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Ambush
"We will strike from the shadows when
the time is right, and all will fall before us."
-Cameron, Clan Lasombra


Army of Rats
I think we are in rat's alley,
Where dead men lost their bones.
-T.S. Elliot, "The Wasteland"


Arson
O, for a Muse of fire...
-Shakespeare, Henry V, act 1, scene 1


Art Scam
It's clever, but is it Art?
-Kipling, "The Conundrum of the Workshops"


Blood Clots
I was sick -- sick unto death with that long agony;
Edgar Allen Poe, "The Pit and the Pendulum"


Blood Feast
Fear and suffering
Have fled to the heavens
And an unhealthy thirst
Darkens my veins.
-Rimbaud, "Song of the Highest Tower"


Blood Hunt
Only the Eldest among thee
shall call the Blood Hunt.


The Call
Heresy or prophesy is a decision for
those who follow.  But first you must join
us, of the question doesn't arise.
Imogen, Malkavian antitribu

(yes, it really is mispelled, should have been "or the" not "of the",
but the card is printed wrong.)


Choir
With the one acting as conductor to the oth-
ers, the effect was greatly magnified -- much
more than the sum of the parts.  It would've
been beautiful if it wasn't so deadly.
Jan Pieterzoon, Ventrue


Clan Impersonation
He who denies his heritage is not worthy of one.


Computer Hacking
"Look, dood, those 'D3mons33d 3lit3'
hackers aren't kewl.  They just can't spell...
Synner-G, City Gangrel Hacker


Concert Tour
We scored backstage passes and all that.  I
don't remember much after the show, but
look!  She signed my T-shirt!
Seth Brewer, kine fan


Condemnation: Languid
The devil's strength is the weakness of humanity.
And you Camarilla embrace that weakness.
Giotto Verducci, Baali


Consecration Rites
A night of memories and of sighs
I consecrate to thee.
-Landor, "Rose Aylmer"


Defender of the Haven
You do not look like you have business
here, so best be on your way.
Pugfar, slave Gargoyle


Destructive Secrets
Dull and malevolent,
And odious, they seem,
With shades of twilight blended,
Part of an evil dream...
-D.H. Lawrence, "Elysium"


Dominate Kine
All you call yours is mine already.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando


Enchant Kindred
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death pale were they all;
They cried - "La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!"
-Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"


Entrancement
Your perfume disconcerts me
And in your opalescence
I see the full heavens of yore
As through an open door.
-Raoul Ponchon, "L'Absinthe"


Eternal Vigilance
I look forward to observing.  You must forgive me,
however, if I abandon this seat of honor and 
instead take up my duties.
-Talley


Feline Saboteur
Once Tom Whiskers there brings us the draft
of the second quarter sales report, we'll
know exactly what it'll take to leverage the
old man out.
Cicatriz, Nosferatu antitribu


Intimidation
"They are weak and easily cowed.
Show your fangs and they will run."
-Gerard, Ventrue Antitribu


Khabar: Loyalty
The time has come for the faithful
to prepare themselves, to make
themselves worthy.
Thetmes


Kindred Spirits
Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.
-Cowper, "William the Timepiece"


Legal Manipulations
Believe me... if there's one thing
I cannot abide, it's deceitfulness.
-Christopher Hampton, Dangerous Liasions, act 1, scene 5


Media Influence
All media exist to invest our lives with
artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
-Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media


Night Moves (VTES)
I know not why I die and drown
Before I enter the eternal abode
I know not whose prey I am
I know not whose love I am
-Catherine Pozzi, "Nyx"


Night Moves (Sabbat)
Hung be the heavens with black,
yield day to night!
-Shakespeare, King Henry VI, pt. 1, act 1, scene 1


Of Noble Blood
Noblesse oblige.
-Gaston Pierre Marc, Maxims and Reflections


Panacea
You know, with the fangs and all, I thought he would
just eat me, but I was still too weak to move.  But he
just licked at my cuts.  Look!  No scars or nothing.
Cole Goddings, night watchman


Patagia: Flaps Allowing Limited Flight
Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul)
-Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"


Passion
If we resist our passions, it is due more
to their weakness than to our strength.
-Francois de la Rouchefoucauld


Possession
My name is Legion, for we are many...
-Matthew 5:9


Propaganda
It is the absolute right of the State
to supervise the formation of public opinion.
-Paul Joseph Goebbels


Psychic Projection
Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending,
Earth rising to heaven and heaven descending...
-Emily Bronte, "High-Waving Heather"


Psychic Veil
...didst enter, wildly dancing, through
The doorways of my sense unlatched
To make my spirit thy domain...
-Baudelaire, "The Vampire"


Rampage
No flesh shall be spared.
-Mark 13:20


Rayzeel's Song
The song was originally intended to ease
pain.  We've refined that idea to make
the tune more potent, even addictive.
Wolf Valentine, Salubri antitribu


Recruiting Party
How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to sunless land!
-Wordsworth, "Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg"


Release of the Shackled Soul
Self is the only prison
that can ever bind the soul.
-Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel


Restoration
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
-Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"


Ritual Challenge
The teeth that bite to bitterness
are sheathed in truth.
-William Everson, "The Poet is Dead"


Scouting Mission
"It's amazing how trusting these
Camarilla bastards can be."
-Jimmy Dunn, Pander


Sense Vitality
It's not death if you refuse it.  It is if you accept it.
James O'Barr, The Crow


Sensory Overload
I have said that Danforth refused to tell me
what final horror had made him scream out
so insanely...
H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness


Social Charm (VTES)
With torn and bleeding hearts, we smile
and mouth with myriad subtleties.
-Paul Lawrence Dunbar, "We Wear The Mask"


Social Charm (Sabbat)
Charming people live up to the very edge
of their charm and behave just as
outrageously as the world will let them.
-Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts


Soul of the Earth
This ritual will cushion the creature's
mind and body against the shock of
your embrace.
Rebekka, Tremere Chantry Elder


The Fifth Tradition: Hospitality
When thou comest to a foreign city,
thou shall present thyself 
to the one who ruleth there.


The Fourth Tradition: the Accounting
Those thou dost create
are thine own children.


The Sixth Tradition: Destruction
Thou art forbidden to destroy another
of thy kind.


The Third Tradition: Progeny
Thou shall only sire another with the
permission of thine elder.


Thrones Crumble
Anarchy! Anarchy! Show me a greater evil!
This is why the cities tumble and great
houses rain down, this is what scatters
armies!
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex


Violation of Trust
Your worst enemies are those whose faces 
are cheerful while their hearts are bitter.
-Caecilius Statius, Hypobolimaeus


Wave of Insanity
To see clearly is poety, prophecy,
and religion -- all in one.
-John Ruskin