>TQ
Probably something about letting Zoryana and Lianhua live their own, free, independent unlives in their respective bodies
>awww

Haha okay oh fuck we are in so much trouble.

The techo-Tremere trying to steal our Caern seem intent on bringing normies into this. So, every single entrance and exit into the national park is now blocked. It isn't official or anything, they're somehow scrubbing all the 'why did I get turned away from the Rockies???? Why's there so much police on the road?????' posts from the Internet. Annoying. And verrrrry indicative of that the techno-Tremere, or TTs, titties even, for short, have an in with enough Nosferatu tech nerds that they can pull this shit. Not great.

On the upside, Librarian, Bee, and our maid are back! The maid nearly stabbed Sorcerer's eyes out when she saw him, she's been twitchy ever since our butler got kidnapped. Good first impression.

>>98630280 (OP)
Oh my God that's literally me! Well, almost. But literally me!

Also I am again functional! And am down to do readings. Ground rules:

>You can ask a full question, or just list the subject and let the cards work; less specifics mean more card freedom
>"Will I find love in Los Angeles?" or "Will I be safe in Los Angeles?" works, so does "Los Angeles?" or "Love?" or "Safety?"
>I tend to go for anywhere from three to seven questions elaborating on what you ask, one card per question normally
>The cards give meaning, and I'll interpret them, but you can interpret them differently. They don't often do the whole 'if you wage this war a great empire will fall' trick, they try to be helpful and honest
>The cards won't tell you where Cain is, but they're also better than you'd think, be reasonable in what you expect
>Be nice or I'll ask them when your dick will rot off
>If you want on-retainer readings and guidance, pay me money, these are freebies I give out as advertisement of my immensely useful services
I actually draw cards, either physically or digitally if I don't have a deck on me. Cards that are pulled are the cards that are pulled, I don't intently set up some sort of outcome.

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I don't think I had a description of Lady Godzilla so this is how imagined myself in her shoes. Or rather, my own shoes.
>>98630853
>techno-Tremere, or TTs, titties even, for short, have an in with enough Nosferatu tech nerds that they can pull this shit. Not great.
What can your foes do during the day? Do your wards work on them?
>The maid nearly stabbed Sorcerer's eyes out when she saw him, she's been twitchy ever since our butler got kidnapped. Good first impression.
Pfft.

>>98630280
>THREAD QUESTION
I wish we could openly live in peace with the kine without need of the masquerade.

good fortunes kindred, i believe we have discovered an outcropping of ceoris

my assamite companion and i have scoured the hills of romania as a pair of 'well-meaning turkish hikers.' it has not been as unpleasant as my companion laments, though, this is mostly as his halal needs hamper him somewhat, and my affection for cool breeze is apparently insufferable.

these nights are strange. the land, it seems, is not as alien as it once was. the wolves of the moon haunt the hills and forests, and every village has some ghoul who has carved out a private fief for himself. but all give way to my intent. there were only two incidents, one where we relieved a very corrupt public official of ill gotten gains and tossed handfuls of embezzled cash to the people on our way out. second an encounter with a number of camarilla dogs who remembered some slight i'd committed back when i ran beside the ashirra.

i shall never encourage kindred to seek out the blood arts of haqim. but i, now, appreciate them. having their leader erupt into a bloody sword that chased the rest off was rather refreshing.

last night we spotted one of the outpost towers of old ceoris. deep within a wooden thicket, the napalm burnt facade beckoning us through the late evening fog. my companion personally recognized the architecture, and that damned key now points at it when left in still water.

>>/tq/
i would refuse on principle.
lest one of my peers get scorned by whatever force granted that wish and we recreate the original tragedy.

>>98630853
there is something greatly amusing to me about the rejects of the magi being called 'tremere.'
but, i do have a request for cards seer. and a second un cardish one.
>what awaits within olde ceoris for us?

and secondly, invest in some shawls, would you? i remember better days when fortune tellers were more ubiquitous. and that hat of yours i find rather... colonial? of a certain time. and annoying puritans.

>>98631182
Isn't that also a wish for a world peace in general at this point?
>>98630853
>>98631251
>that hat of yours i find rather... colonial? of a certain time. and annoying puritans.
What does a sorcerous Kindred have to do with Purita-
>DON'T LISTEN TO HIM. WEAR WHAT PLEASES YOU.
Zoryana out of nowhere?
>EXPRESS YOURSELF. IT'S YOUR BODY AND WARDROBE.

>>98631310
>What does a sorcerous Kindred have to do with Purita-
nothing. but, i recall the time before the world wars and the unfortunate occidental fools i ran into.
i much prefered the company of travelers and fortune tellers. even rats.

>>98630280
Right now? I would have EVERY LAST 'RATIONALIST' WIZARD ROT INTO A POOL OF VISCOUS DEMON SEE
METAL PEOPLE AND OTHERS TOO- PERISH IN HUMILIATION

>>98630853
I cannot help but wonder how deep in these Imbecilic Nihilists are with the Camarilla. And the World-Devour Giga-Corp. Do their long noodle penises tie together in a knot in the halls of the powerful? Making them trip? I imagine so. Insufferable VERMIN.

And- Good that your brain works now thank you for returning.

If I may expose my hand for a moment- I've been expecting attempted and actual stabbings much more. Almost a relief. Also good that I was finally able to deliver the gifts to the Librarian and this 'Bee' character. So my Ductus will not maul me.

While the hand gripping us is tightening, I have good news. The further I delve the more aware I become of the deficiencies of these "Tits." They clearly reinforced their shitty lamps for certain forms of tampering, but they failed to prepare them for Vitae based ritual. I believe I could rupture several in short order, but I can only confirm my blood is viable for this act at present.

I will need samples of all of yours. Just to test.

Also, my beloved sibling caused an incident on the opposite side of their dumb web. Infighting. He drove one of the spiders through a band of cyborgs and explosively into another of their pylons. Now while this was a temporary boon his covert presence caused serious infighting. I believe there are at least three separate cliques of the TITS and they were rather... Irate. Another avenue we can exploit.

>>98633143
>they failed to prepare them for Vitae based ritual
Isn't that weird for a gang of Tremere?

>>98633182
They are "Tremere" ONLY in the sense that is the nearest thing you would be able to compare them to!
Sprouting from the same insufferable tree that TREMERE and GORATRIX jumped from! Conceited Magi! Idiot wizards! The lame- morally dwarfed ingrates that desire to control the universe!

Fortunately for us, despite their resources and their subjugation of mythic powers, they are STUPID. And at the very least my blood was not accounted for. But I must now test and see if it is my Goratrixian heritage that permits me this rite.

Or- Potentially- My Koldunism. Or some mixture of elements. My familiar spirit has been rather coy when he isn't blitzed on my vitae.

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>>98633222
>Sprouting from the same insufferable tree that TREMERE and GORATRIX jumped from! Conceited Magi! Idiot wizards! The lame- morally dwarfed ingrates that desire to control the universe!
OH REALLY
YOU DON'T SAY
THAT 'ARTIFICER' OR 'FORMER ARTIFICER' UP THERE IN CANADA AMONG YOU DISMISSED THIS HYPOTHESIS - *MY* HYPOTHESIS - THAT A WIZARD DID IT
AND CALLED IT 'DUMB'
O SORCERER DO YOU FEEL 'DUMB' RIGHT NOW FOR ENTERTAINING SUCH A THOUGHT
WELL I FOR ONE DO NOT
>don't forget your hmph
HMPH!

>>98633311
I CALL MANY PEOPLE "DUMB" ESPECIALLY MYSELF
BUT
AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT
THESE- THESE INSUFFERABLE WRETCHES DEEEEEESPISE THE FACT THEY ARE OTHERWORLDY, WRAPPING IT IN "TRUTH" AND "LOGIC"

DO NOT DENIGRATE EVEN THE PATHETIC AND LAOSTHOME "WIZARD" BY PUTTING IT IN THE SAME CATEGORY

BUT, KEEP SAYING IT THEY HATE THAT IT IS TECHNICALLY TRUE

I'm in a secure location. Won't say more, can't be sure how safe it is, even here.
I managed to socially engineer someone into looking into last night's "visitor" wasn't hard. My cousins didn't even make me pay the "Clanless Nobody" fee or the "not ugly like me" upcharge. No other explanation, Dotonbori's Nosferatu are afraid. Hard to blame them, lots of their daywatchers have disappeared, meanwhile Osaka is being overrun by Koreans, delegates from the no less than the Green Court. A few have even visited the clinic my mom works at. As to why the Green Court is visiting here and not, I dunno Kyoto; I can't say, because who do I ask? Every kindred I could vaguely trust disappeared while I was drying off.
Fortunately the pet kinjin of the green court brought their own refreshments. It shouldn't be too hard getting the blood I need for tonight's talk. Then, the waiting game.

>>98631244
I cannot help but notice the timing. Another pack of flesh crafted ghouls accosted my domain, about the time you would have been conducting your initial explorations. They were dispatched witn greater ease than the last batch, which makes me suspect these were little more than bodies being thrown into a fire, not well trained servants. If he is resorting to such crude methods I wonder if he is not afraid to leave his land. Or perhaps it is less he is unwilling and more unable to do so... I leave this section of the tale entirely in your hands, good sir

>>98621707

Okay, yeah. I know I can be reckless, impulsive. But I don't think I'm stupid. Yet here I was, riding on a motorcycle behind a complete stranger whose name I didn't even know, on my way to do...what? Bullshit with a Camarilla Prince, I guess. Our Pack was still trying to scout out this cam stronghold, to report back as much as we could. To find the weakness the Sabbat could hit to crack this domain wide open. Maybe hit it ourselves...

Was that it? Was I just being greedy and letting that compromise my judgement? No...that doesn't feel right. For some reason, this back just seemed familiar. Safe. I wanted to lean against it. Against him. I did. My arms went around his waist, hands folding around his longhorn shaped belt buckle. Moomoolund indeed.

Eventually the ride ended. I managed to pry myself off him, put on a bored face, and asked his name. His spurs jingled a bit as he put the kickstand down.

Call me Sam. I could hear a grin in his voice. So just as a heads up, the Prince is a Lasombra.

Woah. I knew a few Lasombra were jumping ship to the Cam lately, but making PRINCE?

Sam read the look on my face and spat. I know. I dunno how he pulled that off either.

As part of my studies, I interviewed a couple of Marco's Dead childer whom he embraced after Spider Lily. They died as fledglings. While our more fortunate villainess was happily helping the Ghiberti conduct their horrific business in Luanda in Western Africa, Kindred in the Tokugawa period had it hard, sandwiched between two different, enemy inquisitions.

One died to the Hidden Christians of Japan whose exceptional faith allowed them to survive underground from the ban of their religion in 1614 to the Miracle of the Orient in 1865. The other died to those endorsing said persecution of Christians - the local mixture of Neo-Confucians, Buddhists and Shintoists.

Japanese Kindred avoiding the sun and interacting with foreigners were likely to be suspected of being Christians. Meanwhile Marco himself survived by studying and adopting said Asian ways and translating texts between Latin, and the languages of the élite: a Classical Japanese (kobun, 古文) already separate from the everyday language of the people, and Classical Chinese which the aristocrats could read but never spoke except maybe a pair of monks (kanbun, 漢文).

When you summon a soul, the candlelight dims and changes color, you feel as if space is warping around you, ready to swallow you whole, but most unforgettable of all is hearing that first groan coming from beyond the grave.

It's a somewhat basic power, but according to everyone here in Venice, this atmosphere you get out of it never gets old.

>>98633950
>Koreans, delegates from the no less than the Green Court.
>my domitor-sire met emperor haneunim, in her own words:
>"your elder sister spider lily, besides offering some gifts, had to kowtow. i had done no such thing before any creature living, dead or undead in over four centuries, with the sole exception of the spirits of my ancestors"
>try to think of the sort of entity that can get that out of spider lily, and survive
>EVEN IF IT WAS A BLUFF AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE BACKING OF THE REAL GREEN COURT, I'D THINK FAST AND RUN FASTER IF WERE YOU.
>YOU DODGED A BULLET IN YOUR LITTLE MARKET, WILL YOU BE AS LUCKY NEXT TIME, YOUNG MAN?

>As to why the Green Court is visiting here and not, I dunno Kyoto; I can't say, because who do I ask?
>fledgling! don't you know osaka has the highest concentration of koreans in all japan? i would smack your head with a history book if i was there and alive
>THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVE PLANS FOR OTHER CITIES.
>with spider lily gone, the asano's relevance in korea is significantly weakened, meaning haneuim only has to land a blow on the japanese ventrue, the fujita a.k.a. sotoha, and/or the nanjing sabbat in china to eventually become the absolute master of korea, and he already has the chaebol in the south and party in the north
>WHAT COMES AFTER KOREA.
>to take japan he has to rid it of prince varrick in tokyo - which may or may not open a war with the greater camarilla or the tremere - and the homegrown elders in kyoto
>WHAT ABOUT CHINA.
>the real challenge in china are the sheer number of kine and their regime, you can't bribe a few politicians here and there like the cammies do to effectively run western countries, it's one of the most successful kine institutions against supernatural infiltrators in recent history, follow the executions
>WOULD HE TAKE TAIWAN FIRST.
>taipei? possible, the question is: "does haneuim think of just protecting his land, or actively desires to expand it-
>AND TO TAME THE ASIAN TIGERS?"
>yup
Um, girls?

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even in the new thread the sins persevere

You know what. I don't know what I'd wish for.
I don't ask for things or wish or get in the mind for it. Sure, I'd like things, but is not- Kruzifix.
So I think I would... Sit on it?

>>98630853
Speaking aught. I thought I caught a scent of the Butler when I was last out, but, not in a sensible way. Random thicket with burnt grass. Will be returning ASAP to observe. Hopefully find their means of mobility just-

Please do not let any stab out Sorcerer's eyes? Please?

>>98633143
And do not antagonize. Or be dumb. Or let that spirit get drunken?

>>98630280
>>If you had (1) wish grated to you by God/the Universe/Karma/ a Genie, what would you ask for?
To get fired. Or for God to start smiting everybody who's over a thousand years old.

>>98626134
>I knew I liked you Tío Viejo.
You don’t know what you’re encouraging.

>But if you want me only flying, I can oblige.
I don’t want anybody flying. William is fucking cursed. Every time we go near something that goes airborne, it stops being airborne very quickly.

But at this point I am actually unsure if any sort of transport would be safe, so fuck it, fuck me, I suppose we’re going into the air.

>Got any requests while am shopping?
Yeah. I know what William wants to do to get us a big helicopter. We’ll need a few drones, the less-shitty ones that go for a few hundred dollars apiece. So, decent but disposable enough. Also, bring various ammo, guns, explosives and gold, especially gold. We can get all other sorts of supplies fine - tents, tools, fuel, blood, whatever. But we can’t get the drones, weapons or gold without drawing undue attention, and with Christiansen’s lot and the ecoterrorists and the lupines whoever the fuck else, we ought to play it quieter a little. Especially with how we’ll be procuring the helicopter.

Oh, also, fireworks. Buy fireworks. Loud and obnoxious ones.

>>98630853
>What can your foes do during the day?
A lot! We're relying on the lupines stepping up and playing guard during the day, along with other, more classified and oh-so-secret defences. Though we've not been directly attacked yet, much less during the day.

All in all the Tits are about as active during the day as they are during the night, but there's more fleshy and alive peeps during the day. We're not seeing any ghouls, at least none that give off the aura of a ghoul, so that's fucking weird. Maybe they're really paranoid about letting us get any of their vitae?

>>98631251
>the rejects of the magi
Spicy talk for somebody in dick-rot-off range and age!

>shawls???
Ehhh. Some of my fortune teller girlies got a few and I have a whole cryptic and mystical getup with a lot of them, but it's conspicuous, you know? In my usual I just look like an attention-starved Midwestern girl tapping into a very popular fashion style. It's easy to gloss over thanks to that it sticks out the same way three hundred thousand other women in a five-state-range stick out.

