Starbucks I can see but malls?
Schools?? Like high school drama despair would be anything but empty calories.
Think of it this way, most people don't tend to find despair until they are older. Young people feeling despair might be like veal to them. Plus it explains the often pointless teenage/early 20s suicides.That is blatantly false, many young people feel despair and the young are more susceptible to depression.
That is blatantly false, many young people feel despair and the young are more susceptible to depression.I am of course talking in game terms and plot ides, not in real life. I know kids can feel depression in real life.
Sports complex would definitely be a good place, which reminds me: Bars. Why do a lot of people go to them? Because they're desperate/lonely/insert negative emotion here. :)
Not to mention, any big office building would probably be a cesspool of despair and hopelessness. It's not called the "Daily Grind" for nothing. :)
I'm thinking that honest emotions 'tastes' better than invoked ones. No real game effects but something that the characters react to.
I'm basing this off Thomas and his salon. Mechanically he was feeding his hunger but from a RP perspective he was going on bread and water while surrounded by a great feast that was his for the taking.
But arguably doesn't Thomas suggest the exact opposite? He felt like he was on bread and water because he restricted himself to taking only the honest, already-there emotions of his clients. If he had been willing to use his powers to drive them into a frenzy of lust, he could have fed all he wanted.
Also, I'd suggest that's why White Court vampires are as dangerous and destructive as blood-drinking vampires. If all they did was wander around feeding of existant emotions, they wouldn't be as big a deal. But a lust vampire goes in and uses his powers to excite people into a frenzy of lust they neither want nor can control. A despair vampire can turn a mentally healthy individual into a depressive on the verge of suicide. Can and does regularly, as part of his feeding, because it's more satisfying.
I've got a feeling that the Skaavis would have liked life in the Eastern Bloc.I've got a feeling that they did. And in the black plague. And in every major disaster known to man. These are immortal vampires man.
Possibly, but it would depend upon if they can feed off of multiple targets, or have to concentrate on one. Given their malicious nature though, I think it for them it would be like licking the seasoning off of every item at the buffet, with a nibble here and there... compared to sitting down to a steak dinner and finishing it off. With both Red and White courts, "just enough" isn't enough, there seems to be a psychological need to actually kill, to feed off of one victim until they die. We've seen it with Bianca and the Reds who didn't bother taking just enough blood to meet their needs unless they had some other use for the cattle, we've seen it with Lara's crew as well. Maybe the kill gives them a bigger juice, maybe they just get off on it, but I think they'll generally prefer to ride their victims all the way down when they can.