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The Vampire With No Name 1.21 - Gerrymandering · Dubious Creatures Presents

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  The. A highway wanders through the
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  desert. A tumbleweed drifts past a dusty
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  dive bar. A coyote shrieks out to no one
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  in particular. Someone's bleeding out in a
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  bathroom stall. The stars tonight are bright,
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  but not nearly bright enough. This place does not exist.
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  And yet here you are. Welcome to San Arroyo Kindred.
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  We here at Dubious Creatures present to you the vampire with
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  no name. So bit 2 Kindred here where we
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  don't know exactly what they're doing because they haven't
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  spoken up yet. And that would be Jeremy and
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  Impella. Does Ambella know where the
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  refectory is back here? Yeah, door on the left.
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  It's where they, well, funnily enough, it's where they keep
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  people who you've heard react like this to the sacrament, so
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  they have a place to calm down. And Bella is going directly to
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  the refectory and is going to, if possible, try to free Jesse
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  before the exchange. OK.
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  And Jeremy? Moving over to try to help
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  everybody else, but probably not contributing much with my
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  negligible physical bulls. That's fair.
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  Yeah, I'm going to say Raleigh, you take a point of superficial
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  damage as grow fully. You try to grab her and she
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  scratches and she bites. She's like a wild animal and you
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  have to let go of her just to spare your exposed skin.
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  Charges forward, knocks, knocks into Ash.
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  Ash. You take a step back
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  reflexively, and you slam backwards directly into Freddie,
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  who was at first standing up, trying to figure out just where
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  the hell Aunt Bella thought she was going, and in so doing,
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  somewhat inadvertently ended up in this whole mess.
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  Ash is going like recognizes that there is the immediate
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  tension, the tensing of one fist of their knuckles and they're
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  going to take a step away and Ash is going.
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  Ash is going to actually just like mumble out sorry and going
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  to check. I think like on Raleigh, like
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  you OK. Yes, I had force.
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  God, just another. I'll be fine.
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  And Bella give me a dexplastelt rule.
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  It's not a high difficulty given all the stuff happening.
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  That is 3 successes. The three successes, Yeah,
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  everybody's too focused in this exact moment in time to really
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  notice you slip off doors not even locked, heading out.
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  Left most door. Bind yourself in a large
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  rectangular chamber supported by 4 concrete support columns.
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  There are. It reminds you a bit of almost
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  like a monastic convent. Very Spartan, little to no
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  decoration whatsoever other than those candlelit sconces.
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  There's 3 doors set in each wall, 3 to your left, three to
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  your right, three directly ahead of you.
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  Except these are less like doors to a closed Hermitage and more
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  like vault doors. Big, heavy riveted things, but
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  no obvious handle or locking mechanism.
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  Instead, there's these strange symbols and that strange angular
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  cuneiform language etched into the front of each.
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  Does Abela know any of this language?
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  Like is she able to interpret it at all?
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  Just sort of like at a glance. Give me intelligence plus a
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  cold. That's two successes.
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  It's more of that weird pseudo Enochian stuff that the Church
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  of Cain loves to scroll over everything.
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  OK great. Then she is just going to go to
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  the first door on her left and see if it'll open and if it
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  doesn't open easily, she'll just go to the next one and the next
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  one. Time is of the essence.
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  She is just trying to open any door that will open right now
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  and just hoping that Jesse is behind it.
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  Yeah, again, difficult to open under, no handle, no lock.
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  How do they even get these things?
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  But you try one of them and it does move as he slowly shift it.
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  Again, not much on the inside, a cot, a standing mirror.
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  There's somebody sitting on the cot, but as he sits up to look
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  at you, that's not Jesse. An older man, tall, long grey
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  streaked hair tied back from the Ted Bulls and a ponytail.
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  And Bella has never met Anselm before.
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  No, never. But the look he fixes you with
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  is not exactly a friendly one. You are not supposed to be back
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  here. And who the fuck are you?
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  Someone who's tired of surprises.
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  He stands up. Great.
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  Shit, you fucking hate me too. Whatever.
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  Annabella's going to leave that room and go to the next door and
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  try to open it. You could.
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  He was standing there for a moment.
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  Now as you turn around, he's standing in front of you.
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  There's a blur of motion. I don't believe I was quite
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  finished, young lady. I don't have time for this.
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  Back out in the nave, everyone is recovering, one could say as
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  a well, that just happened. Shit, I look at the other ones
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  everyone else would say, should one of us go after her?
