5/20/2013 and 5/27/2013 Brian's Take
So....first off...WTF....I expect that in a city with a stable population that someone is watching for Kindred coming and going...but not in a city that had almost everyone killed 3 weeks ago...
So it turns out that someone followed me and my team to the random hotel I choose to sleep at. Yan warned me againest the hotel but I was only worried about a day raid, which I thought my team could handle. Turns out that trouble came from one of the famed Liberians, Christanius Lionel, one of the few Kindred that wake before I do. He took one of my ghouls before the sunlight was gone from the sky. Not knowing it was a Kindred(I just was not expecting a Sabbet saint), I sent a team to look for the missing team member. They also went missing. I care, maybe too greatly, for my servants. I decided to go after the missing three, I followed them to a nearby statium, in route I alerted Yan and Mina(who had just arrived) where I was going. I knew it was a trap and thought that I could break free of it.
Turns out I was right but only by sacrificing 4 more of my Ghouls, and Aras Valdemaras warned me. At this point I used one of my Aces...and teleported away. But only after dropping a sun grenade at their feet. I don't like using it and I would have prefered to fight, but at the very least Aras would have been killed(or worse, captured and eaten) and I most likely would not have even got a chance to kill one of them. The pack choose to leave with the small victory instead of going for a larger kill. Yan had arrived at this point but we had to chase Aras who was 'running from the burning light', so much for that trick. I am guessing the Sabbet just laughed, such is my luck. With Yan and Mina's help I get Aras back under control and we head to the meeting.
To compound matters and highlight my mistake Aras now has a phobia to light. He should be able to quickly overcome it, if he can live through the next couple of days. The Super 8 is as we left it, one of my serviving ghouls is taking care of it. As before there are a large number of refugee's in and around the Super 8. Not surpisely very few of them smell at all tasty. I end up feeding on one of the refugee's, a priest of the white god who has started assaulting those weaker than himself. (mostly children)
Our teams begin to arrive. I group them in my head as Anarchs, Malkavians, The Toredor and us. At first I thought Us would include Mina, but she wanted to stand alone. Sometimes her view of politics make my head swim. We all sit down and Yan trys to get things moving. The head of the Malkavians objects to Mina standing alone, she chooses to be stubburn (big surprise I know), my only thought about it is I hope she was not doing it because of me.....
I really want to get out to hunting, I can almost feel the city crumbling around us as we sit and talk about domain and princedoms. I get my own domain in Quebec as is fitting for my station but I would rather have fought about it later and owed a boon and got moving than sit around and get for 'free'. Oh well.....
We finally hash everything out and decide we have very little time to do anything else tonight, so another night wasted.
Our soon to be prince wants to have a base of operations and does not want to use the super 8 for some reason. Mina offer's a mansion in her soon to be domain. Everyone agrees and we move to secure that location. A little Chimerstry, a little Dominate and play acting and we get the people out. No mess no fuss. We bed down in the basement, Mina chooses to flaunt her Protean and bed down in the ground outside.
I wake the next day, just as the day is fading. It feels good to be so connected, I have never understood myself so well and it feels good. This day I wake to find something that resonates as disharmony. A feeling of wrongness and a smell of sulfer. I do some poking around and someone had gotten behind me and lit the entrance to the basement on fire. I put some of it out and move through it. I get everyone out a different entrance to the basement. Once we are out and doing a head count we find that we are missing Mina. We look around and find her tigers(the illusion was kinda broken) dead in a space we are guessing that she was sleeping. I follow the feeling/smell to the street and find they loaded her into a car. I use Illuminate the Trail of Prey to track where the person is taking her and her cat for some reason....
After about 15 mins of fast driving the trail disappears, they must have arrived where they are going. I had contact Yan and open line with him at this point. I asked if one of the geangrel had a good enough trail to continue following them, surprisingly there was a good enough trail. (The Brothers are turning out to be a good investment)
