Nicknames : Percolators, Grinders, Speedfreaks.
Basic Beliefs : There was only one joy in life and there is no reason why you can't enjoy it in unlife. Why deny yourself the refreshment that grants eternal life.
Ethics of the Path
Following the Path
This Path has a direct effect on your humanity/path rating during the day. If a practitioner of the path is awoken during the day and has a rating of 5 or more in the Path he/she may operate as if they were 2 higher in the Path. If the person has less then 5 in the Path they may operate on 1 more in the dice pool. Upon awakening normally the next night the person must consume at least one cup or one blood point of coffee contaminated blood within half an hour or they will suffer minuses equal to the possible bonus. This negative operates even if the person was not disturbed during the day. In addition the person loses a point of morale due to feeling grumpy all night.
A person with a Path rating of 5 or more may use Celerity even if they do not possess the Discipline. If they do not possess the Discipline they must burn four blood points for every additional action. If they do possess the Discipline they may increase the number of actions by burning an additional two blood points for additional action. While under the effect of this power the person can add a point to their Morale as they realise they are 'Gods'.
Preferred Disciplines
Auspex : For making sure each cup is just perfect.
Fortitude : So the blackest cup doesn't make your head implode with
the sourness.
Dominate : 'You want to make me a coffee don't you?'
Dark Thaumaturgy: How else do you think it's made?
Presence : 'A coffee for my good friend here!'
Celerity : 'So much coffee, so little time!'
Obtenebration : 'The liquid is as black as the shadows themselves.'
Dementation : 'You would have to be mad to drink that!'
Hierarchy of sins
Path rating Minimum Wrongdoing for Path roll
10 ___________ Drinking Instant coffee.
9 ____________ Making hot drinks other than coffee.
8 ____________ Failure to consume a cup just because you're not thirsty.
7 ____________ Making a coffee for yourself when someone else could do it for you.
6 ____________ Refusing a coffee when offered.
5 ____________ Drinking any beverage in a 'diet' or 'lite' form.
4 ____________ Failure to offer to make someone else a coffee when making one yourself.
3 ____________ Drinking tea in any form.
2 ____________ Failure to drink at least one coffee per day.
1 ____________ Drinking decaffeinated coffee.
There may appear to be a conflict between 4 and 7 but this means the Vampire must make a judgement call. Many a Vampire has taken the Final Death because they were too stubborn to make a coffee for themselves. Use your judgement and don't wait on a lost cause.
This Path has drawn the attention of the Sabbat Inquisition as the followers of the Path seem so damn happy all the time. Time will tell whether a Crusade will be called.
It is fitting that a Badger would be the inventor of this Path because like a Badger coffee is white and black. Also as the Badger is the most noble of creatures so is coffee the most noble of drinks.
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