>TQ
Freedom. - Zoryana

Zoryana. - Errand Knight

>TQ
My fleshcrafting work. It feels like the ultimate freedom to be or have whatever I can imagine.

>>98044456
What the fuck do you think? Sucking down a 2L of carbonated blood from a collection of uncouth junkies. That's as close to "Happy" as I'm getting.

Shit sucked long before the Embrace.

>>98042805
>The Warriors earned us this reputation because the other clans were better at dying.
pfft
>>98044841
lotsa caffeine with all the energy drinks these nites

>>98044456
>TQ

My memorabilia. From my original uniform to the gearshifter of my modle A, I have quite the collection of things thatvtie me to and reinforce my memories. Get statred early, young ones, the years are longer than you think.

>>98045675
>Get started early, young ones, the years are longer than you think.
But I'm not into dosh! I hate money, I loathe possessions. It's all just so crypto-fascist!

>>98046267
He's talking about memories, not money. without physical touchstones or people to remind you of things what's lost may be lost forever.

>>98044456
Hard to say. What even is happiness? Joy? That's just a good hunt but it doesn't stick. Contentedness? Most people don't think so, even if I'm mostly satisfied with my choices. I've been told in the past I have the restlessness of Odin.

Also Odin is... Maybe my great grand sire? Odd thing. One of the newcomers insists on it for some reason.

Maybe to soften the blow of joining on with the municipal project.

>>98044456
>Happy
Few things make me happy. I do take a certain amount of happiness roaming in nature. Whether on horseback, or running thru the dark Wilderness. Clan Weakness I guess. Even prowling alleyways and backstreets has its charms.

>>98044489
I could have helped EK, but I guess with youth comes folly. If you can think clearly back to your talk with the Assassin, pick out the dodges in her answers. It's when you ask something , and they either answer about something else or pivot and redirect the conversation entirely. Her conversation is full of them. Identifying those dodges and pivots is the basis of Kindred Verbal Combat and just as important to learn as actual combat. Literally imagine a huge alarm in your head going off
>EVERYTIME
>SOMEONE
>LIES
ts a valueable skill for the living, moreso for the dead. Think of how useful it could make you, but only if you do it every time.

>>98046267
Brujah or Toreador? Nature's greatest Mystery.

>>98046435
My mythology may be weak but wasn't he an undead peepee licker. Couldn't make any seafoam of his own persay and was forever resigned to slurping it off the battledead? Strange story, no resemblence at all I'm sure.

In other news Sin after gleefully explaining that the phone has all kinds of apps for all kinds of shopping gleefully spent some thousand dollars of my own money, before trying to kill me.
>to her credit she did do better then the Boy Lust, using her Celerity to take my own knife from me first. Then, Poke poke poke. Just a needle doing its work. It actually took a chunk out of me, I was surprised. Still didn't help her. My fisticuffs are not exceptional but are more then equal to the task. The whole thing probably took a few minutes which I'm sure from her perception seemed like forever. I battered her (like cod as they say) and I didn't stop when she gave up. She'll heal come morning, the Boy Lust will drag in something for her to drink I'm sure.

>>98047323
But as she currently moans softly from what appears to be a broken collar bone, dislocated shoulder, at least a couple of floating ribs, Some sort of strain across the hips and the very best of a spiral fracture of the Fibula that I've learned to give to cases that grind my gears. What do you do with incompetents and ingrates. I admit that we're in sort of a loop hole where Arlington is really too big to fall under Dallas or Fort Worth but doesn't have a declared and recognized Prince.

Sin and the Boy have managed to get by, being inconsequential up to this point but I guess someone has to teach them manners, or at least basic respect for the traditions and I seem to be the only one here. I guess I could brand her again.

But I have to go feed, Oh well. Maybe I'll learn something.

Our blood doll Wren has a problem with a stalker and, as ordered, I talked to Andrey about a solution. He's much smarter than he looks, and told me Zoryana can rewrite memories, we just need to let her help the stalker to forget about Wren. To think my first thought was beating some sense in the target and he had the more pacifist idea.

I briefed the princess of Castle Errand on our plan and she wanted to know how she's get inside the stalker's place. "Wren is the best bait imaginable, and this is the best plan for everyone, she, the Masquerade, and the man himself...", I said. She scoffed, Andrey was like: "We're not ditching the job, we'll be behind the corner for anything that could happen." She rolled her eyes. He said: "What's the matter, are your wise guys too wise?" Zoryana slow clapped.

Well I hope he can pass some of that wisdom to our future ghouls. And me. But before that he'll be teaching me some Sambo, the Soviet grappling art.

In the event Wren becomes uncooperative or even has a panic attack, the princess can help with that. No wonder Andrey wants to involve her.

>>98047323
>pick out the dodges in her answers
Mrs. Halal is a charming, intelligent woman, I immediately felt I was out of my league.

I reviewed the Q&A with Zoryana after posting it, her favorite is the one on Diablerie, going "from a systemic bad habit to half a millennium of alleged innocence and unfair treatment."

My Regnant is looking for a way to "improve my social combat before the Harpies tear me apart."

>>98043849
>of course they say that up front to avoid the old days. i uttered the sahada several times in my life when i was strong armed into fighting with the ashirra, only a few times less than being forced to take baptism when their enemies 'insisted' as a form of proof. no wonder the sabbat took off when they did...
Well the context is quite different today, besides, the conversation took place in the US. I mean there is still some fighting taking place, but still.

>>98047323
Wotan was everything, comes with being an god of transformations. 'Odin' was also apparently a Gangrel usurper of the traditional god Wotan and allegedly ran a death cult from northern Scandinavia. Until he suffered a defeat so grave it led to the Nordics getting christianized.

If I reduced everything down to the weird dick stories there'd be a dozen ancients who'd share that. Which is... Odd.

>>98047579
I will not speak on it unless I get new confirmation but Halal has a mixed relationship with the deed. We are not above our own inherited 'quirks.' Nor is Zoryana.

>>98047343
>I could have helped EK, but I guess with youth comes folly
You couldn't help pick someone's nose, fascist bootlicker. You're such a fuck up that a member of the psycho murder cult dismantled your entire effort with one sentence.

>What do you do with incompetents and ingrates.
You get them to be your toady, and then you give them a job in the Camarilla. You would know.

>>98048256
>fascist bootlicker
Let me guess: Anarch? How do you feel about the orange kine?

>/tq/
taking what i can get mostly
which right now turns out to be the big dumb crabs we got
some of the others have been trying to make other crab ghouls for the purposes of cock-fights. crab-fights. ye know what i mean.

>>98045675
got some questions if you dont mind
what year were you embraced and were you ever on the 'belle of benin?' since we lost bleu i been thinking about doing some digging to avoid moping. see i was embraced on that ship back in 1856 the night before we landed in hispaniola. left jacksonville as a dumb yank kid. landed in my new homeland with my wonderful new dental.

never figured out where he went beyond he never landed in dominica. must have taken the ship back. figure it might be good to finally put out lines before i get depressed and pass out for a few decades.

>>98048256
get better bait boyo.
an if youre that one ven muppet whose got nothing better to do in his executive suite than anarchlarp i'm repeating the last ten year ban you got.

WHY ARE YOU INCLUDING LINK TO UNRELATED SITE IN SUBJECT OF YOUR THREAD ITS IRRITATING AND RETARDED

>>98049164
Our Ravnos consultants are already investigating how the hacker known as "4chan" caused this, please be patient and maintain calm, there was no meaningful data breach, it appears to be a prank.

>>98049164
lOl
lmaO even

>>98049234
we sure this isn't K4L1 bein bored? she is a degenerat anyways, just one after my own heart

Fucker/

Update when I'm back in that son of a bitch pulled a devious lick.

That's it? Less than an hour and Wren's nightmare is finished? What an impressive power.

Zoryana cuddled the poor Wren for a little, told her to text us if she has any other problems, and once Wren kissed her and got out of the car, my Regnant tested me: "Why did I want this issue taken care of so urgently?"
My tentative answers:
"You're still a friend of womankind."
"To protect our blood doll."
"To make our blood doll more loyal."
"To hide our haven from the prying eyes of a stalker."
"You were testing me."
"To save us from a possible Masquerade breach."
"To make sure one or more Kindred weren't involved."
She was pleased. Once she has a reasonably sized herd and the haven is ready, we'll think of how to interact with and fit in the broader Kindred society.

I'm kinda nervous about it, we are new to the city and have zero political clout.

>>98049773
Political clout is like
Like
Stuff we make up

You just explode one primogen and suddenly bro your made a templar. or like- paladin? sharrif? sherrif? think it was the last one.

Just pop somebody. :o3

>>98047865
Fair Enough. I wish I had a list of godly pretenders sometimes, you never know when you're going to hit a member of the family. Odin a Gangrel, imagine. I would have pegged Zeus Lykaois maybe but it's hard to track down a lot of this obscure mythology, even when you have unliving members of those cults. Perhaps even worst for having unliving members of those cults.

>>98048256
You'll be pleased to know that she ran. She's good at that. Her and the Boy, gonna tough it out bonnie and clyde style. Don't worry, I will take exceptional care of them, I have a Job for them in mind after all. Once they learn their place.

>>98049773
I'd make that introduction to the prince sooner then later. Every body you pick up now that you're in the city has a marker on it, even if you can't pick up the scent of it. You'll continue to have zero political clout until the prince recognizes you, poaching is only going against your favor. I know your ahh princess has plans to emerge from a position of strength, but in terms of what she knows of the camarilla, you are actually just as knowledgeable as she is, more so as you haven't been taught wrong on purpose.

>>98049923
This is a good way to get dead, While primogens are a mixed bag, they most assuredly take interest when you pop one, and at least a few in any city are formidable.

https://youtu.be/Si2WZEWrL70

Well I spent some time over the last few nights getting ready for the battles to come by making two more giga-crickets with spike launchers, and reinforcing the shells of the two giga-crickets I had left over. So right now as far as combat-capable pets go, I have four upgraded giga-crickets and one baseline wolf (Gwyllgi). The espurr is ill-suited to combat and will be staying at home. Feeling pretty good about myself. Depending on H0T's timeframe I might be able to build some more monsters for the coming shit-show.

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The Winnipeg "Situation" (Recap 3)

Fucking Romans.

> Alright. Things happened very recently after long enough period of constant skirmishes and fresh anomalies I can't pin yet.
> Last night started with a whole raid getting pulled on my Loups, seemed botched at first.
> Or cartoonishly out of their depth.
> Imagine this; you're on the fringe of the city, watching about a dozen Sabbat rolling up on motorcycles, right towards
> They get down right near to your little thicket, and you watch as these idiots start pulling out guns and molotovs all while gabbing
> Fucking baffled me but I still gave the order for the pack to surround as we couldn't let it fly even if it was a trap
> One of the new Loups even pulled something really cool
> He just faded right beside me, and appeared right in the middle of the Sabbat's number like a ghost
> Slashed one of the lit molotovs. Turned to absolute Rötschreck murder orgy when I howled and my pack pounced from all angles
> Don't remember much after joining the fray, the ones on oversight saw two or three escape (give or take some limbs)
> Only understood why they were so brazen afterwords when we were doing intel recap at dawn

> APPARENTLY, This was all planned. SOMEONE fed the Snake Charmers bad info
> They were told that there were only two Loups present, one seriously injured, and they wanted to 'send a message'
> And while the war-party braves were out, Pontius executed the rest of his “Keikaku” and marched the legion on the Charmer clubhouse
> Only one person fought him, and Pontius curb-stomped him to hell
> When it was clear no one else was willing to resist, he killed their old priest for good measure
> Apparently he's proclaimed himself 'Archbishop of the Prairies' and has renamed the Snake Charmers as the “Foederati”
> Pontius also elevated the Charmer who'd been his mole as their new Ductus; creatively named 'Vulpes Noctus'
> I am not a Pict but I can feel an ancestral grudges rising

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>>98051504

> Naturally this turn of events has panicked everyone else in town
> The Camarilla Expedition apparently smashed their panic button because of this happening beside 'other things'
> On an unrelated note they had a little break-in and mysteriously our own blood bank got a little bigger
> The Moctozumas have freaked the fuck out and relocated to a yet unknown location
> And apparently 'Tlaloc is going nutty as Romero sheds his morals like a bra at Mardi Gras'
(Pilk what the FUCK are you on about with these notes?)
> We are reorganizing because while that was bad, we have no idea how they found where a lot of my people were holed up
> I don't like that.
> Other phenomena seen. Unexplained shadow people. Not-Things. Assiniboine forest is now a no-go-zone.
> More updates as it goes.

>>98049773
The fun part is that "the nightmare never ends, it only goes to bed."

Cat was whining that before she got to sleep the other day. Nice that thread got connected fast. For once.

Now, as for politics? I'm still technically Autarkis so I'd say invest in either being useful or growing yourself some porcupine spines. Halal knows about both. The Nosferatu in the city are looking for support though last we were in town. Try starting there for leads.

>>98051369
We've got some time at least for you to make something special. Then again, it would be fitting for this Pontius creep to get nailed via giga-cricket spine. Something's coming. If you're good to join the fray when it starts I'd be happy to have you in.

>>98048842
Hey, I tried playing the Cammie's game at first. But it didn't take long for me to pick up in the truth: people don't advance in the Camarilla by being good at their job. They advance by sucking up to the boss and putting their own self interest before everyone and everything. The goose-stepper is a perfect example because he:

Doesn't realize that Knight is in the U.S. despite his first post being
>Been working as handyman and driver for a rural mansion of some really out of touch, really old money folks who came to the US of A
>Later directly states that they were in Virginia Hunt Country

Doesn't pick up on Knight being a shovelhead despite his fourth post being
>One night I get hit in the head by this gangbangers laughing like hyenas. Next thing I know they're preparing for my live burial?

Insists that Knight MUST be a Malkavian despite Knight's posts making it obvious that he's an Assamite because
>He naturally knows Obfuscate
>He naturally knows Celerity
>They never let him drink directly from Zoryana when they gave him her vitae. In fact, they specifically RESTRAINED him. You know, like they knew he could lose control and drink her dry.

And now, he just advised that that Knight should introduce himself to the Prince, even though Knight posted JUST TWO DAYS AGO that
>The meeting with Prince Calbullarshi (hope I spelled it right) went well. I think.

And this fucker is supposed to have been an Archon! He can't put two-and-two together when there's a huge neon sign that reads '4' right in front of his face! But here he is trying to offer Knight pearls of wisdom and saying 'he could have helped.' Don't make me laugh.

>How do you feel about the orange kine?
I could not give two fucks about kine politics. They're either just sheep for me to blend in with or walking blood bags to fill me up with.

>>98048851
Fuck you rat face! I'm not some damn prissy Blue Blood!

>>98051516
Hmm maybe I can figure out a way to speed my crickets up then. Right now they're little better than point-defense turrets since it takes them so long to waddle from place to place on their stubby little legs. I just pick them up and put them down elsewhere if I'm in a hurry. Or maybe just whip up more of them so I have more cannon fodder?

>>98051851
Touché. He's not got the best reading comprehension, but only younger kindred really got the benefit of a public education system.

>>98044456
so this week in my currently local anarch pit of depravity investigating local issues we discscovred that some nossie had set up a cuck chairs and was wanking it inside everyone walls including some of the local cammies who were livid beyond belief when they found out

it's finds of utter stupidity and comedic platinum like this that make my head scraching nail biting smile suppressing stiff fucking masked job as an investigator a genuine joy
i think i genuinely regained some connection with my former humanity from all the laughter when it was time to let the mask off

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>>98051860
aint my fault you sound like a larper maggot
i got high standards for anarchs, the ones here up in the mountains dont mince words. hell they usually just start with the machete

>>98052423
pick related, but you wouldn't believe the stories i hear from some of the voyeurs
and usually most aren't dumb enough to install fuckin chairs
over confident schlub

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>>98051504
>>98051516
Alright so doing some math and we got about 20 Sabbats who want to kill us?