As for the caaards,
>Olde Ceoris: how bad of a place is it, really?
Ace of Pentacles - Reverse. Financial ruin; lack of security; missed opportunities. Kind of on-brand.
>Will Balthazar and company be better off, if they go there, even given what sort of a place it is?
Page of Swords - Upright. Opportunity to learn; new skills to master; a step of a journey to wisdom and knowledge.
>Will Balthazar lose anybody or anything important? Will that be the cost of what he can learn?
Ace of Swords - Reverse. Indecision; confusion; a reservation of your creation.
If I had to guess, the cards are saying the Ceoris is a hellpit, it's a hellpit you can learn much from, and the price is, potentially:
>You lose clarity and grasp of your focus
>In a struggle to comprehend, you and whoever else will be there come to blows
>You lose trust or others lose trust, as somebody conceals a breakthrough
I'm just a conduit though!

>>98635362
As old and frightening as Hell Flower was. I don't think she was all that was standing between a war between the Green Courts and Courts of the Sun, heck even if that was the case; I wouldn't run.
And while the situation in Dotonbori seems tense it seems less like a war and more like.. a search? One that includes the clinic you might recall from earlier posts.
Does Haneunim-dono or his court have any particular interest in medicine? Assuming he's like the local Gaki or even we kindred, he's dead.
...
What could possibly be of interest them in a Hospital?

>>98633143
>And- Good that your brain works now thank you for returning.
I make no guaranteed that my brain actually works and that I'm not, like, a body puppeted by the spirit I'm tied up with! Don't ask me things only I would know, though, I'm woozy.

>But they failed to prepare them for Vitae based ritual
Ha, nice!
>>98633182
>Isn't that weird for a gang of Tremere?
a fuk
>>98633222
>They are "Tremere" ONLY in the sense that is the nearest thing you would be able to compare them to!
Ah fuck.

Hm.

So, working theory number one, yours: they just aren't too deep in the classic blood sorcery, so they forgot to cover important gaps.

I have a much more horrifying theory I can't just divine for, because, as I found out today, divining for the Caern fries me kind of.

What if what you found isn't a gap in defences but a, like, very specific structural choice? A point of connection? So that whatever ritual THEY want to do works easier?

Also,
>I will need samples of all of yours. Just to test.
Sure, we can hook you up! If you wanna do a creepy Sabbat rite or drink it, warn us, or somebody really will stab your eyes out. Also don't freak out when the vitae has funny effects, they're, like... Very variably pronounced. Igni got. Um. Funny ones. You'll be fine though. Probs.

>>98636278
Good 'goyle! The butler's scent being out there at all is funky. Maybe the kidnapper's baiting us, or the butler's having a fun spirit world adventure, trying to escape? We'll find him, either way. Plus if he's harmed I'll skin the raven enough times that I'll have the material for ten more card decks, so, I'm sure it'll work out fine.

>>98633143
Watch your six Libby's coming in for a hug run run run run

Also,
>He drove one of the spiders through a band of cyborgs and explosively into another of their pylons.
So that's what that was. The cop radio can't shut up about the noise. Funnily enough, they seem to get censored whenever anybody mentions giant spiders, so maybe the Tits are trying to keep a lid on things even as they use the locals as... I don't even know as what, filler? Not sure why they bother, with the scale they're dragging normal people into things, they'd need to purge them all or to conduct some very intensive mind trickery to hide it all at the end.

>I believe there are at least three separate cliques of the TITS and they were rather... Irate. Another avenue we can exploit.
Fingers crossed we can. My best hope up until now was just irritating the spiders until they become a problem too big for our uninvited guests to continue with their project. Not a good plan - I've gone on a trip with Bee to a petty spiritual site, a tree that got hit with thunder like five times last year alone, and we saw four spiders merge together not far from it. All four seemed pretty healthy, so, it was not even because they were too injured, like the previous instance of merging you and HSE saw.
The result looked very, very unwell. The carapace had these odd cracks to it, the eyes were leaking fluid, a few excess legs. Sickly, all in all. It skittered off into the dark just fine, though, and about as fast as the smaller ones do, which is pretty abnormal, considering that it was bigger than a SUV. The sort-of den they merged in was filled with haphazard spiderwebs, spun up corpses, a few half-melted metal Suits, the works. No eggs or anything though, but we did find a bunch of very freshly disturbed soil, like the spiders dug their way out of it.

>>98637239
>so maybe the Tits are trying to keep a lid on things even as they use the locals as
THRALLS
Vile wretches the whole lot of them

>OOOOOH LOOK AT ME I'M ENLIGHTENED BY MY OWN EUPHORIA
>OOOH IM SO SMART AND I HATE SPIDERS, IM GONNA SEND ALL THE SPIDERS TO SUPER HELL AND ANNIHILATE THE CONCEPT OF SPIDERS
>GOD MY BRAIN IS SOOOOOO BIG I NEED TO LOBOTOMIZE A WOMAN TO TOUCH ME

Gonna snap. I promise you.

But that is... I will concede I know not of the full extent of these crows and spiders. Before everything, tonight I will be enacting a Koldunist ritual to seek power from the Earth in a Place of Death, where a certain someone once set up a den. Which- Egh. I know what this will look like but I am not loosing my mind.

AND I FORBID YOU TAKING PICTURES.

>>98637182
If that is the case I must double blind them. Or perhaps be so blunt even they with their frontal lobes heavy with WATER will not expect it.

Hnnng.

ALSO WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM?! I CLING TO THE VINCULUM LIKE A SQUALLING INFANT TO MY FAVOURITE STUFFED DOLPHIN! I WILL NOT UNDO THAT WITH DUR HUR GLUTTONY.

But I will need to smell it. Because apparently my best form of Blood Art works best when I fucking finger-paint.

>>98630280
i fuckecu p bad hpw the fuck do i vlean car full of blood and how do i get ris of the body

>>98637160
>As old and frightening as Hell Flower was. I don't think she was all that was standing between a war between the Green Courts and Courts of the Sun
>correct, time was
Does this mean me advertising to a number of Princes that I rid the world of Spider Lily isn't the cause of a possible conquest of Japan? I don't have to add this sin to the list?
>this sudden imbalance of power may have accelerated certain plans that were decades - if not centuries - in the making
>WORRY NOT SEIREN, YOUR NAME IS IN THIS YEAR'S NAUGHTY LIST REGARDLESS.

>And while the situation in Dotonbori seems tense it seems less like a war and more like.. a search?
For example, mafiosi will ask nicely first, and try to buy people out, and only after they don't get what they want they start kidnapping your loved ones and so on.
>explorers, scouts and spies will precede full scale armies, it's called colonization...
Oof!
>did i live through the entirety of the century of humiliation to explain these things to this poor baby bat?
Double oof!
>THE BOOK OF NOD SAYS: "THE FIRST TO DISAPPEAR IN ANY JYHAD ARE NOSFERATU."
Triple oof!
>Does Haneunim-dono or his court have any particular interest in medicine? Assuming he's like the local Gaki or even we kindred, he's dead.
>What could possibly be of interest them in a Hospital?
>kindred use blood bags, patients as willing and unwilling blood donors, and a select few even corpses, denying these resources to kindred is to the advantage of their enemies, even if said enemies aren't going to use them for their own personal, direct benefit
>MEDICAL RECORDS ARE USED BY KINE HUNTERS TO TRACK KINDRED, OTHER NON-KINDRED COULD FIND VALUABLE INFORMATION IN THOSE AS WELL. THERE'S ALSO THE STORY ABOUT LATTER GENERATION KINDRED TRANSFORMED INTO CLANLESS IN YOUR AREA, THIS COULD DRAW THE ATTENTION OF SUPERNATURAL CREATURES BEYOND THE USUAL SUSPECTS.

>>98637743
Fire purifies all bud.

>>98637743
Cold water and Hydrogen Peroxide for blood. Sulpheric acid and hydrogen oxide for bodies. Don't use bath tubs, unless you fully intend to smash them up with a hammer.

>>98637955
*Sulpheric Acid and Hydrogen Peroxide
We respect piranha solution in this house.

>>98637743
place body @ steering wheel
destroy car

>>98637851
>>98638055
im not destroying my shitbox it was my dads

>>98637955
hydrogen peroxide ok ill google where i buy that

>>98638099
pharmacies

>>98637819
Book of Nod says the first to DIE, not dissapear are the Nosferatu. I may be young, but I remember that much from my time as a Nos.
And I know what a Gaki power play looks like, this isn't that. Mainly because while the Hanshin Nossies are afraid and ornery they're alive.
As for the hospital, there are bigger and more populated ones, that aren't being watched. It's going to be a minute until I can make a move, I'm search through some medical journals. If nothing else it's something to do while waiting.

>>98638168
I find the contrast between Lianhua and Zoryana assuming the worst and acting like your typical paranoid and nagging Elders, and ElectricBat's just going: "No, this ain't it." to be hilarious

>>98638204
It's even funnier for me because because Bat's situation is signicantly worse.

>>98637743
That’s the neat part, you don’t. Bleach and peroxide simply move the stain to the ultraviolet spectrum. Luminol and a blacklight will show your sins. Feed the corpse to pigs. They take care of most issues. If the blood is fresh, club soda and LIGHTLY dab it to remove it. Make sure the water is cold, hot wok make the iron in blood like a dye.
>>98637432
Sounds like your studies of my texts have gone well? I trust you survived the sudden explosion ritual I put in page 32?

>>98639338
>That’s the neat part, you don’t. Bleach and peroxide simply move the stain to the ultraviolet spectrum. Luminol and a blacklight will show your sins
"Officer, is getting lucky in my own car some kind of crime in this state?"

>>98639338
His studies go good! This is good!
He is huge weenie! Which is good! So to say, he was overcautious!
He spent last night eating dirt!

>>98637182
Grandpa dislikes you peaking! This is bad! But disconcerting! Which is good!
The roots are shaking! Where mortal men were not meant to dig!
Which is bad!

But might be good! Keep it up! We are waiting!
> (c:K

>>98638168
Medical journals are somewhere between disheartening and brain breakingly dull.
That one poster asked about the crossover between vampirism and medicine, well suffice it to say, I think a lot of Doctors would wilfully break the Masquerade if they saw the lengths kindred go to keep it or the way they exploit matters for their own ends, especially where blood is concerned.
You might remember the buzz about a synthetic blood subsitute, a purple powder that could keep for two years and was usable across blood types. It could have streamlined the entire process of transfusion, saved countless lives and spared so many men having to pretend to care about compatible blood types on blind dates. The Sotoha killed it in the crib in 2023.
Then there was the scandal not too many years back about a life extending drug that was found to be tainted with traces of blood. Reading through the benefits and side effects of the drug, this Anagath F45.6 sounds achingly familiar to the incidents of those two small canadian towns Ms. H0T and company were investigating.
This is just two stories, there are dozens of incidents all buried in journals that never breaks into the news cycle.
There's nothing about the Gaki, but I guess "Red Chi" isn't exactly something modern medicine concerns itself with, at least not under thst label.
So it's entirely possible the clinic that's been my second home since I was a kid has been the playground of monsters without me or mom or any of us not even knowing!
...
Saved by the bell. Assumed name, real address. One that my source reports he couldn't enter. Well, it's either I figure out a sneaky way to flush my new friend out or I work through my feelings and I know which one potentially lets me punch somebody so, off I go!

>>98641203
>You might remember the buzz about a synthetic blood subsitute, a purple powder that could keep for two years and was usable across blood types. It could have streamlined the entire process of transfusion, saved countless lives and spared so many men having to pretend to care about compatible blood types on blind dates. The Sotoha killed it in the crib in 2023.
Compatible with everything except a Ventrue's taste.
>PFFT.
No way they'll ever allow mixed blood bags and the like, they want their traceable, controlled, separate bags and they're gonna get them. Girls, how long are they holding back the development of fully synthetic blood products?
>i'd bet 10 years
>THE FIRST TRANSFUSION BETWEEN HUMANS WAS IN 1818. THE RH GROUP WAS DISCOVERED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 1940S. HIV SCREENING STARTED IN 1985. BUT IF BY 'HOLDING BACK' WE MEAN MEDDLING WITH FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE AND PRELIMINARY BIOTECHNOLOGICAL STUDIES' FUNDING AND PUBLISHING, WE'RE PROBABLY LOOKING AT LEAST FOUR DECADES.
Damn.
>IMAGINE A WORLD WITH NINE BILLION KINE AND ZERO BLOOD DONORS.
Sounds like a lot of dinner when you're not a picky Kindred~ Hihihi!

>>98641057
Hirschgeist?

>>98643404
Friend? Smell like
Friend! (c:K

>>98643533
Ach, Scheiße. Mach keine Probleme, ja?

>>98643637
Ja! Rock Friend! (c:K

>>98641203
My source did not lie. I approach full of purpose and intent to righteously pummel a total stranger. I can't even bring myself to walk through the doorway. Which operates on a motion sensor. I walk up to it, freeze as it opens, then walk away, even if I approach trailing behind a group of people. I've tried the back door and even an entrance on the roof, same feeling of "No. Do not." It's like being a Hikki but backwards, I see the door but can't bring myself to use it to go inside.
I'm at loss. たすけてや

>>98645005
>I walk up to it, freeze as it opens, then walk away, even if I approach trailing behind a group of people.
Zoryana, what is this?
>THIS MATCHES KINE FOLKLORIC DEPICTIONS OF 'VAMPIRES', WHO CANNOT ENTER BUILDINGS WITHOUT A FORMAL INVITATION BY THEIR DENIZENS. CERTAIN TZIMISCE DO HAVE THIS WEAKNESS, AN EXTREME RESPECT FOR OTHER'S TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES TO MATCH THEIR OWN PROTECTIVE TENDENCIES IN THEIR OWN DOMAINS. FEW OF THE OLD CLAN WILL TELL YOU OF THE THEORY THAT OUR ELABORATE TRADITIONS OF HOSPITALITY MAY HAVE DEVELOPED TO ACCOMMODATE FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF SUCH ODD CAINITES.
Bat, do you think you traded the curse of the Nosferatu for another?
>one new curse... or a whole set of curses

>>98645342
When I became capital Clanless, I lost the curse of the Nosferatu altogether. And this is the first time I've had this difficulty. Maybe curses for Clanless form spontaneously or in response to stimulus like near drowning, being hit six times with a hammer or stress. This calls for an impromptu acid test.

>>98646337
お願いします。

考え直してください。

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I think I'm possessed
Cept
Is like hes in the passenger seat and am drivin
Screaming
Bitchmade mother fucker

gonna burn down a hunter place and the boys they call daddy
Pray for me yall

>>98637070
Copy that auntie, orders fulfilled thanks to the Lobo Boys. On my way.

>>98639338
so what I'm thinking is, since Chelys is being hunted, he's keeping a VERY low profile. The fleashcrafting he learned allows for impromptu plastic surgery, and he's hiding all his Texas trinkits in pockets, or under layers of clothes. That sound feasible?

>>98646363
You're right, I need to remain on task and I won't find the others giving myself a concussion. But I've heard stories of similiar compulsive behavior, the theory is sound. It may even account for the Clans' curses. But back on topic
>>98645342
Zoryana, in these Old Clan Tzimisce stories, does it matter who inside the building does the inviting?

>>98648996
>Zoryana, in these Old Clan Tzimisce stories, does it matter who inside the building does the inviting?
>IT'S NOT ALWAYS THE 'MASTER OF THE HOUSE', BUT INVITATION HAS TO BE ISSUED BY ONE WHO EITHER LIVES OR WORKS IN THE RELEVANT TERRITORY, SO EVEN GUARDS AND SERVANTS COULD ALLOW THE GEOGRAPHICALLY CHALLENGED KINDRED INSIDE.
>MOREOVER, SUCH AN INVITATION DOESN'T NEED TO BE WRITTEN, AND CAN BE OBTAINED WITH SOME CLEVER TRICKERY. IT'S LIKE THE DISCIPLINE OF MIND CONTROL, LET YOUR WORDS BE SMOOTH, PERSUASIVE, SMART, EFFECTIVE.
>MY BROOD-AUNT AVDOTYA HAS THIS CONDITION. ONCE UPON A TIME, IN THE LATE 1800S SHE DRESSED AS SNIHURONKA, THE SNOW MAIDEN, AND A GHOUL OF HERS AS DID MOROZ, FATHER FROST - THE SLAVIC VERSION OF SANTA CLAUS - IN ORDER TO GET SOME DRINKS AND KOLDUNIC MATERIALS OUT OF AN ORPHANAGE.
Merry Christmas!
>WRONG. YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Aw...
>this reminds me, we should do something special on holidays, including the next lunar new year

>>98649144
>WORKS IN THE RELEVANT TERRITORY
I see. It's an interesting thing that this man can inflict on us. But he made a mistake, and I have to make a reservation.

