Man how discouraging for our game. I can try to recruit yet again or call it on accout of dawn finally arriving.
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Li: the guards at the far right side of the terminal are definitely working for kindred and somewhat obvious but it is in the small metallic slide of a round chambering some where above you in the loft the concerns you...
Marcel: heavies: as you slowly pan around the bus station you spot a couple of guys wearing American Security outfits who are much more... Buff and paying attention at a security desk sitting off to the side
Marcel: perc+investigation please
It would be nice for dice to stop hating you Craig, just saying
Craig: Auspex: At first you are assaulted by the large buses as they pull in and you hear the air compressors and then you hear the PA system blasting arrivals and departures. You continue to listen and look across the crowded area but it's too much distraction
The coterie walks through the bus depot with people moving around them. A couple of those people get uncomfortable or move away. You hear a PA system announcer stating city destinations
Bill the cabbie drives you to a seedy part of St Paul where there are quite a few adult book stores and hookers standing around. Past this by a few blocks on University avenue near Rice Street is a small office building next to a Grey Hound bus depot. At night you still see buses pulling in and out. Bill says this is the current Brujah primogen's domain. He's not as old school as others and you might get yourselves recruitment offers for the anarchs. Just remember that Maddox and those who supported him are true elders of their clan. So there is a separation going on here. Be careful. That is the last bit of juice you get from me on the dime of the Princess besides rides. Info costs extra moving forward
Bill the cabbie looks back and says yeah? I couldn't hear a thing and then he says where to?
The Princess leans back and says good as the wolves vanish into the brush. go and find what I wish. and she dismissed you with a wave of a hand and departs.
You all easily detect that the Princess is ever so slowly holding your hands longer and longer for some purpose and that if she were to do this in Elysium or before other kindred soon it could mean disaster.
The princess continues to hold your hands.
The princess looks to the two she holds the hands of and says messages have been brought to these two here which is why I thought they are with you.
Princess Harriet smiles and slides off of her bear and walks to the bridge where you bow and she takes both Li and Stevee's hands in hers and she says I welcome you to my domain of the Twinned cities. Within the Ring of Gold being the highways of 494, 694, and 94 and out to County Road J now to the North and the end of the township of Burnsville to the South is the border of my Domain and you may not be outside it for there is a treaty between kindred and Lupine which states it is so. Harriet continues after a short pause letting this information settle a bit and then says the right of domain is being offered as well as the right of creation to the coterie behind you. I have sent word to the primogens to seek other kindred who may be interested in such offerings to join this coterie in completing a task for me for which they can explain. In the meantime I grant you the right to hunt when in my domain and in the territory of each of your clans and to hold what you have an where you both reside until such time as official domain is granted. You will follow the Masquerade and the traditions and understand that as Princess I enforce those edicts and the treaty of the Ring of Gold. You will be formally introduced at the next Moot of which we have two each year. Perhaps one might practice introduction and then also if no sire is here, then the primogen does the introduction with you prior to you each formally reciting your name and lineage. Any questions? She continues to hold each of your hands now a bit longer then is comfortable.
The Princess Harriet arrives riding a large bear with a saddle and wearing a hand and a half sword with the two wolves out front at the bridge. She looks across and you and says you may advance upon the bridge to me but do not step from it.
Bill turns around and starts driving back across town and over to Harriet Island and he pulls up after about twenty minutes. The town of St. Paul is across the river framed by the reflection. The town is both small and spiralling at the same time framed by oaks and maple trees. You walk to the bridge to the island and there are two large wolves sitting here and one leaves back into the island.
Bill the cabbie smiles a toothy grin and says yep that's the name cab 57 or Bill. I can take Lin to the princess and then leave her there or the rest of you to Greyhound Bus headquarters and leave you there, or I can take you all to one place and then all to the next. No skin off my pretend obfuscated nose
The door to the cab opens and you all find yourself in a blue and white cab with an extended back with four seats which face each other. The cabbie drives you along St. Paul when you are all in and then stops the cab. He flips the sliding door to talk to you all for a minute. for those of you who don't know my name is Bill the Cabbie of clan Nosferatu. When you call Blue and white you can ask for me or my cab 57 and I will come pick you up. Normally this would involve a small trifle or bit of information as cost for the ride. I don't spread your info when you pay unless you let me. Right now the Princess is picking up my tab while you work for her so this whole group you see here is riding on her dime so to speak. Free tip is don't abuse it. Now, where to?
Head into the main game Li.
Li: Dalton leaves and Samara arrives from around the corner after a few moments and says Li, that Mr Dalton seemed like trouble when he got here. I am glad you are alright. He did mention to me there would be a cab arriving which was serving the cities royalty in about fifteen minutes. Did you want me to let you know when it arrives?
Bill "the cabbie" says all right we have another stop to go to and pulls out of the quarry.
Spoiler: Dalton starts to get a bit colored with blood in the face for a moment and then says as he becomes pale again [b]I said I could do so, not that I did, and I entered by invitation from you to help you. Would you like this help I have miraculously set up or would you like to turn the help down.
Li: Dalton chuckles and says I most certainly am older and have dominate but did not attempt to use it on the Prince or any other kindred. What I am telling you is I have found your business here with your herd. Since you have not requested or been given introduction and we're not gifted this by a sire who spoke to the Prince you have broken the Traditions. I have brokered a deal where those issues will be removed in return for you working with this coterie to solve an issue for the Princess. If you want to spurn that... It would be most unpleasant
Stevee You see the lights of the cab pull up about 15 minutes later at the entrance to the quarry. Eugene says that I will have your car driven home and that the cabbie and all his fares are prepaid but the offer of a drink as a tip from the herd would not be remiss at the end of the night would not be a bad idea
Stevee: Eugene says would you prefer to step outside to meet your coterie alone or shall I "walk you to the bus stop" as it were.
