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behind the southern charm lies razorblade smiles and hearts of Darkness monsters we are you know the rest of that sentiment and the reasoning behind it the truest lie ever sung it is not in seeking monstrousness that we Stave off the monsters of Our Hearts and Thoughts We Are Monsters dead and truly so yet our monstrousness is solely in seeking to live seeking to be that most human of animals Monsters We are monsters we are the better to embrace the truth of our dead Humanity the coast after dark is a mature themed Discord play by post server based in and exploring the V5 world of darkness in and around the Mississippi Gulf Coast region it has a small local population with over 14 million tourists that visit annually roughly an hour's time is all that is needed to travel from end to end the geography and size of the region has created a unique power structure that is formerly known as the Council of Twilight it is sometimes called the pentar sometimes affectionate sometimes oozing with disdain come explore and safely experience the darker parts of the sun-kissed landscape and your imaginations welcome welcome welcome everyone this is your host your Storyteller your number one fan nobody and this is the coast after dark well that stopped them hello greetings and salutations how we doing I am doing all right um I now know what's wrong with me healthwise you're American besides that this is not something that is promoted by americanism so what might that be hyperthyroidism oh okay a more treatable variety of of hyper thyroidism or something where the only thing is to make yourself comfortable for the long slow Rod the suggestion is surgery sorry to hear that um is that it's not it's not a super invasive surgery or anything but it's still operating around the neck yes yes oh yeah the thyroids on the neck ain't it mhm and do so what's the prognosis if that is not something that you would like to do if I don't want to do it I can look forward to a plethora of kidney stones and high blood pressure in my future and more bone spurs oh okay all right all right well you know long as there are options you know you want keep your options open [Music] all right so um as we kind of cycle up and get going um as always it is a pleasure to play it is a pleasure to partake in this hobby of ours we will be doing something that we do in text quite often which is pick up where we are and see where we land in this particular case with chaval and Gregory being the centerpieces of our temporary codery with them being in desperate and different locations before we get fully going would you each be so kind as to denote in your emotion recent threads exiting to live play so that we could keep track of it if things get forgotten along the way okay so I should just presume that my information gets transferred and well it is always wrong to presume but you may if you wish I mean otherwise it's complet otherwise there's it's completely nonsensical to home anyway I'm putting in the comment exits to live play just it's pres presumably claudine's not ped out is not going to be like completely miffed by this I guess [Music] um well is more for continuing the scene if you're going to hop back into it afterwards to know what happened in between where chaval is in thread and and post and where Gregory is in thread and in post leading and merging into the live play and then back into the actual by post play so it's mechanical maintenance and notation is not um fullon interrupt of scene it's not a I'm probably going to finish it and ticket anyway well you know uh Sunrise is tomorrow yeah it's soon it's quite soon yes it is effectively the last hour last 45 minutes that last hour and a half until sunrise well safe Sunrise because it's always assumed that unless directly in action in the middle of something that each character can safely make it to their Haven or a Haven to die for the day yep yep Gregory you're a little silent are you are you cognizant I am cognizant uh I just Googling where a Walmart in baloy is just so I can or uh you know a Walmart on the coast would be and I am now spoiled for Choice yes yes Walmart is um one of many many places to shop along the [Music] coast so so if anyone else is is to join us we'll give them a few more minutes to our our soft start while we have the maintenance and notation jotted down but before we get up to full speed are there any questions suggestions hypotheses Corners we need to round off or it simply Flights of Fancy we need to book I was um before I saw the event posted I was playing on writing a scene for him [Music] feeding well he has been exposed to several opportunities in places where feeding is a little easier than usual there as well as there may be the very real need to visit upon the world his revenge of his self-loathing he may seek to unburden himself from all of that bolik emotion that Wells up with his last post and if he just needs to destroy something beautiful but that is entirely up to him I like the direction you're going with that uh I feel like the reason why or at least a part of like the mechanical reason why it's weing down him a lot more than usual is his will power is capped at two at the minute [Music] mhh he took aggravated willpower I don't remember him doing so oh so uh zitti he's been away from his Haven uh ah yes times about four times okay and he has if it's been four times then okay okay I have more human or I have more willpower than I thought I did I see at four instead of two okay and he hasn't had time to do any maintenance of self to make sure that uh he recharges his stores well he's been uh I don't want to say it's self- obsessive but he's been uh kind of communing with his uh signs of accomplishment his Trophies the things that kind of uh they may not be uh important to his Humanity but they are reminders of his past and why he ended up being embraced yes and it's always one of the uh the more endemically problematic and unpraised well you know we all need a little time and all need a little his Magister approaches okay so people that play Blood and one person that plays with flesh cool excuse me thanks I don't well uh I I play with flesh all the time but hey hey now keep it clean keep it [Music] PG I I I I don't play doctor I am doctor but okay what [Laughter] ABS all right stressing the [ __ ] out about uh not following up with um the sheriff as well as not getting in contact with the scourge oh no they they uh they are on their way don't don't worry I just have a quick question for something else that's already going on cuz I know we have until what is it tomorrow to rapit probably um where did we move the play for the ongoing scene like what was the room that's near the Trap shop I'm not entirely sure what where Ernie Sasha and kraton were Ernie was the driver so it is unfortunately on his shoulders where where they actually go what what plans they follow through on because this is in continuity you will need to pause Ernie's interactions in the scene and find a reason for him to not be there until after the live play cuz this is in continuity so he jumps of the moving Vehicles very very close what I had been considering because I know that Ernie I knew and know that Ernie had been in a scene that involved other players what i' suggest for Ernie in Ernie scene is to write pause due to live play it frees Ernie to be in continuity in play and and then when it's over to reenter playay not quite as if nothing happened but with all due understanding that yeah things happen and well there a reason why speeding in Mississippi is treated like a national capital [Music] offense or me Swit Ernie Ernie could stay in his scene and I could be somebody else [Music] entirely give me we have 10 minutes to hard start give me 25 of ticks of a lamb's tail and so forth and so on H aha has been [Music] intrigued a bit a bit I'm [Music] um trying to search something really quickly because we I see someone keep popping in and out of the O Lobby really yeah you remember who there who who it was was were was there a username there was uh so because I didn't get a good look at the username I'm trying to scroll through the uh player see if I can match the uh profile pick [Music] Sasha Drake oh yes Sasha we like Sasha someone they like to Jo all right we have roughly 4 minutes until hard start uh with no uh significant questions in regards to play while we SS out Ernie's uh Avatar [Music] in the moment I'm going to take a quick side step and have a quick aside um and then we'll be back in less than three Mo three shakes and we will dive in both feet uh starting with Claudine and chaval as their conversation waxes wngs grows swells and swirls um the introduc the introduction of the uh lber pregenerated character from Grand Bay that will be Ernie's Avatar and connecting the dots with Gregory in the offing so that we can move directly into the fabulously overwhelming moment for this temporary Cy so three quick shakes I'll be right [Music] back well this about to make things exciting I have no idea who you're going to be down fun but concerning that shoval has never met your character before that's almost appropriate all right folks how we doing everybody ready to run everybody ready to rock or jazz or country western ready to swing there yes yes yes indeed so in Preamble of where we are everyone understands that there's a cost of doing business and most business persons assume that it is never personal for anyone else say for themselves business persons of all stripe and variety typically have an overindulgence of hypertension and stress related maladies that overwhelm them while attempting to hide from the realities of their actions the realities of trading in business or shorting a stock or offensively and patently deceitfully taking over someone else's livelihoods or minimizing a person to maximize their profit it is a ludicrously Purp F false ideologies that business is never personal business is as personal as you can possibly be because no one enters business of any stripe of any variety because of anything save need and it is those who exploit those needs for their personal wants that that are some of the most vile Dastardly and duplicitous individuals in the world but the but the saying very much is true that one must handle business L business handle you and with that hanging over our head with that ideology sitting there plainly truthfully and factually glowing before us like the hand of God riding on Nebuchadnezzar's wall we swoop through the night sky a cool clear moist Mississippi evening circling through homes where families have gathered and settled in to watch their individual screens either together or separately hiding in bedrooms lounging around dining room tables otherwise is engaging in the attempt or the idea of rest whether they fall to sleep working at finishing homework for some online course or looking up a recipe and sussing through Tales of grandmothers long forgotten or whether they're simply staring at the ceiling questioning why they have not dozed off we find one doctor chal Dean strolling along in the company of a life petite Asian woman of Vietnamese descent her head scarf and fancy Caribbean styled hat beneath her hood off skating everything except for the very faintest illusion of of her eyebrows covering her forehead keeping her surprisingly warm even as both chal and herself have long died they are no longer in possession of the quick that animates all of those sleeping unsleeping unrestful adults persons of every age across the coast [Music] and Claudine with the previously stated but as to your question yes I wouldn't have gone to the facility for any other reason at the visit was extremely costly response replies with costly how the exchange of information has only the cost that we ascribe to it and I assure you without any uh illusion as to my capabilities that at the very minimum I'll share what you provided here with everyone willing to listen I'll make sure that every ear that has the ability to understand the English that is coming out of my mouth has the opportunity to access that information Secrets Don't Do Anything But wind up making the Living Dead and the dead dead it's a shame the system works the way that it [Music] does uh well then to be blunt uh the dragon tried to sell me as dinner [Music] and I am only out because I owe various boots so you fell