Salubri_Cain

@paper_ronin: Hope all is well?

I may have an Alt for this. I love this sort of thing.

Ghoul School

Many Kindred, (Vampires) require servitors. Often times these servitors are cultivated by giving a mortal man or woman, or perhaps animals in some cases, a sip of vampiric vitae, (blood). Without first draining their blood, they are are made into ghouls instead of vampire childer, and they most commonly serve as minions of their vampiric masters.

Although not so powerful as Kindred, ghouls may use the ingested vitae to become supernaturally strong and resilient. On top of that, most ghouls are fanatically loyal to their masters, most are blood bound, just as Kindred are. As the ghoul requires the blood of his/her master to maintain her/his status, she/he often has to drink repeatedly from the same vampire.

In case of Alexandria, most of the cities muscle has been indoctrinated into the Setite Clan's service. Strong arms and backs, were necessary to keep the contraband flowing, the market is ripe, much precious coin is to be made, which opens up even more doors of influence in these modern times. A means for relocation, enough resources to up-heel and relocate entire temples, temples like the one that is buried underneath Alexandria, an ancient Setite temple. One long since forgotten until recent activity, brought undesired attention, or was the attention desired? No one knew the answer to that question except the lady of the house, the dark mistress of Alexandria, Maatkare herself.

The Entrance to the temple itself is a well guarded secret, many of the ghouls know of its location, but not many would ever betray their master, even in the face of death. The Falcon had indeed landed it would seem, appropriately enough that it would be so near to Maatkare's nest. Her servitors greet Falcon with welcome arms, and hands grasping clubs, daggers, chains, and firearms of all shapes, all sizes, and all calibers. These Ghouls are built "Ford" tough, able to deal extreme damage and take extreme punishment, they are not prized for their skills or their wits, or their charms, these ghouls are purely brutes. Dumb muscle, but supernatural muscle, a kind of muscle that could tear the arms clean off of a silver-back gorilla, and a durability to match. They encircle Falcon, a swarm of twenty ghouls at least, with more eyes glowing in the distance.

As do I... :p

@paper_ronin: Finally have a day off tomorrow, yay. I am going to collect my thoughts tonight, and post tomorrow. :)

If this is based on actual RPG games that I have played over the years, like D&D, or anything and everything, from White Wolf Publishing, Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf the Apocalypse, Mage the Ascension, Kindred of the East, ext, ext. Shadow Run would also need to be taken into account, there are way too many characters to consider.

Still, I would have to say that Olaf Silvermane would probably be my most powerful. He was a D&D 3.5 character of mine, before I ever brought him to CV. A hero that ascended to godhood, well, demi-god at any rate. Dwarf-Barbarian-Santa-God.

@paper_ronin: Wish I would have seen this yesterday...

@lady_tlieso: Under powered characters are for boring people. Overpowered characters are for imaginative people. It's only lazy when the writing is lazy, a lot of powers doesn't make the writer lazy. If anything it should make the writer be more expressive, because there is more to express.

Naamah Prime. She is WAYOUTOFCONTROL, but she is pretty and she smells nice and she puts out, so all is forgiven. :)

@solarhawk:

Why are there corks on his mace?

So the young sir does not hurt himself.

Oh... 0_0