Post originally by Josh Shaw at 2004-10-09 03:08:56
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From: Stephenls
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 8:58 PM
Subject: [rev_10718] RE: The Seven! [2788:9:16]

http://www.rpg.net/rf08/read.php?f=2788&i=16&t=9

Incidentally, the developer recently said on the RPG.net Roleplaying Open forum that his plan for the VII book is to have three separate authors each contribute their own, mutually exclusive version of the group.

So, yeah. Nobody "gets" VII. They're the incomprehensible threat from the shadows.
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Stephenls
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Ah, but what Wood said was:

As for the "bad guys", while Belial's Brood fills in a gothic gap and is really obvious, I think the Seven just doesn't work. I mean: vampires who are dedicated to destroying all vampires. Do you see the problem there? I just kept asking myself when I read the page, how on earth do they recruit? I mean, the initial idea is cool, but you need to have absolute conviction to pull such an idea off. A one-page write-up which doesn't even give you enough to make up the ideas for yourself doesn't say to me "conviction", you know?

Obviously, the one page write up gave me plenty of room to make up ideas for myself, and other folks as well. I particularly liked someone's idea of Seven being made up of vampire hunters who deliberately allow themselves to be turned to either continue the fight past their natural lifetimes or to better bring the fight to the enemy. One idea I had after reading that was perhaps the seven individuals who founded "The Seven" were fanatics from our old friends The Order of Leopold and were still getting support from that group. Perhaps "Seven" was the infiltration group of the Order, sneaking into town as innocent vampire, determining the local situation, learning the names and havens of all the local players and, when they had enough information, calling in the Order strike teams.

So, I'm fine with the idea that there's no pre-written "truth" about Seven, I'm sure that with a little work any of us could make up a dozen different motivations for them. Or him, who says VII isn't one crazed vamp serial killer preying on other vamps who just tries to make it look like an organization. I merely was surprised that Wood, who's review was so perceptive in so many other ways, missed the, IMNSHO, obvious gaming potential of this great idea.