Talk:Remaining Awake
Admonition to the Storytellers by Bruce
It was inevitable that the issue of Jamie's remaining awake for extended periods would arise with a new storyteller, in this case Brian. Not that I entirely disagree with Brian's point of view, but in truth, I am of two minds on this matter. First, I must applaud Jamie as a player on his creativity, as it was a clever way to get ahead in the scheme of things. But, Brian is going to have to think this through carefully, for there are uncharted difficulties with limiting Jamie's sorcerous advantage in this way.
Brian himself has said that the undead body does not ever truly tire and thus, there is no penalty for remaining awake during the day other than the limitation imposed by that vampire's path. It would seem to me that if the undead body has been so transformed by the curse, how could the curse not change the way in which the vampiric mind or brain functions, thus allowing the undead psyche to deal with stresses that few mortals could hope to withstand.
Remember, the only reason that vampires must slumber during the day is that specific portion of the curse theologically laid on Cain by Uriel, that the curse demands the vampire exist only in darkness. Technically, Jamie's solution to this problem is entirely within the bounds of the Curse of Caine. But first, all things being equal, it means that Jamie wasn't the first vampire thaumaturge to think of this strategy. Whatever else the Tremere may be, they aren't stupid and the original councilors were straight up brilliant, so there are probably quite a few of them out there with this advantage. However, it couldn't have been employed much before the early 1500s because the first world circumnavigation in history was the Magellan-Elcano expedition which sailed from Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522 after having crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian oceans. So, if Jamie can do it, some of the Tremere have been doing it for centuries.
