, blood bonds are broken and now masterless tremere either run around like headless chicken or break their own blood bond with a super sekrit ritual and join other houses formed by other bond-brokens, oh and now they teach others thaumaturgy(which is a big no no)
 

Morpheus Kitami

Liturgist
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Messages
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In V5, the Tremere have a new clan weakness - they can't blood bond vampires, and they need to feed more blood to mortals to blood bond them.
If you are a Tremere, you can buy a Loresheet (basically a collection of merits) named "Descendant of Carna". This means you are a vampire descended from Carna. The four-point merit in that loresheet is called "Reimagined bond". If you have it, then every time you have sex with someone, you create (or advance by one level) a blood bond with the person. This bypasses the clan weakness. Additionally, the person gets blood bonded to Carna, so the whole merit is a scam and Carna's Tremere are unwittingly creating a web of sleeper agents for Carna's personal use.
I don't know what to say. Its no less Jesus Franco, but a bit of latter-day Hammer Horror too. The desperate, titties everywhere kind of Hammer Horror. While someone was calling a foreign government vampire homophobes, some guy was turning his porno novel into canon. V5 really is FUBAR.

Kine hack schrecknet nosferatu database and find out about the existence of vampires, so they raid the tremere chantry in vienna and kill all the big tremere players which causes the pyramid to crumble real fast, karl schrekt tries to fill the power gap but the damage is done, blood bonds are broken and now masterless tremere either run around like headless chicken or break their own blood bond with a super sekrit ritual and join other houses formed by other bond-brokens, oh and now they teach others thaumaturgy(which is a big no no)
Why do Tremere even exist now? Just make it an order thing. Like Ordo Dracul. Anyone who wants can be a Tremere, they just got to pay the chantry head some blood or whatever.
 

jackofshadows

Arcane
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Maybe something is really wrong with me but I'm waiting for this game to read all that and then shit out how Mitsoda exactly got woke, how pathetic lore has become etc etc. I mean, there's no hope, isn't it?
 

Silverfish

Arbiter
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Oh come on, it's not all that bad. Worst case scenario, just mute your monitor, crank up Transylvanian Hunger and treat BL2 like the worlds most expensive music video.
 

Morpheus Kitami

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Oh come on, it's not all that bad. Worst case scenario, just mute your monitor, crank up Transylvanian Hunger and treat BL2 like the worlds most expensive music video.
What? Bloodlines is an '80s goth rock kind of game. Blast some Only Theatre of Pain or First and Last and Always. Black metal's for something more unrelenting.
 

Fedora Master

STOP POSTING
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Edgy
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Maybe something is really wrong with me but I'm waiting for this game to read all that and then shit out how Mitsoda exactly got woke, how pathetic lore has become etc etc. I mean, there's no hope, isn't it?

WoD has always been pathetically woke. The fact that BL1 remained relatively inoffensive was thanks to that particular dev team.
 
Vatnik
Joined
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BL2 has the same composer as BL1, so sountrack is one of the things I'm not very worried about.
Lol. I remember an interview with him from 5 years ago. He was like "Yeah, when I composed BL1, I just got out of prison, I was at the lowest point in my life, I was living under the bridge, my wife left me, my kids disavowed me, so when I got the gig, I channeled it all into this album and I left a piece of my soul in it. Now I live in a mansion, I got a family, I'm a happy man. There's no way I could compose something like BL2, nor would I, for any money". And then lo and behold, he's BL2 composer. And you're "not worried". Mission accomplished, just like with PoE kickstarter when they mentioned BG2, or when W2 namedropped Fallout. You know what they call people like you? A mark.
 

Roguey

Codex Staff
Staff Member
Sawyerite
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WoD has always been pathetically woke. The fact that BL1 remained relatively inoffensive was thanks to that particular dev team.

It was 90s/00s liberal which meant pushing the envelope and being edgy to stick it to the conservatives. Bloodlines was no different.
 

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