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Death mask, a wax or plaster cast of a mold taken from the face of a dead individual. Death masks are true portraits, although changes are occasionally made in the eyes of the mask to make it appear as though the subject were alive. From the time of ancient Egypt they have served as aids to portrait sculptors, and for the last few centuries they have been kept as mementos of the dead. - the Encyclopedia Britannica. This is a sort-of hack of Vampire: the Masquerade. I say "sort-of" because I'm not particularly familiar with the ruleset (I've only played Vampire thrice, and used different versions/hacks/homebrews each time), and I hate dicepools, and I'm more spiritually aware of the Lore than I am actually fluent in it. Don't consider this post any sort of quick-start-guide or cheat-sheet or the like. Instead, think of it as a dream of a dream within a dream, like when you wake and remember a past you never had — Interview with a Vampire, and Vampire: the Masquerade, and "urban…

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