Path of Stupidity

By Adam Whale (adam.whale@virgin.net)

History

This path was founded by a collaborative effort of most of the vampire characters that Mattew Yeo has ever played.

Description

The path of stupidity encourages all that is dense and potentially likely to result in the mocking of its followers by those on other paths. There are certainly no vampires more impossibly dense than those who follow the Path of Stupidity. To those on this path, ignorance, gullibility, and sheer absurdity are qualities to be cherished and spread throughout existence.

Followers of this path take an active interest in the pursuit of total humiliation and dismal failure, as they beleive that if they really are that dumb then the Beast will not want ot take them over.

Following this path does not mean that the vampire is totally without morals, more a confused set of morals due to their incomprehension of whether taking part in a plot to kill the Prince and his entire retinue would be 'pre-meditated murder' or accidental wrongdoing'.

Ethics

The truth to all things lies in what is obvious. If a fact is obvious, it is true. That is unless it's obviously true, in which case it's a lie. Unless it's obviously true because somebody told a lie, in which case it's obviously a double bluff.

No one ever makes mistakes so don't bother trying to stop them

If something good happens, that doesn't necessarily mean that something bad will happen to you afterwards. So you've got to make something bad happen.

If you have a stupid idea, shout as loudly about it as you can until someone tells you to shut up because it's not really that funny.

If you have a good idea, mumble it quietly to yourself and then complain later when nobody follows your suggestion and you end up in lots of trouble as a result.

If someone hears your good idea (by accident) follow it up with a sufficient number of crap ideas to make them forget your original sensible suggestion.

If someone comes up with a good idea, it was your idea first!

Hierarchy of Sins

10	Having someone notice that one of your suggestions wasn't actually that stupid.
9	Leaving someone with the impression that you are actually quite intelligent.
8	Avoiding trouble by taking the advice of a more intelligent friend (they're 'trying to trick you').
7	Escaping from trouble by your own wits and ingenuity.
6	Thinking up an unfunny joke and then using it only once.
5	Thinking up a funny joke.
4	Seeming more intelligent than someone you are with.
3	Giving advice to a total stranger and having it followed.
2	Giving advice to someone you know and having it followed.
1	Not having the piss taken out of you regularly while in the presence of others.

Notes

This path was developed by a gaming group who noticed that one of its members was slowly becoming more and more stupid/annoying. We decided to give him the honour of an entire path going out over the Internet dedicated to him. His behaviour has gotten so bad that we can now take virtually any action he makes and find the relevant part of the path. The funny thing is that we won't let him read it so he doesn't know what he is doing wrong. It brings a lot of humouor to the roleplaying sessions. Try it and see, especially if you know someone who fits the path.