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  Raleigh, Nick is approaching you.
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  Nick, hey. The What are you?
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  It didn't really take you for the church going, Dave.
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  Not really. It's a part of our fun little
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  scavenger hunt. Ash, Freddy looks like he's
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  going to say something to you. As you can see, his own hands
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  are also reflexively curled into fists.
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  But then he steps, and that glare fixes on somebody else
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  approaching in designer heels. Your sire closes the distance.
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  Mary. Wait, the display I.
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  Apologize for my friends should probably seat her and make sure
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  she's all right. Ash like is just going to like
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  it is trying to like mentally just beg to could not be in this
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  situation right now because they're not sure how much they
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  could like handle with everything they've learned
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  tonight. Yeah, probably gonna look over
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  at you and just sort of nod and say, yeah, go make sure crow's
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  all right. Could someone please explain?
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  Says a very familiar voice to the five of you, dragging
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  Embella by the back of her collar like a kitten.
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  What? This is she?
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  He fully just tosses you out onto the floor in front of him.
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  Yes, sounds about right. Problem Astor is.
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  Looking to anybody else to take charge of this situation because
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  she doesn't want to be here at the moment.
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  Yeah, gross, outside handsome is Buck.
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  What is Ansel doing here? That's a great.
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  Question that. Is such a good question.
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  Both the primogen, the one you know and the one you don't, are
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  on their feet. Nick looks just as confused as
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  the rest of you. Carmen and the preacher both
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  also seem, well maybe not wrong footed, but definitely surprised
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  by the amount of dominoes that are falling together.
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  And Ash, your sire just seems almost as done with this whole
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  thing as you are. She eventually just calls out of
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  the assembled kindred. I suppose that's a good enough
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  conclusion to the ceremony. As any Padre Breen, we thank
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  you, of course, for your spiritual administrations, but
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  there is business to attend to, as Herr Eisenstadt has so
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  dutifully pointed out. Anselm looks pissed and also
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  ragged. He's sands his usual coat.
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  You can see he's visibly injured, is buttoned up short,
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  torn, several long dried splatters of what you think
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  might be blood intermingling with the fabric.
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  Yeah, just to sort of look between Anselm looking between
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  Aunt Bella, looking between everyone else and just saying,
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  well, certainly looks like things are all fucked up.
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  Yeah. What were you doing, Aunt Bella?
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  She sort of scrabbles to her feet and just sort of tosses her
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  hair back and says well the refectory is for people who go
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  fucking ape shit. So I was seeing if there was a
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  free cell. Inside check.
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  I would like stewed inside as well.
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  OK, and Bella charisma plus subterfuge.
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  OK. Charisma or manipulation, Take
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  your pick. That is 3 successes.
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  And I've only got 2. Ash, you call bullshit.
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  Yeah, Ash is just going to step forward like pin Ambella with
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  their eyes and say please can we not?
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  Not in a, not in a House of worship.
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  Just cut the bullshit. You hear the hunched over
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  Nosferatu of all people growl in a voice that sounds like she
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  uses Gravels mouthwash language. Hurry.
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  This is a secret space. Apologies.
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  Say what you really were doing and don't lie.
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  Jeremy, in the midst of all this is happening, go ahead and get
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  me Dex plus stealth. Oh God.
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  The dice are. Not.
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  Dice are not with us tonight. We'll get back to that in a
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  moment, but Ash and Bella continue.
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  And Bella glares daggers at Ash and still attempting at half
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  truths, is going to say I was checking on my coterie mate.
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  You mean just to clarify, Nick speaks up.
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  The one that was responsible for dragging 6 college kids into the
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  gun sights of a bunch of pick stuff bikers.
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  OK, we had nothing to do with the God damn bikers, all right?
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  As much as I hate to agree with him, Bella the Freddy pipes up.
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  We do, believe it or not, have better things to do than get
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  random civvies killed. Last I checked they were
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  following your little fledgling fuck ups language.
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  The Nosferatu looks like she's about to jump Freddy.
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  I would pay money to see that I. Was just thinking that.
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  Rafe, this time primogen. Desaros, please.
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  Some decorum. Yes, I think it's a high time we
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  come to the matter at hand. And at a full sight of two the
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  city's primogen. And of course, our principle of
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  faith indicating Bran. You believe they called him the
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  man in the cassock? I'm afraid I must inform our
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  compatriots within the movement of San Arroyo that we cannot
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  surrender the Gangrel, Sebastian.
