Acleacius wrote:Jhereg
" just like Julius did"
What are you talking about, some of us didn't kill Julius and if Patty goes to SD not knowing whom to ask about Kent?
Remember if Vamps lose their Blood they lose thier powers, right?
She won't be able to tell a Nerd from a Vamp and I have no idea hw this will get her kill [except for being stupid] she can't be a threat if she can't expose the Masqurade.
Reguarding Julius he has to have know where Rosa, E, Lilly and Copper went he was just waiting for Hatter.
They maybe Thinbloods but that doesn't mean they are stupid, if Julius didn't know and you show compassion by letting him go, you make clear he should never do that again or he will be killed
He cearly understood and did not look or seem anxious to die or try it again.
Patty's a ghoul - she can tell who's a vampire and who isn't a vampire, remember? Knox picked you out instantly, and you hadn't been a vampire for even a whole night at that point. The ability to tell who is and isn't a vampire isn't a 'power'. Ghouls
know that vampires exist - that's why they can spot them, and why the Masquerade is even
necessary. Patty picks you right out and how long at that point has it been since she's had a fix? It certainly was long enough to get Skelter mad enough to want her dead. And Skelter's an Anarch - he doesn't even
like the Cam, but he sees the necessity of the Masquerade.
Have you read any of the cut-scene backgrounders? In the middle-ages vampires were nearly wiped out, not by humans who
knew of their existence - just by ones that
believed in their existance. That's why the Masquerade is mainly concerned with making humans believe that Vampires
don't exist - that way nobody is looking for them.
I mean, heck, I know that ghosts exist, because I've seen them, and I have the intellectual honesty to not lie to myself about what I've seen with my own eyes. I know they're there, and I can see them. Most people, if they don't believe ghosts exist, even if they do see one, will talk themselves into not thinking that they saw what they saw. They'll chalk it up as a dream, a hallucination bought on by stress, a trick of the light - anything but a ghost. As many as I've seen, I'd bet almost everybody has seen a ghost at some time or another. How many actually believe in them? Almost nobody. I went with an ex to visit his mother's grave, and he walked straight through one - didn't even blink. People won't see what they don't want to see. That's the whole trick to being invisible.
Patty would just hunt down the S.D. kindred and start bugging them about Kent. Sooner or later, she'd talk too much, and they'd have to take her out. Patty's dead meat. She's some Vampire's lunch. If you send her away, you're merely abrogating your responsibility and foisting the task off on somebody else. There is no compassion in not killing somebody and asking somebody else to do it for you. That's just the basest form of cowardice.
Julius, now - that's a different story entirely. He
is a Vampire. If he'd convinced Hatter, and Hatter in turn managed to convince others...Julius deserves to die. I don't feel the slightest compassion for him, or even the desire for it. He had a sire - he must have had at least a reasonable understanding of the more important rules. He broke them. Whether from self-pity, or greed, or whatever. He at least
attempted to betray the Kindred, and he's toast. Or, more accurately, ashes.
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