into the clutches of another Kindred and they were going to use you as a donor I'm sorry I I know that pain it is not very warm place to be in viewed as prey when you are at your heart Predator to have your agency and your will taken from you perhaps we should see my friend The Duchess she uh has a child or not far from here that we can visit and you can at least find Solace and others of us who've been victimized by our community because that is what it is at every step we victimize each other as a way of verifying and finding out how truly monstrous and predatory we are it's the reason why I don't ride enclosed vehicles with other Kindred most of course I have assurances it's the reason why we've and she points towards the walk that you've all made unlike most of your time with Habibi unlike most of your time with the Sufi unlike most of your time even engaging with Aransas or Aransas as she likes to pronounce her sure her name you've all only crossed and traveled in well lit highly populated areas unlike traveling with habbi where you're alone in the car you and her or you're alone in a dark place where no one knows where you are or you're alone in your place where no one knows she is unlike with the Sufi where you traveled in the circle of his bodyguards and retainers unlike Aransas where you are alone in the dark with another Predator Claudine is kept to the well lit well-traveled easily viewable areas with multiple Paths of escape and agress from one [Music] another [Music] well she's the one who knows where she's going and I am just going to just taking some mental notes that like she takes this attitude towards openness to a very logical extreme CU shal likes to think of things in in logical networks and it's like One Believes In openness then light and transparency are to be expected and even though it's nighttime she is clearly trying to embody that in word and deed and I am merely appreciating that and trying to take notes of mental notes of where we are going so that I won't be lost trying to get my way back to the car easier done than say what is um chal's intelligence plus survival oh uh great question um five to say that she incidentally and accidentally memorized the steps thus far would be laughably simple not only did she memorize the steps and paths thus far she can tell roughly within a quarter of a mile exactly where on the coast she is she has found a way without even meaning to to be able to track back to where she began at the very hidden very secretive very out of the way Moss that tends to the faith of many who don't have the opportunity of showing up to other more public respectful and respected places of worship it's amazing in consideration of that as she realizes huh I'm not far from that nightclub the uh that Vanessa took me to I'm I'm not far from um what is believed and and wholeheartedly accepted as I'm smack dab in the middle of and our territory Mississippi city is about oh a tenth of a mile from where you presently are um traveling down Railroad Street you know that uh when you all made that right on to Texas that 16th Street is just up ahead yeah yeah we're on 16th and huh that's interesting how close things are and how everything Blends and melds together yeah we're not far from the religious establishment either no no you're not and the worst thing and this is the thing that is only Dawning on you now as you are approaching 16th Street you realize that Arkansas Avenue right there at Sunridge park where you know there is an active cult seeking to undermine the local government where you were one of the things that went bump in the night though your Bump was your firing pin against the bullets in your chamber sunri Park is literally right over there what how what how would she know anybody over here is she leading you to the cult or the cultist is this a [Music] trap [Music] um just just curiosity which which way are we going I'm trying to not I'm trying to not panic but I will mysteriously divert myself if it looks like we're going to head straight towards where [Music] I where do you know someone who lives in this area where it's right down here the duchess's child um lives here at the end of 16th Street okay do you know someone who lives in the area do you know the donkey um the donkey I don't think I've heard that okay so Gregor you can correct me but I don't believe you were referred to as a donkey in my presence is that correct I was not referred to as the donkey in your presence when okay so my answer for now is uh if you've been on the coast long enough uh you've definitely heard of the sports fighter one of the very few people that still knows how to swing a sword these [Music] days um given that I have very minimal Street wise I'm going to presume that I don't know that moniker um okay so um and be like I don't think I do no just just I had I had to I had [Music] to I I had a I had a I had a bad moment around here that's all but but we're that's we're fine we're fine let's keep going completely understandable Mississippi City is known for uh a a slew of happen stand if I'm not mistaken the uh MMA fighter The Scourge was found missing her family's not too far from here that whole Massacre that happened it's a shame actually uh she recently you know uh got in the championship for Bear knuckle fighting and then the next thing you know she kills her family husband children leaves a bloody mess and disappears it's a shame that how monstrous we can be and not we as we are now but all of these and she mostes to the houses north and south of where you are east and west of Texas there like all of these houses filled with all of this life it's one of those funny situations and not funny haha but funny sad B that as bad and reprehensibly predatory as we dead things can be that they can be so much worse if allowed to [Music] be if not held accountable not afraid of what will happen after they do such a thing more people would be monsters and live close enough and exist close enough right on top of each other to do horrible heinous things to each other and while it's not everyone enough of them are enough of them will do unspeakable things to each other this is a lesson I learned a long time ago in Gaza I didn't learn that lesson until I died I I wish I had learned it sooner perhaps there's a chance that things would have been different for me but I came into this this world of ours this NeverEnding night completely unaware and to think I fell for that chest of doing good endlessly if I had known then what I know now I would have so very willingly and ently said no we don't deserve to be saved and by we I mean the living CU that's how I still see myself more times than not even with everything that I've been through it is very hard for me to accept that I am actually that you you are actually that we are actually oh here's the house right here and as she says here's the house right here you look towards we we so kind describe the Front Street side view of the trophy case it feels a little out of place a very Qui building sandwich between two larger more modern constructions it only has two floors there seems to be a bit of a raised Foundation you see the windows for a basement and in the driveway there is a van with the engine running you see the exhaust billowing and there is the silhouette of a man sitting in the [Music] van and pausing on that moment his eyes connect as they both Claudine and chval through their experiences of life and unlife weily Tak in their surroundings chval realizing that just over the next hedro just past that fence there's the building complex a series of homes one next to the other built top one another connected to other each other through a uh semblance of a foundation because Mississippi Mud makes it very costly and prohibitive to have things such as an actual Foundation or an actual basement it is a sign of near extreme wealth to have such amenities that are taken for granted most other places in the world but the m mud the good oldfashioned red Mississippi Mud when compacted can very much equal the same effect as all of the concrete in the world even without the aggregate mixed in even without the bracings of uh iron helping it hold itself together the mud swallows and is a virtual non- neonian fluid when it wants to [Music] be and in reference to that same Mississippi Mud the fact that things change there are still mud slides there are still areas that get washed out if it gets too rainy there are areas where if you were to walk into them it would remind you of those old black and white movies where the intrep Explorer is sinking beneath the quick sand and has to and yet still there are also areas where it is equal to the most sturdy and staunches armor plating Mississippi is a land of extremes there are portions of the population that make enough to equal any of the High rolling presidents CEOs or CFOs of Fortune 10 companies and yet in the same breath there are portions of the population who don't fathom can't understand what new anything is there are still children in Mississippi who are equal in status and wealth as those of the mo poorest third world country being exploited by the state the city the county their neighbors their there are places in Mississippi where hunger is the only thing that lasts throughout the entirety of a person's life there are places in Mississippi and the contiguous continental United States in general where veritable actual deserts of sustainable food is all that any of the population knows their places and there are people and beings who are absolutely ravenous people who only know the empty growlings of a stomach and a being thirsty and hungry for every experience that they can possibly find because the only thing they've had is [Music] suffering and until recently jiv was just that person being eaten upon by things internal and external until recently their only state was the unending ravenous hunger all of the foibles and stumbles and trip Falls and pitfalls of attempting to exist in the world of the Kindred was all washed away with hunger and then five days [Music] ago they resurrected for the day not being feasted on not being eaten from within a light so bright that it scars the redness the feel feeling of warmth and the rattle [Music] chains and then that voice that rasy husky voice that spent 46 years smoking before death was granted to them that voice that took her Law Firm from her that voice that set obstacle after obstacle in her path to lay her low that voice that promised forever because she'd earned it Whispers how was your nap [Music] you kind of gives him a side eye not wanting to be too sassy off the cuff cuz she realizes the situation she has found herself in but looking at her Creator better than being underwater I suppose what do you suppose that the being submerged being fed upon is better than where you are now you are unsure if this gift that I've given you is worthy of your time what are you exactly are you unsure of I feel like I shouldn't have survived what I did you am that is where I am I'm sure you didn't survive you committed the greatest sin possible you [Music] failed but luckily for you I am a kind sire I am a kind monster when it came to our [Music] notice that the corpse to be used for processing was in fact yours a small investment was paid forward instead of allowing you to be properly baked roasted emulated so that morus band of waste might use you as chemical components [Music] really wi because she is realizing what she said and that scares her to no end that she narrowly escaped whatever it was that they had pln for her so she kind of lowers her eyes [Music] and I'm sorry I didn't realize how difficult it would be in Gary and how difficult I know it doesn't make any difference what I say right now I say sorry oh but it does your understanding of where you were matters so very much there's a task that you might be suited for you might earn your place back here amongst [Music] us you have been satiated you've been fed enough to be ambulatory but the prince believes that instead of wasting resources and taking the ashes of the interloper rescued from the federal government back to those heathens across the border that you could earn your place back here in Grand Bay by making the [Music] delivery starting over as it were paying your way with your the efforts of your energies or it is not in fact and not for the first time you notice that