GOLLUM

By Sauron (mmoks@hotmail.com)

Clan Gollum is really a version of Clan Toreador. The whole thing started in 1359, when a 7th gen. Toreador called Counstaine Souffleur was abducted by the Nosferatu in Marseille. He was held captive in a chamber completely filled with water, a long way down in the Marseille underground. In this time, he fed on fish that lived all the way underground. As time went on, he became more and more in control of water. This power became the discipline of Aquatella. His appearance dropped to zero because of his constant contact with water. This is not a clan weakness, just one for Constaine. In 1944, toxic waste came into the chamber, and Constaine gained exceptional powers. He broke out of the chamber, and using his new powers, slaughtered and diablerized most of the Nosferatu in Marseille.

In the period of 1944-1960, he Embraced three new Gollum, who all learned Aquatella, a Toreador discipline and a Nosferatu discipline. These became leaders of a troupe each. Each troupe has from 10-20 members. The first, the troupe of Aqua, is led by Jean-Claude Souffleur They posesses the powers of Aquatella, Animalism and Presense. Their task is to try to get the Gollum accepted by the Toreador. The other troupe, the troupe of Power, is led by Zinedine Souffleur. They posess the powers of Aquatella, Celerity and Potence. They are the ones who lead Nossie-razzias, as they call it. They exorcise whole colonies of Nosferatu The third troupe, the troupe of Spies, is led by Fabienne Souffleur. They posess the powers of Aquatella, Auspex and Obfuscate. They are the ones who spy on the Nosferatu and know where they live.

Constaine is just called Master by the Gollum. He doesn't know much about the vampiric society today, but the younger Gollum have found out something of it by their own.

The Gollum never present themselves as Gollum, they always present themselves as Toreador. They got the name from when Jean-Claude first presented himself as clan Toreador. A Toreador neonate smartass just threw the comment: "You're no fucking Toreador. You look more like Gollum (from the Lord of the Rings) to me." In some kind of way, he mysteriously disappeared the same day.

Nickname

Waterlords

Appearance

Totally white skin, red eyes. They always wear sunglasses and the hippest fashion.

Haven

As near water as possible.

Background

Clan Gollum's goals are to get rid of the Nosferatu they find. They look at themselves as Toreador, but the Toredor will not accept them. They try do be accepted by Toreador. The troupe leaders train their progeny for the task this troupe has.

Character Creation

Troupe of Aqua: Social, mental, physical.

Troupe of Power: Physical, Social, mental.

Troupe of Spies: Social, physical, mental.

Preferred Backgrounds

Retainers, Contacts, Resources

Clan Disciplines

Troupe of Aqua: Animalism, Aquatella, Presence

Troupe of Power: Aquatella, Celerity, Potence

Troupe of Spies: Aquatella, Auspex, Obfuscate

Weaknesses

They have totally colorless skin and red eyes. They cannot raise Generation through Diablerie. They have to have contact with water at least once a week.

Organisation

The Gollum have a meeting in the Marseille underground every ten years where they discuss their future actions. The troupes always stick together.

Stereotypes

Brujah: The young ones can be great allies, but the older ones are a bit too suspicious.

Gangrel: We don't know much about these ones. Their Protean is somewhat similar to our Aquatella.

Malkavian: They're all mad. We don't want to have anything to do with them.

Nosferatu: We want them all to die after what they did to our Master. Our main goal is for them to extinguish with as much pain as possible.

Toreador: Our origin. We want to be acepted as one of them, but they won't let us.

Tremere: These guys are scary. We don't want to fuck with them.

Ventrue: It seems like they rule a lot in the Camarilla. They don't want to have anything to do with us, actually.

Camarilla: That's that big organisation where most of us are gathered, huh?

Sabbat: What the hell is Sabbat? Some scary guys called themselves Sabbat once. They were hosed down by us pretty fast....

Giovanni: Aren't they the Italian ones? By the way, master wonders where the Cappadocians went....

Lupines: Master says that there was a lot of them in the old days. We haven't met any of them yet. I guess they're all dead or something.