I'm getting the fertilizer special ready, tell me when you need it.

>>98053934
Do you have a few drops of anything that might explode on impact? I have an idea for my spike-launchers.

>>98055017
Shit yea man!
We talking conventional things with blast-caps or the stuff 'folks like me' can make up in the ''lab?'' Still ain't been able to recoup my stocks after we lost everything in NYC, but either works. First category is the most reliable but the 'special' stuff can really fuck a blood sucker up. Get me?

Fucking A- I hate that v5 is the one that's got thin-blood alchemy. Plus that TBA is all over the place. Rules as written it ranges from useless to comically broken. Back-converting is a pain but its worth it.

>>98055440
The second one. I'm going to make some hollow spikes out of bone and put a little bit of whatever you whip up inside. That way when it penetrates the target it will explode and shatter like a frag grenade.

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>>98048851
1815.

I was in New York, celebrating Comadore Decatur's victory and drunk off my ass on good rum, when my sire tackled me while I was wandering around some back alleys and singing.

In 1856 let's see... Ah yes. I was quite landlocked at the time, the foothills of Appalachia. An Abolitionist group from New York was paying me to guide runaways through the mountains. Pay was good, though I didn't care one way or the other for the cause. My secretary thinks I should have omitted that last part.

>>98055519
Aye bro. Now I hope that folks recognize I'm a valuable part of the war effort and I get like- a key to the city.
Shoot me an address and I'll get you a twenty five pack. Dead-drop location. Somewhere you knows safe. My lazy ass wants it nearby, but I'm willing to drive a few hours so we ain't screwed together.

>>98055838
Right on, I owe you. Does a free fleshcrafting session or fleshcrafted pet sound good? I DMed you the location.

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>>98055849
Based. We'll work out the details when we double-dead the local creeps.
But if I get got (which better be something cool after the shit the Cammies and the fuckin appalachians put me thru) make a cool lil frog for me. not like a giant man-eater. Just a cool little dude.

>>98055903
>make a cool lil frog for me. not like a giant man-eater. Just a cool little dude.
I totally can, I specialize in making cool little dudes.

>>98055798
hnnnngh. that'd be... november? after the north african shit yea? remember reading about that as a snot nosed brat
god that was a while back
feel like sharing about the days before

see when i was human i left the north to toy with those aristocrat vermin down south. pretended to be a fire-eater some days, got invited to plantations, collected donations for the "genteel" cause, and helped with escapes after on the way out. wasn't in it for the money, even if running with genteel bastard money would have set me up for life. was to take those dumb bastards down a peg. made some enemies. punched that wig-wearing gnome ruffin in the neck. made some friends if some of those folks made it to canada.

now heres why i'm telling you this. i had a trunk with about 38,000 usd when i left jacksonville. my son of a bitch sire, probably going back to the states stole it, and that kind of money was life changing. probably about 2 million in modern cash. meanwhile i had to start from fucking nothing in dominica. you got any intel on a nosferatu coming into that kinda cash?

>>98051851
Oh wow, it's like I'm famous. I'm sorry I didn't predict that there was a hidden malkavian with a collection of relatively rare vitae to make the dots make sense.
>Oh wait, I kinda did.

And I'm sorry I didn't give Knight my full attention
>Despite him insulting me by refusing my generous aid and shacking up with some godforsaken russians, as if that's never bit anyone in the ass.
I surely should have given him my full attention, Yes this beggar, need better. This Prodigal Idiot Knight Savant just deserves better. You didn't study social studies in life did you?

And you're right. They didn't hire me for my charming personality or my dazzling acumen. Like my sire, my masters in the Camarilla wanted just one thing. A soldier, But I'm pretty good, I have to admit that your posts have been keeping me company like Sin in. Took me a whole night to wrangle her that time. Let's just say, she won't be trying that again.

She's pouting now, Won't even put on the clothes she ordered. She keeps shrieking on about My Rights. It's so tiresome. I am not even very old by my impresison of things, but this whole 'Gimme Gimme, My Rights, My Rights, You can't do this. You can't keep Boy Lust Staked until I act right, someone help help.' No dignity of place, even her suffering is shallow. She cries not for Boy Lust but herself. Imagine embracing just so you can keep lying to yourself about your capacity for love.

But as always, I apprecaite the enthusiasm. I'm sure I'll make many more mistakes for you to catch up on. I'll try not to take too brands on Sin's hide for her lessons. Sinx2 btw.
Yes,

>>98056104
I haven't but then, I've only been Prince here for about a year. To further compicate maters, I have good relations with the Nosferatu, I made extinsive use of their information networks to build my influence in my bid for Praxis. Even have one as my sherif, though he's seven feet tall with one foot long legs andvsix foot long arms. Makes the whole blue skin thing less noticible, really. The Primogen got off easy, comparatively. He can even be seen in public, claiming "severe Plaque Scorissis."

I could act to open a channel of communication between yourself and your clanmates, if you wish.

>>98051516
>Nosferatu
To prepare me before meeting them, Zoryana filled my head with instructions, made me watch The Elephant Man movie. Tho I'd swear I saw her grin during Merrick's mistreatment, she cried when he said: "I'm not used to being treated so well by a beautiful woman."

I put on the clothes of the night of my Embrace, and used a taxi. Never really saw them down in the tunnels, felt like talking to some sarcastic off-screen voices. I asked if anyone was home, one said: "No." I told them my sire and 2 adoptive sires died. "Oh, cry me a f****** sewer."

But when I showed them Obfuscate they took me way more seriously. "You can impersonate somebody with that. Try it." Don't ask me how I turned into this aged-up version of my high school crush. The sewer fille with whistling, catcalls, clapping and cackling, until one went: "Enough."

The Nossies' main problem is the kine's plan to redesign the infrastructure down where they live, and their designated lobbyist above ground, a Ventrue, is facing a "mid-unlife crisis."

Normally they'd just use blackmail to motivate him, but they think they'd just lose a valuable asset by pushing him over the edge. I asked what am I supposed to do about it. The answers were scoffing, farting, "Your feminine wiles, Cleopatra."

Zoryana had my body thoroughly washed by Lyuba. I debriefed her. Huge smile on her face.

I miss him. I miss him. I miss him. I miss him. Why did he go? Where? He said I'd look nice if I dyed my hair and came to visit. He made me fracture and break and be so much more than I was.
am I not good enough anymore? if he doesn't respond to my dm's I am walking into the sun. I actually mean it this time
i miss him

>>98058103
Ignore the weepy slut.

Cool BBS nerds. If you ever decide to get out of your swamp ass dens, come out to play. I'm tired of sitting around listening to whining, anyone got anything fun going on? Come on boys, I want to dance.

>>98058174
You should head over to Winnipeg then. Looks like the place is about to turn into a warzone.

>>98057083
Carrying on the Jacksonville tradition of Nosferatu sheriffs, eh? Hopefully this one isn't a Ventrue in disguise like the last one

>>98057083
>To further compicate maters, I have good relations with the Nosferatu, I made extinsive use of their information networks to build my influence in my bid for Praxis
well obviously ye did youre now prince wa he ha ho ho

but being serious id appreciate it. dont think i need to tell you but our politics are- kinda a pain in the ass. theres a reason ive never made a full proper attempt to search.
take SCHRECKNET for instance. i been a big proponent and supporter since the 0.4 nights. even doin all this, the technophobic dens might as well be another dimension.
and if you got a place that is one dickhead's personal fiefdom? well. fuck me i guess. gotta do a whole song-and-dance to get a line going.

pretty sure i know your sherif tho. tell him 'zoe-v. is doing well.' he'll know the deal.

>>98057462
god you two are fucked in the head

we got even worse than just corrupt municipalities who don't know how to build a sewer system for everyone. big-easy is one bad drought away from not having a river, and one flood away from being swallowed by the gulf o mexico. again. their plans are in theory meant to fix things for a few decades, but this shit might be a lost cause long term.

>>98058174
this is the peace that all true sewer gators strive for boy. and dont take the name of the bbs in vain.
but, if your looking to get yourself killed? our girl becket is going on a jyhad for bum-fuck canada, things are getting busy out on the pan-hand, cali is cali and apparently the sect-war is getting nasty out in england. rats fighting over a corpse. someone always wants someone else dead fledgeling. you can smell it yourself.

>>98058103
god we got any malk advisors to lick this one?

>>98052024
I'd avoid messing with them too much. As,
>(1) Mèo and Gün both adore them as they are
>(2) Despite the changes you've essentially just made a giant cricket in the spiritual sense. Startled the Loup Shaman who was expecting the worse.

So quantity might be the optimal approach for them.

>>98053934
Fine, just keep this in mind: we are trying to establish a free-town. Not blow it up.

So shape your fucking charges.

>>98058310
>>98058574
Winnipeg was already a skirmish area, we're just cutting through the bullshit.

>>98058103
No matter how bad it seems it can always get better.

>>98058574
Well now, this is a surprise. My Secretary was succsesful in peircing the Nosferatu's usual recalcitrance in speaking of internal politics to outsiders.

Now, our undercity was built by two fellows by the names of Henk “Gaterboy” Kersey and Tristan Davies. Recently, a third as yet unidentified Nosferatu has appeared insisting he played a significant part as well and demanding recognition. Though it woukd seem there was never any mention of a third founder before this fellow popped up, despite a number of Nosferatu suddenly claiming to remember his contributions.

It seems there is a Schisim brewing beneath my feet. You might need to tread carefully, though the Sherrif does indeed remember you, so there is that.

>>98058992
>Startled the Loup Shaman who was expecting the worse.
That's quite surprising. I'm not sure how that's even possible with how many little crickets I use, but I'll take any win I can get.

>Mèo and Gün both adore them as they are
Well, quantity it is. Though maybe I can just tweak the muscles in their hind legs just a little to give them some more "oomph" on their jumps? It would get them around faster, and also give them a surprising melee attack with their huge bite force.

Oh and good news: the explosive spikes work. So I'm pushing live mini-frag grenades at 500 feet per second now. I think we'll be able to fuck most targets to death in one shot. Just gotta watch for celerity-users as they'll be nigh impossible for the crickets to track.

>>98059190
If I had to guess it would be that crickets are fairly simple. When you meld humans, you distort them not only on a physical level, but also a spiritual one.

It can make Tzims 'visible' to Loups. Beyond the Pale Doors, what we do in the flesh has a very visible impact there.

But for some fucking reason with the giga cricket. The Gricket. It's just... Bigger? I don't really know why, although if I hat to take a wild swing insects might have a degree of flexibility. I've heard stories of 'Spider' skin changers (like wereolves to wolves) that can turn from men into giant arachnids and then into veritable swarms of spiders. Might apply a similar principle here.

The princess came back from her meeting with the Ventrue referent of the Nosferatu, he'll join us as the third Kindred in our little coterie.

The guy, let's call him Errand Chancellor, was embraced in his forties, mostly for his ability to navigate bureaucracy, and now he's feeling unimportant in his clan, but the fact that he's meeting and helping the new blood is already improving his mood.

Zoryana laughed like Risitas high on laughing gas as she gave me this summary of the political situation:
- The Prince pretends to be in charge
- The Primogens pretend not to be almost-Barons
- All Tremere had gone rogue before settling in here, including the Prince himself
- Everyone pretends not to interact with the assorted necromancers and voodoo experts
- New Orleans has TWELVE (12) Elysia, more than it has clans, more than New York despite having a fraction of the population of the Big Apple
- A few of the Elysia are half actual Elysia, half Domains, and all invite-only vanity projects

Then Zoryana asked our man, if New Orleans was a social experiment, in which some reforms by the more moderate Anarchs were implemented within the Camarilla. Chancellor said he never thought of it like that, nor did the administration have any such deliberate plans, but she has a point. "Just another night in the New World."
>>98058574
>god you two are fucked in the head
Rude.
>this shit might be a lost cause long term
Sound like a succinct description of New Orleans. - Errand Knight

Why wait for the next drought or flood to tear the city to pieces, when Kindred politics is already taking care of that so beautifully?

I could battle tooth and nail in this bucket of crabs for a modicum of status, and the rest of the Ivory Tower wouldn't even notice. The Big Easy is neither big nor easy. - Zoryana, Princess of Castle Errand

>>98051504
And this is precisely why despite sharing a certain fixation with the Sabbat, I avoid working with them! Well, this and the fact that I think some cells may still be upset the Keno Hill one got blown up, figuratively, but mainly it's this suicidal inclination of theirs.

I can understand, if not quite relate, wanting to earn your spurs by slaying a wolf, they're ferocious, dangerous, deadly, and thus quite the trophy to bag. But to go against two of them, even if one's wounded? As a group of twelve, with Molotovs and guns, nothing particularly special? That's just absurd. It's as if the average shovelhead never hears anything but vague rumours about 'Lupines', the silly yet persistent sort that suggests that they're mindless beasts with nothing special to them, shrug and believe those rumors wholesale and earnestly, and never even questions those rumours. Surely at least at some point a rational formerly-human being ought to go, 'you know, I don't even know what my clan really can do beyond petty tricks and the occasional dumpster-toss, what if the Lupines are scarier than they're described'.

I can't imagine trying to wage a war on the Ancients with allies like this.

>>98059063
fuckin
mother fuckin
piece of fuckin shit
of course gatorboys still down there. scrunt.

thanks. keep me in the loop i got to start moving pawns. my sire ain't kersey or davies. but you know what they say about lucky #3 right?

>>98062192
you ping pong between slavish for a bonded to occasional moments of gun-totin lucidity, and your partner wakes up just enough from the dragon sadism to be fucked
which is fine. i am fukced in the head as well, just with the shit ive seen, rather than getting it from my sire
you keep it in your chest or else youll get fuckin deluded and meet your expiration early

>Why wait for the next drought or flood to tear the city to pieces, when Kindred politics is already taking care of that so beautifully?
cause we've already destroyed norleans twice now. once back when the city burned, once when the sabbat hit the city with that crusade more recent

>- The Prince pretends to be in charge
basically true everywhere unless you got yourself a decker or you are in europe

>- The Primogens pretend not to be almost-Barons
alos usually true, norleans just has it the worst

>- All Tremere had gone rogue before settling in here, including the Prince himself
juicy. guess the detroit command is even more fucked these days than it lets on

>- Everyone pretends not to interact with the assorted necromancers and voodoo experts
heres why thats important fledgling. gios and sams make up a little over a third of the pop, even if they keep to themselves and hypothetically have an overall family peace. but this is a hell of an old grudge, going back to when some gios owned people, an the sams sailed in on the slave boats pissed people were taking their folks. but everyone in town deals with em. comes with the terf. cause the sams are more amicable to folks like me, i can pass off contacts. for a favour in the bank of course.

and the best thing to do in a killer town is to sell knives fledgling

>>98062382
You'd be amazed what a fox can do with a pinch of blood and an overconfident 'pack.' Glad I picked the friends I did if we ever need to throttle the antediluvians.

We got other things to worry about though. I'm worried the Roman has a 'Magic Man.'

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Six! I have six giga-crickets! A-a-a!

Purely hypothetical question

If you had a "kine" ""neighbour"" who was attempting to """schmoove""" one of your actual people and he needed to """"go away"""" how would you do it?

Bonus requirement. This "Neighbour" has had his brain fried so much you can't tell him to jump off a bridge. It's like talking to a wall.

>>98066313
Sick the correct animals on him. You might be surprised how quickly a swarm of rats or pack of feral hogs can strip a human body down to bare bones. After that is a simple aplication of vampiric strength to pulverise the skeleton down to dust.

>>98065260
Fingers crossed, if we ever need to throttle the antediluvians, other hopefully made-up shit like Caine and unicorns and aliens could do it for us, and we'd just be background extras.

>magic man
As in Kindred bloodmage, or as in a mortal who's magic?

>>98066313
4-gauge to the face, repeated if the face proves hard. That carries a better message than disappearances or animals do.