unlike most modern canes most walking sticks his while rounded is not flush it's not perfectly flat against surface it's a rounded bit of wood not sharp not stabbing or poking like a blade or dagger but that rounded tip that perfectly round smooth taper would work surprisingly well with enough force and even if it missed it Mark even if he was a fraction of an inch off it would easily crush the bones of the chest it would easily rip and burst apart the heart beneath it would easily with enough force with enough strength work in paralyzing any Kindred that was foolish enough to be within oh wait you are within 3T of him you are chained and Shackled you are a lamb to whatever might happen [Music] next she watches him closely now and she has to be very very careful of anything that might come out of her mouth it it's not a good place to be her usual self and she hasn't been her usual self in a long time anyway so she just kind of tucks her arms into the cardigan that is probably two sizes too large and um curls in on herself and just no I will do as as this evening excellent you as per your usual previous untarnished self have chosen wisely I'll fetch the maps and SME will free you so that you might better Point yourself and devest yourself of those garments finding something better suited SM and he turns and begins to move back away from you as smile hulking lurking form meld up out of the Shadows there's a natural understanding that there are rooms that have certain sounds and those sounds are based on the people that exist and operated in those rooms becomes part and partial of who and what they are living people breathe they have blood circulating there's the sound of their stomach gurgling their lungs inhaling there are noises that humans bring with them everywhere they go Smite is not dead and yet because of his years of service and because of his proximity to the darkness that is in your core having wed up from your fountain that is your sire he has this dark somber quietude to him that makes those sounds almost non-existent and even as his large form moves closer with no semblance of stealth there's n a sound of footfall there's no swish of cloth there's no inhalation of effort there's just his presence suddenly quietly there no jangling of keys or any such noises about him not even the constant electric hum of cell phones or electronic devices on his person absolutely quiet it's one of the most unnerving things that you had to grow accustomed to during your peerage because in in the domain and Haven of your sers there is no sound windows open and even the wide wild noises of a Independence Day celebration are nothing more than flashes of light just outside the circle even the bombarding claxon of sirens passing by or nothing more than flashing lights moving through the night in your sire's Haven and in your sire's domain silence is the only law of the land and there's no better representation of that than Smite who snaps the chains and manacles that are bound to you smite gently and quietly nods and offers his huge hand that would envelop not only your hand but most of your wrist and forearm to help you up and enough of your seating smile gently and quietly escorts you to the fitting room where your many older ensembles still kept pressed and ready to wear or hung there are no mirrors in your sire there's Haven only [Music] Smite and in that semblance of silence and in that Spirit of being alone the last few days for you Gregory have been a dark scathing and scouring of the Soul because there is one being one entity that is is simply undefeatable it's impossible try though you might to get around them try though you might to dodge their attacks try though you might to protect yourself from their Onslaught they refuse to be affected by all of your efforts they refuse to be deterred from harass assing and hering you they refuse everything except for ensuring that you experience the most succinct and painful of truths there's the aphorism that it's hard to meet your your your gaze to meet your own eyes when you feel ashamed there's it's hard to look yourself in the eye it's worse for Kindred because your worst intrusive thoughts are so powerful that they can subsume your conscious thoughts and operate you as if you are a puppet to their will you've heard Kendrick call those intrusive thoughts the Beast they you've heard them call it the the blood of their Founders the fountain and heads of each and every one of the Clans you have now had the opportunity of experiencing it for over a week now since your death your second death when you drink down your maker at the beest of Evergreen and God and here you are dealing with the full weight of your intrusive thoughts dealing with the full weight of your Beast as it excoriates everything you are from the fights you through to drive up the next fights purse to what your trophies actually mean each of them typically being the loss of something else's life whether it is their actual life or the metaphysical sense of self each of those trophies each of those moments of death that you need so you sit in your van the engine idling the thoughts bombarding and bouncing off the inside of your skull causing your unbeing heart to flutter and twitch and attempt to Sherk away from some of those blows coming from you and as the lights of the van remain raining out onto the sidewalk and into the street unbroken there is a petite Asian woman and Dr javal would you be so kind to describe yourself as you and Claudine enter into view um I'm actually so uh Gregory would be familiar with the way I look because this is exactly the way I looked the last time he saw me uh in terms of my attire the black lab coat the conservative hairdress um the black jeans the sneakers um yeah he would have be he'd have to be an extremely astute Observer to noticed that I was carrying slightly different inventory inside my jacket like like inside inside the lab code is are the photos that I had just shown Claudine so that's like a little bit different than my standard standard kit as it were um but other than that I look exactly the same as the last time you saw me I don't know I don't see him yet right I don't recognize him yet like it's it's not not a good angle for that no he's inside the van yeah so and we're we're approaching from behind right you're approaching from the sidewalk so you're approaching from the front of the house yes I am turning the ignition uh to turn off the car the headlights die out and the engine goes quiet you see the car door open and while he's not facing you his stature is familiar mhm I I I I turn to Claudine I go you call him donkey well that was his fighting name and I can't say that I've actually watched an entirety of one of his bouts but the judges said that some of the things that we should be looking forward to and passing this curse along are people that whose lives we can better or whose lives we can utilize for something better and his was such a him and several of her children were Fighters or martial artists or uh failed writers and she took them and her child her her child created these children gave giving them the gift and the promise of immortality for a betterment they her she her network is responsible for some of the most ethically sourced blood that is circulating through the circulatory system many of her children are professional donors so that other Kindred don't feel the bite of their Beast that certain members of our community can feed without having to kill they can feed without having to hunt without having to put other lives at risk she does great [Music] work I'm like furiously taking mental notes because the circulatory system is quite fascinating to me for a variety of reasons I'm like hm okay Duchess is in charge of various aspects of ethically sourced and Kindred meals okay somehow Gregory is called donkey and he's Associated like like she's she's not saying anything cuz she's clearly like focusing on trying to store things upstairs oh look donkey donkey over here hi hello a [ __ ] he stands up straight and uh waves and CH all you do see that this is someone that has fed on you mhm we've met I didn't know the clinic did uh I didn't know the clinic does meals uh to the door what is this door Dash Meals on Wheels I didn't bring my bib you dare um and as she says that as she pauses her mind recycling up to speed there there is an clearly unconscious movement on her part she crosses her body hanging onto her Satchel with her right hand her left meeting it as if she's holding a fullon arming sword at midgar and taking an in incidental step further away from both you and the now closely distant Gregory there is a muscle memory reaction to as she puts one and one together to find out that there's three things that are now visible the joking demarcation of feeding and door Dash and chals don't you dare ominous meant intended promise of violence puts her in 100% state of fight and flight or better yet fight to flight um um um just of course I stop reaching for my scalpel but I am not letting down my guard per um we're here for your sire so that we can um my friend uh my associate uh chal here could potentially am I interrupting something between you two no God I hope [Music] not there's no such thing like a m mhm when it's sore you need to stretch it a little bit there's no such thing is coincidence there's a rhyme and reason to the world around you and everything as unconnected as one thing might seem are all part of the full biosphere that we inhabit both Living Dead and all states in between energy is exchanged it moves from one form to the next unendingly forever donkey the donkey Mr donkey if you're being respectful Gregory having fed from the quick of shal's very slow dead flesh there is a heat and warmth of memory you remember what she tastes like the power that is potentially there and how it settled a hunger you didn't realize you had you knew and know what blood does you fed on and been fed on and understand the power of the kiss but in that moment of dining on chaval with the bullfrog there was a connection and it still is in fact there it was only a few nights ago it was only four nights ago where your fangs were lip deep in all that shal might ever have become ladies Let's uh get off the street I mean if you know anything it would be difficult for me to bring myself to harming you at this moment well that is a a good thing I I suppose but the fact that you've thought about it is not as um well it's not as comfortable as it should be but if you promise to take traval to your sire or The Duchess uh I'll consider uh I'll consider you a a friend an associate more than just a way to obtain access to the duchess and I won't tell anyone else what I know or don't know about this particular situation I hate to disappoint but you might be a bit out of the loop if you're expecting to find [Music] noria well uh she is known to go out of contact every couple of weeks um just let her know that claing says hello when she gets back and have her give me a call I miss our [Music] conversations oh I'll be sure she knows very good uh well jaal this is the donkey he's um nor child and Childer of The Duchess and The Duchess is even Kinder than my friend norya the duches like I said is a Lynch pin in regards to the system and her thin blood here will be able to get you where you need to go thank you much appreciated my my pleasure uh don't harm her please Mr donkey the moment I consider her a guest honor ties my hand She is safe h I will hold you to that I'll leave you now I why do you stay in such a place and she points towards your home near the roof a fixer upper but that's where they put me so you glance towards your home glance towards the treasure case the trophy case you take in the quiet almost Suburban haunted aspect of your building of your Haven your home all that you are and javal do you [Music] um shal's not much of a connoisseur of architecture I I mean she she she kind of does a more like functional appraisal potential entrances and exits um like if she had to get away what would be the best options more of a tactical appraisal I guess would be the right way to describe it understandable it is a very um safe tactic one should always know how to leave wherever one is potentially going and in taking in the building and taking in the home the the raised clearly reinforced basement a rarity it is a seldom seen thing