"Sanguines, Sanguines everywhere! Purge with Holy Flame!"
Vampirism has been rewritten a number of times, simplified, complicated, re-simplified, re-simplified and combined. Originally there was no intention to rewrite Vampirism, but we want to give organic city progression a try through Vampirism. Vampirism was once 30% of the intake of new players on the server, and have since almost completely disappeared from the playing field. Now, we are reworking Vampirism, but instead of just Revamping the same old design, tossing it overboard and going in an entirely new direction. The new core theory here, is the so called "Mutators" System that expands upon the Proficiency System. Vampires is the first test of such a Mutator System. Witchblood, Silven, Dragonblood (along with a rewrite for Dragonblood) and other such blood curses will follow if this one succeeds. So without further ado:
Main Content:
- Unionist Aspects removed from lore (anyone relying on Aspect of Knowledge needs to modify their Proficiency points but does not need to ask for a re-review).
- Void Worship removed from lore. (if any questions arise how this affects your character, please ask on this thread with an @MonMarty tag)
- Vampirism completely rewritten: https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Vampirism
Vampirism Changes:
- Vampirism bite infection rate increased from 15% to 100%.
- Vampirism curing fundamentally changed and made longer, but also have something to do every day and give healing charters a reason to have a dank Vampire healing fungeon.
- Some new anti Vampire weapons added. Changed the way how sun damage works a bit.
- Added Mutations for Vampires, a unique point buying system like Proficiency for Vampires.
- Made Vampires long-living. Added some cool Vampire abilities.
- Reworked Vampire mentalities a bit.
- Added massive Vampire History.
- New Vampire Art.
- Infection Process simplified and expanded.
- Changed up the infectable races to reflect more modern Dragon protections lore.
- Changed up the Trivia for additional misc information.
What should a player do:
- If your character was a Vampire, consider changing up the character based on the new lore. Old Vampires should still largely be compatible, but definitely look at the abilities and skills. The many "dreadwielding" and "Blood dancing" abilities no longer exist or in many cases need to be bought with Vampire Points. So, in summary, old vamps are probably lore compliant, just educate yourself on the new characteristics.
- If your character had a Unionist Aspect, see if removing them from your app would mean a re-review. In most cases it does not, since removing 10 Proficiency points does not require a rewrite.
- If your character was a Void Worshiper, consider reworking that. Void Worship is not gone, we just didn't want to keep the powers for Void Worship and decided to purge the whole document to save us the problem of having to detach the powers from the lore. Void Worship is still just "generic" Void Worship in lore.
Have fun feeding!
EDIT: Curing of non fully infected people has been modified to be as simple as a tonic ingestion, dispensed at most alchemist healing outlets.
EDIT2: Added Vampire Brood Paragraph. For some reason this was omitted in the publication, but it is in place now.
EDIT2: Added Vampire Protection Paragraph. It's a nice compromise I feel. An initial protection to make sure players don't get turned at the wrong point in time for them, but still offer only a temporary cooldown of protection to ensure "the other side" gets another shot at it.
EDIT3:
- Sped up regular curing from 5 days to 2 days and a morning, congested 4 days into half days instead.
- Varlord still require full 5 day curing process.
- Changed some of the wording to allow for blood transfusions to be time skipped if no Url are present.
- Changed some of the wording to allow for the hungering phase to be time skipped if no one is present to rp with the person strapped to a bed.
