Alleycat - A vampire who keeps no permanent haven, but sleeps in a different location each night. This term also refers to a Kindred who feeds exclusively from the homeless, vagrants and other elements of low society.
Angstburger - Over-the-top moping about one's vampiric condition. Usgae: Dominic was chewing on a big old angstburger at the Goth club tonight.
Apeshit - Frenzy.
Ash - A vampire who's been destroyed. Usage: Tomasino pissed off the sheriff; now he's ash. Sometimes used as a verb, meaning, "to kill".
Banking - The practice of "withdrawing" blood from blood banks and hospital reserves. This blood has little taste, tough it willsustain a vampire, and elder Kindred eschew this base indulgence. A Kindred who engages in this practice is known as a banker.
Black Hand - Another name for the sect known as the Sabbat.
Blister - A vampire "Typhoid Mary" who contracts a mortal disease and spreads it to each vesselupon whom it feeds.
Bloat - Taking more blood then one needs, resulting in reddened eyes, a ruddy complexion and the continual shedding of tears of blood.
Blooded - A vampire.
Bloodline - A vampire's heritage. (aka: lineage)
Blood Doll - A mortal who freely gives their blood to a vampire. Most blood dolls gain a perverse satisfaction from the Kiss, and actively seek out vampires who will take their vitae.
Boojum - Any other supernatural creature, usually non-vampiric.
'Bot - Someone clearly acting under the influence of Dominate. Often reserved for mortals reduced to automaton status.
Brightening Sunsets - Another term for a destroyed Kindred. It refers to the way in which excess dust and ash produce particularly brilliant coloration. Usage: Lisette crossed the Nosferatu elder, so now she's brightening sunsets.
Butterfly - One who mingles among the mortal high-society element and feeds exclusively from the famous and wealthy.
Cannibal - A vampire who indulges in diablerie.
Casanova - A vampire who educes mortals to take their blood, but doe not kill them. Casanovas typically erase the memory of their presence from their vessels' minds (aka: Cauchemar).
Change, The - The moment an individual ceases to be a mortal and becomes one of the Kindred.
Cleanup - Repairing an Oops, or otherwise working to protect the Masquerade.
Clockwatcher - A vampire who worries excessively about the approach of dawn.
Collar - Blood Bond. The term has a distinctly sadomasochistic inference attached to it.
Cub Scouts - Archons.
Damned, The - The race of Kindred; all Vampires.
Dessert - Feeding for pleasure, not need.
Donor - A sarcastic term for a vessel, typically human.
Doornail - As in, "dead as a". Used to refer to a corpse left behind. Usage: We went out for supper and dropped a couple of doornails in the river.
Do Over - The process of erasing memories from a mortal's mind. Often used to cover up evidence of a feeding.
Farmer - A term of mockery for vampires who refuse to feed on human blood, instead taking sustenance from animals.
Fief - A sarcastic term for a Vampire's domain or claim thereof, most commonly used in reference to a Prince.
Fossil - Derisive term for a vamprire who is stuck, stylistically, in an anachonisitic mode of behavior. Often refered to elders.
Futon - A coffin.
Fuzzy - A Lupine.
Grandpa - A member of a vampire's lineage more distant then their Sire.
Half-Breed - A ghoul. Sometimes phrased as a "Half-Blood".
Happy Meal - The process of drinking from a mortal who is intoxicated or otherwise under the influenece of some sort of controlled substance.
Head - A Kindred who feeds upon those who have ibibed alcohol or drugs, so as to vicariously experience the same sensations. Those Kindred prefer indiviual drugs hace their own "poison" prefixed to the term "head". (ie: crackhead, dopehead, smackhead, etc.)
Headhunter - A vampire who hunts and feeds from other Kindred. (aka: Rogue).
Inky - A hunter, specifically a member of the Inquistion.
John Law - The sheriff; less frequently, the scourge.
Juice - Vitae.
