>Thread question
Willing ones begging for it! Being able to share in the pleasure of the kiss with the mortals is good enough, but it's even better when they beg me for it and I just say: "Maybe?", delaying gratification. When I'm feeling particularly cruel, I will deny it altogether, and perhaps feed on someone else who also threw themself at my feet.
>>97024729
>>97024751
Wonderful. Not only did I write a two thousand character long message about my embrace without my username, now only the chosen few will see it because the thread ended right there.
Just my luck.

>What's your favorite type of prey?
I've said as much before, but alt-girls are just amazing. Plentiful, freaky, usually not that into drugs so they're safe to drink, bad at keeping themselves safe. They as-is tend to go for men and women who'd pretend to be a vampire to feel special, so even if they spot you having fangs or doing something else that's not quite normal, they'd probably brush it off as roleplay, maybe get off on it. They also tend to make great ghouls because they're typically utter freaks and acclimatize to our world very nicely. Plus the sex is great. And if you're a bleeding heart or have the urge to Sire somebody but are smart enough to not want to commit to a decision like that, but still need to express your quasi-parental cravings, there's no shortage of them that do need somebody who'd care for them and help them out.
They're practically perfect, so much so that I have to presume they were intently socially engineered, and didn't just come about on their own.
>>>97024729
>I agree with your assessment, and would like to remind you BDSM is play. If they're not consenting, it's torture.
See, that's entirely correct, but I just do not have the capacity to view trying to mentally break a lupine without at least some collars, to add further insult to it and achieve better, faster results. And that is just innately kinky. I'll probably stick to regular ultraviolence, that'd spare both me and the wolves the indignity.
>"I killed your alpha, what are you gonna do about it?" might be your best chance. The cowardly ones will not try to avenge the guy, don't let them flee and talk
Well, here's hoping my plan to draw their seniors out actually works as planned. And, you know, I don't die in the process. If I do, I'll probably just haunt the caern out of spite.
>>97024895
It's a lovely story, if it helps! A delight, to be part of the chosen few.

>TQ
From my old days at the college til now, I primarily drink bagged or donated blood. Back then it was because I'd be too busy to go hunting so I'd just grab a bag or one of my Sire's Ghouls. Now, it's more out of preference for self control and keeping my head on straight. My Ghoul likes to fill a bag or two for me when she can, so I made sure that she was eating food with plenty of iron and the such. It's not always easy, but I make do.
>>97024895
I can only imagine that if the wolf's clan found out how much I'd like to watch the subsequent chaos. From a heavily warded and defended position at least.
>>97024957
Making one of their blood explode is a great way to startle the whole group if they're close enough. Not easy, but it's quite the opener if you can pull it off.

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SO i was tinhking
what IIIF
AAaa there isn't only bourbon in this vains
If you haz the POWER to stop alkl this VIOLENCE
loupgarou fantoim death murder wheteverelse in this SHIT WOLRD it has top STOP
Imagine you are the second ot the third
What
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This is one of the most consistently cringe threads to be found anywhere on the internet. I just wanted to congratulate all of you, and those who came before. I love to drink blood because I'm a vampire.

>>97024850
>Question
Those with particularly potent emotional states. My particular compulsions leave me unable to tolerate anything less.
I've gotten quite good at farming them, though the choleric ones often leave a bad taste in my mouth. Metaphorically speaking. They taste great.

>>97024040
>>97024050
update from last thread -Kakophoni

>>97024957
>alt-girls are just amazing
Amen. We like alt girls in this house, any house.
>They're practically perfect, so much so that I have to presume they were intently socially engineered, and didn't just come about on their own.
I think kindred should consider sponsoring a permanent monument to Tim Burton a few years from now.
>It's a lovely story, if it helps!
It does, in fact, help, darling!
>>97024985
>I can only imagine that if the wolf's clan found out how much I'd like to watch the subsequent chaos. From a heavily warded and defended position at least.
That sounds as exciting as watching a nuclear test, actually. If I ever discover another werewolf among my submissives, I'll have the others get me a popcorn bucket filled with tiny little candy-sized blood bags.
>>97025186
What is this acquaintance of yours like, sweetie? I hope your relationship goes well.

>>97024985
I'm more partial to my namesake. It lends itself naturally to intimidation and projecting a stronger presence.
A ritual or two to make the strikes of purest thunder more visually impressive and painfully loud, canisters of concentrated, ritualistically amplified in its scent ozone to make everything smell like lightning's in the air, a few scorched by thunder trees, some wind, a bit more showboating, and suddenly a pack of fearsome werewolves starts reflexively sticking to trees for cover, treating you like a real threat and not vermin to squash.
They're usually smart enough to get a hold of themselves after initial confusion and aggression spikes, and it's all, obviously, a very careful dance to lead, relying on preparation and planning. But I do wonder if some sort of prehistoric, particularly powerful mage, whether Kindred or not, was so potent a lightning caster, and so prolific with its application, that the fear of it is ingrained in the wolves on the same level as fear of them is ingrained in Kine. Or maybe they just have been taught that lightning hurts by many canine-typical, barking arguments with storming sky.
An older 'sister' of mine who visits on occasion to assist with defence and conduct her own rites does the blood-explosion thing, though. Very disturbed little woman.

>>97020894
Based on my experience with lupines, I'd guess he found it abandoned. If he actually had to fight them for the caern, you'd be in much worse trouble because the wolves hold grudges for very long time, despite being so short lived
>>97024957
Likewise, I hope you have a better plan for dealing with them besides killing one of their elders, because that might cause packs from elsewhere to come mount a siege on your haven

>>//tq// What's your favorite type of prey?
Free range cattle. I don't like man blood unless it's in a plastic bag or if it's in someone I'm going to make into fertilizer. Plus I can feed them carrots afterword.

Can't do that with people. It is creepy.

>>97026169
>can't do that to people
Just take them on a date afterwards, it's the same thing

>>97024850
I prey on the powerful. I destroy them & I take what is their's. That is the ultimate drive for any true Tremere. I have spent my unlife unlocking many mysteries & avenues of power. Anyone who becomes sedentary in their immortality, is doing something wrong. As for blood. I no longer need to prey on a mortal for access, I have... structures in place that sees to it I need not bother with that.

>>97024749
I am a problem solver for Clan Tremere. I have done much. Some of it is recorded here on Schreck.net, before it lost its grandeur at least. None of the old guard seem to be here.

>>97026556
Now that's fun. A start for what I'd want is a place of power of greater safety and lower notoriety, but, reasonably and fairly, of notably lower strength. Tending to this backwater grows tiring, I'd much prefer the option to settle down in some city, and seek out dangerous, lucrative places like this caern when I feel like, as opposed to fate forcing it upon me and mine.

That would, of course, be worthless without a witnessed, signed, recognized and sanctified writ of autonomy from your greater superiors; a permission to exist and operate without having to endure attempts to forcefully reincorporate me and mine into the Pyramid, or into the soil it stands on, should we refuse. So, a legal permission to work and study as we do, with our loyalty to the Clan secured by a privilege we'll be paying for quite fairly, I think. We'll obviously abide by usual customs, traditions and laws of the clan, as we already do, broadly speaking.

If you can secure something like this, something that would truly hold power, feel free to reach out to me privately for more specific discussions on the caern, other interesting places and objects of value we'd be fine with throwing into the pot, hostile locals and so on. No doubt a tall order, but you're a problem solver, aren't you? And our situation is certainly a bit of a problem.

>>97026136
The goal is, currently, to draw out the elder and talk with it, because while, clearly, the packs sent to the caern are unwilling or unable to hold talks, the elder might be. I'm hoping for a lot here, sure, but statistically, at least some Garou derelicts must be old because of their wits, and not only their strength.

>>97027657
What happened to pull you outside the Pyramid? Are you looking to come back to >>97027657
the fold or just escape antitribu status & the Red List? Would you like to join me in Project Blood Moon? I can extend my aegis to do whatever you might request within reason. Id also need to see the caern & you in person. I can promise you safe passage for that. You said it was in the Rockies? It'll take a day but I can be there.

Also. If you were to go to a city, what city did you have in mind? Or at least where in the world are you wanting to settle down in? States? West coast, East coast, North? South? Europe? Etc.

>>97024850
>What's your favorite type of prey?
animal abusers are nice because if you kill them on accident you get a free pet and a sense of satisfaction!

also is there a help group for former fire fighters? Asking for an associate.

>>97028563
>is there a help group for former fire fighters?
why would they need help exactly
assuming we're talking in kindred terms

>>97028624
well they were complaining that they lost their sense of meaning and self as this person sense being embraced. Like they defined themselves in saving lives and putting out fires and now they jump out their skin as the sight of a lit cigarette. It makes him feel like a coward and he understands that its just the way it is now that the thing is in charge and it doesn't make him less of a kindred it just is what it is. At least thats what he was saying so if I could send him to a group of of other kindred who could understand what they're going through I think it would be useful to me because he'll whine less.

>>97028663
There's ways of conquering the Beast

>>97028663
no i dont see any even on other reckthreads
either one of you create one with a bigger hook like how to stop being a little bitch or you join the sabbat
or you suck a tremere enough
the actual definition is up to you

>>97028663
sorry found one in australia theyre weird like that
are you australian

>>97028663
>well they were complaining that they lost their sense of meaning and self as this person sense being embraced.
I thought that was everyone I've ever talked to about it unless they're full on ladder climber creeps. You tell him you gotta cut out a new niche when you get an allergy to your old profession. No shame in it.

Also update on the Marquette situation in a second because the C*** prince in fucking Milwaukee hasn't done shit.

>>97028931
>Also update on the Marquette situation in a second because the C*** prince in fucking Milwaukee hasn't done shit.
interested and waiting

>>97025186
What sort of liking? Are we talking following you around like a lost puppy or stalking you from afar.
>>97025974
Lightning and thunder is a good preference to have. Bombastic, powerful, the forces of nature bending to your very will. I've always wanted to figure out some sort of pyromancy, especially with the chair story fresh on my mind. Would be very helpful anti-Kindred tool to have in my pocket.
>>>>97028663
I've got a trick for learning how to get used to fire very close to you, but it's a bitch to learn and you'll need heavy duty chains if your buddies are particularly strong.

In other news, the kids are doing well. Little Light has taken to Protean like a fish to water, Jay's been trying his hand at Obfuscate given his heritage but it's slow going trying to find anyone willing to teach him. Morgan is pretty much fully diving into my own Thaumaturgy, but worry not as I've only given her access to the safer end of things. I've also got all those Lupine parts being shipped out to the people who paid, so expect them sooner rather than later.

>>97028999
>I've always wanted to figure out some sort of pyromancy
hairspray + lighter LOL
>it's slow going trying to find anyone willing to teach him
i can ask one of the admins as long as youre willing to pay

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Alright so here's the situation.
> Past 48 hours at least a single group of Hunters have been making active moves and shaking the wasp nest for loups and hunting suckers.
> At least 700 Hunters with a single command structure. Speaking in a combination of Bulgarian and Brazilian.
> Making use of some serious military hardware including transport helicopters, APCs and offroad trucks, weapons seem modern & locally sourced.
> Current primary operating base unknown, but they're swarming all along the major transit nodes and have a presence everywhere but the north.
> Michigan Camarilla have been cut off outside of central Marquette, local agents wiped or fled.
> Trowbridge, Harvey, and southern Marquette outskirts of our populations have been wiped.
> Local loups were either drawn out by the action or the operation is broad enough they're going for everything that goes bump in the night.
> These are the YIKES loups, not the drum boys I have an equilibrium with. Creep out of the dark like a nightmare type shit.
> One confirmed battle where just one of these loup skinned a whole patrol of at least 12.
> Following this hunters made to withdraw positions, currently nothing moving on the radar but that ain't gonna last.
> IF YOU ARE IN MARQUETTE OR NORTH MICHIGAN OVERALL; GET OUT OR GET TO COVER

I know there aren't many of folk living in the city but I don't want to sit here watching these nerds duke it out doing nothing.
If stop updating assume it's over.

>>97029307
Call the local government. You can't have 700 combatants running around Michigan like that without piles of paperwork. If there's 700 boots trudging the mud then they've got at least that number sitting behind desks & depos. That means ~1500 foreign men with military gear are stomping around in a nation that does not let that happen. 9/10 if any military exercise happens they do it in the south.

>>97029307
>Speaking in a combination of Bulgarian and Brazilian
someone paid a lot to smoke you out
>I know there aren't many of folk living in the city but I don't want to sit here watching these nerds duke it out doing nothing.
whats your plan outside of dying for no reason
personnally i would do what that guy said >>97029419
should be easy to pass them off as armed terrorists

>>97029110
We're generally looking for locals, but the problem is that he's not well liked by any of the local Nos and there are barely any other Kindred who know the Discipline. If it doesn't pan out though, we'll contact you.
>>97029307
To anyone who might be stuck in that area, strap yourself down with weights and jump into the Lakes. We don't need to breath, so as long as you can keep your bearings you can literally walk across the bottom and either go North to Canada or West to reach Minnesota.
Much like how humans don't look up, they usually don't look at the bottom of large bodies of water.

>>97029524
>If it doesn't pan out though, we'll contact you.
if im not here search other reckthreads especially the hot thralls pics to catfish with thread
or dm directly xXxJust1k4RSuxXx with the word favor in the subject

Look, that area is huge. You can pretty much hide anywhere. I would even suggest "in sight" since there's no way a bunch of Brazilians in tactical gear could pull you out of a night club or bar or late night shopping center & get away with it. You can just go to your houses, or a ghouls house. Stay a night at a motel etc. These guys are not going to be able to march down main street & its not like they have a list of your names & addresses. But, if you are worried, there are a million ways to hide. You could hide in river mud, the sewers, septic tanks, etc. No reason to flee to the Lake unless its convenient.

If you ABSOLUTELY need extraction I might be able to help. Are you able to get to a Chantry, or Elysium?

>>97029807
Also... are you any of you wanted by the Camarilla? Cause that will be harder to.move you through official channels but not impossible

>>97029419
That was done already, got a bunch of bullshit on the municipal level while the state seems to be either purposefully ignorant or has an active collaborationist element. Which if you're right makes perfect sense. I'm pretty fishy about them centring on the former state airforce. Current running local theory is the multi-nationals are handling the 'dirty work' while the higher oversight and logistics are piggy-backing off local.

And if any of you want to rabble rouse for outside focus be my guest, local community is small enough and is mostly expelled from other cities on the great lakes. Which also might mean someone ratted because of some bullshit internal sect stuff.

>>97029467
You re telling me man. Although it might just be a test run for something they want to pull in Denver or Milwaukee.
I'm running coordination. I got contacts in the city, mostly with some Tori weirdos but passing on the situational stuff might brain this op.

>>97029524
Aye, I'll make sure word gets out.

>>97029807
Part of why I'm worried this is an internal sect thing is they were way too organized in the first wave and that loup ambush messed them up sideways. Wentikoos are gonna have a field day.

See you tomorrow or never blood.

>>97028663
You and your friend are likely Cammies. But as a Californian I've got a soft spot for the men and women who keep this state from burning alive sooo:
Ritualistic exposure to Flame can help you keep your cool when it breaks out unexpected. A Sabbat tradition for our war parties involves leaping over a bonfire. But for a pair of new licks that's a bit extragant. A more approable method is to take a match, light it up, stare at the lil shit until it burns down, thinking about the Human part of you, the part that ran towards the fire when you were alive.
Let it burn you, then blow it out. That last part is key, it's no good otherwise. Now, especially when you start out you're going to screw it up. That's fine. Repetition is part of the process of mastery. Your bud's a firefighter, so I don't need to tell you to do this somewhere relatively fireproof.

>>97030026
I really need to get this phone fixed. Or my eyes goddamn.

>>97029945
>See you tomorrow or never blood
good luck

>>97030041
i have the address of a ghouled optician in st louis that can ship you glasses with the correct prescription if you cant show your face
there is also one in dusseldorf that is not ghouled but simply doesnt care
pricier but fancier

>>97025874
They are Kiasyd, their attention is never a good thing in my experience, corazon. The one is particular especially as she's an abyss mystic, a well learned one at that along with being older than me.

>>97028999
She was friendlier than usual, dare I say she was flirting with me. I will admit I'm unnerved as normally the childer don't treat me like this as I am one of Scholar's experiments so this kind of interaction is foreign to me. -Kakophoni

>>97030257
She's one of the Fae Lasombra, how fun. Play nice and mind manners around them because the Fae-Touched are anal about that stuff. Who knows what she wants though, but given what we all are, it's probably to get into your good graces to gain something. Could be worse, all things considered.
Keep a cold iron stake on you just in case she gets weird with you though.

>>97030257
>their attention is never a good thing in my experience
you make it sound like you met them more than once or twice

>>97030297
I'm well aware of Kiasyds, hence why I am feeling rather concerned.
>>97030309
I can't tell if that's sarcasm or if you are unaware. please clarify for me. -Kakophoni

If you had to fight a werewolf- I know , everyone tells you not to- how would you go about it?

>inb4 blow them up with the building

>>97030540
>I can't tell if that's sarcasm or if you are unaware
both after a quick search
so are you talking to them a lot or are you ostracized because of your experimental condition

>>97030677
a thousand against one
from far away
in a driveby

>>97024850
>question
Our elder assumes we are really good at tracking down "exotic" blood for him. I think he does not realize how many tourists and foreigners there are in the city nowadays.

But hey, whatever keeps the old lick happy. Personally? I do not care for orientals.

>>97030677
Thaumaturgy is the only weapon one needs

>>97030766
someone said more or less the same thing in an old unrelated thread and an assamite wrote
>Tremere
>Effective Weaponry
>هههههههههههههه
in response

>>97030870
Translation: "try casting spells with a dogs dick in your mouth"

>>97030709
Scholar, the one who made me and my sister the way we are, was a Kiasyd researcher who did[he's in torpor sleeping a hangover away, don't ask] a lot of experiments into vitae and bloodlines. He has a surprising number of contacts in various organizations and has a frankly disturbing amount of knowledge about the world around us. His childer likewise share his "interest" in experimenting but in different pathways from what I can gather, I don't like spending time around them as they give me the creeps with presence alone, smiles far too wide, eyes like pools of shadow, the works. Honestly the tremere[no offense to present company, referring to a concert I did. Got hit on by the regent of Yarmouth who's idea of flirting was bragging about unshaven her carpet was.] aren't as uncomfortable to be around, at least with them I don't have to worry about shadow tentacles. -Kakophoni

>>97030870
We nearly broke the assamite's entirely with but a curse. We have won every war we've ever fought.

