Sabbat vampires lead tense unlives, sworn to eternal righteous duty against the Camarilla and Antediluvians in the Great Jyhad. Not every night sees the hunt of an elder or the siege of a city, however, and the Sabbat has adopted numerous bloody “sports” with which to pass the time on nights when they have no active sect responsibilities to address.
As a whole, the elder body of the Sabbat looks down on these “games,” seeing them as vulgar and senseless. The elders admit, however, that fun and games keep the footsoldiers of the sect in fine fighting order. Indeed, when an elder thinks the sect at large isn’t looking, she may be known to engage in a few herself.
• The Races: A game in which sect members steal any car they can find (police cruisers, delivery vehicles, private cars) and take them out on the streets or highways. Invariably, the races involve accidents, crashes, police pursuit and other opportunities for the Cainites to kill mortals and sometimes feed after the fact.
• Drive-By: The vampires literally perform drive-by shootings against other vampires (preferably Camarilla, but rival packs of Sabbat will do). These drive-bys rarely kill the other vampires, but mortals often get in the way and it’s great fun to see the people supposedly killed get up and crawl to recuperate. This is one of the key Masquerade-breaking tactics employed by the Sabbat during sieges of other cities.
• Football: Just like it sounds, football with the Sabbat tends to be a bit rough. Normally, packs simply go to a park or other recreation site and challenge a group of mortals to a game of football. Of course, blood-frenzied vampires with Celerity and Potence aren’t always the best opponents, and the Sabbat rarely play fair, so the games usually result in broken necks and legs for the mortals, who are just as likely to meet their deaths when the vampires “juice up” after the game.
• Trick or Treat? — It need not be Halloween for the Sabbat to play this game. Trick or Treat usually takes a violent turn as the homes the Sabbat visits are rarely prepared to offer “treats” during the middle of the summer. Instead, the vampires may take their own treats, (killing the residents and drinking their blood), or they may practice a trick, such as boarding up the house and setting it on fire with the residents still inside.
• Human Gladiators: A true bloodsport, this game involves capturing two or more mortals, hyping them up on speed or PCP and turning them loose on each other. The survivor, it is explained, may keep his life (which may or may not be true), and to make things interesting for the Sabbat, they often give the competitors makeshift weapons such as chains, broken bottles, broken-off broom handles and other implements that take a long time to kill their victims but still hurt like hell. Some Sabbat eschew this game, since it is more of a spectator sport than an actual vampiric endeavor.
These are just a few of the pastimes in which the Sabbat engages. Some packs prefer games of their own invention, and it is considered the height of Sabbat pack chic to create a game that others adopt.
(Guide to Sabbat pg 45)
