This whole session was basically all dream. Except this time they were in the same one (sans Val) - the Egyptian primordial sea of darkness thing. Lottie turned on Auspex and discovered her and Frankie were floating in what will basically become aura/everything.
A pyramid and an Egyptian god emerged from the water, Tatenen with the sun crown. Turns out if you use True Sight on a god you can get a seizure, a splitting headache and get glowing, golden eyes.
Tatenen wanted to know the cousins' names. Lottie negotiated some sort of immunity for three people each of their choosing in return for giving the names. She only really wanted the immunity for Julius, and offered her other two spots for Frankie. He chose to decline them, and after giving it a lot of thought chose the other three people that are now connected to their new unlives: cousin Val (who we guess was left out of the dream not because he was lucky, but because he's now an NPC), and ghouls Benny and Angela. Tatenen told them to stay and learn.
They observed fighting snakes-with-frogs-heads, the sun rising (doing them no harm, which was nice), and then blood with black aura streaks gushed forward, so they ran to avoid it. There was a creepy and quickly developing foetus that came out of a piece of flesh, and another god stabbed himself in the right hand. It was all very strange and neither characters nor players had a single clue WTF was going on.
Frankie woke up with bite marks in his hands, and since he botched the understanding roll, Julius must have some kind of a rat problem. Lottie woke up with golden eyes - huh. Val, it turned out, had also had wet dreams, but in the other sense of the word. They told him and Julius about the weird dream and about what happened the night before.
Lottie worried that she was the one choosing Julius as a sire because she had asked for him to be protected at the very beginning of time. He tried laying those fears to rest, and complimented her on her new eye colour, which she now hopes will be permanent ...
Player: “Lottie doesn’t have any ex boyfriends she can kill.”
GM: “Date Marco for a while and then kill him.”
Players: “Eww!”
GM: “Marco gets invited to all the parties!”
Player: “All the STDs.”
GM: “Well, yeah.”
GM: “You swim upward for an eternity that lasts a few moments.”
“Lottie’s keeping Aura Perception up because she’s a moron. A curious moron.”
GM: “Beautiful like the stars at night.”
Lottie: “Like Julius?”
GM: “Her irises are pure gold.”
Player: “I’d keep that, that’s sexy.”
GM: “Oh dear, moral dilemma. Or rather, player dilemma. How terrible for you.”
Tatenen (from underneath the water): “Ogdoad.”
Lottie: “Oh good, ‘cause I was worried it was gonna be all cryptic, like.”
“Why’s it always got to be GIANT snakes?”
Player: “Tatenen.”
GM: “Big Tats.”
Frankie: “It’s that what we’re callin’ ‘em?”
GM: “No, you’re calling them ‘Your Majesty’.”
“God, they were really over-compensating with those fucking crowns.”
“So we’re witnessing a domestic?”
“Basically.”
“Maybe that’s why his dad dies in a couple of years? Because Monkey didn’t show up as a distraction when we needed him!”
“Don’t drink while NPC Val is talking.”
“I picture Julius as a mixture of Giles and Spike in the body of Jaime Lannister. When I explain it THAT way I’m actually jealous of my own character.”
“May the 4th be with us.”
GM: “It’s almost as if Vampire: The Masquerade is a game of angst and possible tragedy.”
GM: “So I gave Frankie snakebite stigmata for nothing!”
“That’s clearly worse than having a Brooklyn girl in my head making me buy Harley Quinn stuff.”
“This is beginning to feel like an episode of Scooby Doo, not Vampire.”
“My character had sexy-ass hair.”
“Sexy ass-hair?”
To be continued!