>>98062192
>- New Orleans has TWELVE (12) Elysia, more than it has clans, more than New York despite having a fraction of the population of the Big Apple
>- A few of the Elysia are half actual Elysia, half Domains, and all invite-only vanity projects
I'd say 'Jesus wept', but he'd probably be very happy when the Inqusition gets its head out of its ass long enough to notice this absurdity.

>>98066313
i suppose that depends upon the severity. you'll need to forgive me, i've only so much stomach for keeping up with occidental slang.

it would be best i get one of my brujah friends to escort him up and out of our peninsula. just a brief ride up and out. then break one of his legs as a warning to stay away. but if he is a real wretch? the larvae can have him. some mortals have it coming, but hearing a person scream as they are dragged beneath the soil by the most pallid and boneless of the nosferatu is...

well. memorable enough i've only had to order it twice.

>>98068300
Do not do thirds. Thirds is bad. Bad things happen in thirds. Third date. Third message. Third bite. Third visit. Third friend. Third sounds like thirst. Thirst comes in thirds. Semesters come in thirds.
Don't do a third. It's bad. I can't do a third message. not ever again

>>98068363
so it is sibyl you state what has been. for me, anyways.

god. i feel old.

>>98068363
As if you could stop yourself. We both know better.
>>98058574
Ugh, Canada? England? How boring. Some powerplays in the ass end of nowhere and circlejerking on some dusty island? Here I thought you fangbangers had some fun at least. Where's the flash? The show?
Besides, babe, we're already dead. What's the worst that could happen? Live a little. Dance. Drink. Kill. Dance again!
Maybe I should make a scene. Someone else will clean it up, and everyone will have some fun.

I HATE GATORBOY I HATE THE STUPID CHUD

two faced scrotum.

>>98068445
ive had enough fun these past few months to last me a decade thanks
we got fires still being put out
but go ahead. keep makin noise. maybe youll get to draw one of the things that shows why you keep quiet and that will teach you
or youll end up as a decoration in a jar of formaldehyde like jan-boy. either way. not my fucking problem

>>98068580
I like you. You're like a scrotum. Full of wrinkles and squishy but so full of life and fun.
I wonder what octave you'd hit on the way out of your den.

>>98068666
oh spare me the dick-waving i got better things to do than introduce you to EL CANGREJO

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Anybody want a reading?

Something bad is happening and is gonna happen again and I wanna just- lik-

Space out? Focus on your petty stuff- maybe?

Also-
>>98044456
People I care about. Don't forget about your touchstones people.
OR YOUR DRUGS- GOD I LOVE DRUGS I LOVE LITHIUM THAT MAKES MY BRAIN WORK

>>98068720
You remind me of my next mistake. I know your type. You wouldn't hurt a fly. Big talk. Pussy out at the last second. What's the matter, bitch boy? Afraid you might do something instead of grumbling?

>>98068720
do not

>Who would win
>A dangerously schizophrenic immortal, descended from the blood of Malkav and Caine
>Or
>A crab with a gun

>>98068785
>>98068775
i dont need to do shit. thats what the crustaceans and rodents are for ~beavis~

>>98068757
yea take a look over to jacksonville and tell me if im ever getting my cash back
it aint about the cash but im gonna be bitter about this shit

>>98069141
i am so sorry
i am so sorry
i am so sorry

>>98068757
I’ll have one. Could I please stop getting taken on wild adventures to realms not meant for Man to see please. My mind is starting to feel like a Malkavian’s.
>>98068793
If evolutionary biology has taught me anything, crustaceans are THE ULTIMATE LIFEFORM.
IT IS OUR GOAL AS FIENDS TO THUS BECOME MORE CRABS THAN CRABS. MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN.


Well that was real. Wasn’t fun. DEFINITELY wasn’t real fun. Met with prince of dallas. Said he had wondered where I wandered off to. Rumors were that I died in the bar fire. Told him it was a wondering band of Nictuku. “First time?” he replied. With that bit of speechlessness happening, he said my eatablishment waa helping keep the extremists at bay and far enough from his domain that he’d help support rebuilding in exchange for a regular barrel or two of blood wine per quarter. That’s doable in about a year. Anyways, I asked him about this mithras and trueven stuff, he says he’s heard about that, it’s likely just some thinblood ventrue who heard about the old prince of london and is trying to make others think he’s back after being killed or something. There’s a handful of bloodhunts after him, don’t worry about it.
I go to leave and fund out this park is apparently a hotspot for weird shit. As in a mage telling a flaming loup (as in he’s actually on fire but not being burned, questionable sexuality) YOU SHALL NOT PASS, and making a blinding light appear sending me and the loup into what I can only call the spirit realm or SHADOW REALM as it’s simulatenously blinding and complete blackness at once WHILE MY SOULE WAS BEING RIPPED ASUNDER TORN TO SHREDS SUFFOCATING BLEEDING MY LAST REQUEST TO SEE BUT ONE MORE NIGHT WHERE THE STARS ARE BIG AND BRIGHT and that continued on for what fealt like eons but the skies opened up and I’m back on the farm. So how have yall been? Vid related. Twas me the whole time. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1J_q9lZ2rQ8&pp=ygUSdGhlIGZseSBvZiBkZXNwYWly

>>98068757
Fine.
When is he coming out of torpor? The Tzimisce poison is refusing to break, it eats away whatever he regenerates. Our Trem can't do shit, a Tzimisce we contacted was useless.

>>98068580
>I HATE GATORBOY I HATE THE STUPID CHUD

>two faced scrotum.
Ok, now I have to know! What happened between you two? Were you on the wrong end of Chompy (the big albino alligator ghoul he has; maybe he didn't have him back then) one time? Spill the deets!

Like rats, like rats, like mice.
Resist, refuse, and prance.
When Piper plays and goes along,
they all fall down.

A mess is made, a cleanup laid,
aww, she'll frown.

It's all their fault anyway. Not mine.

>be me, nerdy Tremere egghead
>5’6”, wear glasses, not too imposing
>rely on Dominate, my intellect, and a revolver to be useful
>have handsome soldier boy Ventrue in coterie
>6’2”, handsome, muscular, charismatic, big round bubble butt
>wanna shove my nerdy beta cock inside him so bad

How do I approach him guys?

>>98070516
I will never understand sexual desire between kindred. We're dead. It seems like a waste of vitae for a fleeting pleasure. I get when kindred use sex as a way of luring in mortals to feed, but kindred-on-kindred action? I do not understand.

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>>98066313
If he is thick in the skull enough to resist dominate- he is thick in the skull enough to not question directions to the local man-eater.

Which right now for me is the villain from Children of the Corn. Ew.

>>98067637
I have been asked to double check Leper and it is with supreme annoyance that I would guess it is the latter. They are no Cainite, not a lick of Vitae to them which means they are not even in the thrall of the Sabbat. Not by blood anyways.

You will just have to forgive my slowness. A giant insect ate my ritual chalk. I had to improvise.

>>98068757
Oh a reading?

A fine how-do-you-do pal, reading? Alright.

WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU HIDING IN THE CLOSET!? OH WE HAVE A METAPHORICAL CASTLE TO OURSELVES PROVIDED BY THE DRAGON FIDDLING AROUND WITH UNUSUALLY LARGE INSECTS AND- FINE! I GET WHAT THE GARGOYLE'S MIND IS GOING- OH THE HOUSE OF TREMERE GROOMED ME TO SLEEP AT THE SEAT OF THE BED AND LICK THE BLOOD-STAINS AND SAY THANK YOU MASTER, WHICH IS JUST WONDERFUL- AND I KEEP BRACING FOR THE FLESH-MONSTER DOG BECAUSE I HAVE SEVERE ISSUES WITH LOUPINES- LOVELY- NO I'LL JUST TAKE IT UP WITH A THERAPIST IN THE 2050S- PERFECT- BUT YOU! YOU AND THE DUCTUS INSIST ON SLEEPING IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND! YOU HIDE IN CREVICES LIKE BEE LARVA!

COME OUT HERE!

YOUR PACK IS PLAYING THE GAME OF LINGUISTIC CHAMPIONS! SCRABBLE! WE ARE LOSING SO FUCKING HELP

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>>98070837
>METAPHORICAL CASTLE
You are too kind.
>DRAGON FIDDLING AROUND WITH UNUSUALLY LARGE INSECTS
I have seven now! Seven giant crickets! Look! See! That's twenty-one shots, plus their new leaping bite attack! It's like the killer bunny from Monty Python but I have SEVEN OF THEM!
>AND I KEEP BRACING FOR THE FLESH-MONSTER DOG BECAUSE I HAVE SEVERE ISSUES WITH LOUPINES
I'll keep him on a shorter leash. Would you believe I haven't altered him at all yet? He's just a big boy all on his own. I should take him hunting for deer tonight, I've been powering through my vitae reserves on these crickets.
>YOU AND THE DUCTUS INSIST ON SLEEPING IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND!
I tried to give the ladies my best room as my clan's traditions require.
>YOU HIDE IN CREVICES LIKE BEE LARVA!
Cool mental imagery. Busy little bees.

You've been quiet by the way, how are you doing? Studying the path of koldunism hard? You need anything you let me know. Mi casa su casa, as they say.

>Oh ho HO! My MIGHTY WILL and my PRESTIGIOUS BLOOD will surely allow me to serve as second in command in this Pack!
>Yes gargoyle sibling, I shall make my niceties and apologize to our schizoid seeress
I fold like a shitty camping stool
Fuck my unlife

>>98069315
I have been obliged to thank you for assisting in my assent, however, I must also inform you I am MENTAL SAUSAGE MEAT from the fact that, who you call "HOT GAROUS IN YOUR AREA" has Double-blinded me into being a FUCKING WARLOCK. OH SURE THIS IS SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN A FUCKING MONK OR WHATEVER WEE WEE WOO WOO DRUIDIC-CLERIC SHIT THE GAROU-CATFISHER USES BUT I MIGHT AS WELL CHANGE MY NAME AND GET A SCANDALOUS GROIN TATTOO

Thank you. Again. When you call I will answer. Especially if you are having issues with my former Clan.

>>98070516
On your feet you stepping stool BOTTOM

>>98070624
>>98070910
Some cainites are devolved morlocks who derive satisfaction from depraved acts. Others are painfully bored. Some like my obscenely homosexual ductus act repulsive with their emotional reciprocity
>OH HON ARE YE ALRIGH
>AE BABE IF YE NEED ANYTHIN JUS LE ME KNA
>MARREE MOTTERA GAD WOMAN IF YE NEED A TOP UP ORRA HUG AM HERE FOR YAS
Vile.

Also the Welsh-Wolf is fine because I know he's just a wolf. He isn't going to METASTASIZE INTO A WARRIOR OF GAIA ON ME OUT OF NOWHERE. Right now we're just- eh. I'm getting my ass beaten. My amnesiac pack-mate who speaks weird german has more English language knowledge than I.

Delving into the mysteries of the Demon Koopalaw and the Ancient Dragons is-

Well enough.

If you want to check my slavonic translations I'd appreciate it. Index is right there. Because I do not feel like a POWERFUL SCION OF CAINE I FEEL LIKE I'M BACK IN UNIVERSITY. And if I want to flex and shoot lightning out of my pecks this is going to be an uphill battle. Which is fine. I just need to vent a bit.

>>98070991
I wouldn't be able to tell you if the translation is accurate or not, I can't read Cyrillic and I don't speak any Slavonic languages. Born and raised here in Winnipeg and I've only been a vampire for ten years. I don't think my sire speaks any Cyrillic languages either. Grandsire probably could, but he turned himself into kind of a vampiric triceratops-thing and dwells in the deepest forests of Eastern Europe so I can't exactly shoot them a text about it. You're unfortunately the expert here. I can read what you've translated and check for typos I guess, let me see here...

>>98071305
At this point my eyes glazing over, and I keep imagining funny stick men. mocking me.
God cyrillic was an improvement over this shit. And this is just the MARGINS. OOOH CONTEMPLATE MY RUIN SAYS THE DEMON AS HE FLEXES HIS FAT RUMP. I AM TRYING.

Fuckin dropped the phone great lost eveyrthing one sec :(

>>98069141
It wasn't about the bills or the coins.

Coins.

Jesus that's a lot of presidents. You'll only be as satisfied as you wish when you forget the name and face. Mister Yankee and Mister Yankee can do anything, what matters is what you do with it.

>>98069315
Until you inscribe that ink on your heart you're doomed to live an interesting life mister King. Kind of a problem because you move it when you have bad dreams. Times will change. You will pass. Release is the little death that precedes the bigger one. Or... Like the third one? Hard to get into words. Crabs are friends though. You should invest in one or ten.

>>98069360
It's really bad because it isn't liquid it is like- Mucus? Or a really bad root that makes my skin crawl, it dreams all black and sick and grows where it can. Cut the root and it turns to snot, leave the snot and it turns to root. Something else. Something else...

Or...

Like 200. Which I'm mad about there are no units to that I just got- the damn number.

Good luck, he'll get better but I'd like you to be there when.

>>98069299
Hug a tree, it will hug you back. :)

>>98070837
>>98071305
I got excited for scrabble and lost all my prophecies
I'll be out in a sec tho just need to wegh

>>98071437
Yup, I can see why you're going crazy, this is... yeah...
>meditation to bond the senses to the spirits...
>contracts...
>will of the spirits...
>spirits I beseech thee...
I can see why most Tzimisce just do vicissitude, it's a lot more tactile, hands-on, easy to learn. I could see this stuff being useful after like 50 years of studying it, but if you need power right now you're shit out of luck. I could show you some vicissitude but we probably only have time for the absolute basics of changing your own face and physique.

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>>98070516

This is him in some angelic armor a Toreador made for him. Any resemblance to a female angel from some super faggy animated show is a mere coincidence.

>>98071586
The worst part is this is the easy version.
BUT THE PATH OF SORCERERY REQUIRES MY SUFFERING SO I AM IN
THE SOUL OF THE BIC LIGHTER AND THIS BUG SPRAY WILL YIELD

Probably be for the better I don't get into flesh shaping. I had enough trouble learning to tolerate this face if I fat finger it, It'll be like a less pleasant version of picking my nose.

>>98071560
Better late than never I suppose.

>>98071702
>THE SOUL OF THE BIC LIGHTER AND THIS BUG SPRAY WILL YIELD
Oh God please don't burn my house down. Anything flammable do in the basement, the floor and walls are unfinished concrete and there's a tap for a garden hose behind the washing machine.

WHY AM I FALLING APART

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO THIS BODY

ARE YOU HAVING A LAUGH YOU DEVIL IN HUMAN CLOTHING

CURSE YOU SPIDER LILYYYYYY CURSE YOUUUU

>>98072571
Don't eat things that smell wrong next time, you double-dead dipshit. He'd be fine if not for you. Fucking Toreadors.

>>98071560
If he dares to get better while I'm away, I'll put him back in torpor so I can be around when he wakes up.

That said, thanks. This helps. Not a lot, but, it helps.
Not that I couldn't already tell the poison is some sort of fluid form of Hitler, but, knowing it'll be eventually beaten is plenty. I owe you and your little coterie some, if you ever get to our part of East Coast, that's a favor you can cash in.

Wren's been in an exceptionally good mood since we took care of her stalker, and she brought us a new blood doll: it's a friend from the book club, I'll call her Swan. Swan made it her personal mission to become my image consultant, pick my clothes and so on. I am NOT putting makeup on!

I think Zoryana is preparing to meet the Toreadors, she's been browsing the web for clothes and shops too.

Apparently our Errand Chancellor needed a herd of his own to cater to his selective Ventrue tastes, one of his blood dolls is working at a Giovanni-controlled restaurant. Not Italian, it's an Asian fusion restaurant.
>>98062997
>the sams are more amicable to folks like me, i can pass off contacts. for a favour in the bank of course
Not sure how we could repay you, I'll talk to Zoryana.
>the best thing to do in a killer town is to sell knives fledgling
I mean no offense, but is it a cultural thing for Nossies speak in parables, metaphors and enigmas?
>>98070991
>If you want to check my slavonic translations I'd appreciate it. Index is right there.
Zoryana, my Old Clan Tzimisce Regnant, is studying Koldunism too, just DM me the original text and the translation to us.