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  He is integral to a research project being undertaken under
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  the auspice of Her Majesty. MK Ultra.
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  I have so many questions but I'm not going to ask any of them
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  because I'm terrified. If nobody else speaks up,
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  Ambella would interject. The fuck we can't.
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  That was the deal. Freddy seems to come to some
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  kind of decision. So just to be clear, you let
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  that one? He points at Anselm.
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  Lead these ones. He gestures to the, well, four,
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  well, three of you. He's not quite sure where Jeremy
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  is on a merry goose chase. Ending up in our turf rips the
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  Masquerade to shreds and, and pardon my language here,
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  Primogen Taezeros. The best you can offer us is too
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  fucking bad. I think we both know that's not
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  going to fly. I was.
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  Just looking back and forth, watching this happen and unsure
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  of where things are going and it's just OK.
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  Some kind of argument appears to be breaking out, that's for
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  sure. Hardly and hardly the decorum
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  that was asked for. But in the middle of all this,
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  Jeremy, you have seemingly escaped everyone's attentions
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  for the time being. I want to surreptitiously as
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  well as I can, get the attention of the two Nos that I know are
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  dangerous in this room, which is the primogen and the sheriff.
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  And if it doesn't look like I can get to the primogen, I'm
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  gonna duck over and look for the sheriff.
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  Langford and Primogen Desirous seem to be.
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  When that whole situation broke out with Crow, Langford
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  immediately leapt to his feet. But it wasn't to defend any of
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  you. It was specifically to defend it
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  seemed the closest figure of rank to him, which just so
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  happens to be to Zerus. So they're standing pretty close
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  together to differently deformed but still equally hideous to
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  behold creatures. I'm going to try to catch either
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  or both of their eyes and kind of like indicate to the side and
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  then like step that way. I think Langford sees you.
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  He he steps to the side and opens up a door on the right.
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  OK, kind of surreptitiously motioning for you to step in.
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  I'll step in. Inside the long corridor to
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  where you're not quite sure, but at the moment it seems to be out
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  of the main bronchus that's developing.
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  You have my attention, fledgling.
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  Respectfully Sir, the Gangrel Sebastian is planning has
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  orchestrated the events of tonight as best he can and has
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  planning to do something to the church here tonight, I think.
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  Do phrase child, Yes. I believe so, Sir.
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  Never put much stock in your prophecy but it.
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  Helps its eyewitness accounts, not esoteric.
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  The Gangrel crow is blood bound to him very badly and he's
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  extorting the rest of my companions and I possibly the
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  other premature. His situation is a shambles.
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  You have proof of his extortion. He's the one who initially
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  showed up at the washing place where all the bodies were found
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  and absconded with our friends and took them to rave and use as
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  using that leverage to make them bring everyone here and falsify
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  or create some sort of plot involving a fake trade so he can
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  gain access to the church give. Me a manipulation or charisma
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  plus persuasion role. Jeremy, OK.
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  Ingenue studying or remarkable feature self.
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  I think Ingenue would definitely help in this scenario.
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  Let's search this one. So I'm still hunger one 9
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  successes. How to judge what this man is
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  thinking? I mean his face alone is scar
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  tissue and skin, but what you're saying definitely doesn't
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  resonate with him. Situation at the Switch yard
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  should not have happened. None of this should have
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  happened. Her Majesty is letting
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  Eisenstadt run a roughshod over the traditions because he has
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  some former claim to this city. If it helps and Bella said
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  something about Sebastian being Sabat.
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  All the more reason someone somewhere will enforce the
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  traditions in order to bring the punishments out myself.
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  The ATIF that was captured at the Switcher means nothing
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  situation with my predecessor. On the other hand, he is
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  sheltering that White and the Sebastian.
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  He seeks to take advantage of this whole situation.
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  For what reasons I cannot say. It has become apparent by your
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  account that the Brimogen cannot be trusted to uphold their
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  duties. What is your role in this?
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  Why exactly are you and your companions running around?
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  As Anselm informed us, I am led to believe falsely, that if we
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  did not single handedly stop your predecessor, we would be
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  executed. Nonsense.
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  It's not the place of fledglings to do my job for me.
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  The my implication understanding is that it was done to make a
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  smoke screen so he could do whatever else he was doing
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  because it obviously we make a mess.
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  You've certainly accomplished that, haven't you?
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  Hey, Jeremy kind of gives like a helpless shrug.
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  I, I, I'll be honest, Sir, I, I, I'm, I only died a couple days
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  ago. You were embraced legitimately.
