Editing Vampire: The Masquerade (section)

===[[Nosferatu]]===
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*'''Antediluvian - Absimiliard''' [[Meme|(Hide yo kids, hide yo wife) - stuck under Antarctica like evil Santa, he's gonna get ya.]]
*'''Signature Discipline - Obfuscate''' (So stealthy you're completely invisible, but actually a mind trick. Fuck cameras, man.)
*'''Sect - Camarilla/Sabbat'''; they pay lip service to both sects, but Clan always comes first.
*'''Clan Weakness:''' Looking really fucking ugly or (extremely rarely) inhumanly beautiful, and this ''cannot'' be fixed, not even with Vicissitude (Although it has the upside that it protects them from being turned into a couch if they piss a Tzimisce off). They exhude a [[Blank]]-like aura that creeps everyone out. Diablerizing other Nosferatu will make them ''even'' uglier. Rarely, Childer can be left too deformed and crippled by their Embrace to function, so they're put down.

They didn't even hide the inspiration for these guys, it's right in the name. The Nosferatu are hideous freakshow vampires. It just doesn't stop. Every Nossie will, shortly after they are Embraced, turn into a fugly mess that is impossible to hide without supernatural aid. Some still manage to look quite nice (Mitnick from Bloodlines), some look like they got their face burned off but are otherwise alright (Gary Golden, Bertram, also from Bloodlines), and some look like [[Nurgle]] gave them an extra long hug (Imalia, also from Bloodlines, who calls it the "Texas Chainsaw Mascara look"). One particular Nosferatu has a [[Beakie|massive bone beak for a mouth,]] for example, named Cock Robin. Supposedly it has to do with what your character's worst flaws and beast's worst projection, but who knows for certain? 

An example is by how most members are chosen because of skills and such for the Embrace, there is another category they like to Embrace, which is vain people who get by in life thanks to their looks alone. Called Cleopatras (from the vain woman in the movie ''Freaks'' who earns herself a suitably horrible fate), the Nosferatu sometimes Embrace said people as a form of angry/laughing revenge, or because they feel that said person was given a brain and they need to learn how to use it and develop character. Either way, because of this disability, being seen is normally a form of Masquerade breach, though of course, slouching around at night can give some form of protection - with some you'd have to be really close to see what's wrong with them, so don't be scared to have your Nossie do anything above ground! Just stay away from streetlights or brightly lit clubs, and keep that hoodie on. 

They spend their time largely lurking in the shadows everywhere because of their condition. Forced to live in the fucking sewers, but actually relatively decent guys. Relatively, of course, because of things like that whole Cleopatra thing. They and the Toreador also hate each others' guts for the most part - the Nossies because the Toreadors are vain, shallow, beautiful pricks and the Toreadors because... well, have you been reading this? They have a mutual respect with the Gangrel, due to the fact that both of the clans are inherently monstrous. Some legends of the Gangrel and Nosferatu say Absimilard and Ennoia often hunted together. Except unlike Ennoia, Absimilard hates the shit out of his descendants.

Their main Clan Discipline, while not unique to them, is '''Obfuscate,''' which is basically D&D invisibility by way of making people derp out and think you're not there. Even immortals and supernaturals are vulnerable to this, and require detection abilities higher than your Obfuscate level to be able to see you. Watch out for cameras though. For those poor souls who are bitter and who hate what they've become, there is a temporary reprieve, via a not high level Discipline called The Mask of a Thousand Faces, which lets them deceive people's perceptions into seeing them how they used to look like, and eventually however they want to look like. So you could be [[Pretend|kissing some lonely hot chick who was a little too eager to do it with an average at best/10 that you are, and she could be some freaking ugly vampire, and you'd never know]]! As you can imagine, Cleopatras try to learn this skill as soon as possible. 

Thanks to their dealing in stealth, they have become the big information brokers among the Kindred and even regular people. And boy oh boy is business booming. No matter how much they despise them, vampires at some point know they will have to go to the Nosferatu for that little bit of edge. And the Nosferatu know - are passive at best supporters of the Camarilla, and openly state they are loyal to clan first. This even extends to the Antitribu, who somewhat regularly talk with their loyalist brethren. Run a massive worldwide information network, SchreckNET, available to all Nosferatu. As said, clan first. Also, said SchreckNET has another purpose...

Their Antediluvian, Absimiliard, is a thing the Nosferatu don't like to talk about. He is one of the greatest bastards WoD ever had, and that is saying something. Unlike many of the Antediluvians, who usually consider anything lesser than a Methuselah a light snack or beneath their notice, Absimiliard utterly hates his clan, and would like nothing better than to wipe it out. He had some, but only some Childer. Only one, The Matriarch, who is speculated to be [[Baba Yaga]] herself, managed to break the blood bond that enslaved her to Absimilard's will, and fled. And since all Nosferatu who know can trace their lineage back to the Matriarch, what happened to the other Methuselahs of Absimiliard? 

Welcome to the Big Fear - the thing that keeps Nossies up during torpor. The Nictuku, 4th generation childer of Absimiliard himself, all programmed to kill all non-Nictuku Nosferatu. 

After Baba Yaga ran for it, and Embraced many people, Absimiliard set his other Childer on a crusade to wipe the errant bloodline out. How far does it go? 

Well, you remember those sewers, right? They don't live there only because they're ugly - Nossie sewer fortresses are a great place to build gun turrets, traps, electrical arc pits and anything a 4th generation vampire might die of. And SchreckNET was first started as a means of sharing sightings on the Nictuku. The best part? That fear is not baseless at all - Baba Yaga herself, an insanely powerful Methuselah with iron claws among other things, bit the eternal dirt nap in 1990 courtey of Vasilia, a Nictuku. The same Baba Yaga who was able to maintain a power dampening field over all of Russia for ''decades'' (essentially the supernatural Iron Curtain) while doing horrible things to the [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse|Garou]] and other supernaturals unlucky enough to get caught by her. So when Nossies are in fear, [[grimdark|there is a damn good reason behind it]].

And if you're part of another clan, you better be wary of these Nictuku bastards too. They are supposed to be mostly asleep, or take the form of [[Loli|innocent children]]. Seeing one, as with seeing any Elder who is unaccounted for, is regarded as an extremely bad omen. The fact that Baba Yaga is gone, and that more have been sighted, is one more reason people believe Gehenna is coming.