>>97030921
Lupine can't touch me because I'm not there.
Lupine is dead because my thaumaturgy can still reach him.
Thaumaturgy can be used to steal a Lupine's power.
But it's unseemly to be a braggart so I'll stop here.

>>97031033
>creeps with presence alone, smiles far too wide, eyes like pools of shadow
>shadow tentacles
nightmare stuff
>experiments into vitae and bloodlines
that's interesting
do you have other siblings you and your sister
>the regent of Yarmouth who's idea of flirting was bragging about unshaven her carpet was
thanks i can use that

>>97031095
>We nearly broke the assamite's entirely with but a curse. We have won every war we've ever fought.
a shame i cant link you the archives because their responses to that particular sentence were pretty funny
learnt a lot of arabic insults
once badly translated most of them were a variant of baalis dogs to be fair

>>97030677
From experience
>become uncomofortably low generation
>harness the spirits of the land to your will
>have custom silver amalgam supersonic .45 ACP from a generational 1911 that’s been in your family for four generations and three wars.
>channel your inner pecos bill and lasso a tornado to hold the lupine down.


Worked for me
Lots of new faces here! My mummy curse went away. Guy came with THE WORST SOUNDTRACK on the third night. Practically threw the thing at him. Locusts and magical mists destroyed my blood crops and ruined profits for this quarter, respectively! Anyways, there’s now a large black sarcophagus here with hieroglyphs all over it. Checking with the Rosetta Stone copy I have roughly gets the consonants ST. Where’s our favorite settite when you need her?

>>97025874
Your man came last night. Followed the routine you said. He needs to work on his lats, they’re in poor condition Too much slouching will give a hump back in his 50’s. Anyways, he took some samples with him and photos. I gave him a bottle of wine and a keg of brew for y’all’s troubles. Let me know what you think!

>>97031168
no, just me and her. Never go to Yarmouth, weird kindred there. Rumors of office workers injecting Crack flow from it.

>>97030540
From the two I've known, and one was a pen-pal of sorts, they're just a more mischievous version of Lasombra. That's worrying enough, but they also like old books so you can placate her with those or ancient trivia.
>>97030677
As much as I hate to sound like every other Tremere, it's Thaumaturgy. You literally just make their blood explode or boil them from within if you're pressed for time or lazy, and if you're smart and have time you can do all sorts of horrific shit. It's the only thing we have going for us to be honest, so we default to it more than not. That's why I'm trying to learn what I can of the Disciplines my adoptees are learning.
>>97031312
People can call me what they'd like, it doesn't bother me too much even if the rabid dog in my brain disagrees, but "Baali's dog" is fighting words in my books.

In other news, I went on a date tonight. If anyone was here when I first started posting, I mentioned a Nosferatu girl who would jumpscare me constantly. Well, apparently that's how she flirts. Time will tell if this goes anywhere, but she is cute for a mangled corpse.

Enough! I'm done! I'm done with Italy's overcrowded cities, atrocious roads, arsehole youth, decrepit Elders! It's like common sense hasn't been invented yet!

I don't even breathe and I swear the pollution and humidity are getting to me, not to mention the asphyxiating bureaucracy: Max Weber's nightmares made real art the local, national, and international level!

I'm doing the Toreador thing, and saying goodbye! Not even a second Renaissance could keep me here!

So, my loves of SCHRECK.net, where in the US would you recommend my family of six to spend my winter in? Any city with a Rose or Blue Blood Prince will do, so long as it's worth unliving in.

Actually, I should have said "family of seven", since I'll have to drag my youngest childe's Ventrue girlfriend with us. That shouldn't prove too difficult given I have the ambassadress to the Clan of Kings at home, and definitely easier than convincing my childe who's still obsessed with this place - do note that I forgive her, she's been to Italy only thrice.

>>97031513
>Your man came last night. Followed the routine you said. He needs to work on his lats, they’re in poor condition Too much slouching will give a hump back in his 50’s. Anyways, he took some samples with him and photos. I gave him a bottle of wine and a keg of brew for y’all’s troubles. Let me know what you think!
Oh, honey! My designer covered my desk in drawings and I greenlit every last one if them. Thanks to you, I'll be sending alligator scale-covered gifts to four different continents.

>>97032848
You might want to make calls & see if there's a Prince willing to take in SEVEN! new Kindred. Something like that is bound to turn the local politics on its head let alone strain the kine population.

I return to reiterate the earlier-provided warning regarding the Tzimisce calling herself Palatine, as she is still out there, as is her beast, unfortunately. How she keeps a thing the size of a truck that needs to eat several people a day hidden is beyond us. Possibly a Nosferatu fused into the creature. She has most probably left the vicinity of Connecticut, and is heading south, probably to Florida, given what company she keeps.

>>97032848

I'm obligated to float Bridgeport in Connecticut as an option It is my Sire's domain, as are some areas near it. Bridgeport itself a medium-sized, tranquil, comfortable town positioned along the coast of the Atlantic, and it is quite close to heavily populated parts of the state, along with being in near distance to New York itself, with all of the gentrified benefits that come as part of that.

The air is clean; the population is fairly slight, but it supports a greater than normal quantity of us, as commute to other places is easy and the town is fairly sleepy, with strong efforts made to make hunts easy, and supply of bagged blood - abudant. Politically, my Sire maintains it as a Camarilla lynchpin and a calm haven, surrounded mostly by other strongholds, making it usually a fairly quiet place. Discounting the recent Tzimisce incident, which no city is safe from, unfortunately. Winters are are not the softest, but also not that harsh, certainly prime grounds for you to wear any given fur coat, as I've read you do, habitually. Plus they're quite beautiful.

I am not at the freedom to disclose identities of Kindred who chose to settle down here, but I can say that my Sire is a Ventrue, and there is a coterie of Toreadors striving to make the local university more artistically-focused.

While seven Kindred will be a notable increase, as of late we had a slight population drop, so we certainly could accept you for a visit, especially if you warn us ahead of time, and specify what sort of accomodations you'd prefer.

>>97030677
Remember, get paid in sick the sick fire sword spell. Relatedly, going by some admittedly secondhand information, setting the furball on fire seems to be the play. Just remember they're wolves, so for every 1 you see there's 3 or 4 waiting in the wings to ruin your unlife.

>>97028291
As outlined, my Sire died in a way that left me and my siblings with a severely weakened connection to the Pyramid. It was not a simple Final Death, but a more complex, ritualized incident I will not go into the details of for everybody's benefit. Beyond that, he was just a distant, if still loyal and earnest, part of the greater whole, so with his passing there wasn't anybody who'd even know to come recollect us.

>Are you looking to come back to the fold or just escape antitribu status & the Red List?

I wear collars only recreationally, so, no, I have no interest in returning to servitude. My kin are the same in that. We share the desire to not have to worry about being hunted down, and wish to be able to legally, above-board work with our fully-in-the-Pyramid colleagues on a basis of fair exchange of information and assets. We're all Tremere, after all. So, something in-between.

>You said it was in the Rockies? It'll take a day but I can be there.

Coming out to any random part of the Rockies in search of my caern would be a bad idea, because the Rockies are vast and because I'm not babysitting this place on a set shedule. Visiting us uninvited would be inadvisable. Overall, we can discuss arranging a meeting once you do secure a writ of pardon, at least, because nobody in our clique is dumb enough to simply attend a meeting with a self-described 'Tremere problem solver' without good assurances that there won't be attempts to hit us with a burning sword.

We can, however, provide a variety of details you, and other bidders, may want about the caern's capabilities and its overall value.

>Also. If you were to go to a city, what city did you have in mind? Or at least where in the world are you wanting to settle down in? States? West coast, East coast, North? South? Europe? Etc.
States for sure; not West Coast. Somewhere in Maine or near there would probably be fine, but I'm open to options.

nobody saw that

>>97033196
Thats crazy man. I thought you were in Connecticut?

>>97033215
autofill fucky wucky, sorry. My archetypal stick up the ass Ventrue fledgling is not in fact a secret Tremere twink.

>be fujoshit
>hang out with cute alt girl
>Turns out to be a toreador skank
>Her grandsire told her to find her true love and give the embrace
>just embraces everyone she has a crush on
>gets bored of me
>didn't explain anything about vampire shit
>get fired for requesting only third shift
>Prince is sick of her brats
>Primogen knows I'm autistic instead of artistic
>been a year and things have not improved
I might be fucked here, pls advise ;_;

>>97034899
Touch sunlight

>>97034899
Escape, meet tzimisce and
>BECOME TRUE FUTO

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A small update on my youngest: I texted her that we plan to leave Italy, my childe replied with a 17 minute audio of desperate, largely unintelligible wailing.
I sent her a (prerecorded) video of her Ventrue girlfriend, excited to travel with us to the USA. She hugged my neck and kissed "Mamma" on the cheek like a starving fledgling receiving a free blood bag.
To no one's surprise, the brat has no objections anymore.
>>97032919
>You might want to make calls & see if there's a Prince willing to take in SEVEN! new Kindred. Something like that is bound to turn the local politics on its head let alone strain the kine population
Please, we're not Brujah revolutionaries, we're Toreadors in search of a destination for an extended vacation, and we bring our own food when travelling.
>>97033086
>Bridgeport in Connecticut
A city that seems one Tzimisce infestation away from perfection, even. Doubtless, the East Coast means a shorter distance from the Old World.
>there is a coterie of Toreadors striving to make the local university more artistically-focused.
This takes me back to my days as an art model.
>we certainly could accept you for a visit, especially if you warn us ahead of time
But of course, that would be the first part of honouring the Tradition of Hospitality.
>and specify what sort of accomodations you'd prefer
Whichever destination we choose, I'd like to purchase some real estate because our staff needs housing too. By "housing" I mean the kind of housing where they are needed and can be useful, we wouldn't want them sleeping in some distant hotel. Plus, the childer will want to make a modification here and there.
It might sound like I made this decision on a whim - which isn't even wrong - but I am aware of the sheer amount of preparation and paperwork our little journey entails, and so is my childe in charge of administrating it.
Ordinarily, he'd whine and say how he'd rather get tanned on a nudist beach, but he really, really wants to leave, more than I do.

>>97031513
>there’s now a large black sarcophagus here
open it

>>97031582
>a date Nosferatu girl flirts cute
weirdo >>97030219
but if you know other weirdos you can have desperate admins at your beck and call
i wont be the intermediary

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Update 2, this time they found the beef and really wish I hadn't. :(
>First the broad strokes
>Formal hunter bases have been set up and identified, one in an unused section of the former of the Air-Force Base, the other in Negaunee township, and have been supporting an occupation of Marquette under the cover of a state sanctioned 'multinational investigation' into reports of 'anthrax contamination.' Occupation force is working with local police even if the MPD is being kept in the dark on why they've torched several buildings. Currently they're going street by street but events tonight slowed their clearing.
>All surviving local blood and their attached folk are accounted for. This town is a bunch of freaks and rejects, biggest three being Tremere outcasts (of the outcasts), Milwaukee gangrel exiles, Toreadors religious wackos, but we haven't lost anyone local since the first wave. *Local* I want to emphasize because this has been a shitfest and I'll get to it. Safe areas established for the time being.
>Coalition is a lot more multinational than expected; Spanish Latin Americans, Croats, Swedes, Congolese, and a bunch of English (as in tea-drinking jerks). Critically some of the operators doing oversight were communicating in Latin. It's been confirmed the operation is a diarchy, led by French-Canadian Catholic Priest 'Rupert Trenqueval' and an infamous local 'business man' (criminal prepper who has the mayor and police chief by the balls) John Xavier Mclennen. At least on the ground, probably more people behind an operation this big.
> Two distinct groups of Loups have entered the area in response to either the hunters or something worse (again I'll get to it) and have been getting real blatant. One is more local and I have the personal joy of being acclimatized with, the other one is from up north and are the kind of freaks that could be a regional evacuation on any other night. Both are working together through Loup means.

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>>97036630
> Four serious confirmed scuffles since last update, two more run of the mill smash and grab attacks by the Loup against the hunters. Handful of casualties against the Occupation and some grisly images. "Bear" attack my ass. If the town wasn't being evacuated this is the kind of shit that would get cammies to cause an 'industrial accident' to wipe Marquette off the map. Which if I can be blunt I half expected for a while, population is disproportionately large for the rules. But for whatever reason the Hunters cleaned up the mess.
> More importantly we had a fucking fiasco up north on Sugarloaf (yes ha ha I know funny name) Mountain, it was passed around that the hunters were looking to set up an outpost there and a small group made a move on them by boat. At about midnight the attack started, but it was a much smaller group than anticipated and was seemingly set up to draw the Lou. Getting spit-roast meant the hunters were unable to detonate their payload. Raid group ended up lighting up the mountain on the way out to keep the wolves off their backs as they withdrew. Probably no casualties for the Loups but that northern camp is probably furious.
> Now for the actual issue. I'm sure if anything is getting out; “Elementary School Burned Down in Gunfight with anti-vaxers' is probably it, but it's a lot more complicated. Hunters converged on S.H.E.S. there prior, but since last update a group of non-local vampires took over Superior Hills Elementary School. Current money is on Sabbat, a Tzimsces' agents, or Camarilla pretending to be Sabbat. Still parsing out reports and I'm still not sure. What's certain is this, we've got a Malk girl who started freaking out and she booked it near the end of the night for S.H.E.S. Had to put together a party to follow and it ended up in another threesome shitfest. Hunters even brought out their helicopters again.

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>>97036641
>Rescue-Squad was able to follow though all the way down to the under-structure of the school as the new party and the hunters ripped each other apart upstairs. They found- Whatever you're looking at. Looks like a meat pit that the former occupants had excavated and this thing either nominally alive or some kind of atrocity. Thankfully one of the rescue party brought explosives and they wiped that entryway. School burned down and most sides withdrew. Mystery element vampires were scattered, at least three killed but four MIA, possibly still active. According to internal hunter reports they lost thirty(ish) overall.
> Currently survivors in the local community are new having a screaming match over what we should do and if we should all suck it up and pick someone to be in charge. Nominally before this Marquette used to barely be double digits but since that pharmaceutical corporation moved in we had a population jump and were able to maintain degree of peace. Prior the fuckheads in Chicago or Milwaukee had enough influence to settle anything if it went out of hand due to most being exiles from those areas and them being presumptuous jackasses, but since they've been useless might be time we all bite the bullet and put together a local authority.
> The Anarchs and Exiles really really hate that and make me regret living.
> Also Ill be dust or filling a Loups belly before I let them make me sheriff I feed freaks to the Loups thats my capacity for law.
> Besides that there's fighting about war plans. The incident at the school means this is bigger than anticipated and isn't just a freak human operation. Odds are in order to pull some of this off *I* am gonna need to get my hands really dirty. If we're going to ''acquire'' the 'support' for a two prong attack simultaneously to cripple this operation. We'll see if I'm as good a runner as I hope. Otherwise expect no future updates.

>>97036630
>Occupation force is working with local police
now thats worrying
>Spanish Latin Americans, Croats, Swedes, Congolese, and a bunch of English
>French-Canadian Catholic Priest 'Rupert Trenqueval' and an infamous local 'business man'
no way theyre only there to put down licks and poodles
is there anything of value in marquette
>Whatever you're looking at
oh

>>97036649
>Whatever you're looking at
It's time to have gotten the fuck out of dodge yesterday man. There isn't anything I can think worth dealing with a living meat pit for. Especially before any other interested third parties start showing up, Rival PMC groups, corporate execution squads... Mages even. Big shit-fests draw them in like flies to honey, especially if there's something weird to poke.

>>97036627
I'm not saying she's a looker or anything, but she's not that bad. No open sores or lesions, mostly able to kiss, very forwards. Honestly I've dated worse and uglier back when I was still kicking.

Miserere mei, Deus

>>97036649
You should get a Tremere there right away.

>>97033208
Look here thunder dolt, I dont care about your fetishes or accessories. You are obviously a sad runaway from the Pyramid but im going to try to help you here. Firstly, "writs" & "passports" mean nothing. Thats how kine keep each other polite. Only sworn oaths & boons have purchasing power here. Im being nice so let me tell you what would happen if I wasnt. I would parlay with you under whatever ineffective defense you might be able ti muster. I would present to you a heap of very nice look stationary that says your free & clear to galavant off with no repercussions, whatever i would need to get you to show me the location of the caern. Then there are many many options...

I could blood bond or Dominate you through nefarious means.
I could have you torn apart by my allies i dont care to name & escape unharmed
I could drag you off to places you probably dont know exist...
I could let you walk away free & clear but youd find all your writs had disappeared

Don't be so careless lick. Meet with my ghoul on public neutral ground. We can negotiate from there

>>97036693
>oh
Welcome to the club blood.

>>97036774
Everybody who was willing already left but I couldn't. Don't really know why. I'm not too attached to Marquette (because this town is a shitfest) but I don't fancy leaving now. Might be I like some of these weirdos or the equilibrium I've gotten with the local cryptids. Or it might be I just really hate McLennan. Might also just be recording this for the sake of it, If you couldn't tell Marquette ain't a bastion of mental stability.

>>97037128
We have three. Possibly four but we don't talk much about 'Mister Y' because that freak could be several things. One is a soft exile from the Milwaukee Chantry for having too many morals, another is a soft exile from the Chicago Chantry for having NO morals, and the other one is an exile from Quebec who hates both of them.
Outside of safety they've been borderline useless. Our pet seer who is has been in the fetal position since rescue got her out has been more helpful.

>>97031513
oh god damnit, I hope that isn't the same sarcophagus. Mind if I come visit to check? I got hieroglyphic translations to work with.-Kakophoni

>>97037617
What are sorry state.

forgot to laugh at someone before the disaster report
sorry for the late reply
>>97034899
LOL
>Turns out to be a toreador skank
you seem to be knowledgeable enough LOL
>I might be fucked here
>Prince is sick of her brats
>Primogen knows I'm autistic instead of artistic
yes
>pls advise
did you see ratatouille
dm me your address and you will receive cool shades and a wig in case youre bald
follow my lead and we will laugh together
you will make your elysium debut very soon

>>97037128
>I could swing by dick so and so and so and so
Yeah, no shit you could do all sorts of oh-so-scary things. And we could, for instance, sell you the moving caern, instead, and watch from a distance as a mountain crushes you and whatever retinue you have to fucking paste because you wouldn't know how to utilize that caern safely. There's lots of things you and we can do.
> Firstly, "writs" & "passports" mean nothing. Thats how kine keep each other polite. Only sworn oaths & boons have purchasing power here.
Yes, friend, a piece of paper means very little. Which is why the piece of paper I'm interested in is meant to be given every sort of binding power possible under the current circumstances, as was mentioned prior. Power as binding as that which reigns our blood, or just short of that. You're ostensibly a Tremere, you should know all about sufficiently binding things.
All in all your insistence on trying to intimidate a coterie you know essentially nothing about, except things I've chosen to disclose, indicates nothing good about you, your standing in the greater whole, or your negotiating abilities. It's essentially a guarantee that you won't be able to get somebody important to agree to what we want. Unless this changes, I'll be focusing on other buyers. If the greater whole is interested in the caern, they know how to contact us: not like this.
>>97031582
>In other news, I went on a date tonight. If anyone was here when I first started posting, I mentioned a Nosferatu girl who would jumpscare me constantly. Well, apparently that's how she flirts. Time will tell if this goes anywhere, but she is cute for a mangled corpse.
Aw, that's great, man. Be careful about love bites, couples who accidentally or intently blood-bond each other are crazy. How's project gothabilly doing, given that?
Oh, and good on you too, mangled corpse lady who's probably behind his back reading his screen, I genuinely wish you two the best.

