A SOURCEBOOK FOR VAMPIRE: THE MASQUER ADE

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Chapter One:
Hunter K illers
At the first dawn of day, awake your whole detachment
— M AJ. ROBE RT ROGE R S , “RU L E S OF R ANGI NG”
D
espite common misconceptions
among the Kindred, the Coalition
isn’t all stone-faced militants hiding
swords under their trench coats.
Each operation and maneuver requires a varied
mix of skill sets, a hard ticket to fill even if all
personnel survived the first few months. The
Coalition constantly seeks out and recruits assets
who can bring novel approaches to their work.
(And plenty of hunters and Helsings “self-recruit”
with the same results.) The monsters they hunt are
undying manipulators with an inscrutable array
of supernatural powers at their disposal; cookie-
cutter tactics and paint-by-numbers massacres
won't win this war. They need an army that can
fight on every battlefield.
Fixers and
Faces: Social
The Coalition understands that blankbodies
navigate the halls of power with unnatural grace
and that they can never truly be defeated unless
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THE SECOND INQUISITION PREVIEW
they’re confronted on that battlefield as well.
Fixers are operatives and allies that have power,
influence and connections in the mortal world.
Whether gained through inheritance or ambition,
these invisible power brokers often shape how the
conspiracy approaches a blankbody threat once
it’s detected. Most Fixers operate in the shadows
and they can be frustrating enemies for younger
blankbodies that prefer to tackle problems head on.
When part of a larger operation, Fixers often run
their operations from a well-guarded safehouse or
secure office building.
Of course, some of the most important Faces on
the front line against vampires run their operations
from churches, soup kitchens, mosques, or yeshivas.
Just as they did under the first Inquisition, clergy
burn with righteousness during the Second
Inquisition.
Deprogrammer
Blankbodies have a way of engendering loyalty in
their servants. They’re beautiful, powerful, and
they hold the power of life and death in their cold
hands. People who get sucked into their orbit tend
to fall for them, and hard. Deprogrammers undo all
of that conditioning from the people they liberate,
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converting them from brainwashed blankbody
pawns to Informants or Cuckoos… or just releasing
them to try and reclaim a normal life.
Techniques vary, but tend to involve locked
rooms and intense psychological and emotional
pressure. The aim is not to make the subject
happy and healthy, it’s to stop them being a useful
blankbody asset and, if possible, activate them for
the Second Inquisition.
Some Deprogrammers do more than provide
counseling. The best of them know how to relieve
the effects of Blood Bonds and Domination
through blood transfusions, strong psychiatric
medication, and – in extreme circumstances –
psychosurgery. A little loss of cognitive function is a
small price to pay for freedom.
General Difficulty: 4/2
Standard Dice Pools: Physical 4, Social 6,
4
Mental 6
Secondary Attributes: Health 6, Willpower 7
Exceptional Dice Pools: Academics 7, Medicine
7, Persuasion (deprogramming) 8, Science 7
Equipment: N/A
Special: The Deprogrammer has access to drugs,
religious ceremonies, or just highly specialized
psychological approaches that alleviate blankbody
mind control. Using them effectively requires
a successful Intelligence + Medicine (drugs) or
Academics (religion or psychotherapy) roll at
Difficulty equal to the highest Discipline rating
of the influencing vampire. This short-term effect
lasts for one scene.
Long-lasting deprogramming takes three days
to a week. The deprogrammed ghoul or thrall loses
one die from Wits pools, but resists their former
master with four extra dice.
 The Second Inquisition
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The secret Church and the hidden State,

hunting the hunters in cities and across continents

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An antagonists’ guide to the rising Second Inquisition,

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this book contains:

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. Opponents of your Kindred, and their special forces
and equipment

P R
. Information on the fires rising against the world’s
vampires, stoked by the Society of St. Leopold and
the American FIRSTLIGHT black program
. New tools to expand your chronicles, including
eldritch Artifacts, dozens of dangerous antagonists,
and the tactics your coterie can use to fight back

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