Browsing my notes, I noticed that I don't know the name of the Kindred
that came with us from the Night Club. For one reason or other, we
never managed to ask him his name, and he didn't want to give it to
us.... I respect that. Given that when asked who he was he said "no one
of importance", I will call him Nowan.
We meet with The Boss, and he told us that they have found Mandy's house. We agree that I, Viktor, Nowan, Andrea, Willy, Otto and two Brujah are going to Mandy's house.
The house is a normal house in a normal neighbor: Two stories, white picket fences, the typical American house.
Her mother opened the door. She seemed to be a normal housewife, albeit a little sad. She told us that Mandy is not at home, and that she don't know where she went. She is very worried about her.
Andrea started to ask the mother about Mandy. She told us that after the dead of Mandy's her grandfather has been helping them. She also told us that Mandy has been missing for two days now.
I left the others to talk to the mom and went upstairs, to Mandy's room. Again, it is the typical room for the typical teenager. As there was nothing unusual in the room, I rest myself in her bed, and concentrated....
Images of "unusual" manifestation came to my mind: Mandy burning in blue fire while sleeping, she talking with people that were not there, objects moving around here "without any explanation", she talking with people that is not there, or in a language that she shouldn't know.. Obviously, she is anything but a typical teenager. Very curious... in my first vision I saw her as a Kindred... could it be that she manage to keep her powers after being embraced? or is she a new kind of supernatural entity?
Two other images where also interesting: she (accidentally) killing her father, and an old man that is comforting her and talking to her several times. He must be the grandfather.
I returned where the mom was, just in time to hear that the "grandfather" not related to the family, but tried to help them when the father died. Curiously, there are no pictures of the father or the old man. The last time they saw the old man was about a year ago. When I inquired if anything unusual happens around Mandy, the mom turned pale white, and confessed that she is afraid of her.
I think that it was out of pity, but before leaving I modified the memories of the mom so she think that Mandy is ok, just went out with some friends and would be home soon.
Once we were outside Mandy's house, Nowan told us that Mandy's father was killed by her. How he knew that is beyond me... there is more of this guy than meets the eye.
When we were about to leave to the Elyssium, I received a very distressful vision: A house, apparently abandoned... A little Kindred girl... immortal fear... I know they come from her.... I know where this house is...
I asked the group to go to that mansion, just saying that the Tremere Regent is in danger. They must be used to our "tremerish secrecy" because they all accepted to go without any complains.
On the road, I called Mike to the hospital asking him for the birth records of Mandy, and asked Otto to produce a picture of the little Kindred girl. According to him, she came to the city not long ago, introduced herself to the Prince and went to hunt Sabbats. Nobody has seen her since.
Just before we arrived, Mandy's mother called and say that she has returned home. I phoned Viktor and told him that, so he can send a squad there. My mind was focused on the house, I was very worried about Bel. Has she being kidnapped? Is it possible to trespass the Chantry?
We reached the house, a three stories tall Victorian house outside the suburbs. My heart was racing in anxiety (Yes, child, as is normal for the first embraced, those that came before the power of the Tremere blood became diluted, I keep some humans traits like beating hearts, bright aura and eating food, even if it doesn't nourish me). Something bad, very bad, is happening.
Cautiously we entered using the kitchen door. My mind eye showed "psychic static" in the vision of past events... Almost intuitively I ran to the basement, and to my surprise I found the lab where the policemen and the Garou got their implants. Obviously, the lab is abandoned.
With a little carelessness, I started going up the stairs... I didn't know if they were following my steps, but I didn't care anyway. There where no signs of Bel.
I finally reached a room where there is only a mirror and a broken window. How cliche.... The mirror has nothing supernatural. I started to check the room, and that's when the torrent of images flowed into my mind:
Bel is in one corner of the room, rolled into a ball, bleeding, fearful. In front of here, the little girl with hate in her eyes. Finally the little girl turned and flew through the window. Another female figure appeared from the shadows, grabbed Bel by the hair, and dragged her to the stairs, leaving a bloody trail....
