Status granting and losing

by **Admin** Thu Mar 23, 2017 11:33 pm

(Pg 260 faith and fire for further reading. Further clarification on status and the few House rules associated with it are incoming)

Any Cainite of higher status may burn a permanent status to strip a lower status person of a status.

A group of lower-status Cainites may strip a permanent status from one of their own clan or road that has higher status if they have enough permanent status combined to equal the victims’ total permanent status. Must all be the same clan or Road, these cannot be mixed, must be one or the other, cannot be a few clan members and a few road members in one group.

A Clan Elder may reward status to anyone of their clan if they hold at least double the status of the person they are rewarding.

The council of Elders may reward a single status to a Cainite per month. No more than one status may be granted to a Cainite in this way. It must be announced why the status is given and it must be given to a Cainite who has resided in the Domain for an appropriate amount of time. (As determined by the Council of Elders)

A Luminary Elder of a Clan or Road may reward anyone a permanent Status at the cost of one of their own permanent status. They must be on the same road or same clan as the member they are rewarding. (This granting of status is reserved for STs only for sake of story or plot.)

The Chamberlain may remove status due to the breaking of boons or traditions. When doing so they are considered speaking with the voice and authority of the Prince and all of the Elders, and therefore removing status costs nothing. If the person they are removing the status from is brought to negative status the person may be blood hunted at the discretion of the Prince or Seneschal, or Exiled by the Sheriff or vote of Elders, if no other officers are available.

The prince (or Baron) may award up to three statuses per game year at the cost of one temp status each. Any beyond that and he must expend a permanent Status each time he wishes to award a Permanent Status. If the person he has given permanent status to is killed or that status is removed by someone other than the prince it remains lost.* It is considered rude to kill or strip status from someone who has gained the favor and status of the Prince.

*Officers of the court are considered acting as the Prince in matters of death and stripping, Elders are not.

[i]For example, Mike the Glass-making Toreador (three status) insults Bruce the Brutish Brujah (2 status) which causes him to frenzy in Mike's glass shop ruining his work. Mike decides to remove one of Bruce's statuses, Mike Burns his "Cherished" name to remove Bruce's "Loyal" name. This must be done in a salon or court where other members of the Cainite community can bear witness to the stripping, generally in the company of the Chamberlain but any officer of the court can be witness to the removal of status. They do not need to have been witness to the event that caused the stripping as Mike's word, and higher status, is more than enough.
A group of Brujah on road of Humanity are upset at Mike the Glass-Maker, who is also on road of Humanity, they want to get even for their clan mate Bruce, they decide to band together and remove Mike's "Cherished" name. They do so in court, as they aren't invited to Salons, they are neonates after-all.
The council of Elders decide that they like Mike's glass work, (Mike's greasing of the wheels with boons and crafts didn't hurt) they decide that they will return Mike's status, not only because of boons paid to do so but to show the upstart neonates that they control the flow of status in the court. After making an announcement about how Neonates must stay in their place they award Mike “Cherished” again.
Months Later - Bruce has been upset at his loss of status and he goes to the woods to murder something, he comes across a pack of hunters and kills them, in doing so he discovers a plot to kill all the Cainites in the city. After months of play and plot he stops them from killing everyone, and exposing Cainites to the church (stopping a major or minor plot and spending several months’ worth of downtimes and forum play the STs decide to award status) An NPC who has been watching Bruce comes to the court and tells the court of his deeds, he awards him the Status "Fearless"
The Prince gives a neonate the Status "Daring" for his organizing the plan and successful delivery of removing the status of the Toreador Mike, Mike is upset that the Neonate was given a reward for the insult so he decides the Neonate must pay, he's on humanity so he doesn't want to kill the Neonate, Mike decides to expend one of his permanent status to remove the Neonates new Daring status. This is a metaphorical slap in the face to the Prince as the status granted has been removed from play forever. He then tells the Prince what he really thinks of that Status, words were not chosen wisely.
The chamberlain is upset at Mike, he has insulted the Prince and was indebted to the Prince for two Major boons, the insult violates the rules of Cainite custom. During court in front of other Cainites of the realm the Chamberlain removes all of Mike's status, one for causing the Brujah to frenzy in the Prince's domain (even if it was Mike's personal domain it is considered owned by the Prince), and one for each boon owed to the Prince at the time he insulted him. Mike now has negative status, the Seneschal is the only other officer in the court at the time and declares a blood hunt against Mike. [i]