Progressive report III

1.Answers of our questions for vampires:

-Why do you want to be a vampire?
-A game.
-For fun. To kill time.
-Fans of vampires.

- What pleasure do you attain from being a vampire?
-Bite people.
-Make friends.
-Sense of connection because of vampire family.

- Do you believe in the existence of vampires in reality?
-Not at all.
-Believe that vampires only exist in movies and games.

- Is being a vampire the same as your imagination?
-At times, to some extent. (Bite people and have to search for blood.)
-Even harder. (They have to keep searching people who are willing to be bitten by vampires.)

- What are the pros and cons of being a vampire?
PROS:
-A sense of achievement
-A sense of connection
-Make lots of friends

CONS:
-Boring if lost interests.
-A dutiful vampire would become a mediator and mentor of their liege, and sometimes they can't solve the problems of their lieges.


-Have you confronted any stereotype on vampires in SL?
-Immoral, cruel, melancholy image.
-All vampires just want souls to gain rank.

2. interview data

.:[ The Thirst: Bloodlines Edition ]:.
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This is a fully-featured Vampire system that provides a rich array of basic Vampire functions and integration with The Thirst: Bloodlines web-based multiplayer game. This sytem includes fang effects, particle effects, emotes, animations, and a scanner that will sense other avatars and tell you whether they are other Vampires or potential victims.

To get the most out of your system, please read all of the instructions below, or you can check out the product information guide on http://www.slbloodlines.com. If you have trouble with our system, please first check out the FAQ at http://www.slbloodlines.com/faq

The Thirst: Bloodlines was designed and constructed for Liquid Designs by Lyle Maeterlinck and Mars Bracken, but please direct questions and tech support requests to the Bloodlines manager, Curse Aszkenaze.

For Liquid Designs,

Lyle Maeterlinck and Mars Bracken
Liquid Designs Copyright 2008


IN THIS NOTECARD:
[1] CONTENTS
[2] INSTRUCTIONS
[3] BLOODLINES: HOW THE GAME WORKS
[4] **** LEECH WARNNG - If you don't read anything else, please read this! ****

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.:[ 1: CONTENTS ]:.
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1 HUD
1 Set of Fangs
1 Stat Viewer
1 Bite Marks

1 Pose Stand - For editing your attached Fangs
1 Quick Start Guide
1 Set Instructions
1 Bloodlines TOS Notecard
1 Liquid designs Copyright & EULA Notecard
1 LM to Bloodlines Main Store

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.:[ 2: INSTRUCTIONS ]:.
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The Thirst: Bloodlines contains 4 main components: The HUD, the Fangs, the Stat Viewer, and The Bite Marks. The two essential pieces to play the game and use the functions are the HUD and the Fangs. The Stat Viewer and the Bite Marks are just for fun. Each item is explained in detail below:

2a. The Bite Marks
The Bite Marks is an attachment to make you look like you just got bit by a ferocious Vampire. They will attach to your left ear by default. They are copy and transfer, which means you can copy them and give them away to all of your friends! The Bite Marks have 4 states: Fresh, Trickling, Scabbing, and Scarred. You can cycle through these states just by touching the bite marks. If you're bit by a Bloodlines Vampire while wearing them, they will squirt Blood!

2b. The Stat Viewer
The Stat Viewer is an attachment that shows others your Bloodlines stats with text floating over your head. It displays the following information: Generation, Clan Name, Status, Amount of Humanity remaining (if greater than 0), Amount of Vital Blood Remaining, and number of collected souls.

2c. The Fangs
The majority of the Thirst: Bloodlines functions are contained in the Fangs. You must be wearing your Fangs on your Mouth attachment point in order for them to work. If they are rezzed on the ground or are attached somewhere else, they won't work.

2d. The HUD
The HUD contains 10 buttons:

1. Fang Extension (top left, round fang button)
2. Fang Blood (bottom left, round bloody fang button)
3. Blood Drip (top center, round blood drop)
4. Bloody Mouth (bottom center, blood pool)
5. Emotes (face)
6. Smoke Screen (smoke)
7. Settings (gear)
8. Bite! (open mouth)
9. Scanner: Self (round skull button, below HUD)
10: Scanner: Nearby avatars (round radar button, below HUD)

1: Fang Extension: show or hide your fangs.

2: Fang Blood: show blood on your fangs, or clean them

3: Blood Drip: toggle blood drip on and off.

4: Bloody Mouth: this button turns the blood in your mouth on and off.

5: Emotes: This button will give you a list of Emotes you can use with your Fangs. Just select an emote from the list, or select 'stop all' to stop emotes.

6: Smoke Screen: This button will emit a smoke screen around your avatar that will conceal your appearance. TIP: use this right before you teleport away.

7: Settings: The settings menu contains the following items:
--a. Bite Mode: You can set your fangs to either 'Bloodlines' mode or 'Free' mode. When in Bloodlines mode, your actions will be recorded as part of the game, and in Free mode, you can use the functions of your fangs outside of the Bloodlines game.

--b. Scan Mode: You can set the scan mode to either 'Text' mode or 'Web' mode. In web mode, both the self-scan and avatar radar buttons will open the selected bloodlines web profile. In text mode, both the self-scan and avatar radar buttons will chat the selected avatar's information to you in local chat.

--c. Set Liege: If you select this item, you'll be prompted to chat the name of an avatar on channel 666. This name must be an avatar that has purchased the Bloodlines System. It cannot be yourself, and it cannot be one of your own minions (someone who has already pledged allegiance to you).