crawl spaces and coold shoots aside basement are not common things that are merg into the Mississippi Mud typically remain there and are destroyed by its weight and its Slide the shifting that happens or worse yet flooded during the Rainy seasons and in consideration of the clear entrances and exits and those that may be hidden by utilizing breaking windows or slamming open doors you look towards Claudine to nothing there is nothing no one there the space where she had been the clearly visible there on the sidewalk with you compatriot space the accompanyment is gone it's as if it has always been empty and she was nothing more than a figment of your imagination as you focus on where she was it takes a little bit to even remember the details of her Ensemble it's [Music] Eerie at the same time although you know it's a tiny bit unsettling I know I can pull the same trick so I'm not yes but being victimized by it is another matter entirely that is disturbing because not only was there no sound that you had gotten used to you could in your head because you were paying attention to how you got here remember the sounds of her footfall remember that you remember the sound that her bag was making as it bumped against her hip that she moved she didn't move like a dancer or like an athlete or like someone who had been trained to cross a battlefield she moved like someone who was simply walking not trying to impress not trying to deceive not trying to do anything untour or deceitful not trying to Allure nor repulse simply travel and while those sounds were present every step along the way the sudden absence of them and this person that they belong [Music] to it inly feels like you were incidentally slapped now you know what victims of your silence feel when you go from making noise noises and being Sim similarly or giving off the semblance of being alive and then suddenly not silent as the promise of the grave now you get opportunity to feel what those who listen to you move through your Haven as you've tended to one patient or another and you've had to purposely or accidentally go completely silent you know what they feel while they're always a little unnerved and why [Music] you typically try not to typically you try to remember yourself and not to always be as silent as a cat and yet when you forget or when you're busy or when you're in the rush it falls over you far easily it's easy to be silent it's better for you then you can hear the chest sounds you can hear the nasal passages working you can hear and smell and see and take in all of the minute details of a person's being to discern portions of their health and in that silence that helps you see them hear them understand them clear you realize why they are so unnerved and yet at the same time I also have a little bit of a Ry smile on my face cuz it's like one I realize that the gacha is on me this time but also I'm simultaneously realizing that apparently even Claudine has limits to her dedication to openness and transparency [Music] indeed and speaking of transparency Clarity of thought and honesty it would not be incorrect to say that gig's purage her training into this state of existing was a labor it would not be dishonest to say that escaping the peage earning her status as a fully free and account aable member of the keepers of the magisters was a victory it was surmounting that mountain it is reaching the highest Apex that she had ever managed to attain that act of being counted as fully functioning and a member and yet during her peage sm's bulk the instinctual Menace of being so close to something so large and something so silent is was a horror at first the understanding that the strength that he possessed was not the same strength as another being of his size it was considerably more and knowing that the undead strength coursing through your being was the Rival of that and more still did not detract from the sheer monstrosity of his size and it's not the cartoon comic book overinflated chests and deltoids and biceps he he is simply all over large with the same proportions as one of the forge Smiths of the Gods one of the those of n AER who created the weapons of the Acer and the veneer his proportions are wholly wrong yet massive and as he gives you a moment of time to sus through your former clothing finer by any stretch of the imagination there is that feeling of hollow comfort you know that you are safe so long as and it's so long as that makes it Hollow cuz safety should not come at a cost existence should not come at a cost that threatens its very being and yet here you are rescued from the murky depths the cold [Music] grave he kind of like smirking to herself um she still doesn't know exactly what she looked like since they rescued her um all those months underwater definitely did a bit of a a a job on her but she's kind of touched her her face and stuff and checked where things are and she's finding like new lines [Music] and a sess that probably wasn't there before um trying to make herself look more like her original Self she she put on some blush and some ey Shadow and a darker lipstick and trying to J yourself [Music] up it's almost like a kid playing dress up like I'm putting on this mask I'm putting on this this Persona that is not my own anymore but fits sort of and um it's strange for her cuz she's she realizes she feels in behind her but she doesn't want to give into the fact that it disturbs her as much as it does so um as she's going through the clothing trying to pick out something that's put together but comfortable I see the old man ain't changed much still threatening still dangerous still full of them so but it is what it is and I am who I am and I will be who I am expected to be as it were and then uh putting on she doesn't even care about like changing clothes in front of him anymore cuz like I said it's kind of like that weird presence that's always there so you don't get freaked out by it um pair of black slacks a nice white button up well actually rad red would be better because she knows how things go you can't trust that clean clothes are going to stay clean so um red top black pants black suit jacket very much her loyally look and hair twisted up into a tight updo and then um turnning to look at him so what do we think I'm not really expecting an answer but she acts Him Anyway no sound not even the clicking blink of his eyes as he takes you in but then he moves stepping forward reaching past you his arm from the top of his bicep to the bottom of his tricep being almost the exact circumference of your head and he picks up your palette of makeup the small brush even smaller in his huge massive hands and he leans in from the waist and lightly applies and Smooths and blends the blush on your cheeks and adjusts your ey Shadow so that it highlights your eyes without drawing attention to the a few small imperceptible stress wrinkles that come from resurrecting not once but twice in a lifetime he adjusts the small flip and curl of your hair smoothing the lapels and making sure that there's not so much as one moat of dust on your shoulders and silently nods placing the makeup back down placing the brush back where it was and turns on his heels to lead you [Music] up there is that small bit of internal screaming going on inside her head but ohly she is calm and Placid and adjusting her watch um very much a Time piece that has seen many a year uh still analog she doesn't use digital watches for a very good [Music] reason Prince Molina is one of the blood she is blatantly and openly a Magister though most [Music] erroneously consider her one of the Blue Bloods most consider her one of the accepted members of the camarella from years and centuries gone by she's never been ashamed of her lineage she's never been ashamed of her blood but it has not proven worth the fight for to dispel certain people's biases and prejudices when it comes to and explaining that your bloodline that your clan is merely a connection of the blood and not prescriptive or descriptive of who and what a being might [Music] be proud of who and what she is yet ashamed that the preconceived notions even amongst the dead are the by word her pragmatic business ship and ability to lead solely being the purview of the blue blood how can a people who have the promise of forever be so intractably idiotic she's had to by Dent of necessity plant more Kindred than she has ever been comfortable with because of their own biases and prejudices Clan and blood means only what one chooses for to mean there's no such thing as a automatically artistic toy door there's no such thing as a well there are wizardly bookish academic jir but there's always the exception in having to treat the being based on their actions not their blood so the fact that Jah and Princess Molina get along so well is it has always been curious to you your side is a devout proponent that the Magister are in fact the keeper of all Kendrick kind camarella sword Asher the Leon all of them are solely children needing the leadership of the keepers there's not one amongst them that could be self-governing without their guidance without the guidance of the Keepers without the stabilizing hand of the magisters he is a devout clist the lambra are all that is good in Kindred [Music] kind you've heard that speech and variations on the theme for what feels like centuries on end and you've also heard the excuse me the opposite from Prince Molina the worth of a kindred is in their actions and it has nothing to do with the bounds of blood your blood doesn't prescribe nor dictate anything that your efforts don't earn and yet here you are back in GR B LA with your sire and Prince Molina at your sire's Haven with the finest n sitting on the table between them as they both sip from there donors as you enter Guided by [Music] Smite next to the ear are keys to take able itself as a strangly constructed solid marble thing that you are sure took Artisan several years to perfect in everything but mannerisms and pride in his blood your sire is the very definition of what an old vent true might be if the rumors and gossips and prejudices and biases were to be held held true your sire would be a blue blood of the most stereotypical variety yet proudly proclaims his status as a magist proudly holds on to the illusions of his own biases Rising as Smite enters after a silent knock the feeling of the knock reverberates forward into the room even as no sound travels and as he opens the door and leads you in to the view your sire tosses aside their donor allowing them to drop on the marble floor normally such a thing would cause a WP and a smacking of head against the marble you'd be able to hear it and Flinch at the sound of it but because of the very overwhelming hand of Oblivion there's not so much as a whisper a cloth silence as [Music] always [Music] we lose your Earnie technical difficulties sorry um she tries her best not to wince washing it because again does not wish to offend having just gotten her own life back uh she uh keeps her gaze towards the prince and um CH to smile good evening young Majesty it's a pleasure to see you again the prince looks up from her donor it was clear that she understood you were coming she could feel Smite SMI has his own orbit his own gravitation pull and yet she continued what she was doing and removed a small cief and dab the corners of her mouth and gently allowed her donor to fall in slow motion Guided by her hand to the floor once her donor was set aside she took the cief dabbing both hands and making sure there was nothing so much as a splatter out of place before smoothing her dress placing the cief back into her bosom and standing moving towards you as if she was drawn like a heat seeking missile in slow motion towards you her face brightening as she closes moving past SM as if he did not in fact exist her eyes meeting yours you've never seen a person of Latin descent with such bright startling green emerald eyes before but Prince Molina has been noted as such and as she gets closer you realize that it's not just bright green emerald that green it's not that solely there are Flex of gold [Music] around sprinkled like fairy dust through her eyes and she draws closer and smiles taking your hands into her home it is a pleasure to have you amongst us once more and it is an honor that you deliver and she looks back towards the ear [Music] this to the [Music] baroness