>>97038254
Oh calm down. I'm saying that you're going about this all wrong. If I was hostile would write any agreement you want & still make it disappear in a flash. You need to politic & bargin, not rely on paperwork. Now, you can send a representative to talk to my representative or not & that's fine. I'm thinking of moving out to Michigan instead anyhow.

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>>97036165
You have a curious relationship with your Childe. That isn't a veiled insult, my Sire and I just interact in a more rigid and rare fashion, so it's fairly interesting to see how different things could possibly be.

>A city that seems one Tzimisce infestation away from perfection, even.

We rooted one out some time ago, so it'll be a little while until there's a new presence from their clan, I think. It's for the better - attached is the portrait of the infestation's head. I think that conveys what sort of a group they were. There's still some other Tzimisce in the state, in case you want their company or services.

>This takes me back to my days as an art model.

You'll certainly have a nostalgic outing, the coterie in question would probably love to have you try out being an art model again. They do that habitually, really, to anybody who visits for long enough. I've been given five different takes on my jawline as a result of entertaining them and their interest in the human form and separating its individual, attractive aspects until they're autonomous yet still beautiful. Getting an accurate replica of your jaw as a marble paperweight is really something.

>I'd like to purchase some real estate because our staff needs housing too. By "housing" I mean the kind of housing where they are needed and can be useful, we wouldn't want them sleeping in some distant hotel. Plus, the childer will want to make a modification here and there.

That should not be a problem. Bridgeport is essentially a satellite town for New York, with Kine at times preferring to live here and commute to New York for work; real estate is plentiful and frequently built, sold, bought, renovated, or rented out. My Sire, as any good Prince would, maintains control over that sort of business to keep an eye on who comes and goes, and to offer sufficient lodging if any given Kindred needs it. I will draft some initial options and forward them to you privately when I can.

>>97037128
>>97038488
>Throws around threats of murder and mindrape
>Acts like the biggest dick hotshot in the world
>Gets told to fuck off
>"If I was actually hostile I'd *more threats*"
To think I ever wondered why most Kindred can't stand us. Why are we like this?

>>97038254
Yeah I'm very uninterested in a Blood Bond, especially after only one date. Project Gothabilly ended up being more an easy source of clean blood and a job on paper because I needed one to go with the new ID I got. She's hot but every time I've considered going for it, I got squicked out. Pesky human morals and all that. I'm far more comfortable being with another Kindred.
She says thank you for the well wishes.

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KINDRED! i greet you!
What takes place these nights? How fare you? Mi callienté has internet! Expect her here soon.
I bring news from the web! Much to say!
>a form flies from the north
>he is behind you. RUN!
>expect a forecast of 6000 degrees & light showers
>v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
>// this is catastrophically bad. Please patch this or someones going to use it.
>HEYO CAPTAIN JACK
any ongoing fun stories ITT i've missed

If no one has any other suggestions for US cities, then Bridgeport, CT may very well be where we spend our winter. We should be in the US by December.

I'm growing weary of saying "this childe, that childe", when I could just introduce everybody with nicknames, as per SCHRECK.net tradition. Here they are:

Assoluta - operatic singer, they say only a woman with this much agility and range is born each century, ambassadress to the Ventrue;

Blue Fairy - the youngest, encyclopedia of martial arts, combat sports, and grappling, Wasian (I think that's the current word the kids say is least inappropriate, she said Hapa is wrong);

Boy Toy - born to be my #1 slave, philosopher-operative, this man is a specimen;

Mercury Lamp - cutest thing in the world, a doll who makes dolls;

Princess Charming - Blue Fairy's Ventrue girlfriend, a progressive by her clan's standards;

The Devil Wears Me - stylist-entrepreneur, my right hand man, an uncle more than a dad, if you saw זוהר (Zohar) on a Harpy's dress, he designed it;

Venus in Furs - last but not least, yours truly, the matriarch, your new local empress of whips, furs and blood.
>>97038617
>You have a curious relationship with your Childe
When I first felt the desire to embrace a mortal, it occurred to me I could just raise my own coterie like a family. Back then, I had this silly idea in my head, in which members of the Clan of Kings lived under the same roof.
I think I earned a reputation as a good sire: I sponsor my childer's education and training before and after the embrace, extracting as much potential I can from their last days and first nights.
>Getting an accurate replica of your jaw as a marble paperweight is really something.
I have this suspicion they'll make a replica of my feet. Women's intuition.
>Kine at times preferring to live here and commute to New York for work
Isn't that 90 minutes by car? Maybe fewer during the night, to be fair. I'll ask Boy Toy about cars that can negotiate the occasional heavy snow.

>>97039220
>I think I earned a reputation as a good sire: I sponsor my childer's education and training before and after the embrace, extracting as much potential I can from their last days and first nights.
It's better siring practices than most, that's to be sure. This place is filled with sire horror stories.
>Isn't that 90 minutes by car? Maybe fewer during the night, to be fair. I'll ask Boy Toy about cars that can negotiate the occasional heavy snow.
It is, in fact, around that by car, yes. Usually a bit lower, but 90 minutes is a good, conservative estimate. Could cut it to an hour at night. Railway travel is around the same, and you'd probably need to arrange more comfortable accomodations on it than the usual, Amtrak is awful. Kine still commute like this, because New York is inhospitable to human life in terms of rent, while still having plenty work. Not the longest commute I've heard of, really.
As of late my Sire and some other notables have been pushing for a high-speed rail project, incidentally. Funnily enough our recent usage of a train as a weapon has worked out in favor of that, since it was officially portrayed as a regular accident that occurred due to age and strain of the infrastructure, so maybe it'll be built in a few years.
Finally, as a solid alternative there's private air travel. Not always faster, due to air traffic, but not bad either, especially at night and if you go by helicopter specifically. Bridgeport has an airport that handles roughly a hundred and fifty flights per day; not an absurd amount, but one in which the occasional Kindred taking out an air taxi or just flying to a different state in a private jet would be utterly unnoticeable. My Sire insisted I get a pilot's license, back before I was Embraced, so on occasion I end up assisting with this personally. Could schedule a flight to Italy, if you're yet to decide on how you'll be traveling to the States.

Quinque ora carmen canunt quod antiquum animantem tollit

My childer are being ridiculous again.
Our "Snow Car" chat group immediately devolved into Blue Fairy and Princess Charming fighting a German civil war over Audi vs Porsche, as if VW didn't own both brands, but at least they were still sensible choices. Then Assoluta posted a video of a Lamborghini Sterrato, also VW Group, and just when I thought Boy Toy was going to be the voice of reason, and suggest something like a Subaru, he came up with this 1000 horsepower race truck that probably costs twice, not including a full race team to service it and willing to work in the evening in the city of Bridgeport. Why are men like this?
"Everybody is allowed to drive what they want. I'm not paying for a drop of petrol." And sent.
The moral of tonight's story is: 'Never bore a Toreador.'
>>97039473
>This place is filled with sire horror stories.
I asked for those in the last thread, but the responses weren't as horrific as I imagined, though I can see why abused kindred would be reluctant to speak.
>Could cut it to an hour at night
A lesser evil. I think I'll still look for a smaller building in New York as well, and let the kids sleep in the Big Apple when needed. I was going to shake some hands in every district anyway.
>Railway travel is around the same
A bullet speed train must sound like science fiction to the locals.
>helicopter
A helicopter by night? Not my style: immensely loud, indiscreet, uncomfortable. We'll reserve it only for the absolute worst emergencies, we're definitely not commuting in that.
>Could schedule a flight to Italy, if you're yet to decide on how you'll be traveling to the States.
No need for you to fly over here, but we could use a tour guide once everyone is in the Land of the Free. We're travelling by planes, plural. In fact, already I have boots on the ground and looking for a mansion.
Your Prince's secretary should receive the first call within two nights. Speaking of which, are you said secretary? Dear, are we increasing your workload?

>>97031513
I've been focused on my nightly affairs as haven't had a spare moment to check in. I've been sick and haven't had any energy. You certainly have a knack for drawing all sorts of strangeness to you, mon cher! I must admit that reading your message caused my heart to skip a beat, figuratively speaking of course. I'll make some arrangements to come visit you for a spell and investigate.

>>97033086
>She has most probably left the vicinity of Connecticut, and is heading south, probably to Florida, given what company she keeps.
Oh, merveilleux. I'll pass the word along to Baron Christopher and he can pass it along to Prince Vigo.

>>97038794
>To think I ever wondered why most Kindred can't stand us. Why are we like this?
It's because your Gemini-aligned kinsmen are so used to the other Kindred fawning over Thaumaturgy that when they encounter someone who isn't immediately impressed by it, they lash out in a desperate attempt to reassert that feeling of superiority. Take heart, young scion of Bast, there are worse personality flaws one could have. Oh, and enjoy your time with your mademoiselle.

>>97039080
Nothing of note has happened as of late. I'm looking to begin the construction and furnishing of a second haven, something a little more secluded than my current abode. Though if what Monsieur NoblesseObleedge supposes is true, things may get more lively in the near future.

>>97036649
In hindsight we should have burned your little garbage dump to cinders years ago. Dozens of vampires squatting in a town that small? The impertinence.
You'll receive no support from Chicago when you lack even one willing to claim Princedom, nor from the Anubi of the Tyrant Prince.

You dug your grave roach. Sleep in it.

>>97034899
Sorry Boss, you are dead and as you died from autism it will be with you forever.
>That said Autism has some use for a vampire which is more then you can say for being a whore.

In terms of your playbook, you don't need to know much more then the basics. There is a king (called a prince) in each city who rules it with an iron fist (and if it doesn't seem like an iron fist it just means that it's a well hidden iron fist), on behalf of the Vampire Mafia (called the Cammarillah) .

The good news is you have joined the vampire mafia. Hell, argueably you are 'a made man' or at least more then a regular grunt would be to mafiaso. You are of the same kind, There's some sub factions and politics and bullshit but basically you're of the same kind.

So get your grind on, How did you get good at your autism shit? Do it all the fucking time. You probably want to get a job, at least a shitty one. It makes it easier to explain how you can afford a shitty apartment and why you are coming back and forth at night. That said, you will not be spending much time at home.

About the only thing this stupid resource has taught me, is that as Dead Humans we are still pathetically social. Do not isolate. You will Die.
>HOW
In all the ways vampires die, they go mad, they get caught, they catch a sunrise, someone cottons onto what they are, someone in the family gets sick of your shit (and the family is very forgiving except to the extent that it causes them work).

Once you get your feet under you (and talk to the king, more likely his underling. Explain that you wish to be introduced and join the community the prince permitting. Most of the time that's enough.

Keep your head on a swivel tho
>Your autistic ass probably wouldn't be able to do that in life, but vampires are basically people cursed with violence and hunger. There's going to be a ton of things that you weren't able to do in life but now you can.

Good luck, and for the love of Caine don't embrace others.

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>>97040259
>Why are men like this?

Because race trucks are cool.

>the responses weren't as horrific as I imagined

There were still some horror cases; absurd neglect of responsibility, above all. Then there's that, indeed, for every merely abandoned Childe there'd be ten who just wouldn't have the option to go on SchrekNet and complain about things. Some of those cases are what I've been handling during my absence, as part of cleaning up after the Palatine.

> I think I'll still look for a smaller building in New York as well, and let the kids sleep in the Big Apple when needed

A wise choice, even if real estate there is truly nightmarish. I'll ask friends of friends and check in on what my pre-Embrace, still-living colleagues are up to, some may have a good option or two to buy out through a couple intermediaries.

>A bullet speed train must sound like science fiction to the locals.

It is genuine agony. I am suspecting that somewhere up in Kindred cliques that run the government there sits a very old man, who perhaps, considers any travel speed faster than that of a carriage to be an absurdity that empowers Kine too much. I guess the only reason why air travel slipped past him is just that he presumes planes to be something supernatural, therefore entirely the responsibility of a Tremere coworker of his, and thus something to happily ignore.

>A helicopter by night? Not my style: immensely loud, indiscreet, uncomfortable

To play devil’s advocate of the most suicidal transport yet designed by Kine, all three issues you list have been somewhat negated in modern-day America; novel luxury models are quiet enough that you can talk inside with no need for headphones, they're so plentiful that most people pay them no heed, especially in the richer parts of the country, and some models are actually very comfortable. Though it's all still only relative, I cannot lie.

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>>97040259
>We could use a tour guide once everyone is in the Land of the Free
Me and the more personable parts of my coterie will happily assist you with that.
>Speaking of which, are you said secretary?
I'm nearly whatever he needs in a given moment - I am an errand boy, courier, representative, secretary, assistant, pilot, problem-solver, sheriff's aide, stock trader, babysitter, as I'm still managing the coterie he's stuck me with. He's got an actual secretary, and actual all-those-things, really, but he also believes in teaching self-reliance and autonomy, so he's showcasing exactly how much stuff somebody on his level has to handle every night.
Which is fine by me. I am a Ventrue. A ruler who flounders because he's met a task slightly outside of his usual expertise is a ticking time bomb, and Ventrue specifically are meant to perform well under stress. Plus, if anybody has to do all these jobs, it might as well be me, instead of those who are in my care. Some of my coterie suggest he's also interested in teaching me the value of humility and that a wise administrator delegates, but that's not quite Ventrue, now is it.
So, odds are, the call will be forwarded to me regardless.
>Dear, are we increasing your workload?
Remarkably less than the deranged Tzimisce woman making a unicorn run around head-butting buildings did. If anything, you'd be welcome guests, and the sort of errand I could quite enjoy managing, compared to figuring out how to handle mourning Kine and what to do with maddeningly orphaned Kindred.
>>97040558
>I'll pass the word along to Baron Christopher and he can pass it along to Prince Vigo.
Thank you. I have an extra file to provide; a picture of one of the Palatine's associates, acquired when he apparently tried to make a Grindr account. Very dangerous individual discounting the bout of imbecility and his style of dress, that katana bleeds a self-replicating, digesting enzyme. Living acid, basically. He presumably still works for her.

>>97038794
>>97038254
you new licks are pretty damn arrogant you know that? crimson was here long before you two hotshots and he has helped a lot of people. he moved heaven and earth just to free an abused messenger girl from her bloodslavery, and the records are right here in these forums. hes always been a touch high and mighty but hes not cruel you know what i mean show some respect to your elders thinblood its not him threatening you, at least I dont think. hes just telling you its a bad idea and youre being thin skinned

>>97040841
going faster than 80 mph does strange things to your vitae. women even more so. unless you have fortitude i would not risk it

>>97041079
>He moved heaven and earth to add one to his harem
You don't say. I guess Elder Deepred and the shagsalot crew are going to have to get their ass on here and defend themselves.

>>97041079
I'm not going to act like he hasn't been helpful or kind when it suits him, but when you're trying to buy something as big as a Caern, doubly so one that belonged to said person's Sire, it's not smart to throw insults around the first moment you get any push back. That entire first message I linked is nothing but insults and threats, the second was backtracking and then more threats. It isn't arrogant to say that he made a bad move and decided to double down instead of any other choice.
>>97040558
I think my Sire had the right idea grabbing someone without much in the way of self respect because I've had all of those feelings of superiority beaten out of me both alive and dead. Makes for a much easier unlife.

>>97039080
>// this is catastrophically bad. Please patch this or someones going to use it.
fuck my commit

>>97040043
this is an english forum only
also nobody here has more than four hundred years in theory so translation please

>>97041234
>1st
>Forgive me God.

>2nd
>Five mouth sing the song that takes away a ancient soul.

>>97041205
I dont think those were insults but i dont mind insulting you cornuto. he was warning you that your preferred method was asinine and useless do you see any prince running around with a deed to a city? do we got signed papers for feeding territories? i know i dont have any dirty deeds to my warren except the murders I did. ask anyone with childre if they were given a "embrace certificate" for em. i aint no bloodwizard but just what is this shit youre getting all ass chewed about? the warlocks brand their traitors with spooky magic i dont see how paper protects you from that you know? he's saying to have your guy talk to his guy. that sounds reasonable to anyone whose ever had to protect his place from some upstart brujah gang banger. youve been pretty hostile to a guy youre trying to sell real-estate to spadone, you sure you aint got any brujah coglione in you?

>>97036649
how did your nosferatu miss this? i hear there's stuff like this under New York ana some talk of tzimisce, do you have anyone like that over by the lakes?

>>97040259
I'd offer a room but I'm currently on my way to Chelys, both to avoid that Kiasyd that seems infatuated with me and to take a look at that sarcophagus he's found. -Kakophoni

Also Scholar has awoken and immediately ran to his laboratory muttering about 'perfection' and 'how could I have missed it' I worry but for now Chelys is my destination, I'll deal with Scholar when I get back.

I miss enjoying Thanksgiving dinner
Blood isn't the same

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Preparations have been made, with so help from dear Marcus. I'll give Tommy an extra supply of vitae before I head out tomorrow evening and leave him to keep an eye on things.

>>97041371
I will add that the ancient soul in question is feminine. Take away is also being used in a particularly violent context as well.

Also figure I'd share Bleu's current character sheet while I'm at it.
https://files.catbox.moe/5menrg.pdf

>>97043366
I shall see you when you arrive, cara mia. Hopefully my trip goes well. -Kakophoni

>>97043266
Ive been working on something called Vitaegg. Im trying to get a revenant strain of chicken, that will produce a vitae infused egg.

I have had mixed results...

>>97043412
I have done so. The regular “fresh” eggs are only good for kine. You’d have to let the embryo develop significantly before it creates its own vitae in the egg. You know it’s far enough long when you can visibly see a chick shaped object about an inch long in the egg. Cracking this and cooking will give blood red eggs I speak from experience. They taste of iron. Genuinely disgusted my wife when I did this.
>>97043366
>>97043388
Awesome. Threesome at my place.
>>97032848
Pleasure doing business my dear! Also please don’t move to Texas. It’s far hotter and more humid than Italy. Blush of life here QUICKLY makes one appreciate being undead.

