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monster

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monster -- Vampires, Shifters, Leviathans, Djinn, and Ghosts

Monster is its own Origin (Lineage as the Path label). You keep a living body (or haunt as a Ghost) and run on the shared fuel tank --
Hunger drains it, feeding refills it, and true form / manifest burns it faster. Chargen Lineages:

How you play
  1. Open your Lineage hub    help vampire | help leviathan | help wendigo | help ghoul | help arachne | …
  2. Check fuel               your Hunger / Visage / Feral Heat / … tank (help fuel)
  3. form / manifest          show your true face or wear a mundane guise (Ghosts: help ghost)
  4. Feed to refill fuel      each Lineage's feed verb differs -- see its hub
  5. Optional cover           path background <id> for a Mundane kit (help path)

  vampire     blood fuel; hunt, bite, and drink to stay off Hunger's edge
  shifter     Instinct fuel; shift to beast form, tied to the Lunar Tide
  leviathan   Devouring fuel; black-goo true form, consume and assume faces
  djinn        Mirage; trap prey in a private false world and drain essence
  ghost       Remembrance; fade / manifest, haunt, scare, inhabit the living
  wendigo     Feral Heat; larder, mimic cries, phantomstep (help wendigo)
  ghoul       Visage; feast the dead and wear their faces (help ghoul)
  arachne     Venom; bluish-white web trap and mutagenic fang (help arachne)

See also: help vampire | help shifter | help leviathan | help djinn