I'm sure you remember baroness Lea [Music] yes it's been some time but I do recall them a bit yes they known for excellent while this does in all due regard belong to Prince Christopher it suits us that the Nest delivers it personally you it is late yes but they should be able to provide you with safe haven for your return if you are not able to make it before Sunrise the car has been the vehicle has been gashed by Smite and there are atlases in the trunk if you hurry along you should be able to return here before [Music] sunrise and she takes a step to her left your right making way for you to move past her and while SMI has always been an eerie threat his huge sides a threat in and of itself amongst all of this silent forboding that it has been your foundational years amongst the dead there is something even more troubling having to willingly take your gaze from a prince level Kindred close enough to put their hands on you close enough to put their fangs on you close enough to have their way with you the moment that you are two steps past there's a saying an aphorism that everyone one takes the heart stuck between a rock and a hard place and In This Moment looking at the ear it is hard for Gigi to decide which of the two is The Rock and which is the hard [Music] place and with that we are comfortably at 50 past the hour let's take a quick tin and be back here at the start of the [Music] hour all right folks players characters one and all are we [Music] back yes I am [Music] present all right so to catch those of us who have not been here for the first half up here's where we're building towards just to give you an idea the temporary codery of Dr chaval formerly Claudine the salubri Gregory the dragon and Gigi the lasombra are on a path of either Collision or cooperation for the evening [Music] their end goal of course being telegraphed as it is is the delivery of a parcel and information to the least suspected Source being the baroness herself and we've just taken a quick aside a quick break a quick vent of all of the potential pined up respon responses to the threats banded about as if they were handshakes because in their first meeting since the last dining on one another in one shape fashion or form traval and Gregory are standing several feet apart on a sidewalk in what would appear to be a Suburban environment just outside of the warm embrace of the street lights the called us out where Gregory lives Dead ending just past their abod just past the warm electronically lit homes all about him his Haven standing out as desperate from all of the others and in this near Gloom of suburban Mississippi the two Kindred stand far enough apart where they could declare that they are safely able to fire if they were engaged in a duel his van having just idled down thanks to him cutting off the ignition the night sounds bombarding them in their gap of Silence because this is a lot the kiss is magical in how it forces connections how it ties souls or slivers of Souls together in the pleasure that it gives the Kindred and the living there's also the horror of knowing that someone fed on you that it stands at complete opposite antithesis to what the kiss [Music] promised so as chaval and Gregory stand alone just the two of them on a quiet Suburban street is there anything that they might be discussing um pardon me I'm going to I was snacking on something this is not vampire chall one sec [Music] um um [Music] yeah uh I'm trying to I'm trying to think of how sha would word [Music] this have you heard about the [Music] Frog Gregory frowns says I say you are invited into my Haven so we can discuss things leave the way Gregory leads shabal up the porch of the house and opens the [Music] door there's a pit in every movie where the sound seemed too loud being this close to him standing and that door creaking open as if it is the last final warning for your freedom there is a realization Claudine may not have been a help in a fight she was petite and small clearly unarmed clearly overly helpful and communicative and at best would be a casualty in most Marshal engagements yet she was still another presence you are a alone in the middle of nowhere with someone who has had their fangs in your flesh you are alone in the middle of nowhere with no one knowing where you are and being invited into a private Abode Dr traval what if anything is going through your mind well the last time I entered a place um there are certain things that [Music] will there are certain things that like I I said I was tactically evaluating place on the outside there are certain things that would trigger me to just like go straight for a window and GTFO like if anything resembles um the way Basilica basically treated me like a cage Pig and that you know what yeah that's probably the right way to think about it treated me like a caged Pig like in in her mind the religious disrespect is deserved and in terms of the way she felt about that whole interaction [Music] um yeah she's she's GNA she's going to like if if NE if neb should rather like explode the place and burn it all to the ground than be stuck like that [Music] again it simply won't [Music] happen but for [Music] now um she's going to walk into the [Music] house but keeping her guard up the whole time and she's constantly like casing and recasing the joint as it were making sure she knows where all the potential exits are and so forth even looking for things like potential weapons of opportunity and so forth [Music] when the door opens you see straight through to the back door in the kitchen there's a staircase to your left going upstairs on the right what would be a sitting room a living room the furniture is all wrong it is display cases letting the walls taking up the majority of the floor space you see swords mounted to the wall swords in cases you see trophies plaques ribbons newspaper clippings all this on display while being able to see through to the back puts a little bit more at EAS because now it's like okay it's very obvious this place is not arranged like the silica's establishment it's not designed to hold people in it's not a it's not a it's not a fortress and it's not a prison or at least it's not easily made either as far as I can tell so I mean I'm still wary but I'm not as on edge because I could just bolt out the back door anytime I needed to shal Welcome to the trophy case my little gilded cage here on the coast appropriate name i v un [Music] Arrangements [Music] but I've I should probably make a call to see if I can get an audience with the [Music] duchess protocol usually you have to go out and find a phone booth but I don't think you would want to go out for a hunt for a something that's dying out hm um what would I roll to determine if I would know where the closest phone booth [Music] is uh no role necessary what is [Music] chal's memorization just raw statistical fact so intelligence plus [Music] technology uh six dice she know knows that based on where she is on the coast sitting here a stone's throw from Mississippi City in the heart of the anarch portion of the pentar that while very few places actually have um operational phones everyone carries their surveillance devices in their pockets these days that um there is a b bed and breakfast a little less than A4 of a mile away over near Centennial Plaza which is again straight over railroad down and around and up and in you'd go because uh the only other way in is down Beach Boulevard into cinal Plaza but there is a pay phone and a house phone available at the Grand Centennial which look for you all is a 24 hours establishment um okay I didn't memorize all that I am simply going to relay all of that information to Gregory on the spot and go that's it's close enough we'll be fine I've used that one last month but you it was a month ago so I like to rotate them it's been up a lot mileage on my van but yeah yeah yeah security protocols it's understandable all right you could potentially head over to the lucky end well Gregory would know that the lucky in is a hair bit closer and far less secure in terms of person but if they do have a landline you can talk to the death person to use you can convince them that you're just down on your luck you just need 25 cent to get gas for your tire you need to call someone and bring you know you don't have your card and or you can just pay them it is in fact a very seedy hotel it is very much a you can get a nap rate if you know the lingo so using their house phone using their phone is a possibility and a potentiality of course doing so places you all in potential physical [Music] hardal you have a real good sense of danger around here um I'm not so sure about that but it always pays to be wary well I guess the safest bet would be the one I used lot month we could load up in my van okay if you don't mind I will sit in the back sure no problem uh so this was very much a quick in and now they're exiting [Music] mhm there is a conment a that immediately comes to mind when getting close enough to actually take in Gregory's van everyone has even newly arrived to America by way of the Middle East chaval has an understanding as to what that sort of van does and while yes is used in most of the trades it is a panel V it is a service V it's a vehicle that's usually stocked in the back with tons and tons of things to do a particular trade woodworking carpentry electricity and so forth and so on however the connotation has nothing to do with the trades the connotation is that it is a kidnap van because once you are in that vehicle there's a good chance that you won't be leaving in the same state that you entered it into that's exactly the sort of Van this is that's exactly the sort of Van that that you've seen the Los Angels and various other Kindred across the coast traveling along in it's actually a 200 Ford minivan the only thing missing is a sign on this side that says free candy inside don't mind the uh the scuff back oh okay it's more than scuff I have to admit if you a while ago I got into a bit of a wreck but but don't worry the lights's working we won't get pulled over appreciate the reassurance the idea of getting trapped inside and having to fight your way free is a very hard one to shake and swallow but at least you'll be sitting behind them so there a less chance that they can that he can do that again less oh frankly if I suspect he's going to try that um I don't care if he's driving all attack him so that's not I like that's part of the reason I'm unconcerned I know I get the jump on him I get the first strike if I think he any funding business is going on so Gregory are you heading toward the Centennial Plaza or you going to go to the notel motel better known as the lucky [Music] in Plaza would be the as you said the safest yes physically physically cuz you did use that line not too recently not too far ago to contact a kindred and not just any Kindred a kindred with political aims and goals and maybe on someone's watch list maybe someone who has people shadowing them maybe someone who's a little paranoid about being caught out ja all as long as you give me an extra pair of eyes we could try the end I will head to the end the lucky end like most business in and around the coast it is solely focused on turning a quick buck and solely focused on exploiting as much new business as possible Lucky in for all of its seediness is relatively close to the to the water relatively close to the Waterfront um Beach Boulevard provides you with easy access to it it has the only driveway off of Beach Boulevard in the entirety of this little cold deack the problem being is leaving eastbound over 16th Street you can either take Texas down to each the Beach Boulevard which means you have to cross what is Rel relatively actually an expressway twice versus if you go the long way to Courthouse Road there's a sheriff's office they next to the Gulfport Leisure Services right there at 16th at Courthouse Road and while your vehicle is operational it's patched together and held together with you know good intentions and better hopes there's a chance that it would attract attention there's a chance that it would be noticed which mean you couldn't come back that way which mean you still have to cross the highway twice to get to the lucky end what is your resolve plus drive or wits plus Drive resolve plus Drive is five oh yeah you you've done it several times before there's no problem