Path of Self Power and Preservation

By Kennie Monroe (kennie@tachyon.com)

Description

I was sitting around one night with my Storyteller, and we started talking of my old characters. One alone truly stood out in our minds, Marcus Black. He was a Caitiff, who in six months of unlife went from the 13th Generation to the 8th Generation (with three months of down time, went to DisneyLand). He was a bit of a bad-ass and had an ego problem. As did the Brujah that he hung out with. They thought themselves to have be an unstoppable force. This was true in New Orleans, when they were together, as the Brujah died fighting the Regent of the Sabbat and Marcus is now off killing Baali, Infernalist, and Setites. My Storyteller and I wondered what path Marcus would have been on and in all the books that we had with us (the Players Guide, the Players Guide to the Sabbat, the Storytellers Guide to the Sabbat, the Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand, and the Vampire: the Dark Ages), and none of them fit Marcus at all. So, I came up with the Path of Self Power and Preservation (originally know as the I'm Gonna-Kick-Your-Ass Path.)

Ethics

• Kill those who raise a hand against you
• Allow no one to take advantage of you
• Allow no one to control you
• Develop Disciplines that serve you well to their fullest potential
• Vampiric Diablerie is a doorway to power

Preferred Disciplines

Auspex, Celerity, Dominate, Fortitude, Obfuscate, Potence, Vicissitude

Preferred Merits

Berserker

Preferred Abilities

Alertness, Brawl, Dodge, Firearms, Melee

Hierarchy of Sins

10	Trusting someone who has not earned your trust.
9	Restraining yourself without good cause.
8	Failure to test your own powers when given the opportunity.
7	Failure to use whatever means are necessary to achieve greater power for one's self.
6	Feeling remorse about anything you do; not killing swiftly and mercifully.
5	Always consider yourself on the side of what is right and just
4	Failure to commit Vampiric Diablerie when the opportunity is present and justifiable (ex. He is a Setite. She is part of the Sabbat. He attacked me first. She looked at me funny. Etc.).
3	Failure to overcome own fears and weakness.
2	Accepting defeat, showing cowardice or weakness.
1	Showing no interest in power, Failure to kill for survival.