I received a call from the Senechal, to go to investigate a case of Masquerade rupture at a Night Club. I went to the scence, rendevouz with my coleage (Luigi) and get into the scene of the crime.
To say that it was a masacre would be an understatement. Everything was covered in blood, and there where people in pieces all around the club.
First things first, I searched around looking for supernatural beings. I didn't find any "dead" Cainite, but found two interesting bounties: a dead Mage and a dead Lupine.
Searching the dead Mage, I found a very curious necklace, which I slipped into my pocket.
Using my powers I managed to reconstruct the whole scene:
There were two too-young-to-be-here girls drinking a the bar. One of them (long haired, with a white shirt and a skirt, named Mandy) was very nervous, and the other was trying to cheer her up. Suddenly Mandy saw two males approaching. To the disgrace of her friend, Mandy was a vampire, and got into frenzy almost inmediately, killing her (I bet it was unintentionally).
She then focused her attention on the two males, and started running to them, slashing everyone in her path.
One of the two males, wearing a long black coat (the Mage) removed the necklace I found from the other male and ordered him to attack. Inmediatelly, the other guy (the Lupine) got into Krynos form and ran towards her.
But instead of a dead Mandy, the result was a dead Lupine. Mandy killed him with but one single slash from her claws, without even stopping her march towards the Mage.
The Mage, after seeing this, threw some fire ball towards her, but she didn't suffer any visible injury. And shortly the mage was a corpse.
After all the killing, she just went out using the front door.
I also discovered that the necklace can be used to supress the Lupines, to prevent them from transforming and make them docile. I wonder if it can be used on vampires to the same effect.
I called the Seneschal, the Princess and the Regent to inform what happened here (I "forgot" to mention to the Princess and to the Seneschal the necklace that seems to pacify Lupines).
Then, out of nowhere (actually, from the first floor) an Obfuscated Kindred falled down the ceiling. I think that she was a writer here not long time ago. She told us that there were some "intruders" in the building.
Just a second afterwards, two lupines appeared in the scene. The first one was not a problem, as it just floated upside-down in the middle of the club. After making sure that a vast supply of water was available (throught the fire prevention system), the second one was soon trapped in a water cage. The "dead" lupine started to move (obviously it was not dead enough).
I started to flex my muscles to test the necklace, but (Luigi) appeared and killed all three lupines. You can always count on Gangrels to do the things in the most primal way possible.
(Luigi) and the other kindred went up to see if there were more of them, but if they were, they left.
The "reinforcements" arrived, and at that very time a La Sombra did his entrance, obscuring everything, removing the bodies and fleeing, killing several humans in the process (due the cloud of darkness).
After this little scene, the Gangrel primogen unmasked an Obfuscate Kindred (well, unmasked to those of us with the proper level of power), and demanded him to present to the Princess. He "gently" offered to escorty him personally. An offer the stranger could not refuse.
We all went to the Elysium to talk to the Princess. On the road, I called the Regent to suggest her that it was the interest of the Chantry for her to be present.
We arrived to the Elysium, went through the usual procedures, and ended up in the Princess private offices. I feel rather proud with the design and building of this structure: Tremere Thaumaturgy at it finest to guarantee the Princess security, second only to the protections of the Chantry in Vienna.
The Princess introduced us to a very peculiar person: He called himself "Boss", and is suposely the head of an organization that overwatches the supernatural beings to prevent them from overuling (or destroying) the world. Remembering some of the big botches made by mages, the masacres made by Lupines and the continuous "parties" made by the Sabbat (not to mention the very existence of the Midnight Circus), I can see that they are a very "effective" organization.
Afterwards, the Princess asked me (who else) what happened, so I gave her a nearly complete recount of the events, and asked her to bring someone to make a spoken picture of Mandy. Then the Boss told us that we will work for him now (no choices given) and that our first priority was to find and perhaps neutralize Mandy. We will move and live in the organizations headquarters from now on. Also he told us that they retrieved a Lupine corpse from the scene, so I will have the chance to check it out. Nice.
As a sidenote, the organization is called "Helsing". Did these human have absolutely no creativity?
Anyway, short afterward the Nosferatu Primogen came by along with his "sidekick" (both as ugly as ever... Sometimes I wish I was not this powerful so I could be spared of that vision). His sidekick ended up being a top-noch artist, and with a little telephatic sending he draw a perfect picture of Mandy. The Senechal and the Nosferatus will work based on that picture to locate Mandy.
Where is my Childe? She should have been here by now.