yeah so what is 90 is one of the busiest uh local interstate expressways in the area but and it's just a street it's just a road if you're brave enough and bold enough it won't be an issue at all even at this late hour most of the drivers are impaired either through being tired from heading to work or heading home from work or heading to the bar or heading home from the bar or simply just moving through the coast to get to New Orleans their impairment has nothing to do with you you're good you haven't had a drink yet which is part of the problem because you really could use one can really use a sip of something hot and vibrant I would be salivating right now if that still worked uh Gregory uh turns on an audio book of uh The Art of War as he's driving chal to the lucky end that is perfectly appropriate nothing like planning on how to disarm and win the fight before the opponent knows you're doing so nothing like the ramblings of a very refy British voice extoling the virtues of Deceit and deception while you have someone sitting behind you who you fed upon it is in fact the opposite of that for chal hearing how to disarm the enemy before they have the opportunity to strike provide them the opportunity of understanding that they have the upper hand to to attack them where they are strongest and as you make the effort of Crossing 90 and the world explodes into a vibrant tapestry of broken glass screaming metal and the world going Topsy Turvy all of your good intentions and hopes for the best disappear oh [ __ ] another car wreck you were crossing the expressway my friend and as you cross the express way to make the the left into the lucky in unfortunately impairment has its bright side it's up Tick it makes it so that you go limp when your vehicle collides meets and aggressively hugs the van crossing the espressway at such a late hour of the evening chal what's your witch to oh you didn't see it happen until it happened there was everything's fine the smooth relaxing very nerve-wracking refined British voice echoing from his speaker slightly staticky extoling the virtues of disarming the enemy and maximizing one's Effectiveness in achieving one's goals of conquering and then there was flashing lights of cars heading in your direction there was the encroaching brightness growing and growing and growing and you look past him keep taking your eyes off of the back of the donkey to see a vehicle which is unrelenting in its oncoming and you realize that the impact is not only imminent but happening as you watch in slow motion aware that he may have purposely driven into this car there's no reason to cross the expressway the way that he did the the expressways are for quick moving traffic to get where they're going and then he's Crossing and smash crash bang the world flipping upside down round and round until you all come to a stop at the entrance of the lot because it was only one inreased level of difficulty you all flipped and rolled and landed on the tires of the van and as the van comes rocking to a stop the windshield shattered into a spider web of just these horribly graphic White Lines obstructing the street the expressway just outside of it the world sounds far Lou louder than it should the rich refined English voice extoling the virtues of sun zo tell in is the only intimate moment that you have with all of the chaos and noise outside of the vehicle chal's paranoid security conscious mind itself is aware that the last thing you you need in light of recent troubles on the coast is to be caught witnessed viewed at an accident where neither one of you are As Dead As you should be there should be blood all over the inside of this van there should be graphic tragic collision damage all about you all because the airbags had already been deployed so even though the front top of the steering wheel popped off there was no bag there to soften or cushion anything this vehicle doesn't have side curtain airbags so you unbuckled him relatively unbuckled because of his strength and size and the fact that the seat belt had had to be cut free the last crash and impact you all should be pounded like cube steak you all should be well broken and more ways than could be easily fixed and [ __ ] that guy sped up how much superficial do we take in this moment none effectively mechanically right now you are you are dead so there's not a real issue with this Collision it's Crash okay all right forget the car we got to move and speaking of moving in the few years since you were last here on the coast in the area the roads have changed the construction on 90 and the construction on 10 swirling through that Clover Leaf got you a little turned around so you find yourself GG somewhere where you're not sure there's the breaking waves and the beach there to your left and you know that you need to go west until you see those flashing lights of bliss you those bright neon signs and you should have been there by now cuz normally the travel from Grand Bay to Bliss is one of roughly 46 minutes almost exactly you remember that much from your peerage and yet here you are 53 and 1/2 minutes in and you still haven't seen Bliss you've passed by the mall you've passed by uh that that yacht dealer that's there by those Towers it's only 7et tall well seven stories tall but it's the towers here because there's not many tall buildings right on the coastline in this area area of the coast everything's three four two stories tall but the tow is right there next to the yacht Sals you don't want to say lot cuz they don't keep any boats there but it it's and you still haven't seen Bliss the construction and the updating and the repairing and the changing of things has you moving across 90 and you want it to stay on 10 and yet here you are you see the sign or a sign that you can pull off and check the atlas in the trunk so easing into the lot you pull into one of the parking slips and you see the well tanned tourists who are up way past their at bad times far to a need liated and far too easy of victims for you you don't want to be impaired though there is the urge to take a quick sip or two the Shadows are dark enough there's just enough cover no one would notice but then there's the fact that you must make this delivery do you take the time to attempt to hunt I need that last bit one more time I think you broke up a little bit for me do you take the time to attempt to hunt no this isn't a familiar area for her so she would uh be cautious especially seeing as how the last time she had uh something unfamiliar to eat it ended up with her in Lake Michigan well the ocean is definitely different than the lake after all you have more space you have more time there's an opportunity of well that's got to be a sign from whatever Powers exist Beyond this world lucky that means something that means for two it is that means that you you know you should have the the best of opportunities and Chan and things should be looking up for you right seems as if we are experiencing technical difficulties with GG let's get GG was the one that crush us welcome back all sorted or we still uh having connectivity issues that was the last of it it's raining here and ever since like this one big thunderstorm it's messed up everything so we're good I think we okay right now though okay sorry about that no no worries so lucky the sign says lucky there's something else underneath it but you can't make it out because someone clearly didn't care enough to replace all of the bulbs or any of the bulbs on whatever it says underneath the lucky portion so as you pull into the lot and there's no way you don't smell the bottom of the barrel rot gut whiskey beer and whatever else that they're drinking these days whatever the kids find popular uh wafting even from a distance of 25 30 ft where the closest living person that's moving across that little sidewalk in front of the building is the stench hitting you with so much water over there the ocean is literally there less than 100 ft away from where you're parked and these people smell like the absolute rink is there's no way that alcohol goes bad right but you can swear that whatever they've been drinking is bad it's past this expiration date so you step out of out of your provided late model American sedan it's not luxurious it's comfortable it's broken in and it doesn't break down when you touch it which is the only thing that's really important in this particular case you're on basically a fetch Quest that you have to accomplish so that the debt of your Resurrection is fully paid your unlife is your own you had been granted full leave yet here you are doing a job that's better suited for a fresh out theing Childer to making your way to the trunk of your vehicle to get the that you were told was there the sound of metal meaning metal the screams of some person or another and several others draws your attention towards the express way you've just exited flipping as if it was a gymnast coming to a stop is what color of hand Gregory a pale blue like a dusted blue in other words a sort of Van that should you know self ulate and explode after all of these years because there's only so long a vehicle like that should be on the road that it handles like a boat on dry land it doesn't have 20 years too old yeah it has a maneuverability of the most corpulent hippopotamus in a waiting pool you have ever seen the top speed is definitely on par with current cars however the acceleration leaves a lot to be desired so a shal offers a bit of wisdom as you realize that people suck people absolutely positively suck people are horribly rushed and don't provide themselves enough time to get where they need to go and are willing to take chances with their lives you find yourself in the mouth of the driveway into the lucky in GG as a lawyer there are several things that you're supposed to do at a crash one of them is not flee the scene cuz even as a witness you're are now liable even as a witness until your statement is taken because you witnessed a crash or the after effects of a crash there are legal responsibilities that could draw undo attention what is it that you all do javal Gregory GG um I get out of the van unharmed yeah I get out of the van unharmed but as soon as I'm done opening the door I'm going into stealth mode I am activating uh Silence of death and unseen Passage and I will roll for the Rous does it still work when there's a conscious Observer no but that comes from experience but go on so I mean unless Gregory's looking straight at me it should work Gregor Gregor is not the only potential witness but that's not something that javal has grasp up in the moment the world just exploded there's nothing but residual of pain there's it's it's a lot being in the crash literally changes your perspective on everything in the moment even being dead the Collision the kinetic damage is still there while it doesn't stop you while it doesn't break you while it doesn't send you into pieces it is still reverberating through you and that's what jaal is because the world is floating you're with a predator you're were someone who actually not only put their mouth on you but sunk things and took from you vital portions of yourself and then this all right I'm hungry Gregory G tearing the door off cuz I'm guessing it's caved in yes I am angry I uh before fleeing I give the other car the what the [ __ ] hands because there's no way I Ed that poorly you [ __ ] sped up he saw me and sped up the [ __ ] and I start moving away from the wreck I already did look pretty roughed up a bit before the wreck yes so it could be plausible that I was injured from the wreck however you don't often see someone that roughed up from a wreck walking away from the [Music] wreck and GG you witnessed a crash that will definitely cost at least one life we not sure how many people are in the pimped out G wagon that was traveling at speed but the fact that the door on the van opens and the other is kicked out of well far too far from the actual van itself as a relatively large well muscled individual steps out motioning towards the G wagon which looks very much unlike a G wagon in this present moment it's front end the driver's portion is dented far enough in that the engine is sitting against the driver's crushed legs the airbags fully completely deployed so they off youate and block the faces of those who might be inside you're not sure whether it's two or three