Chapter XVII: Territorial Claims

Saturday, November 6, 2010
11PM to Midnight
The Coterie of the Resurrectionists discuss the death of former Ghoul-turned Kindred, Miranda Green. The Coterie make plans to reconvene at the shared Haven on St. Claude at 1am.
Agnes and Toby, her ghoul, return to her home in the Metairie where Agnes summons her Herd (schedules a ‘healing session’). She feeds on her Herd for the next 3 hours.

Meanwhile, Sean and Sibylle, along with Moira and Janus, go to their new territory to feed. There they notice that feeding has become increasingly difficult (-5 to feeding rolls). Janus leaves, to feed on his newly established Herd [Sick-homeless-hospital patients] at Tulane University Hospital (diseased patients; capped by his Humanity: Presence + Empathy + Auspex bonus).

1AM
Coterie meet at the Haven on St. Claude. Sean tasks Antonio to beef up security at their shared Haven (security rating has dropped from 5 to 2).

Moira awakens Malcolm from Torpor in his coffin upstairs. She tells him the events that transpired over the past week, also informing him that Sean destroyed Miranda, along with the rest of the Coterie. Malcolm accuses Sean of giving the Final Death without the Prince’s sanctioned Blood Hunt. He leaves.

2AM
Janus helps Antonio survey security of the shared Haven, discovers stacks of security disks with recordings of how Malcolm embraced Miranda while possessed by the Strix; while soon after the spirit jumps into Miranda’s newly embraced body who drives a wooden stake into Malcolms heart, puts him in his coffin and seals it (the recording shows a blurry form for both Malcolm and then Miranda after she is embraced, making identification difficult but possible within the context of the evidence). Subsequently, Sean calls the Sheriff and informs him of the evidence on the disks.

Donovan informs the Coterie that they have been granted an audience with Seneschal Maldonato at 7pm the following evening.
Moira pays for data recovery ($1,500) on broken disks to be delivered virtually on Sunday afternoon.

2-3AM
Sibylle and Sean go hunting & find that gangbangers are terrorizing and vandalizing their new territory; they find 1 group of 4 gang members tagging and spray painting graffiti on business and homes. They confront the taggers, shoot one of them in the leg and tell them “there is a new management in town.”

Sean attempts to mimic graffiti marks using Nosferatu sigils to proclaim the territory as theirs.
Meanwhile, 3 gangbangers attack Sibylle; 2 manage to stab her with knives. The supposed leader stabs her in the shoulder.

5:30AM
Janus and Moira locate a potential site for the Coterie’s new shared Haven. It is a large brick office/warehouse structure with a ‘For Lease’ sign.

Janus goes to ground inside Laura’s Escalade; tasks her to contact the leasing company for info on the new haven.
Moira contacts her covenant, the Lancea Sanctum, and obtains permission to sleep in the Sanctum’s communal Haven (secret panels located under the confessional boxes of St. Alphonsus Church. Sean meanwhile spends the day at his mortuary while Sibylle enters Markus’ body, possessing it.

Sunday, 7th of November.
7PM
The Coterie gather at Perdido House for their audience with the Seneschal. Malcolm confronts the Coterie, accusing them of destroying his progeny. Maldonato finds favor with Sean after review of the evidence on the retrieved security discs. The Seneschal admonishes the Coterie to be more careful with these type of security recordings, as they could pose a Masquerade breach if stolen by mortals of vampire hunters. He tells them that encrypting the information is safer but still no guarantee against Masquerade violations.

Sibylle contacts Lemuel by phone to establish a Living Trust for Maria Santos, Fausto’s last mortal descendant living in the United States.