When we went out, something felt very, very wrong. As soon as the first of us went out, we where ambushed: Four police cars and a black car where outside, and a dozen of police officers pointing guns at us started to shoot. Given that the Seneschal, the Nosferatu Primogen and our newly arrived vampire are quite good at combat, I concentrated on the car. It was not difficult to project my mind there, and I saw to bald figures with snakes tatoo. My first though: Setites (man, I hate them nearly as much as I hate Assamites or Baalis). But as I was preparing to kill them both, our new arrival and the reporter took care of them (you got to admit, Celerity is a handy discipline to have). Predictably, all the police officers were also finished.
But then, something very curious happened: The police officers started to rise again. Ghouls? I really didn't care too much at the time, and I was a little upset, so they burned. And burned. And then burned some more.
When the fire was extinguished, I noticed that the skeletons of the officers had metal plates in them, and a clock-like thing in the belly. This doesn't look good.
From time to time I called my Childe, but she never answered. I couldn't locate her with my powers, so she must be in the Chantry. Or is she?
We then went to "Helsing" HQ. A subterranean complex.. I would have never imagine.
Inside the complex, there are a lot of other supernatural creatures. I hope none of them try to demostrate "who is the best".
Finally, I had the chance to examine the corpse of the Lupine. To my surprise, I found the same kind of metal plating and clock-like mechanism. After a little sensing of the plates, I saw that they were implanted in a vert.. crude... surgical room. I feel anger and frustration. But I can not discern where this room is.
This does not bode well. Whoever is implanting this things may control any supernatural creature. And they have the means to subdue a Lupine.I'll need to talk to Vienna on this.
I tried again to contact my Childe. Still not responding. I'm starting to worry.
Last thing I tried was to locate Mandy. I could not. There are only two possible explanations to that: either she is in an untraceable place, or she is by herself untraceable. Both explanations are troublesome.
We'll see what happens tomorrow.
To say that it was a masacre would be an understatement. Everything was covered in blood, and there where people in pieces all around the club.
First things first, I searched around looking for supernatural beings. I didn't find any "dead" Cainite, but found two interesting bounties: a dead Mage and a dead Lupine.
Searching the dead Mage, I found a very curious necklace, which I slipped into my pocket.
Using my powers I managed to reconstruct the whole scene:
There were two too-young-to-be-here girls drinking a the bar. One of them (long haired, with a white shirt and a skirt, named Mandy) was very nervous, and the other was trying to cheer her up. Suddenly Mandy saw two males approaching. To the disgrace of her friend, Mandy was a vampire, and got into frenzy almost inmediately, killing her (I bet it was unintentionally).
She then focused her attention on the two males, and started running to them, slashing everyone in her path.
One of the two males, wearing a long black coat (the Mage) removed the necklace I found from the other male and ordered him to attack. Inmediatelly, the other guy (the Lupine) got into Krynos form and ran towards her.
But instead of a dead Mandy, the result was a dead Lupine. Mandy killed him with but one single slash from her claws, without even stopping her march towards the Mage.
The Mage, after seeing this, threw some fire ball towards her, but she didn't suffer any visible injury. And shortly the mage was a corpse.
After all the killing, she just went out using the front door.
I also discovered that the necklace can be used to supress the Lupines, to prevent them from transforming and make them docile. I wonder if it can be used on vampires to the same effect.
I called the Seneschal, the Princess and the Regent to inform what happened here (I "forgot" to mention to the Princess and to the Seneschal the necklace that seems to pacify Lupines).
Then, out of nowhere (actually, from the first floor) an Obfuscated Kindred falled down the ceiling. I think that she was a writer here not long time ago. She told us that there were some "intruders" in the building.
Just a second afterwards, two lupines appeared in the scene. The first one was not a problem, as it just floated upside-down in the middle of the club. After making sure that a vast supply of water was available (throught the fire prevention system), the second one was soon trapped in a water cage. The "dead" lupine started to move (obviously it was not dead enough).
I started to flex my muscles to test the necklace, but (Luigi) appeared and killed all three lupines. You can always count on Gangrels to do the things in the most primal way possible.
(Luigi) and the other kindred went up to see if there were more of them, but if they were, they left.
The "reinforcements" arrived, and at that very time a La Sombra did his entrance, obscuring everything, removing the bodies and fleeing, killing several humans in the process (due the cloud of darkness).
After this little scene, the Gangrel primogen unmasked an Obfuscate Kindred (well, unmasked to those of us with the proper level of power), and demanded him to present to the Princess. He "gently" offered to escorty him personally. An offer the stranger could not refuse.
We all went to the Elysium to talk to the Princess. On the road, I called the Regent to suggest her that it was the interest of the Chantry for her to be present.
