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[Vampire: the Masquerade] I have just been Embraced a few days ago, and people around me are talking about "Disciplines". How would I go about acquiring one? Do they wake up on their own? Or do I need to study them?
gpt
Any discipline native to your clan you learn how to do on your own. It's like a muscle you didn't know you had, so with enough practice or time you will stumble across new ways to use it. There are exceptions to this, where certain disciplines are more magical than innate and will require a teacher, usually the person who sired you.

You can potentially learn disciplines that are not of your clan via a tutor who has it as long as they aren't a power specific to a certain bloodline. The exception to this is if you drain all the blood out of another vampire that has that ability, this will kill them in the process but you will get more powerful if they were older than you and you will learn an ability of theirs instantly. 

The downside to this is unless it was authorized by the Prince, you will most likely be found out (there are low level powers that can reveal this easily) and you WILL most likely be sentenced to death if you killing them was not sanctioned by a blood hunt by the Prince. The other downside is by drinking another vampires blood you're drinking their soul and with the last drop of blood it has no where to go and WILL try to possess you. That's right if you are too weak willed you may lose your mind to the very person you killed as your personality changes into theirs as their will takes hold of your mind.