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  You replaced under the tradition of accounting.
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  Ignorance is hardly an excuse, but it does not reflect well on
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  your record either. But you stepped forward.
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  That shows that you, at least, and of your ad hoc coderie, have
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  some sense as you all, as the argument continues to pitch up
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  voices, accusations, snarled threats.
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  For a moment, really does seem like like Jeremy's prophecy is
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  about to come true, like violence.
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  It's about to break out. Like people are going to die.
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  Suddenly, another body gets tossed onto the floor.
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  And at this time. You see Jessie's torpid body
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  beat to shit pieces of glass from that door he flew through,
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  still sticking out of him, lying there on the ground.
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  Hygiene immediately gasps and runs over to him as suddenly
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  Sheriff Langford has the floor. I will speak now, and you will
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  listen. The Camarilla regrets any
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  infringement it may have incurred upon the domain of
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  Frederick Worth. Take this one back as
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  recompense. This situation has occurred
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  because you all refuse to adhere to the laws that you claim to
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  champion. That ends tonight.
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  Take him and go now. And Bella is going to remove the
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  steak from Jesse's chest and try to help him limp out, likely
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  with Hygiia helping the. Moment you do, immediately his
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  eyes snap back to life. What the fuck?
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  We got you just just. You're fine.
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  You're not fine, but you will be.
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  Just come on. Hey, hey, He.
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  He's barely able to stand on his own.
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  You get one arm over your shoulders.
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  Hijaya helps with the others. You begin dragging him out
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  towards the exit. Freddy, somewhat bemusedly,
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  looks at this. Looks at Langford just says I'll
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  communicate your respects to white bird and Mama Don I always
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  love these get togethers it begins to follow the rest of the
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  anarch so. That resolved, thankfully.
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  I feel like the kid standing in the principal's office.
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  Langford turns to look at Anselm, who seems the only one
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  who's not howed by this whole display.
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  He just very quietly says you are not turning him into a
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  fucking sideshow. Not sure if Langford's smiling,
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  that piece of his upper lip that's gone kind of gives him
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  this permanent ugly half grin, but he growls back.
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  You're right, I'm turning him into the cities side show.
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  As of this moment, I am formally declaring a blood hunt in the
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  former Sheriff Masaf. That sounds bad that.
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  Sounds so. Bad.
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  Ash is going to step forward and clear their throat and say,
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  Sheriff, as my compatriots and I, during our investigation at
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  the request of Ansome, had recovered several items as Mr.
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  Patton had suggested that they might be used to assist in the
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  hunt for the former sheriff. Some sort of spell, as I
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  understand it. We would be if this has become
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  the domain of the sheriff, we would happily and gratefully
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  turn over those items to assist in any way we can.
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  Patton doesn't necessarily seem angered by this turn of events,
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  just very solemn. The sheriff turns that glare
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  onto him. I have a condition.
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  Of course you do, Warlock. You're not taking Sebastian's
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  head. And why not?
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  Because I still need him, and because Her Majesty still needs
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  him. And if you want further details,
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  I suggest you take it up with Prince Calais.
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  That's non negotiable I'm afraid.
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  You can keep him here if you want.
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  Call it house arrest. I'm sure the church won't object
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  to having another lost soul. Stay with them for an indefinite
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  period as of course you'd like to gather the full council.
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  Maybe pull it to a vote, But there is the matter of the
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  rampaging white to consider. Langford snarls, looks back at
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  you. Ash these components items of.
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  Historical significance to Massaf.
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  You he will gather these components, and he will bring
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  them to where the Tremere is preparing this ritual.
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  Very well then, I suppose then I would have a request of this
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  House of worship. Ryan stands forward, this tall
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  mesopochral man with large beard, shaved head contrasting
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  starkly against the very deep red of his cassock.
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  And what do we have that you so require?
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  A notebook of my solves. I see he looks at Patton.
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  So long as Her Majesty has no objection.
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  Patton. Seems to think about it for a
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  moment, then says the ritual will destroy any components
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  gathered to it. In the end it'll be a loss, but
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  not an irrecoverable 1. Deacon Ishiveira if you would be
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  so kind. And Carmen immediately heads off
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  to the corridor that Jeremy was just in.
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  And Jeremy's just kind of waiting patiently to be
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  reclaimed. By the sheriff, yeah.
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  I'm sticking incredibly close to Astor.
