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DOVECOTE is a group of Thin-blooded alchemists formed as a fighting force against the Camarilla threat.

Description[]

DOVECOTE encourages constant experimentation, with a heavy focus on formulae that can help its members fight or flee. Members try out countless recipes, both out of their own heads or suggested by other members, and write up intricate reports of their formulae and outcomes to share with their comrades. Most announce the exact time they plan to submit, so interested parties can save their data before the chat server gets its daily wipe-down. There's an unpleasant subset of Licks who innocently suggest dangerous or unpleasant formulae, just to see if other people will try them out, but other members specialize in catching these burners and taking them down. DOVECOTE members don't use the words vitae, Blood, or even humors, in their reports. Codewords like whatsit or Dr. Pepper stand in for Blood, horny/ angry/ mopey for sanguineous/choleric/melancholy, and a whole raft of other secret phrases help disguise the servers from any prying eyes or keyword alerts. Getting into the DOVECOTE servers is difficult. The best way is for an extant member to invite a new brewer, which means proving oneself both to be a good alchemist and a trustworthy one to a secret DOVECOTE member. Despite being quite open with each other, the DOVECOTE community fiercely defends its records—this is meant to protect its members, after all. It can take years before enough trust builds between thin-bloods for an invitation to emerge.

DOVECOTE members in the same domain often frequent the same shops and suppliers, tipped off by one of their compatriots. Most are interested in buying materials, not books or occult equipment, and they tend to have at least a small presence in the designer drug scene in a given city.

History[]

DOVECOTE was created in the first hours after the Camarilla domains, announced that they were going to start branding Thin-bloodeds, by a group of alchemists and hacker-adjacents who decided the best defense was a good offense. No more secret alchemy formulae or proprietary ingredients: share them around, make them powerful, make even more, so when the Camarilla came knocking, there'd be hell to pay. They set up secret servers, wrote out ground rules, and spent five hours coming up with a cool-sounding name. The next night, the first DOVECOTE meeting was in session, with a grand total of 14 members. Since then, their number has ballooned to at least a few hundred—possibly more, as some groups of alchemists write under one collective name—spread out across North America with a sprinkle of members in Latin America and Asia.

Eventually a few more radical and militant members founded the CRONUS group from within DOVECOTE.

References[]

Sorcerous Affiliations
Standard Affiliations Ancient Order of the Aeon Rites · The Arcanum · Balamo'ob · The Children of Osiris · The Cult of Isis · The Cult of Mercury · The Dozen Priests of the Pythian Order · The Fenian · Forn Jafnaðr · Maison Liban · Mogen HaLev · Nebuu-Afef · The Nephite Priesthood · The Newburgh Group · The Seven Thunders · The Silver Portal · The Society of Enlightened Altruistic Ideologies · The Star Council · Thal'hun · US Government: Project Twilight · Uzoma
Mage-run Affiliations Council of Nine Mystic Traditions · Disparate Alliance · Technocratic Union
Redworking Affiliations The Almost Assembly · The Calderone · CRONUS/DOVECOTE · House Carna · House Goratrix · Lui Domien · The Plague Oracles · Sunburners
Minor or Defunct Affiliations Asatru Futhark · Bata'a · Masters of Stonecrop
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