ON RUMORS
There is nothing quite as good about a rumor as it's ability to sound for an issue. The easiest way to tell if people actually care about a topic is to start a rumor and see how long it takes to come back to you. Being that few will associate with us, hearing a rumor you started means one of two things:
A. The crowd was too small and statistically this is aberrant
B. There are a lot of people who care about this a lot.
Additionally, rumors have a funny way of becoming truth after the fact. For example, Tom Tremere starts a rumor that the Prince is actually a large Grimace, like from McDonalds, just in disguise. By planting the proper details (purple polyester fur), or by they're happening for no particular reason something to make it believable (the Prince takes a huge influence in McDonalds stock options), your rumor becomes truth to other people. Tom Tremere has, through very little effort of his own, convinced the Primogen that the Prince is a Grimace. People may view Tom Tremere differently. However, part of good rumor-mongering is knowing what people WANT to believe. Once you know that you have just to feed the proper details at the right times.
So the moral of the story is start a lot of rumors. Shotgunning can work, particularly if you play a rather talkative Tremere. Some of what you say will obviously be hogwash, but some will either come true or give people reason to think you told them something especially cool. You will generally seem more in the know than you are. This is both good and bad.
Another important safety tip for the talkative or social Tremere is to never seem smarter than your Regent. Sometimes this may seem strange, but as a clan judged to be very intelligent your percieved intelligence is a valuable tool. Tremere are supposed to seem monolithic from the outside, but watch you back around your fellows.
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