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  Astor was. Thinking about removing herself
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  and going to check on Crow. Yeah, Langford, just round on
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  you, Ash, one final time. You are under accounting the
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  Patriots. Raleigh Asher and Jeremy Reed
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  are under accounting. That one points at Astor.
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  Hours. I'm standing directly in front
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  of Astor. I will take a step to stand
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  directly in front of Astor, between the sheriff and Astor.
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  That one is a thin blooded abortion and.
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  She is my sister. Mary actually speaks up at this
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  point, says I can indeed confirm that Miss Nolan was at one point
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  married to his Zachary Crawford. Eliminating her would likely
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  bring unintended consequences. She does not allow thin bloods
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  within the domain, not since they took to the Sacred Mercy
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  Hospital. I don't know anything about
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  that. Do I know anything about that?
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  This is news to you. Mary steps forward, hands almost
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  raised to her sides, as if trying to keep everybody
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  relatively calm. I have a suggestion.
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  Other cities do have an established practice of marking
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  thin bloods within their remit, so that may they be identified
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  or all kindred if no one objects, and given that the
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  masquerade is already hanging on by a thread as is.
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  When we say a mark. Yeah.
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  What do we mean by that? Yeah.
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  Langford has a very ugly smile. Can I make one request?
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  I'm willing. Tears are starting to like well
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  up in her eyes. I'm willing.
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  How visible does this mark have to be?
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  Mary fixes you with what maybe she thinks is a sympathetic look
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  and says we're not savages, dear.
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  No offense to you, that doesn't answer my question.
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  Somewhere where it could be shown, but not somewhere where
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  it has to be part of your daily existence.
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  And we do it behind the ear. I wear my hair down most of the
• 37:05
  time anyway. Sheriff Sheriff is already
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  walking over to the still lit Brazier he takes from inside of
• 37:21
  his jacket. Looks like combat knife begins
• 37:25
  heating the tip in the fire. Ash is going to offer their
• 37:33
  hands to Astron's. Like just put your hands to
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  mine. Just.
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  Squeeze as tight as you need. Oh.
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  I can't believe I'm doing this, She.
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  Pulls. Her giant cascading white blonde
• 37:56
  hair over and just kind of it's like.
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  Yeah, I will. I will hold the hair out of the
• 38:01
  way so it doesn't get damaged or you know, I don't have to worry
• 38:05
  about it. He stalks back over.
• 38:09
  The Plaid of the knife is cherry red, grabbing the side of your
• 38:17
  head roughly. There's no ceremony to it, he
• 38:21
  just traces the tip of the knife behind your skull and it hurts a
• 38:36
  lot. Fuck.
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  Fuck fuck fuck fuck God. It's OK, We're here.
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  We're here. Mike.
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  Carves roughly Crescent shaped symbol into the side of your
• 38:57
  head and you feel every excruciating second of it.
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  You take a point of aggravated damage.
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  So. Totally fair.
• 39:14
  When he's done, he slump practically drop to your knees,
• 39:20
  just burning, throbbing, searing pain tattooed right behind your
• 39:28
  ear. If possible, I'd like to catch
• 39:30
  her. Oh yeah, there is.
• 39:33
  There is no strength in her. It is a limp noodle falling to
• 39:39
  the floor. Just.
• 39:42
  Blood tears, not from just pain streaking down her face.
• 39:49
  Sheriff bit calmly, almost as though well, as though this
• 39:58
  isn't his first impromptu branding, says Kilpatrick.
• 40:08
  I think it is time we gathered the rest of the hounds.
• 40:16
  Does however, give Rafe one more piercing look.
• 40:27
  She will hear of this. You are not exempt, no matter
• 40:33
  how many archaeological projects you do on our behalf.
• 40:43
  Nick looks like he wants to. He was grimacing the entire time
• 40:50
  that whole process was happening.
• 40:52
  He looks like he wants to say or do something, but just looks at
• 40:58
  you probably and says we'll, we'll talk later, OK?
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  Of course, of course I'm not. The two of them also exit.
• 41:11
  Mary is gone over to Anselm. I think you owe them an
• 41:17
  explanation that. Would be days.
• 41:30
  At least until they quite literally dig your former
• 41:34
  partner's dirty laundry out from the archive, Ash.
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  Yes. Not bad at all, could do with a
• 41:51
  bit less dramatics last time. Next time.
• 41:56
  Ash can't break it, forces themselves to smile, say.
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  But you wouldn't. Appreciate it as much if there
• 42:08
  wasn't the razzle dazzle. You certainly have a approach,
• 42:16
  do you not? What can I say?
