Gangrel Misplaced in Bloodlines

It's Deb again.
November 1st is All Saints. And the Night before is All Hallows Eve, or short: Halloween

Trick or treat. Claudia, we need another blood cookie for our furry friend! Do you have one with brain?

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Thank you for the brain, I'm not Nagaraja, I don't need one.

Thanks for enlighting me on the Halloween buisness. We don't celebrate it in EU. Well, the English do, but they are not really Europeans, so...

So, who was tossing a bloodcookie?
*sits ond hind legs, ears up and front paws on chest*

Feral wrote:

Childe of Malkav wrote:

You know, I was a Vampire too. And then it was November 1st.

That I don't get... Next round of XP goes to Perception and Wits.

Another 'Deb of Night' quote. (She dressed up as a vamp for Halloween.) Feral, you really should listen to the radio stuff. I hate talk radio too, but this stuff is pretty funny. Even Andrei (Yes, the Tzimisce guy!) calls in once.

Childe of Malkav wrote:

Trick or treat. Claudia, we need another blood cookie for our furry friend! Do you have one with brain?

Brainz is fer zombeez. But give him another blood cookie, for a treat.

.. Now that they are both addicted to my blood cookies, they'll bow and kiss my feet to have them once more.... hm hm.. *drools*

Edit : it's true, us Europeans don't really celebrate halloween thingy. In France, Toussaint (all saints) is ultra gloomy, people buy a few flowers, go to a cemetery, and that's all. In Mexico, it's FUN

Hey Tremere, you're even more weird than I am. Drooling on two Gangrel licking your feet

For All Saints, yes its about as gloomy here in Germany as well. In the real catholic parts, you'd probably get sued till Kingdom Come just for turning on your radio.
And the Halloween tradition went over to the US with the Irish, and now it all comes back, completely "americanized".
You must go to a Halloween party, and have a badly whittled pumpkin. And the kiddies all go out with the german version of trick or treat. But probably nobody knows what is behind all this...

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It's not about them licking my feet clean, it's about POWER BABY !

*throws a bloodcookie*


Here, we have a neo nazi church, so your argument is invalid

Then again, when I was in the US, I did halloween by dressing up entirely in a real stunning furisode kimono. with the kids, they were so surprised "shit that's the real deal" "fuck yeah !". We ate also a lot of candy, but other than that, apart from a few people who do make their showoff by putting in insanely amazing decorations (like for Christmas), most people just "go through it".

In France, it's just one week off from school. This year, it's from 22th to 30th, so it doesn't even take the actual holy day (because in November 1st, everything is closed).

*sniffs the bloodcookie suspiciously*
Something smells of Salubri... And Tzimisce... Better will leave it...

Tzimisce? no, of course not! Look, it's fine. It's all fine now. We're fine. We're all fine. How are you?

Stupid Gangrel. Didn't you see the label on the blood cookie? It's not Tzimisce, it's even worse. Now you will start sparkling...

Look what you have done, Claudia. Now we must wear sunglasses, every time this dog is around

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ThePhilosopher wrote:

Tzimisce? no, of course not! Look, it's fine. It's all fine now. We're fine. We're all fine. How are you?

I'm geat. My acute sense of smell saved me both from getting Blood Bound to Claudia and from eating your Clan Edward bloodcookie. Philosopher, aren't you a Koldun? Was that attempt at some spell? Voraxith sparkles very suspiciously...

*lowers ears, bares teeth and slowly backs away*

Halloween comes from Samhain, a Celtic Lunar Festival that traditionaly lasted from three nights and it became set that the last night became the evening of the day November 1. During that period the boundaries between this world and the otherworld of the dead became thinner and the dead came visiting and were wellcomed as honored guests. In a nutshell.
Hence all the "morbidity" of Halloween.
And in my country, a catholic one, November 1 is also All Saints Day, and traditionaly people go visit their dearly departed at the graveyards.

Yes, quite a lot of christian holydays were set, so they could replace celtic or germanic/norse ones. These were some of the first regions outside of the former roman empire to be christianized. So the missionaries took the dates of their most important religious observations, and surplanted them with christian ones.

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That is a topic that interests me, I am a pagan of sorts.
The world before the romans came, and before christianity.
And the romanization and christianization of europe.
And I don't appreciate a lot in our society that derives from the romanization and christianization of europe.

I have a especially afinity for the celts, but also for the norse.

Hence my love for Gangrel, especially Lhiannan.

Maybe you could check up my last published story, at Fan Fiction?
And sorry for the pointer here...

It's not important :-)

But then again we were discussing lulz, and then one goes all serious about it.. Wtf ! We all know the Halloween origins, and even if we didn't, we'd google it. Having to explain a joke is a let down

Rule number 1 of Comedy: If you have to explain the joke, it's not a joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhsKlz8xkg&feature=related

I just felt like contributing with my two cents.
Halloween had been under discussion. And it is a topic dear to me.
Sorry if I ruined the buzz that had turned comedy and made things serious again.

Anyway Gangrel harken back to those pagan days, namely the bloodline Lhiannan.
As people familiar with them probably know better than me.

My that blood cooky sure seems tasty.
Maybe Malkavian me will dementate the whole lot of you and get it all to myself, and then get the recipe, and then throw a mad halloween party where they will be the main course. And invite you all of course. And dementate you into having the time of your lives.

We named halloween because of some Lol of one of us being a vampire one day, and then it was November 1st... We were certainly not discussing Halloween, it's origins, how wertern christians are assholes thieves and what not. It's like us making a random lolcat joke, and someone coming over discussing random feline proprieties... Sure, we all know leopards run ultra fast, but that got nothing to do with the lulz
I will never give my secret bloodcookie recipe though ! NEVAAAA !

Cheetahs run like hell!

Oh but I am sure I can Dementate you out of it mwahaha