>>98070837
You are not forgiven, not having triplicate chalk backups is a serious academic misstep as a pointy hat.

That said, it being something with a pulse is not great. If it's a serious sort of something, our best shot is either blasting his head clean off before he can react and start turning streets into pretzels, or to just escalate the situation until he has to abandon the place for fear of running into worse things than us. Unpleasant.

>>98070910
>Busy little bees.
You could always start making larger-than-average murder hornets, y'know. You can't really buy hornets on the Internet, but you could buy honey bees, four thousand with a queen is like two hudred bucks. That's enough to start a colony, and in a few months you'll have five or ten times that amount of bees. Probably more if you tinker with the queen to make it lay more eggs. And from then on you have a bug biomass printer, which you can merge into giant bees.

Which, Christ, you can I guess make fuzzy and adorable and install lower-caliber spikes in them. They'd be basically flying, fuzzy, one-shot pistols the size of a prune. Animalism works okay on insects, if you got the mind for it.

You'd need to somehow figure out where to keep them, though, bees need space and if any Kine see your suspiciously big bees, you'll be in trouble. The grickets you can kind of hide, at least.

>>98072571
We had a deal, you honoured your part to the letter - instead of serving me properly, that is, working harder - hence me honouring mine to the letter as well.

Thank you for your service, and for teaching me the recipe to make a Samedi:
ANIMA FVRTVUM;
CADAVERIS CONSERVATIO*;
DAEMONICAE POSSESSIO;
AMPLEXVS.

*I will concede I may have overestimated the efficacy and importance of this ritual~ Oopsies! Teehee~

Looks like I am not yet ready to make a half-vampire half-wraith yet, I think that must be a closely guarded secret of the Lazarenes. The more I practice Necromancy, the deeper I fall in love with its mysteries...

>>98072856
I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE, TSUNA OF THE ASANOOOOOOOO

>>98071809
First. Dude. I have basic self control.

I'm not one of those Scions of the Sabbat who get off on poking themselves with cigarettes, like that is enough to get over the Red Fear!

Second, since we are doing 'Normal' Koldunism we do not LET THE LIGHTER GET THINGS EASY. IT MUST EARN IT THROUGH BLOOD AND THRALLDOM. That would be- Like- Feeding a dog a million treats when it eats the kitchen. It would give it an inflated ego. Make it untrainable.

>>98072654
Now. Since you are painfully fresh I shall castigate you politely. First *declare you received the same texts as I* because my reflex is to smack you on first reading of the message. Even if these are the most base of texts on mastery of the elements, I can see the danger in them. If you asked another and they took you for asking for such power it could MAKE YOU A TARGET. Apprentices of House Tremere will happily kill for an advantage.

You shall receive the texts, as soon as I find the will to drag myself out of my coffin and get that camera.

>>98072690
Fair. Fair.

Also per the... "Issue" it would seem your... Business 'Partner' and my Ductus agree observation is key.
I have been informed we shall have a sit-rep soon. Apparently the Anarch vestiges did something very very stupid. Even by their standards.

>>98069935
whatever slander i could write doesn't stack up to his character.
look into his eyes and tell me he has internality. gulper eels are smarter than him. any transaction he gets involved in he demands immediate fucking collateral or he bites. even crocs aint even that stupid.

it is not any one thing. its been four decades of letters i spent writing this cancerous lump and every fuckin time his demands get worse.
oh we got a tourist turned morlock that wants to get back to the states? shes a valuble asset to boot?
nope! fuckin idiot asks for personal tribute and never follows thru
mutual request from nyc and boston to refit our central defences?
he demands a double cut and personal subsidies while were making sure some nik freak wont get the jump on us

now this shit. fuck me.

>>98071560
zen bs. probably right on the money tho

>>98072856
you really have that venetian disregard for heart huh? checks out.

>>98070910
I've got a ochestra of giant crickets
There they are!
A standing in a row~
Big ones! Big ones! Ones as big as your head!

>>98072690
Also, don't feed them vitae, it gets into their stingers, rendering them capable of blood binding a given Lick to their Queen. Three stings and you're a semi-pro Beekeeper for the next year, or until someone gets some viniculum in you.

>>98075099
Ooof! That a pretty harsh assessment... but a fair one. Henk and Travis stay out of city politics but they love lording over the other Nosferatu. I hear even the Primogen doesn't have as much influence among the clan as they do, now that Graves is gone. I imagine someone showing up out of the blue and challenging their dominance of the Undercity must really get under their skin.

Speaking of the old Sheriff, did you ever have any contact with Graves? Anything about him ever strike you as off? I know I was pretty shocked to learn that the old Prince and the old Sheriff were the same guy!

>>98075099
What, if I may ask, is your assessment of your Clan's ability to deal with other things that go bump in the night and stick to more abandoned areas?

Tonight I learned what a Wassail and wight are. Can a vampire really be reduced to that? More nightmares to haunt me.
Prince Calbullarshi informed us a Blood Hunt was called on a Samedi wight and that the Samedi "swear isn't one of them." Currently the entire coterie and our two herds are barricaded inside Castle Errand before things get uglier, Zoryana's formal orders are: "Castle Errand will not obstruct the Hunt and hunters."
>>98074356
>my reflex is to smack you on first reading of the message
Ow.
>You shall receive the texts, as soon as I find the will to drag myself out of my coffin and get that camera.
Thank you.

>>98078002
Careful lad. While you aren't REQUIRED to participate in a Blood Hunt that's been called, it is EXPECTED. Don't forget that you and your lady are new in town; they won't be able to accuse you of aiding the target of the Blood Hunt, but some folks might see your idleness as a lack of commitment to the Camarilla.

I’ve got a problem, figured I should ask the “tenured” vampanons. Lost a good friend last month out of nowhere. He’d been trying cooky methods to cure himself. Supposedly something went wrong and some kine got on his trail. Apparently they - three, maybe four, killed my best friend even when the guy’s a tank. I thought we were supposed to be on the top of the food chain?

>>98078388
We all talk like we are tough shit- but actual monster hunters are legit some of the most deranged people out there.

They are weaker than you, usually totally ignorant of the real ongoings of the world, armed with whatever they can muster. And this freak, because they're either vengeful or religious or psychotic or they wanna make money is going to 'make the attempt.' Even if only one in a hundred of those 'hunters' survive an opening encounter that one will learn. That makes them an exponential problem because there will always be more of them and the ones that survive that opening cull are unhinged.

>>98078388
In much the same manner a tiger can kill man and vice versa, it all depends on surprise and tools. We may be the DEADLIEST creature, but we are still vulnerable. With immortality, the only thing to fear is death.
>>98070991
Your navigations of the wisdom of koldunism is humorous. Remember, you’re entering into a pact with the land and its spirits. You must first perceive them and see what they want. It could be living sacrifice, hell likely to be so if in Mexico, or could just be an offrenda of sweet breads and wind chimes. Maybe animal skins hung to dry and tan over a small fire. Spirits are weird.
GOOD NEWS though, if you manage to take just your first step in the way of fire, you essentially lose the rotschreck. Around the same level of fire fear as when you were living, I’ve found. >>98071560
Okay but how does one tattoo their heart? Would that count as being staked? Can we get tattoos on our hearts? I must consult the great library! Also yes, crabs are fren. Birds too.

>>98078388
I'm not sure what part of us living in secrecy and with strict rules against revealing ourselves made you think we were the tip top of the equation. No, we are not. Humans, can and do kill us, even eldars with startling frequency. The rules were made to protect idiots like your friend (and the rest of us).

It's a bit like asking if a Horse is faster then a human. Easy yes of course a Horse is Faster. But if you extend that race even to distances of 20 or 30 miles. Suddenly humans start winning. Humans are an endurance hunter and have a real knack of turning everything into an endurance test. So yeah, stay frosty. Get a guy on the inside if you can help it. Don't play with your dinner. And for the love of god.
>RESPECT THE TRADITIONS

>>98078002
Like this fool.
>Oh I want to be on top, my princess on top
Are you going to be the courageous knight that kills wights and tells princesses exactly how muc hthey don't know?
>No
To be fair, it's not entirely his fault. He's partially addled, but its a good example. A bloodhunt has been called, Your absence will be noted Errandboy, I would tell your princess to stop thinking that she's nobility and start remembering that our kind have exceedingly long memories and carry grudges for just as long.

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The Winnipeg "Situation" (Recap 5)

> Baron Trelaine has decided the best course of action for furthering the Anarch Cause here in Canada is joining the Camarilla
> Allegedly he has something of value. Enough the Prince cut him a deal to bring him and his last gang-mate into their camp for the time being.
> Which is just...
> Great.

> Currently it seems we are reaching a point of political stability, for what little it is worth
> Right now might be the most peaceful Winnipeg has been in a while, at least at night.
> Prince Maria Pilsudski has managed take our intrusion to put together an actual coherent movement under her thumb
> Even if they lack the numbers they have the capital and the resources to be a big pain in our backsides and could reclaim the town for the Camarilla
> All while 'Archbishop' Pontius has consolidated a frothing roiling chaos into being an actual war party
> His only rivals are Incognito and the cult of personality has taken off
> To make matters worse our little Latin leech has gotten some very dangerous allies
> As we have regrettably mentioned the man somehow got himself an actual magician under his thumb
> Said individual we shall call for our purposes 'Mister Grey' because he dresses like a Man in Black under the Influence of Ket
> To make Mister Grey an even bigger pain in the ass we've only noticed him existing because he only 'appears' if near a vampire
> Or through Loup tricks I won't elaborate on

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>>98079649
> Somehow this isn't the most dangerous asset Pontius has got especially in conjunction with other elements that have come to light
> Mine aren't the only Loups here, apparently.
> To those online who paid attention to the NYC thing, think about that menace. But much MUCH worse. Those are a pale imitation of this.
> And there are at least two of them.
> To top it all off Pontius has been building up a serious ghoul network, although odds are the Camarilla's is much bigger
> They're currently circling in the city now, transplants from all over in homeless camps and in business places eyeing each other up
> Leading us to an awkward stalemate.
> Our Coalition can't move in as we are purposefully spaced out and in our element, which means they also can't attack us
> Pontius and the Prince Pilsudki both have secure positions, but going for an attack will prompt their counterpart to act or worse reveal their locations
> So all of us are waiting for the someone to blink, even if that 'blink' could be an ambush
> Judging from what I've learned, when this starts it isn't going to end until one sect or the other is eradicated

> The only upside to this turn of events is that it rattled the hell out of my allies who were dragging their feet
> Actually having insane servants of the Hungry God makes it apparent how small beans we all are
> Can't tell if the worry or something real is giving me the 'I'm being watched' feeling
> More to come. Is mis Pictah, tha graenn agm ar na Romni

>>98078237
>>98078582
Bros, bros, please, we did join the Hunt! It's just that the first thing in the evening was to fortify the haven, make sure everybody was safe, and have more kine going to sleep so we wouldn't worsen the situation with Masquerade, and of course, a briefing! Zoryana said: "Defense wins championships." and she wasn't gonna go on a Blood Hunt without a plan.
Once we were ready, she drove me in her 911 with the lights off and I used Quietus for the first time. We spotted a handful of motocross bikes chasing somebody along the intracoastal waterway, very close to home actually, and I hit what looked like a running zombie with an incendiary round. It was very weird not hearing any part of the rifle but I had muscle memory to guide me. The thing I hit survived and ran in the opposite direction, the riders formed a circle around it. The Princess did the closed fist gesture to hold fire, so we waited.
10 minutes later the Prince texted us, said the Brujah Primogen got the kill. Hurray. I don't give a darn about any recognition, I just wish somebody told me I hit the right guy, and I didn't contribute to an episode of anti-Samedi violence happening under the cover Blood Hunt. Either way I'm sure the Samedi are on thin ice after this.
Another question is: what if there were no motocross riders and that thing that survived that shot found us first?
Every night I thank God for Zoryana and her galaxy brain.

>>98079649
>Even it's enemies are the biggest promoters of the Camarilla
Truly Amazing. How many barons do you think Anarchs have to see do this dance, to realize they were always ever just in it for themselves and the lower ranks were just useful idiots?

>>98076190
the first time a guy turned out to be two dwarfs smoking in a coat it was shocking
the second one just numbed me

at this point outside of those i can physically go, prod skins, an check the junk of? fuck it. comes with a big old * by default for me now cant say i knew graves all that much, he was just another name on the list and intercepted contacts. different now these nights. for now i'm all ears on jacksonville, might even get over myself an go back to the states for a trip if fortune pans out for once.

>>98076869
depends on what you got. most of the regulars are bad outside their hunting grounds. either paranoid, or way too comfortable.
comes with the territory of our quirks and human nature. but that said we got special boys for issues. the type of crack-heads ready to ice-pick through plate armour. couple teams in your neck of the woods. lets see

>Iron-Hand Condottieri [Very Pricey] (good old boys from italy, best of the best, don't work for ventrues, high cost)
>Viet Kong Squad [Pricey] (not viet kongs just fought in vietnam for em, seasoned and modern, use napalm)
>Rat Eaters [Budget] (nosferatu attack dogs, usually handle internal turncoats, stupid bravery, do anything if the price is good enough)
>Cheese Thieves [Budget] (more operators than hunter killers, named for a job stealing from the states gov, healthy sense of survival, good scouting)
>Baba's Yagas [Pricey] (prefer to take pay in artifacts, certified monster fuckers in all senses, sadistic, wanted by the sabbat)

if youre interested i can send you contact info or more deets. unless you got some locals you trust who arent bsing about fighting nicks ass-naked.

>>98079660
fuckin yeesh. filing that under a concern issue.
dont blow out the masquerade over this shit yea

>>98079660
>Pontius and the Prince Pilsudki both have secure positions, but going for an attack will prompt their counterpart to act or worse reveal their locations
>So all of us are waiting for the someone to blink, even if that 'blink' could be an ambush
> Judging from what I've learned, when this starts it isn't going to end until one sect or the other is eradicated
And whoever wins gets to meet 'n greet Cardinal Strathcona.
>>98081178
>Baba's Yagas [Pricey] (prefer to take pay in artifacts, certified monster fuckers in all senses, sadistic, wanted by the sabbat)
The sect's only On Sight Wild Hunt. They're good, even got through Colma, CA with most of their appendages intact. Widow's still got it webbed up somewhere around here; ever the romantic.

>>98081297
>And whoever wins gets to meet 'n greet Cardinal Strathcona.
I forgot to mention the ol' KKK (Kyle the King of Kanata), thought he was a given. Dude is fucking terrifying, I ran into him once, as a mortal, didn't know who or what he was. I almost pissed myself, probably an effect of presence on a mortal? I'm lucky he didn't eat me. Even as a kindred now, I don't want to run into that guy ever again. He's not going to let a power vacuum form in Winnipeg.

>>98079649
>>98079660
Do you know what's going on in the other nearby cities like Selkirk or Portage? The Sabbat might send reinforcements from there, or are they sitting on their hands?

>>98081461
Yeah, but he'll also have an interest in an Archbishop who's been killing his way up on the sly. Or new Camarilla Neighbors. Or, especially; a Breton Autarkis who managed to play those two against each other. And that's before he hears about the wizard and werewolves.

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>>98080214
>Question
Perhaps you wouldn't be with us. Perhaps you'd commit a cardinal sin. You never know.

And it is better not to fall into fear.

>>98080517
>to realize they were always ever just in it for themselves and the lower ranks were just useful idiots?
Functionally, I could use that statement for 75% of Blood society brother.

>>98081178
Trying not to Rump. And thanks for the vote of confidence.

>>98081297
>>98081461
Don't remind me, my time last in Quebec was at least boring, but the first time was... Pretty bad.