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>>98649360
...

>>98646748
>that picture
Wait are you both a Juggalo and a kindred? What form of clan curse is this? I will definitely pray for you my friend.

>>98649782
What is a Juggalo?

>>98649870
A Juggalo is a fan of the musical artists known as the Insane Clown Posse (ICP), they paint their faces as clowns to match their idols. The image is from the cover of the ICP album "The Great Milenko". I know this because I was a Juggalo long ago when I was in junior high. This could be a new clan Tzimisce thing, this could be a Malkavian thing, this could even be a Brujah or Toreador thing, I don't know. It's not a Ventrue thing that's for sure.

>>98649922
The thought of a Ventrue Juggalo is hilarious though you gotta admit.
Imagine a kindred who can only feed on clowns.

>>98646748
Got any deets on this possession?

Guys! Guys! I hit jackpot I think, I ghouled some yoga girl streamer and found out she can do some crazy magic shit. She told me shes part of some ecstasy cult or something so should I be worried? Shes been really clingy with me but told me her friends have been worried

>>98650886
You sure this cult won't find out, look for her or want her back?

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>>98649782
Yes and yes brother, aint nothing stops a guy from loving jezus and the good painted posse
Being all honest this possession aint like the curse, dont know what my curse is
Cept maybe
I dont remember nothing before like, 2002?
Outsida lil bits and pieces.

An thanks brother, prayers are appreciated as I up and Vorheses these fuckin kkklanies

>>98650753
Sheeeit it would be all kinds of funny for me
Suits tho? Theyd hate my own self

But- eaaaaaah

Like I got a new voice in my head? After I was blendin in at a McDicks to try and get the drop on some a the boys who were after my ghouls, had to pretend I was eating something and I got a wicked headache.
Now tho Im feelin fine. Cept the new voice is all screaming an shit.

>>98649456
Bad vibes baby girl
Bad vibes

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>>98650753
>One turns to the other and says "does this taste funny to you?"

>>98648921
absolutely. Remember, Chelys is 5th gen. Just young for a kindred of that generation. Love what you’ve done so far. Have fun with him! I’m pretty much just on here for quips and memes now
>>98650753
Would you say his taste would be a bit…funny?

>>98651704
The worst vibes. The carpet is wet and smells slghtly like hydrogen peroxide. I fear I have made a mistake.

>>98651800
Should’ve used club soda fren. Now the spirit of shag carpets past is coming to suffocate you in daysleep.

>>98652322
I should be so lucky. No, what's coming for me in the morning is flesh and blood. Unless I can lure him here before sunrise.

>>98652934
GO FOR THEY EYES
>Pequeño tonto. Alimaña bien vestida.
A BLIND CARELESS STRIKE WILL CUT THE FACE OF GOD

>>98651704
Never let it take the driver's seat.

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OK, operating under the assumption he has a barrier of the same kind protecting his room, I can't go to him, I need to draw him out.
To this end, I've done some tooling around with the motel's directory and found his room's phone number, also used some electrical tape, a screw driver and a combination of my yet unnamed Discipline, plus some Blood Alchemy to disassembled the motel's phone, reassembling it into..something that should draw out my target. Assuming he smashed my guitar for the reasons I think he did. Assuming he did it at all. If I think too long on the variables, this looks less like a plan and more like the free associations of a crazy pe
>>98652983
I don't know what any of that means! But! ORA! I will not die here! ロックやろうぜ!

>>98651415
She tells me they will get mad we are together and has been avoiding them. I dont think they know about me hopefully but I am bit worried cause shes been telling me these guys are like really scary and some shit about war ascension thing and like messing with time and life itself. And I dont wanna cut her loose cause shes kinda hot and like damn you should see what she can do

>>98655160
>OK, operating under the assumption he has a barrier of the same kind protecting his room
Strange. Blood Sorcery has Wards but they should cause pain rather than have you go the opposite direction? Is there some kind of advanced Dominate or Obfuscate at work?

>>98655693
Normally I'd say "Or Presence", seeing as it's an emotional effect that covers a given group, but.. I don't think it was any kind of Discipline, because whatever this man is; he's not a Vampire.

So assuming the mobile forest avoids forest fires, if we track the forest fires we can get an idea of where it isn't, which would let us extrapolate where it could be, so we can investigate and determine where it is.

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So the ghoul that buys me gifts according to Marco's instructions returned from her trip from Padova to Mestre, and as she was about to unload her car - reminder that automobiles aren't allowed in Venice - she found something in the trunk, "unsolicited gifts" she that wasn't ordered to buy or collect.

The first was an Italian DVD edition of the 1997 movie I Know What You Did Last Summer, which in Italy was localized as "So cosa hai fatto" (I Know What You Did).

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>>98658422
The second gift was this painting.

>>98658422
>>98658431
>>98658442
They probably heard the rumors, scoped you with auspex and are confused and probably scared that they don't see black veins. The point of this is to gauge your reaction.
So, the scariest thing you can do right now, is not react.

>>98650886
Hey Brother, You're already dead. I'm just doing this one as a favour to my dealer. So this isn't even a challenge. But I hope you enjoy being a folding chair.
>cause you about to get folded.

>>98650886
>>98659045
bitch got a human furniture kink run for your life anon

>>98659045
Drain his ass, Anon!

>>98659305
>Thinking vampires counts as human
Disgusting
>This is literally me and my homies right now.

https://youtu.be/R6dRhbqZsUU

>>98659565
YOU

TELL ME ABOUT PARADOX RIGHT THIS INSTANT

>>98658949
This prank may have spooked the ghoul, but I'm not letting it intimidate me.
>>98659565
へええーっ!?なにっ?! ま... 魔法少女?!
Yeah I'm heading straight to bed after this.

>>98650886
>>98655397
>>98659045
>>98659305
Bro just got dealt with by the time police.
>vid fucking related.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Zr_C74DQU&pp=ygULVGltZSBwb2xpY2U%3D&ra=m

>>98656482
A good proposal! One issue is, the publicly available forest fire maps, like that my-lake one Victoria's contact fetched, do not show many forest fires as far north as the forest roughly must be. However, that just doesn't track with what I've been hearing from the locals; a whole bunch of small towns and hamlets got burnt this year, apparently, even up north, where there's no real forest fire presence, supposedly.

I suppose when we'll be getting the helicopter, we should also do a little detour and grab more limited-access maps. A task fit for you! Probably. You seem to be decently well-versed with the computers, I do not trust myself and Victoria will be needed for how we'll be getting the helicopter.

>>98661030
Drat, my screen name fell off. Yet another indicator that I would be best off on the helicopter mission, while you, OldBlood, ought to helm the maps mission.

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I can't shake the feeling that my Sire Marco will eventually see me as a liability and accelerate my flight from Venice. The latest prank with the old hag's portrait doesn't help.

Before the Family Reunion and this short-lived Clan Hecata, the Harbingers and other bloodlines of Necromancers were in the Sabbat. The anti-Hecata, mainline Giovanni will definitely try to renegotiate the Promise of 1528 into full Camarilla membership after 500 years of neutrality, adding as many slain Sabbat or ex-Sabbat Necromancers as they can on their resume.

As for me, I'm a Diablerist, a Caitiff, an inhuman capital S Sinner. I can join neither the anti-Hecata Giovanni nor the ex-Hecata survivors who still want to be Independent. There are Princes that think I'm Spider Lily and not her slayer, and will do any sort of pressure they can on other, welcoming Princes to have me dead, or at least kicked out of Cammy domains.

The question is not if I'm going to fight until the night I die, the question is who could possibly bother with fighting alongside someone in my position?

I think the only Sect that isn't opposed to everything I am is the Sword of Caine...

>>98661751
Lady stop being so fucking dramatic like I fight beside weird shit all the time. Including ex Sabbies and Cammies. Now I also get to fight beside wolf dudes.

And the giant Cricket. Uh

How do the Scots say it... God love him?

>>98661751
>>98662192
Yea God love my silly Giant Cricket God but for real do I need to raise my fucking hand to make the point known?

Don't make me I don't wanna crash my helicopter.

>>98661032
>>98661030
>>98656482
Aight kings, I'll leave the handling of maps an shit to you guys. Be there soon.

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>>98661030
>>98661032
>>98662215
I'm on it, I got it.

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My gut tells me it may be around here, it's like the fire is encircling something and trying to cut off an escape route.

>>98663120
Oh hey right beside that one lake with the cannibal incident back in the 70s
Good times those

>>98659581
Brother why do you want to know about Paradox, you don't even have to worry about Paradox. But if you want the coles note version.
>you know how glass can carry tensions within it? Particularly if it's not annealed, not allowed to settle while still at a somewhat maleable temperature?
Reality is like that. Don't worry about what the temperature is or who's casting the glass or what it means to anneal in this case. When an actual brother of ahhh hermes works his will upon the glass, it introduces that kind of stress into it. And if you do it too much, well. The Glass Cracks baby, and the glass is you, so its not recommended. And just the same the sort of bane infused nonsense you guys get up to, you guys are basically fomori destined to expand entropy until it consumes you directly. The really funny thing is the Wolvers are actually more of a threat to the balance of things then you guys ever will be. Go figure, you ignore that part. Sorry Spoilers.

https://youtu.be/56hqrlQxMMI

>>98661751
>I think the only Sect that isn't opposed to everything I am is the Sword of Caine...
Acid test: How'd you feel while beating on the scared ghost kid?

>>98664772
I do not need to worry about Paradox. For now.
However I have a sizable selection of IDIOT BLACKSUIT MUPPET MEN I NEED TO SHOVE THROUGH GLASS.

Secondly FOMORI? BANE!? DOES EVERY SUPERNATURAL CURSE LOOK LIKE THE DRIBBLING POSSESSION OF BURGER FLIPPING SEXTUPLE CHINNED MAN-SHAPED-COCKROACH!? OOOOH IF I DIDN'T HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO DEAL WITH I'D CURSE YOUR ENTIRE HOUSE FOR THAT.

ALSO OBJECTIVELY WRONG. DO BETTER SCHOLARSHIP.

>>98665411
>I do not need to worry about Paradox.
>For Now
Forever Night Spawn, Forever. And that is as you like to say it. Objective Truth.


>DOES EVERY SUPERNATURAL CURSE LOOK LIKE THE DRIBBLING POSSESSION OF BURGER FLIPPING SEXTUPLE CHINNED MAN-SHAPED-COCKROACH!?
Yes.

>Also objectively wrong
WHAHAHAHAHA. Oh little sorcerer, You have no idea.

https://youtu.be/vVmvzlT6CAc

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>>98665287
>Acid test: How'd you feel while beating on the scared ghost kid?
Beyond me and my roomie finally performing our first exorcism, instead of debasing ourselves to accommodate a ghost's demands. Beyond doing something to a captive enemy spy. Beyond the excitement of seeing Spider Lily moving through the wall to cause pure terror to the little ghost just like spettri make kine shit themselves. Beyond being allowed to touch a relic/purification rod from a lost Shinto shrine the night after Hiroshima's bombing...

...it's as Rumi/Gekka said: "That was fucking awesome."

"Fucking awesome" here is not the opinion of the haughty countryside princess Zoryana, the lascivious ghoul turned Cainite Lianhua, it's not the conformity to some consensus of three women in a room, and it's not an excited spasm of the Beast.

This is the opinion of the net-idol who sung karaoke and dressed up for the pleasure of older men and sometimes women, who presumably had to kick others down on her way to success - some of those 'others' being most definitely younger - the kind of success that would culminate in receiving the attention and then the Embrace of that man from overseas, one Marco della Passaglia.

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>>98664772
>you guys are basically fomori destined to expand entropy until it consumes you directly.
>>98665411
>FOMORI? BANE!? DOES EVERY SUPERNATURAL CURSE LOOK LIKE THE DRIBBLING POSSESSION OF BURGER FLIPPING SEXTUPLE CHINNED MAN-SHAPED-COCKROACH!?
>>98665708
>Yes.
Erm... Fo-Fomori? What are those!? What is this conversation? I-I have only one chin!??

>>98665708
Oh. How do I...

I am a fledgling for all intents and purposes. A fool insect in the midst of a very old and very convoluted game. Played by things that have evolved to become forces of nature. I have secured information far beyond my ken. I have seen things I should not.

And I have had that "Objective Truth" annihilated by a fool. A truly miserable thing that has inverted the 'Paradigm.' More than once. "Fundamentals." Utterly destroyed by means I cannot yet describe.

So either HELP ME MOUNT AS MANY FUCKING BLACKSUITS ON MY WALL or ENOUGH WITH YOUR SHITTY MAGI SELF-CERTAINTY. OR ONE DAY WHEN I ATTAIN MY FULLEST POTENTIAL I WILL HAVE MY DRAGONS SHIT ALL OVER WHATEVER YOU LEAVE BEHIND.

>>98665825
Fomori are some of the most LOATHSOME of entities. Physical bodies hallowed out and commanded by powerful evil-spirits, BANES! Degenerative progeny of the great Wyrm-Things which seek to devour our reality.

We Cainites are... Closer to them than we are to mortals. Your average fool-stooge of the Camarilla has a scent not unlike Fomori, a reek of entropy and decay, battling for our worst impulses. But critically- We are not them. We remain entrapped within our damned bodies, and only truly powerful or ritually armed Banes would be able to contest us for control, from ourselves and our Beasts.

Just look above at that... Clown. >>98651704 He is clearly "possessed" by a Bane! But because it is a weak spirit it is now entrapped within his body! His slave! And what is ever more curious, as a Cainites grows more resolved, starving their Beast, or else, mastering it, they are able to perform feats of great curiosity. The articles of Faith! Wrought iron will! When the Beast is mastered it empowers the one 'accursed' in most bizarre ways!

Banes are why I shall give the Wolf-Men the "Pass" as it were. And why we cannot afford to be complacent. Lest powerful Cainites be seduced by them, and allow their subordinates to fall victim.

>>98665809
Then you might hack it in the Sabbat, though I'd suggest you steer well clear of the Skulls and be prepared to do a hell of a lot worse than you did under Lily.

>>98666596
These Banes could explain, in part, I think, Spider Lily's degeneration, she became addicted to plum liquor. I won't allow one drop of umeshu in my territories!
There was no mention of this Wyrm in the Noddist literature I read, is it some kind of offensive name for God?
>>98667696
I think I should go where Necromancers are rare for economic reasons as well. I do have Lianhua's memories of my self-proclaimed sister's shenanigans on either sides of the Pacific, I'll definitely be impressed if it is as hellish as you say.

I have a question for you, Mr. Grin.

I received a DM of invitation by this Cainite who identified himself - definitely with a pseudonym - as a Ductus and as a Knight of St. Gustav, saying he leads a pack of pilgrims made of a "Follower of CAINE Pack Priestess" [sic], an Urban Gangrel, a Nosferatu and a not further specified "Mystic", a fellow Koldun I'd guess? Yes, he spelled CAINE in all capitals there.

But his invitation is not to become part of his pack, rather he would like me to settle in a deconsecrated Catholic abbey church and turn it into a "fortress, shelter, command centre and temple of the Sword of Caine", where I could continue my studies and offer hospitality and protection to nomadic packs passing by.

I've been meaning to ask you: is this kind of unlife typical for Sabbat-aligned, mystically oriented, sufficiently old Tzimisce, or indeed Necromancers like the Harbingers, who I'm told are so old they are 5 to 7 times removed from Caine on average? Do they live a sedentary life surrounded by a herd, ghouls or revenants and so on?

I thought the Sabbat was mostly nomads on the run from enemy Cainites and hunters. Do they become "less mobile" when they are of higher station and power?

