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Clarifications requested for Feeding Dependency

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Codrus:
I looked again at Emotional Vampire, not sure I see anything that changes my thinking.  Feeding Frenzy is the only thing that stands out, and it doesn't specifically speak to losing control when Hungry -- it is about being in the right emotional situation with a WILLING target.
(click to show/hide)The healing section doesn't seem relevant to Blood Rites -- he's not dying, he's consumed by the hunger.

Page references are the paperback.
p. 137 "He's breathing but he's emptied his reserves."
p. 146 "The bullets aren't going to kill him. He'd have died already. The Hunger may finish him though"
p. 147 "Right now Thomas is too hungry that he can't think. Can't move. He'll be all right once he feeds."
and  "He's too hungry," Lara said. "He won't be able to control himself."

Arguably, all of these are statements from Lara, who is not impartial. And while this sounds like very much like the poster child for being "taken out" from hunger, clearly, Thomas is able to come back from the edge to avoid killing Justine. So is that tagging a Justine aspect to just barely avoid killing her, or was he just barely not "taken out" ?

I could see an argument that what Justine did in Blood Rites IS to act as a willing target.

I can live with the explanation that the stress track takes out powers because to use them would cause the vamp to lose control. It'd be nice to see it described a little better in the rules. I'd love to see a billy/harry sidebar or something. :)

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