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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Thirsty Thursday: Refill Stations




.:[ BLOODLINES REFILL STATIONS ]:.
(Refill stations can be found at Liquid Frontier and Liquid East)

To use the refill stations, you must first purchase blood, lumens or cider from the vendors nearby. Resources purchased this way will go to your "Reserve" on you proflie in your cellar, and will be available to refill into your containers.


Once you have some Vital Blood, Lumens, or Cider in your Reserve Account, you can use it to refill your containers at any Bloodlines refill station.


To use the refill station, you need to be wearing a Refill Key. Refill Keys are free, and you can get one by clicking the Refill Key vendor near the refill station. If you use the station without wearing a Refill Key, the refill will still work, but your tank won't update with the new amount.

 If this happens, you can get your tank to update by re-rezzing it, or by drinking from it or filling it. Once you are wearing your Refill Key, and you have purchased the metric that you wish you refill, follow these instructions to use the refill stations:


Click on the refill station, it will give you a menu asking you to confirm that you want to use the refill station. Click "Proceed" to confirm.
Make sure the container you want to refill is rezzed within chat range of the refill station. Click on your container, and then click "Select" on your container menu.
(lumen refill station with bone prism) 
If your container checks out, you will get a menu that will give you options for refilling your container. Select the amount you want to fill, or 'Max' to fill the container to the max (or up to the amount that you have available). Or, you can select 'Other', and follow the instructions to select a different amount.
Once you select an amount, your container will automatically be refilled from your reserve account.
(blood refill with tank)

(apple cider  refill with barrel)


Here are a couple things to note:

Metrics in your Reserve Account don't contribute to your wealth.
Reserve Accounts can only be accessed through refill stations. You can't move metrics into your Reserve Account from existing containers, you can't drink directly from your
Reserve Account, and you can't move metrics between Reserve Accounts on different avatars.
Having metrics in your reserve account won't prevent you from being destroyed by the Curse, just like having metrics in containers doesn't protect you.
Essentially, Reserve Accounts don't affect or interact with anything else in the game, they just give you a convenient way to refill empty containers.


(From the original notecard by Lyle Maeterlink, Mars Bracken, and Noire Luminos )

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Thirsty Thursday: Human Blood Dolls (and their role in Bloodlines)

Lore
Traditional vampire lore describes humans who have agreed to feed a vampire or lycan regularly as a pomme de sang or "apple of blood".  In Bloodlines, we call them Blood Dolls.  The usual process is for the blood doll to liege to the vampire or lycan and to feed them exclusively.  There is no limit as to how many blood dolls any given player can have. Blood dolls normally get permission from their liege before allowing anyone else to bite, claw or feed off of them.

Image Credit: Magickal Graphics

Choosing Your HUD
Although most Bloodlines players choose to embrace the dark side and turn into a vampire or lycan, some want to remain human. The Human HUD would be ideal for those players. However, if at any point in your game play you would like to turn, save yourself the money and buy the Thirst HUD for vamps or the Rage HUD for lycans. 

Human HUD
Image Credit: Merlin Swordthain

Things a Blood Doll CAN do:
  • Use Invisibility on the Thirst HUD. 
  • Hunt for their liege. (Make sure to notify your liege of your intention first!) 
  • Hold souls though they don't count toward overall clan count. Thirst or Rage HUD required for this. 
  • Feed vampire, lycan or hybrid Bloodlines players.  
Things a Blood Doll CANNOT do:
  • Bite or claw, use howl, superhuman jump, or smoke screen (these require wearing fangs or claws). 

Humanity
Blood dolls need to keep track of their humanity.  For each bite or claw they receive, 5% of their humanity is taken.  To replace the humanity, they can either eat a Bloodlines apple or drink Bloodlines cider. Normally the liege or whomever has bitten them is the one that supplies this. The Blood Doll is doing them a favor, they shouldn't have to pay for restoring their own humanity as well.