I won't disclose the location on this channel but I think the ex-church is close to a city the Sword of Caine wants to reclaim. Do you have any recommendations before I continue these negotiations?

>>98668284
>I thought the Sabbat was mostly nomads on the run from enemy Cainites and hunters. Do they become "less mobile" when they are of higher station and power?
I
YOU
WHERE IS RUMP I NEED HIM TO EXPLAIN THE FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCKING SITUATION IN HISPANIOLA

No.
NO I am fine.
There are many areas where the Sabbat are long lasting presences. Much of the Americas have been a battle ground since the Colombian Exchange as the Sabbat sought FREEDOM in the new world.
Mexico, Quebec, Portions of the Dixieland, California, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Despite the rather Stalinesque claims of Inquisitors and the Camarilla, the Sabbat endure.

>There was no mention of this Wyrm in the Noddist literature I read, is it some kind of offensive name for God?
I wish. The Wyrm. As far as I am learned it has always been, hidden since primordial times by the Entity of Control which I hinted at. The Weaver.
Together they are a fitting DEMIURGE! Forces of entropy and decay! Locked in eternal battle to either bind reality, or destroy it.

I shall elucidate these metaphysical concepts with a request. Go outside come nightfall. Look upon the sky, and the blackness of the abyss. Where there are no stars, where there is no name. THAT is the WYRM. It needs no name, it is omnipresent, and it looms large over all of us. Noddist historiography falls into the STUPID DUMB IDIOCY of CAROLINGIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY! Too focused on name and lineage and the sucking of Caine's MASSIVE SCHLONG to look up and see the looming abyss. For the better! This knowledge is...

Unpleasant.

>>98668284
It's typical-ish. Though usually these kind of deals are offered to Older Non-Affliated cainites. Generally ones too old and tough to push around or outright kill.
As for St. Gustav, all I know is they're Inquisitors and as such they're awfully particular about people under their sphere of influence following their rules. This mostly boils down to "Don't make deals with the Actual Devil.", but they're leery of serial diablerists too. And, any city the Sabbat intends to take over is probably going to turn into a Red zone. One can find many things in our sect, safety isn't one, even if you aren't in a pack.
Finally, what the Sabbat asks for, the Sabbat can also take, if you meet with them in person, bring muscle.

>>98668537
>Though usually these kind of deals are offered to Older Non-Affliated cainites. Generally ones too old and tough to push around or outright kill.
Hmm... he kinda writes as if he was addressing an Elder. Then again, I ate one. That's how the Anarch Revolt happened.
>any city the Sabbat intends to take over is probably going to turn into a Red zone. One can find many things in our sect, safety isn't one, even if you aren't in a pack.
I... need to reach out to Spider Lily's shinobi ASAP and weigh my options. I must think this through. And have an honest conversation with my Sire. More than safety for the rest of my unlife, a pipe dream, I want the lesser evil-
>pfft
>AHAHAHAHAHA.
Stop bullying me!! There is a chance the Sabbat turns out to be the lesser evil FOR ME AND IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!! IT'S JUST HOW BAD IT IS!!!!! UUUUGHH!!!
>if you meet with them in person, bring muscle.
No matter what I choose, I'll bring muscle anywhere I go. I can even make muscle do dumb Dominate won't push it over. Maybe that's one of the reasons for this invitation in the first place.
>>98668384
It's very easy to see a starless sky here in Italy or everywhere urban because of all the (artificial) light pollution scattering starlight. You see planes with their blinking lights. You can see planet Mars, which appears brighter, but no stars, not with a naked eye.
But since I'm dealing with this guy who travels with this lady "Follower of CAINE" [sic], and he's also an Inquisitor apparently, I'm just trying to understand how could these pagan (?) deities (??) fit into a story who sees naught but God, Adam, Caine, Abel, and maybe Lilith and Lucifer?

Are there interpretations of the Wyrm were he is, like, Satan? You make him sound pretty spooky and satanic, and both Jesus and Paul in the Bible refer to Satan as prince of this world, or the air, or the god of this age. Does it make sense?

>>98668866
>It's very easy to see a starless sky here in Italy or everywhere urban because of all the (artificial) light pollution scattering starlight. You see planes with their blinking lights. You can see planet Mars, which appears brighter, but no stars, not with a naked eye.
Indeed. That is the point. The "Sky" needs no name. Yet. It is. There. Just out of sight and out of mind.
And the world of the Kine, and ours, empowers their dominion.

I will be very blunt with you my "Creation of Chinese-Bimbo-Doctor-Moreau" (affectionate) I am absolutely not the one to explain this. Because- Essentially the tale of God (Demiurge Bitch) is apart from these primordial entities. Foundational elements of our reality bending. Just because the tale of the Dark Father doesn't mention gravity, that doesn't mean he didn't slip on occasion. We must make extrapolations in this space. Compare things.

And in SOME cases we can assume the Gnawing Horrors the big J-Man was talking about wasn't Romans or Rich Bastards, no it might be the Wyrm.

>>98666596
This threat would work
>If you haven't already reached your highest sad level of potential.
My advice was, and continues to be. Leave. Whatever the NWO want, I doubt that you can't relocate yourself to somewhere they are not. And don't think I am talking down to you here. I would give this advice to most of my own brethern. They just aren't worth fighting. They have seen your formula for fighting 'blacksuits' and already configured themselves to be too tough and numerous for you to effectively fight. That means every encounter with them will be a mortal risk for you. Sooner or later (and sooner if they have any say in it, and they most certainly do), you will fall.

But I must make my way sideways now. I doubt the connection will remain stable. To the rest of your cursed kin, I suggest you seek the sun. It's only fair that you both get to see each other one last time.

Isn't this thread a flagrant Masquerade violation?

>>98670227
What are you, an Archon?

>>98670466
NARChon

>>98670227
Mods, diablerize this man pls

Any stories or words of wisdom for a fledgling?

>>98669539
>>If you haven't already reached your highest sad level of potential.
No wonder Tremere and Goratrix ran you ragged way back when.

Oh I am ABSOLUTELY gonna Dracul you one night but I got a lot more people to deal with first.

>>98670621
Get used to the idea you are in it for the LONG haul.

Ha ha

Eh ha ha ha ha ha!

>>98670621
Keep on DST after the idiots get rid of it, otherwise you will fucking die

>>98670943
>>98670945
オゾン?銅?はぁ?

>>98671845
HA HA HA HA HA!
OZONE
COPPER
THE TIME OF YOUR FUCKING LIFE
I GOT IT I DONT NEED THE BLACK SUITS I JUST NEED TO GET THE G****** WITH THEIR FINGERS UP THEIR ASSES

JUST

Just need to get that relic. But... That doesn't account for the other elements. My hosts would be cross if we failed to recover their vaunted butler from that feathered-freak. Hnnnnnnng...

>>98670919
So... I SHOULDN'T sacrifice myself at the behest of my sire?
>>98671799
DST?









>>98672324
Eh??
...right. I think I need a new phone.

>>98672346


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>>98663120
Oh, good spotting! The landscape fits; lots of water, little islands, not quite ideal for the movement of a forest, but certainly defensive against fire. During our encounter with the thing, it was further north, in a relatively dry area, but I suppose with the advent of modern observational technology, with the fire and with Endron digging, it perhaps had to move. And there's some places near where we could refuel, if it isn't it, but I hope it is - the more north the forest is, the more likely we are to get stranded with no fuel and little non-animal blood.

>>98662215
Speaking of refueling - once you arrive, we'll need to move quickly and seize the helicopter I've got an eye on! I apologize for not giving you an apt window to acclimatize and rest, but I fear the helicopter may be moved shortly. I've done some in-person observation, and from what I'm seeing, the company operating it recently got hired by one of the mining conglomerates for personnel transport. The thing I've got in mind is precisely the sort of vehicle you'd use to transport a whole lot of personnel, very far, so it's probably not going to stay at the airport for long.

Also, minor Yellowknife update! I've observed the hazmat crew move the radioactive waste onto the Giant Mine grounds. It’s a vast complex, so specifics were hard to observe, what with the plentiful cameras and occasional guards, but I believe it’s a fair guess to make that the hazmatters just dumped all the lead-lined boxes in there somewhere. Quite the cursed locale; plenty hush-hushed incidents of violence, murder and even bombing are tied to it. If we are to presume that the HnH people are indeed tied to Christiansen’s employers, so to say, and she wasn’t a lone, particularly rotten case, I presume we’ll find a lot more exceptionally toxic things down there in the depths of the mine. Something to tip off the local Lupines about, if they bothered to show, and if they somehow couldn’t tell.

>>98671893
>My hosts would be cross if we failed to recover their vaunted butler from that feathered-freak.
Not to be too dramatic, but we're also down a sibling! You know, the surgeon one, with all the creative blueprints we expressly told you to not show to the lupines too much.

Us not being boiled alive through a ritual suggests that he, and by that our line's vitae, is not held captive by anybody with potent blood magic, so he's either not held by the Tits, or if he is, the Tits really don't know blood magic too well. I've had the cards essentially tell me they're not fucking sure, when I asked where is he, which adds to the confusion. Cards aren't supposed to be unsure! They're, at worst, at rare times are capable of being wrong, or inaccurate, or refusing to answer, but lack of confidence is... It is not right.

The Lupines have apparently found faint trails of that mix of odd scents that accompanied him getting kidnapped, and the trails went in and out of the Otherworld erratically. No particular luck trying to track that down, but besides the occasional wannabe medic of theirs, they don't like Stitch a lot, so it could be that the ones that could maybe find him, using their freaky-deaky tricks, just don't want to risk it while the Otherworld's got giant spiders and whatever else crawling through it.

Which is another issue. Unless the spiders are a runaway area denial weapon, or something like that, they're very much not a toy of the Tits's, they're a threat to the Tits, if anything. And we have no clue about their origin point beyond 'maybe below', or why they started showing up now, besides 'there's a lot more activity and maybe something like that drew them here'. It's only a matter of time until they start eating the cops and the park rangers, and then we'll be in the real shitpit what with having to keep it quiet somehow.

>>98670621
Pay me money, I do card readings that got the special juice to 'em. That's some good words of wisdom, trust

>>98672324
Well anyway,
>Here's Objectwall

https://youtu.be/bx1Bh8ZvH84

>>98670919
I admire your eagerness to threaten random weirdos on the Internet who may or may not be high off of fentanyl-addict hobo blood!

>>98669124
>Just because the tale of the Dark Father doesn't mention gravity, that doesn't mean he didn't slip on occasion
And to provoke every Cain fanboy and fangirl into wanting to peel your skin!!

>>98669539
>I doubt that you can't relocate yourself to somewhere they are not.
We're irrevocably tied to this place, babycakes. There's no leaving after the obligations we've agreed to. I'm honestly not sure we'll even get to leave if we die.
Speaking of,
>sooner or later, you will fall

Everyone dies eventually! Out of familiarity, out of innate to Kindred refusal to accept change, or out of minor to moderate guilt, we've decided that we're fine with dying in effort to keep this place in proper order. Free of people like our Sire, or the NWO, which is frankly worse as a name than Tits, or that fucking, that Godzilla in a suit, I'm sure she'd want our Caern too, even if just to piss radioactive water all over it.

I do admire the attempt at giving us sound survival advice, even if it's like a year too late at this point.

>>98668384
God, you take all the Lupine sermons really seriously, huh? I mean, I'm glad somebody does, they're entertaining and I want our doggies to feel appreciated.

>>98672324
Thisssss is not my fault! Probably!

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>>98672355
What's going on!? I can't read this on PC either!!!!

>>98668384
look man if they cant be assed to get a lay of the land upstairs they are doomed anyways

>>98672324
>>98672355
that is a weird fuckin encoding bug man
hope you doing alright

>>98673508
Gute Nachricht. Sorgt für die Sicherheit aller.

>>98673679
>>98673783
Servus humillimus, domine spectabilis, Schwöschter.
I have a request. Could you do a reading on what might come if I cross the veil?
Just- If I see opportunity.

>God, you take all the Lupine sermons really seriously, huh?
Egh, back under the fighting in Winnipeg he was- Real close with the Rotskins. When undercover.
Gave him a better understanding of some of our Ductus' thinkings I guess.

>>98673783
I AM ORNERY AND CONTENTIOUS
However I am also-
Aware.
Of
Things.

You and yours clearly inherited a certain... Certainty. It is the position of the Cainite to be condemned as a rock amidst a seething ocean. Many in the house of Tremere go unmoved. Especially in compare to our IMBECILE necromancer cousins, who have too much cool-aide and go loopy staring into the metaphorical dark waters. I am not so fortunate. Not so blessed with this granitesque quality. Tis why I would have been a shitty member of the Sabbat!

That wannabe Regent in Winnipeg. Egh! Him and his wyrmthrall made the delusions of H0T-G4R0US and actual Lupines... Far too tenable for my liking. Just as much as the writings of the slain Magician fill me with a deep seated loathing...

I just wanna have my cool mountain-top tower and my dragons bro I

>>98673878
ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT THAT IS A BRIDGE TOO FAR
MAKING BLACKSUITS JUMP IS ONE THING- FINE- BUT THIS!?
HOW WOULD YOU EVEN GET BACK!?

>>98673969
I asked her not you.

>MAKING BLACKSUITS JUMP IS ONE THING- FINE- BUT THIS!?
Ja, if you are serious about the instrument it aught be considered. Und I would without thought.

>HOW WOULD YOU EVEN GET BACK!?
However I can. Wöffen have rituals I would manage.

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>>98673878
Of course, dollface, anything for you! Five cards, for extra context.
>When our Schirchgün encounters a passage into the veil, would it be apparent or not?
Four of Wands - Reverse. Lacking foundation; self-doubt; inconfidence.
>In the Otherworld, will our beloved find things worthwhile?
Knight of Swords - Upright. Drive for knowledge; ambition; complex problems yield to you.
>Who will be there?
Page of Swords - Upright. Chance to learn new skills; vast power of learning; opportunity to gleam more.
>What finds its way in, must find a way out; what will be the trick for leaving unaided?
THE CHARIOT - UPRIGHT!!!. Willpower; determination; victory.
>All has a cost, except when it doesn't, yet it usually does; what will our sibling miss, as a cost of going into the Otherworld?
Four of Wands - Reverse. Bad question, maybe?
A shuffle and another question. The cards will permit six, if the previous one counted - if anything, they like divisible numbers better, it's just hard to stop if I go for a divisible number.
>Out there beyond the veil, there dwell things. Good things, clearly, but not so good things, too. Will any appear before our Schirchgün?
The Hierophant - Reverse. Meaningless, yet mandatory rules; inflexibility and firmness; prudence and hypocricy.

My oh my. So, if Iiiii had to guess, the passage IN would be a difficult and unclear thing; once there, you will find out great things, and perhaps encounter a source of knowledge; shades, sages, maybe my brain parasite? Maybe lonely wanderers? Ooh, maybe that fucking reptile? It's grouchy and didn't show in the last while, but it's also got a thinkpan full of secrets.

The way back from the veil would be a matter of your sheer, unyielding power of self; the costs of it all are unclear, or perhaps a loss of confidence, and one thing I am confident about is, you'll probably meet something borne of the Tits and their stupid lamps, given what the last card tells us. Or maybe a talkative, bigger spider?

>>98673969
>You and yours clearly inherited a certain... Certainty
I mean, I know things for a fact; I even know that the whole three-division thingy seems to convey something real, at least, real enough. I just don't like buying into the Lupine way of thinking too much. They seem to have a good bead on things, and if HOT believes 'em, clearly they're actually not wrong, but, like, their methods buried a whole bunch of their family under our lawn, you know? I'm worried trusting their thinking too much might give us myopia.

>HOW WOULD YOU EVEN GET BACK!?
:D

>>98674006
Do be careful, babe, okay? I'm down one sibling this year, down a bunch over last three decades, I sure don't want to lose one more. You're a tough cookie, but, like, Igni will be sad if you don't come back. Don't make Igni sad, she'll set people on fire about it.

