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These features described advantages of birth (or rebirth), circumstances and opportunities: material possessions, social contacts, etc. Backgrounds include the external features, not internal, and always have to give an explanation for their existence and indicate what they represent. Who are your contacts? Why do you help your allies? Where did you meet your servants? Where does the money that justifies exactly your four circles in resources? If you have applied sufficient detail the concept of your character will not have problems in selecting suitable Backgrounds.
Although it is unusual to run with the backgrounds, the Storyteller could ask them to check if you get certain information or favor. For example, you could roll Wits + Resources to keep moving your portfolio, or Manipulation + contacts to get that special for you "comrade" smuggler.
The Allies are humans who help you: family, friends or even a mortal organization that owes you loyalty. Although they willingly cooperate with you without having to push them not always be available. They have their own lives and there are limits that are not willing to cross. They may also have some useful Background own, as they may provide indirect access to other contacts and resources. The Allies usually people raffaello network who occupy important positions in your city, but you should always ask permission from the Narrator. You could have a friend in the morgue of the district or the mayor may be a director, depending on the score of the trait. Your allies are generally reliable (although probably not know you're a vampire, or even that such things exist). raffaello network However, everything has its downside: if you finish asking favors to friends in the Cosa Nostra chances are that in the future want something in return, which is usually raffaello network the beginning of a story ...
* An ally of moderate power and influence. ** Two allies of moderate power. *** Following allies, a very influential. **** Four allies, one very influential. ***** Five allies, one extremely influential.
You know people throughout the city, and when you start to make phone calls you can make an enormous amount of information. Contacts are people who can bribe, manipulate raffaello network or threaten to do you favors, but can also be important acquaintances, friends raffaello network with whom you can count on to help in their specialties. You should describe each major contact before the start of the game. In addition to your main contacts you offer an other smaller raffaello network scattered throughout the city. One of the first could be the DA, and one of the second police officer, traffic officer a bouncer or even a hot dog vendor. You need not describe these "known" before starting chronic. To chat with your contacts under it you just pull Contacts (difficulty 7), you can access raffaello network one per success; Of course, you might have to "convince" to tell you what you want.
Your servants are not exactly or allies or contacts, but servants and assistants that you are loyal. Many of the vampiric servants are ghouls (Chapter Eight: Antagonists) as his supernatural powers and forced loyalty to the blood bond makes them perfect servers. It can also be people that you have mastered so repeatedly that they have lost their free will, or followers so enchanted by your presence that their loyalty skirt fanaticism. Some vampires, especially those with the Animalism Discipline, used "hell-hounds" (ghoul dogs) and other animals as servants.
You must maintain some control over your servers, either by salary, the gift of your resume or use of Disciplines. The servants will never be "faithful until death". If you treat them badly without exerting some control they will turn against you.
They can be useful, but always represent a problem. A powerful ghoul could be rebellious, stupid or lacking in practical skills. A loyal butler could be weak or lack of initiative and creativity. This background is not an excuse to create an unstoppable bodyguard or a trained murderer, but to introduce raffaello network other well-developed characters in chronic and reflect the followers by Kindred are famous. Do not abuse it.