This session was AMAZEBALLS.
We had no dreams, yay! Val went off doing business stuff ... because his player sadly wasn't feeling well. This meant the only guy with an actual Driving skill wasn't present, which caused a few issues. (Turns out you if you don't have the skill you can't roll it, unlike Rifts where only stunt driving kinda thing requires the skill but generic "Sunday driving" doesn't. Or at least it does in our game.)
Julius was kind enough to gift us all some armoured clothing - in Lottie's case an Edwardian evening dress. Lottie asked Julius to get some kind of tracking thing be put on her so he'd be able to find her.
Lottie, Julius and Frankie went over to the house where Lottie grew up, and where her father Andreas is being cared for by Angela, who was finally going to be turned into Lottie's ghoul. The two Malkavians headed upstairs. After tasting his blood, Julius let Lottie know that Andreas isn't her father after all. Her mum had a thing with a bartender in Sicily before emigrating, so Andreas has never been a blood relation ... and subsequently Lottie isn't actually a Mangano after all. They decide it's probably best not telling anyone else about that.
When you have ridiculously high level Dementation, you can cause someone severe mental anguish for the rest of their miserable life by basically tearing their soul apart and putting it back together - repeatedly. Julius was happy to do this because FUCK THAT GUY Andreas Mangano! Lottie found Julius super hot torturing her not-actually-biological father that they ended up having sex in front of him afterwards. Well, he was a drooling wreck anyway.
Meanwhile downstairs, Frankie and Angela sat down together, because neither was welcome upstairs for obvious reasons. On the plus side, this meant the gift of the very fancy bottle of wine could be delivered, and, uh, asking Angela out turned out to be a LOT easier than Frankie expected. (The actual exchange had me as a player roaring with laughter.) He might've had a crush on her for the past couple of years, but apparently she's really rather into him as well. They had a walk around the garden.
“You could just force-feed him blood until he’s hooked and say ‘hey guess what, I’m the Candyman!’”
“I love how you think that’s the Sabbat way and not the Camarilla way.”
“I still have a flip phone from the 2000s. I’m basically a Boomer in a Millennial’s body.”
Player 1: “Did we have any dreams?”
GM: “No, you did not.”
Player 2: “How convenient!”
“Anything in the ornate bowl?”
“Cereal!”
Player: “Lottie doesn’t get dresses, but Frankie gets suits?!”
GM: “She gets diamond necklaces.”
Julius: “Oh, I forgot to mention, look in the cupboard.”
Player: “The player has been kicking the GM.”
Player: “She opens the cupboard.”
GM: “Jeanine leaps out and bites her in the face! Game over!”
(The GM describes a crimson dress with gold)
“Ten points to Gryffindor!”
“No! FUCK Gryffindor!”
“At last, something we can agree on!”
Lottie: “How do they make more werewolves? Is it like a bite thing or do they have puppies?”
Lottie: “My two favourite cous… My one favourite cousin and Val …”
GM: “A bit awkward for the strict Catholic Italian, seeing a 500-year-old all over his cousin.”
Player: “Oh, fuck it, he screws dancers, he can get over himself!”
(Discord acting up)
“Julius goes selectively deaf around Lottie sometimes.”
Julius (attempting small talk): “How ‘bout them New York Giants, huh?”
Julius (in front of Andreas): “We’ve shared blood. – Stop gawking, old man.”
Angela: “Does it mean I can’t be … with you?”
Frankie (baffled): “I was going to ask if you wanted to go out with me some time, but okay!”
Angela: “I’d love to go out with you!”
Frankie: “… How’s Saturday?”
“She’s dressed to go to the opera ten years ago.”
Benny: “You’re one of those Old Ones, aren’t you?!”
“If you’re so worried about your eternal soul, you might’ve picked better company than us.”
“This is vaguely incestuous, let’s bring Jaime Lannister in.”
GM: “What goes down must come back up again.”
Player: “… Literally or figuratively?”
To be continued!