We arrived to the Elysium, went through the usual procedures, and ended up in the Princess private offices. I feel rather proud with the design and building of this structure: Tremere Thaumaturgy at it finest to guarantee the Princess security, second only to the protections of the Chantry in Vienna.
The Princess introduced us to a very peculiar person: He called himself "Boss", and is suposely the head of an organization that overwatches the supernatural beings to prevent them from overuling (or destroying) the world. Remembering some of the big botches made by mages, the masacres made by Lupines and the continuous "parties" made by the Sabbat (not to mention the very existence of the Midnight Circus), I can see that they are a very "effective" organization.
Afterwards, the Princess asked me (who else) what happened, so I gave her a nearly complete recount of the events, and asked her to bring someone to make a spoken picture of Mandy. Then the Boss told us that we will work for him now (no choices given) and that our first priority was to find and perhaps neutralize Mandy. We will move and live in the organizations headquarters from now on. Also he told us that they retrieved a Lupine corpse from the scene, so I will have the chance to check it out. Nice.
As a sidenote, the organization is called "Helsing". Did these human have absolutely no creativity?
Anyway, short afterward the Nosferatu Primogen came by along with his "sidekick" (both as ugly as ever... Sometimes I wish I was not this powerful so I could be spared of that vision). His sidekick ended up being a top-noch artist, and with a little telephatic sending he draw a perfect picture of Mandy. The Senechal and the Nosferatus will work based on that picture to locate Mandy.
Where is my Childe? She should have been here by now.
When we went out, something felt very, very wrong. As soon as the first of us went out, we where ambushed: Four police cars and a black car where outside, and a dozen of police officers pointing guns at us started to shoot. Given that the Seneschal, the Nosferatu Primogen and our newly arrived vampire are quite good at combat, I concentrated on the car. It was not difficult to project my mind there, and I saw to bald figures with snakes tatoo. My first though: Setites (man, I hate them nearly as much as I hate Assamites or Baalis). But as I was preparing to kill them both, our new arrival and the reporter took care of them (you got to admit, Celerity is a handy discipline to have). Predictably, all the police officers were also finished.
But then, something very curious happened: The police officers started to rise again. Ghouls? I really didn't care too much at the time, and I was a little upset, so they burned. And burned. And then burned some more.
When the fire was extinguished, I noticed that the skeletons of the officers had metal plates in them, and a clock-like thing in the belly. This doesn't look good.
From time to time I called my Childe, but she never answered. I couldn't locate her with my powers, so she must be in the Chantry. Or is she?
We then went to "Helsing" HQ. A subterranean complex.. I would have never imagine.
Inside the complex, there are a lot of other supernatural creatures. I hope none of them try to demostrate "who is the best".
Finally, I had the chance to examine the corpse of the Lupine. To my surprise, I found the same kind of metal plating and clock-like mechanism. After a little sensing of the plates, I saw that they were implanted in a vert.. crude... surgical room. I feel anger and frustration. But I can not discern where this room is.
This does not bode well. Whoever is implanting this things may control any supernatural creature. And they have the means to subdue a Lupine.I'll need to talk to Vienna on this.
I tried again to contact my Childe. Still not responding. I'm starting to worry.
Last thing I tried was to locate Mandy. I could not. There are only two possible explanations to that: either she is in an untraceable place, or she is by herself untraceable. Both explanations are troublesome.
We'll see what happens tomorrow.
Today I have received a letter from my Childe. The council has asked her to go to New York. It seems that the old Regent had an... argument with a Garou, and the Garou arguments were more convincing. Given that she is one of the Kindred with the ability to heal wounds (a Thaumaturgical Path that is nothing like the wonderful Salubri ability, but without equals among the Kindreds and which I spent decades developing), they want her to attend him.
She asked the Council for me to go with her, because the lack of a healthy Regent calls for a powerful and cunning Tremere for to keep the situation under control and I am the oldest of the Tremere in the continent (actually, I'm among the oldest in the Clan, one of the last survivors among the Magus from the House of Hermes that where in the birth of our glorious Clan). That was her argument: perfect, implacable and uncontestable.But I know she has another reason...
I know how much she suffered when I left her 50 years ago in Vienna, after 150 years roaming around the world but it was needed for her training that she severed her ties with me... or perhaps I was affraid to care too much about her. We live in a harsh world, in an even harsher society that seems refined and civilized but is, at the end, controlled by the Beast we have inside. She has to learn to survive without me... I have cheated dead for more than 1000 years, the time must be coming for me to have a fatal face to face encounter with the Reaper.
At the end, the Council agreed with her (did they?). Tomorrow I leave this god-forsaken city, to New York.
