Scene Queen

Key facts

Bonus discipline

Dominate or Potence

Bonus specialty

Etiquette (Specific Scene), Leadership (Specific Scene), or Streetwise (Specific Scene)

Bonus merit

Fame 1 dot; Contacts 1 dot

Bonus flaw

Disliked (Outside the Subculture) Flaw 1 dot or Prey Exclusion (A Different Subculture) Flaw 1 dot

Bonus Merits

Fame (one dot), Contacts (one dot)

Flaw

Disliked (outside the subculture) (one dot) or Prey Exclusion (a different subculture) (one dot)

Feeding Style

Taking blood from the devotees of your own scene

Risks

Rivals within the scene, public scrutiny, Masquerade slips in front of a crowd

Overview

The Scene Queen reigns over a subculture, whether goths, gamers, club kids or racers, and feeds on the people who orbit it. Their followers hand over blood as part of belonging, and the Scene Queen shapes who is in and who is out. It is a predator type for vampires who like an audience and know how to hold a room. The cost is visibility: someone is always watching, and fame draws rivals as well as admirers. The Scene Queen is one of the ten Corebook predator types (p.178).

How it works

Bonus Discipline: Dominate or Potence (1 free dot)

Bonus Specialty: Etiquette (Specific Scene), Leadership (Specific Scene) or Streetwise (Specific Scene)

Tips and playstyle

Best For: Social characters, performers, influencers, scene leaders. Synergies: Works well with Toreador and Ventrue (charm and command) or Brujah (Potence and a rebel following). Invest in Charisma, Persuasion and Performance, and pick a scene you can describe in a sentence. Character Concepts: Club-night headliner, streamer with a cult following, roller derby captain, tattoo shop queen, underground racing patron.

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