Life as a MalkavianFirst off, if you've never heard of Vampire: The Masquerade (live action role play version--Larp--not video game) click
HERE. The only vampires you really need to know about are Caine, the Independants, Camarilla, and the Sabbat. It probably doesn't have ALL the clans but it has what I know of them. A Malkavian, btw, is a Camarilla clan
ninja My first Larp character was an interesting and those who have been Larp'ing longer than I have love-ed her and all was in mourning when she "died" 6-months later. First off, let me start with the personalties she had at the end.
Abigail 'Abby' Zachary
Abby and her family were among the first settlers at
Roanoke Island. She and a friend of hers looked remarkably alike so it was not at all surprisng if people thought they were twins--the fact they played together all the time probably helped fulfill that notion. A week before she was Bitten, a Stranger came call to the colony demanding that they pay him homage--if the settlers had done so, Roanoke Island may not be one of the biggest mysteries of all time. Already, the Stranger had his eye on Barb, but the night he attacked, he took Abby instead. Since that night, Abby has always heard the voices of the towns people crying to her for help--especially the voice of her friend Barb. Since then, Barb has been travelling the United States--spending her last six months in Manhattan, Kansas--and putting up with Barb's strange needs.
Barbara 'Barb' York
Even after being killed, Barb lived on--in Abby's head. Barb knew that the Stranger meant to take her instead but mistook Abby for herself. Since then, Barb has always been a whispering annoyance in Abby's ear. Within the last twenty years of Abby's undead life, Barb had started to demand that Abby collect eyeballs for her from Abby's victims. Within the last five months of Abby's undead life, Barb had managed to go from a voice in Abby's head to a personality and voice all her own. Her voice alone was enough to creep other vampires out (think the little girl from
The Exorcist minus the pea soup vomit).
before I explain the third personality, let me interject something here. Abby and Barb can best be described as Smeagol and Gollum. Where Abby and Smeagol were the original personalties, something rather traumatic happened to introduce Barb and Gollum. Some nights, I would spend the night having the two argue with each other--or having Barb insult other vampires while Abby would apologize for Barb's stupidity.
Caitlin 'Cat' Xavier
While Abby and Barb knew about each other's existance, they did not know about Cat nor she them. Cat manisfested as a new, seperate personality within the last two weeks of Abby's undead life after Abby had made a trip to Europe for her sire. Cat never surfaced unless someone said something along the lines of "jump," "bounce," "trip," "fall," ect. It was always obvious when Cat was in control because she would be hopping....
without end. The only way to get rid of Cat would to tell her to stop--then Abby and Barb would resurface and want to know where the last few seconds (Cat was not very popular among the other vampires) went.
Ok, so, the final night that I had all three of these characters was a blast. In an unusual turn of events, Barb was the one who woke up in full control--Abby had been locked away in some dark corner of their mind. Barb at first tried to get some Brujah (Camarilla Clan) to go have some "fun" with her but none wanted to.
So first Barb went to a all night resturant where she at first flirted with a policeman to try to get his cruiser--didn't pan out. As she was growing bored with him, she happened to notice the world's biggest redneck truck driver enter, so she went over to him and egged him into beating the officer into a coma.
From there, she hitched a ride with a little old grandma lady stating she was going to visit her dear dying mother in the hospital. Well, the old woman wanted to make a stop by her place first so Barb agreed. When they stopped outside the old woman's gingerbread-like house. Barb snapped. She fed on the old woman then took her eyes (first time she got them out completely unharmed!) all while still in the car.
Barb pulled the corpse out of the car and carried it up to the house where she twice tried to kick in the thick oak door--no luck. So, instead, she tried to throw the body through the ground floor window of the library next door--and missed. A late worker happened to look out at Barb--who smiled and waved like nothing was wrong.
It was mentioned to Abby a week before that a Ventrue (Camarilla Clan) had opened a YMCA downtown near the college. After driving around for a half hour thinking of what to do, Barb decided to go there. Instead of parking in the parking lot, Barb decided to go "Bowling for Humans!" Ten points for running down adults, twenty points for running down kids (the story teller and I didn't exactly keep score). When the car died in the gym, Barb climbed out of the car laden with weapons.
She had a
mace hanging from her belt, a
scythe across her back, a
sawed off shotgun in her right hand, and a
crossbow in her left (picture her wearing the same outfit as Keanu Reeves did in
The Matrix). Crossing the floor as sirens started wailing in the background, Barb crossed gymnasium while opening fire at random. When she was out of arrows and shells, she dropped the crossbow and the shotgun and drew her scythe and mace.
Reaching the doors, Barb stepped through and saw a single police cruiser had screeched to a halt in front of the YMCA. The officers ordered her to drop her weapons and Barb had replied "I can't." (I watched
X-Men the night before) and threw the weapons at the two. The mace embedded itself in one officer's skull while the scythe just missed the other officer by a hair--at which point the cop opened fire on Barb. As the slugs hit home, Barb started running at the cop and growled "I'm gonna
bounce his a**!"
Lo and behold, out comes Cat for the final time. At first she didn't know what was happening, but when a bullet tore through her shoulder, she decided to kill the offender. Leaping over the cruiser, Cat landed on the officer and began to bounce on his chest repeatedly. The policeman swung his service piece up and shot Cat point-blank in the head--and she instantly turned to ash on him.
So, when it came to my turn to answer the GM's "What did you do tonight" question, I smiled and said: "I bounced to death on a cop's chest." I got best role play that night.
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I wish I didn't lose mine... I miss my Ranvos Character... even if he never got to play.