>The hitch however, is that I didn't wish to be identified and stereotyped by my local players as a Sangiovanni, particularly given the supposed canon responses of >other Kindred ostracizing the bloodline. As well as the typical Camarilla responses of "Hey, we can use your ghouls for part (a) of the plan, and my wonky powers >for part (b).", or "If you're a San Giovanni, aren't you supposed to be like this...", or portraying my character to others as some over-sexed necrophile >without the possibility of simply having an obsessive fascination with death and corpses.
If the players are giving you grief out of character for your decision to play a certain concept then bring that up with your coordinator. ICly, most Kindred can only really claim to know the "*Venetian necromancers who maintain a tight family structure that Embraces exclusively from its own mortal stock.*" line from the TT book. It doesn't mention anything about incest or necrophilia in there. If they are Mekhet then they can know more about the bloodline but not exclusive details unless they have a specialty. I am rather hardcore when it comes to people bleeding the line about IC/OOC knowledge. Thankfully most everyone in the NE region has been awesome and not assumed things about Pietro (since he is the one who uses the name). I would also like to point out that necromancy, by definition, has nothing to do whatsoever with zombies. I think the necromancer = zombies thing is a total Cam association. > To try and solve issues with metagaming or stereotyping, and possibly the > 'double blood' concept I simply wished to assume a second identity in > public. Though I could still be a faithful Sangiovanni, who supports the > family above all else. That is what several players are doing. I know of (I think) 5 characters who go by different names in public to hide their identity yet are known to the family as who they actually are. The other issue I still have however, is that I don't go to open IRC games > and I don't really do private IRC scenes frequently. I didn't want to make > others feel like I was trying to become a Sangiovanni just for the > Cattiveria discipline, and I don't appreciate the mass reprimand. If anyone > is still willing to talk to me (constructively) about creating a > Sangiovanni, I'm still interested, whether it's in family or avusing for > whatever reason. Your original idea: *"I'm interested in playing a 350+ year old San Giovanni that doesn't openly associate with the family, but still supports them." *Is one that could totally work. Like I said there are several people who are not publicly Sangiovanni but are still very active with the family. Your second idea: *"I'd like to play a 'double blood.'"* As you pointed out the book says that the family is infamous for killing those who are 'double-blood'. You like the loyalty to the family that the Sangiovani are suppose to have so how does being avused get you that? We currently have a lot of people in the 350+ age bracket. That pretty much covers the oldest three generations of the family. Besides being one of the oldest family members is there anything else to the character? Are there certain things you are looking for in your mortal family or your Sire? What sort of childhood did you want your character to have? What sort of interests would the character have? Would he be an accomplished necromancer or would he be alright at it but he has other skills that were the reason he was Embraced? What covenant are you interested in playing? If not the LS (which is the default covenant for the family) why did you choose that covenant? Do you want your character to have spent any time as a ghoul? Why does the character choose not to publicly associate with the family? The bloodline has only been in play for a year now so we are still a small player base. In that year we have had some problems with lost family members and avused characters. I think most of us would like to see new players be more in line with the rest of the family so that perhaps at a future ICC we can all roll in like 30 PCs strong and totally impress the whole dang club with how cool and organized we are. I want us to go to the Mekhet meeting and totally show off to the Houses about how awesome we are and how they wish they had invited us to play in their little system. Liz Misamore US2002023691 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Sangiovanni Wiki can be found at www.san-giovanni.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ooc-sangiovanni" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ooc-sangiovanni?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
