Let's Play Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines #21: Making my way Downtown [Strobe Warning]
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
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The sabbat warehouse is a burning ruin. Whatever they were transnporting to Santa Monica has surely been lost in the flames, though how much this has weakened the group remains to be seen. Despite everything we've managed to succeed at the task LeCroix set out for us and our immediate reward is getting a lot of answers from Bertram Tung about what's really going on around us.
We've no time to sit on our laurels, however, for we're needed elsewhere. It's time for Helen to take a trip further inland to the streets of downtown, where the builings attempt to pierce the heavens while also suffocating you.
Unfortunately for Helen, the Sabbat know exactly what we did and are eager for revenge...
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Darn it, Kiko!
Why you gotta make these only run for 20 minutes? I want more vampiiiiiiiiiir! :(
I like Bertram Tung as a character, and the voice actor really sells him, though he, like many vampires have the same prejudices against vampires not of his clan (save, the Ventrue to a point). You might want to pay Bertram a visit a little later in the game, (for no particular reason ...)
I’ve always loved the opening scene at the arrival in Downtown, from the coolness of Mr. Rodriguez, to the pride of the Sabbat, which can definitely count… at least up to three. :)
« Gotta make sure we don’t Jay walk that would be terrible!! »
*Immediately proceeds to jaywalk*😂
Fat Larry has a glorious afro.
Many vendors in RPG are atrocious and obnoxious, but Larry… Larry is the best.
And 6 points in Charisma.
Helen might not have known where she wanted to go when she got in that taxi, but the Sabbat apparently did.
Something tells me the Sabbat, or at least their higher-ups, keep tabs on LA's taxi services.
I'm sorry, Nines, but Helen is the player character. Staying out of trouble is near impossible for her.
I love Bertram's description of the Sabbat - freaking hilarious! Also, Fat Larry in the same episode?! Is it my birthday, or has Christmas come early?!
So little time, so many interesting characters...
Bloodlines are one reason why if I were to play any Vampire tabletop game, I'd pick the Nosferatu even over the Ventrue. Pretty much every Nossie compensates for their weak looks with strong smarts, and nobody showcases that better than mr. Bertram Tung, the ugliest of them by a mile. He's a guy that doesn't just spy and know, but he's a guy with the brains to filter and analyse what he hears and sees like he's refining platinum ore by hand, and the better part is, he _sounds_ the part. Smarmy? Sure. But he's earned his smarminess, and if you're wise, you'll respect him even if he gets on your nerves. I could hear him talk for whole days.
Nines is capable, handsome and charismatic. He makes you _want_ to listen to him when he talks. I don't think he's a Ventrue, but it would be hilarious if he was! A Ventrue anarch, oh man... Back on topic, he's shown here he can take care of himself. Which means it would be veeeeery concerning if he sounded worried or scared in any capacity, right?
Fat Larry is just fun. Brother could sell ice cubes to a penguin and make a sustainable profit. His Malkavian interactions are solid gold too.
On a more game-oriented front, I'd say at least part of that experience burning a hole in Helen's mental pocket would go well into improving her hacking. There's no shortage of computers to break into in VtMB, and as proven in the Asylum, you can't use Auspex as a shortcut to access higher difficulty PCs as handily as you can use Bloodbuff for picking locks.
And I'm not sure about this game specifically, but in a general sense a vampire other than a Tremere should be able to control an Ingram pretty well. They're so much stronger than any human that the whole instability from the recoil and the back-and-forth movement of the heavy bolt, both of which normally destroy precision when a human fires it, should be insignificant in a Kindred's hand. Is it worth bothering with, with all the other weapons Kindred have at their disposal? Probably not, but still.
Nice progress witha large info dump mixed in goodluckin newarea
I could spend 4 hours listening to Bertram describe and explain stuff.
Loving this play through!
I favor the Anarchs and Lasombra.
wohoo! new place
11:23, that's new I think...
Interestingly, you can see a few instances where your clan stereotypes indfluence your dialogue (outside of being Malkavian that is) with Betram, with the very not nice closing remarks with things like "rat hole" and "disgusting worm". It's sort of assumed you character is a pretty stereotypical memeber of their clan in some ways and for a Torreador that means liking pretty things and having trouble being nice with the not so pretty Nosferatus. So Helen is going to be a tad prejudiced with them in her dialogue, weither you like it or not. :p
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