Red Sands: Sixteen

Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition

Red Sands

Session Sixteen

Louise approaches the mortal carefully, not wanting to spook him any more than he already is. He spots her getting closer, recognizes her, and makes a break for it, into the crowd.

The Camarilla vampire circles around the perimeter, watching Louise and smirking.

Simon and Jacob catch him.

"What did you do?" Simon asks accusingly.
"It was broken when I got here." The vampire shrugs and grins.

Louise gets to the mortal.

"You're - "
"And now you know, what do you think I'm going to do?"
"No no, I won't tell anybody, I swear to God!"

She lashes out and grabs his wallet, finding his I.D. She hands it back with a mirthless smile.

Jamie observes where the mortal can't see her, following him out discreetly. She watches him for the rest of the night.

The Camarilla vampire strolls out, not a care in the world.

Simon makes sure to point him out to the anarchs. "We'll see he doesn't come in next time."
"That's all you can do?" Simon asks, appalled.
"For now..."

The Super Bowl

It's just not the same without the big commercials. Of course social media is keeping up with those. (WandaVision looks bonkers.)

02/02/2020

Happy 02/02/2020! Looking forward to the 20th of... Decemboctober...

World Of Darkness on Twitch

World Of Darkness on Twitch - free videos of last night's L.A. by Night and Vein Pursuit premieres! Which is particularly nice as VP started at 7 a.m. here.

Eva has been SHOPPING!

There are some great sire-childe relationships in L.A. by Night. Great in a dramatic sense, not a healthy sense.

We will come home again. Leave a light on.

Red Sands: Fifteen

Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition

Red Sands

Session Fifteen

The coterie assemble at the Starlight. Seems like everybody's getting offers to pick a side.

"The Camarilla wants me for a sunbeam..." Louise spits.
Jamie smirks. "I got a flyer for a rave at the anarch... I don't want to say 'fight club' but fight club."
"Trade you."

They meet up the next night to drive over to the warehouse. Jamie has gone neon. The others haven't. As a result, Jamie is the one who gets asked if she's selling drugs. Which after a few minutes she is.

She takes time out to meet with the anarchs who invited her, introducing them to the others.

The rave itself seems to be going well... until Simon spots one of the mortals from the gallery opening sneaking around. And once alerted, Louise spots another, and then one of the vampires.

And Louise finds one of the mortals who asked Jamie if she was selling, now staring at her, looking terrified. Looking like he knows what she really is.

This is the kind of night where I really miss ol' New Bremen.

Happy Year of the Rat!

Red Sands: Fourteen

Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition

Red Sands

Session Fourteen

The anarchs fight amongst themselves.

"This is what the Tower wants!" Simon points out to one of the other gang leaders as they separate.
"Yeah, but we want it too!"

Another vampire approaches Jamie as she shakes her head and goes.

"We're not all like that. We're not even most like that."

He gives her a flyer for a rave.

...

Louise heads to the private backstreet blood donation center, with Jacob waiting getaway driver just in case.

And she spots someone sneaking up on a young couple on their way in. And she recognizes him from the Gaslamp gallery show.

She goes back to Jacob and tells him. "Gonna go bust a head."

The young man smiles affably as she coughs for attention before he can corner the couple.

"So, what, jump the people coming in, get a freebie?"
"That and it discourages people using this place, we prefer to have a good share of the market."
"Yeaaaaah..." She raises her hands and flexes her fingers, nails cracking and lengthening. He smirks, and throws himself at her, fangs out.

...

Simon goes to see the nomads. Looks like they're getting ready to move on.

"Getting crowded here. Too many people looking at the empty chair. You should think about moving too."
"We've only just gotten here."
"All the more reason."

He considers this.

...

The Camarilla vampire reins in his anger as he holds the slashes Louise gave his chest. "You should come join us. We can make this city our hunt. You can be what you are. You never need to go hungry. You're better than that..."

She grimaces in distaste as she lets him walk away.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Red Sands: Thirteen

Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition

Red Sands

Session Thirteen

The next day, Jacob looks the scrapyard over in sunlight, and an unfriendly middle-aged man makes sure he knows about him and his equally unfriendly dog. Which could be normal for a scrapyard but he suspects it's more than that.

That night, Louise is up and ready before Jamie can give her any fashion advice.

Jamie's nail polish is immaculate, of course. "It can be very useful to look frivolous."

The man and the dog are there, with some others who might be ghouls or actual mortals. And there are a few clearly distinguished groups - coteries, maybe gangs - of vampires. The nomads nod politely, the gang that invited them smirk and their leader says he's glad they came, but nobody else seems to agree.

They don't take long to get to asking the coterie about Elizabeth and friends, what they offered and claimed they could offer. Simon is upfront about it, even as one of the gang leaders circles around like he's pacing out the fighting pit. But he manages to finish with nobody tackling him.

Instead, one group starts in on another.

First book purchase of the year: Chosen, the sequel to Slayer by Kiersten White.

Redback

Red Sands will return next week. If enough of the players can make it.

Boardwalk Vampire

Yes I'm looking at 1920s Vampire: The Masquerade again now that I have to specify the '19' part.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Looking forward to games, films and TV, plays and exhibitions and stuff. Already starting on books.