Strathcona's resources are limited though. The constant shitfest back and forth bickering between East Canada and Central Mexico (beside the absolute fecklessness of the state-side cardinals) was what let this situation get as bad as it was in the first place. Bonhomme's Bastards probably made it back home and told the packs, so the old Fox will be in the know now. For what little its worth. Here is hoping we are well enough to have that awkward conversation, when the time comes.

As for Selkirk and the PLP nïa? Actually got word on them, seems a number of the Sabbat in Selkirk left, either to join Pontius or to get out of the province. And the Nos pulled an ambush on the ones who remained. Chuck has been made an honorary Nossie and the town is in their hands now. PLP Also had that one Sabbat Tlaloc kept there on watch who "died." The way it was reported makes it seem she either left or defected to the local Anarchs.

>>98081178
>>98076869
Take it from me, if anyone is bragging about beating a pack of nicktukus with their bare hands, they’re lying or a gen 4 or less absolute sicko. I had them out gunned, and out magicked, and only managed to take 2/5. They wiped my ghoul and his nagaraja tryst out within seconds. I only survived because I’m willing to incinerate everything and had a normally inaccesible cellar beneath 10ft of earth. I do not fuck with those guys and anyone wearing a suit of fucking full plate is getting capped with a blessed peach stake, just in case the chinese aren’t lying about Jiangshi.
>>98081686
Geez Canuckistan has gone to hell. I despised the cold as a mortal. Allergic to it even. Never imagined it was that bad though.

>>98081686
>Strathcona's resources are limited though
He can afford a plane ticket and has the chops to persuade Pontius to wash his hands of the matter. Resources won't keep him out of Winnipeg, not for long. No. I think by now he also knows there are Werewolves and a Mage in town, so he's going to keep things simple, and wait and watch.
The minute those pieces are off the board, he'll show, he's had 500 years to get really good at showing up st the worst possible time, at least for his enemies.
At which point, he'll keep things simple, by killing everyone.

>>98081686
>75% of blood society
Ha, I knew I liked you for a reason. So are you guys just holing up up there, or do you reasonably have a chance of winning before say the year is out.

>>98081840
So we're all just dead then once all this is over, fantastic. I was really looking forwards to experiencing what kind of video games the kine could make 100 years from now, never going to see it though.

Best I go out fighting, I'll probably have to shed my human form completely and turn myself into a walking masquerade breach of bone and spikes to even have a fighting chance. I can shed it all afterwards if I survive.

Ah crap, that >>98082006 was to >>98081884

>>98079660
I got surprise package Uno ready for you and I'm working on Dos and Tres. Ya know where to find me captain.

>>98082006
Relax bro we got our advantage in two words: [ Force ] and [ Multipliers ]
Bombs, werewolves, and freaky shit. Don't matter how old and freaky he is, there's things he can't do while we got the homefield advantage.
Probably be best you work on like- that thing your clan can do. Turn all big and porcelain. No. Wait. That's bone. Nah losing the plot.

We aint gonna die bro! We just gotta make sure other guys can't waltz in after the fact.

>>98081178
This whole Nos power struggle is ckearly going to get out of hand, so I'm going to distract them with a classic poisoned gift. There's a large building that is unclaimed as of yet. It's condemned, has a veiw of the I-10 I-95 merger, and has quite a few urban legends thst should keep most lookie loos away and allow a shrug to explain away the disappearances of thrill seekers.

Yes. I'm going to give bulding no.4 to the Nosferatu. It's sometimes called the Devil's School.

>>98081840
Nah, the North has always had a certain tension to it. Here be dragons.

Potentially literally. Sorcerer clocked onto an allusion to the 'Zymei' and he screamed about dragon blood.

>>98081884
Perhaps. Perhaps not. But Pyrrhus he is not, and I doubt he'll leave Quebec vulnerable over Winnipeg. Not unless... Well. I guess we'll see if Pontius is as ambitious as the Moctozumas claim. And if the Cardinals in Mexico are so stupidly ambitious to support his wider plots.

>>98081950
I doubt this will last that long with everyone pulling out their stops and the Assiniboine menace creeping closer.

Be remiss of me to ignore my hand in all this though. I came to win my people a triumph. And all that entails.

>>98082006
>>98082881
We are exactly where we want to be. That said, it would be best if I show you, nïa, where your vicissitude flows from. Crash course in the Protean.

Che, keep at it. You'll be receiving requests soon enough. You'll know them when you see them.

>>98083657
>if the Cardinals in Mexico are so stupidly ambitious to support his wider plots.

God, I hope not.

>>98082881
>Turn all big and porcelain. No. Wait. That's bone. Nah losing the plot.
That was the plan but it might take me a week or more to change. I've never assumed a zulo form before and I don't think I'm ready to do it in minutes like a true zhupan.

>>98083657
>Perhaps. Perhaps not. But Pyrrhus he is not, and I doubt he'll leave Quebec vulnerable over Winnipeg.
Well I may be jumping the gun then. I am terrified of the guy though. Since before I was embraced, so if we have to fight him one day I'd rather be very, very prepared. But if he's never going to show up that's a very good thing. I have never felt more fear, living or dead, than over that Scottish guy with the tribal dragon tattoo on his face.
>Crash course in the Protean.
Whatever you can show me would be appreciated, right now I can only turn my eyes all wolfy.

>>98083577
oh that's juicy, i got half a mind to think davies might see the white elephant for what it is
then again if davies were half as smart as i worried he might be, hed stop playing puppet master in florida and would be feeding off strippers in nevada

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Sigh. We got summoned by the Primogen Council, just what we needed... To the Orpheum Theater we go.

>>98085955
The idea is even if they know, they won't be able to refuse. I make a dog and pony show at Elysium and present building four to the Nosferatu Clan through their primogen. What, is he going to refuse territory that isn't the sewers? Then he offers a floor to each of those three. And the good veiw of the merger of two of the largest interstate highways on the East Coast. They simply cannot afford to allow their rivals to monopolize THAT source of information, while the rest of the Clan cannot afford to allow them to fight so feircely they risk the Masquerade in such a busy place.

I should have them over a barrel and owing ME a favor to boot.

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>>98086100
Classy place, not a bad seat in the place.

>>98072654
>is it a cultural thing for Nossies speak in parables, metaphors and enigmas?
Quite so! We're a clan that is usually fairly reliant on information as a trade good, weapon and asset, giving out any for free has to be an event unpleasant enough for you that you're compelled to just pay for it instead. Also we are wired to be petty and annoying, but that is honestly true of many other clans, and is perhaps just something innate to humanity that is brought up by the power-switch inherent to being a Nosferatu who suddenly is useful and valuable, and has something the opposition wants, and not merely a subject of scorn and disdain.

What the fuck are even Gangrels man?

Last night the Ductus (CAN I PLEASE get what an actual name is for you- the tag 'HOT GAROUS IN YOR AREA' is killing me- ma'am) called us together. The Cat creature did not take part in the lesson, nor did I. Though our Gargoyle Sibling and the young Dragon participated. Decided to skip my studies because while I have mastered communication, my lighter has proven to be... Difficult.

She started off with the usual stuff. The normal things to get across the disciple, the crazy wee woo crystal things that I still don't fully get, even if I'm starting to pin the origin point of it.

Then she RIPS HER FUCKING SKIN OFF to show the wolf-monster hiding underneath.

And sure yes very happy my new packmate is getting into contact with their great great wild grandsire's roots and we are finally doing something PRODUCTIVE for our host but what even the fuck is this shit? This stuff is giving me a complex. Worse than turning a corner outside and seeing a fucking Loupine walking out of the woods like he owns the place.

>>98088766
Yeah, I know gangrel gets a reputation for being almost not actually vampires but at the end of the day, yes we're dracula's too? Protean is a hell of a drug, and one that many of us avoid.

Given how body shaping it is, I do sort of wonder if Vicissitude isn't descended (or corrupted) from Protean. Good for Party Tricks I guess.

>>98088766
It was eye-opening. I thought protean was all shapeshifting and then she pulled her skin off to reveal the beast was already there under her skin. I don't even know what to think about it anymore, but I'd be lying if it didn't give me some vicissitude ideas.

>>98089728
>I do sort of wonder if Vicissitude isn't descended (or corrupted) from Protean
That's what some people say, others say it's a spiritual disease from an alien plane of existence.

>>98088766
We told you that you didn't have to watch cause- You know-

You're getting a bit of a complex?

>>98086100
Mathew was happy to see you. Thank you. He was the one in the empty seat by the end. :)

>>98086649
>>98085955
Someone's listening, be careful with your calls.

>>98087940
Tell Victoria not to be mad about... Something. Hmg. I don't like this feeling.

>>98089728
>>98089940
Eldest asked his Auntie for a gift.

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>>98089940
Geez, really? Invisible Creepers watching you shower, effete blue bloods making someone take a cheese grater to their own kids face and then eating it, or demented madmen forcing you to take afternoon tea with bloody fucking C'Thulu are all fine but one of the OG Vampire Magicks from the Dark Father himself, THAT'S what gives you the Ick!?

>>98090113
Fuck meant for >>98088766

This Primogen Council really felt like it ran us through a series of "s**t tests", to borrow Zoryana's words. The Toreadors were the host, they, the Chantry Regent, the Prince and the Ventrues didn't give a darn about me, the Brujah hate Zoryana "just for existing."
>We didn't want to be seen or heard by a wight of unknown capabilities
>You wanted to us to hunt an animal so we hunted it like an animal
>I never did anything of the sort before, just videogames providing a cultural foundation for my tactics and you know better than me about the teaching methods of the Tzimisce
>Even in the event we hit the wrong Samedi it was still a running and screaming Masquerade violation, we did what we had to do
>Errand Chancellor's blood doll mentioned something about a Japanese woman coming to that Giovanni-controlled restaurant and acting like she owned the place, Kindred included
>Everything we do is to protect ourselves, the Masquerade and the city like any other Kindred here
Zoryana is furious because now they want us to delve deeper in the Giovanni v. Samedi case. She'll meet the Gio, I'll go bother the Samedi, and on that note:
>>98062997
>everyone in town deals with em. comes with the terf. cause the sams are more amicable to folks like me, i can pass off contacts. for a favour in the bank of course
Yes, please I'll take your offer.
>>98090051
>Mathew was happy to see you. Thank you. He was the one in the empty seat by the end. :)
Was it another Malkavian? They say there isn't a Malkavian Primogen because in New Orleans they rarely stay over a year or two.

...Anyone hitting me with a quick check up on wheter anything new happened these days?...

Back in my day... most of the stuff people disscus here was considered straight up stuff they'd silence you for... something happened for wich most groups are no longer... as twitchy...
Though it should be late night right now...
It might explain why no Nos is around and about online...
Something is fishy...

Dayium... so they threw a few metaphorical nukes these years...
Most people here are either too old or too young to see the insanity of some of these messages...hm... do a few certain someones are still in the game... I suppose it could have been worse... if people can speak about their usual nights then no one is yet to be stressed for their short term unlives.
So it would seem the saying "nothing happens upon centuries and centuries happen upon years" to be absolutely true still.

>>98090165
>I'll go bother the Samedi
They're sending a newbie, to talk with the Stiffs. Fuckin' Cammies, man.

>>98090392
Heh... reminds me of a certain event in L.A...

>>98090290
I have faith in the Nosferatu's ability to maintain this network and keep it hidden.I also have faith that real politick and social convention will trap others when I do say things I wouldn't otherwise, though I thank you for your concern Meo.

>>98090412
Don't even joke, cainite.

>>98090424
Mayhaps you confuse me for someone else.
>>98090463
Ah, so it's still a fresh wound to this day, dully noted .

>>98086649
well colour me suprised. keep me in the loop i might need to take a boat trip in a while.
just for a little talk.

>>98088766
theyre a fucking nightmare whelp and i aint got a better explanation
might be were past their glory days of riding with huns and mongols and menacing the woods
but they fit the beast pretty good

>>98090165
right. im sending along a runner boy with the intel so we got confirmation
his name is mic, you probably didnt see him when you last met up, but he saw you. nice boy, quiet, painfully bisexual
hell have a full page and do a proper set-up. just remember, we scratch your back now, yadda yadda, you get the point

>>98090290
if we bring out modern lingo a lot of the sect like bein lurkers an admins
so do i but for some reason i gotta be the adult in the chat-room

>>98090463
wouldnt dream of it grin

>>98090221
Sure I hear there's a new coven of vampire witches in Langley, very hard to track. I can't tell you more, I already said too much.

>>98090412
Was anyone actually around for that? The best I got was third hand recollections about some fledge going nutty.

https://youtu.be/HLp6vQ6_yKU

>>98090671
All fun and games until a witch comes with a badge and catches you for thinking no technology or encription is breakable."

>>98090678
Depends on who you ask. Too many contradictions I'm afraid. Tough I'm sure there is someone out there that might know the answer, for a certain price.
If experience taught me something. Is that the truth is usually somewhere in-between

>>98090165
>Was it another Malkavian? They say there isn't a Malkavian Primogen because in New Orleans they rarely stay over a year or two.
They lie. But most don't know about the lie. :)

>>98090710
Colour me surprised

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>>98090745
Dangerous wording.

>>98090774
Do we know each other?

>>98090777
I do at least...Bucharest.

>>98090678
The only non-contradictory reports I received were the cammies had a Sarcaphogus. And LaCroix got pranked. Either by this utter baby bat of a fledgling, Smiling Jack, King Messerach the Only, Caine himself, or Steve.
I really hope it was one of the first two. And pray it wasn't the last.

>>98090787
I'm genuinely hating this generation on the basis of a lack of fear and or basic online hygiene

>>98090799
Oh cheer up you lifeless bastard. Not everything in life revolves around surviving and playing it safe. You have what I need, You need what i have...

10 minutes. Somebody else may buy this leak instead.Maybe someone right in this digital place :).

>>98090831
A leak is only valuable if the buyer knows what to do with it. You're selling smoke in a room full of ghosts. If you're going to burn me, stop checking your watch and light the match. Otherwise, speak plainly

>>98089940
I struggle with how much of her stories. I cannot tell what is insufferable optimism- or BLATANT lies- or horrible disconcerting truths.

>Oh yes! Skinned a loup I did!
Then she turns her spine into a funky fucking slinky.

>>98090113
>>98090148
Oh sure! Look down at the miserable fledgling and his quircks! But you are not out here in the woods getting slapped by LARGE VAGUELY CANINE HORRORS. At this point I half expect someone to just point to that Noddist line about "OooooOOoOOOh They are a kind and we are another" and go "Nope that lies :)"

AND ILL SCREAM LIKE A CHILD BEING BULLIED BY AN OLDER SIBLING IN THEIR CAR SEAT, HELPLESS AS I AM DRIVEN NOT TO DISNEY LAND BUT INSTEAD FUCKING CHRISTIAN CAMP IN OREGON

FOR I HAVE ONLY MYSELF TO BLAME

>>98091086
You gotta loosen up, man. You're so high strung. Next time we're in Winnipeg we should go to a bar and feed on some drunks or stoners or something. In fact feeding on a stoner might help you with your koldunism training, expand your mind to the cosmos. Oh wait I forgot I have an entire keg of blood-rum. Want a shot? It'll knock you on your ass.

Does anyone know why my Secretary is currently laying at my feet clutching her head and weeping? She keeps mumbling about Miami and Ghost Ships.

>>98091599
... Fuck it I'm in if you and Gun are. Let me grab em.

>>98092666
Right on! Let's do this!

>>98092422
the most obvious i can offer is that it means little good.
have you any information on your secretary of note?

>>98094011
Just that if she were any other Malkavian I wouln't be so surprised. Her only "madness" is the intensity of her work mode from her play mode. It's not that split personality thing where one is ignorant of the other, just...She once made a pop culture comparison I don't understand but maybe someone else will: When she is working she is like Owen, when it is playtime she is like Puck. I think she said she was rerfencing a tv show about gargoyles?

The news networks are reporting some gang violence in Miami but we all know that is the least likely truth of the matter.

>>98094194
occasionally i am struck by the things they have in this age. when first i heard a radio i was amazed. when i first saw a car i was repulsed. i am... rather at a loss when one of the young members of my ghoul clan explains the plot of animation television. how cheeky.

ghost ships. that is deeply disconcerting.

