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mortifying-macaroni · 12 days
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"𝖂𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖔?"
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vampire-the-askerade · 10 months
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Kindred x Reader with an undercut
[Guess who accidentally gave themselves a buzz-cut style under-cut? I like it, but I’m still working through things… the nerdiest way I can based on the fact I wrote this, haha]
Therese- Your hair! Even if you like it, it’s shocking to her. Mostly she doesn’t want you to let Jeanette see. She might want to give them the same haircut.
Gary- He actually walked in on you doing it and stopped you; or tried to anyway. Not that he didn’t think it looked good, but seeing you used a razor on you own hair made him nervous. “Whoa, careful with that thing, Boss! Or, you might end up having the same style I do.”
Jeanette- She loves it! Loves it even more if you did it yourself. That makes her want to go try it out too! (If you hear screaming and crashing in their bathroom its Therese trying to wrangle the razor and scissors away from her.)
Isaac- While he might not want nor understand modern hairstyles, he does think it looks nice on you. Still does a double take when you walk into the room for the next week or so.
Cabby/ Caine- Booooo! Pick a haircut! If you want it longer keep it longer or cut it all the way off! Not of this half and half nonsense! (Whether he like to admit it or not, he’s a fatherly figure to all vampires in more ways than one.)
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svampira · 5 months
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oc lore drop👆📢‼️
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elias (died 19 cur 21)
lives in his middle aged best friend's basement. his job is onlyfans. kills people for fun but not food. id smash
social media star murdered an embraced by his obsessive stalker > his sire was executed by diamila on the prince's orders for turning him without permission. doesn't have any memories of his human life
occasionally acts as a camarilla "enforcer" despite being a chronic masquerade breaker himself. Somehow maxed out his presence powers just weeks after his undeath
diamila (died 26 currently 45) the middle aged best friend. Also canon fledgling > spent the last 20 years playing attack dog for the camarilla and doesn't feel like she has anything to show for it
ventrue, maxed out dominate, very high firearm skills. Has never killed anyone to feed. def did it for other reasons though
Cressida (died 65. currently 65, looks like she's in her 40s because she was a ghoul) clan tremere's newest embrace, she had been picked by her sire 20 years before her death. She was already a ghoul during the events of vtmb, and has known and disliked diamila for over a decade. Ambitious but fiercely loyal to her clan, she ends up butting heads with the equally ambitious but much less trustworthy ventrue
brooklyn (died 21 currently 40) an unpredictable vampire whose allegiances change every couple weeks. kept around because of her frequent (although cryptic) visions and her coming across as relatively saner than the average malkavian. emphasis on coming across.
eden (died 24 current 43) an anarch malk who pretends hes a brujah. has the same sire as brooklyn and they were dating before they were turned. Hackerman. Doesn't experience visions of the future and barely seems to be afflicted by the clan curse. or does he > his curse is his portrait came out kind of bad here
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"Are you certain? The fee will be steep."
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vamp-orwave · 1 year
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When the PCs aren't picking up on your more subtle plot clues
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badass-at-fandoming · 1 month
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Do you think Beckett takes baths or showers, and does he bother with personal hygiene at all? Im pretty sure that due to his profession as an adventurer archaeologist who probably camps out in the wilderness and dusty old ruins quite often as well as being yknow a gangrel his attitude towards cleanliness is probably cavalier at best, but does he still enjoy feeling clean and warm baths?
[has personally written three whole fanfictions in which Beckett bathes and gets fucked during or after] I think he likes them.
Okay, this was very fun and silly to research. Beckett was born in a time that bathing was controversial. While people in the Middle Ages loved a good, long bath, the 1600s & 1700s saw a decline in bathing. The Wampanoag tribe said the Pilgrims stank to high heaven. A literal queen took to bathing regularly and her people were still incredibly dubious.
