23V: MEMORY
Can vampires trust their memories?
Vampire: The Requiem first edition made the Fog of Eternity an issue with torpor, so you could play an ancient vampire without loading them up with knowledge and skills. This could be an intriguing setup - see Thousand Year Old Vampire (Actual Play art project, animated version) for a journal writing game expressly about this - but many players didn’t like it being the norm so it has been downplayed in the second edition.
Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition added the Memoriam rule for sort of the reverse, playing out memories from across a vampire’s long unlife. This also includes the proviso that they might be inaccurate and shaded by emotion to allow for them to go off-script and allow for player agency in these Highlander-style flashbacks that inform their current situation.
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| If they got big enough, you could have a PC who only appears in flashbacks. |
And as noted in the entry on Think, can any of them trust their memories in a world where mental and emotional control powers, illusions and more are widespread? I don’t make that a common thing - it should be assumed that what happened in the session happened and I’ll flag up discrepancies as this isn’t something I like myself.
Outside of questions of memory, the characters have to consider how they’re remembered.
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Nocturne hits an anniversary, and Paris and Shane look back to the night they opened, with their partner Karin. Mercy and Jonah have never heard of her...
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