There is blood, and then there is Blood. Vampires also call Blood Vitae.
- The blood drunk from an animal or mortal is just that: blood
- When this blood enters the system of the vampire, it becomes vampiric Blood
- Finally it is rumoured that a vampire possesses 'Hearts Blood' or 'Essence', that makes the very basis of its existence
Vitae on your +sheet represents the amount of (vampiric) Blood that vampires or ghouls have in their system.
Vitae is counted in 'bloodpoints', where every point is worth between a half to a full pint of Blood, depending on your Sanguinis - Higher Sanguinis means your Blood is more concentrated. As a result maximum amount of bloodpoints a vampire can hold in their system depends on Sanguinis. For the lower Sanguinis levels this comes down to the following:
| Sanguinis | Bloodpool |
| 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 11 |
| 3 | 12 |
| 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 14 |
Using Blood
You use Vitae in the following ways:
- Vampires automatically burn 1 point of Blood every sunrise
- Ghouls automatically burn 1 point of Blood every month (officially - this is not coded)
- Healing normal and aggravated damage
- Pump Blood to temporarily increase your physical attributes
- Feeding Blood to a vampire or ghoul
- Some disciplines (such as Celerity and Protean) and Thaumaturgical rituals require Blood expenditure
- Fueling the Masquerade skill
Replenishing your Bloodpool
- Hunting Systems & Code
- Feeding from a mortal or vampire
Bloodpool Management Commands
The following commands allow vampires and ghouls to manipulate their vitae pool.
For more information, please refer to the files on drinking blood and Using Blood.
| Command | Usage |
| +blood | tells you how much vitae you have, how fast you can spend it, etc. |
| +blood/pump | expends <num> points to increase the physical attribute <attribute>. |
| +blood/revert | restores your physical attributes to normal. |
| +blood/expend | simply burns <num> blood points. |
| +blood/heal | expends <num> blood points to heal <num> levels of normal damage. |
| +blood/prove | verifies to <player or 'here'> your vitae/action rate |
| +blood/feedok | gives <feeder> OOC permission to drink your blood. |
| +blood/feed | drinks <num> points from <victim>. |
Hunting Commands
The following commands allow vampires to acquire Blood via hunting.
For more information, please refer to the files on hunting.
| Commands | Usage |
| +hunt <hours> | Hunt as set in default (E.g.: +hunt 2 = Hunt for 2 hours) |
| +hunt/here <method>/<hours> | Hunt in present location by <method> (E.g.: +hunt/here prey/2). If desperate: +hunt/here reckless/<hours> |
| +hunt/access | Lists locations to which you have been granted hunting permission. |
| +hunt/info | Gives hunt information about current location plus current character settings |
| +hunt/recent | Shows recent hunt info for your character |
Hunting Configuration:
| Command | Usage |
| +hunt/default <method>/<grid> | Sets up default for +hunt <hours>. (E.g.: +hunt/default donjuan/a1) |
METHOD options: PREY, DONJUAN, or ANIMAL
GRID must be a valid grid location (e.g. A1) and that location will determine both ease of hunting by different methods as well as how strong a pool is supplied by that location.