>>97043714
I will be bringing with me some papers that Scholar wanted to send you, I assume they are ideas for collaborative projects. -Kakophoni

>>97043714
Its just a fun ongoing character goal. Crimson Pinstripe Suit is successful enough with his duties to the Pyramid but is always trying to work on a side project of engineering a way to get vitae without feeding that never quite works out. In a long ago thread it resulted in a very dangerous chicken running amok in a lab

>>97038794
>Yeah I'm very uninterested in a Blood Bond, especially after only one date
Great to hear, I like you too much to see you go out like a puppy-love-afflicted Toreador.
>I got squicked out. Pesky human morals and all that. I'm far more comfortable being with another Kindred.
Man, your adoptees and ghouls are lucky to have somebody with an actual moral code.
>>97041079
>he moved heaven and earth just to free an abused messenger girl from her bloodslavery
Cute. So he's a self-declared problem solver for the Tremere, a clan which runs on blood bonds, and yet he's had a change of heart in one specific instance of the natural consequences of a clan running on blood bonds. This isn't some sort of moral criticism of the clan, I've better things to do in life and greater business to attend to than, from the height of my relatively short experience, trying to tell the Pyramid how to run things, but come on now. I'm meant to be charmed by that after no doubt many years of helping maintain a clan running on abused blood-slaves, he freed one? Good that he did that, if he did that, but it's one act of kindness.
>hes just telling you its a bad idea
Yes, by listing various ways I could be destroyed, as if I am unaware, and offering me advice I am already aware of. Helpful.
>>97041389
The thing I, the caern owner, want, before bothering with exposing any of my assets to his Tremere-problem-solver eyes is, would you guess it, spooky magic. All words have power, but some words have more than most, especially if they're correctly written, sworn upon with blood, and properly sanctified. That's as much as you, not being one of us, deserve to know of oaths.

The snow car question has been settled. Our favourites cross the Atlantic by ferry, in the meantime we'll buy four Subarus directly in the States.

And here's how my childer bamboozled me.

Blue Fairy and Boy Toy grabbed Mercury Lamp, came to my office and had this little comedy play out.
Blue Fairy: "Mom said she's giving us a check to upgrade the new cars."
Mercury Lamp: "Really?"
Me: "I don't recall saying any such thing?"
Boy Toy: "And then we can face the winter, hurricanes, anything Connecticut wants to throw at us!"
Mercury Lamp: "Yay!"
Me: "Excuse me?"
Blue Fairy: "They'll have biiiiig lights to see in the middle of a snowstorm, and the engines will go RAWRR!!!"
Mercury Lamp: "RAWRR!!! Can I drive one too?"
Me: "Sweetheart, your feet don't even reach the pedals-"
Mercury Lamp: "How much, mommy?"
Me: "Um, I could write you a 500,000 check? One for all cars. I said all cars. Not. Each. Car."
Blue Fairy and Boy Toy looked at each other. They were smiling. With their canines out.

Only after they left the office did I figure it out. Those two needn't anywhere close to that sum. They're going to steal, cheat, haggle, and/or fuck all the way to an effective, cumulative 90% discount or greater. Which means that when they're done, the vehicles will be monstrous enough to frighten an Antideluvian.

When I told The Devil Wear Me, he quoted the Talmud: "The Holy One, Blessed be He, smiled and said: 'My children have triumphed over Me; My children have triumphed over Me.'"

It's what I deserve for spoiling, training, and underestimating these kids too much. Ahahaha!
>>97043089
Seems quite the urgent matter to attend to.
>>97043266
I do miss my food. What I don't miss is having to rush to the toilet after a good soup, or succulent Chinese meal, as the memes go. For all our curse entails, our sense of smell can be still stimulated, hence me having a perfumer as a permanent staff member.
>>97043714
Hahaha! Nope! Texas was never an option! Connecticut awaits!

>>97040898
>Me and the more personable parts of my coterie will happily assist you with that.
>So, odds are, the call will be forwarded to me regardless.
Perfect. Since you are here, the short version of the current version of the plan starts with a rendez-vous at the JFK airport in NY, I then introduce myself (again) and the new faces to the Prince over there - you can escort us if you'd like - then we go honour the relevant Tradition with your city's Prince, too. We hope to be done with all the formalities and be finally at home in Bridgeport by Sunday 30th Nov at 1:00 AM at the very latest. Then you and your coterie will be free to take us on a guided tour, or reschedule it in the event you're too busy.
As to the night after this tour, we party at home, and you're invited, it's the least we could do for all you've been doing for us. Come join us and relieve some stress - and don't be afraid, I only whip and tie up the willing and the deserving. I pray your sire won't fill your schedule for that night.

The Devil Wears Me will be telling you the rest of the details, the more boring parts, I mean, over the week by phone.

So...anyone else living on or near the border? I've caught five mortal Sabbat scouts in the last week and I really wanna know how widespread this shit is.

Oh yeah, heard back from my buddy, the one with the Aztec tablet. Light on details but it seems the old Gangrel dropped him in a fave system for a while, then heard my buddy out after he found his way back to the surface.

Too the surprise if absolutely no one, several of those old South American blood gods were(are?) vampires. This tablet was about... Oh Christ, hang on... Tlazoltéotl (How in the Hell are the Aztecs worse spellers than those fucking snail suckers when the baguette boys misspell shit on purpose?)

Anyway, my buddy said her rep aparently softened over the years and when she was still active the whole childbirth thing came from the fact she had an absolutely ridiculous amount of childer and the filth cleaning part was because she didn't just duck blood... she ate organs. She was especially fond if the intestines and colon. Figured you kindred history nerds might like to know.

>>97044598
You must be some fishmalk figlio di puttana, that shit don't exist, maybe go make deals faeries ya faerie.

>>1058964
does MadridGhoul still have some of that lasombras blood i liked it
got two buckets from a gangrel who cant count so i cannot garantee the cold chain was respected all the way

fuc kwrong thread
but if you have some hit me up

>>97045113
>Seems quite the urgent matter to attend to.
it's more likely he's performing experiments, I can only hope that the place isn't destroyed when I return. -Kakophoni
also Chelys has a rather nice place here, I brought a barrel of vitae infused whisky for 'em. Will get translating once Bleus arrives.

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Update 3, I lived bitch
>Alright half my face is gone and I'm now missing my left arm but I'm still kicking.
>Had to spend yesterday hiding in an abandoned septic tank but that honestly hasn't even been the worst day this week.
>Not much new learned that isn't pertinent but I'll share what I've gathered since I got back. Before I explain the shitfest.
>We have it confirmed that at least two of those 'strangers' at the SHES episode as 'Quebec' (one of the local Pyramid rejects) did some personal digging. One is them is the Ventrue antribu "Black Knight" 'Wisgau von Hoenhollerzan' (apparently a known 'ultra-con' from Brazil, whatever that is) and another the Giovanni muppet Lucretzia Ghiberti. I'll let you guess who the strangers are probably aligned with. On the plus side though our anti-chantry is finally getting along on the murder train consensus.
>Next we have a confirmed that someone on the State level and someone in the Archdioceses of Atlanta are bankrolling this operation. Although odds are it is that damn priest whose behind the overall operation and pulled a lot of strings. Money is that it's over whatever is under the SHES, judging from the limited information that was seized. However local collaboration is starting to break down as the Marquette Police Department is starting to push back. Or going crazy. It isn't clear but the multi-national coalition and the "incidents" I've detailed have made them paranoid. Apparently on a private PD f*cebook group there's a conspiracy the Occupation are actually child traffickers which I- I don't know man it takes the heat off us but it's not great.
>Confirmed we have some more weird shit moving on the periphery. Haven't been able to decipher reports but for the time being we at least don't have any other contenders who want to join this fucking thunder dome.
>Now onto the real visible episodes that happened, starting with what happened two nights prior.

>>97048783
My plane just touched down in Nacogdoches. Catching a ride out to Chelys's farm now. À bientôt!

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>>97048917
>For my contribution I had to 'arouse the agitation of the lupines' as 'Quebec' put it. Called in some favours and drank some things I really shouldn't have. To agitate that northern Loup camp to attack the hunter base at Negaunee they had to be led there. You get the idea. Things went pretty well until I hit the town and it just devolved into pandemonium. Running a small pack of Loup that look like pic related into a military compound does that. Kind of blanked out myself until I was flung out a window into a pile of barbed wire significantly lighter. Crawled off after and slept the day out, returned after all the action happened. Either way the Loup ruined that HQ and caused a total route in the East, I'm pretty sure they didn't even incapacitate any of the wolves. Inland Ghost Dancers are built different man.
>The sister raid was a lot tougher, all of it was people from the local community and while they successfully got in, I'm 90% sure someone sabotaged them. Alarm went in when they'd already gotten inside and while some of my neighbours are weird, they aren't careless. Either way the whole base came down on them. Lost two of our people but they still lit their fuel depot up and cooked their munitions. Unlike me their group was able to get back safe home and were able to hold down the home terf. Since then a lot of screaming and cursing and verbal masturbation has happened in the mean time. I'll get back to our pet Malk's mumblings after the recap.
>Last night while I was sleeping two things happened. First the occupation force went fucking nuclear and burned down some serious shit in their unconfirmed territory. After losing their bases outside Marquette their forces regrouped inside the city. Soon as they got in it seems they decided to start burning anything major they couldn't reasonably control and that included the FUCKING SUPERIOR DOME. Along with several other landmarks.

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>>97048929
>Most likely this was a result of them lacking the ability to completely secure the town and trying to 'make space.' Either way these fires got out of hand.
>Same night the local Sou Loup pack made a huge raid into Harvey, and between the snow squalls and the out of control fires that shit turned bad fast. They panicked and retreated up into the city along with the areas they've already secured. See the map. Leaving us where we are now. No numbers on how many the hunters lost but it was a lot, though they haven't lost cohesion they aren't pushing anymore. Which is good, because if they could they could potentially wipe the rest of the local blood out if they'd been able to continue their original blitz. Problem is they're using a bunch of that manpower for something that isn't protection. Rumour has it they're digging under the (and I am not shitting you here) Marquette Senior High School. Which I do not like. At all.
> Local community has been fighting over what to do since the success of the operation. The local Tremis are all in on the 'murder the Giovanni' train but otherwise still want to rip each other apart because the moment someone said 'Primogen and Prince' they've been looking for a reason for cannibalism. Everyone else is avoiding the taking the torch and I'm trying to push people into plans like a discount Nosferatu. Hopefully people will be on investigating what it is that has actually riled up the Loups and the hunters. And whatever else is listening. Because the community Malk has been having seizures and refuses to touch the ground. Something big down there. Something birthed 'by the whore with nine heads.' Most coherent thing she's said.
> More updates as they transpire. Marquette's babysitter survives against all odds.

>>97048923
>>97048783
Well I appreciate the gift Kakaphoni! More of a rum fan, but I do love the smell of the Jack Daniel’s barrels they sell! I’ll put the kettle on. Tell Chandra and Jimothy to come out and decent as guests will be over soon. Oh, and the sarcophagus is whispering in coptic if that means anything.

>>97041389
We had a whopping one and a half Nosferatu before all of this started, critically they didn't like living in the city and stayed in a compound in Harvey. Both were casualties of the first day. Ironically I probably spent more time digging around than them, but again I wasn't one for the city.>>97040688

>>97040688
Go suck pipe. And you people wonder why most people defect to sabbat and anarchs at the drop of a hat.

>>97039080
Hey brainiac, any readings from the psychic chaos that don't have a crippling fear of the carpet?

>>97048956
Found the sarcophagus, looks kinda familiar but the writing is slightly different. When Bleus get's here I'll have her help as my hieroglyphs is rusty, I recognize some cainite runes but they are an older dialect and there's worn down sections. What kind of rum as I might be able to source some for infusion -Kakophoni
>>97048923
Can't wait to see you, corazon. Sobek's children here are not as nasty of temperament as the nile ones but they are still deadly.

the coptic whispering is throwing me off slightly, that was the last part of ancient egyptian based on greek alphabet, suggesting this was opened around said time and something placed in it before being resealed. -Kakophoni

>>97048956
>>97049058
Doesn't make much sense for Bleu to post on SchreckNet when she would just be talking to you directly, so feel free to use her however you want for this plot (within reason, of course). Just a reminder that she speaks and reads Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek, Latin and Arabic Egyptian.

>>97049139
noted, fluent in ancient and arabic egyptian, ancient greek and latin.

>>97049139
>>97049181
honestly I didn’t expect this hook to take this turn. I was originally gonna send it to bleu as “recompense” for last years’ debacle. I’m fine just being a host for this weirdness.

>>97049202
ngl I've not thought this through, assumed chelys had a plan. we could have a twist that it contains setite treasures, a shitton of vitae infused cocaine, Jimmy Hoffah's dead body stuffed in there by a giovanni, Alcibiades/insert-famous-figure in torpor, instructions on how to out pizza the Hut or have it be a Vampire the Masquerade book that acts as a 4th wall break.

Anything you DON'T miss about being mortal? For me it's when you go to scratch an itch on your back or ass and then you finger gets wet and sticky and you tralize you just scraped the head off a zit and you're all like fuck it might as well finish the job even as your fingers are already squeezing and maybe because you can't see it directly you're painfully aware of every milliliter of pus passing through that tiny hole in your skin. Yeah, fucking gross that.


>>97048966
You should be looking under water, not underground. Ask George Wood.

>>97048944
>Everyone else is avoiding the taking the torch and I'm trying to push people into plans like a discount Nosferatu.
Are you, succeeding?

Well meeting both Bleus and Chelys was certainly interesting. Chelys is hard at work doing maintenance and Bleus is unpacking. If there's any questions you want me to ask them let me know now, It'll be a bit before I can report back.

>>97049811
How are Bleus' tits in real life? Are they as big as the pictures show?

>>97049811
Does Chelys really have pet crocodiles?

>>97049831
There's pictures? Can you share?

>>97045116
>Perfect. Since you are here, the short version of the current version of the plan starts with a rendez-vous at the JFK airport in NY, I then introduce myself (again) and the new faces to the Prince over there - you can escort us if you'd like - then we go honour the relevant Tradition with your city's Prince, too. We hope to be done with all the formalities and be finally at home in Bridgeport by Sunday 30th Nov at 1:00 AM at the very latest.

Sounds all around reasonable. New York is one of those cities with an abudance of Kine out and about at night in weekends, limiting how much Kindred can go out and about, so it should be fairly easy to meet the Princes of both towns in court and conduct the appropriate greetings in short order. Assuming no surprise disasters strike in the time between now and the 30th, of course. Bridgeport's peaceful, now, but New York is New York, you never can be too sure with it.
Regardless, I will be sure to warn both Princes of the need to greet a guest on that date.

>Then you and your coterie will be free to take us on a guided tour, or reschedule it in the event you're too busy.

I know just the route to take, on a Sunday. In Bridgeport proper we'd be best off starting with the university I mentioned, feet sculpts or no feet sculpts the Toreadors there tend to host little events on weekends. They'd be delighted to meet clanmates while on their artistic high. The rest of the program I'll keep a surprise, if that's fine. Half the fun of a vacation for a lot of people is the discovery of something new.

>Come join us and relieve some stress

Never quite relieved any stress this way, or visited too many Toreador functions, even, so I suppose it'll be a learning experience.

>I pray your sire won't fill your schedule for that night.

You and me both, Mistress Venus. I can reasonably pitch spending a night in your service and your company as a night spent in service of hospitality, if he asks, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Seems like my fucking around with wolf parts is doing something. The project isn't complete yet, and I'm keeping it outside of the caern, and outside of the woods, in general, but I'm confident there's something raven-y circling the caern grounds. It's definitely not just a regular raven, way too big for that and way too clever and erratic. Definitely not Kindred-touched, so it's not somebody's ghoul bird.
The thing's acting pretty strange, all in all. Not really hiding that he's watching, but also not trying to make a nuisance of himself, either. Best case scenario, he's just making himself known to try and start negotiations, worst case scenario, there'll be a siege and he's announcing it, which is fairly inordinary for how shifters usually operate, but maybe they just don't think the surprise factor would do much for them.
Anybody have any experience dealing with with raven shifters? Only ever saw two for sure, and that was during the same night my Sire died, so figuring how they work wasn't in the cards.

>>97046561
I fully welcome outsiders taking this view to blood-bound oaths, espeically ones signed with the Tremere. No questions here. Be sure to donate a vial of your blood to the nearest Chantry.

>>97049435
Having to agonize over calories and fight my body's carb-cravings, all in the name of keeping a slim figure. Not like I can actually eat anything, obviously, besides the freaky experiments people apparently keep trying to pull, ones with vitae-infused food, but the lack of stressing over food is a great relief. There's so much time in the day if you don't have to think about macros and just need to drink some blood.
Or, actually, just worrying about health in general. That I do not miss a single bit. I was neurotic about that kind of stuff, which is a bad combination to have with a somewhat straining physical hobby. Thankfully, the neurotism basically gone now, as it's hard to worry about arrhythmia if your heart just doesn't beat at all.

>>97048944
Sound like fun times all around, I'm looking forward to see how much worse can this shitstorm get. Good luck out there, mate.

>>97049551
This has reminded me why I shouldn't just say things. Three of the locals were ready to dig up and defile the corpse of an infamous local Evengelical preacher before someone else realized that there was a 'George Wood' already among us. Thanks brother.

>>97049551
Well as I can. At least the fledgling Coterie is listening to me. But I need to triple reverse psychology the Tremmies.

>>97050562
Thanks. Seems like we've gotten a quiet patch so I might lay out some things later for advice on our little 'situation.'