When I wake up from the visions, I'm standing on top of the stairs looking down. I had no chance to say something, because Nowan said that "something" was going down the stair. We ran down the stairs, and split to search whatever it is that was downstairs. It was then that we heard the gunshots from the group outside the house.
We all went out, and saw one of our partners being impaled by several metal pikes while he frantically shoot behind him. With no effort I managed to separate him from the spikes, and put him outside the danger. Now we could see clearly the attacker: A female figure that was half-ghost, half-real.
Nowan ran to fight her. It was a very weird fight: Nowan shoots didn't harm her most of the time, but just before she attacked she became material, and she received damage. Another curious thing is that she looked like there where several metal plates on her body, which she could mold at will to form anything, from spikes to swords.
After a very intense battle, Nowan managed to kill her. And as soon as she hit the ground, she started to burn with black flames.
Knowing that it was not me (my flames are the usual bright yellow), I scanned the area and saw a figure far from us, leaving. I tried to pull him with my mind, but somehow he resisted.
This does not bode well... unless it is a new kind of supernatural creature, or a Mage construction, there are Baalis involved... and that is never good.
Before I could alert the group Viktor called me, but I could only hear the sound of a very, very intense fight. I notified the Princess and started to go to Mandy's house. Otto and Willy decide to call it a night, and disappear in the darkness. That was another proof of the Nosferatu's wisdom: Viktor clearly fell into a trap, and we were being lured into it.
Also, a stranger called me saying "I work for Helsing", and before he could say more I told him "then, if you're not at her house, you're not doing your job", and hung up. I was really, really pissed of at the time.
When we arrived at the house, there were two people outside getting down from motorcycles, one of them walking to the house. Viktor's car is nowhere to be found. Just in case, I called The Boss to validate if he sent two people to help us. It seems so.. let's see how good they are. I called the one that called me before, which confirmed me that these to people are the helpers from Helsing.
While the others get down from the vehicles and start walking towards the house I projected my consciousness inside to find.... Mandy's mom sitting in the Living room, drinking tea. Quite strange.. where was the fight? Viktor was supposed to be at Mandy's house...
In the meantime Nowan reached one of the mysterious helpers, point at him with the gun, and ask him to stop and identify. The "helper" foolishly ignored him, so Nowan naturally gave him a lead treatment against the lack of intelligence. The other ignored the bullets (a definitive symptom of lack of intelligence) and smashed the door... that was too much foolishness in less than one minute so I sent him flying.
The other helper and Nowan get into the house through the smashed door. Shortly after, Andrea jumped out one of the second story windows, entangled with what appeared to be an animated corpse. She had everything under control... except for the other corpse that jumped out the windows after her. At the end, two corpses are by no mean a challenge for a Kindred, so Andrea finished them off.
One of the unknown kindred, the one that didn't reply to Nowan's query, approached our car, so the two Brujahs steeped down, pointed their guns and commanded him to stop. He (again) choose to ignore them, so it came to the logical conclusion: A quick and savage battle, with the end result of one Brujah down and the unknown kindred subdued.
Suddenly, a big 'ball' with tentacles emerged from the house. I seemed that the ones inside would need my help, so I leave the Brujahs to pick the ball.
I entered the house, and found one of the unknown Kindred in front of a room. Inside the room there is a pentagram, and in the floor there are several figures... Viktor, one other kindred (Brujah, if I recall them correctly), Mandy's "Grandfather" and... Bel. In the middle of the pentagram is something that looks like a clown marionette, dotted with blood.
The marionette rises and started to fight with us. I notice that from time to time some dots disappeared... could it be that it is a blood repository, and it is using the vampiric blood to move?
A battle starts, with Nowan and the two unknown Kindred trying to hit the marionette. With powerful blows, it throws the three of them out of the room, but they manage to damage it enough so I can deal the killing blow. It seens that electricity is very effective against marionettes.
When the clown is dead, somehow the wraiths in the house manage to immobilize us. Again, electricity is effective against materialized wraiths, so they jolted and freed us.