>>98674029
Can guide too rock friend! With! Nice Dogs! Bad things! Bad things! Smell...
Bad! But afraid... Quiet. Quiet!

>>98673969
Stop seize! Bad for heart! Still Heart!

>>98674006
AS YOUR PACKMATE I FFFFFFFFFUCK I DO NOT LIKE THAT
I
JUST
REAAAAGH
I am going to teach you a very important ritual then! So you DONT FUCKING WASSAIL ON US IF YOU END UP TRAPPED THERE AND I AM *GOING* TO MAKE YOU A FUCKING EGO MASK

>>98674029
I UNDERSTAND TAROT I DIDN'T NEED THE EXPLANATION

>their methods buried a whole bunch of their family under our lawn, you know?
I was really hoping that was just- Eaaagh. Malkavian mistranslations.

And we do not go with their thinking. We think as CAINITES! CHILDREN OF THE DARK FATHER! WITH BLOOD AND EXPLOSIONS AND MURDERING MAGI WITH OUR BARE HANDS!

AND
DONT
FUCKING
>:D

>>98674072
YOU ARE THE WORST FAMILIAR HOW DID YOU EVEN ACCESS THAT WITH HOOVES?!

>>98674134
>(ᗡ:K

>>98674029
Ja Schwöschter. I understand the gravity and danger of what I ask. But if there is a chance I can aid us, I must.
Your lands, your rite, your protectorate. They are- Not mine anymore. But I will not allow this Armseligkeit- this awfulness- too continue.

And I shall always return.

>>98674134
I am here tonight. Teach me.

>>98674138
Goot Hirschgeist, best friend.

>[George and Janice by Otoboke Beaver, plays over phone speaker]
>[BOOM BOOM CRASH TCHUNK]
>[Loudly Approaching footsteps]
>[THUD/BRRRING THUD/BRIING THUD THUD]
>[LOUD BREATHING]
>...
>目ぇ狙えや-チツ
>賢イキンジンダ。モシソレガ完璧ナ待チ伏セダッタトシテモ
>鏡や。
>確カニ。裁キニ来タワケデハナイト考エテヨイカ?寛大ナ処置ニハナラナイガ、質問ニ答エレバ事態ハ単純ニナル。
>うちの友達、どこにおるんやろ?
>ココデ質問シテイルノハ私ダ。ソシテ、私ハアナタダケノタメニココニイル。恐レルナ、他ノ寄生虫タチモヤガテ合流スルダロウ。
>わい?わいを狙っとるんか?へっ。へっへっ、ぎゃははははははは!わいはな、女の子にステーキの夕飯とたまにカニをごちそうして「狩り」しとるんや。自分の血を煮詰めて他人の味を良くするためにお金を稼いで、くそババアと一緒に暮らしとるんや。一年半も、女を拐かして血人形にして洞窟に閉じ込めとった変態野郎の指図下におったんや。お前みたいな奴は誰もあいつを始末しに来んかった。なのにわいを狙うんか?引きこもりのギター弾きのマザコン坊やを?ほんまアホくさい!ほんまダサい!勘弁してくれや!ははははははははははははははははははは!
>トボケナイデ、ヴァンパイア。アノ忌マワシイ音楽デ、誰モ知ラズニ私ヤ近所ノ人タチニシタコトヲヤラセナイ。
>音楽? あんた、わいを溺れさせかけたやろ、ギターも壊した、友達も拐った、頭をハンマーで叩いた、騒音の苦情ごときで!

>>98675220
4chan ate my post. Goddamn it.

>>98675220
>「騒音苦情」ナンテ面白イナ。アノ「騒音苦情」デ何週間モ苦シメラレタナ
>だから耳栓を買え、エイブラハム・ファン・ハマースリング。
>毎晩2時カラ4時マデ、毎晩2時カラ4時マデアノクダラナイ音楽ヲカケテイマシタ。最初ハ面白カッタノデスガ、3日目ニハ理解デキマセンデシタ。ソシテ人間性ヲ奪ワレルヨウニナリマシタ。2週間モ4時間未満ノ睡眠ノ後ニ人間ノ心ニ何ガ起コルカ知ッテイマスカ?
>道頓堀だ!多分国内で一番うるさい街だ!しかもその辺りで誰も寝ない!なんで男が無作為に路上演奏者を水に放り込むんだ?友達を誘拐する?変な超能力を身につけるなんて?納得させろ!
>私ハ誰ノ友達モ誘拐シテイナイ。ソシテ、自分ノ睡眠不足ノ影響下デ隣人タチノ苦シミヲ見タトキ、私ハ聞イタ...声ヲ。ソレガ教エテクレタ。アナタガ何者デ、何ヲシテキタノカ、ソシテドコニイルノカヲ。
>苦しんでいるのか?人は傷ついていたのか?
>

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>>98675454
>喧嘩ヤ事故、ヒステリックナ話ヲシテ皆サンヲ楽シマセルツモリハアリマセン。シカシ、ハイ、多クノ人ガ怪我ヲシマシタ。
>すみません。もし信号が誰かの居住空間に入っていると知っていたら、別の場所で実験をしていたでしょう。
>ドウシテ私ノ洞察ヲ完全ニ騙セルンダ?普通、超自然的ナ存在ガコレホド説得力ヲ持ッテ反省スルヨウナコトハデキナイ。マア、イズレニセヨ、モウ単純ナ言葉デノ謝罪ハ、誠実デアロウトナカロウト、ハッキリト段階ヲ超エテイル。
>人を苦しめたくない、ましてやギターを弾くことで。ごめんなさい。
>本当ニ償イタイナラ、コノ一ツノ質問ニ答エテクダサイ。ドコデプレーシマシタカ?
>その質問は怪しげに具体的だ。声が俺の居場所を教えてくれたって言わなかったか?
>[Shliiicket]
>午前5時20分ダ。答エルマデ10分、生キルカノ10分ダ。
>まばたきしない限り。あの場所が何であれ、俺の学問分野に奇妙な影響を与える。お前みたいに狂った奴に場所を知っさせられない、たとえ死んでも
>[DEEDLELEEDLEDEEDLEEDLEDDEEEDLEDLDE]
>...
>여보세요? モシモシ?コノ人ノ友達カ?スピーカーニスルヨ、彼ガ太陽ニ挨拶スルノガ聞コエルヨ。モシモシ?コレハ何ダ、俺ヲ目ヲソラセルタメノ安ッポイ手ダ、pHヲ調ベテクレ
>[ZzzzzzzBOOOM]
>아아악!
>うわっ!
>[THUD CRASH THUD]
>[Glass Shatters]
>[Long Pause]
>[Splash]

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"For old times' sake" I dragged an initially reluctant Marco into a private performance just for him. Like the Japanese salaryman who works hard and parties harder, he became a completely different person, a slip of the mask. Enter our unrecognizable Renaissance-era Elder waving lightsticks and chanting: "FUWA FUWA FUWA FUWA!!!"

Two encores later, once more, "for old times' sake" I knelt, reached for his belt, and unbuckled it, but he stopped me. I asked: "Are you not entertained?" He snapped his fingers next to my ear and whispered: "Do you remember who you are?" His pupils grew and grew, as to wholly replace his brown irises, a stare so intense I could feel it with my entire body, mind, soul.

Then my body stood up and froze. It recited: "I am a shadow cast by no object. A copy without an original. For the sake of my mission I will strike the guilty and innocent alike without hesitation, mercy, or remorse. I am a daughter of the Dark Father who knows neither modesty nor shame. I am Rakka, fallen blossom of the Drowned Sun. A kunoichi."

He dropped to his knees, wrapped his arms around me, squeezed me tight and said: "No, girl, you are my Childe..." He behaved as to console this Childe, for to me, he was the one who needed consolation.
>>98675454
>声ヲ。ソレガ教エテクレタ。アナタガ何者デ、何ヲシテキタノカ、ソシテドコニイルノカヲ。
Whose voice? Could it be... one of those Banes we were talking about?

>zoryana, did you ever ask yourself why did spider lily always instruct her ghostly slaves to type 'cainite' instead of 'kindred'?
>KURWAAAAAAAA.
>you're swearing in polish
>AAAAAAAAAAAAA.
>so this is what it feels to be the proverbial frog at the bottom of a well
>AAAAAAAAAAAAA.
>it was obvious wasn't it
>AAAAAAAAAAAAA.
>i don't know whether to laugh or cry

>>98676455
Everyone is getting on with their sire of late. How sweet. How stomach turning.
I suppose I can enjoy the schadenfreude of a presumably stolen daughter turned stolen childe, but even that only masks the jealousy. The grapes, I must admit; are sweet.
>>98675538
Bat. Tell me about hating your Sire. I need this.
>[splash]
That better not the sound of you blundering into the canal again, you absurd creature. Caine wept, with all the consent optionsl submergence, you'd think he was a Lasombra!

>>98678883
If it is of any consolation, soon enough I'll be "stolen" once again and spend my unlife away from my Sire.
I didn't quite get your clan? Gangrel, Brujah? A fellow Unbound maybe?

I AM HERE IM JUST SLIGHTLY TRAPPED IN AN AMMO BOX, GONNA SLEEP MYSELG B TRER SOOM

>>98679067
One of the Keepers, whatever that means these nights. Never figured I'd outlive our part in the Crusade against the Antediluvians, but then immortality is crassly instructiven that way.
We are permanent, forever. Our circumstances are not. We're uniquely equipped to wade through the bitter water on the way to the sweet. If you and Marco play smart, there's no reason you'll never see each other again, troublesome as the caveat of playing smart will be.

>>98679259
>Never figured I'd outlive our part in the Crusade against the Antediluvians, but then immortality is crassly instructiven that way.
That's it? You're not fighting the other Antes? Surely the War wasn't won when I wasn't looking?
>If you and Marco play smart, there's no reason you'll never see each other again
Now this is consolation.

>>98679622
>That's it? You're not fighting the other Antes? Surely the War wasn't won when I wasn't looking?
It rages on. Just minus a few hundred Lasombra Elders, and what a cold a cold day in hell it'll be when Sabbat takes their errant Childer back.
>>98678883
Enjoy your leash while it lasts, traitor.

>>98679622
I'm not sure if we ever were. And I don't think winning was ever the agenda. We never killed a single one, even at the start. Lasombra lives, the Eldest lives. All we've managed to do is cull countless potential rivals, shoveling even more innocent people into live graves. Dancing in their palms and staining the ground with blood until it sings. No victory. No triumph. No grand world where we can live openly and be unashamedly ourselves. Just an ocean of blood, draining into those who have decreed themselves our betters.
>>98679746
I won't. It will. Keep killing for Him little Pander, He so loves watching "Rebels" do His dirty work.

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And they call me Childer.

Right. So. I have a minute. Or a night. Or a long weekend. I guess. Voices are getting louder again.

Call out into the dark. See what answers through me.

>>98679232
How did you get stuck in an ammo box aren't they like, tiny? Or is it a crate of ammo boxes? That would make more sense.

>>98680039
Hopefully it's a walking forest and not a bajillion giant wolfmen made of fire and smoke.

>>98680632
It may simply be stuck over his head. How did this happen? He was left alone. All things are possible when you foolishly leave Che to his own devices.

There's a secret trick to being bad. When you've been a naughty, wicked little strumpet, you're never going to convince suspicious authority figures you're a good girl, pure as the driven snow, who dindu nuffin. But you might just be able to get them to believe you were
ONLY a naughty strumpet.

So I hoped my aura looked nervous enough (but not too nervous) as I marched resolutely into Elysium to see the Prince.

I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I don't think I had underground vampire sex club on my bingo card. Especially not in a midwest town run by a Lasombra. After seeing just a few of the attendees I felt overdressed in jeans and a leather jacket. I might have been wearing too much even in my usual outfit; more than a few were only wearing body paint meant to glow in the black light.

I got escorted to the VIP area and immediately got triple mood whiplash so severe I thought I might go torpid from a broken neck.

The first was the Prince himself. Sitting in a high backed throne he had one leg tossed over an armrest. He was jeans, cowboy boots, spurs, chaps, a flannel shirt, leather vest, and a 10 gallon hat. Oh, and he had an honest to God Colt SAA in a holster on his front right hip. Which would not have been that odd, were the room not lit up strobes, black light, the moans of vampires having sex, and Marilyn Manson's cover of Sweet Dreams.

Then this what the fuckcake got a nice layer of icing when I realized Julian was standing just to the left of the throne.

And just to put sprinkles on. Frank was off to left and behind the throne. He was going hard with his poker face, Jullian looked smug and just pinch sleazy, and the Prince looked like Hirano Kouta was making sure his mood lighting was just right.

Alright, Lita. Showtime.

>>98679824
But if you're no longer with the Sword of Caine, what are you doing? Defector to the Camarilla on a witness protection program or equivalent? Campaigning for universal suffrage with the Anarchs? Gone Autarkis in some desert?
>>98681114
>the Prince himself. Sitting in a high backed throne he had one leg tossed over an armrest. He was jeans, cowboy boots, spurs, chaps, a flannel shirt, leather vest, and a 10 gallon hat. Oh, and he had an honest to God Colt SAA in a holster on his front right hip. Which would not have been that odd, were the room not lit up strobes, black light, the moans of vampires having sex, and Marilyn Manson's cover of Sweet Dreams.
What do you think, girls?
>THIS FASHION SENSE IS THE REAL REASON THE LASOMBRA OUGHT TO MOVE UNSEEN IN THE DARKNESS, SECOND ONLY TO THEIR CHRONIC DISLOYALTY.
Oof!
>give the poor man a break, he can't see himself in the mirror
OMG Lianhua brought every spice from Sichuan tonight wwwwww

>>98670621
Respect guns, blades, claws, fists... Do not panic like a kine does when a weapon is pointed at you, but don't underestimate it either. You just have better chance at surviving an encounter with armed people than you did before. As for having to respect one that pulls a gun on you, that's a whole other story. For the record, to honor the Masquerade, you're supposed to act like an actual kine that was shot, i.e. not run away or jump on rooftops, in many situations where there could be witnesses, including the shooter.

>>98680632
>>98680685
I can fit myself in a small dog crate if I gotta. Cause I make up for my weakass daysense with bein a cockroach dudes.

>>98680039
Are the boys gonna be fine with Bigfoot?

>>98681114
>Strumpet
Okay grannie.

>>98682203
>Oh, and he had an honest to God Colt SAA in a holster on his front right hip. Which would not have been that odd, were the room not lit up strobes, black light, the moans of vampires having sex, and Marilyn Manson's cover of Sweet Dreams.
I could see it working for a "Count to Ten and Die" music video. Or the Love Song.

>>98684681
Count to Six and Die would be an out of costume affair with one camera and nothing in the background, it'd feature manson and the band playing russian roulette/spin the bottle with a pistol. B/W, no colors, lots of uncomfortable close ups when to the pistol that mask "this is the part where we removed the bullet(s)", very minimalist to go with the uncomfortable quiet of the song itself.
The getup would go great with The Love Song, tho. Holywood in general.

>>98682203
I've been in the Camarilla for a while now. The opportunities for a diablerist ex-sabbat here are few and far between. Especially in positions that befit my clan. The only bottom position we can accept are in the depths of the sea, being In Charge is as driving of an urge as is drinking blood.
But. Leadership is a position of trust. And as your impolite headmate says, no one can trust me, because I'm a former sabbat, diablerist, kinslayer, turncoat. And with what's watching through my eyes, I can't entirely trust myself either.
So, for the most part, I've been playing the Voyeur. There is an opportunity somewhere in these demeaning circumstances, and when I see I will seize it.

>>98685126
But what exactly made you think you should flee? How did you do it? And how did the Sabbat not avenge this transgression?
>being In Charge is as driving of an urge as is drinking blood.
>DON'T LISTEN TO THIS, SEIREN. THEIR NATURAL URGE IS TO BE THE SECOND CLASS CITIZEN, WHETHER UNDER THE SHOE OF A VENTRUE, OR THE TENTACLE OF ONE OF OUR MAIN CLAN COUSINS. WHY DO YOU THINK THIS CLAN DESTROYS THE CAPITAL, THE SOCIAL NETWORK, AND THE LIVES OF THEIR PROSPECTIVE EMBRACES, INSTEAD OF PERFECTING ANY OF THEM? IT IS TO TURN THEM INTO THE KEEPERS OF SILVER MEDALS.
Guys I don't think Zoryana likes the Lasombra...