Unlike other elders, Beckett's not frozen in time, rigidly holding onto the overton window of when he was Embraced. Even if he didn't like bathing before, he'd probably bathe regularly now. For the Masquerade if nothing else! There are cleaning options, even in the bush. During one of the promotions of Hardsuits Labs' version of Bloodlines 2, Cara Ellison, a lead narrator who was not familiar with VtM, asked Paradox a list of questions. If I'm remembering rightly, one was if vampires wear socks (yes) and another was if vampires shower. The answer is yes, for two reasons. First, mortals are more likely to notice a vampire if they stink. Weird smells stand out. Second, hot water heats up the vampire's body temperature, making them feel more "alive." Some vampires would find that comforting. Also apparently Hardsuit Labs sent out promotional Vampire: the Masquerade bath bombs?
Again, you can interpret Beckett however you want. I like giving him baths because he is scrungly and deserves tender care and treats. I've been around people who rarely bathe, I didn't like it, so I avoid giving that trait to my romantic heroes. But you can do what you want!
Thanks for the ask! Historical musings are fun! :D :D :D
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iravaid · 2 years
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Sabbat LaCroix brainrot will get me though the month. Have been dressing him up like a corpse-coloured barbie doll and here are the results
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Explaining one of VTMB paintings (pt 8)
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Cain Slaying his Brother Abel (Genesis 4:2-12) oil on oak wood (between 1608 and 1609) by Sir Peter Paul Rubens.
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasized movement, color, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.[1]
The story of Baroque art in Flanders during the 17th century reflects the gradual decline of the country itself. Occupying the southern part of the Low Countries or Netherlands, it was ruled - along with the northern part of the Low Countries, known as Holland - by the unpopular Spanish Hapsburgs, who had taken over from the French Dukes of Burgundy. Its once powerful commercial and cultural centers, such as Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp, were weakened by religious and political disputes between the Catholic Hapsburg authorities and Protestant Dutch merchants. Thus while Dutch Baroque art flourished as never before, art in Flanders depended on a small handful of Flemish painters, mostly active in Antwerp.During the 15th century - the early days of the Italian Renaissance - Flemish painters had exported the technique of oil painting to artists in Florence, Rome and Venice. Now, at the beginning of the 17th century, with the spread of Italian Caravaggism, Flemish painters combined their own tradition with the tenebrist tradition arriving from Italy. This development was exemplified by the Antwerp artist Rubens (1577-1640). Since the High Renaissance, Flemish painting had been in transition between Northern and Italian influences; it was Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) who made the first real attempt to digest, absorb and fuse the two schools, creating a new style, well-suited to the more devout religious paintings called for by the Council of Trent's guidelines on Catholic Counter-Reformation Art (c.1560-1700), and which had a powerful impact on all painting north of the Alps.[2]
Below is an explanation of the Cain and Able story from real life and in the context of VTM. This is the same for all the Explained Cain slaying Able paintings in VTMB posts I’ve done so feel free to skip if you’ve already read this as it’s long.
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The tale of Cain murdering his brother Able are nearly identical in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts with the oldest known version coming from the Dead Sea Scroll from the first century BCE. Cain was the the first born son of Adam and Eve and became a Farmer while Able was the second born son and became a shepherd. Both brothers made sacrifices to God, but God favored Abel's sacrifice instead of Cain's. In Islam the reason for their offerings is to decide which brother would marry Adam and Even’s first daughter who was also Cain’s twin sister. Able also had a twin sister and Adam wanted the brothers to marry the others twin. In multiple religions each brother has a twin sister but there is no consistently with the names as Cain’s twin sister being named Aclima, Kalmana, Lusia, Cainan, Luluwa, or Awan, and  Able’s twin sister is named Jumella, Balbira or to make it more confusing Aclima (though even when she is called this Able’s twin sister is never the one the brothers are competing to marry) depending on the source. In the Islamic text Able’s offers his fattest sheep while Cain offered only a bunch of grass and some worthless seeds. In Jewish and Christian texts the reason for the sacrifices and the exact nature of their offerings are merely described as the first born of Ables heard and products from Cain’s fields.[3] The most description we get is in Genesis when God sees that Cain is upset that his offering was not chosen God tells Cain “: Why are you angry? Why are you dejected? If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.”(Genesis 4:6-7)  Cain then told Able to meet him in his fields where he then murdered his brother out of jealousy by hitting Abel in the head with a stone. When God asks Cain where his brother Cain, “I do not know! he answered. Am I my brother’s keeper?”