I checked the room. Using my powers I saw the little girl making the pentagrams. It is a ritual of Dark Thaumaturgy to summon a Demon... where did she got that ritual? I saw her leaving through the pentagram, with a strange black ball and Mandy's mother.
In the pentagram, only Bel, Viktor and the Brujah remained. From the old guy, only the clothes.
The kindred are burned in their back, and Bel was cut in half... she only have the upper torso... her arms and everything below the waist is gone... what kind of foul sorcery did that?
I took all of them to the car. I hope I'm able to help Bel.
Outside, I notice that the two Brujahs are not there... I asked the car, and saw that the ball of tentacles took them... somewhere...
I went back to the room. From the deeps of my consciousness I notice that there is something missing in the old man clothes: The beret... I heard a a noise outside, but saw nothing.
And then in happened: All the inhabitant of the houses around Mandy's house went out and started to run towards us. They were dead, moved only by the force of Thaumaturgy... it is quite a feat, to animate this many corpses, but it was not difficult to counter. When all the copses collapsed, I checked them. The only thing in common is that all of them saw the little girl before dying.
Enough was enough, I called the Princess and told her what happened.
I went back to the others. They have a boy, who happens to be the grandson of Mandy's Grandfather. He has the beret and a amulet of True Faith... good thing that I have saw them before, and they don't affect me that much.
I proceeded to build a compass to locate the little hag. After I finished the ritual, I heard an explosion outside. It seems that someone put some bombs in our cars.
Somebody must have called Helsing, because soon afterward two "cleanning" vans were arrivin to the scene. I told the others to see me tomorrow at Helsing HQ. They must take Bel with her, I'm not sure that the chantry is secure enough and I can only protect myself tonight.
I then hide in the shadows, and start flying looking for the girl. I reached the ocean, and after some time i decide to go back to the chantry: She must be at the other side of the Atlantic.
As soon as I arrive the Chantry, I informed to the other Tremeres that the Regent was attacked, she is very injured, and that they must not leave the chantry until further notice.
I also informed Vienna, and asked if the little girl is a Tremere.
I will sleep in my lab, the most secure place in the whole chantry. I hope that tomorrow is a better night. I hope that I can restore Bel...
I will destroy that little girl.
We meet with The Boss, and he told us that they have found Mandy's house. We agree that I, Viktor, Nowan, Andrea, Willy, Otto and two Brujah are going to Mandy's house.
The house is a normal house in a normal neighbor: Two stories, white picket fences, the typical American house.
Her mother opened the door. She seemed to be a normal housewife, albeit a little sad. She told us that Mandy is not at home, and that she don't know where she went. She is very worried about her.
Andrea started to ask the mother about Mandy. She told us that after the dead of Mandy's her grandfather has been helping them. She also told us that Mandy has been missing for two days now.
I left the others to talk to the mom and went upstairs, to Mandy's room. Again, it is the typical room for the typical teenager. As there was nothing unusual in the room, I rest myself in her bed, and concentrated....
Images of "unusual" manifestation came to my mind: Mandy burning in blue fire while sleeping, she talking with people that were not there, objects moving around here "without any explanation", she talking with people that is not there, or in a language that she shouldn't know.. Obviously, she is anything but a typical teenager. Very curious... in my first vision I saw her as a Kindred... could it be that she manage to keep her powers after being embraced? or is she a new kind of supernatural entity?
Two other images where also interesting: she (accidentally) killing her father, and an old man that is comforting her and talking to her several times. He must be the grandfather.
I returned where the mom was, just in time to hear that the "grandfather" not related to the family, but tried to help them when the father died. Curiously, there are no pictures of the father or the old man. The last time they saw the old man was about a year ago. When I inquired if anything unusual happens around Mandy, the mom turned pale white, and confessed that she is afraid of her.
I think that it was out of pity, but before leaving I modified the memories of the mom so she think that Mandy is ok, just went out with some friends and would be home soon.
Once we were outside Mandy's house, Nowan told us that Mandy's father was killed by her. How he knew that is beyond me... there is more of this guy than meets the eye.