>>98685172
Unless you like sloots you don't like Lasombras.
Even if you like sloots you don't like Lasombras.
Hell I don't thing Lasombra liked the Lasombras. He went out for milk and never came back.
And all the Lasombra said he had small dick and deserved to get eaten.

>>98685172
Jealousy brings out the worst in even the most reasonable "kindred", it must wound her ego to compare her own countryside holdings to the glories the Iberian penensula or of Rome at it's peak.

I think I relayed some of the story of my sojourn, with my sister and her end. To put it simply, we learned the Truth and refused to labor for our fraudalent sect. We did try at first, to spread the word through our respective packs, that Lasobra lives. However our sire slaughtered them for blasphemy. He then turned his wrath on us. We killed him. This was in the early 2000s, at the time there was a deal between clan Lasombra and the Camarilla of Chicago, to join the Camarilla you must bring us your elder's heads. And there we were, with our dead sire, by any sensible metric, our Elder. Though, I can't be sure it was my sister's proposal and not the diablerized sire, given later nights. As for the Sabbat, well the nice thing about a mass schism and exodus, is that it's very hard to keep track of who left and who didn't and who's even alive to wreak terrible revenge upon.
>>98685247
>Hell I don't thing Lasombra liked the Lasombras. He went out for milk and never came back.
If only.

>>98681114
Fucking hell I forgot he looked like a reject out of rhinestone cowboy.
>>98684079
Yeah guns hurt but a single action army is purely for aesthetics. I say that as a devotee to the 1911, hi-power, and PPK. Even with disciplines, gun only shoot as fast as you can pull the trigger.
>>98684681
>>98684818
Honestly it was a big miss there was no Rob Zombie/White Zombie playing. Would’ve been fucking perfect for the mood. Living dead girls and all that.

>>98685333
>Jealousy brings out the worst in even the most reasonable "kindred", it must wound her ego to compare her own countryside holdings to the glories the Iberian penensula or of Rome at it's peak.
>HOW GREEN OF ENVY MUST I BE LOOKING AT THEIR LEGACIES: FOOLS UNABLE TO MANAGE AN ENERGY CRISIS AND THE LATEST, ONGOING INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

>THINK, SEIREN, WHAT DO THE PEOPLING OF THIS CONTINENT BY THE PROTOINDOEUROPEANS, THE GYMNOSOPHISTS MEETING EARLY PHILOSOPHERS, THE SPREAD OF GREEK CULTURE IN ROME, THE CHRISTENING OF THE ROMANS, THE TRANSMISSION OF THE GREEK CLASSICS TO THE EUROPE THAT FORGOT THEM, THE HUNS' INVASIONS, THE CONQUEST OF AMERICA, THE CHALLENGE TO THE WEST BY THE CHINESE IN THE PRESENT DAY, AND SO MANY GREAT HISTORICAL EVENTS ALL HAVE IN COMMON?
Uuuuuh... next question, please?
>come on zoryana do you think she read hegel
>CAPITAL H HISTORY IS A MOVEMENT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST. THEN THE VENTRUE POINTS AT THESE ACHIEVEMENTS AND SAYS: "I DID THIS." THEN THE LASOMBRA POINTS AT THE VENTRUE AND SAYS: "I DID THIS."
>LOOK AT WHAT REMAINS, SEIREN. THE RUINS. THE FIRST AND SECOND CITIES. THE MESOPOTAMIAN CITY STATES. THE COFFINS OF THE EGYPTIANS. CARTHAGE. ROME. CONSTANTINOPLE. WHERE IS THE GREAT SPARTA IDOLIZED BY THE VENTRUE AND PLATO?
...

>REMEMBER URIEL'S CURSE: "YOU WILL WALK FOREVER IN DARKNESS, ALL YOU TOUCH WILL CRUMBLE INTO NOTHING."
>SO-CALLED SCHOLARS UNDERSTAND THE "FOREVER IN DARKNESS" PART VERY WELL, NOT THE REST OF THE TWO VERSES.

>NOW, WHAT DID CHAIN-5-MILES-LONG LEAVING HIS SECT;
>ME LEAVING MY CLAN AND COUNTRY;
>THE DARK FATHER LEAVING THE LAND OF NOD;
>LILITH LEAVING THE GARDEN OF EDEN;
>AND YOU, SEIREN, LEAVING YOUR SIRE; ALL HAVE IN COMMON?
We are never allowed to settle?
>YES. WANDERING FOREVER IS NOT A PROBLEM JUST FOR THE RAVNOS BLOODLINE ('CLAN' IS A STRONG WORD AT THIS POINT).
>WHO DO YOU THINK I ENVY, THEN?
Hm?
>HAPPY CAINITES THAT DON'T NEED TO MIGRATE AND HAPPIER CIVILIZATIONS UNTOUCHED BY CAINITES.

>>98687458
>>('CLAN' IS A STRONG WORD AT THIS POINT)
Oi. Bit rude innit?

>>98684569
Oh, thank God you're fine! I was worried that the police raid near the airport was perhaps somebody stumbling on you and your cargo. Given the local history, maybe it was those ecoterrorists? The airport seems to work fine, at least, and nothing was on the news…

But yes, onto business! We must work with haste. The helicopter I have in mind is being prepped for operations at the airport, in the corporate-owned chunk of the territory. The plan I've proposed, and one Victoria vaguely shrugged at so it's got two votes at least, is fairly simple in overall conceptualization, but there will be considerable quantities of moving parts. Your part is to convene with Victoria, she's on the way to that hideout we've sent you the address of, with a box of duct tape. As for how we will be leaving with the helicopter, once you two get the drone distraction going, the answer is, of course, Obfuscate! It, however, is a mental trick, not a physical one, and it's got a range.

So, to sneak off successfully we'll need to disable the radar tower. That will be up to wise Mèo-Mèo and our valiant OldBlood, once you and Victoria make the distraction. Meanwhile, me and brave H0T will secure the helicopter itself. I absolutely do not trust the airport to not have some sort of hidden, particularly nasty guards, what with Christiansen using it at least once, and there’d be technicians and other personnel to try and handle; were it deserted, I’d assist with the radar tower, but the airport’s got night shifts, especially in the hangar housing our aerial beast. Perhaps we’d be able to seize the helicopter quick enough to help with the tower, who knows.

Try to not actually hit anything with the fireworks, by the way, stealing the helicopter will be a problem enough for local authorities to look at, but if we damage something precious, they'll be under thrice the pressure to pursue us.

>>98688434
Righty O. I'll play things cool. Hopefully Auntie can play this quiet. Because otherwise I know how this is gonna lok and I'm gonna go down as an eco-terrorist.

Which you know what? I don't mind that much.
>I will do as the ghost of the unibomber requires.

>>98688434
>Oh, thank God you're fine! I was worried that the police raid near the airport was perhaps somebody stumbling on you and your cargo. Given the local history, maybe it was those ecoterrorists? The airport seems to work fine, at least, and nothing was on the news…
If the cops swarm a place and it doesn't make the news, let alone at an Airport; there is horseshit afoot. And I ain't talking about (c:K
>>98676455
>Whose voice? Could it be... one of those Banes we were talking about
It sounds Bane-ish with the sleep deprivation and suffering brought about by technology, but the way he operates doesn't feel terribly concerned with corrupting or deceiving, though the pummeling with a hammer is pretty mean, that felt more like the Guy than the Spirit.
Heck, if anything it sounds like it's all about Proctecting the Innocent, like some kinda dipshit Superhero.
And if his Staring Contest mojo could stop a Woof, there'd be one in every Cosmic Horror serving office from here to the Strait of Hormuz.

>>98680632
It could be both. Maybe we even get to see some of the old weirds.
>Een draak komt om te sterven? KHA! Ke ke ke!

>>98684569
Is anyone really fine with bigfoot? We have the people though, we can trust gangrels with grizzlies, we can trust them with feet.
>Çuhalnă pičče. Hurlăhlă.

>>98685333
>Don't mistake the hungry Childer for the little Scribe. Don't mistake the Serpent swallowing the sun for the Dragon of the Night. Don't forget. Don't forget. Don't forget.

>>98687458
>>HAPPY CAINITES THAT DON'T NEED TO MIGRATE AND HAPPIER CIVILIZATIONS UNTOUCHED BY CAINITES.
>>>HOW BOTHERSOME YOU ARE IN YOUR MISERY. HOW DELIGHTFUL.
>>>>SOME DAY YOU WILL ERR
>>>>>AND I AM WAITING

>>98688434
>You will not let harm befall her Hound
>Tornas recampa ton camin, Vièlh.
>JIE MEDŽIOJA SENĄJĮ PRIŽIŪRĖTOJĄ! JIS DAR GYVAS!

>>98688434
>As for how we will be leaving with the helicopter, once you two get the drone distraction going, the answer is, of course, Obfuscate! It, however, is a mental trick, not a physical one, and it's got a range.
That's still really impressive, if it works. Between the size, noise, air displacement; it's an incredibly difficult undertaking. さすが , Mr. William.
>>98689627
Ms. Cat? Are you alright?

Tabarin’s Very Bad No Good Days

Well, what can I say. It’s been a week (or closer to two or Three). The war in El Paso is going well. Chavez was lazy, unprepared. I’d estimate that greater then 90% of his forces have been vanquished. Every safe we crack open is full of gold and deeds and jewels. What remains are hardened cadre of defenders, some hard asses trying to prove their mettle to the Sabbat leadership and a handful of elders. Once you get a look at a few of them, they get easy to tell apart. The Defenders avoid us as much as possibel, we avoid the eldars as much as possible and the Hard Asses and our aspiring Hard asses are duelign in the middle of the El Paso streets. I had to get a media specialist. Some Ventrue, just to handle our cover ups. We have the police and the local gangs under thumb. The cartel are still trying south of the boarder but they don’t know they’re already beat. Just need the time to handle them later.

Let’s Start. Monday, one of our light companies came back. Should have known something was up, they had a lost platoon. We did our ordinary recovery process, but only found a few survivors. I was inspecting them later when they detonated. Someone had shoved ballbearings and c4 up their ass, then dominated. Crude but effective, damn near took one of the companies out of commission. I was in the blast but survived relatively unscathed. My outfit, not so much. Had to feed afterwards, they finally convinced me that my staff suggestions of body armor were not completely unneeded.

>>98690081
Tuesday, having survived the C4 it was a few days before the Javelin thrower. I know, it sound silly. But the Javelin, how do I say it. Old oaken haft, iron neck and point. Both carved in runes that I didn’t recognize. Whoever was doing the throwing was damn well doing it from a mile away and in the skyline of El Paso. Took days, each time we think we had the Javelin contained there would be the strange whistling of a Javelin travelling way to fast thru the air, thrown with some unholy combination of Auspex, Potence and Celerity. And we’d look and sure enough the magic javelin was gone, except it was sticking out of me now. After the first two or three attempts cracked my skin but not much more, he started throwing just at anyone nearby. Took us five days to pin point the throw sites, another two to put enough troops until the Thrower decided to piss off. To date, this is the most effective one vampire has been at stopping me. Annoying.

Wednesday night was straightforward at least. Obfuscation, Shotguns. Half a dozen Nosferatu. I still don’t know if it was Anti-Tribu or if the Nossies decided to try to check me on my shit. They opened fire with dragons-breath and I just watched. The Rotschreck held me. I only had nearby about two dozen brothers, I would love to say that they easily killed the offending Nosferatu. More then a dozen dead gGangrel, two dead Nossies, The rest fled, until I brought myself to move. To will the the stone that is my body to action. The Nosferatu leader had approached, he was smiling. Then he fired. The Dragons-breath blackening my skin, cracking it. Boiling the tar within. BOOM BOOM BOOM, more fire surrounded me. And I was free. I was at his Throat before he knew he had lost. BOOM BOOM, his clanmates shot into him, turning him to ash as I Feasted. Boom, the howls of my breathern. My parliament arrived, Drawn by my fleeing brothers. Boom the fire and smoke filled the room as I closed, and then they just disappeared again.

>>98690085
My Auspex could not find them. Three dead Nosferatu, Three escaped. More then a dozen dead brothers. I am offering an easy 100 grand to whoever can name those Nossies to me. I am offering a quarter million to whoever delivers any one of those three to me alive, an easy one milly to whoever can deliver me all three.

Anyone, if you want a Million Dollars. Find me those Nosferatu. Deliver them to me, Meowmeow can attest, I pay in gold bullion. I will flay the bones out of their bodies and slurp the meat from underneath their skin while they watch and beg. I will pack their hearts with salt and lovingly sew them back in their chests. I look forward to our business.

This Thursday past, a Werewolf. I don’t know how they managed it. It was only one, and it never got close to me. It took on one of the Medium Companies, and while we were not prepared for it, we were more prepared then most. The losses were in the acceptable range.

>>98690090
And then finally, for Friday. The darkness. I don’t know how, When I awoke I was sealed in Darkness. Every direction I was bound. Some Strange coffin I had thought, It was strong, even my Strength could not budge it, nor break it. But there was a Trick, I didn’t know it but there was a Trick. I sat in that Darkness I don’t know how long. And when you sit in the dark like that, the mind. Even the Kindred mind, plays tricks. There was sounds, I had thought Rats, and Slugs, and Spiders. But then I felt their hands, their human hands. Tiny kindred, touching me, as if to make sure I was real. I’m still not sure they were real. But they tugged and pulled and I managed to slip from my half bent over position, I slipped down, into a crawlway? I could not see, I could only feel the stone of the passage, It was so strange. It should have been death earth.

But it wasn’t. It was soft in my hands, like moss. And before long, I could feel little flowers? They were two or three inches high. The hands touched me along my arms and feet, as if to encourage me. To chide me not to stop. And then I heard, I don’t know what. In the Darkness, I heard her.

>>98690093
Like meowmeow said, it seems a bit silly. When I grew up, if someone soothsayed you. You listened. >Keep a cross over your heart and a pentacle around your ankle.
I had thought the Lasombra had been mocking me, letting me keep my clothes, my accessories. Now I wonder, as I crawled in the Eternal Darkness, in the Flowers that can only grow there. I heard her voice. Well it was just her humming, a simple melody. I felt her take my hand and lead me. I don’t know how long I was in the Darkness. My officers say I was gone for three days, but I never returned to the embrace of death. Not once, and I remember walking for miles and hours and miles and hours.

I crawled out of some cave near to the North of El paso. The fight will continue, Chavez’s ass is grass and those witches missed. They are all going to burn, Chavez is going to greet the sun, one last time. And, I now greet the night. I guess, its passing now. When they first found me I was raving that she was still here, still following me. I still think I can feel her footprints, under the earth, under mine.

And that was my week(s). I just wanted to let everyone know. Those who oppose me will suffer. Those who help me will be rewarded. That is all.
>Thanks again Meowmeow.

>>98681114
I did a curtsy as best I could without a skirt and started to introduce myself to the Prince. I got about as far as my name when the he cut me off.

And who are the other three?

Jullian was right there so the order I answered was going to be important if I wanted to sneak the lie past them. I let my mind imagine a few wild things to get my Aura agitated, then spoke.

Sabbat. When I said that the Prince bolted upright, Frank's mouth fell open, and Julian started staring hard enough to bore a hole through my head. I quickly barreled on. Whatever the hell that is. I met them on the the road here. I know they wanted me to introduce them to you. And I know they didn't want anyone knowing they were quiting the Sabbat. What even is the Sabbat anyway?

Only then did I turn my head, looking around, and went uhhh...? Like I had only just realized I had stepped into a minefield. Since I was begging Cain for these assholes to fall for it in my head my Aura should have been drowning out my lies in my freak out. One bit of truth to start, and then going for the Yes, I AM guilty, just not as guilty as you think. Just like 4 eyes (another packmate of my Sire) taught me.

