HOLLYWOOD

By Peter Wake (peterw@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk) (7 April 1993)

Take with a large pinch of salt. This is supposed to be humor OK.

History

Clan Hollywood is a small clan that is confined to a few tiny geographical locations. Their largest enclave is an island of insanity in the Anarch freestates. They originally came from a desolate part of southern England but have since relocated lock-stock and clan holdings.

The clan is not part of the Camarilla and does not follow the Masquerade. They are cautious however and do not reveal themselves to mortals unless there is a fast buck to be made. They consider the Camarilla to be restrictive and filled with cowards and whiners. The clan is hostile to the Sabbat and neutral to the anarchs, whom they consider trendy teen-brats.

The clan is a diverse group and rarely ever meets. Despite this they have a strange sort of unconscious desire to gather together. They decline to comment on what might be the reason for this. Occasionally they will help each other and are somewhat similar to the Gangrel loners in this respect.

Humanity

The clan member often have no humanity and can follow 'Sabbat' paths and also create their own paths.

Clan Disciplines

Protean, Potence, Dominate

Clan Weakness

Whenever a member of clan Hollywood feeds it always mixes its blood with that of its victims. The clan members cannot control their blood properly in this respect and it leaks out into those they feed on. Even those mortals who do not die immediately are affected (such as those who die from anaemia a few hours later). For rules purposes any mortal fed upon by a Hollywood has one of their blood points replaced with one vampiric blood point. The Hollywooders cannot drain this last blood point either. Victims who live become ghouls. If they die while the blood is still in their system then they will become a vampire. If a mortal has no 'human' blood points left (i.e. only the vampire blood point) then she is dead for the purposes of this rule.

The clan members are usually careful to feed at least three times on any victim to ensure that they are blood bound.

Usually they will try not to drain humans to death. Those they do drain that they do not want to become vampires they dismember. Often their victims enter a temporary torpor and are mistakenly buried alive. As a result many of the clan members have no humanity.

Sometimes members of this clan have weaknesses found inother clans too. This seems to happen when they learn new disciplines that are normally associated with that clan. For instance a Hollwooder with Obtenebration might well be invisible in mirrors.

View The Path of Lost Loves.