Law’s Guide to Prestation

This text could easily be called Ryan’s guide to prestation- as it represents my general rules of thumb for how the pieces outlined in the book should interact. However Ryan is not a Vampire with over a century of time as Harpy and a huge amount of prestation debt owed to him. Michael Law, however, has both of these things which gives him a huge platform from which to have made these decisions.

This document is compiled from various Requiem books, and extrapolated or interpolated for the gaps left.

=Boons v Status= The basic features of the Prestation system are Boons, or debt, and Status. The relationship between these two features is only vaguely alluded to, so this text seeks to provide a concrete link upon which many of the following pieces will anchor. It is given that the relationship centers on the fact that the value of a Boon is equal to the Status of the kindred who holds it.

Thus, the assumption upon which we will work is that a trivial boon from a status two Kindred is worth twice that of a status 1 Vampire. Similarly, a status 5 Vampire’s trivial boon is worth 5 trivial boons from a status 1 kindred.

Unless otherwise stated, all further discussions involve status 1 kindred. Those who hold Boons over higher station/status kindred can expect proportionally more, and such Kindred can expect more from individuals when giving a Boon.

Contracts
In a city where Boon Contracts are standard, an uncontracted boon is worth at most half what a Contracted boon is.

If Boon Contracts aren't standard, the Contract is worth at least twice a "standard" boon.

That is the same relationship from two different angles.
 * 1 Non-contracted = 2 Contracted

This represents the fact that the clear verifiability of a contract, and it's innate repercussions (lethal damage), make a contracted boon worth significantly more than an uncontracted boon.

=Boons v Other Boons= Just to be clear;
 * 1 Major Boon = 3 Minor Boons
 * 1 Minor Boon = 3 Trivial Boons
 * 1 Major Boon = 9 Trivial Boons
 * 1 Life Boon = infinite Major Boons.

Status and Boons v Other Boons
As a note, the status differential makes some other interesting equalities.
 * 1 Trivial Boon over a Status 3 Kindred = 1 Minor Boon over a Status 1 Kindred.
 * 1 Minor Boon over a Status 3 Kindred = 1 Major Boon over a Status 1 Kindred.

=Boons v Materials= The primary substance of vampiric existence is Vitae. Because, however, vampires want “stuff,” cash can also be valuable.


 * 1 Trivial Boon = 1 point of Vitae. (also said, a trivial boon = Vitae equal to the debtor’s status. This can be provided by simply opening one’s veins or, more likely, giving limited access to part of one’s herd).
 * 1 Trivial Boon = 1 point of Resources expenditure (usually an item purchased with same, though enough cash to make that purchase will do.)
 * 1 Minor Boon = 1 untouched Mortal Vessel (That is a human person, no strings attached, delivered to your door. The debtor is responsible for all procurement and is reasonably held responsible for cleanup- that means disposing of the body or cleaning memories. If this is the payment and the mortal is returned to the debtor {in any condition, live or dead} they remain responsible for any Masqurade Breaches caused by that human after they are returned. It is within the realm of reason for the creditor to require a specific “type” of human or particular individual.)

Bear in mind that these payments only work if the owed individual wants the provided “stuff.” Thus you cannot simply open your veins, try to blood bond them, and claim to have paid a trivial debt. Similarly, a suitcase of cash procured with Resources 1 will likely be laughed at by an individual with resources of 2 or more, and not count as payment.