My sorry excuse of an investigation.

Zoryana: Good evening. The Prince sent me to investigate your conflict with the Samedi, may I hear your side of the story?
Sal: It's none of your business.
Z: The situation is awkward and unpleasant enough. It can only worsen if I return empty handed.
S: Ms. Lianhua! Can you talk some sense into this Cammy chick?
Lianhua: Maybe. Make me some dinner. What's the matter?
Z: Your conflict with the Samedi.
L: What about it?
Z: A Blood Hunt was called on a Stiff wight.
L: Ask them.
Z: That's a parallel enquiry. Why do you fight?
L: Some people refuse to grow up. Your Elder and Methuselah owned slaves. In year 2000 there were more slaves in the world than the amount of Africans deported to the Americas in the Trans-Atlantic trade. Do the Stiffs car about that? Should we?
Z: Is the casus belli a resentment over slavery?
L: The Clan of Death is now Clan Hecata. All necromantic bloodlines should join it.
S: Ms. Lianhua, your octopus.
L: What took you so long to put a live animal on a platter? Want some?
Z: Your dish looks cold. Are the Samedi necromancers?
L: Some are. The bloodline exists because of necromancy.
Z: The Samedi claim the wight wasn't one of their own. Was it a recent creation? I heard of a Japanese lady visiting this place, but you are Chinese.
L: And you are not American, you're intelligent. Will you fight an Elder who's almost 450?
Z: My Sect is older.
L: Your Prince isn't, his status in the Sect is nonexistent even in his own Domain. Your Sect and us had a Promise of noninterference after the Anarch Revolt, rumored to expire in two years. Can we renew it if my Domitor is on the Red List? If after the Gangrel, you lose the Brujah, how many more enemies do you want? There's a Methuselah south the border, older than the Mexican conquest, even she thinks he's a freak!
Z: Blyat.
L: You're too smart to start an eternal war over a Stiff! As payment for saving the whole city from eternal torture, help me reach the local Setites.

>>98095004
>sorry excuse
Why? Good girls get rewarded.

>>98090796
Probably Steve, he's Crazzzy like that.

>>98090051
Wouldn't that suggest a kinship between Lilith and Gaia? Or am I up shit's creek. My Ancient Lore was never very sharp.

>>98090831
Not to bud in where uninvited, but why don't you layout a crumb trail for rest of us. It's hard to buy without, how do the kids say it these days, a taste?

>>98094194
>Tv show
>Gargoyals
This is going to be as bad as Kindred the Embraced. I can tell. I gotta go call in some favours, Fuck I hate tv vampires. I already got one smeghead's mask showing on live fucking network television. I don't know how they missed that smell, but I can assure you the office is working on it.

>>98095004
I wonder if this is the face my master made, when my young fledgling ass consistently got in over my head without realizing it. At least we only had to deal with buffalo hunters and catholics back in the day. Have you ever considered, just doing what you are told, and nothing more for say a few decades? Do not get involved with the snakes, go as the merry go between you are and learn to keep your young mouth shut.

In other news, Why are the bars so empty? Who thought it was a good idea to make folk so poor they can't even afford to go out and drink, you know, where we go out and drink. I sense a ventrue behind this. Aside from the feeding Sin has proven difficult to break in. Some six run away attempts since I mentioned it last. She's not great at it. I'm letting her hang on the stake for a bit. Boy Lust is seeming much more pliable. I like to think that the way to a girl's heart is thru her sternum but I guess the vulnerable relation works.

https://youtu.be/UjMYULNqvi0

Well... Well. Miami, Naples, Tampa...The reports are a bit outlandish. All I really know right now is many higher ranked kindred from several domains on Florida's extensive coastlines are dead or presumed so and the attackers struck and faded before the Camarilla could make a proper counterattack. They cut it fine, forces were being mustered, but...

>>98097714
so continues the jyhad.
at face value anyways. florida seems like ground zero for any attack performed by anyone looking to deal with kindred. or broader ambitions.

>>98098822
Just so. Given what my secretary said I am inclined to belive the stories about a sailing ship from my mortal life sailing itself out of a fog bank and up to the civilian ports but beyond that...it seems choas was the goal, or at least part of it. I suspect it will be some time before we're able to seperate fact from fiction.

The real question is What Next?

They did not lay seige to our territories or attemp to ocupy them; only made a decapitating strike and withdrew.

>>98098918
prepare for the next shoe to drop. naturally.

Guess who lost their spiritual virginity to a glowing forest creature? His name begins with an S and ends with and R. :)

(This is a joke, me and your ductus are very proud of your progress just please have a designated summoning overseer in the future. Fear too.)

>>98090051
>Mathew was happy to see you. Thank you. He was the one in the empty seat by the end. :)
Ehhh we've been in high alert between the Hunt and these other tasks, we kinda forgot about your friends...
Next time we apologize.
>>98090710
>They lie. But most don't know about the lie.
Guess we know, then.
>>98096543
>Have you ever considered, just doing what you are told, and nothing more for say a few decades? Do not get involved with the snakes, go as the merry go between you are and learn to keep your young mouth shut.
Zoryana already said the Prince texted her to "go on with the investigation" so she's going with this Chinese ghoul lady of the Giovanni and meet the Setites.

Wait are those literal snakes? Snake people? People who transform into snakes? I dunno what to believe anymore.
>>98090555
Please go easy on me with the Prestation thingy, this was my idea...

Anyway, to make myself erm, "presentable" to both my Nosferatu contact, Mic, and the Samedi, I stopped our blood doll Swan from using her fashion wizardry to make my appearance socially acceptable, and wore my clothes from the night of the embrace - pretty much the opposite of the night with the Primogen Council. Mic was supposed to be this painfully bisexual guy, but even he didn't find me to his liking? I dunno what to feel honestly.

I don't wanna repeat the lecture about slavery with all the Caribbean accents, tl;dr - the Giovanni want the Sams to become their underlings, wherever there's slavery or death the Giovanni are there, and for them Sams, or "Nasyon san an", it's liberty or death. Man I know the Nosferatu have it bad but these guys are something else, they're like intelligent zombies and smell horrendous.

The oldest of the Samedi, Herbert, repeated that the wight was not part of their little community. The guy was a newcomer who, before he lost it forever, used to say crazy things like claiming to be a resurrected Toreador from Italy, named Sirio Ascari, known online as Boy Toy.

>>98096543
>Probably Steve, he's Crazzzy like that.
Hopefully he got it out of his system. I don't need him combining that with some of his other hobbies he picked up in Berlin.
Unless we really really need to blow up an Animal shelter or pet shop again.

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>>98099488
Remember fledglings, Friends don't let friends Drink and Koldun.

>>98099488
>>98099488
Yf U coulf stranglw you right niw o would. Wll not. wEre Is the Drsgon?
nfj Why du i havw deer//.>"?

>>98099897
Uiour mother was s hamter

>>98100501
I warned yuo. I fuckin' warned ya! It's good shit, eh?

BALLBAD
BäLlBAD
ORGIE IM BAÄ LLEBAD

>>98099488
>>98100501
I’ve never had that been a condition for servitude before. If they asked for your firstborn, it wasn’t a spirit young padawan.

>>98098918
Well the Florida straits were quite perilous in your day. An at that time modern Scylla and Charybdis. Two questions devildog, are there any reports of the sailors on that ship? If they speak FILTHY HOLLANDISH, I know what to do to repel them. Two, is Sailor Johnny in Key West still operating? I never got my last shipment of rum from him back before all this happened.

>>98099511
Maybe I'm taking the wrong tact with this, I think my impatience with Sin may be rubbing off on how I've address you. So let me try to make clear by way of example what I'm trying to tell you.

I truly believe that all vampires would be better off cooperating. It's why I promote the camarilla so much. It's why young vampires have to be educated. Its easier on everyone is people cooperate and frankly, the requirements are not much. Stay in your lane, Don't bring unwanted attention, maybe give a day or two of labour every now and then when asked. Don't eat your neighbors (your kindred neighbors). I don't think any of this goes contrary to the other very good life advice I have which is:
>Don't trust other vampires
Which includes princes. The prince taking an interest in new fledgings can be a grand thing, but it can also be a terrible thing. You have to remember that you being a young, stupid and expendable proxy is not a super safe thing for you, even if its a rung up the ladder of power. You have to ask yourself if that ladder is worth climbing and at this moment of time.

The snakes are followers of set or setties. They are another clan of forsaken and Egyptian or Asian I guess? blood sorcerers and they have their own version of protean or animalism that focuses on snakes, thus the name. Similar to the Samedi they aren't cammie vampires, they all do their own thing which is generally be a huge pain in the ass. And as for Literal Snakes, yeah sometimes literally giant snake vampires, I don't even know how they got into the Khyber Pass but sure enough.

So what I'm trying to say is that, your prince (a middling prince to my recollection, not someone with the huge resources you would expect out of a bigger cities), who is caught up in his own power struggles, is asking you to do a bunch of dangerous shit that has real risks even for seasoned vampires, let alone fledges like you. So why isn't he spending and sending his circle instead of you?

>>98092422
Try and record the weeping, see if it can be deciphered or interpreted. Ghost ships making seers go mad never are a good thing. They're generally an awful thing, and a good reason to stay away from the East Coast for a while.
And maybe keep your distance from the secretary in case her head blows up. Happens sometimes.

>>98090051
Being mad is kind of most of what I do with my time. I'll try, anyways, just because you're hard to say no to.

>>98099897
What'd you qualify letting somebody drink and koldun to point and laugh at the results as? Frenemy? Best friend?

Update
I have never felt a hangover like this. I do not regret my actions as clearly the courage of SICK BOOZE was a good kick in the backside. I seem to have summoned a familiar entity. According the the Malkavian we offered it a drink and it has agreed to serve me. Fortunately it does not demand Vitae infused blood. So I will not need to rush down the works of the Shadow-Weavers in SMALL GERMANY or that fucking cannibalizing gorilla in the ass end of California.

At the moment this spirit is... Not particularly useful as it is even more hungover than I, but int time- no doubt! It shall serve me as a tutelary force.

>>98100757
I am glad I finally got a chance to try it. Would it be pathetic to admit I'd never gotten properly smashed before this? My thanks.

>>98101933
>why isn't he spending and sending his circle instead of you?
As I was about to write this post, and also text the girl, she sent a text of hers first, says she has a surprise. Earlier she said she wanted me to solve your riddle all by myself "for my own education" and instructed Errand Chancellor not to help me, so here goes nothing.

Calbullarshi thinks somebody not deeply entrenched into the city's politics makes for a better envoy because it's
>less expensive
>less risky for them
>not a big deal if we do die, assuming it's not something he actively desires
>leading to potential gains that he's not exactly that desperate to acquire
>won't be seen as a threat let alone a direct military intervention as much as sending the Sheriff et al.
>freeing his and his associates' hands so they use their time to do something else
Wait wait wait Andrei spotted like six cars parked close by, Zoryana is leading like a dozen people towards the mansion, and that Chinese woman in the blue sleeveless dress who picked her up said goodbye, and drove away by herself?

Is this the surprise? Do the Setites have to do with it? No no no what am I gonna do with this many gues

WHERE ARE DRINK AND REMOTE CONTROL

YOU BEST FIND THEM WHILE I KEEP THEM BUSY YOU ASS SEMITE CYKA - LYUBA

its the current year this darn boomer ghoul cant use an app to save her life omg

Trying very hard not to be rude and laugh here
>This Lianhua woman that works with the Giovanni wanted Zoryana to help her meet the Setites
>So they go to the local temple of the Cult of the Dark God
>Where else would they go, right?
>HOWEVER
>Hypnosis time, the first priest that welcomes them wasn't... what we mean when we say priest this side of the Masquerade
>"Egyptian neopaganism? I'm too cool for that, b***h I'm so heretical I'm the One True God in this venue."
>Cue Zoryana using more of that hypnosis
>"Whatchu talmbout? Gods, magic, vampires or mummies ain't real. I don't got time for those, I'm on the grind."
>Zoryana was the only vampire in the building
>Lianhua was the only ghoul
>Lianhua's source just led her to a 100% mortal cult
>Guess what happens when you make Zoryana curious and Lianhua furious
>They show the alleged Dark God who's in charge and assume control of the cult
>This may or may not have involved feeding and punishing doing naughty things to him and a pair of 'high priestesses'
>The cult is no more
>The deal is the Giovanni keep the leader and those few humans that failed Zoryana's initial screening, while we keep those that passed it
>Other assets are split evenly
>The surprise is this party we're having

Meet the updated herd of Castle Errand.
The girls:
>Magpie, dancer
>Wren, dentistry student
>Swan, writer for a fashion magazine owned by a Ventrue who can't feed on her
>Kiwi, works at a phone store
>Ibis, niece of an occult-themed curiosity shop keeper
>Peahen, daughter of a car salesman
>Toucan, tax examiner
>Sparrow, 'professional housewife'
>Loon, voice actress

The boys:
>Eagle, airplane painter
>Hawk, unemployed but we'll help him with that
>Owl, applied physics student
>Vulture, funeral service assistant
>Starling, singer
>Cormorant, son of a fisherman

All's well that ends wel- hold on was this yet another prank of them Malkavians?

>>98104602
>Hawk, unemployed but we'll help him with that
A chronicle of personal horror

>>98105918
I was embraced as a high schooler so at least I didn't have to live through that. Shoulda said thanks when I had the chance.

>>98105997
That detail honestly explains so much about your behavior with women older than you.

>>98106144
Teachers always said girls mature faster than boys. Dreading the night a woman becomes my enemy and I don't have another to offer help, guidance or comfort ngl

>>98090555
Hey, Rump, just wanted to let you know that the mysterious "third founder" of the Nosferatu Undercity has been spending loads of cash lately to gain some influence with some of the other Jax clans; mostly the Brujah and Malkavians. Does this sound like something your sire would cook up?

I think he's making a play to carve some of Jaxport away from the Giovanni - some Russian Bratva types have been showing up in town, along some firepower being smuggled in overland. You know anything about their boss, some Russian Brujah by the name of Maxim, a.k.a. "The Bear"?

>>98106173
>Dreading the night a woman becomes my enemy and I don't have another to offer help, guidance or comfort ngl
This is why 3/5ths of the Colma Fingers are girls.

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>>98106355
i don't know. all i can say for certain is my cut-and-run cunt of a father kept his head down.
now to avoid killing my poor lil dartboard in frustration, i'm gonna be useful and dump all of the degenerate russiki maggot. cause im a lil vindictive and we lost some good boys a while back out east. and this guy might as well have a double eagle carved into his chest, with stalins stache as a tramp stamp.

>"Maxim" aka: Maxim Maximovich Grodnovisk AKA: Yoel Isaak Kotlir
>born into a jewish family in the baltics in the 1910s, embraced in the ass end of the 1936
>spent his most of his unlife in and out of institutional systems in the ussr and later russia, even worked in the nkvd before he got pulled
>allegedly bent the knee during the shadow curtain falling, reneged after mama yaga went AFK like the rest of her army
>was human trafficking in poland and czech country from 1999-2004
>real blatant about it too, picked up a whole profile on interpol under the alias 'bogandof tsarovitch'
>did a masquerade breach during a police raid when he got caught gnawing a child, fled to england where he did crime and served a council in yorkshire, 2006-2010
>got caught again trying to double dip on pressing a local trem chantry, 'allegedly' let info get into inquisition hands, fled for indonesia and was last spotted in south africa in 2015

seems he climbed up the ranks recently. hes violent but dumb as a rock. cunning tho. someone must need a guy willing to put his hand through a cop in the middle of a street. whoevers contracting him. someone very stupid or someone who knows what they are shopin for

do not like that one bit. might mean our mystery founder is under contract from someone else too. throw in that other shit happening in florida.

>>98106565
It's an unintentional perk.

>>98101806
This transcript is the last I've heard of Johnny, don't know if he's still out there or what.