The cabbie starts driving from the bluff down through the streets of St Paul and across the bridge back towards Harriet Island and goes past up to the gates of a massive stone quarry.
Craig and Marcel post in main game. Li and Stevee are joining in soon.
Li: Dalton smiles and says [b]you are right to fear the powers of dominate my dear, as I am older it is a gift of mine. Please check the local library and look up programmers for IBM and you will eventually find me there. In addition, I should most likely not come giving gifts to you if this was an illusion as the transgressions we're serious enough that I am glad I found it first and put you on the map with the Princess so you can work with this new coterie of hers and solve a mystery and gain the boons you just spent with your lack of introduction and feeding have caused and now not caused due to m, understand?
Stevee: Eugene is at the quarry which is the largest in the world shipping rock all over. He has an office here and for the most part has avoided kindred politics and kept alot of business connections for the clan. He is also typically called upon to clean up issues of masquerade breaking. Also while you were coming up you met a local Ramsey County Sheriff named Matheson who turned out to also be sheriff of the kindred. Eugene shakes your hand when you arrive and says [b] Matheson tipped me off that there is a favor of domain and creation in play for a new coterie to solve a disappearance of a kindred. There is a cab coming to pick you up to join up with the coterie. Eugene then spends time explaining the Masquerade and also the treatie of the rin of gold which states that if you step outside the loop of 494, 694,94 you violate that treaty with the Lupine and all out war will occur. Since that time more land has been added to the kindred.
The cabby looks out of his lit cab and says we have a couple of pick ups for the Princess to join you, get in Bill says to the Tremere and the Assamite.
Stevee: You come to a stone quarry in St Paul off the Mississippi river that is not too far off Plato Road near Harriet Island. If you turned down the road to the other side of Plato in a separate dead end there is a garbage dump. Yet, as you look at the river you can see Harriet Island and the paddle boats and the old wrought iron electric lamps and see yourself in a different place and time...
Li: you may call me Dalton, my dear. I am the primogen of the Malkavians and I am pleased to meet you. It took me some time to find you. I should have liked to know you were here with us in these fine cities, but one makes certain forgiveness for our transgressions as a clan. Not introducing yourself to the Princess,however precluded you from feeding rights, and it seems you also have and own a business here. So, in return for a boon, I will introduce you and say I owed your sire a favor to set you up good here and then you can earn the boon back by working with a new coterie and getting what the princess wanted and then earn back the domain I am granting you now, deal?
Stevee: Your sire continues I don't have time to touch up by phone. Meet me at the Stone Quarry in an hour and I will prepare you for your meeting with the Princess this eve
Li staying in discussion but moving to gameplay quickly: A gentleman wearing a pocket protector is standing in the back and definitely not breathing. He is most assuredly kindred and is allowing you to see him
Li Mul: the voice whispers to you your ancestor again cursing you in Chinese [b] see what a disappointment you are .. and then slowly fades away and your eyes focus in on tonight's class as a life coach so you can make a few dollars. Yet the voice whispers again. Roll perc + alert
Alright welcome back Our two old players are at the end of a long drive way deciding which way to go. Meanwhile a short time before: Stevee: your sire has kept you away from Elysium as long as he could and now he calls you and says [b]I have arranged as a favor for you to meet Princess Harriet downtown and away from plants. Do you remember the Traditions and what I have taught you?
Welcome back we will kick off as soon as everyone checks in from the long weekend.
Welcome to the old which is new, the risen from the ashes. Doing a check in and starting preludes here: Please dot into game play at leisure.
The city of St. Paul sits nested between the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. It still has that small town accent yet across the bridges is Minneapolis which is a burgeoning metropolis of commerce and business. St. Paul seems quaint and quiet with large maples and oaks lining streets where literary giants bloomed like Fitzgerald. In this frontier built on a dichotomy of the twin cities lies a darkness beneath. An immortal shadow.
Ok group I am going to start moving with the main rp and work prelude and get everyone in the story after my July 4th vacation on 5 July. I will take two more players for sure up to six. More then two and it will be by GM fiat who gets in. All players at this point are in
Keeper:. Have no problem with a local with the incomplete understanding. We will work out why you are where you are etc during prelude but otherwise looks fine
I will most likely shotgun a bit to keep the story moving for the two standing characters and intro you in the prologue. No use of age merit please, and 7 pts of merits and flaws as normal, also I will entertain a path but give me a good story as to why a Canirlla kindred would have one? 10 xtra XP for each player including old players for a nice bump before this upcoming game. So old players will add 6xp more.
Lapyd, This entire game has had one small skirmish in a year and that was against mortal security guards after a dominate roll failed. If you get into combat in VtM it's not a good thing. Ancient powerful creatures don't fight unless they must. I go for the gothic horror of it all and love that aspect of it.
Great thanks!
Not particularly however I would like one or two more players if you know anyone
20th anniversary edition Generation background first three dots regular price 4th dot 3 points, 5th dot 5 points. We have a Tremere and an assamite
I closed this thread and opened a new thread to see if we can find players.
I am restarting a recruitment for Vampire the Masquerade from a game that has been going for over a year and is looking for some new blood.
I think if I close this thread and open a new thread without the closed status we might find a few maybe. Want to give it a try?
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