(Genesis 4:9) to which God replies   “What have you done! The voice of your brother’s blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you’ll get nothing but curses from this ground; you’ll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You’ll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You’ll be a homeless wanderer on Earth.” (Genesis 4:10-12)  When Cain objects saying the punishment is to great and that whoever finds him wandering shall kill him which then God says “No. Anyone who kills Cain will pay for it seven times over.” God put a mark on Cain to protect him so that no one who met him would kill him.” (Genesis 4:15). Cain then leaves east of Eden to wander in No-Mans-Land with his wife (who is not named in Genesis but is assumed to be his Twin sister in all tellings regardless of what name is given to her). Their first born Child was named Enoch, and Cain named the first city he built after his son. After Abel’s Death Adam and Eve had a Third son named Seth and when eve gave birth to him Eve said “God has given me another child in place of Abel whom Cain killed.”Genisis 4:25-26. In some texts Seths wife and sister is named Azura. Their son is named Enosh it is through Seth’s line that humanity stems from, though both Cain and Seth had multiple decedents and confusingly used the same names (see family tree below). None of Cain’s decedents suffered the curse of their father Cain but where still seen as sinful and apart from God and where killed in the great flood. How Cain died is not as an agreed upon topic. He was ether crushed to death by the stone house he built, an irony as he used a stone to slay his brother or in some versions part of the Mark of Cain had him grow horns and his descendent Lamech (not to be confused with Lamech who decedent from Seth and was the father of Noah) who was a blacksmith and had two wives(this is viewed as sinful) killed him mistaking him for a wild animal and killed his own son Tubal-cain in the process.
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While in the lore of Vampire the Masquerade the tale of Cain killing his brother able as told in the Book of Nod stick to the original tale regarding the murder of Able but starts to differ in God’s punishment. "Father" cursed him with a mark, and cast him out to wander in darkness in the Land of Nod alone. There is no mention of a wife or if he was still cursed to be unable to farm however it is clear that Cain was not  yet cursed to be a vampire by God. The Land of Nod was a place of utter darkness, with no source of light, where Caine was afraid and alone. There he found Lilith where they began a relationship and Cain realized that she possessed magical power and begged her to share them with him. While hesitant Lilith prepares an Awakening ceremony by cutting herself with a knife, bleeding into a bowl, and giving it to him so that he may drink. After Caine partakes of Lilith's blood, he is visited by three angels who are agents of God. Each angel offers Caine a chance to repent for the murder of Abel, but Caine rebuffed them out of pride. Michael, when denied, cursed Caine and his childer to fear his living flame. Raphael cursed Caine and his childer to fear the dawn, as the sun's rays would burn like fire. Uriel then cursed Caine and his childer to cling to Darkness, drink only blood, eat only ashes, and be frozen at the point of death, cursed so all they touch would crumble into nothing. A fourth angel, Gabriel, then appeared to offer the way of Golconda, the only way to "light", by the mercy of God. After the experience, Caine becomes officially "Awakened", possessing the following Disciplines: Celerity, Potence, Fortitude, Obfuscate, Dominate, Presence, Protean, Animalism, and Auspex. Caine then became aware of the Path of Blood, the Final Path from which all paths stem. And with all these powers, but now being cursed to be a vampire he breaks his bond with Lilith and leaves her.[3] While Cain never biologically fathers any children it is clear that their names of those he embraced and their decedents are inspired by the biblical names in his line though with massive changes. For instance the first city is founded by Cain in the land of Nod and and called Ubar and is explicitly stated to be settled by “Children of Seth” with the human king being Enoch at the time Cain settles there. Enoch still becomes his son as he is embraced by Cain. Another example of the reuse of a biblical name of cain’s line is Zillah (which in Hebrew means shade or protection). In the original story she is one of Lamech(decedent of Cain) two wives( the other named Adah). After both wives discover that Lamech unwittingly kills Tubal-Cain(one of Lamech and Zillah’s sons) they both refuse to have sex with him because of the deaths he caused, on the pretext that they do not desire to give birth to cursed offspring. The three go together to the tribunal of Adam; Adam rules that they must obey their husband since he killed unwittingly. This midrashic tradition portrays Adah and Zillah as respected women, whose position is considered in all seriousness by the court. [4] In VTM Zillah was a human woman who lived in Udar so beautiful, Caine could not resist the Embrace. According to Nosferatu Zillah is the one of Cain’s second generation who sired their Antediluvian. Interestingly, even after the Embrace, Zillah did not desire him. It frustrated Caine to the point that he was ripping his hair out of his head. He did anything and everything to make her desire him. Yet, she would not have him. Finally, Caine sought the Crone's magic, who ultimately tricked him into a blood bond, she forced the First Vampire to Embrace her. The Crone sent her new thrall away, telling him that his blood would have the power to bond others as Caine himself was bonded to the Crone. The discovery of the blood bond was what finally made Zillah agree to marry her sire Caine. [3]
[1] “Peter Paul Rubens.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 16 Mar. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens. 