Juicebags - A contemptuous term for mortals, indicating that their sole use is for sustenance. Even more irreverent is the term Bag.
Leftovers - Blood taken from a corpse.
Laid - Fed.
Lunch - Vitae, or the mortal from whom the vitae is obtained. Usage: I met lunch at the coffeehouse tonight.
Lick - A vampire; one of the race of Kindred.
Lupine Alley - Travel arteries that run through Lupine territory, and are notoriously dangerous for vampires to traverse.
Monster - A vampire who terrorizes younger, weaker Kindred. Sometimes spelled Monsta, usually by poseurs.
Munchies - Hunger for vitae after heavy use of disciplines.
Nibs - The Prince or any other important vampire. Not intended as a compliment.
Oops - A breach of the Masquerade. Usage: We had a little Oops tonight, but it's taken care of.
Perv - A vampire who insists on indulging in mortal sexuality to mask the process of feeding.
PF - Short for "pity fuck". A Kindred who recieves the Embrace because of guilt or pity on the part of the Sire.
Prefrosh - A mortal who is a candidate for the Embrace.
Princeling - A derisive term for the leader of the coterie.
Rabbit - A vampire who only feeds from animals. Animal blood is sometimes also known as rabbit food.
Rack, The - The hunting ground of choice, including bars, nightclubs, drug dens, whorehouses and other bacchanalian locales, where mortals go missing all the time. (aka: Papillon)
Rag - The weakest vampire in a coterie.
Rake - A habitual visitor to the Rack, especially in the interests of feeding. (aka: Gentry).
Recruiting - Breaking the Masquerade so as to prepare a mortal for the Embrace.
Renfield - A long-time ghoul, usually one who has far exceeded normal lifespan.
Rug - A dead Lupine. Alternately, a dead Gangrel.
Sabbot - A derisive term for the Sabbat. Prounounced "SAA-bet", usually in some form of ridiculous accent.
Sandman - A vampire who feeds upon sleeping victims only.
Sand Castle - An unsafe haven or vulnerable domain.
Scoutmaster - A justicar.
Shovelhead - Sabbat vampire.
Slumming - The practice of feeding from the derelicts, the honeless and other dregs of society; one who does this regularly is known as a slummer.
Snap - A broken collar.
Soy - Vitae taken from an animal; a less-filling and tasteless substitute for the real thing.
Speed Bumps - Mortals or inexperienced ghouls pressed into combat against vampires.
Stalker - A mortal who hunts down and destroys Kindred. (aka: Witch-hunter)
Starfucker - A vampire who makes a habit of feeding from the rich and famous.
Suntanning - Being staked out for the sun. A common punishment used by the Princes on rebellious Kindred.
Teardrop - A Kindred who kills mortals on a regular basis. Possibly derived from certain gangs' custom of tatooing teardrops on the cheek of gang members who have comiited murder.
Tease - A term used for a female Casanova (vide).
Tentacle - A hideously deformed vampire, usualy a Tzimisce.
TFBS - Bela Lugosi's Dead, by Bauhaus. Nearly universally loathed by all Kindred, who have simply heard it too damn many times for the joke to be funny anymore.
Trashman - A vampire who feeds on the homeless and other human detritus. The term derives from such Kindred's tendency too pick up supper from alleyways or curbsides.
Turf - A modern affectation used in reference to a domain; it may also refer to the area under a given gang's influence.
Uncle - An elder who takes an interest in or who patronizes a younger Kindred. Sort of a vampiric sugar daddy.
Valentine - (1). A Kindred who uses his powers to acheive mortal celebrity, often in violation of the Masquerade. (2). The mortal lover of a Kindred, usually the source of much anger.
Vector - Vampires who spread mortal diseases; so called because the CDC has taken an interest in the way blood-based diseases have been spreading.
Vegetary - A term of contempt for one who drinks exclusively from animals. (aka: farmer).
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