>Ahm sending out an SOS.
>I am about one mile south of Key West Florida and there is a pod of strange, half naked fish women trying ta lure me t'mah death.
>Oh, wait, no lemme correct mehself, there is at least one twink.
>But yeah, they're all singing at me, I think their tryna lure me t' the edge o the boat so that they can drown me.
>Stop staring at me with them big ol BUG EYES you creepy little bastards!
>AND STOP THROWING SHIT IN MAH BOAT!

Good evening, fellow Kindred,

Against my better judgment but at the advice of one of my dear friends I have decided to embark upon a safari into this, "internet." Though many of my associates and employees are often, "surfing," it (I am told this is the colloquial term) I myself do not use it directly myself very often. But I am in possession of a, "lap-top computer," at the moment while I am visiting Los Angeles. I have decided while I am unoccupied at my present dwelling perhaps to take up correspondence.

To answer the question posed to me directly, introductions being made (though I am told anonymity is a valued piece of this internet culture, one I can see the virtues of) I would now answer: my home. It is a family one that has been our's since my grandfather's time, reaching it's current scale in the early-middling years of the nineteenth century. Even now I do so miss it and my beloved; the way the moonlight and stars shine across the black waters, with fireflies making it as if I am sailing across the firmament itself with a company of shooting stars. To say nothing, of course, of my dear beloved who awaits my return and my faithful servants therein.

I shall now browse this, "thread," of your's and hope to find companionship as I have no current engagements with which to busy myself.


Your's Truly,


~The Colonel

>>98046435
Sir,

Your username is quite vulgar, though I shall admit the old soldier within me finds it humorous. My Nosferatu allies have lead me to understand such humor is as normal here as my form in digital correspondence is archaic.

For the All-Father to be your great grand sire would be quite a fantastical thing. It is many moons since I have read Sturlusson's works (do pardon if my spelling is incorrect) but I do not believe he was Kindred. Is your newcomer perhaps a Malkavian? It seems like one of their portentous insights. I would take it as flattery for now.


Your's,


~The Colonel

>>98055798
Leatherneck,

A Marine I surmise. I would certainly enjoy hearing of your exploits with the Commodore. Your time in the 1850s is quite close to home - I was born in 1832 myself in Louisiana. The war in which I am assuming you were engaged was in quite recent memory then. Perchance were you involved in the War Between the States? If so there is a grim chance we might have met before in less cordial circumstances.

Is that sketch attached of you? I regret to say I cannot enclose my own image; they are quite hard to find and I am too easily recognizable to trust even ShreckNet and the fabulous work the Nosferatu do with it to share my likeness. Mayhaps, I shall get one of my Wrens to send it to me. I saw someone else here mention someone I presumed a Kine with a similar appellation - if it is her family name, she may well be cousins to my own little birds.


Your's,


~The Colonel

>>98062192
Dear Errand Knight,

Should you ever have any difficulties out of New Orleans, do not be afraid to contact me. I have many people who may be of assistance to you.

I hope my letter is neither premature or misunderstanding of your situation.


Sincerely; Your's,
~The Colonel

>>98078237
Sir,

Nights like this make me miss Prince Guilbeau. He and I never met in life, but we were in the same army more than once. He visited my home many times.

My best wishes to Prince Calbullarshi.


Your's,


~The Colonel

>>98090796
Colma Grin,

The events surrounding said Sarcophagus are best left in mystery, speaking as someone with an uncomfortable knowledge of events despite my usual distance from there on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. I am revisiting now; I can safely say no one has spoken about it in my circles in almost twenty years.

I shall give advice to the younger here who may not know: if you were not told, it is most certainly not your information to have. However, I am feeling rather talkative this evening. I will divulge this: it was certainly not a fledgling who accomplished those feats known to have transpired those nights.

Perhaps I have already said too much.


Sincerely & Your's,
~The Colonel

>>98101933
Tabarin,

I feel compelled by your words to say that the Camarilla do not have a monopoly on the virtue of responsibility. I will not insult both our ages or in the least comparable experience by arguing the matter; you are as aware as me of what Princes do with their power in the dark.

I shall close by saying I do very much miss Prince Guilbeau, as do many others.


Sincerely,
~The Colonel

Things look to be heating up. Everyone whose in get ready for the inevitable, those not keep your heads down.

>>98107838
>>98107866
Another balthazar then?

Well. No shame in finding companionship on the other side of silicon and sand.

I keep any potential relation with the All-High as a purely interesting tid-bit. To my understanding Sturlusson's work was based on a combination of historical narratives, derived Blood reality, and his own political objectives.

And no, that newcomer is a Gangrel. A swede specifically.

>>98108588
Sir,

I cannot say I am familiar with Mister Balthazar, though I am not inclined to dismiss a man who speaks with the marks of experience.

For clarification, I am not often here, though the western coast of the United States has at last begun to draw me more than I ever expected.

Are the Gangrel particularly connected to the All-Father and the Norse? I regret displaying ignorance in the matter. One of my few comrades from my mortal life is among that clan. If such connections exist, he has not often spoken of it. He and I were cut from the same religious cloth in our upbringing and those habits of mind are not ones either of us has entirely shed. Although he has always been dangerously Congregational.

Much of history, as written, is unreliable; nevertheless, it retains value for those who know how to read it.

If your statements are true, and the Gangrel are indeed so intimately connected to those older Nordic traditions, I am left to believe he is giving you high praise - which, in the absence of knowing you well, I shall presume you deserve.


Sincerely yours,


~The Colonel

We videocalled Calbullarshi to debrief him, first he was bored to death then became the happiest I've seen him after hearing from Zoryana that Lianhua and her old as heck Japanese Giovanni Domitor will be going back to Asia so she gets the Embrace.
We currently don't have any more assignments.
>>98107838
>>98107977
First of all, thank you for your offer. Our Coterie is made of me, a rootless Assamite, my unwitting Regnant Zoryana, our leader, an Ukrainian Old Clan Tzimisce who is no longer in the Old Clan over being too human, and Errand Chancellor, a Ventrue who feels like a second class citizen in his own clan, who received the Embrace past his prime over his bureaucratic skills, in his own words, think of it like when a Blue Blood embraces someone to be his bodyguard VS his possible next Seneschal.

Barring him, we're new to the city and since securing a large haven and herd - we jokingly call it Castle Errand - our priority is back to Camarilla politics. Chancellor says Zoryana, being not yet bound to the mess that is New Orleans politics, could become the city's Consul, navigating and mediating between factions and even opposing Sects, as we just did with the Giovanni and Samedi.

On behalf of Zoryana, I'd love it if you could help us get in contact with the High Clans of New Orleans. I am also personally indebted to the Nosferatu for their help with reaching to the Samedi, and I would appreciate suggestions on how to best repay them quickly and in a satisfactory way.

>>98107838
>>98107977
>>98108850
Last but not least, I'm having a mild version of a crisis of faith when I should be happy over completing a task for the Camarilla and my Princess securing so much food reserves the way she prefers.

Zoryana laughingly told the blood dolls, possibly under the influence of alcohol in their bloodstream, that she and Lianhua "brought toys to play with the vampire cultists", but since it was just a human cult they "had to do most of the degeneracy themselves."

And then the Princess of Castle Errand boasted about grabbing this priestess's hair to bite her neck, and then spanking and groping the human as she drunk. I'll spare you and myself from reading/writing the vile things the Chinese ghoul of the Giovanni did to the head of the cult.

I think I'm feeling uncomfortable? Doesn't this run contrary to all the talk we had about feeding on willing vessels? That we wouldn't feed on animal blood because animals can't offer it willingly?

Most of the herd were in this cult, they knew this priestess, they used to throw money at her, why are they cheering now? How are they acting like they're lifelong friends of Zoryana?

And what is this feeling I have when I see her feed on the boys?

Sometimes I wonder if I'm not just an underqualified nerd in a world of social animals, but the last human in a world of monsters.

>>98105918
>>98105997
Been thinking back about this exchange and how I was spared from the atrocities of the job marketplace. I will never question the wisdom of the Malkavians again, holy heck. Errand Chancellor said: "Worst case scenario, I'll stick Hawk inside a cubicle." His couch-surfing days are far from over, but he will surely manage to put food on the table.
>>98099488
>>98108588
Forgive the unrelated reply, but do you happen to know any of the Malkavians here in New Orleans that you I could be introduced to? Preferably the kind that stay over 2 years?

>>98108173
Dearest Colonel,

I hope this letter finds you in good health and spirits, while not traditionally how this is exchanged, I do find your frankness and use of the correct forms quite endearing. I hope that you do not conform to the modern style. There is a sincerity and kinship in letter writing that is often missing in modern forms.

I will argue it only sparing, that all virtue belongs to the Camarilla insofar as all vampires belong to this Noble endeavour. I do understand and accept your point on an individual level, however.

I must admit I think I have heard your name before. I have struggled to place it. Perhaps your memory is stronger than mine. Did you find yourself in Panama in the 70s? Perhaps you would recall a certain go-between there named LaFou? Consider it just a humble humouring if you do not.

As for the matter of New Orleans, your grief serves you proudly. Surely most cannot claim such ardent feelings about the passing of their prince, and they are surely worst off for it. Personally, I had never met the man. However, I had also not realized the weakness of the current Prince in what should surely be, a jewel at the hand of Kindredkind. If I may, surely such a weak hand does no good to Kine or Kindred in that place. Even Bolder, if you do have a groundwork on resources in the City that Care forgot. I could provide a certain starting investment in both moneyed and personnel infusions. While I am amenable to your suggestions of Candidates to match your much missed Prince Guilbeau , perhaps even a lowly errand fledging might be better guidance for the crescent city, given the right administration and advice of course. Just idle musings of course.

In closing, I look forward to our future correspondence.

Yours in the persuit of strongest possible harmony,
~Tabarin Beauregard

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>>98108858
Dear Errand Knight.

You have my thanks for answering with such candor. I shall begin with New Orleans; I may know many old and vested persons with interests in her and her surrounding parishes. However, I will not make introductions blindly for such things are bridges made with one's reputations and I do not build such things when I cannot see the far bank. If your "Princess," Zoryana is to become a "Consul," in any meaningful sense, she will require more than novelty, courage, and freedom from the city’s present entanglements. Those things may make her useful but they do not yet make her trustworthy. A mediator must prove restraint, discretion, memory, and the ability to govern a household before presuming to mediate among houses.

You should also consider what Prince Calbullarshi’s use of your coterie presently signifies. He may value you; he may also find you inexpensive, deniable, and not yet rooted deeply enough in local politics for your destruction to cost him much. For your sake and that of your coterie: do not mistake employment for patronage. With respect to the Nosferatu: repay them in the currency they trade in. Not flattery or ornament but information and quiet access. If you do not know what they want, ask privately and plainly. They may answer with jokes - pay attention to what comes before the punchline.

Now to the matter which troubles you; I state plainly there is no innocence in our hunger. A willing vessel does not make us harmless anymore than a cheering herd makes us righteous. Men and women can be taught to applaud many things whether they are Kindred or Kine. Do not confuse applause and absolution anymore than you confuse patronage with employment.

It seems I have, "exceeded the character limit." Expect more shortly.

>>98108850
>>98108858
>>98109149
Thank God for my wonderful servant who has explained to me how all this works and is delivering my dictation. Apparently, I treat keyboards as if they owe me debt to paraphrase her words.

If this priestess you describe is an enemy, judge her as such; if she is a willing vessel, treat her as one entrusted to the household's care. If she is prey then treat her as such and do not pretend to yourself she is anything more.The question is not whether your Princess can command affection; the question is whether those gathered beneath her roof are made more stable, more protected, and less likely to become dangers to themselves, to you, and to the Masquerade.

You ask whether you are merely underqualified in a world of social animals, or the last human thing in a world of monsters. I cannot answer that for you; I can say that discomfort is not always weakness. Sometimes it is the remaining instrument by which conscience informs us that appetite has presumed itself governance.

Put your house in order before seeking to manage larger ones. Decide what duties are owed to those who sleep under your roof. Learn what your Prince is using you for and repay the Nosferatu properly. Watch the Giovanni carefully and do not allow their hunger or the Samedi’s grievance or even your own Princess' appetite to define your judgment.

When you may state plainly what office you seek, what introduction you require and what your household is prepared to offer besides ambition do not hesitate to write me again.


Sincerely yours,
~The Colonel

>>98109041
>>98109149
>>98109178
*urp*

Hey, I'm supposed to be at least a little sympathetic to other sects over here. Could you Cammies make it just a LITTLE harder to hate you? You're vampires, you drink blood, not the shit out of each others assholes.

>>98109149
First of all thank you
>do not mistake employment for patronage
Noted. But how can I change the former into the latter?
>>98109178
>If she is prey then treat her as such and do not pretend to yourself she is anything more
So my problem is I'm still treating humans as... people?
>what office you seek, what introduction you require
I'm wracking my brain here, having never done anything more political than... being ignored, or beated and whipped and yelled at, I guess... but here's my attempt:
1. Expanding the coterie. Any dissatisfied fish out of water that would feel more at home with us?
2. Kindred we absolutely should avoid before they invite themselves over or go out of their way to interact with us. I keep hearing the "trust no vampire" mantra but I know we're not made equal on this front.
3. Kindred lower on the pecking order that could be useful as out first interaction with their clans.
Basically we never really had a tour guide of the Kindred in this city, aside from very general tips, and Errand Chancellor was mostly worked within clan Ventrue rather than the others.
>what your household is prepared to offer besides ambition
It's speculation on my part and I'm definitely biased, but I think Zoryana could mind control most Kindred in this town. She's a Koldunist, a well-read woman and taught me to use guns.

As for me I'm new at everything, duh, but I've used both silence and invisibility during my errands, I think I'm more advanced with the latter, possibly because I was culturally predisposed to being ignored and forgotten and not noticed when in life. Or maybe I'm just coping.

Either way I'm not your typical fledgling pounding on your door to prostitute himself for cash, shelter, food, weapons. Or assorted vices. I don't demand trust to come to us out of nowhere, just know that whoever you are or work for, as long as we are in this Sect you know we don't have your enemy bankrolling us, ok?

We just need to do this Camarilla thing better is all.

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Right

So

This ends up just like- A mafia deal right?

>So I been keepin my head down, nose to the grindstone, ass shoved against the wall so no one can slap it.
>Been hearing about 'herds'- which I gotta get a better word for I hate it and like- if this were just cows I wouldn't ned to get a cow to agree to shit I just need to get a bull for an afternoon and grass to keep her happy-

>Fuckin- Beside the point

>I met a woman am gonna call Lolla for you people. Lolla has got a daughter whose sick.
>Long term shit. But I got a solution that I can market off as 'secret sauce' and I sold her on having 'stolen shit from the Devil.' Now cause I technically aint lying and her daughter got better we good, she's now my blood donor and the girl got better.
>Except Lollas' daughter goes to one a those cheap church schools an she started feelin bad when the preacher comes out.
>Calls that kid evil when she faints.

>And I'm like fine fuck me I guess I like Lolla an if anything happens to her daughter I kill the MFer that does it- but I gotta get her inta one a those private schools. An those cost money.

>But Bernie has my back. He says cool, you're coming up in the world so I can make you a full partner, we just gotta pay 'the boys' a visit.
>His boys are basically protection racket thugs. When I tell them I'm in they say they ain't supporting two bosses
>The one in charge looks me in the eyes
>And cause am a 'Caitiff' I see he likes killing baby animals.
>And I run my mouth, cause fuck that guy
>Gangser immediately pulls a machete on me and goes for the head
>Bernie beats the guy almost to death and tells them all their next paychecks goes to me for that stunt
>So Im basically in his cartel and people think am like- actually Petey Wheatstraw

And man fuck that guy wbut also jesus this shit is ass

But god I'd be fucked if I couldn't Rudy Ray Moore act mt ass off

How you folks been? Cause i bare;y remember anythin but this shit past few days. nights.