[2]“Flemish Baroque Art (1600-80).” Flemish Baroque Art (1600-80), ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ART HISTORY, http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/flemish-baroque.htm#flemishbaroque. 
[3] “Caine.” White Wolf Wiki, https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Caine.
[4] Kadari, Tamar. “Zillah: Midrash and Aggadah .” Jewish Women's Archive, https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/zillah-midrash-and-aggadah#:~:text=Zillah%20was%20a%20wife%20of,he%20unwittingly%20kills%20Tubal%2DCain. 
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fallowfield · 2 months
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i love when media have visibly nonhuman characters that Were Once Human bc it gives ample room for me to make characters and to say "yeah they're trans. and they took 'make your body your own' to a whole new level." not because i have internalized issues or anything (i do but that's a whole other post and not the reason for my characters that are Like This) but because if i had the choice i would loove to look like a creature out of a horror movie.
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jokest3r · 1 year
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Finished VTMB for the first time as the anarch ending and wow very climatic. In my character's lore I made him personally know each time someone manipulated him, he knew, the entire time. He just played along the powerful people's strings to get what he wanted at the end by the opportunities given by those same people to murder them(Lacroix and Ming Xiao). I need to make a whole character sheet for him cause he's honestly pretty innocent and naive on the outside but is pretty psychotic. I wish the damage fall off for the axe wasn't so high since i wanted to decimate the tower with it. Cant win it all I guess lol. End notes, i love damsel and that's all. Oh and cab driver a real one fr.
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oldandcrusty · 7 months
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As requested by dozens upon dozens of people, I have made a part 2 to the VTMB romance poll with your suggestions. It includes the winner from part 1, Nines.
Not adding Heather though. She's been through enough.
Before y'all come for me screaming for Beckett or whomstever, check the original poll.
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antedilfuvian · 1 year
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ryttu3k · 5 months
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I had a silly Idea and thought you'd apreciate it: VTMB but the Fledgling is actully a childe of Caine! Why Caine has sired anouther childe? Who Knows, maybe he's lonley, or maybe he's plotting some method to raise new childer to fight against Gehenna?
ngl I kind of love the idea. The unkillable murderfledgling as a brand new gen 2. LaCroix in retrospect is just, ".......okay yeah that explains a lot."
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blanketempress · 7 months
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Yayyy OC asks!!! I request A, B, D, & E for Antoine, Arzel, & Lorenzo because I can't choose :'3 Thankie!
thank youuu <33
Anton
A) Why are you excited about this character? 
He's pretty fun to play, he's trying very hard but also acts without thinking which is great bc it means I get to do some stupid things I want to do every now and then.
He's mortified about his fucking ups but I'm not, he's my chew toy and my punching bag, I want to make his life worse 💖
B) What inspired you to create them?
I was interested in clan Malkavian and the Madness Network + found out about the archetypes of the 6 main mathuselahs we hear about ; the Dionysian whose name is self explanatory, Addemar the hermit/scientist, Tryphosa the Sybil/advisor, Brude the scholar/historian, the Black Hag witch/prophet
All six of these archetypes were pretty interesting but I picked Brude for a bloodline, then I read more about kindred historians, found out about the Mnemosyne cult, and I tossed the Church of Caine in the mix bc it made sense for a scholar to be involved with it
For his wet cat personality, I just thought it was funny to play a vampire w no backbone, and malkavians make great depressed sad wet cats. It transformed over time into him being deadly afraid of the Beast. He’s not (always) afraid of people or situations per say, he’s afraid of losing control, which is very fun to me personally
 D) Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look? 