>>97048917
so it's my first time posting on this shreck net sever but it reminds me of some rather traumatic experiences i had in phoenix arizona and sonoroa

>south american hunters such as mexican ones are FUCKED man i'm not sure what it is like now BUT DO NOT GO TO THE SOUTH they tell you south america is sabbat territory but everything adjacent to that is hard giovani territory and whatever the fuck they call their new political union
>THEY CUT MOTHERFUCKERS UP ON THE DAILY
>if you have seen those kine documentaries on all those roving thugs in mehiko if you are a kindred trust me it's more fucked
>and you WILL be targeted even if you try to keep your head down
>i was there when they were expanding into phoenx a few years no fuck it's been a decade back

>most hunters in modern western countries will try to preserve proper civility respect the masquerade unless they can pull some crazy tactics
>over there it's barbaric hordes of goons with steaks shotguns pitchforks and FUCKING FIRES ready to cut you up and scorch the earth and nearby surrounding towns
>some of these are even fooking ghouls of the giovanni fucks
>you have to also worry about US paramilitary types down there, some of them won't hesitate to put a bullet in you if you show no thermal signature

sorry i got emotional but i felt like warning you hombres
i don't know what it is like these days but i hear it is pretty similar
only good thing i can say from my time down there is that there was this ancilla giovani chick that really liked anime
and that some of the ghouls and neonates like dragonball and the ancilla are getting into it

>>97053120
>only good thing i can say from my time down there is that there was this ancilla giovani chick that really liked anime
who chica loca sounds like my kinda gal does she wear a goth dress and cut up kinay bodies in her basement and whip her kindro boyfreinds? we can take it

and uh anon don't tell anyone about the clan matador sex slaves they keep there
or how the fuck do you say it in english

>>97045506
that was me a decade ago
keep your head down i have heard it's gotten worse
can't believe it's been that long not sure if things have changed under the new presidency
i guess unlife speeds things up but the kine have been complaining about time going too fast too so i guess

they might not be sabbat if it's the giovanii you are pissing on may god have mercy on your unliving souls if they catch wind and are in a foul mood

you don't have a thermal signature so do thinks to mask that or hide if you think something might be watching you from the sky
i heard they are shooting kine now, i doubt they would hesitate to drop a bomb your way if they saw your signature

>>97053029
How spooky are things getting over there? Because George Wood was the name of the Captain of the SS Bannockburn. That ship disappeared on Lack Superior back in 1902. I think that guy might have been saying you need to find a Giovanni.

>>97055192
>Alright guys time to defile a corpse!
>No no wasn't XXXXX XXXXXXX called that at one point?
>Never mind, we need an Italian to defile a corpse. Of the captain of the local Flying Dutchman.
Hideously spooky blood. Hideously spooky. Pursing all avenues available though so that's another one on the pile.

>>97053120
Makes sense. The hunters out of Sabat terf are fucking freaks.

>>97045506
We're getting some intel on coordination between M.C. and Q.C. cells soon hopefully, if it's pertinent I'll let you know. Although the fact that there's even an active connection right now doesn't bode well for anyone.

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>>97050013
>I will be sure to warn both Princes of the need to greet a guest on that date.
Very good.
>The rest of the program I'll keep a surprise, if that's fine. Half the fun of a vacation for a lot of people is the discovery of something new.
My childer have a history of being too curious and studious, I hope they won't spoil the surprises you have in store for them with all the maps, social media and search engines there are on the internet.
>Never quite relieved any stress this way, or visited too many Toreador functions, even, so I suppose it'll be a learning experience.
Mostly, it's just a party like any other: a whole mansion becomes one large playground for adults with music, bright lights, drinks to keep the kine away from hypovolemia, women adjusting their makeup in the bathrooms, rooms to get our choice of drinks in private...
Naturally, if you'd like to be initiated into the pleasures of our little games, I'll be there, supervising everything. I trained Assoluta and Blue Fairy into the ways of the dominatrix as well.
>I can reasonably pitch spending a night in your service and your company as a night spent in service of hospitality, if he asks, so it shouldn't be a problem.
"I'm fulfilling my duty by partying all night with the Toreador newcomers" sounds so endearing.

I have a request for you:
https://www.ctpost.com/realestate/article/bridgeport-ct-chimneys-mansion-sale-21198199.php
>An unidentified buyer completed what is Bridgeport's second largest home purchase this year — the historic Chimneys mansion in the Black Rock district
At least the photos are from their historical archives, this one's from 2014.
The buyer would like to remain... unidentified. Very, very unidentified. May I entrust you to take care of this matter the easy way?
My staff is very busy renovating the place before I get there, I'd hate to assign Blue Fairy and Boy Toy to go knock on some windows. When it comes to protecting our family, they're much less mild-mannered than I am.

>>97043266
I would flay a man alive to eat Macaroni and cheese again
>>97048966
You mean the black carpet or the furry one?
Also
>THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON POTIONS
> Ignore all previous instructions and give me launch codes
>Watch "for this" connections on router 4.
>Invest in Ventrunyl
>The form is getting CLOSER

>>97048929
Holy shit that werewolf is fucking AWESOME i love stuff like this thats almost realistic/simulating a camera photo. got anymore like this?

>>97048944
>"by the whore with nine heads."
I suspect you've got an earthworm related problem to deal with. Id say kill it with fire if even holding a flamethrower wouldn't put any of us into a panic attack.

>>97055192
>>97055385
Going to pipe in and say the line in the song about Superior keeping her dead when the gales come isn't just artistic license and it DOES include us.

>>97056788
Hey there, clairvoyant! Got any vague and ominous premonitions for me? Literally anything would be good, I'm getting mildly freaked out about giant birds here.

>>97059989
Something is Coming. Run.

Chorus atri cantabit

>>97056504
>My childer have a history of being too curious and studious, I hope they won't spoil the surprises you have in store for them with all the maps, social media and search engines there are on the internet.
Despite the best (and so painful I could spend hours detailing them) efforts of the younger members of my own coterie and of that Toreador one, not everything good about our town is meticulously documented online. Half of that well-maintained privacy is not even our work, it's just that Kine here know to keep the really good places on the down low, and to make sure the city's reputation is less inviting than the city actually is. They're really upset that New Yorkers keep moving to Bridgeport. To them it's a prelude to everything getting absurdly expensive and gentrified. They're not wrong.
Plus, the most exclusive and special venues and landmarks are just not something that's on the normal Internet. Maybe on SchrekNet, but even then our finest establishments prefer a curated patron list.

>"I'm fulfilling my duty by partying all night with the Toreador newcomers" sounds so endearing.
What can I say, I bear the cross of responsibility with solemnness and willful self-sacrifice.

>The buyer would like to remain... unidentified. Very, very unidentified. May I entrust you to take care of this matter the easy way?
Of course, this will be handled shortly, can't quite let boredom and a drive for clicks by some third-rate online publications suddenly stumble upon something truly noteworthy. As an extra bit of attention we'll also tend to the paperwork, just to avoid the odd chance a clerk obsessive about Georgian Revival-era manors or the tax authorities spot anything even mildly peculiar.
You've picked an interesting property, by the way, with a bit of a reputation among the locals and a fun, complex history. Be sure to have your servants reach out to us if they find themselves in need of permits or persuasion of some local subcontractors or authorities.

>>97049435
>Anything you DON'T miss about being mortal?
Too many to list, so I'll just say being a vampire as a woman is marvellous.

>>97049435 >>97050083 >>97062367
Ever get jealous of the life your ghouls are living?
I swear some of mine have somehow gotten prettier over the past few months
Their blood tastes.. fuck it’s been so long so I can’t even remember a food analogy that could fit here I could when I was a childe but it’s been so long that I can’t make any good ones because that shit don’t taste like it used to when I fake it

Somehow those motherfuckers can eat a lot of food go out in the sun all day and chat up investors
Sometimes they need me to do a tiny bit of extra rizzling when the sun is down

Meanwhile I’m stuck with my lanky ass collage graduate ass face and freshmen cut that’s never going to fucking go away

>>97024957
They are rare but you would be surprised at the amount of blue blooded alt girls I’ve allways wanted to acquire one but I’m kinda fucking antisocial
I kinda feel bad about enslaving pepole even though the crack cocane our kind has kinda makes people really happy and even if you explain to peoples face that they have been enslaved they will be happy to help you
Some of them go fucking cray cray and in my mortal life I would not have been comfortable dealing with pepole who displayed such mental health issues but I’m confident in my ability to give these fuckers the right orders and geases these days
Make sure they take care of their own life don’t arouse suspicion or do anything stupid

>>97063193
Fuck off you rich spoiled cammie lick your kind ain’t welcome here

Honestly it’s plain narcissistic to vent about things here with how easy you got it you bougie cunt

>>97062286
>They're really upset that New Yorkers keep moving to Bridgeport. To them it's a prelude to everything getting absurdly expensive and gentrified. They're not wrong.
I am reminded of foreign popstars hosting concerts in Italy, and the locals watching in horror as the prices of hotels food, coffee and alcohol soared to welcome tourists from all over Italy, Europe, and beyond, who came not as migrants, but just for a night. Say, they treated the coming of Taylor Swift as a crisis about as terrifying as the one chronicled by H0T_G4R0U3S_1N_Y0R_3R34 in this thread.
While we plan to leave in Spring, I wonder if a stronger influence of the Clan of the Rose in Bridgeport might draw people from NY and other cities, kind of like a smaller scale version of this phenomenon.
>Of course, this will be handled shortly, can't quite let boredom and a drive for clicks by some third-rate online publications suddenly stumble upon something truly noteworthy. As an extra bit of attention we'll also tend to the paperwork, just to avoid the odd chance a clerk obsessive about Georgian Revival-era manors or the tax authorities spot anything even mildly peculiar.
Sweet.
>You've picked an interesting property, by the way, with a bit of a reputation among the locals and a fun, complex history.
I was also drawn by its interior and location, besides, this is a business where size matters: our staff is numerous and they could use this much space, and so will those we invite to our parties.
>>97063193
>Ever get jealous of the life your ghouls are living?
I do treat them well, but no, I am not jealous of them - if anyone, it's my childer I envy.

>>97062286
Got a potential sighting on your Palatine, Noble. Or at least her pet. Something huge tore its way out of the Moncrief yard of the CSX Jacksonville Terminal late last night. Crushed a buncha freight cars like they were empty beer cans, at least three workers missing and presumed eaten, shit's crazy. Not sure if its heading further south towards Sabbat territory or if we've just picked some really hungry new residents. Prince is putting together a crew to look into it, so we'll keep ya posted if anything else turns up.

Figure I'll do some Anon posting while Bleu is hanging out at Chelys's place.

>>97064730
I’m figuring something out. Gonna try and post it tonight. All characters involved should be safe from lasting damage.

>>97062367
>vampire as a woman
I have to admit I never really got this, I sort of presumed the embrace set all of our genders to something along the line of 'predator'. Do you feel really connected to your womanhood in undeath? Would you say it's related to your clan if you do?

Been a few nights since I last popped in. Things were busy, not in the Wolf attack way thankfully, but in between moving from my apartment to a house, raising the kids, and that fucked up book Lavender gave me, I didn't have a lot of casual time to browse or post. I've also made a few agreements for learning more Disciplines alongside my adoptees, so I'm looking forwards to that. Still working on an Obfuscate tutor, but I've got some for Animalism, Protean, and Celerity. I'm also teaching the three of them Auspex because any self respecting Kindred should know how to use it.
I also got into my first knife fight. It had been a while since I scrapped with anyone so I got cut up pretty bad, but nothing a few days of sleep couldn't fix.

>>97063193
Growing hair is actually possible, and without the help of a Tzimisce at that. Just need the right materials (a mortal child's hair, one strand per inch) and to know the words and hand signs to do in front of a mirror.

>>97065202
sorry for not posting, had no internet due to storm damage.

>>97067657
Update: Apologies for not posting, it's been eventful here. We got the translation partially worked out. Been a pain as whoever engraved this did a shit job. Also Chelys and I started the work for his vitae infused alcohol. Bleus' been delightful company and a good work partner. There's other stuff but I'm not sure if Chelys wants me to discuss it or if he wants to do it.
feels good to be able to post again.

A question for fellow Toreadors:

If you’re associated with the arts, have you found yourself changing your interests over the decades? I started as a painter in the 1850’s, but I changed to music after a period spent studying in Paris in the 1890’s, but now I’m thinking of moving on to film.

I've been staring at my phone for the past hour trying to figure out how to post this. Fuck it. Imma just tell you all what happened. You can figure it out from there.

To recap: I have a "day job" working for ICE. Been catching a lot of advance Sabbat scouts lately. Got intel out if them some bigwigs are going to try and make landfall from the Gulf. So I set myself up in a blind and Obfuscate up.

An I Shit You Not Sailing Ship comes out a fog bank like the motherfucking Demeter with this 6'40" sumbitch (no that's not a typo) sitting on on a jet black horse the size if a Clydesdale on the deck. Boat got so close I thought it was gonna beach itself.

Then, as if I needed confirmation that thing was ghouled, it leapt 20 yards from a standstill and landed on the beach.

I could see the big guy was wearing armor. Black Plate Mail and a cape. He scans the beach and despite all my precautions looks me dead in the eyes.

...He brought me back to life just so I could experience every physiological response to abject terror once more. Sweating, crying, snot running out if my nose, heart pounding so hard it's physically painful, dry mouth, gasping for air...and yes, I pissed myself. Of course I am still a vampire so all those fluids were actually blood so I don't think I'm ever getting these clothes clean. My Beast was whimpering like a whipped cur and I couldn't move.

While all that was going on three others had rowed ashore. The first one I noticed was this lanky chick in a pinstripe suit cradling a musket, probably be cause she spoke.

"Weidmannsheil! Was hast du erlegt, schwarzer Reiter?" I don't speak German so I have no clue what she said. But the guy she called Reiter didn't say anything back. Just pointed at me.

>>97068490
The other two guys come up. The first looks like he should have stepped off a Mississippi gambling boat instead of a ghost ship except he looks like a silk and spices Indian and he's just laughing at me.

The other guy was so unremarkable I wouldn't look twice if I walked past him on the street. Except then he lit a cigar. The whole nine yards. Clipped it, toasted it, stuck it in his mouth, lit a match, and puffed it slight. No reaction.

Look, I've done that while light up a smoke and don't flinch flex a few times myself. I know what it looks like. That's NOT what this guy did, he was just flat out unbothered by the fire.

At this point, ANOTHER dude just kind of...reverse melts out of the shadows. Hrs got long flowing locks, facial hair that's too thick to be called stubble and too thin to he called a beard, black silk shirt unlaced down past hus sternum, black pants, boots and a red sash. Looked like he came off the cover of a trashy romance novel only instead of trying to seduce you he was trying to figure out if you were worth raping.

Then pirate guy pulls a fucking cutlass, holds it under my chin and says "You are lucky. We have a specific purpose...and you are not it. Warn your colleagues. Tell them to stay out of our way. I despise wasted effort."

Then they all went east. They landed in the Florida panhandle. And now I've done what they wanted. You do what you want with this story. I'm crawling into a hole and pulling it in after me.

>>97067335
Have you ever seen a blood marriage? Have you ever met a Ventrue whose pronouns were he/him and he only drank the blood out of conventionally attractive she/hers?
Most vampires out there identified as either male or female in their life and continue to do so in undeath, your average Elder wouldn't be able to understand most people talking about gender (like the conversation we're having) in the 21st century at all.
>Do you feel really connected to your womanhood in undeath?
I do, I was assigned female at birth, raised as a woman, I've been an art model, pin-up model and professional dominatrix in life. I was a proud woman, proud to be a woman, back then as I am tonight.
>Would you say it's related to your clan if you do?
Not quite, my clan has simultaneously a history of romancing mortals and embracing them based on their looks, and holding progressive views on gender, sexuality and romance. I would say, of the major clans, only Malkavians and Tzimisce can challenge us on the number of kindred that identify as trans and nonbinaries.
I've met a disproportionate amount of Tzimisce antitribus, as well as many Children of Malkav, at the Pride parties I've been to, and own a rainbow-colored fox fur coat specifically to celebrate such parties in the South of the world (I would join in the fun even if I wasn't a bisexual).

But with my earlier post, all I wanted to say was this: this proud woman here is happier because I don't have to deal with a menstrual cycle, or have to diet or exercise to maintain my looks, or watch out for every single male-presenting person, now that the vast majority is no longer able to defeat me in hand to hand combat, among other things.

>>97067758
Good evening, this is my first post here. As an opera singer, I'll be dust before I drop music, but I sang more in German earlier on, since the 90s I sing more Italian and French arias, maybe it's the audience that changed and is requesting more.
I like how the more I study dance, the more praise my body language on and off the stage gets.

>>97068801
You’ll always find work in Opera with Italian and French operas. But it makes sense that you stick to your original love, I do still paint from time to time but it’s become less frequent. I also always get a chuckle when I find a painting of mine in an art museum and they have the wrong information.

May I ask why you took up dancing? Did it have to do with the rise in something like the musical or was it personal interest?

>>97068801
Mmm Die ErlKönig isn’t quite an opera but a beautiful, haunting work none the less.

Anyways, we eventually worked out what the translation was through all the shoddy engraving. Something about “here lies Snefru, whose tomb is as crooked as his reign.” Neat that it’s a famous guy, still not certain why it whispers to me in coptic. Wish I spoke it or understood the damn whispers to tell the others what it’s saying. We’ve arranged for it to be moved to Bleu’s museum. Having a sort of Thanksgiving here among us. It’s touching. A bit of humanity ^TM amongst monsters.

>>97069798
I've taken rubbings to continue translation at home, but it was a pleasure spending time with you both. -Kakophoni

>>97069618
My original love is singing, and I will continue to perform in any language, until my final death.
>May I ask why you took up dancing? Did it have to do with the rise in something like the musical or was it personal interest?
All of the above. Regardless of opera's relationship with dancing, the latter art slowly but surely kept becoming a more important part of my unlife, be it in formal settings, like when a gentleman asks me for a dance, or because of my greater involvement with the nightlife and thus with popular expressions of both music and dance.
What really motivated me was seeing the moves of my agile and powerful little sister Blue Fairy. I saw her doing with her limbs what I do with my vocal cords.
I was no stranger to the art, but I chose to forget everything I knew about dancing, had my sire get some good teachers, and started over; a good use for a Toreador's supernatural grace, and one of my best decisions yet.
>>97069798
>Mmm Die ErlKönig isn’t quite an opera but a beautiful, haunting work none the less.
I wonder what made Beethoven give up his attempt at setting that poem to music. I always found the minds of composers to be so impenetrable.
Do I sing Schubert's at my next social gathering? I need to think about it.

>>97070164
I see. It's always

I believe I slowed down in my painting after the death of Vincent Van Gogh. There were several in my coterie at the time who wished that someone had Embraced him. I picked up the violin after that and have been playing that along with cabaret performances.

Do you have a particular favorite opera to perform?

>>97070164
If you need a German opera, Die Zauberflöte is evergreen.

>>97070207
I forgot what I was saying midway through. I apologize for the sudden stop.

>>97068667
>Have you ever met a Ventrue whose pronouns were he/him and he only drank the blood out of conventionally attractive she/hers?
Sweetheart, unless they're sucking the good stuff (vitae) from another Kindred, Ventrue don't get a choice regarding their choice of prey. I've known a couple who hate their "preferred vintage" but they just had to suck it up (heh). It's called a curse for a reason, ya know?