people besides the driver but and chaval is exiting the vehicle relatively unharmed the fact that they are able to walk in and of itself would be a miracle by most people who are looking on and in this day and age the phones come out oh my God I'm going call police they start yelling even though other people like oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] and drk slurge speech trying to catalog this to put up on their social media of all stripe and variety as GG does [ __ ] [ __ ] I didn't need this I didn't need this and she's trying to noticing that they both get up unharmed makes her raise her eyebrow for a minute oh [ __ ] we got to get out of here I can't be call her and she's looking at tral first trying to catch their attention like I can see you you see me and um motioning to come this way and point to the car behind her and this is first time for everyone being in the same area at the exact same time to all as you go invisible and you feel yourself no longer present you feel the drives of the Beast powering you pushing through the remnant of pain and the understanding of how much graphic tragic damage you would have had had you been living GG would you be so kind to describe who is attracting chal's attention uh Gigi is about hold on let me pull her sheet up so I will be correct in how tall she is um she's a butter pecan colored female uh kind of on the petite side very curvy um FL seven and um her hair is a reddish brown currently pulled up into a high upd dressed in a red blouse under black business soup top and bottoms um very dark stick she looks like she's been through a little bit of something but still very pretty kind of oddly youngl looking in aition different way but um very large white eyes but then there's that bit of Darkness about her uh and it's literal both literal and figurative uh kind of around her the Shadows are a little heavier than maybe they should be but yeah she is trying to get the driver and the passenger's attention like come here to all Gregor okay um I imagine it's stupidly obvious that there are cell phones out everywhere and that my little trying to go invisible stunt did not work yeah and just to um draw and underscore when someone is in a position of danger the good right thing to do is to attempt to help this is a global understanding even in the Battle Zone even on in the middle of a war if there is an accident a unexpected Collision the soldiers and those involved the combatants will often stop fighting each other to help say here save in this moment save in this space of time instead of upstanding good individuals rushing forward to pull people from the crash instead of someone attempting to actually call for help first thing you see people turning their backs to catch their faces and the crashed vehicles behind them you see people with their phon pointing in your direction to flash on not to find out if anyone's hurt but to capture this moment for a posterity of where no one cares it is reaffirming as to how deceitfully dangerous humankind can be in their selfishness and they're seeking to connect to other selfish self-centered individuals instead of rushing forward to help instead of rushing forward to even call for help they're trying to capture this moment for their own Prestige like look what I saw look what happened near me look at me uh how many are we talking or is it too hard for me to discern due to time crunch time crunch okay then speaking of the same sort of consideration how well is Gigi attracting my attention if at all considerably in the grand Sea of Faces who are trying to capture or get close enough to get the whole scene and view of their cameras there is a calm Center of Darkness beckoning urging you forward just as she described herself she's the only entity within easy viewable range that is not pulling out a cell phone and is not trying to raise up the screen towards you to capture the crash there is you there is Gregory the C of camera and the Flash from those cameras on those phones the victims in the other car and the driver of the other [Music] [Music] [Music] vehicle I would be going in the direction I see shal going if I if the W so I I'm so I'm so okay shal is also a doctor and she used to be an emergency room doctor so there's a bit of like there's a bit of a huge WTF going on right now and in fact due to a bit of cognitive dissonance just from the cheer moment at first the words that come out of her mouth are in Hebrew which of course does nothing on the crowd but she realizes quickly and she points at an individual and she says you get help for them she's like deliberately trying to get them like dude there are people hurt try to do something about [Music] it and she like deliberately singles out somebody so that they can't be like it's not my tons of people here like she's seen that before she's like no not having it not having it right now get help would you be so kind as go ahead and roll your charisma and leadership as high as you possibly can sadly a really really crappy rooll for me but okay probably accentuated by the Hebrew uh all right Life play [Music] dice I only have one dice in it doesn't matter no a chance is a chance okay uh okay uh notes uh Charisma plus uh you said leadership right yes okay and then um hunger three not like it matters so I don't get a roll zero [Music] successes not not a not a beastial unfortunately we'll come back to that because sadly with zero successes yeah people suck people are 100% the absolute worst humanity is a thriving multiplying cess pool in this particular case and these are the kind words echoing up and out of the center of your being one of the few times in chal's existence where the Beast and her former self meld into one gestal being because there should be the attempt and effort to help those who are clearly in Dire Straits in the other vehicle there should be the attempt there should be hundreds of hands from the people that you can see the Sea of Faces hiding behind screens and behind the flash of their cameras on those phones are their personal surveillance device they are clearly addicted to there should be an outpouring of the milk of humankindness and instead you get blank face who who the [ __ ] is she talking to B talking to me what the [ __ ] and it is infuriating it is the definition of burn it all and you've never heard something so alluring from your Beast you have never heard something so in the moment logically resonant because they don't deserve to propagate any longer they don't deserve to be callous selfish waste any longer and it's an effort to keep the beast from taking this driving of what happens next you have scalples you can be through at least two three four six of them before they even realize what happens all it would take is a nice little slick a nice little wave of your hand as you pass them as you move towards them and through them a flash here a flash there you already know where all of the arteries are you don't even have to aim for the karate you could hit the one in the arm you get the break heuel you could be through them and safely away from the side of this crash before they even realize what happened they'd be dead without ever realizing that they ceased to actively be living they'd blink and it'd be over and you'd be doing the population nothing but good and Gregory in this moment as you are trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with this guy yeah he clearly sped up wait it's not a guy but it doesn't really matter because that's a [ __ ] idiotic thing to do you're run an expressway you should be aware of the other drivers on the road you should be responsible for yourself and others and yet this person was not clearly they were impaired clearly they weren't thinking they looked away they did whatever they did and here you are in the middle of a mess and it feels far too familiar you fought in front of of audiences of 2 five 300 people screaming your name and that's what this feels like you are on Center Stage there are enough cameras present to capture not only your good angles but your best angles arms thrown wide the the pose of EV Victors you're asking what the [ __ ] was that guy's problem why would you do that you realize that chal while pointing at and directing and trying to do what feels like the right thing that at this notel Motel a Stones Throw from the expressway with the entirety of the ocean out there in the gulf roiling and waving at you adding its own Applause to all of the cameras and gazes and eyes on you that just pass them just pass the Ring of flashes and the screens turning towards you capturing the scene as it's in the offing is a dark corner of Solace the dichotomy between the phenetic rush to film and catalog everything and the quiet beckoning out there just past these people who are closing in some of them getting angry at being called out the relatively fit muscular individual that you all pointed towards someone who should be able to at least help open the door and get people out and the anger that's swelling up across his face and being called out in front of his drunken friends it's all conflating into this one singular moment of chaos what is it that you do I know I shouldn't be in the spotlight anymore it feels good but I need to flee so I start going towards chal and if I do have the situational awareness I am seeing that this guy is potentially going to be a [Music] threat two actions yes you have it tapped out in your timed out in your head you know the general response time to a drunken idiot who has this camera that is now no longer in front of him like a ward against evil spirits but it's dropping to his side and he's the [ __ ] you calling me out for what the hell's your problem what the [ __ ] are you speaking speak American we're not some Mexican country what's wrong with you [Music] man and you can feel the rage building to a flash point you can see he's going to do some lumbering overhanded wide swipe that would imbalance himself and probably hit everyone except for his intended target you've been in this situation before you fought oscarson two weeks before you were embraced and he was a similarly large individual he used a actual honest goodness antique Claymore as his weapon most people who fight uh historic European martial arts use modernly modern forg weapons most people use modern forged armor he was so proud of his tonic Heritage that he was using antiques of course he'd have them you know reforged and remmi it based on his activity but he was using actual Earnest of goodness and cries and proudly proclaiming his Heritage with each fight this wide huge sweeping archs that he do these damaging punishing blows that he'd rain down you had him down to a science you timed him out you know with that gentleman size how soon is going to take to get that engine of Destruction [Music] moving if if he swings at me I Sid I'm going to Sid step that this is how I would have avoided those [Music] blows there's a part of you that grows excited there's a part of you that's looking forward to what you're going to take from him as trophy is it that stupid Puka shell necklace is it that Smartwatch that's on the wrong wrist is it no it's that hat it is definitely the [ __ ] hat that's going to look so cool next to the clipping of your first fight that you won it was unheard of that an amateur such as yourself could stand so easily against a regional Champion yet you did you pulled it off you got the newspaper as proof even now all of these years later and that stupid pale blue hat with the image of Mario pissing on Sonic the Hedgehog's head would look perfect next to that newspaper clipping you can move [Music] the gauntlet that you took from oscarson a few inches to the left and it would sit perfectly right there I could probably get a stand for at Hobby Lobby um so just a quick question um I imagine that the guy is not going to be swinging at Greg before he swings at me is that is that fair like it looks like he's gearing up to punch me I'm going to [ __ ] take him by the arm it looks like he's closing to have a very passionate heart F conversation cuz there's no way that someone as drunk as that could see clearly enough to actually be able to be effective in a in a fight he he's clearly confused by what you were saying that his angry response is one of ignorance he simply doesn't get it he's trying to close so he can understand you what is this talking