He’s a recycled version of an older OC, so I already had the big lines, he just looks more fucked up and a little older, I didn’t have to change much over time
E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?
I think we'd get along at first, then he'd infuriate me so much, then we'd get along super well forever as we go through different stages of friendship
He gets along with everyone who isn't actively trying to kill him
Arzel
A) Why are you excited about this character? 
He's pretty fun to play, I like playing characters with high strength or high charisma and he has both
He fits more than well into the vtm victorian world and he's pretty nosy which means I can go and be as nosy as I, the player, want to be
B) What inspired you to create them? 
He's a recycled version of another OC of mine, who was built to be ruthless but still charming
I was invited to play VTM V5 but I didn’t know ANYTHING about the setting like, aside from the fact that it was about vampires. I read a lot of lore and I thought the 'warlord' side of the Ventrue clan was under-exploited and it's a shame. I also liked the idea of a Ventrue with humble origins but enough ambition and leadership to grab every opportunity to climb the ladder
Still hesitated between clan Brujah and clan Ventrue but in the end he kind of made a stereotypical Brujah and a more interesting Ventrue
D) Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look? 
He always had roughly the same looks, I already had a solid base with Ombe, I didn't have to tweak it much once I had decided on the general vibe 
E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you? 
I think we'd get along but in a polite colleagues way 
We wouldn't be friends but I'd be happy to work w him and have a chat from time to time and I think he'd be in the same state of mind
Lorenzo
A) Why are you excited about this character? 
he’s a little freak who does crimes
I can't wait for the consequences of his actions to come bite him in the ass
B) What inspired you to create them? 
Spite, mostly. And I think necromancy is always fun to play with
In the VTMB game one of the reasons someone might not be embraced was bc he's gay, so I decided to make a gay trans Giovanni, that was literally my main motivation
Then I read the Giovanni handbook, which has all the trigger warnings in the world bc they really, REALLY wanted to make the most edgy and gross clan soooo bad, and I knew I just had to make that character out of spite
Then I had the brilliant idea to go "but wait. they're italians, they're all related, and spanning multiple generations. the petty personal drama must be INSANE" and it went downhill from there
I also thought the "you're bored out of your mind" archetype was an interesting base
D) Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look? 
We don’t talk about my very first draft where he looked like a 12 years old with greasy long hair
E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you? 
I think if we were stuck at a party we can’t leave we’d have a decent conversation then never cross paths again
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Let's visit The Asp Hole one more time at least before it closes, or doesn't.... Honestly I have no idea what's going on with it anymore.
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Get your funky dance moves ready to go, because tonight did not disappoint with the zeal of some of the patrons.
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dogreed-blog · 8 months
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Hello everyone, I want to break the theory about the VTM bloodlines that I wrote below. To many old fans this may be obvious, but to outsiders it may be a false trope. First of all, I will throw links to sources below but first I will talk about the results and difficulties in the search. And so the main answer to the question of what the game should be is on the video from the main developer Timothy Cain. He makes it clear that he did not plan any fallout game, but developed multiplayer. Second, there is one part of info that can break your search, if you are not careful. It so happened that I was told that other people were engaged in the cut content, and they have connection with developers of the original game. This is all in the plus patch, but when I tried to find interviews with these people, it was clearly started in wiki, that they have no connection with the real developers. For many, this can be a motivation to end the search and start blaming other people for being misinformed. But in fact, this is not the case, and the person who is involved in the patch plus, wesp5 can be found in the comments under this video, they are clearly familiar with Timothy Cain.
Here the links with the corcies of Wikipedia, and names of the developers plus patch.
First of all, the interview with Timothy Cain
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Now i put this links with the info about plus patch developers. And as i sad erlier, sone people May think, that they have no connection with original theeme, based on this info.
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Alsaw here is the interview with wesp 5
Alsaw here some info about first developer, some people might think that if he dosent work on original vtm, he have no original sorces to game info.
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