--d. Set Clan: If you select this item, you'll be prompted to chat the name of your clan on channel 999. This is the clan that will be set for those that pledge allegiance to you. The default clan is "Curse Clan". Be advised, if you pledge allegiance to someone, your clan and the clans of all of your minions will be changed to your liege's clan. You cannot choose a clan name that someone else has already chosen, but anyone can rejoin the Curse Clan at any time. You clan name can only be letters, numbers, and spaces, must be less than 25 characters, and cannot be blank.

--e. Stat Reload: forces your stat viewer to check in with the website. Any time you feel your stats may not be showing up right, try pressing this button.

--f. Height: The height selection is used to adjust animations. If your avatar is taller than the average avatar, select 'Taller', if your avatar is shorter than the average avatar, select 'Shorter', and if you believe your avatar is of average height, select 'Same'. The right setting here will make your animations look better.

--g. Gender: Set your gender to 'male' or 'female'. This is only used for status names, such as setting either 'King', or 'Queen'.

--h. Animation: Your fangs come included with one animation: a simple vampire bite. You have the option of using additional animations by adding them to the contents of your fangs. You'll need two animations: one for the victim, one for the attacker. Your animations must be named with the following convention: name_attacker, and name_victim, and replace 'name' with what you want your animation to be called. For example "fierce_attacker', 'fierce_victim'. Then, when you select the 'animation' button under settings, you'll be able to select between the animations you've added and the default animation.

12: Bite: Use this button to bite a victim. Your victim must be within 20 meters of you. Once you select their name, they will be asked for permission. If they accept, the animation will play, and you'll bite them. If they're wearing their bite marks, the bite marks will squirt blood. If this is the first time they've been bitten, your fangs will vend them a copy of the bite marks to wear. The first time they wear their bite marks, they'll be given a landmark to the Bloodlines store. If they pick up a copy of the Thirst: Bloodlines, you will get their soul.

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.:[ 3: BLOODLINES: HOW THE GAME WORKS ]:.
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There are many objectives to pursue in The Thirst: Bloodlines, and you can focus on whichever one is your favorite. However, the one objective that can't be avoided is the Thirst for Blood. All players must keep their Vital Blood high to keep from being destroyed and losing their vampire status. All objectives and the associated rules are explained below.

1. Objective #1: Become a Vampire.
There are two parts to becoming a vampire. First, you must have your humanity drained by others who have the Thirst. Blood is valuable, and the Thirst gives you the power to convert the humanity of your victims into precious vital Blood. Your humanity starts at 100%, and this can be converted into a total of 5 liters of vital blood for others. When your humanity reaches 0, you will be Cursed. Each avatar only has 5 liters of Vital blood to donate to the community, and once it's gone, it's gone forever. This is why new victims must constantly be sought out. The second part of becoming a vampire is to refill yourself to 5 Liters of Vital Blood. You can do this by biting others, draining them with the spike, or by drinking from blood containers. The first time you reach 5 Liters of vital blood after you are cursed, you will become embraced and will gain the status of Vampire.

2. Objective #2: Increase your Status.
Status is based on the number of total souls collected. You will get the soul of every vampire who you are the first to bite. If you are the first person to bite someone who hasn't purchased The Thirst, you will get their soul only when they purchase the system. Your total souls is the sum of the souls you have collected, and the souls collected by your minions. The more minions you have, and the more powerful they are, the higher your status will become. Be a good liege to your minions, because if they decide to pledge allegiance to someone else, you will lose thier souls from your soul total. You might think of a soul as one vote in determining who the highest ranked vampire is. The more souls you collect, the more power you have in determining who is on top.

3. Objective #3: Accumulate Blood Wealth
There is only so much blood to go around, so blood has value in the Thirst: Bloodlines RP world. You can accumulate blood wealth by storing Blood in Blood Casks and Tanks. You can purchase them full, or you can purchase them empty and fill them yourself with blood you collect. If you plan on accumlating Blood Wealth, it may be in your interest to pick up a Spike, which will allow you to convert the humanity of others into valuable vital blood in larger quantities. Everyone will know who the wealthiest Vampire is, and they may turn to you when they are desperate for blood. You can manage lists of the vampires that are allowed to drink from your casks and tanks. Blood is power!

4. Objective #5: Stay "Alive"
Every 24 hours, The Curse takes a toll of 0.25 Liters of vital blood from everyone. If you lose all of your vital blood, you lose all of your collected souls, unless you have protection from an Amulet. To do this, you must constantly seek out new victims as sources of vital blood.

We hope that you enjoy playing The Thirst: Bloodlines and that it enriches your vampire roleplaying experience.

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[4] LEECH WARNING - Although it may seem tempting to just go around biting every random person you see in hopes of getting a little blood or tricking someone into giving you their soul, this behavior is largely unproductive, and will more than likely just do 2 things:

1) Get you banned from the club/sim and abuse reported to the Lindens

2) Anger the person you randomly bit/tricked. He or she will very likely not let you turn them and collect their blood, and even if they do join Bloodlines eventually, they have the option to drink the Wormwood potion and retrieve their soul, so that the next vampire who bites them may take it - leaving you with no points and a bad reputation.

We definitely encourage putting forth a little effort and RPing/chatting with your victims; not only do you have a better chance at actually getting souls/blood, but you also will be much more likely to win them over as a Minion, which will also help you in the game. And if for no other reason - it's just a lot cooler to be someone that RPs, rather than an annoying leech. Please take this into consideration as you being your life as a member of the vampire culture in SL.

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