When we were about to leave to the Elyssium, I received a very distressful vision: A house, apparently abandoned... A little Kindred girl... immortal fear... I know they come from her.... I know where this house is...
I asked the group to go to that mansion, just saying that the Tremere Regent is in danger. They must be used to our "tremerish secrecy" because they all accepted to go without any complains.
On the road, I called Mike to the hospital asking him for the birth records of Mandy, and asked Otto to produce a picture of the little Kindred girl. According to him, she came to the city not long ago, introduced herself to the Prince and went to hunt Sabbats. Nobody has seen her since.
Just before we arrived, Mandy's mother called and say that she has returned home. I phoned Viktor and told him that, so he can send a squad there. My mind was focused on the house, I was very worried about Bel. Has she being kidnapped? Is it possible to trespass the Chantry?
We reached the house, a three stories tall Victorian house outside the suburbs. My heart was racing in anxiety (Yes, child, as is normal for the first embraced, those that came before the power of the Tremere blood became diluted, I keep some humans traits like beating hearts, bright aura and eating food, even if it doesn't nourish me). Something bad, very bad, is happening.
Cautiously we entered using the kitchen door. My mind eye showed "psychic static" in the vision of past events... Almost intuitively I ran to the basement, and to my surprise I found the lab where the policemen and the Garou got their implants. Obviously, the lab is abandoned.
With a little carelessness, I started going up the stairs... I didn't know if they were following my steps, but I didn't care anyway. There where no signs of Bel.
I finally reached a room where there is only a mirror and a broken window. How cliche.... The mirror has nothing supernatural. I started to check the room, and that's when the torrent of images flowed into my mind:
Bel is in one corner of the room, rolled into a ball, bleeding, fearful. In front of here, the little girl with hate in her eyes. Finally the little girl turned and flew through the window. Another female figure appeared from the shadows, grabbed Bel by the hair, and dragged her to the stairs, leaving a bloody trail....
When I wake up from the visions, I'm standing on top of the stairs looking down. I had no chance to say something, because Nowan said that "something" was going down the stair. We ran down the stairs, and split to search whatever it is that was downstairs. It was then that we heard the gunshots from the group outside the house.
We all went out, and saw one of our partners being impaled by several metal pikes while he frantically shoot behind him. With no effort I managed to separate him from the spikes, and put him outside the danger. Now we could see clearly the attacker: A female figure that was half-ghost, half-real.
Nowan ran to fight her. It was a very weird fight: Nowan shoots didn't harm her most of the time, but just before she attacked she became material, and she received damage. Another curious thing is that she looked like there where several metal plates on her body, which she could mold at will to form anything, from spikes to swords.
After a very intense battle, Nowan managed to kill her. And as soon as she hit the ground, she started to burn with black flames.
Knowing that it was not me (my flames are the usual bright yellow), I scanned the area and saw a figure far from us, leaving. I tried to pull him with my mind, but somehow he resisted.
This does not bode well... unless it is a new kind of supernatural creature, or a Mage construction, there are Baalis involved... and that is never good.
Before I could alert the group Viktor called me, but I could only hear the sound of a very, very intense fight. I notified the Princess and started to go to Mandy's house. Otto and Willy decide to call it a night, and disappear in the darkness. That was another proof of the Nosferatu's wisdom: Viktor clearly fell into a trap, and we were being lured into it.
Also, a stranger called me saying "I work for Helsing", and before he could say more I told him "then, if you're not at her house, you're not doing your job", and hung up. I was really, really pissed of at the time.
When we arrived at the house, there were two people outside getting down from motorcycles, one of them walking to the house. Viktor's car is nowhere to be found. Just in case, I called The Boss to validate if he sent two people to help us. It seems so.. let's see how good they are. I called the one that called me before, which confirmed me that these to people are the helpers from Helsing.
While the others get down from the vehicles and start walking towards the house I projected my consciousness inside to find.... Mandy's mom sitting in the Living room, drinking tea. Quite strange.. where was the fight? Viktor was supposed to be at Mandy's house...