Montage Scene
Time frame: Sunday, Nov. 7th through 10
Objective: Establish command and security of our new Domain & Haven in Tulane-Gravier District .
Sibylle-“Work with Sean as dream & nightmare to subvert the collective will of our Domain” [Success]
Janus- “Work with Moira to infiltrate & worm our way up the hierarchy and infrastructure of the Buddha Boys gang” [Exceptional Success]
Moira- “Establish a new shared Haven while working with Lem to ensure the secrecy and security of our new haven (also using Dominate 3)” [Success]
Toby- “Doing Agnes’ bidding” [no rolls made-success]
Agnes- “Increase security of her private Herd through her private Haven as well as helping patrol our new Territory to establish our control” [Success]
Sean- “Establish our reputation and our game name as dreams & nightmares of Tulane-Gravier District” [Exceptional Success]

End of Session

Chapter XVI: Retribution of the Nemesis

Saturday, November 6, 2010


7-8PM
Janus finds the GPS signal for Markus' cellphone, locating him on Hennessy & Canal Street in Mid-City.

Agnes goes to a local Vodoo shop, buys some herbs and gris-gris bags that may aid her in battling the Strix spirits. While the Coterie obtains holy water to bless their weapons. Agnes sends text messages by cellphone to advice the rest of the Coterie of her plans.

Moira, who is member of the Sanctified of New Orleans, investigates how to contact the Santified priest Father Marrow. She goes to St. Alphonsus, the old Irish Catholic parish church. She meets him there through a mortal priest who guides her to one of the confessionals. Father Marrow tells Moira she is invited to join the Dark Mass at midnight, where she can make her formal request for a blessing of her weapons. She must bring a mortal to drink from.

9PM
Agnes and Toby drive to Loyola University, where they locate the university chapel, steal a large metal spear from the statue of St. Michael the Archangel. Meanwhile, Sibylle goes off to feed solo in the Coterie's territory of Tulane-Gravier. She discovers that hunting for prey is now more difficult than 3 days ago (-4 to all feeding & hunting rolls). Sean and his ghoul Antonio rendezvous at the Haven around this time.

10PM
The GPS points to an abandoned Pabst Blue Ribbon brewery on Canal Street. They find a large storage wharehouse with over 20 dead, heavily decomposing bodies, ranging from a few days to some being dead for weeks. The bodies range in age and race.

Sean uses his skills as a lockpick to open the padlocked outer metal door. As they search the wharehouse they hear laughter coming from above, it is a female laughter. Then they hear the large metal door close with a bang and then the sound of the lock. Sean, Antonio, Toby and Agnes run down to the main door to find it locked from without. Agnes grows her root-like Protean claws, tears open the metal door and they issue out. They find that Markus, Sibylle's ghoul is standing almost naked outside, he holds a kerosine pail which he has doused around him. A few yards away they see the figure of Miranda floating down from the grain silo. Her presence triggers the Taint of the Predator in the Coterie and they sense that she is now a vampire; however, they do not seem to sense if she is more or less powerful.

Inside the wharehouse Lem and Moira climb to the rooftop skylight, trying to ascertain what is happening outside.

Miranda, now a vampire, uses her new found dread powers of Nightmare on Toby, who is the first to fall, struck by madness and terror. Agnes, growing her Protean claws, which she had Toby douse with a vial of holy water, attacks the form of Miranda.

Moira jumps down, breaking her fall on some pipes, finally landing atop Markus, who stands immobile, while Lem also begins to scale down some metal gutters.

Antonio, now wielding the metal spear of Longinus, jabs and strikes Miranda. In that instant the spirit possessing Miranda jumps into Antonio, who now turns the spear on Agnes, impaling her leg into the ground. Antonio, now possessed, uses Nightmare on Agnes, and she falls as Toby did. Moria moves to attack Antonio while Lem decides to standby after pulling Anges unconscious body to safety.

The winged spirit jumps back into Miranda, uses her dread powers on Moira, and drives her temporarily insane, but not unconscious. Sean pulls out  his firearm and dousing it with holy water, shoots at Miranda's form multiple times, one hit almost severing her arm off.

Finally, as Miranda's body screams in agony, she collapses to the ground. Sean, uses his preternatural vision, sees that Miranda's form is no longer possessed. Miranda's body begins to slowly decompose and she meets her Final Death.

End of Session.