The River of Blood:

The River of Blood:

The River of Blood holds a belief that Generation is merely a state of perception. Not just personal perception but a perception of the world around you. The founders fully accept the myth of Caine as the first vampire and attempt rituals and rites that allow them to travel back down their own lineage. The River members connect with what they refer to as the “Courts of Blood” to gain information, knowledge, and spiritual enlightenment, as they try to figure out what it means to be kindred. Members of both the New Age and Punk thaumaturges are most common in the River. Members are called Crewe

Requirements: A member must have a casting merit and a kindred lore of 2. A member must be invited to the meeting by two other members. A person is allowed to watch one meeting before joining.

A meeting of the river must be cast on a powerful node (Level 4 or above that is Death Aspected) The Spirit of that Node will be summoned and made manifest by the ritual. There must be at least 3 members to cast the rite.

Rules:

• 1. Never refuse to instruct another kindred on the River
• 2. Always be researching something new with the rest of your group.
• 3. Never refuse a chance to learn something new
• 4. The person in charge of a meeting is the Ferryman. They are the person with the Highest Kindred Lore+ Occult+ Mentals.

Trials:

Trials connect the Kindred to their past The goal is to use the spirits and their fellow members to release the shackles imposed by our perception of “Generation.” The Rituals send you up the river of your own blood. Meetings must occur on a death aspected Node.

Trial 1: The River Runs Through: The kindred is submerged in a tub of blood and water. His fellows on the river invite them in and push their head under. The Vampire drinks the bloody water and at the end emerges a member of the Crewe.

Effect: Membership

Trial 2: Break the Chains: The ritual must take place fully underwater. The trial goer is tied up and submerged in the water by his fellows. He will be lowered into the water and be confronted by an image of his sire. Upon the end of the ritual, he will begin to choke, as though he was drowning. He will have to free himself and swim to the top. He can also be pulled out by his Crewe.

Effect: One of your trait caps increases by one.

Trial 3: Blood of the Grave: Members who take on this trial are brave and trustful of their allies. She will lie in a brass tub that has been ritually prepared. Once inside she will expel her blood until her system is empty. The ritual provides a bonus against frenzying, she must not frenzy and enter torpor. There will be a vision quest. At the end of which she will emerge and can begin feeding on her own vitae.

Effect: Increases Blood Pool by one

Trial 4: The First City: The trial must be performed in a natural body of water. An anchor is tied to the kindred’s leg and they are tossed into the ocean. Ritual words are said over them beforehand. Spirit Journey ensues...They will meet something on the other side. They must get out of the water when they emerge, hopefully, the sun will not have risen yet.

Effect: Gains a New In clan Discipline.

Trial 5: The Endless Garden: No one has ever come back from this unchanged. It involves ritually preparing a piece of wood still planted to the ground and then thrusting it through the chest of the kindred after performing the rite. Casters are certain that it works. The aura flits off into the distance but where it goes after. No one is quite sure. Only One kindred has ever come back from this and he came back a very changed man.

Effect: Max Willpower increases by one.

Trial 6: The Cliff ???:

Effect: ???

Rites

Rites are rituals that belong to the Groups. Rites cost experience as usual for rituals of their level. But they are cast-off of Kindred Lore. Casting a trial is also a kindred lore check.

The Ferryman

Level 1: Must be cast at the beginning of a meeting. creates a Shallowing, that can't be used to traverse into the deadlands, but rather causes spirits, Wraiths, and Humans to all occupy the same area during the meeting.

The Waters of Lethe

Level 1: Cast over a pool of water with a skull in it. The water leaves any human who drinks it momentarily confused and forgetting what they are doing.

Dedication of the Dead

Level 3. As long as you don't attack. Wraiths must spend a Willpower before attacking you. Even Spectres are likely to respect your personhood.