The next thing I knew, my chin was in the Prince's hand (a part of my brain made a note that despite being Lasombra he had a lot of celerity to move that fast, I literally couldn't see him move.) and I shuddered a bit, hoping he would think he was intimidating me, instead of the disgust and rage that made me want to break his fingers I was actually feeling.

I saw Julian start to open his mouth, but the Prince spoke first. Tugging my face to look him in the eyes. You're sure they said they were Sabbat? TELL ME THE TRUTH.

I heard that last sentence echo a bit...but I felt no urge to do so. I tried to look a little surprised as I answered. Yeah. I was coming back to the motel room after robbing a guy I fed from and I heard them talking.

>>98690482
I scrunched up my face a bit like saying it out loud was embarrassing, like a part of me wanted to cry, as I started spilling way to many details about fucking some guy and stealing a bit of blood and his cash after he fell asleep post coitus. Probably helped I've had to resort to that shit a few times so I had more memories of such stories than I want. I saw Julian tilting his head at me. Probably realizing I was a bit more street smart than I had acted at our first meeting and wondering how he missed it. I had to keep the smug off my face at the proof I could lie to an aura reader. 4 eyes had been right, if you're not really an expert on people aura reading doesn't tell you as much as you believe it does. That's a weakness you can exploit.

Instead I talked a bit faster, trying to sound like I was babbling as fast as I could remember, about how the other three had been talking about how they needed me to vouch for them first because "no cammy Prince would buy a cold approach from three vampires wanting out of the Sabbat."

The Prince's narrowed as he considered what he just heard, but before he could finish thinking Julian pipped up. She's a lying little whore, my Prince! She STAKED me! Let's just kill her!

I let myself get angry then, I only staked you because you tried to Blood Bond me you asshole! It's a good thing I smelled your blood before I drank that shit! Did Frank just smile for a second?

Julian recovered quickly, though. His head jerked back and he blinked a few times before incredulously sputtering What are you talking about you, you psycho bitch?!

The Prince turned, just his head, and growled out, Shut up, Jules. Before he turned back to me.

This is awkward, the ghoul brought a handwritten letter by a Thingamazisce who wants me to teach her(?) brood thanatology in exchange for "letting me reach the next unlife stage after this chrysalis."
>AND?
How am I supposed to refuse her?
>you aren't~
But-
>YOUR ONLY POSSIBLE ANSWER IS NOT IN THE NEGATIVE.
Bitch WTF?
>take the hint, bwaby bwat~
She acts as if I'm already on board with the Sabbat and everything!
>THERE'S NO "GOING BACK" BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY OF A 'BACK' TO 'RETURN TO.'
Jesus H. Christ riding above the Laguna on a literbike!!! I don't want to become one of the monstrosities dreamed by that Cainite!
>YOU NEED TO PLAY SMARTER.
>redirect the force coming your way, don't face it head on
Like, less sumo and more jujutsu?
>BETTER.
Alright, smart ladies what's the plan?
>the plan is a 'yes, and'
>YOU HAVE CONNECTIONS TO THAT VENTRUE ANTITRIBU'S PACK AND NOW THIS ELDER. YOUR GOAL IS TO REACH OUT TO A BISHOP OR HIGHER RANK LEADER.
>set up a night to receive all the sacraments as a single liturgy
>ONE RITUS COULD BE AN OPEN THANATOLOGY CLASS.
Vivisection 101?
>OFFER TO TEST THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE DRAGON'S CHILDER AND TO ADD TO IT, SO YOU KNOW WHERE TO TAKE THEM IN THE NEXT CLASSES. VAULDERIES AREN'T JUST ABOUT YOU, THEY ARE A WAY TO STRENGTHEN THE SECT MORE BROADLY. THIS LITURGY WILL ALLOW PARTICIPANTS TO DISCUSS FURTHER BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BETWEEN THEM.
>a liturgy and a party~
And the part where I'm supposed to transcend my non-freakish body into full freakdom?
>tell the elder you always thought metamorphosis was a very personal journey, that this lowly larva already took its very first steps into the discovery of the art, and if the elder wishes to accelerate said journey to make it 'less individual and more collective', then perhaps we could discuss classes where you learn to craft the flesh of others, which could also be taught by any of her childer
You were a professional saleswoman for bridges before being ghouled, Lianhua!
>close

>>98689846
she aint, seems like the voices have taken her again

kitten has it bad with ghosting and patterns. god. id fucking hate having a dutchman talk through me.

price we pay for having a semi-regular seer
which she pays. only her. real badly.

>>98690090
>>98690085
pretty sure we got ourselves some antriboys. kept a nail on the pulse of things over there and the usual prerogatives for a den under defacto sabbat territory is vietcong shit. even after everything is 'claimed' for a while. no offense but your side of mexi has fallen before and the expectation is that it will fall again.

same deal upstairs on our side of the carribean. 'cept it aint just us downstairs, its old maroons.

if i can spill it ill see what i can pull, would like to be the one pulling bounties for once. otherwise assume theres a power struggle somewhere under mex i cant get involved in.

>>98691546
you could just get someone else to embrace her. sure sure, you get one of us to do it and she'll hate your guts, but at least you aren't continuing your current dogwater bloodline.

>>98691605
>you could just get someone else to embrace her. sure sure, you get one of us to do it and she'll hate your guts, but at least you aren't continuing your current dogwater bloodline.
Embrace? Um, Rump? I think you misread some part of my post, so I'll rewrite it in easier language and with more context in case you missed something.

Thanatology is the SCIENTIFIC study of death, not to be confused with Necromancy. Kine coroners and forensic doctors know this stuff too.

The letter is from a vampire of Main Clan Tzimisce, very likely to be an Elder because most Domains this side of Europe are under the control of Lasombra if Sabbat, or Ventrue or Toreador if Cammy, so Tzimisce here tend to be old and aloof - the usual 'Autarkis in denial.'

She wants to send her childer over to me for their education, and offers to make me a new body as payment. I'm not sure if these Cainites are on the Path of Death and the Soul or the Path of Metamorphosis, or a third Path of Enlightenment told in DE BESTIA CATENATA.

The voices in my head think I should accept the invitation by that Ventrue Antitribu Ductus who asked me in DMs to formally join the Sabbat, and spend my unlife in an ex-church, destined to become a "fortress, shelter, command centre and temple of the Sword of Caine."

Zoryana suggests reaching out to a Bishop, or higher 'Cainite of the cloth', and to use my arrival to this new haven not simply for an initiation into the cult, but also to stage a larger set of Ritae, including an open class on thanatology, extending the invitation to said Tzimisce Elder and many more Cainites. A bigger event and party.

I am not very excited at having my body manhandled by said Tzimisce Elder, but Lianhua thinks that, rather than refuse, it would be wiser for me to present myself as an eager novice of Vicissitude, and also the kind that would prefer to "transform herself" rather than have others do it for her.

I don't want to give anyone the Embrace at the moment.

>>98691744
>I don't want to give anyone the Embrace at the moment.
nor should ya. apology tho, thats a lot on the plate and i thought it was the ghoul pushing.

you are in over your head with all this shit lotus. necromancers and flesh boys and fuckin venice.

this shit? this is why i wanna stay in my cave with my crab and my haitian cigars.

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>>98691763
>you are in over your head with all this shit lotus. necromancers and flesh boys and fuckin venice.
Unlife in Europe is hard on dem kids my man, we have to play the hand we are dealt. Let's say I found a nice cave to be a hikkikomori hermit in, there's just no way I'd be alone, who knows what horrors are waiting before I even set up the internet with Starlink?
>i thought it was the ghoul pushing.
Ha! If you think this is confusing, try living not with an internal monologue, but a dialogue (trialogue?) between three people!

Anyway Lianhua, who writes all lower case, just happened to have a loooooooooong history as a ghoul.
>what would you do if a ghoul of yours called you a "bwaby bwat" to your face?
Grab their shoulders and tear their body like a piece of paper?
>hahahaha i can't

>>98690081
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>>98690090
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>>98690096
You little shit. Is it you I have to blame for all the refugees and lost scouts from out west??? You have sent idea how many of mine own clan and others we’ve had to smuggle or find emergency housing gor here in San Antonio?! Fuck you! Status Quo is what it is FOR A DAMN REASON.

-primogen of the Lasombra of the principality of San Antonio.

My sire has to be fucking with me. She told me she's seriously considering embracing our very most annoying customer.

She's gotta be fucking with me...right?

>>98697290
Oh, so the Lasombra can follow the Masquerade when put to the lash? Interesting. In other news it appears the more mystic side of Chavez's supporters have ahh vanished into the shadows. A week now, maybe more and El Paso will be mine. Then the looting can truely begin. And I guess another set of Festivals. Soldiers have to eat and be paid. That's the first rule of raising an army.

>A Primogen
>A Lasombra Primogen
>Trying to lecture about the Status Quo
Who says the shadows don't have a sense of humor. But to help you fit in? To adjust to your Camarilla betters? Lower you fucking tone, ingrate.

>>98698400
Maybe the Lasombra just follow whoever is the greater power in their particular time and place?

Apparently a quarter of the country's Sabbat ecclesiarchy is currently verifying whether I have already received a valid Ritus of initiation into the Sword of Caine, and if no one issued its revocation. Phone calls, archives, messengers, searching for answers abroad, and so on. As much as I can respect this dedication to tradition, one that doesn't allow for one Cainite to be initiated twice, I still find this odd and amusing...

>>98698400
Listen here you little shit. I’m older than 75% of the sabbats legions by several centuries. I’ve been working in actual fucking shadows since the end of Hispania as a fucking province. I was one of my clan’s first leaders in the sabbat and seeing how it’s become an excuse to simply murder all the kine instead of lead them as our natural position behooves us against the threat that IS the antediluvians led me to take a siginificant portion of us out of Mexico and the border states and join the Cammies since they actually want to tend our flocks as we should. You have no idea the world of pain you’re in for kiddo. Your dead meat, su loco puta.

-Diego de la Sancha Panza Rivera Rodriguez de la Vera Cruz Martinez

>>98701203
Finally. Glad someone else gets it. Just a shame you jumped ship to Cammy Cocksucker Cuckolds instead of straightening out the Sabbat.

>>98701233
Respect to you, hijita of Caine, for you try and achieve the impossible. In my locale, we reached the critical threshold of too many “shovelheads” or “murderhobos” as I’ve heard the youth call them. At that point it just becomes like the Aztecs when I first arrived here under Cortes, but significantly less flair and heirarchy. Every good shepherd knows you kill and cull the weak and sick and only harvest what is needed as needed. Honestly I think if the sabbat just recruited more people of the land, salt of the earth types, rural farm folk, a lot of these issues would be abated and yall would see progress.

Besides, I had a good prince until these past few years. A “sane” malkavian, if ever there was one. Twas only until he was killed by a damn lucky hunter that we got our princljng from the unbearable “clan of kings”. Honestly if it weren’t for their “dignitas” and their need to uphold their superiority, I wouldn’t mind working with them more. This guy though, a 10th generation fledgling, “reassigned” to here after his last domain’s council of primogen more or less declared a blood hunt on him for giving quarter to a known sabbat bishop. He said the guy was trustworthy. His sheriff, harpies, and two elysia were firebombed in sabbat attacks. I’ve been dealing with his incompetence for a half decade more and am slowly winning the others over to deal with him. Having the sheriff as a friend helps immensely. Fortune to you hijita of Caine. Should we ever meet, may it not be in battle, for kindred need more like us.

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>>98698474
I'm in boys. It's happening.

The Creation Rite did happen and is still valid. The Cardinal had to call his counterpart in another continent. Yes, Spider Lily's shinobi are a Sabbat pack, the Drowned Sun, and Tsuizen was the officiating Pack Priest. Aaaand they forbid me from talking about them any further. I don't blame them.

This is no longer just about me, or this pack, it's way bigger. The Cardinal wants to oversee the inauguration of the new temple, to get that one city back (don't worry Tabby, it's not yours, pat pat) and "the Ritae not to be fucked up", in his own sternly written, emailed words. He sounded incredibly pissed.

At long last, my Sire Marco gave me a kiss. Ouch. Then a pile of scrolls and this drawing before I left Venice.

"Hina", huh...

Will I ever see Marco and this fetid city ever again, I wonder?

Hey, Neonate here. Everyone says I’ve gotta leave my old life behind but what’s stopping me from just making my wife a ghoul? We’ve been happily married for 15 years and I drink her blood anyway. Will the blood bond even be noticeable?

>>98701787
I tried that once. It was in the early medieval, before the death of our antediluvian and the sabbat starting. There was more understanding of gender roles, so me only getting home at dark was no issue. Juanita was her name. Hair as dark as whitby jet and eyes as blue as the skies. A long descended daughter of the visigoths, she must’ve been. Made a fantastic jamon iberico. Eventually I revealed our masquerade or the dance as we called it in those times. She accepted me regardless. Never had chosen of course, but that was fine with her. Most of her family had issues with birth anyways, her mom dying shortly after her younger brother was born due to hemorrhaging. Eventually some rivals in my clan learned of her and she was embraced and turned wassail. As inhuman as I’ve been at times, nothing is as hard as having to hunt down one who loved you above all and you reciprocating that feeling. Do not do this young one. She will either be used against you, or you may discover horror beyond what the mind is willing to bare should you fall to La Bestia during a kiss. And should you embrace her, what’s to say she doesn’t try to consume you in hunger upon awakening to her nights. It’s a lose-lose situation. Vaya con Diós hijito.

>>98698429
Oh, maybe they are retards and backstabbers at a supernatural level? I hadn't considered that.

>>98701203
Sorry, can you say that again? I don't speak witch. Actually, I take that back. Are you saying that you're 1500 years old? Are you sure you're not Antidiluvian?

>>98701353
Have you considered stealing him?

>>98701965
Tabarin. We three are nominally on the same side. Behave.

>>98701965
Pendejo, the ante’s are all 6millenia old. 1500 us simply elder you idiot. That and the fact that my ante was actually destroyed by us unlike the other clans.

>>98702269
Maybe he’ll eventually see both have flaws someday. The folly of youth.

>>98691605
>pretty sure we got ourselves some antriboys
Cammies he ratfucked. Betchu a dollar.

>>98702262
Nope, I'm not messing with Clan Giovanni like that, and how would I even "steal" an Elder lol.

>>98702830
You just stake em an carry him out like a door you got off the hinge

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Guys this isn't funny! The spiriti are watching and they would find me, and the only reason I could throw him over my shoulder once is just because he deliberately let me. I'm actually lighter than a ragdoll in his hands.

I wouldn't do something like that to him even if I hated him. Besides, I need someone in Venice~

>>98702295
>OH I HATE THE ANTIDILUVIANS
>But I completely trust their numbers that place them conveniently before all of human history despite any and all evidence of ANY civilization that old being apocryphal at best.
Call me French, but make it make reason for me. What generation are you? Was your sire's sire antidilluvian? Are you really just in San Antonio? How many refuges were you saying you were receiving?

>>98702269
Who are you again?

Random question: can vampires fly? Asking for a friend.

>>98680039
bit late to the punch but gimmie a look down at mex for me would ya? dont know how effective itll be with the way malks get but you got a lot of notches in the old rifle

notches in the skull? whatever. youll get it eventually.

>>98702321
juicier.

im gonna wait on MC-SEC and the ILLUMINATUS boys get back to me. tell me how much gets clearance
what are the odds tabby and the lasom rejects would light this powder keg?

>>98697418
roll a d6. on a 4-6 she might be. on a 2-3 shes doing it to probe. on a 1 shes serious.

>>98703071
you got an aircraft?

>>98703396
>you got an aircraft?
Grrrrr!!!
You know what I meant!!! And I meant unassisted flight without the use of human- or Cainite-made vehicles!!! A Cainite flying on their own power like a bat or a bird files, or using some kind of levitation!!!!!

>>98703414
i know im fuckin hilarious
but if you wanna be legitimate? gargoyles are where you'd go. normally the dirtbag wizards keep em locked up, and garg maroons keep tight lips to avoid being paid visits. but we got a little allemande in the thread who might be willing to share.

cause i sure as shit wanna keep my feet on the ground.