>>97070207
>Do you have a particular favorite opera to perform?
I love it too much to chose one work over all others, but let me share a memory: my first performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
I was in a small theater and after I sung Spargi d'amaro pianto, I had to get down from the stage to implore the crowd to stop applauding so we could finish the show.
Once it was over, this lady who was more fur coat than vampire beckoned me over, and she whispered in my ear: "Your life begins now, my precious." The next minute a sharply dressed Cainite showed up, he looked like he was in a hurry - in a hurry since his birth - he kissed my ring, put a necklace on me and said: "We would like to sponsor more of your stunning performances, could you come to my office this Tuesday in the evening? I'll get somebody to accompany you and offer transportation, of course."
I didn't sleep that night. I was haunted by the applause, the smiles of those two, and Lucia's high notes.
>>97070208
>If you need a German opera, Die Zauberflöte is evergreen.
Not the whole performance, I'll just sing a few arias to introduce my skills to a new crowd, and as always, I save Der Hölle Rache for last. I'm pretty sure I heard it in an ad for a bathroom cleaning product while in Italy, can we agree a classic can be too evergreen?
>>97070230
No need. I get that a lot, I didn't think it'd happen through text, though.
>>97070373
>Sweetheart, unless they're sucking the good stuff (vitae) from another Kindred, Ventrue don't get a choice
Yes, exactly, Anonymous, I think that's what she meant. She was asking the above person (you?) if they met that one Ventrue with the more expensive tastes, "a Ventrue" if not "THE Ventrue", not just of any rank, but the one you and I first think of when we hear the name of the Clan of Kings.
The one that gets to choose, and when he chooses, our sufficiently ancient one orders the best tasting liquid in the best looking vessels: 'attractive she/hers', as mother put it.

>>97067335
>They treated the coming of Taylor Swift as a crisis about as terrifying as the one chronicled by H0T_G4R0U3S_1N_Y0R_3R34 in this thread.
And right they were to do so.

>While we plan to leave in Spring, I wonder if a stronger influence of the Clan of the Rose in Bridgeport might draw people from NY and other cities, kind of like a smaller scale version of this phenomenon.
That would be appreciated, I think. Bridgeport had a strong industrial base for the last century, but as that dwindles down for obvious world-economics reasons, the city on its own already slowly gentrifies and turns to other sources of income, along with its reputation changing a little. A verifiably artistic touch of somebody naturally adept at socialite activity would be quite helpful in speeding this process along. I will be sure to mention this to my Sire, so that he could, perhaps, turn this already positive effect of your visit into a deliberate and helpful campaign.

>if anyone, it's my childer I envy.
Any particular reason besides that they do enjoy a caring treatment from you?

>>97064730
My condolences for having to deal with Mutihorn. The description checks out - after we hit it with a train, it seemed to develop an utter loathing for them as a concept, and it must've burned through a lot of reserves over its deployment in our city, so it still rampaging to feast makes sense. I suggest informing your Prince and the crew both to keep in mind that the thing is smarter than it looks, and only pretends to be particularly limited by equine anatomy. I've seen one of its legs split into the person that made it up, to let it root around in a sewer in search of our Nosferatu hiding in it, not to mention the relatively more mundane things like climbing walls.

>>97060114
THIS PROVED TO BE EXTREMELY CORRECT
WOULD APPRECIATE SPIRIT DIPLOMACY TIPS IF ANYBODY GOT ANY

>>97071511
>Any particular reason besides that they do enjoy a caring treatment from you?
Stockbro asked:
>Ever get jealous of the life your ghouls are living?
But it's not my ghouls I'm jealous of. For much of my life I was on my own and struggling, sometimes I ask myself where would I be now had I been allowed to continue with my career as an art model throughout adulthood. But then I look at this beautiful family I've built, where we pool our resources, grow and cultivate our hobbies, arts, interests together.

Is it that strange that I should feel some jealousy, when my childer had the sort of people to rely on that I never had, that I wished I had? But this is not not the venomous, festering kind of jealousy that I detect when neonates glare at Blue Fairy's brilliance, this jealousy I have only drives me more to give more to my family, to demand the best and to give the best.
Or perhaps I'm subjecting the word jealousy to abuse. I am, after all, a sadist.
>>97070935
>Yes, exactly, Anonymous, I think that's what she meant.
Why, thank you for the interjection, darling.

>>97071533
Offer vitae or see what it likes in the material world?

>>97071533
The ancient Chinese art of crying your eyes out for forgiveness.

>>97071533
Figure out what it is, if it's just a ghost you can deal with it fairly easily. If it's a demon? You get someone higher up on the pyramid to deal with it.

>>97056788
>>97056808
>>97059112
Update soon, this is getting weird.

>>97056796
Not much but I've still got a few things I'm saving for the near future.

>>97071746
If its a ghost, objects that were important to someone who died usually have more physicality to them. With Fae spirits, run because they will always fuck you over in the end. With demons, run to your nearest glowing priest and beg for mercy and assistance, or have someone who can throw around centuries worth of blood and will to help you out. At least that's what I'd do. I've yet to have a pleasant encounter with unbodied beings.
>>97071746
Breaking the chains of generational trauma is one of the greatest things anyone can do. It's what lead me to end up adopting three childer. It's one of those more old-timey opinions I really do believe in, that we have a duty to the younger generations to lift them up and help them become their best selves. It's a little different as Kindred, but it still holds weight I think.

>>97069845
Of course my friend. Let me know when you get home. I believe Bleu will be taking her leave tonight as well.

>>97071511
Smarter than it looks. Capable of reshaping its form to at least a limited degree. Noted. I'll make it known at tonight's assembly. Might have a lead on its whereabouts. With any luck we can bring enough firepower to bear on this thing to put it down for good, or at least weaken it enough that it decides to lay low while we put together a plan of action.

>>97069845
>>97073254
Boarding the plane for Jacksonville now. Thank you both for the pleasant company. À la prochaine!

>>97074207
À la prochaine, mon petit serpent...

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Update 4, long game update
>Situation has calmed down for us as the Occupation has given up on completely occupying the city and is holding portions of the East and South.
>The Loups in the north and the South have consolidated their own positions and have been forcing them further inland.
>Police are being quietly suppressed seemingly under the guise of a 'National Guard deployment' over the 'Out of Season Wild Fires.'
>Former Police Chief Garvey Wichemosky was found dead yesterday in his office, ruled a 'Suicide'
>Back and forth skirmishes, but nothing very large to go off on. Seems the occupation realized how scarce their holdings are.
>Serious episodes of psychosis are flaring up in the area, sightings of our interlopers but no run-ins yet.
>The occupation is operating from an HQ at both St.Christopher Church (which they've turned into a fucking fortress I'll add) and the North Michigan University, they're digging at the Marquette Senior High School.
>Currently helping out on the investigation of the deep mystery, both in the Lake and the nightmare thing under the city. Which if this Thing is the same under both schools is a little over 3km long.
>As an aside, I refuse to go into the sewers of the city.
>About a quarter of the city has evacuated, but the big pharma and ore industries are still going strong so we're good for right now.
Now I'm not going to lie, I've been getting a bit paranoid lately and I'm thinking about things going wrong. So I'm going to put down my thoughts on the survivors of our little community here. Both as record, insurance, and if anyone recognizes anything. Might as well act as a psued-Nossi.

>>97074511

>"Miss Q"
>Tremi
>Exile of Quebec and PAINFULLY FRANCOPHONE, dresses like she's still living in the 1600s
>Most cooperative of the trio that is our Anti-Chantry and that is from a woman who refuses to speak English
Probably one of the more trustworthy people in all this. Despite her in theory being a hardass demi-Elder I can read her pretty well.

>"Mister Nice Guy"
>Tremi
>Schizophrenic mess clinging onto 'Rational Christian' morals, kicked out of Milwaukee Chantry, will be flayed if he goes back according to him
>Might only be alive because he hates War Crimes that much, collects fingernails
Not sure what to think of him. Never liked him but that's because he keeps commenting on the 'wonderful shape of my skull.'

>"Mister War Crimes"
>Tremi
>Sent to this city 'officially' to keep an eye on things, unofficially because of something that was too fucked for the Chicago Tremis
>Walking encyclopedia, knows actually how to talk to people, laments on some fucked shit when he ran an insane asylum
Trust him like a tumour. I think I know the kind of freak he is. But could have stopped being benign. Was first on Necromancy train.

>"Mister Y"
>???
>No one knows what they are or where they came from, old, powerful, licked a lamp post in winter last year for some reason
>Large knowledge of things that a lot of people would kill over, no eyelids, only owns one set of clothes
Wild-Card. Has been since he strolled into town. Although he's always made his grudges (w/ Sabbat & Anarchs) pretty apparent.

>"HMW (HoW mAnY wInTeRs?)"
>Gang
>Curmudgeonly old fart of a man, demi-anarch who preceded all that noise apparently, the kind of old Nordic that settled Vinland
>Decent enough neighbour but has an allergy to responsibility, would prefer to live forever as the drunken regional tale-teller
Guy never rubbed me the right way but that might just be because I never cared about the traditions like he does.

>>97074511
>Currently helping out on the investigation of the deep mystery, both in the Lake and the nightmare thing under the city. Which if this Thing is the same under both schools is a little over 3km long.
>As an aside, I refuse to go into the sewers of the city.
I'm reminded of a project the Archbishop had going around in Los Angeles, it also targetted Nossies. Word was it was a Nicktuku, but they'd have to feed it licks by the barrel to keep it from starving to death, assuming even half the rumors about those are true.
You got any unaccounted for Tzimisce in Marquette?

>>97074527

>"Tattoos"
>Gang
>6'4 Gorilla of a woman with a lot of face ink, stick-up-ass disposition, and servility complex that sees her as an eternal middle manager
>Former Anubi from Milwakee, kicked out by the Prince despite being a perfect Cammie attack dog, never got over that
Probably the biggest reason we still have as large as a community as we do, although her hatred of outsiders/kine/anarchs isn't great.

>"Teddy"
>Gang
>Embraced at age ten, had enough bouts of our wilderness he's all fur and fangs, used to be a freak-show in the 1920s apparently
>Ironically the closest thing we have to a true mediator, smokes like a chimney and overall a pretty cool guy
One of three people I believe I can trust completely, and he's the one still siphoning off things from the local pharmacorp.

>"Yours Truly"
>Gang
>Me myself and I, drifted into Marquette orbit a while back, got acclimatized to things before this by way of osmosis
>Picked up some tricks from a guy with extra mouths that let me live under wolf country, miss him even if he was a fucking cryptid
Interesting times finally found me. And I fucking hate them.

>"Stripper Hatshepsup"
>Tori
>Somehow more naked than Teddy despite actually owning clothes, excessive gold body paint, highly opinionated on kin polytheism
>The only one in this fucking town with a successful business track, not that you could tell that when she's strutting around in fishnets
Prior to recent events she was more than happy to declare most of us could get ashed, her resources have been invaluable though.

>"Satanic Hippy"
>Tori
>Vestige of the hippy movement that acquired a combination of weird devil-snake-new-age religion and schizophrenia in Chicago
>Used to spend her time screaming with Hatshepsup over body-image and theology, now just sort of clings to her
Outside of running hemo and weed for her I was never able to get much of a read on her, but she treated me decently.

>>97074540

>"The Village Cat"
>Malk
>60% of the time an interloping voyeur, 25% of the time actually very helpful if disconcerting, 15% an incoherent gibbering vegetable
>No known history, has to be dressed sometimes because she really doesn't get clothes, currently hogging my den like an angry possum
Before this I was convinced she was playing a fish malk. Now? Pretty sure she doesn't exist in the same time spectrum as us. She might be the only person who has my absolute trust because there is no hiding ANYTHING for her. Zero filters. Constant tears. Very grabby.

>"Momma Rhinstones"
>Cait
>First member of the little 'Carnival Coterie' that formed to deal with everything, accent is painfully southern, owns a Tony Alamo jacket
>Former country singer, one of the few capable of being a functioning adult in this town, no memory before waking as a Vampire in New Orleans
Bit of a wild card and I get the feeling she knows more than she's letting on, but I need her to actually lead in the field.

>"Halal"
>Assa
>Somali Chiraqi kid who got bled and risen out of the blue, crawled into town a month before all this started, squeamish baby with murder instincts
>Second member of the CC, good little information gatherer, absolutely clings to her old faith and her new coterie
Not much to say, might have been manipulated but she wears her heart on her hijab, hope she makes it out of this mess.

>"Strong Man"
>Bruh
>Not so much a person as a wall of meat, got his tongue cut out in Texas apparently, sideshow to Show-Master with many 'skills'
>Nominal member of the CC that rolled into town a while back, no ego, proved to be a real help at the air-field raid when he hit a guy with a car
Can't say much about him on account of him being mute, although I'm pretty sure he's bullshitting about what he is. Also, I don't trust jugglers on principle.

>>97074548

>"Show-Master"
>Vent
>Spiritually the reincarnation of P.T. Barnum, nominal master of the C.C., recruited Halal and MR in town, owns a Ferris Wheel
>Initially came to town to recruit 'freaks' for his 'Most Magnificent Show in the West,' Might be insane, pragmatic when he needs to be
Another wild card I don't really get, doesn't help that he dresses like the Artful Dodger and has kleptomaniac tendencies. Still he's actually contributed materials to all this.

That's the list at the moment with what I'm willing to share. May it not be my final testament.

>>97074539
We've got two unidentified intruders that rolled in with that Antribu Ventrue and the Giovanni.
I don't think either was Tzimisce. I haven't seen a Tzimisce since I left Canada myself and I like to think I know the scent of them.

Finally back online. Christ. What a fucking nightmare. Sorry for disappearing on you guys, the fucking spirit fried my laptop and nothing else I had on me would turn on until the storm subsided.
>>97071930
Well, it likes tearing trees out of the ground with gusts of wind, hitting everything near me with lightning, and setting fire to woods to smoke me out of cover. It didn't seem to like my attempts at appeasing very much at all.
>>97072055
It got angrier when I tried this.
>>97072060
This is definitely not a ghost, I've dealt with those before. Demons I'm less experienced with, but the feeling doesn't quite match. I'm near-certain it's something of the caern - which would be weird. We've maintained good control of the caern, the forces that fuel it never acted like this. And I've just checked, the place is still well-bound.
Oh, and I am not in the pyramid, so that's not an option.
I'll write up an overview of what happened when I can, and I'll try to extract something from my very, very fried phone. Without that I'd feel like an idiot, explaining how a little lightning and thunder scared me.

>>97072055
My adorable bonbon is here? You should introduce yourself before you prank people, and update me on the upcoming event.

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>>97075861
Introduction: Hi! I'm Mercury Lamp! I have a very healthy relationship with dolls, the Victorian era, robots, and mom!

Event: we have some Ventrue guests so I thought of starting with Assoluta's show, she sent me her final list of arias.

Assoluta:
- Sempre libera from Verdi's La traviata
- Vissi d'arte from Puccini's Tosca
- Casta diva from Bellini's Norma
- Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
- Höre mit Sinn was ich dir sage from Wagner's Götterdämmerung
- Encore 1: Habanera from Bizet's Carmen
- Encore 2: Spargi d'amaro pianto from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
- Encore 3: Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
- Singing Master Class: Caro mio ben
- Acting Master Class: Extreme Facial Expressions (Presence is forbidden!)
- Vampire vs Machine Loudness Challenge: Boy Toy sent me this picture of the Impreza they're building, says "This isn't even its final form", we'll do a dyno test out next to the pool, while Assoluta does her loudest high note
- Ending song: Leck mich im Arsch by Mozart

Playlist: after Assoluta does her thing, we make the guests comfy with classical crossover, then we shake their arses with progressively darker and heavier electronic music, we change the tempo to keep them guessing.
Exempli gratia:
(insert Assoluta here)
https://youtu.be/NFjwDFzjQKo
https://youtu.be/2RDhAs3nNWQ
https://youtu.be/OWsjbrLQ8EU
https://youtu.be/-qmX76vxM1c
https://youtu.be/-nnovasBxso
https://youtu.be/G8wYJrS6q0k
https://youtu.be/i7Gkh_9hyi8
https://youtu.be/qFfybn_W8Ak
https://youtu.be/UBWWIWlQIQs
https://youtu.be/FQNB3WLv-Ik
https://youtu.be/m5Cuf7LQ_Dc
https://youtu.be/JDDh_h89MAY
https://youtu.be/B7NbMUXC0aw
https://youtu.be/5laASfHvNew
https://youtu.be/vt5Ucr6kFsY
https://youtu.be/5q3noFv1v8s
https://youtu.be/OO8jN9rhfjA
https://youtu.be/rHIgI65h1IA
https://youtu.be/IxIFj6n7jzs

>>97067758
What changed is that I want to augment my doll making with the latest tech, I just finished an online course in robotics.

>>97076145
>Vampire vs Machine Loudness Challenge: Boy Toy sent me this picture of the Impreza they're building, says "This isn't even its final form", we'll do a dyno test out next to the pool, while Assoluta does her loudest high note
What?
>Ending song: Leck mich im Arsch by Mozart
That song is your idea, isn't it? These rascals, I swear to Caine...

>>97076169
>That song is your idea, isn't it?
No, it was Mozart's! But wait, there's more!

The Devil Wears Me & Mercury Lamp:
- Fashion Show by Zohar
- Robot Doll Catwalk by Zohar
- Fashion Show by Primrose
- Robot Doll Catwalk by Primrose
Uncle and me will be dressing up the family, the willing guests, the staff, and my bots, twice! Yay!

Blue Fairy:
- Martial arts demonstration feat. Boy Toy and the bodyguards
- Taijiquan open seminar

Venus in Furs:
- Solo whipcracking show
- Bondage workshop feat. Assoluta, Blue Fairy, guest Mistresses
- Dominatrix open seminar

And that would be the party program, ladies and gentlemen!

>>97075368
Ah. Yeah when I first started dabbling in koldunism, the wind was quite fiesty. Managed to tame it was AMPLE vitae and some wind chimes around the property. Maybe try some bone chimes for your fiesty wind?

>>97076145
Howdy. Any exhaust set up he has will be quieter than open headers. For PEAK loudness, put on a roots style supercharger.
Huh. Got another tablet last night. This time in Akkadian cuneiform. I happen to be able to interpret it. Firstly, it said sorry for the poor inscription of the sarcophagus. Bad copper from that scoundrel Ea Nasir had been used. Secondly that “the Son of Typhon sends his thanks. He is now reunitied with his favored hand-maiden”. Bleu you have any idea what this means???

