It tells you that it will follow you home. “Shhh.” The voice behind you sounds like a squeezed handful of grave worms. He just fades away, and the last thing floating in the tobacco smoke is that grin. The thing you sit up at night praying no one ever finds out. He doesn’t say, “Fold.” Says something else. Did you talk out loud? The fucker is playing the cards, because you just did a bottom deal, a triple lift, and two moves that ain’t got names. He’s not wearing shades, but you can’t see his eyes. How’d he get into your game? “Not playing the cards I’m playing you,” he croons. That’s what emptied your bowels and sanity. Ten thousand beasts pressing out on her belly like it’s a theatre curtain on opening night. The smiling little girl walking towards you on filthy feet. Monstrous bulk shrinking - snout flattening - fangs dulling down to pearls - fur receding to a naked obscenity. Like them trashy drive-in horrors, only on rewind. Weren’t the claws or magnesium eyes or the lizard brain keening, “Run, run, run!” Was the change.
“Anything.” Gangrel: the ones you can’t kill Every happiness you already have turns to bile. Voice like the fast food jingle talking you into suicide by tiny bites.
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Eyes like TV ads that enslave you to debt. Something dead approaches… Daeva: the ones you die for Howzabout a teaser sample, loveling? Here’s a little micro-ficiton for each vampire clan. And if you need a little foreplay to get in the mood, I have just the thing. One of the things that Rose did with the line (and that I felt very comfortable diving into) was dousing it all in Chandleresque noir. She worked me, and I’m proud of the result. I’m a writer who benefits from an editor who works me. Rose Bailey, the developer, gave the book the most focused and relentless vision of any group creative project I’ve ever worked on. This book is an overhaul of the Vampire: the Requiem game. I wrote the vampire clan chapter and the “All Night Society Chapter.” But this book is the thing that tickles that teenage fan boy rattling my ribcage. I wrote a novel, a short story, and a little game writing on the side. I’ve written for White Wolf (and Onyx Path) before. Today, Blood & Smoke: the Strix Chronicle was released. That dripping, noir morsel is from Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister.īack in the mid 90s, a sixteen-year-old me opened up Vampire: the Masquerade. You’re not human tonight… Maybe I never was or ever will be… Maybe we all get like this in the cold half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right. –sikker, OP forums The Endless Night: a bloody valentine to fanged noir “So I’ve almost read the whole thing now, and, well, it was as I had expected: A masterpiece. Cover to cover a marvelous piece of Darkness.” “‘Vampire is about sex and murder’ is a hell of a ballsy way to open a book.” “This book remembers everything I remember about vampires.” I’ve pretty much stuck to the other, non-Vampire gamelines.” I’m going to try selling my group on it when I see them. You know what? I’ve been a WoD fan since almost the beginning, and this is the first Vampire game I have seen that works for me. I think this is a first ever for an RPG book referring to modern Greece. “And, overall, the names were correct & rest of the terms properly applied.
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Not that it dissuades from the longer term but there is so much ‘juice’ in what could happen over several nights that you would hate to miss even one drop!” “Interestingly one of my first impressions is that there is a mechanical and narrative shift to night by night play. “The language and artwork of the book so far has so much flavour with better descriptions and different points of view that it quickens the original EVEN without using the rules. I’m only 25 pages in and I keep stopping to go ‘Wow, that was a pretty turn of phrase.'” Not just the art (which is fine), but the words are so well done. It’s clearly a labor of love that makes reading it a joy.” “I really love the energy that the writers put into this. But it’s all delivered with smooth smiles, confident strides, celebratory grotesqueness, and blood-stained cool.” The tragedy is still there, in the subtext. “Blood and Smoke is clever, sexy, and stylish. There’s this casual, powerful confidence to the writing that continues to wow me and drag me in. “Blood & Smoke is like V:tR and V:tM came together, had a revenant baby and it grew up to be a blood drinking fiend of pure Twitter Here are some lovely words that have already been laid down regarding Blood & Smoke from various sources:
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