about you spoke in clear direct language and it confus him clearly that's what's going on with that alcohol soaked bright red eyed individual who looks like he in his sober State bench presses other people it's clearly just confusion inciting that anger right um shal's not that [Music] dumb um okay I don't I like I actually know that chaos is good in this situation because otherwise all the attention's going to be on that's like not what I want um so I'm actually going to try to get him to like swing and miss and hit some other dude like I'm going to deliberately try to position myself so that like when he does try to take a swing he's going to end up like punching some random bystander I actually want a sort of fracus to break out and to try to be out from under it if that makes [Music] sense all right so several things are happening at once and while they are GG seeing this scene begin to boil over what is it that you're doing the driveway leads you through this crowd of gathering idiots these drunken tourists and locals will have nothing to do but to kill more and more of their brain cells by EMB bibing whatever substances that they have drunk smoke ingested in all manner of orifices and instead of doing the human thing instead of doing what would have been done as little as you know six 7 years ago these idiots are escalating in levels of violence they're hyping themselves up man I want take that [ __ ] who what does she say she [ __ ] communist damn Russians he K man and they're at the mouth of the driveway out of this place they are closing on the two individuals exiting the van while the G wagon which is no longer a G wagon is more of a uh crunched up Q wagon the victims the individuals inside of it there's a connection that every Magister has to the very soul of the afterlife to Oblivion itself the essence of the opposite of life and you feel it there's a silent sound that alarms at the mega multi-on explosion of a soul Crossing from this world into the next the world is in light and there's no fireworks but you can feel it you can smell it taste that bright moment when a living entity [Music] stops and these idiots are preparing to drunkenly defend their honor at being called [Music] out um it's irritating it's very much irritating cuz I figure that's the only way out right yes there is no they're blocking her [Music] Escape so um I guess I got to handle this and she does not want to do what she's about to do but she about to do it anyway it starts walking away from the safety of her vehicle and towards the group and as she does so she's going to pull up Touch of a so then it starts smacking people all right all right light calls to light action calls to action um which is almost the antithesis to the balanced state of being the most understanding people exist in a busy mind means a calm body a calm body means a busy mind you want to keep things in Balance but chaos unlike all measure of keeping things in equilibrium calls like to like and blood calls to blood it pulls and strokes and collects more of itself multiplying upon itself over and over in situations like this everything's happening effectively at once would you be so kind toal as to roll your manipulation plus brawl Gregory being your action is initially a defensive one though not of yourself would you be so kind is to roll your strength plus Athletics and GG would you be so kind as to go ahead and roll your strength plus Oblivion for me please no braw necessary because all it takes is a touch but we're going to approximate here and that will set the difficulty of the chaos that is fomenting and multiplying around you all for your sake roll as high as you possibly can oh uh I'm going to oh yeah Rouse yes [Music] Rouse is GG at Hunger one or yes was it supposed to be higher yes okay just double checking everything there is correct uh and actually just because I'm going to roll failures [Music] five I'm going to power to roll mine [ __ ] I got a beastial [Music] failure not hungrier on my R check there is no accounting for Fate's taste much like the old aphorism and understanding that man plans and God laughs fate God's little cousin is equally bamus with the actions of the living and the dead so as chval manages to incite the idiot to full bore action not the shoving and pushing of a schoolyard childish violent action but no the dedicated intent to take that and the expletives that are flowing from him him are so voluminous as to blend together to impart the drunken feeling of Dishonor he feels at being called out by some Russian who can barely speak English He despite all of his idiocy even in his drunken state is the powerhouse sred on by the assessive successes of chaval being able to manipulate him in this moment he literally came unarmed to a battle of wills while chaval was wielding hers very much like the scalpel in her Pockets the wide arcing blow hits one person on the way through only to have Gregory intercede before the blow could come close enough to interact with javal who was already dancing back in preparation of getting away from this fras of [Music] chaos and Gigi acting the part of Moses moving into the crowd from behind causing very very active and earn his momentary death in those that she touches it's a temporary taste of what is to come all it takes is a brush and Oblivion itself tells people to move by yeting them like the baby and the bath water the moment the actions of chval and Gigi phenomenally successful as the Pokemon trainers say it's super effective all they it would be Gregory is a freshly dead Kindred and in this moment what should have been a simple armar what should have been a simple hip toss what was easily caught by him is a mauling in the moment Gigi has been dead twice G understands what it's like to be fed on by lower life forms fish and Ling and various other things chaval has seen bodies obliterated by all manner of impact ballistic explosive kinetic she understands how much damage the human body can take and how quickly that can change from dangerous to immediately life-ending and Gregory snarling Vis summons up the image of the ball Rock rising over the mountain Wagner playing in the background the sky darkening because as he steps in to catch the blow that was stirred on and spurred on by the idiots drunken aggression and chal out gunning and out Manning him in the Battle of wit and chal already stepped easily back out of range of being hit and Gigi coming upon it from the opposite side the crowds sparting like the Red Sea Gregory REM moves the idiot's arm from its socket and no not the easy sort of removal that you do with a chicken wing no the sinus the muscles they stretch and tear and are hanging as if they are overstretched rubber bands keeping the arm connected to the body but removed from the socket the flesh looking as if it had been exploded by shaped charges the snarl on his face gives you the clear understanding that underneath all of that calm plastic seaming is the heart of a [Music] monster you've seen you've seen worse things happen to people but putting your finger on exactly when is very difficult to do as the splatter erupts from the torn arteries in that arm as the crowd many of whom were egging him on Dro phones immediately in the understanding that's not what's supposed to happen in a fight yeah people get their head broken open by Smashing against the concrete yeah people get damag in in all manner of ways in a fight but not like [Music] that you immediately are hit with the scent of explosive feces as people lose their lunch in various ends those splattered by the hot warm overwhelming pressure of fresh blood smacking against them and perfuming the sky around you all and then those who were close enough to have been knocked aside by the touch of Oblivion [Music] fear has a scent has a stench but it's hard to discern in the spray of arterial blood it's hard to discern in the scrabbling scrambling scraping sounds of people fleeing from the moment is hard to discern as even the mortally wounded individuals in the formerly G Wagon in the middle of this Lane of the espressway begin screaming in outright Terror and attempting to flee their own deaths watching this happen [Music] so everyone's booking it they've just watched a smaller man a smaller less visibly fit [Music] man arm hook another man's arm out of socket through the Flesh and are sprayed they are baptized in the arterial blood of that larger clearly more fit [Music] man um well they're all running for their [Music] lives and I don't particularly feel like trying to save this jerk's life so [Music] um I'm going to walk towards the [Music] car cuz I don't know what I could do to possibly alleviate the situation anyway I think my best option is to like hey somebody offered to help me get out of here let me take him up on that offer now GG Gregory chaval what is your present hunger three 2 G chose at [Music] one so while your intrusive thoughts while your other half while that portion of you that is the essence of your animated state of Undead doesn't rise to the four there's nothing like drunk alcohol and drug Laden blood to stir a little you know I could eat for Gregory that I could eat is backed by a little more heft and for chal if not for a supreme level of understanding your state in the world you would be mouth open attempting to catch droplet after droplet of the arterial spray like they were snowflakes falling from the sky it smells strangely alluring it's hot it's warm it's the essence of life and it's flowing freely you don't even have to worry about licking the wound and cover it up all you have to do is throw your head back and the blood that's already soaking in through your skin from the spray and catch it and actually enjoy [Music] it the Hat's ruined [Music] but T so sweet I uh I understand the situation is [ __ ] so I am going in the same direction as shal and I am taking off the top layer of my clothing uh keeping my undershirt my black undershirt GG well this is why GT is wearing black and red anyway but same time G's looking at them you and me both I'm only wearing black this why I said come on if y'all want to get the hell out of here we have to leave now I'm assuming looking at the two of them that we are all of the similar disposition and being caught here once the cops actually get here we should not be here agreed so come on I'm not I'm not even bothering to say anything I'm beining for the door hoping that it's open what I'm just going to open back door if it's open I'm it's it's opening and I'm getting in what is everyone StreetWise how many dots in Street wise did you all have excellent GG chal as it said zero oh okay I I heard uh Greg zero g is at two oh yeah so you know that the average time for uh Mississippi sheriff or Highway Patrol to get to a crash is roughly 10 minutes from point of impact the impact happened 3 and 1/2 minutes ago you guys have 6 and 1/2 minutes to be far enough away to not be easily recognizable are your doors open she carrying them up yeah oh she remember she got out to go look in the pH yes but I'm speaking of the back doors on on your sedan the passenger door and the the rear door mhm all right it would be online excellent so as you all speed away from the scene of a crash violating all sorts of uh Good Samaritan law leaving behind you several bodies and several soon to be cooling corpses as you head West along 90 is there any conversation or is everyone just stoically calmly dealing with the realities of this particular situation what the [ __ ] happen I don't know why me but just say this is well I'm I'm going to actually introduce myself hi my name is Safari thank you for helping us out what's your [Music] name [Music] seems as if we're not completely free of our technological issues and difficulties with introductions being made and the Knight doing what the Knight does stealing ever onward towards the [Music] day the three Kindred rushing away from the scene of a crime and well escaping by the Skin of Their Teeth sorry back uh she would probably ask them for help finding the place she was looking for Bliss oh and I and I tell her I tell her exactly how to get there yeah have been there [Music] before it's funny balancing out this moment with where they're heading where they're heading is a Mecca of night life it is the center of the anarch Empire here on the coast it is a

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