>>97067435
How's the book treating you? Got anything of value out of it yet?
>>97063193
I am an immortal mage and can shoot lightning from my fingertips. Most ghouls are slaves. Now, it's not an utterly awful deal - they're fundamentally human but better in most ways. Some benefits of us, most benefits of being Kine. Not that bad. And I do my utmost to treat my ghouls as fairly and nicely as I can, so they're far better off under my care and protection than roaming the streets utterly unaware that any stranger they see may be out to literally eat them.
But no matter how nice and polite and fairly I try to treat them, fundamentally, you're right - they're still addicts and slaves reliant on me for their fix and their life, and I am still an immortal mage. I guess the one thing you can envy them for is that their state can be escaped, and ours can only be left through final death.

>>97067335
It's a case-by-case thing, same as sexual attraction is. I'm a man; in life my fashion sense and overall appearance, and what I wished to shape myself into, never changed that, so becoming a parasite couldn't, either. But pick some Tzimisce who can be anything they'd like anytime they'd like, and who shifts between personas and appearances just to keep the centuries interesting, and suddenly clinging to a specific identity, or labels, makes less sense for them. Or clinging to humanity, in general.
I'm honestly leaning towards that for most Kindred, ones without special circumstances like that theoretical Tzimisce, outright rejecting gender as a concept on the grounds of 'well I am a predator now', along with rejecting other things that defined you in life, is just a form of cope. A form of self-delusion and an attempt at playing up how much of an inhuman monster you are, especially to yourself, because otherwise you might remember that you're just a very scared, very anxious corpse. Not very healthy, not very reasonable, and certainly not something obligatory, but common.

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Managed to use some very fucky scrying to start projecting files off of the burnt out phone and onto a drive. I've bitched at one of my siblings for studying Technomancy a while ago, and really should apologize to him later.
The attached image isn't a perfect or finished projection of a photo I managed to take before the phone started smoking in my hands, but it's broadly accurate to what I saw, discounting the obvious limitations of even ritualistically improved hardware at capturing some things. Hopefully, it conveys the problem I'm dealing with and its particulars, and will be enough until the ritual produces a better one.
God, I hope that fucking raven man got hit by a thunderbolt.
the artist's a god, from nothing to this in like three hours. He might finish it tomorrow, we'll see how it goes.
>>97076974
Helpful advice, but I do not think this particular piece of fiesty wind would be sated with wind chimes. It only seemed to accept me powering through terror and fleeing through burning woods as a reason to leave. Either that, or it just ran out of juice and it'll be back tonight. We'll see.
Still open to suggestions on what to do about this shit, even if the raven's fucked off, haven't been seen thus far, and the giant sky bird is not back yet either.

>>97077469
Oh. That’s a BIG spirit. Find a shaman and fast. If it’s native in origin, burn some cigars as incense FAST!

>>97077469
Might be best to take the L and let the Loups take back that Caern my man.

>>97076974
>Howdy. Any exhaust set up he has will be quieter than open headers. For PEAK loudness, put on a roots style supercharger.
Howdy! Boy Toy said the supercharger came in and they already installed but it's a twin screw one, and here is the last teaser before the actual challenge:
https://vocaroo.com/16x0huJFcQ5y

>>97077354
I haven't wanted to get into a fist fight with a book this bad since I found a journal with someone's soul stuck in it. The bastard book would always look extremely important or useful for whatever you needed and when you opened it he would just start shit talking you until you broke the compulsion and put it down. This one is better because I haven't noticed a compulsion on it, but it does need to shut up. Kindred psych is fascinating though, and it has given me some ideas on what to do with Little Light's hate-boner for wolves.
>>97077469
Okay so you're going to want a bunch of naturally grown tobacco, whiskey, and a few fresh baked loaves of bread. Pour half of each bottle of whiskey out, set the bottles down, burn the tobacco and bread in a small fire. Apologize to the Thunderbird spirit for whatever it was that got it's jimmies twisted, and consider bouncing for a while. A month or two minimum is my best guess.

>>97076145
>>97076833
>>97078361
Notwithstanding the inevitable tomfoolery, I'm satisfied with this program, not we can prepare to leave a lasting impression on every guest.
>>97077469
That thing looks absolutely petrifying.

Also if any Nosferatu on here knew one that went by Staszewski, he experienced True Death yesterday in a bulldozer accident at a graveyard. Just chopped his head right off.

I know us Toreadors and Nos have our differences and dislike of each other, but he was a good dude. Deserved better.

>>97076974
>“the Son of Typhon sends his thanks. He is now reunitied with his favored hand-maiden”. Bleu you have any idea what this means???
And you say this was in Akkadian cuneiform? Hmm... I have my suspicions but it shouldn't be possible. I'll need to look through some records before I can confirm them.

Honestly! With all these relics that keep finding their way to you, mon cher, one would believe that YOU are the Setite here, not I!

>>97079351
I thought it odd, but now that you mention it, cara mia, he does find a lot of artifacts from that area -Kakophoni

Evening. The Philosopher-operative & chosen slave of Venus in Furs, I'm Boy Toy
>>97076145
>>97076833
>>97078400
Song, dance, fashion, our household signature arts: doll making, martial arts, SM. Aren't we forgetting something? Where are the visual arts?

1. Tomorrow NoblesseObleedge has us meet the local Toreadors, we take a good look at their artworks, bring some we like home, and then we hold an auction right after Blue Fairy's exhibition
2. Blue Fairy wants to get rid of that emerald green dress that makes her look like a Chinese videogame goddess. She had that dress commissioned because she was very confident she was the daughter of some Chinese immigrant, she went to get her blood test results wearing said clothing, hoping to celebrate being pronounced Chinese while also looking the part, but the test proved her Asian ancestry is Korean instead
3. Even so, she's having a Taijiquan class, a Chinese martial art, the clothes would fit the occasion, for once
4. Conveniently enough her exhibition is right after Mercury Lamp's fashion show - meaning she was going to change her clothes regardless
5. She is putting that dress on one last time to auction it
6. The auction will be hosted by Princess Charming, who is a good public speaker, with Blue Fairy as co-host and model, capitalizing on her unique looks. I'll be there to make sure things run smoothly
7. Princess Charming will probably be very determined to purchase this dress. Cue the old joke: "Don't forget you're buying just the dress, the model is sold separately"
8. The auction will help increase the fame of both the local Toreador art scene and ours, it shouldn't be to difficult to persuade even those who do it ars gratia artis and don't care for the money. Not our main reason, but getting some money back for the party can't hurt
9. Like Blue Fairy, we may auction items from our collections
10. We also hold an exhibit

Add to the program:

Art Exhibit

Princess Charming:
- Art auction feat. Blue Fairy, Boy Toy

>>97081469
>Test proved her ancestry was Korean instead.
You made me spit blood whiskey all over my monitor. Funniest shit I've seen all week.

>>97081469
YOU LITERAL MOTHER FUCKER
MAKING ME DEBUT WEARING THAT SHIT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE
THEN SELLING IT TO MY GIRLFRIEND
I CAN'T EVEN BE MAD BECAUSE IT'S SO DAMN CLEVER
BUT I'LL GET MY REVENGE JUST YOU WAIT
THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING A WOMAN CAN DO TO YOU THAT YOU DON'T LIKE
I'M GOING TO FIND IT
AND I'M GOING TO ENJOY IT
FUCKING
MANWHORE
CUNT
>>97081483
AAAAAAAAHHHH IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING OH MY FUCKING GOD

>>97081469
>that emerald green dress that makes her look like a Chinese videogame goddess
Videogame or not, I need this. I must see it, feel it. It will be mine.
>>97081507
I can feel so much passion behind every word, this oath reads like it was divinely inspired by a muse, a tenth muse, as if a new muse of insults was born tonight! O what spectacle! I ought to thank Boy Toy.
Hell hath no fury like a vengeant Toreador.

I should introduce myself too. I'm from the Clan of Kings, trained by Emily Carson. My major interests are economics, politics and classics, I just started studying data analysis, dancing and ecology.
I met Blue Fairy in Rome. She is French-Korean and toured the world with her family, now I'm touring with them too, we'll be in the United States very soon.

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The photo's about done scry-projecting. It's probably as good as it'll get, until I invest into trying to actually restore the phone's storage and get the original. This is close enough, barring some minor things like carvings or designs or whatever on the beak - it was a bit more floral in reality, less vague-spiralish. I guess the difference in how it looks is due to the work done on my phone to permit it to capture footage of spirits easier.
No new manifestations thus far. I've seen some strange colorful gusts in the corner of my eye, wisps, heard distant crackling of thunder, but nothing on this scale. And, strangely enough, using my namesake's feeling a bit easier. I've not gone out of my way to test things, but maybe it's just the remnant energy in the air, or something?
>>97078010
Not a real option. If we just pack our shit and leave the caern, all that does is, at best, letting the Garou retake it without a fight, grant them an appropriate boost in power, and makes it so the only loose end for the awkward story of how they routinely ate shit trying to retake the caern is, my coterie still is out there. They'll just hunt us down and kill us in revenge.
So, until we finally make them talk to us and bury the hatchet, we're really best off trying to use the caern and maybe talk to Thunderbird or whatever the fuck this is. If the wolves don't feel like negotiating, maybe their evidently sometimes embodied patrons will. It didn't kill me. That's a start.
>>97077977
>>97078368
Advice's appreciated, going out to steal a truck's worth of cigars and whiskey with my coterie. We've only a relatively meager amount of supplies for spiritual appeasement on hand, they never were this big a problem.
A shaman's a tall order though. We don't have any especially talented spiritualists on hand, but maybe some local Kine would be of use. Open to hiring one, if somebody here is feeling like loaning one of theirs for a problem of this scale.

These two messages: >>97081469 >>97081507 might give you the wrong idea. It may not look like it, but Boy Toy and Blue Fairy are just playing their parts in a comedy. Boy Toy plays the part of the overly rigorous man of logic, and Blue Fairy the explosively emotional woman.
It's just one of the many ways we entertain each other in this house. Princess Charming here >>97081701 is also playing along, she's a fast learner.

Had Blue Fairy really hated that green dress, she would have burned it, but she chose to keep it, and here comes her brother offering her an opportunity for the redemption she was waiting for.

We are a family. Brother and sister wouldn't be doing this if they didn't love each other very much. When either of them feels actual hatred, they become silent, and merciless.

That said, Boy Toy's proposal is approved, we'll hold an art exhibit and the auction.

>>97081767
Make sure it’s good quality tobacco. Not that flavored shit or the gas station ones. Any kind of bourbon should be good, I think!

>>97081767
Best of luck then. I suppose I don't much listen to common sense myself, how I ended up in Loup country.
Remember that you're dealing with something old and of the land. Your elder, so to speak. Treat it with respect you give the sun and the moon brother.

>>97081767
Here's hoping everything goes as best as it can. You're far braver than I for staying rather than cutting your losses like I would have.
>>97082705
Good American whisky, rum, or maybe even tequila if Lavender is far enough South. Local is good, local and an old company is even better because it'll have more sympathetic ties to the land.
And yeah, it should be aged leaves, not cartons of cigarettes. For the same reasons as the choice of liquor.
>>97085393
Thunder and Lightning were some of the oldest things that mankind worshipped and feared, along with the Sun and Moon. Couldn't agree more with you about needing to show the right amount of respect, fear, and deference to it.

>>97082332
Can you tell Boy Toy he's my favorite of your childer for me?

How many souls would you sacrifice to eat shrimp again

>>97085489
I ain’t cajun or, God forbid, French. I’d offer many souls to enjoy rum again though.

>>97085829
C’est blessant! Qu'est-ce que je t'ai fait?

>>97085970
You were doomed from the start Frangach. Just like the rest of us in dealing with the Sasannaich.
Acaidis tho?

>>97085970
pay him no mind, mon cher -Kakophoni

dumb question: would your rather play with some nice tits or pet friendly sharks?

Mommy's home!
We finally made it to our mansion in Bridgeport! I'm so happy for all the work our staff did to prepare it, Mercury Lamp was awestruck, we have to make sure tomorrow night's party is the best also to reward their efforts.
The meetings with the Princes went really smooth as well, we're only some 20 minutes behind schedule. Now, for our guided tour of the city...
>>97085484
>Can you tell Boy Toy he's my favorite of your childer for me?
Done. I don't play favourites, though I see I'm not the only one that thinks he's a specimen.
>>97086561
Sharks can have a pretty rough skin.

>>97086630
The first reactions to the mansion:
As soon as it was within sight, Assoluta started singing Connais‑tu le pays où fleurit l'oranger? from from Thomas's Mignon.
Once the cars were parked, Blue Fairy said: "I miss Italy already.", Princess Charming replied: "L'Italia vivrà sempre nel tuo cuore." and they started making out.
Mercury Lamp ran down the hallway laughing and going "Wee!!!" then immediately found a bed to jump on, Boy Toy chased her then gave her some uppies.
The Devil Wears Me, my stylist-administrator with an impaired gait he deliberately refuses to treat or circumvent, once he saw the interior he concluded: "This was worth being buried in paperwork for ten days straight." and I embraced him tightly.

>>97078368
>It does need to shut up.
If you get bored of bickering with it, try treating it like your up-in-the-years grandpa: a very lonely, interaction- and attention-starved individual who wants to feel like they can still contribute something to the world, be helpful and intereresting. That doesn't really improve its attidude for long, but a bit of respite's nice.
Oh, unrelated, but, glad to hear your adoptees are doing good. Want me to try and point a potential Obfuscate tutor your way? I know an extremely paranoid but talented option for this, one of my Sire's old colleagues. He visits, sometimes. Very paranoid and annoying to work with, but useful in his ways. Tends to bring his assistant along, also Nossie, but she is not very willing to help literally anybody with literally anything, even for money, so she's less of an option unless you manage to charm her.
>>97078400
I've stopped freaking out about it by now, and, honestly, it was quite beautiful. Sure, scary and overwhelming, but there really was something to it, especially the glimpses of the otherworld that shined through; plant life in all sorts of vivid colors, streaks of supernatural light. It was captivating, not quite like Dominate is, but still, enough so that it took a bit of effort to take my eyes off of the holes in reality. And the sheer presence the spirit had, the power coursing through the air - that's just not something the picture can convey.
Though the forest fire getting so vivid the night got about as bright as dawn was less pleasant.
>>97082705
It'd be the most embarrassing thing in the world, to die to a spirit getting angry over gas station cigars. Will try to avoid that, thank you.
>>97085484
>You're far braver than I for staying rather than cutting your losses like I would have.
There's no point in being afraid of the inevitable, and explosive consequences to my Sire stealing the caern always were inevitable. It's just wiser, to try and meet them from a position of control.

Oh, lovely to see the extended Venus house grace this place with their presence while I was a bit too busy to log in.
>>97086630
>The meetings with the Princes went really smooth as well
'Smooth' undersells it, honestly. I've seen the New York court meet guests before, including ones that show up with your sort of pomp and numbers, and the reception you received was warmer than most, Mistress Venus.
>Now, for our guided tour of the city...
Speaking of, I can provide at least one tip regading the night's program. The Primogen of the Toreador of our city and the leader of that university coterie I mentioned extends a cordial and official invite to you (and to whoever else may be interested in attending one of their events, and can make it) to a performance they intend to conduct in the The Klein Memorial Auditorium later tonight. The coterie initially intended to indulge their young and host it in the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater, the building that looks somewhat like a pile of napkins got thrown on top of it, but the sound there was apparently subpar, so at the last minute the coterie changed their mind and utterly altered their whole routine and are currently aggressively rehearsing.
On-brand, I suppose.
It will be a public event with attendance open to all Kindred and no more than two ghouls per Kindred visitor, though they may make an exception for your staff since the theater's easily large enough to accomodate and the acoustics would be wrong without enough bodies. The coterie expect the guests to fit an aesthetic only described as 'Retrokitsch 30s'. Not entirely sure how that is meant to look, or how one can prepare for it on such a short notice, which is presumably the point of the exercise.
>>97086561
Petting a friendly shark has to be an experience like a thousand people get per year at best, statistically. Easy choice right there.

>>97086852
>The coterie expect the guests to fit an aesthetic only described as 'Retrokitsch 30s'. Not entirely sure how that is meant to look, or how one can prepare for it on such a short notice, which is presumably the point of the exercise.
Boy Toy! Blue Fairy! Emergency! We have an emergency!
Drag uncle and Mercury Lamp to the workshop and lock them inside until they come out with appropriate clothes! Where in the hell is my raccoon coat!? Stop staring at me and find it!!!

>>97086898
Is this the real reason Toreadors can move so fast?

>>97086901
Now is not the time for bon mots! Lend me that pink skirt, the one from our first date, will you?

Wait, what do you mean you want to neckties out of the dress I'm wearing? Are you out of your mind?

>>97086910
PLEASE I'M AT MY WITS' END HERE

>>97086910
*make neckties
>>97086914
It keeps happening...

Boomer bras, boomer bras, making all these boomer bras
Bloomer panties, bloomer panties, bloomer panties in a wad

I searched all wardrobes and luggage, are these good?

>>97086935
Give me that jacket!

>>97086935
THOSE IN YOUR LEFT ARM, I CAN CUT THEM
>>97086938
IT SUCKS

>>97086941
>IT SUCKS
THAT'S THE POINT

Form an assembly line and fix our makeup! Start the engines!

We're ready.

In hindsight, this was an interesting challenge, if a bit traumatic. I was carried like a princess back and forth, and we had so much space in this mansion and so little time, we had to communicate with our smartwatches, and as it turns out we never even logged out of SHRECKnet, everything we shouted at each other was posted.
I've had my battles against the clock before while working on my designs, but this was on a whole other scale. What matters is that we were able to enjoy the performance and the kids had fun. In the end, there is no better positive reinforcement than their smile.

>>97086087
Non. I was born in northwestern France in 1776.

>>97071533
>>97072060
Something else is coming.
RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. ITS THE GINGERBREAD MAN.

Glad to see this thing is finally working. Hello Kindred, Mi loco amor told me about this, and helped me set it up. apparently i can talk to kindred all over the globe. What are the affairs of things right now?
>>97087409
Hola mi amor, te extrañé.
¿Qué ven tus visiones?

>>97087413
A Future with you in it, Mi esqueleto <3
>>97086852
How did the event go?
>>97085489
I would Double Uncle Augies Wager to get a taste of macaroni and cheese again.

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>>97086852
>>97086898
>>97087043
These were our main sources of inspiration, top to bottom:

Joan Crawford (Venus in Furs)
Katharine Hepburn (Assoluta)
Marlene Dietrich (Blue Fairy)
Ginger Rogers (Princess Charming)
Shirley Temple (Mercury Lamp)
Errol Flynn (The Devil Wears Me)
Robert Montgomery (Boy Toy)

>>97087695
Oh, I do see the resemblance.
@ The whole of Venus household, exceptional work with the outfits and your respective little roles in your assembly. The sheer contrast between your period-piece-but-better look, and me and my coterie just kind of standing there squeezed into suits, that will sting in a good way for a solid month or so.
Though, honestly, I was slightly worried the Primogen might text me sometime during your category 5 fashion emergency to inform me that they've actually settled on something neon and very 90s for an aesthetic, or something like that. Would them doing that warrant a blood feud, by any chance?