>>98703448
Gargoyles? Yes, they would fit in a church actually. Well, ON a church, rather. But it sounds like they were created from scratch to be able to fly.
Can more mainstream Cainite bloodlines learn to fly too, I wonder?

>>98703468
information has a price. but i'll give you a hint for free; they were made to fly but that ability was more amorphous than the wizards would ever admit. of course, those wings are a massive breach so unless you, say, already stay out of sight they have a price.

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>>98703071
HAHA YES WE CAN

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>>98703586

>>98703586
...

>are you winning, seiren?
Not you too!!!!

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>>98703071
I can't believe you're asking this question when the answer is obvious.

>>98703675
I haven't seen it, that's why I asked.

>>98703675
>>98703682
How many protean boys even do that? only guy i knew with it just turned into a pig and attacked golfers

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I'm pretty sure that's not street legal~ Naughty, naughty boy~

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This sense of freedom I get from traveling with the pack, it's something that could never be wiped from my memory.

Oh how lovely. Another witless dolt tricked with promises of Freedom falls into the clutches of the Sabbat!
But which Sabbat will it be?! Shall we draw from the metaphorical FUCKING BINGO BALL ROLLER FOR IT!?

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Time to reinforce the ex-church!
>>98705981
>Another witless dolt
I'm not witless! I'm hopeless! Hmph!
>tricked with promises of Freedom
I wasn't tricked either!
The "me before my memories were erased" was already part of the Sabbat. The villainess Spider Lily kept a pack of shinobi around in secret to act as her agents, but also as a plan B in case the main clan Giovanni were to wage war on the rest of Clan Hecata, she would escape with them and seek refuge in the Sabbat where Harbingers and other Necromancers were before the Family Reunion, which she endorsed.

Spider Lily chose me for the experiment that grafted what's left of Zoryana and Lianhua into me because "I didn't exist" save for some almost inaccessible archive of the Sword of Caine.
>which Sabbat will it be?
Given who invited me, if I don't get immediately thrown into the ranks of the Inquisition - way too soon for that, isn't it? - then whichever part of the Sabbat is nearest to it, and to the older Cainites attending and overseeing the Ritae, I think.
>the metaphorical FUCKING BINGO BALL ROLLER
O gacha of the metaphors, what is thy wisdom?

>>98708183
>I'm not witless! I'm hopeless! Hmph!
INCORRECT THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE AS LONG AS ONE HAS FLINT AND TINDER

>Given who invited me, if I don't get immediately thrown into the ranks of the Inquisition - way too soon for that, isn't it? - then whichever part of the Sabbat is nearest to it, and to the older Cainites attending and overseeing the Ritae, I think.
POSSIBLE- NOT NECESSARILY CORRECT

True Liberation requires... More. Lest I find myself regurgitating truths with far too many metaphysical Lupine/Ennoio-Dharmic functions hidden in metaphors, "What Is" is a bunch of BOLOGNEY. NOT THE SHITTY SAUSAGE OR THE ITALIAN CITY. That Knight. For some reason HE was the only one to achieve it. Willingly.
I was dragged over that particular finish line and dunked in the bin. But I'll take it. Now shall you?

>O gacha of the metaphors, what is thy wisdom?
Hnnnng. Painful to summon this but >>98689627 hit the funny brain blast button. If you aren't possesed. Or whatever. Very busy with rituals right now.

ALSO IF YOU COVET MY PACK SIBLINGS WINGS I WILL FEED YOU TO THE SPIRIT OF MY SORCERER FLAMETHROWER

>IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE, LI LIANHUA.
>same, thank you from the bottom of my heart, zoryana solomiya sangushko

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>>98708357
>True Liberation requires... More. Lest I find myself regurgitating truths with far too many metaphysical Lupine/Ennoio-Dharmic functions hidden in metaphors, "What Is" is a bunch of BOLOGNEY. NOT THE SHITTY SAUSAGE OR THE ITALIAN CITY. That Knight. For some reason HE was the only one to achieve it. Willingly.
>I was dragged over that particular finish line and dunked in the bin. But I'll take it. Now shall you?
*ahem* ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT!?

So anyway, the Cardinal said we had to wear our best clothes tonight and pic related was my best attempt.

The Tzimisce Elder was the first on the scene, she had huuuuge bat wings and she wrapped my body immediately and inspected every nook and cranny of me, she knew Vicissitude was already used on it.

The first fight of the night was a friendly sparring session without weapons or disciplines between the inviting pack, the five Crimson Host of the Empty Throne vs us, the four shinobi of the Drowned Sun, a series of 1v1 fights (the former pack's "mystic" didn't participate to make it fair).

Our Ductus Kuyou, while victorious, was a good sportsman and acknowledged the Host's raw ferocity and formless aggression, breaking our disciplined patterns and tempos... but I couldn't see any of that! Because I was wrestling Callaina, the Follower of CAINE, a clash of snake versus octopus!

The Cardinal had this large dark cloud-thing to protect the Rites from unwanted external observers.

I found the Fire Dance pretty unexciting, I took off my clothes for obvious reasons, Koldunism made me unafraid of the bonfire. The same can't be said for a couple of hotheaded younglings, and that was the second fight, they both lost and ended as test subjects in my thanatology class.

During my class, the Tzimisce students were invited to use Vicissitude to simulate the temporal stages of a corpse's decomposition: discoloration, rigidity, swelling, and so on according to my instructions and some illustrated books I had...

>>98708614
I will put it blunt and stupid for you then.
You are about to run through another bend for another set of fools who expect you to dance to their tune.
There is not right or wrong here. Only (YOU).

And whether or not you'll continue to be a thrall or else grasp that thing the Sabbat preens itself on. And rarely provides.

Take it from an errant spawn of House Goratrix.

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let's see what we have here
v aura doesn't register as cainite
v hears "the voices"
v stupid amount of disciplines learned in no time
v possessed
getting somewhere
now come on give me something good
>>98542716
>if you're going to survive this year, you'll also need to learn yet another form of Blood Sorcery."
ah yes this is what exactly i was looking for
magnificent
i should thank you, rakka, or asano seiren, for becoming our ticket into the inquisition
unfortunately we won't be able to use your vitae during my pack's anointing
i should throw this one too into the fire i guess, what a waste of a good phone

but the better question is how did the rest of your pack vanish
>>98705554
a kawasaki, of course
but nope it's still in the parking lot
we'll figure that one out with your help, asano seiren, am i right?
we're all on the same side after all

>>98708665
>who expect you to dance to their tune
oh believe me she'll dance alright
dance and sing, mainly sing in fact
and tell the cardinal everything she knows, even everything she forgot

right
asano seiren
it's time for you to say goodbye to the nosferat's "secret" message board
do it for me too will you

that's all folks
- vespro, ductus of the crimson host of the empty throne

>>98689627
>Don't mistake the hungry Childer for the little Scribe. Don't mistake the Serpent swallowing the sun for the Dragon of the Night. Don't forget. Don't forget. Don't forget.
Hell.

>>98689846
YOU! DO NOT HURL YOURSELF IN THE DRINK AGAIN OR I'LL DRAIN EVERY CANAL IN THE PREFECTURE!

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>>98708707
GET JUICED IN TWO WEEKS
MUPPET CREATURE

>>98708770
The World of Darkness claims another victim...

>>98708707
Seiren?

>>98709009
She's dead, Jim.

>>98708945
I'd figured. Works as Sorc screaming at the fact.

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>THREAD QUESTION
Can you stop killing innocents?

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>>98688434
>So, to sneak off successfully we'll need to disable the radar tower. That will be up to wise Mèo-Mèo and our valiant OldBlood
I took a pickaxe to it like Wilfred Brimley in The Thing! It'll be days before they can track anything!

>>98711196

I'm offended. I'm out here day in and day out, working hard. I'm rebuilding cities, and you want me to think about the innocent? You don't think about the GUILTY enough. YOU LET WITCHES walk the streets, You let vanity become your byword. Here I am
>EVERYDAY
>'ate Witches
>luv me Clan
>Simple as

But I am pleased to announce, my complete victory in El Paso, and the resumption of the Princehood, under the Traditions of the Camarilla and my own guidence. Those Sabbat vampires who are currently residing in or near El Paso, Who have not opposed me, Who are not Witches nor Dabble in Witchery, Subtle Arts, Malfeant Persuasion, who acknowledge me and wisomd I bring, and the Traditions that I impliment in the name of the Camarilla will be permitted to continue their business, shall be granted feeding grounds, shall be treated as honoured members of my family.
>And I open El-Paso to my Camirilla Brothers.
Of Course, some considerations will be given to our existing soldiers. The looting shall be going to my warchests, Those who invested and supported me.
>In Can Ventrue and a surprising amount of Malkavian Independant Investments shall be rewarded by me richly and directly.

I shall also be undoing the strangeness of the civic board. El Paso and Juarez shall be ruled as one.
>They are Mine.

It's a new day brothers. The Combined Polity of El Juarez is the Fifth largest urban center in the Americas and growing. Investment will bring people, and people and money are easy for our kindred. There is no reason for senseless brutality and I will personally bring the safety, the growth, the blood of the land that we thrive on.
>And I will give it out
To my Clan, To the Camarilla, To the Sabbat Packs that Rally to Me, To whoever Hates Witchcraft and loves Peace and Order. We understandible, rebuilding phase. My Parilament stands injured.

But now we feast.


>GET JUICED IN TWO WEEKS
>MUPPET CREATURE

>>98712264
And you might be wondering
>Where is Chavez, where is that Bishop of Industry, that Holy Avenger of the Sabbat?
I guess you can say I am doing an experiment. When his last stronghold fell, when his last defenders were slaughtered. He ran and hid.
>Hid in the safe's that he was so proud of.
So I simply turned the dial on him. Grandly enough, I have every account, every password, every black book, every falisifed record. It's all mine.

I guess my experiment, now that his defenders are dead and his Abyss Mystics seem to have abandoned him, is this. While his Clan the Lasombra have great captivity of Shadows and other WItchery. Can there truely be a Shadow in total darkness? I have had the safe where he is locked in, I have had it moved. I have had it encased, I have had it buried. I'll spare you the details.

Everything that this so called titan of the Sabbat has is mine. What's left is reduced to five little numbers. 0.0000

That is the industrial scales housing his coffin. If mass suddenly goes missing from the safe, or even if its not exactly exchanged, I'll know. If he moves, I know. I watch it now.

>0.0000 At rest
>0.0012 His trapped pacing
>0.0124 His pathetic fury
>0.0001 His Weaping
>0.0000 and then his silence.

Truthfully, I had expected a fight. But he had expended too many troops, In avoiding defeat he has lost. I sometimes think of putting how long he can last before going torpid on a predction market but that might be too far even for me.

>>98702295
Oh hey Diego, Now that we are a Camarilla city again
>Well, I like to think of it as Camarilla+
We should try to normalize the flow of kindred. While I have no particular love of Lasombra, the other clans could begin moving in (and frankly, less mouthes to feed on your end, are just less mouths to feed). It's only 888 miles between us. Practically sharing the same saddle as they say.

>>98712347
Chavez is Lasombra?

>>98712505
Does his being Lasombra have anything to do with reports of
"Tapeworms made of hands."
Wreaking havoc all over the new Camarilla Domain.

>>98712990
Blatherskites.

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Hahaha, what a mighty beast we’ve stolen! Vast and loud, twin engines howling thunderously, it’s something I truly have to try to hide. Even given the internal fuel tanks, the cargo hold is vast enough to hold us, a large off-road truck of sorts, spare fuel and other supplies, and, frankly, could hold another serving of all of that! With a thing like this, once we find the forest, we could offer to relocate it to another continent, nearly. And to think of what sort of armaments we could’ve installed, had we the time, tools and funds..

That said, we’ll probably have to sell this thing if we do not wreck it or lose it, and if there’s any interested customers here, be sure to say so! Given the fuel capacity, we could probably fly it over to nearly any American state with a few pit stops. I am frankly speaking unsure who, in this day and age, could afford to maintain an airfleet with one of those in it, but, hey, why not cast the net out.
Now, onto the acquisition!

>[Taiga Trawling - Update 5!]
>The operation had three major elements.
>Element one; distraction courtesy of our charming and vicious Victoria, and our bold and affable Che.
>Element two; creation of opportunity courtesy of our wise and merciful Mèo-Mèo, and our ever-adaptive and valiant OldBlood.
>Element three; utilization of opportunity, courtesy of our heroic and laconic H0T, and me.
>And element four when we pick everybody up and run away but, you know, that’s kind of secondary, and things really work better when ordered in threes.
>I believe it would be proper to let my companions detail their parts of our helicopter heist, if they wish to do so to any degree, whether OldBlood’s laconic summary or my sort of rambling nonsense. While this is somewhat out of chronological order, it is against my clan’s passed-down mindset to hog the spotlight, plus, more practically, I was mostly an outside observer to the elements one and two.
>As for my part and H0T’s…

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>>98714048
That isn't the beast, by the way, it's just a location photo. Plain planes are less convenient than helicopters, anyhow.

>Getting to the correct hangar was not very difficult. Yellowknife has a respectably-sized airport, for such a small city, but it’s still rather small and has windows in its operation. It’s also fundamentally a very deserted runway area with occasional landing and taking-off planes and helicopters, if any, and some hangars and an airport building, and the night was dark.
>Plus, I am a Nosferatu, and for all of Victoria’s rightful criticisms, I am fairly old and have spent my time honing Obfuscation.
>So me and my mute leader moved in the dark, oh-so-quiet and oh-so-invisible, making sure to tread lightly still, in case of supernatural observers. Quite the bit of stealth!
>It even worked for a bit, up until one of the closer, less important hangars had a spotlight turn on suddenly. A large thing - frankly, you could imagine it being used to blind incoming air traffic. Terribly irresponsible to operate such a thing, and to shine it along the empty, flat grounds near the fairly non-threatening-looking fence surrounding the entire airport.
>Far from us, as we were on the grounds themselves, but unpleasant, especially as it seemed to follow our trail!
>Solid five minutes of walking behind, but still.
>With the spotlight in the field, we moved quickly, striding through the uncut grass.
>Rich, tall grass. It had the most faint scent of vitae to it; a faintest, tiniest whiff I’ve come to realize lingers in the air this north, but only barely.
>By comparison, the dull, dreary and square hangar was a welcome, concrete reprieve.
>We found a side entrance, with some violence disabled a mid-smoke-break guard (which I would feel bad about, but he had the aura of a killer to him, so I am only moderately displeased, really) and snuck in with his keycard.
>The inside was a hangar alive with work.

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>>98714072
>Excessive light, a couple dozen air techs, and one major project: maintenance of the soon-to-be-ours beast of a bird.
>Other, lesser craft were carefully pushed to the sides to give the most space to this one. From all sights, especially the air techs reattaching some paneling, but primarily the sheer quantities of grease, spare parts and tools, they must’ve been marathoning an overhaul of the thing and were mostly done.
>But there were oddities to the scene. A complete lack of chatter, for one; no thick scent of coffee, spilled energy drinks or poorly-warmed-up, questionably-digestible food; the hangar was alive with work, but alive much the same way a plastic plant appears to be alive and does part of the job of a potted plant.
>Exceptionally unnerving, immediately obviously inherently wrong, and it immediately sabotaged most of our plans for acquiring the helicopter.
>They revolved around baiting the repair techs out with the planned distraction, or, if that fails, causing a power outage, and then dismantling them one by one to minimize anybody seeing me or my canine companion. Quick, efficient, functional, and compatible with how air techs normally are in the middle of a night during high-intensity overtime. Except these were obviously abnormal.
>Their aura had a putrid stench to it, but lesser, not at all like the radiant and absurd glare of Christiansen. The sensory equivalent of, perhaps, a rusty, dirty nail embedded in a man’s foot until the injury festers, rots, and gives him tetanus, his arms tensed tight and his jaw crushing his teeth.
>We did not get to stare at the air techs or our quarry for long. I tried to suggest to H0T a plan of action, something relating to cutting the power and then leaving a false trail to make the air techs, who’d presumably suspect foul play, follow nobody into nowhere. Around the middle of my pantomime attempt at explaining it, fifteen ceiling spotlights shined right at us.
>While we were invisible.