In the meantime Nowan reached one of the mysterious helpers, point at him with the gun, and ask him to stop and identify. The "helper" foolishly ignored him, so Nowan naturally gave him a lead treatment against the lack of intelligence. The other ignored the bullets (a definitive symptom of lack of intelligence) and smashed the door... that was too much foolishness in less than one minute so I sent him flying.
The other helper and Nowan get into the house through the smashed door. Shortly after, Andrea jumped out one of the second story windows, entangled with what appeared to be an animated corpse. She had everything under control... except for the other corpse that jumped out the windows after her. At the end, two corpses are by no mean a challenge for a Kindred, so Andrea finished them off.
One of the unknown kindred, the one that didn't reply to Nowan's query, approached our car, so the two Brujahs steeped down, pointed their guns and commanded him to stop. He (again) choose to ignore them, so it came to the logical conclusion: A quick and savage battle, with the end result of one Brujah down and the unknown kindred subdued.
Suddenly, a big 'ball' with tentacles emerged from the house. I seemed that the ones inside would need my help, so I leave the Brujahs to pick the ball.
I entered the house, and found one of the unknown Kindred in front of a room. Inside the room there is a pentagram, and in the floor there are several figures... Viktor, one other kindred (Brujah, if I recall them correctly), Mandy's "Grandfather" and... Bel. In the middle of the pentagram is something that looks like a clown marionette, dotted with blood.
The marionette rises and started to fight with us. I notice that from time to time some dots disappeared... could it be that it is a blood repository, and it is using the vampiric blood to move?
A battle starts, with Nowan and the two unknown Kindred trying to hit the marionette. With powerful blows, it throws the three of them out of the room, but they manage to damage it enough so I can deal the killing blow. It seens that electricity is very effective against marionettes.
When the clown is dead, somehow the wraiths in the house manage to immobilize us. Again, electricity is effective against materialized wraiths, so they jolted and freed us.
I checked the room. Using my powers I saw the little girl making the pentagrams. It is a ritual of Dark Thaumaturgy to summon a Demon... where did she got that ritual? I saw her leaving through the pentagram, with a strange black ball and Mandy's mother.
In the pentagram, only Bel, Viktor and the Brujah remained. From the old guy, only the clothes.
The kindred are burned in their back, and Bel was cut in half... she only have the upper torso... her arms and everything below the waist is gone... what kind of foul sorcery did that?
I took all of them to the car. I hope I'm able to help Bel.
Outside, I notice that the two Brujahs are not there... I asked the car, and saw that the ball of tentacles took them... somewhere...
I went back to the room. From the deeps of my consciousness I notice that there is something missing in the old man clothes: The beret... I heard a a noise outside, but saw nothing.
And then in happened: All the inhabitant of the houses around Mandy's house went out and started to run towards us. They were dead, moved only by the force of Thaumaturgy... it is quite a feat, to animate this many corpses, but it was not difficult to counter. When all the copses collapsed, I checked them. The only thing in common is that all of them saw the little girl before dying.
Enough was enough, I called the Princess and told her what happened.
I went back to the others. They have a boy, who happens to be the grandson of Mandy's Grandfather. He has the beret and a amulet of True Faith... good thing that I have saw them before, and they don't affect me that much.
I proceeded to build a compass to locate the little hag. After I finished the ritual, I heard an explosion outside. It seems that someone put some bombs in our cars.
Somebody must have called Helsing, because soon afterward two "cleanning" vans were arrivin to the scene. I told the others to see me tomorrow at Helsing HQ. They must take Bel with her, I'm not sure that the chantry is secure enough and I can only protect myself tonight.
I then hide in the shadows, and start flying looking for the girl. I reached the ocean, and after some time i decide to go back to the chantry: She must be at the other side of the Atlantic.
As soon as I arrive the Chantry, I informed to the other Tremeres that the Regent was attacked, she is very injured, and that they must not leave the chantry until further notice.
I also informed Vienna, and asked if the little girl is a Tremere.
I will sleep in my lab, the most secure place in the whole chantry. I hope that tomorrow is a better night. I hope that I can restore Bel...
I will destroy that little girl.