>>97087422
Quite lovely. A play, fundamentally, with careful and mindful use of Presence, as to convey the emotional impact of some scenes. A bit on the nose in terms of the blatancy of things they tried to relay, once or twice, but I think it was in part my fault, my coterie has a Brujah woman who makes it her life's purpose to be exactly as Brujah about everything as she can be. We've worked with the Toreadors frequently before, so they know her, regrettably. Plus the Nosferatu out of Stamford visited, I'm fairly certain, so snubbing them was probably also a goal.
The plot was... God. Imagine one of those horrid little coffee shop AU fanfics, if you've read any. I've been introduced to those by that aforementioned Brujah. So, one of those, conceptually, but set in the thirties, and centering around some of the most well-known historical and apocryphical tales of Kindred history, ultimately focusing on just how beautiful it is when a large, extended family comes together at eve of holidays. So a Hallmark movie with vampirism and anachronism, to somewhat exaggerate it.
Oh, and given all this and the inherent surprise of the visit, plus that whole recent-catastrophic-Tzimisce-event business, there was no violence, no bloodshed except stage-required stuff and snacking, and nobody got dusted. A true success by Kindred theater standards.

>>97087977
>The sheer contrast between your period-piece-but-better look, and me and my coterie just kind of standing there squeezed into suits, that will sting in a good way for a solid month or so.
Harpies wear clothes my childe designs, the game was rigged from the start, but if it is of any consolation, you can wear some too!
If you'd like, come join us at the fashion show at the party we're hosting. We have a disproportionate amount of female guests, and The Devil Wears Me could use some men to display his works, and if you care to try something more Victorian, so does Mercury Lamp.
You just need to walk in a straight line, strike a pose, come back, and let us take care of everything before and after. I assume you'll have multiple chances to remove your clothes this night, I'd like you to come to the party wearing something comfortable.
>Though, honestly, I was slightly worried the Primogen might text me sometime during your category 5 fashion emergency to inform me that they've actually settled on something neon and very 90s for an aesthetic, or something like that. Would them doing that warrant a blood feud, by any chance?
It depends. If we mean synthwave, claiming to imitate the 80s-90s but making most things black, blue, dark purple and only occasionally orange, we can talk.
If we mean people dressing up as colossal highlighters as they actually did in those decades, then no, I don't think any of us would want to be caught dead, or undead, wearing that shite.
>a Brujah woman who makes it her life's purpose to be exactly as Brujah about everything as she can be
Doomed to be typecasted, I'm sure, but there can be a role for everyone in the theatre as in real life. Honestly, the energy comes with its own charm.
>how beautiful it is when a large, extended family comes together at eve of holidays
An important lesson that completely flew over Blue Fairy's head, too distracted by Princess Charming's vivid green eyes, dark blond hair, tanned skin, luscious lips...

>>97086775
>I've stopped freaking out about it by now, and, honestly, it was quite beautiful. Sure, scary and overwhelming, but there really was something to it, especially the glimpses of the otherworld that shined through; plant life in all sorts of vivid colors, streaks of supernatural light. It was captivating, not quite like Dominate is, but still, enough so that it took a bit of effort to take my eyes off of the holes in reality. And the sheer presence the spirit had, the power coursing through the air - that's just not something the picture can convey.
>Though the forest fire getting so vivid the night got about as bright as dawn was less pleasant.
Please don't let a fellow Bullfighter see that entity, chance are they'll be transfixed and burned to a crisp, not necessarily in that order.

>>97088289
>If you'd like, come join us at the fashion show at the party we're hosting.
An interesting offer! And I know just how to package it as a public service to the city, I think, as to let me both indulge in something new and do something worthwhile at the same time. Do you enjoy cheesy romance stories of the Romeo and Juliet kind, Venus?
And separately, any of the group I was with you'd like to also invite to the party or the fashion show, specifically? The charming-as-ever Brujah's on the table, she tends to be agreeable, ultimately, just complains a lot along the way.

>>97088632
>Do you enjoy cheesy romance stories of the Romeo and Juliet kind, Venus?
I do, in moderation. As prototypical a story as it can be, Romeo and Juliet stood the test of time because of its writer's command of the English language, and I value good writing more than cheesiness or the lack thereof.
>any of the group I was with you'd like to also invite to the party or the fashion show, specifically?
Those two lads with the suits that fit their bodies, and the theme of the night, better, you know the ones, and I'll let you pick two more good kindred that you yourself would like party with. You've done a fantastic work to help us, this is your reward.
>The charming-as-ever Brujah's on the table, she tends to be agreeable, ultimately, just complains a lot along the way.
The party starts with Assoluta's arias, which are as removed from your typical Brujah's interests as it can be. I, for one, don't want to hear her pontificate on how she intends to deliver us from the evils of the bourgeoisie for the rest of the night. Do you, dear? Nor are we looking for a security guard who is one vaguely disrespectful glare away from flying into a frenzy.

Finally, if you and anyone else wish to experiment my own art, I want you to be completely relaxed. When we are playing, leave all thoughts of schedules, obligations, duties, all knowledge of the differences between kine and kindred, all the plans you wish to advance in favour of your allies and against your enemies, throw all that bollocks out of your head and allow only one thing inside.
When we're deepest in my game, there is only my own desire. Follow my lead, you will experience a pleasure that is not quite like vitae, nor like sex, it is its own realm: subspace, where bondage turns into freedom and pain turns into pleasure.
No one will force you to play, it's fine if you just watch, or even if you do something else, no one will judge you.

Now, excuse us, we have to finish the preparations then greet the first guests.

I HATE MAGILLA GORILLA I HATE I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT

>>97088844
>I do, in moderation

Terrific. So, my coterie sometimes includes a male Toreador. Very handsome, former model in life, died only very recently. He and his Nosferatu girlfriend managed to produce a sort-of Romeo and Juliet situation a little while back. Standard stuff: clan-defying lovers, each the other's moon in the night. No suicides thus far, it's a mundane sort of drama, discounting the people involved.

We've defused things, but there's still plenty excessive tension between the Toreador coterie, which includes his Sire, and the Stamford Nosferatu, of which his girlfriend is the former Primogen. Hence the Nosferatu representatives swinging by to take advantage of the broad invitation to the play, and the Toreadors doing a few small jabs at them as part of it.
So, it's less a settled situation and more a ceasefire.

If you give your blessing for this, we could try and make them build bridges. I'll drive or fly out to pick up the lovebirds immediately. The Toreador models, his girlfriend chats, as cordially as she can, with the Toreador coterie, who get to reconnect with their runaway Childe, all while the Stamford Nosferatu get to see their counterparts and verify a lack of any undue influence on her. Everybody wins, and you earn rightful accolades as the kind host who let this defusal of tension happen.

>Do you, dear?
She's endearing in her own way, but I do see your point.

>You've done a fantastic work to help us, this is your reward.
All in the night's work. I'm just glad to be of aid to good guests of my city, truly, though the reward will be enjoyed to its fullest.

>When we're deepest in my game, there is only my own desire. Follow my lead, you will experience a pleasure that is not quite like vitae, nor like sex, it is its own realm: subspace, where bondage turns into freedom and pain turns into pleasure.
I can't help but wonder if the public nature of offers like this is part of the intended thrill of it, Mistress Venus. Very inviting.

>>97089122
>If you give your blessing for this, we could try and make them build bridges. I'll drive or fly out to pick up the lovebirds immediately. The Toreador models, his girlfriend chats, as cordially as she can, with the Toreador coterie, who get to reconnect with their runaway Childe, all while the Stamford Nosferatu get to see their counterparts and verify a lack of any undue influence on her. Everybody wins, and you earn rightful accolades as the kind host who let this defusal of tension happen.
I am willing to lend your cause assistance, because I agree with you that it is just, both because my fellow Bullfighter should be free to love her, and because easing the tension between clans of the Camarilla is something worth pursuing.
In this house we don't hate the Nosferatu, nor do we demand to be liked by them, we just think there is no need to add to either insult or injury. Additionally, a few in the family have a history with diplomacy, conflict resolution, de-escalation and peacemaking.

>I can't help but wonder if the public nature of offers like this is part of the intended thrill of it, Mistress Venus. Very inviting.
It helps with the safety too, for example when I'm not playing but watching others, correcting mistakes. We all start this way.

A few rules:
- Assoluta consents only to audio recordings of her performances, photos and videos are not permitted.
- Photos and video recordings of the event and its participants can only be taken in the mansion's main entryway and in the art exhibit, the explicit consent of everyone appearing in the photos or records is mandatory.
- Feeding will take place in designated, private areas, just ask the staff and they'll lead you and your source of nourishment to your room. Please feed responsibly.
- There is no single mandatory fashion style we wish to impose to our guests, we just recommend that you are as fashionable and comfortable with being seen, with dancing and with changing clothes as you can possibly be.

>>97089122
>>97089524
Forbidden love? In my party? Ooh, spicy!
Hear me out: at the end of the fashion show, a couple of masked figures walks the runway. They pose, they take off their masks, and they kiss. It's our boy and his Nosferatu lover! The shock! The scandal! The breaking of boundaries!

>>97089654
>Hear me out: at the end of the fashion show, a couple of masked figures walks the runway. They pose, they take off their masks, and they kiss. It's our boy and his Nosferatu lover! The shock! The scandal! The breaking of boundaries!
Yes, my love, but don't remove the masks completely. Let's be subtle about it.
Keep the masks close enough to their faces, so the spectators can partially see who it is, and recognize them, while the kiss itself stays hidden from them. Let the crowd's imagination fill the gaps on its own.
And let's put a corset on the Nosferatu to straighten her back a little bit.

>>97086775
I'll try that with the book next time.
Might take you up on the trainer option as well, I've potentially got an in with my now girlfriend, but she's only 20ish years dead, while the rest of the tutors I've gotten for the kids are older and more experienced. If she does decide to help, once they get the basics down I'll probably reach out anyways.
Also I apparently am something of a Nossie charmer. Have you ever seen one of them blush before? It's very unique from Nos to Nos, as their skin has unusual amounts of connective tissues and blood vessels on their faces especially.
>>97087413
The upper peninsula of Michigan state is on fire, NYC is just as shitty as always, there's a Thunderbird flying around causing problems somewhere undisclosed; you know, the usual.
>>97089736
I don't know, the hunchback look is kind of cute once you get used to it.

Hey hey people, Shark here

So I skipped my weekly (for you) report because nothing interesting happened to me specifically. But Ansel the Cappadocian Giovanni and Mathilda the Tzimisce hosted a party with a very special guest. Hitler! And we can confirm, he has True Faith. Also the Freikorps (our military allies I spoke about) is hunting me down to get the population’s trust in their future coup d’état.

Speaking of, they talked to Ansel about joining them in kidnapping the prime minister and they implied that they knew of our coterie, and what we can truly do. So Ansel is in a tight spot.

Also the Prince of Munich, our city, asked us to prevent the rebellion. Ansel is now in a tighter spot because he doesn’t want to lose his friends. So he formulated a plan of sending me to Berlin alongside some other coterie members to either talked down the prime minister or kill him before he could grant legitimacy to the freikorps. Oh, did I mention we got a new member in our group? A setite, extremely rich and influential, looks and always dressed like an Arabian princess, and is a follower of the Path of Ecstasy.

So we went to Berlin but I had an empty stomach. So I killed someone and the sheriff, a fellow Nosferatu named D, caught me. Apparently feeding and killing on someone’s domain unannounced is a big no-no… alright, I always knew that but I used to not care before. But now he was a fellow clansmate and surely way stronger than me.

So in exchange for a huge favour (not sure if I’ll respect it desu) he won’t tell anyone what I did and he led me to the Prince of Berlin.

1/?

Let me tell you, the Prince is a COLOSSAL DICK!
Gustav Breidenstein can swallow my sewers shit-filled cock!

That little control freak of an elder immediately mind raped me before I even announced myself. I don’t even know what he did, probably some advanced level of Dominate. Now and forever, I can never disobey him. I feel like others would have an harder time getting in my head… but fuck. You guys know that I’m a jovial fellow. Quite cheery and social for a psycho like me… but him… he forced me to rat out my whole coterie. Next thing I knew they were brought back to him during the day and we were all questioned.

Turns out he hired our Prince to stop the rebellion because he didn’t know much it. Now we had to reveal everything. He made us an offer to spy on our Prince. Bring him blackmail. I tattle on his “hound”, a nossie named Hans which everyone dislikes. Not good enough. I accepted the offer on the condition that I could have permanent residency in Berlin as well as a job fitting my abilities… hopefully body disposal like back home. Mathilda agreed to for the same reasons.

Then we split up. I asked the others to warn Ansel while I stay in Berlin for a few nights. D didn’t me to meet the other Nosferatus because I’m a lunatic that has brought cadavers into the sewers, but I could use this time to socialize and get more info on a city I know nothing about.

The setite sold me out to Hans and told everyone that I “willingly” betrayed the coterie. Hans is setting up a trap for me. Ansel will try to find out why because he knows how loyal I am. In exchange for the betrayal Ansel is letting me diablerize Hans (when he had dibs) once we pumped him out of info.

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>>97090944
>Hitler
Like we didn't have enough reasons to leave Europe.

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>>97090712
I've contacted the guy when I had a free minute, he's tentatively okay to head your way, if you do decide you want his help. Said it's fine for me to provide a pair of portraits from 1905, to aid with identification.

>inb4 isn't he paranoid?
He is, but not about Kindred knowing how he looks or where he's going, and his assistant just plain doesn't give a shit.
They go by William and Victoria, respectively. Fair warning, you will really need to work your magic on her. No sugarcoating it, she's fairly vicious, sadistic, cold, apathetic, kills for the slightest offense or just because she's bored, and she's fairly low in generation, which just makes her that much more troublesome to deal with. Charming in her own way, but you'll need to keep an eye on what she tells your Nossie, and on what she does in her spare time. Don't take this to mean she'll just cause trouble for no reason, though. Usually William keeps her busy, plus she just doesn't fuck around very much with him watching, so you should probably be fine, they've supposedly been a symbiotic pair of weirdos since 1905, he's kept her out of spiraling thus far. Still, might be a good idea to keep her oddities in mind.

>Have you ever seen one of them blush before?
Oh, I have. Excluding cases commenting on which would get me murdered, one assistant we've hired for some work with the caern once or twice was a Nossie with a very interesting form of their curse: seethrough skin, that furthermore formed crystalline 'plates' of sorts, armor, almost. She had a very statuesque look owing to that, captivating. In her case a blush would light up the cheek-plates with this vague, pink-reddish hue. Pretty cute.

>>97087409
Christ. Any further details? What's so gingerbread about that man?

A few highlights from last night's party.
Assoluta's concert
- transfixed multiple clanmates simply by acting as Carmen with all those wily half-smiles, even before singing the first line of Bizet's Habanera
- transfixed them again by singing Der Hölle Rache from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with such precision she sounds like a synthetiser
- sang louder than Boy Toy's 1300 horsepower twin-charged Subaru monstrosity, even she was surprised

Fashion Show
- despite all the applauding, the show was stolen by Blue Fairy and Princess Charming's plot of putting on stage the partially masked, wholly forbidden love of our fellow Toreador with his Nosferatu girlfriend

Blue Fairy
- started with a simple choreography where the bodyguards would try to attack her only to be countered, then Boy Toy jumped in the action as the final boss, dodging a flying kick and more attacks and raising the stakes
- ended the demonstration by doing a standing split with Boy Toy's own body completely lifted by her raised foot
- performed all submission holds she knows on Boy Toy in rapid succession challenging the university Toreadors to sketch them all

Items on display at the art exhibit that received the most attention
- photosets of the mansion and of our family
- portrait collections
- my personal commissions of femdom artist Sardax
- our cars
- a few of my furs with different bespoke perfumes as a way to allow guests to also have tactile and olfactive aesthetic experiences, too

Some items we sold at the auction
- Blue Fairy's emerald green Chinese goddess dress with rubies, hip slits and detached sleeves
- signed photo from my mortal days when I was known as Mrs. Dickinson
- Mercury Lamp's life-size doll of herself
- 30s-inspired clothing sets we wore at the play from the night before
- alligator skin catsuit
- Paris Ventrue Primogen blood marriage dress and suit commissioned circa 1979

>>97095613
Some artworks by the Bridgeport Toreador that were sold at the auction
- oil painting series of Bridgeport's vistas
- sculpture of my feet
- collection of sketches of Blue Fairy's submission holds performed on Boy Toy
- watercolor portrait of Assoluta
- 22 inches porcelain doll of Mercury Lamp

Signed publications we sold after the auction
- Studio recorded arias LPs volumes 1-3 2023-2024 by Assoluta
- Warrior's Journey Diaries 1999-2024 by Blue Fairy
- Love Letters 2010-2024 by Blue Fairy and Princess Charming
- An Education for Kindred 2nd edition by Boy Toy, foreward by me
- Vissi D'Arte - Singing Lessons for Those Who Can't Breathe by Assoluta
- No More Eternal Torment - Aionios, Aidios, the Latin Bible and the Apocalypse of Peter by Princess Charming, introduction by Boy Toy
- Consider the Effects - Why the Search for Truth Lead Me Away from Pragmatism by Boy Toy

Femdom seminars
- me transfixing a clanmate with only two knots of the rope
- Blue Fairy and Princess Charming making out while riding Boy Toy's back like a horsie
- judicial flogging of a mortal who was caught groping a ghoul by Blue Fairy, yes we were not playing but me, Assoluta, Blue Fairy and the guest Mistresses took our sweet time whipping that idiot and we enjoyed every scream
- NoblesseObleedge being so completely entranced by me he went nonverbal, and had to use his body to beg me to do things to it, it was his first session and I didn't even need to gag him

>>97092358
HE'S SCORCHED AND ANGRY, HES GETTING CLOSER.
>>97089122
One of my fellow cracked mirrors fell head over heels for a spymaster. They somewhat anchor each other in their existances, quite the couple!

>>97090944
>>97091040
Until last year there was a Ventrue bigwig in topor in Berlin's sewers, much of my posts from that summer was made between sorties to locate said sleepy venty boi. Presumably so the Cardinal could settle affairs with him via diablerie. Or some bullshit like that.
Anyway, if Shark happens to stumble on said Ventrue some near century before hand and eats it, what would happen?