# Mr. Pitch
### Overview
A rising cult leader in the supernatural underworld
**The Cult of Pitch**
The Thousand Faces
Leadership
Religious Zealotry
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Willpower
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Blood Pool
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Free
Disciplines 14
Backgrounds 6
XP
Ability 18
Gear (Carried)
Feeding Grounds
Havens
Equipment (Owned)
Vehicles
Other
Mr. Pitch is a foul angry man who has shifted to religious fanaticism. He dresses all black and wears a black mask with sigil that he says translate to the exact date of the end of the world.
Richard was trained while Thomas was finishing his training, but Richard's was different. Along with the normal brain washing techniques that were being used by Mr. Hood and Sarah, Mr. Hood also focused heavily on Dominate to fully break Richard's mind before ever embracing him.
After Mr. Hood was killed and his empire brought to ruins, Richard broke and needed to rebuild, his teachings of the Sabbat turned him towards the only logical next step. Whether he would admit it or not, he had been groomed into a cult, it only made sense to start the process anew.
1. **Anonymity is Divinity**
To be *someone* is weakness. To be *anyone* is power. By abandoning personal identity, members embrace the “Pitch”—the infinite black void where all selves dissolve.
2. **The Many-as-One**
Just as the Sabbat become a unified sword against the Camarilla, so too do mortals in the Cult of Pitch dissolve into a faceless whole. All are Mr. Pitch. No one is unique.
3. **Faith Through Doubt**
Members are expected to *attack their own beliefs* in group meetings. The act of dismantling one’s faith and then reaffirming it builds unshakable loyalty.
4. **The Unseen Shepherd**
The true leader is always absent. Most cultists are not even sure Mr. Pitch exists.
- **Rotating Cells:** Members are shuffled constantly. They never meet the same people twice, preventing bonds of friendship and fostering only loyalty to the cult.
- **Masks of Pitch:** When gathering, all wear plain black masks or hoods, symbolizing the void.
- **Confessional Doubt:** Each meeting involves ritualized questioning: “Why do you follow Pitch?” “What if Pitch is false?” The point is not answers, but strengthening through breaking and rebuilding faith.
- **Erasure Rites:** New initiates ceremonially destroy personal items (photographs, diaries, even digital identities) as offerings to the void.
1. **Shadow of Self** – “I am not myself. I am Pitch.”
(Ego is illusion; individuality is weakness.)
2. **Shadow of Doubt** – “All truth can be questioned. Even this.”
(Faith is reforged through ritual doubt.)
3. **Shadow of Unity** – “We are many masks, one void.”
(The cult exists only as a collective. No ties outside it matter.)
4. **Shadow of Obedience** – “The void commands. The mask obeys.”
(Orders from above are sacred, even if the giver is unknown.)
- New members are stripped of name, history, and identity.
- They destroy a token of their past (photo, ID, diary, phone).
- They are given a simple black mask and told: *“This is your only face now.”*
- The group then chants:
*“From light into shadow, from self into Pitch.”
(Psychological Warfare): Breaking ties with personal history destabilizes the recruit, making them dependent on the cult.*
### **2. The Chorus of Doubt (Regular Meeting Rite)**
- Small cell gathers in darkness, masked.
- One member takes the “Challenger’s Role,” asking the others:
- *“Why do you follow Pitch?”*
- *“What if Pitch is false?”*
- *“What proof binds you to the void?”*
- Members must dismantle their own belief, then reaffirm it publicly.
- Closing chant: *“I am no one. I am Pitch. In the void, I am whole.”*
*(Psychological Warfare)*: Encourages doublethink—members internalize challenges while being forced to resolve them in the cult’s favor.
### **3. The Erasure Rite (Ongoing Discipline)**
- Members are periodically required to cut ties: abandoning friendships, jobs, possessions.
- A symbolic offering is made to the void (burning belongings, deleting accounts).
- Each act is framed as “shedding skin to become formless.”
*(Sabbat Parallel)*: Like the Vaulderie demanding loyalty only to the pack, this keeps members bonded *only* to Pitch.
### **4. The Black Gathering (Special Event)**
- Rarely, larger groups are assembled. All masked, in total silence.
- A distorted voice (recording, modulator, or even Mr. Pitch himself) delivers cryptic doctrine.
- The crowd repeats it in unison until it becomes mantra-like.
- At the end, all masks are raised toward the speaker in silent acknowledgment.
*(Psychological Warfare)*: Creates awe through spectacle, strengthens the illusion of omnipresent leadership.
### **5. The Trial of Shadow (Punishment/Testing)**
- A member suspected of disloyalty is confronted in a cell meeting.
- They are bombarded with contradictions, accusations, and denials from their peers—all masked.
- They must renounce self entirely to be allowed back in. If they resist, they are erased (excommunicated, socially or literally).
*(Sabbat Parallel)*: Functions like a brutal blood-bond trial—but psychological rather than vampiric.
# **Mantras / Liturgical Phrases**
Used in meetings, chants, and psychological drills:
- **“The mask is my face.”**
- **“I am no one, I am all.”**
- **“Doubt is the whetstone of faith.”**
- **“A thousand masks, one void.”**