>>98109041
Dearest Tabarin,

I would be remiss not to first note your surname - it is a name no man of my station and origin can merely pass over. Is that name inherited? Do you possess it by blood or adoption? I would be very pleased to know.

Let me also state plainly in case of confusion: Marcel Guilbeau was not -my- Prince, though he was a worthy and able one. For our part, Prince Guilbeau and I were comrades in a mutual Cause in life and peers in un-life. We entertained one another often. My only consolation is that Providence knows better than the Tower or Unbound who should sit what throne.

My rank passes over many tongues and into many ears, Mister Beauregard - I cannot account for all those places. A man of your station and connections knows far better than I. As for which virtues do and do not presently belong to the Camarilla, I once more defer to your far more knowledgeable discernment. But what I do possess the knowledge to say is I was not in Panama nor had much to do with its affairs in the nineteen-seventies. As for this Mister LaFou you reference, I regret that I cannot presently place the name with confidence. I have known too many go-betweens, and too many men who survived only because neither side wished to admit employing them. If you have some particular memory in mind, I should be interested to hear the shape of it.

As for New Orleans, you are correct that a weak hand does no kindness to Kine or Kindred. I have not proposed a claimant, as I did not when that Hurricane drowned him, the Crescent City and her people near-on twenty years ago. Nor do I mistake money and personnel for legitimacy, though both have their uses when attached to judgment. If the Crescent City is to be steadied, it will require more than investment. It will require memory, discipline, local confidence, and a ruler—or council of rulers—capable of understanding her.


Sincerely yours,
~The Colonel

>>98109271
The most capital V vampire I've ever seen on SchreckNET basically turned around from being a cannibal freak the moment he got a dog. Well. A hyena. No matter how much you tryhard it priestess.

Caine's gonna crawl out of the grave and his bravest warrior will be busy making corpse kibble.

>>98108588
Where there are wild creeds and untamed lands, so have my kin been.

Mongols, Vikings, wild Gaeldom, Berbers, Huns, Turks, Scyths, Indigenous tribes all across the world. While it might bother me greatly most of the confirmation comes from external sources, the pattern is there.

>Are the Gangrel particularly connected to the All-Father and the Norse? I regret displaying ignorance in the matter.
All people begin in ignorance, there is no shame in that fact.

A sizable number of Gangrel claim descent from the All-Father, typically through his Waulkyrie who actually endure to the present and are a menace up in north Scandinavia. But they're a minority within the clan. I think the majority of our number are more integrated with the world, while an unknown number still abide by the old ways. Abiding oral tradition, of which the All-Father is but one of many names.

Regardless, may I be found worthy, Colonel.

>>98108850
>>98108892
You don't repay a Nosferatu until they're ready to call in a favour. Don't worry, it usually isn't much.

They probably know your bank credit better than you.

And I'll make sure my Cat informs you when she's can, when she's able to reach out, feel her kin-blood that makes her go all misty eyed. Poor thing is currently groaning in the den. Feeling something that hasn't happened yet.

>>98110162
Apologies, hit the wrong link. See here: >>98108685

Also our Balthazar another old soul looking to the net for contacts. Heart belongs in the Ottoman empire. Should be around at some point.

>>98109271
Come on, how old are you again to not remember letter etiquette?

>>98109422
Sadly yes that's how it usually goes. We can't all be the Giovanni and Venture who formalize the weird fucked up family thing.

>>98110176
Oh come on! Men who show off the wild savegry of war to the knife and the knife to the hilt are sexy. Mincing fops in powdered wigs moving like they have a pole up their ass to a single plinky plonky harpsichorde and using an entire paragraph when three words would work are vomit inducing.

>>98110176
I'm pretty sure Stripper hasn't hit 30 yet, even taking her time after Embrace into account. Add in her being a Brujah and... well... you see the results.

I'm afraid this network is somewhat lacking in classy womenfolk these nights. Pardon my presumption, H0T, but something tells me you wouldn't fit in at the high courts of nobility yourself.

>>98110442
>I'm afraid this network is somewhat lacking in classy womenfolk these nights.
Anon... don't put a target on your back...

>>98110299
The only man I ever thought of as appealing was this weird guy who made rude gestures at the staff of the residential school back before the bite. Tall as pole, ginger, didn't own a shirt and only spoke Acadienne. The administrators were still holding onto that old chronic fear of savages. Pointed at him and said: 'don't be like that barbarian. He's basically a sqauw.'

And when you tell that to a bunch of Lnu'k and Metis kids? Well. Cane us all you want he's a hero.

>>98110442
Class is a perfume. Nice smelling, but the primary purpose is to mask something underneath.

My response to the Colonel will take some time to draft but let me address the pole on the stage before continuing.

>>98109271
There was a time when it was expected that a member of the Kindred had to not only represent as best they could Kindred but also Kine society. A sense of obligation that is obviously lacking these days.

>>98109371
Like this one.
>Mind Control
Not to burst your bubble kid, but she most certainly could not. Even discounting the advancing of age, you have to remember that magic comes at a cost and there is a reason why every city isn't actually the haven of a sorcerer-prince. The first step to doing the Camarilla thing better, is to understand that you are on the buttom rung of the organization and there's no cheat to the top.

>>98110299
>sexy
I know you find this hard to understand but powdered wigs and steamed wollens were sexy back then. Furthermore the Harpsichord is how much of what you call classic music was intended to be played. How are you supposed to be the sword of caine when your attention span won't allow you to go further then a tiktok.

https://youtu.be/a7yXxAJ5whg

>>98110458
I mean stripper already has
>IN LIFE
Haha, I crack myself up sometimes.

>>98110574
>The only man I ever thought of as appealing was this weird guy who made rude gestures at the staff of the residential school back before the bite.
Wait, are you and Mèo-Mèo...?

>>98110885
>How are you supposed to be the sword of caine when your attention span won't allow you to go further then a tiktok.
Buddy, you are the very last person who should comment on someone's attention span.

Test

>>98109371
>I keep hearing the "trust no vampire" mantra but I know we're not made equal on this front.
Older Kindred like to say that because it makes them seem wise and experienced, forgetting that the whole point of a coterie is to have other Kindred that you can trust to watch your back.

>>98111172
The longer you live the more chances you have to get burned.

>>98111185
Eh, more like "These are the easiest words I can utter to make it look like I have worthwhile advice while not having to do any actual thinking on my part." It's the kind of thing a hack writer would use to paint a character as "cunning and mysterious" without having to put in any work.

>>98101806
I'm affraid I still know very little for certain. You know how slowly the most secure information travels amongst our kind what with the difficulty of crossing the wild places. I know that only that several major domains are without Prince or Seneschall, some have even lost their most influental primogen, while some of the minor ones are bereft if any who claimed greater status in the sect than simple membership. My personal acceptance of the ghost ships is only due to my secretary's warnings and those could not be called "clear." I am told the rumor mill runs the gamut from an airborne invasion from at least half a dozen different nations, to Vlad Tepes himself sailing the Demeter into Florida and eveything in between, above, below, and leeward. For now, an Archon has visited me, suggested I batten the hatches down, and await further news.

>>98102518
I do thank you for your concern. She seems to have recovered from her fit none the worse for wear. Her Clan's curse had always lain lightly upon her, one of the reasons I made her my personal secretary.

>>98110885
It would seem the public zeitgeist no longer belives that well mannered uper class gentlemen were capable of personally involving in bloody melees in wartime, but were instead effete snobs sniffing perfumed handkerchiefs all day while the rank and file translated their nonsensical orders into practical results.

>>98106767
Oh, poor Johnny, what'll happen to ye?

>>98109371
There is strength in numbers- but- BUT! It is waning. Cainites possess exponential potential! With age and potency of blood, or even intense conviction a single elder warrior can eradicate entire populations of weak-blooded vampires! I have had the pleasure of witnessing this reality twice!

Likewise, caution in all things is vital. However, much as it pains me to say this ensuring a level of trust between a core group is... Necessary. Countless Cainites have been scoured because they were careless- placed their faith in the wrong individual. Be they of the blood, or not. Even animals and buildings can betray you. But- Otherwise- Having reliable people you can trust to play METAPHORICAL RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH IS A MUST.

And yes. That last one is fine.

But a word of advice. There are those in the Camarilla who will always seek to make your efforts worthless. It is the nature of a ponzi scheme. Without a base of fools to feed into the meet grinder it would not work! Understand this. You are in the 'Jyhad' now, and your enemies are the apparent, as well as the unseen above you in your sect.

>>98110927
Oh clearly their relationship is platonic! Who doesn't sleep in the arms of their suzerain within the bowels of the earth? Call them pet names associated with organ palpitations and orange fruits? Adopt gargoyles with severe amnesia together as some sort of facsimile family unit?

Leaving me the red headed metaphorical step child of this situation. WHICH IS A FUCKING UPGRADE I SHALL ADD- FUCKS SAKE.

>>98108588
>Things look to be heating up. Everyone whose in get ready for the inevitable, those not keep your heads down.

Okay so I fused my ribcage and moved my heart and I've begun plating myself in bone for the upcoming hurlyburly. I'm a walking masquerade breach until it is done. No more cranking out gigacrickets for the time being, I'm focusing on modifying myself for war. I've also contacted my sire and they're ready for anything.

Dear Correspondents,

I regret that I have been unable to respond in what is considered a, "timely fashion," for the internet. I felt incredibly drowsy and realized as my servant and I were writing that the sun was closer to the horizon than I wish to see it. Perhaps the most dangerous thing about the internet after all is that it is a thief of time even for immortals.

The following evening my itinerary was very full. I visited many colleagues in Hollywood, downtown Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and Santa Monica. Los Angeles has poorly kept secrets as long as I have known her so invariably I was forced to make many other calls besides. That having been said I can make no complaints as to the hospitality rendered to me.

Starting tomorrow night, my servant and I will begin our journey eastward. For now I shall endeavor to answer as many of your letters in as timely a manner as I can.


Sincerely yours,
~The Colonel

>>98109371
Dearest Errand Knight,

Employment becomes patronage when use becomes trust and trust becomes obligation. Do not ask first who will raise you; ask whose burden you may lessen without becoming one yourself. In short, become trustworthy and effective. Bring information before it becomes gossip and solve small matters without demanding public thanks. Keep confidences when selling them would profit you - a Prince should notice such things and reward them accordingly.

Seek the neglected and competent before the grand and visible: lesser Harpies, Nosferatu brokers, Ventrue clerks, a Keeper’s assistant, an ancilla forgotten by his sire; such persons often know more than those who stand tall in Court. Avoid those who speak too quickly of friendship and are overly-generous before you understand their motives.

Your Chancellor offers bureaucracy. You offer silence, concealment, and errands completed unseen. Your Princess offers force of will. These are not small things. Yet the greatest thing your house may offer is restraint. Prove those beneath your roof are safer, better governed, and less likely to shame the Masquerade than before they entered it. Do that consistently, and employment may become patronage.

As for your relationship to Kine, think on this: power implies a duty downwards. I disagree with Mister Beauregard and declare we are their betters. The Blood has made it so but God will judge what we do with this elevation. This curse becomes a gift if managed well. But remember: the seed of every revolution is a subordinate treated unjustly by his superiors. Do not starve yourself for the sake of Kine, but as Mister Beauregard said: do not play with your food.

Do justice. Take my advice and put it into practice. Prove yourself and then I may know exactly which door should be opened.


Sincerely yours,


~The Colonel

>>98111397
Your Highness,

Your secretary’s warnings should not be dismissed merely because they arrive in a hysterical form. A lucid Malkavian becoming inconsolable about ghost ships while coastal domains lose their heads is an ominous portent. I need not remind a seaman of your experience what lies to your east.

I would first ask what those decapitated domains had in common: look not only at who died, but what roads over water became easier once they were gone. Or perhaps do all those killed share something intriguing that might supply a motive? Your Nosferatu should be able to find out once settled into their new accommodations, but your own people should also be on full alert.

Lastly, I appreciate your observation concerning the actions of men of my class in war and how the current picture the younger generation have is insufficient. I cannot say, however, that all men of my station have always sufficiently defended their position nor that all modern judgments of their character are entirely baseless.

Write me and tell me how you are faring. I have acquaintances and interests in the, "panhandle," of your state and many coastal states to your north. If war is coming by sea, then those with coastlines had best share intelligence.


Sincerely yours,
~The Colonel

>>98110162
Sir,

You bear a proud warrior's lineage, then. I alluded in a prior letter to my comrade from the War Between the States who is still with us who is also of Clan Gangrel. He and his fellows within my service have always proven themselves invaluable; I have a much fuller understanding as to why now.

I wish you and your colleagues in Canada good fortune in your endeavors, may the strength of your right arm bring peace and freedom for all therein.


Sincerely yours,


~The Colonel

>>98111397
You mistake curiosity for concern, but, hey, good to hear she's not bleeding from her eyes and ears while screaming about the accursed ancients. That'd be the worst answer to the 'ghost ship arrives to Miami' mystery, by far.

>>98108588
>Everyone whose in get ready for the inevitable
Wer're good to go. Don't forget the gesture I taught you, the 'vaporize this man's torso' one.

>>98110442
>I'm afraid this network is somewhat lacking in classy womenfolk these nights.
If the Tremere brats had any sort of connectivity with the Net right now, you'd have a very discontent seer telling you off. Since she's a seer, I bet she can tell she was insulted in a roundabout way, and is sitting there, seething, unable to say anything in return.
Life's got these little joys.

>>98110176
>>98113618
P.S. I should very much like to correspond with this Mister Balthazar. He sounds like he would make an eminently interesting correspondent and be a wealth of knowledge.

>>98113949
selâmlamak

one would hope so kin. it would seem that i have made a good impression on some here, even if it does not feel warranted. though i concede a known history stretching further than most here, to the 1600s. most seem to be a few centuries younger, yourself included.

- from hellas

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>>98112341
Seems that the ghouls have already started fighting in and under St. Boniface. Loups keeping their heads down but we've also got some unidentified heads in this shit.

You'll have the meet-up point. You'll know what to do.

>>98113618
Then, may I be found worthy of your words Colonel, and may obstacles in your path be undone by your step.


>I bow to thee, Blue-Skinned Grandmother, who shatters arrows and swords and the thunder of God, who annihilates obstructions, who has learned the art of dance upon the wheel of fate, who shows the path to the liberating road and ferocious compassion. Prithee, I ask not for thy blessings, only thy witness.

>>98115369
Understood captain, just tell me who needs to get turned into giblets and give me 10-12 second!

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>>98117198
Also kind of feel weird pulling this thing up beside an axctual tzimimimimimisze but hey if it works

>>98114410
Dear Balthazar,

A pleasure to finally hear from you; I hope my letter finds you well. It would seem despite your obvious seniority we have been paired as equally venerable - let us then take the privilege to correspond as such.

I myself was Embraced on Michaelmas of 1874. Upon reviewing this little, "thread," I discovered I misremembered my own mortal birthday - how embarrassing. I myself entered this life in 1838, the child of an Anglo-American family that can count itself among the Old Stock of settlers in the continent.

I would be very pleased to probe your own memory of history - your statement about automobiles is quite reminiscent of my own shock, though I have even learned to drive one though I often do not. One's relationship with a horse is not something replaceable. Might I ask of what Clan you are a part of? I myself am of the Clan Brujah.

How I would love to visit Hellas. I have not been across the Atlantic in a century at least. Perhaps I am overdue for a tour of the Old World - so much is changing, I would see it again before it is all gone. If you ever find yourself travelling below the Mason-Dixon Line and east of the Sabine River, do not hestitate to make a call upon me. I shall treat you to a Southern Hospitality suitable to a man of your tastes.


Sincerely yours,


~The Colonel

>>98115369
Sir,

I believe I recognize your goddess, though I cannot pretend sufficient knowledge of her mysteries. Your encouragement is appreciated and I may say as the Psalmist does, “I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.”

May it be said of you as Sir Walter Scott said of one brave figure, “So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, / There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.”


Sincerely yours,


~The Colonel