Now that my character and his background are complete, I’m
ready to start playing Thousand Year Old
Vampire. Despite the name, there’s no official “time line” of the game, it could last several thousand years or a few decades. The
rules recommend that you link various events and times based on what seems the
most appropriate. I imagine the first handful of events will all be linked to
Lucius’ first nights as a vampire. I open the book (well, ok, PDF) and go to
Event 1 and get the following prompt:
You are overcome by blood frenzy and destroy someone close to you. Kill
a Mortal Character, record an Experience about it. Make a Mortal if needed.
Take the skill “Bloodthirsty”
I have three major Mortals in Lucius’ life. I’m not sure
which would be the best victim for my frenzy, so I decide to roll a die. It
could be Manius (1), Aurelia (2), or Marcus (3). I roll a d3 and get 1 for Manius.
I hid in the depths of my cellar, hiding from my friends, my slaves.
Myself. The night after my…change, Manius came to me. Demanding I present
myself to him, to account for my actions. My failures. He raged at me, calling
me foolish, and shortsighted. In a fury I lept at him, and for the first time,
drank deep. He was once my master, but now I had a strength he could never
possess.
Now it’s time for the next event. This is randomly
determined by a two dice rolls, a d10 and a d6. You subtract the d6 from the
d10, and add it to your current number. In this case, I roll a (d10) 6 and (d6) 5;
6-5 gets me a 1. I add this to my
current event for a total of 2, which leads me to this prompt:
Horrified at your new nature, you withdraw from society. Where do you
hide? How do you feed? Create a stationary Resource which shelters you.
I spent hours with his corpse. My patron’s corpse. My father’s
corpse. I had struck down the man who
had raised me up. What if it had been Marcus? Or Aurelia? I couldn’t risk them,
so I fled. It was as if the gods were guiding me, and I found myself at the
Lupercal, where our divine founders had once been sheltered by their
wolf-mother. Deep in the cave I found safety.