THE CURSE

THE CURSE

Let us go then, you and I When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.

Let us go through certain half-deserted streets The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells.

- T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” bilious Nosferatu vi human, but the cons still looks essentially ts the victim’s face into a perpetual grimace. T blood surfaces during this time.

Of all the Kindred, the Nosferatu are perhaps the most n. Other vampires can walk amidst the mortal crowds ntain at least an intermittent grasp on their s. Not so the Nosferatu. They must lurk below, w of the mortal world is invariably filtered ars of asewer grate. In some ways, theNosferatu “cultured” vampires, for they have no human rasitize. They must look to their own for THE CURSE coarsen and stretch, and bruises re by rigor mortis appear on the fles are still developing). The childe’ patches, and the cartilage of the ears and nose collapses and distends. week. At this point, the childe’s very bo and all semblance ofhumanity is lost. T peak at the climax of the transformatio suffers its changes - elongating, parti flattening as the case may be. It is at this point that the Nosferatu realizes the extent of his transformation.

Many Nosferatu do not survive the Change with their sanity intact. The pain and the shock of sudden deformity prove too much to bear. Such Kindred often become mindless brutes, and in Camarilla society, it is the sire’s responsibility to hunt downher mad offstxinganddestrov it.

I just want to share my disease.

Clayface, Batman: Arkham Asylum The Nosferatu Embrace is a brutal thing. In many ways it is more alienating than the Embrace of the Malkavians.

One’s body is one’s most prized possession, and the disfigurement of the flesh inevitably has repercussions within the mind.

A typical transformation takes about a week. During the first night, the victim’s body is wracked as the organs shrivel and veins harden in preparation for carrying the During the second to fourth da The pain becomes truly excruciating by recent Watts tragedy. T THE NOSFERATU APPROACH TO URBAN RENEWAL DATE: 6-16-69 TO: Xerxes FROM: Jarneson RE: Project Tinkertoy Per your request, I assumed the shape of Rory McAllister, ghoul servant of the Ventrue Maria. In this guise I entered the office of the crimelord Shephard and commanded him to order an immediate retaliatory crackdown upon the merchants of the Water Street . As you predicted, Shephard obeyed ’s” orders without question. Within hours, arfare drove most of the residents inals were killed and scores more e wounded was Meriwether, childe , who oversees Water Street and the aos, I donned the illusory guise of Officer Shay. As you said, Street area bear no love for t law. In this form, I hunted poet Sexton Lunchpail. ders, I proceeded to as truncheon. I left him ali Regrettable, but necessary.

After finishing this action, I journeyed uptown. ape of the injured Meriwether, I reof explosives from its hiding place and irstBank-Drake & Co. Tower, where aven. The priming, et al. went off ut I allowed myself to be seen by my disguised form, of course) as I exited following the detonation. I easily lost my pursuers I have traveled the sewers of the area for years.

The rest was, as they say, a piece of cake. The nsed Maria mustered her policemen and gangsters, sending them en masse into the Water Street area to quell the “rioters.” Of course, by this time there actually was a riot in progress, as the equally furious Tierza deployed her own mortal pawns. Lunchpail’s beating and the “fascist crackdown” had ignited the area, and it did not take much effort on Tierza’s part to stir the poor, minorities, hippies and sympathetic bohemian intellechours, and the mob flies to honey; I took t night. At any rate, aided by these new Of course, the lives and unlives lost are tert our clan’s aim. The rate of property destruction, 1 the business district suffered tremendous damage, and extensive repair will be needed in both areas. I have contacted Waylon; he has assured me that all of the important construction companies in the city contain mortals loyal to our clan. Thus, rebuilding in both areas will include a significant amount of “unsolicited” construction, secret catacombs, alcoves, antechambers, hidden rooms and the like. Sewer systems in both areas will likewise be expanded. I estimate that within six months our clan should have free and unrestricted access to both the elder and anarch “hotspots” of the city.