• 42:19
  I'm still an athlete at heart. I like a show there and I think
• 42:24
  they, I think like, they're like hoisting up, asked her onto a
• 42:29
  Pew just to like, steady her. Please limp noodle laying on
• 42:35
  that Pew. Primogen patent, Primogen
• 42:40
  tozeras. I do think yourselves and my own
• 42:45
  sire should perhaps convene the rest of the council at some
• 42:48
  point before. Well, Langford does seem to be
• 42:54
  on a bit of a warpath, does he not?
• 42:57
  And with that, three more people exit until it's just you and
• 43:07
  Anselm. It was a move at the entire
• 43:09
  exchange. I wasn't in such pain.
• 43:16
  I would have so many words for Anselm, but Astor's brain can't
• 43:20
  make thoughts. So what is this that you're
• 43:24
  supposed to tell us? Hopefully it's the truth this
• 43:30
  time. The truth is, you're useful to
• 43:39
  them right now, but one day they'll finally extract all the
• 43:46
  blood from the storm, and then you'll be standing right where I
• 43:51
  am, being made to watch as everyone and everything goes to
• 43:58
  shit. What you decided to get a jump
• 44:03
  on that trend? I meant what I said.
• 44:08
  I'm not letting you turn him into a sideshow.
• 44:14
  He's my friend. I understand.
• 44:18
  It sounds like you need to work quickly, you know?
• 44:23
  Yeah, sure. I don't.
• 44:24
  Because been like this for six goddamn days.
• 44:28
  My line produced you because that's what it's come to,
• 44:34
  because that's what happens when you linger.
• 44:36
  The Henry Passmoors of the world are given immortality.
• 44:42
  Yeah, that was a real bad choice.
• 44:45
  You think? I had anything in that once
• 44:48
  about a time I used to be just as imperious as your Venture
• 44:51
  friend. Sire.
• 44:55
  Now I'm hiding in a fucking basement and the only reason
• 44:59
  they won't declare Blood Hunt on me?
• 45:03
  It's because it would be a little inconvenient to explain
• 45:06
  why they suddenly wanted to take the trophy one of the city's
• 45:09
  founders. But Bassav?
• 45:14
  He did more for all of us than that fucking wannabe Langford
• 45:20
  ever will, and they're going to hunt him down like an animal.
• 45:30
  Sits up and pukes. I agree that Langford's not not
• 45:36
  the, but come on, did you really have to use us?
• 45:50
  Feels a little bit like launching a spit ball into an
• 45:57
  inferno. That's the saying you catch more
• 46:02
  honey and we catch more bees or catch more flies with honey than
• 46:06
  vinegar. I can appreciate the dedication.
• 46:13
  There are people in my life I would do in the same things for.
• 46:20
  Don't let them take his trophy. Don't let them eat What's lots
• 46:27
  of his soul? What will happen?
• 46:34
  Give us something to work with. I know you feel some sort of
• 46:40
  guilt for all of this. It's probably why you used us.
• 46:47
  But if you just tell us everything, we'll be a lot more
• 46:50
  cooperative. That's true charisma or
• 46:59
  manipulation plus persuasion. I would like to assist.
• 47:10
  What? Oh fuck that is 1 success.
• 47:16
  Would you like to spend willpower?
• 47:20
  I I don't think Astor has willpower at the moment.
• 47:26
  I'm going to be so for real. It's fair.
• 47:33
  You remember the last time we saw this guy, He seemed so
• 47:38
  orbidable, so very much the dark, very much the dark and
• 47:49
  mysterious stranger come to make some sense of this whole fucked
• 47:56
  up situation the five of you found yourselves in.
• 47:59
  But you look at him now and you don't know how old this guy is.
• 48:06
  Why people talk about him. Pretty old and he looks just as
• 48:13
  lost as all of you. It might be, but there really
• 48:23
  was no plan that he's just grasping at straws in a shit
• 48:28
  situation, just like all of you normally.
• 48:40
  Normally you make a role, there's degrees of success you
• 48:44
  have to achieve. Usually 1 success means that
• 48:51
  it's not very difficult, barely an inconvenience even.
• 48:58
  But there's a dam breaking here, you could feel it.
• 49:03
  This guy, he's at his physical and mental wit's end.
• 49:11
  So 1 success was really all he needed.
• 49:15
  He just sits down very heavily on the Pew opposite all of you
• 49:24
  and says damn fine, what do you want to know?