I'm back in New Orleans. It has been a year since I arrived to the city for the first time. I would have never imagine that what I though at first to be a simple mission to consolidate the Tremere influence in the city would become a frantic search around the world, following the shadow of a long forgotten myth. the Midnight Circus. We almost lost our existence, our very essence, almost becoming slaves for all the eternity. I still have daymares about the horrors and terrors that I witnessed, suffered and lived.
The idea of spending the eternity as a slave of the circus makes the prospect of having a sunbath at noon to be tempting and pleasurable.
I consider that my mission was accomplished: The Tremeres have improved their image at the Prince's eyes (which does not means that he trust us... nothing farther than the truth), we established several powerful "allies" that may prove to be be useful in the future, and the Vienna Chantry will send two Tremeres to help Alexandra strengthen the local Chantry.
Anyway, I long for the day I leave this city. There are very few kindreds, there is a very tense relationship with the faes, the Baron Samedi completely controls the (???), the Sabatts are always coming and going, waiting to perform a new strike, and so are the Garou. It's a disaster in the making.
I cannot perceive an interest in the other clans to strengthen their presence in the city, and that is understandable: the whole city smells decay. Old. As if the Time itself has trouble to go forward.
In short. the kindreds of this city are on their own, and the future is gloomy.
The idea of spending the eternity as a slave of the circus makes the prospect of having a sunbath at noon to be tempting and pleasurable.
I consider that my mission was accomplished: The Tremeres have improved their image at the Prince's eyes (which does not means that he trust us... nothing farther than the truth), we established several powerful "allies" that may prove to be be useful in the future, and the Vienna Chantry will send two Tremeres to help Alexandra strengthen the local Chantry.
Anyway, I long for the day I leave this city. There are very few kindreds, there is a very tense relationship with the faes, the Baron Samedi completely controls the (???), the Sabatts are always coming and going, waiting to perform a new strike, and so are the Garou. It's a disaster in the making.
I cannot perceive an interest in the other clans to strengthen their presence in the city, and that is understandable: the whole city smells decay. Old. As if the Time itself has trouble to go forward.
In short. the kindreds of this city are on their own, and the future is gloomy.
I reported to Vienna the existence of Immortals, and the existence of a Fairy Court in New Orleans.
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Today Melissa steeped over the line. She showed her powers in public to bully Mona (the youngest Kindred in the city) in front of the chantry. The end result is that Mona will now talk to the prince and accuse her of breaching the Masquerade,
of course following my subtle "advice". I doubt that the prince will
burn her for that, but will put her off-balance in this game of power.
I talked long with Alexandra about Melissa's behavior, and I know for sure that she talked long with Melissa about it. Now it's only a matter of time.
I tried to find Alex and the immortal, but I'm still new to the city. Definitively I have to expand my influence somehow.
I talked long with Alexandra about Melissa's behavior, and I know for sure that she talked long with Melissa about it. Now it's only a matter of time.
I tried to find Alex and the immortal, but I'm still new to the city. Definitively I have to expand my influence somehow.
Today I learned that there are another kind of supernatural creatures
in the world: They call themselves Inmortals. They have true immortality, not like our curse. Their aura has very bright colors, and is swirling with energy.Had we found them before, we Tremeres
would not be cursed by the beast.
I need to capture one of them to study, or send him to Vienna.
Another vampire was killed. The crime seems to be related to the one last night. Who killed them is still a mystery, but there are several hypothesis. It could be a personal vendetta against the city Brujah's, an immortal demon hunter, or one of the fairies.
That last possibility send chills down my spine. I remember very well the elfs with their flaming swords and portentous presence. They're not a lot to be taken easily.
I need to capture one of them to study, or send him to Vienna.
Another vampire was killed. The crime seems to be related to the one last night. Who killed them is still a mystery, but there are several hypothesis. It could be a personal vendetta against the city Brujah's, an immortal demon hunter, or one of the fairies.
That last possibility send chills down my spine. I remember very well the elfs with their flaming swords and portentous presence. They're not a lot to be taken easily.
Today a vampire was killed. Who killed him is a mystery. The images collected by the Prince are those of a "Demon" with a "Flaming Sword"
Today the Archon came back. The Prince announced that he was going to help the Archon. As was expected, the Seneschal resigned to help him, Christine Bradox expressed her intent to go (of course, to be with the Prince without
all the princedom stuff), and Alexandra sent me "in the name of the
Tremere". All of the Primogen (except the Brujah, personal friend
of the prince) stating that they will stay in the city to "protect it". I'm sure that the Gangrel Primogen is not overthrown while traveling around the world.
The following days will be somehow slow and boring, but I hope thing will get more interesting as the time goes.
The following days will be somehow slow and boring, but I hope thing will get more interesting as the time goes.
