Lottie and Julius take the Staten Island ferry, while being followed by the Nosferatu Primogen. Sneaky Prince. AltLottie comes out to play and she, along with Julius, agree that killing Jeanine is bad.
At Theo's, he looks as the dagger and says she's seen both Jeanine and Charlotte with it. Frankie agrees to sign a formal complaint against Jeanine. As the two Brujah leave to find their Primogen, another car T-bones them and tries to run them off the road and shoot at them. Theo gets some shots off before Frankie gets them out of the way. (This will have “interesting knock-on effects” says the GM.) After all, if the unknown assailants shoot back with the Tommy guns they're sporting? Heads probably go splat, which is bad for vampires. Failing to find Don Cerro, they end up at ... a house where we know from previous (way back near the beginning of the campaign) that Charlotte has two apartments in? And Theo has a key?!
Staten Island smells funny. Following a scent, the Malkavians find Jeanine in an inn, looking ... poorly. Tommy the Fool tries to get a room, but they take Jeanine up to the room she already has, where Julius pricks her finger. Jeanine has somehow become Thin-blooded?! How the fuck is that even possible?! This complicates things enormously. What to do? AltLottie suggests skipping town. Julius declines.
GM: “Silly AltLottie, this is Vampire, there are no safe mental spaces!”
Frankie’s player: “That wasn’t Frankie’s plan.”
GM: “What was Frankie’s plan?”
Frankie’s player: “… Surviving?”
GM: “Three successes!”
Player: “She likes me again, the Dice Maiden!”
Player: “I’ve gone up in the world!”
GM: “You literally have, you’ve gone north.”
“You’re a Brujah so you’re getting shot at, it must be Tuesday.”
“The car’s only got windows FOR NOW. Give it a minute!”
“14d10 is good … if it’s on our side.”
“AltLottie and Julius, so far getting on okay. The night is young.”
“He was even Italian-American, but you wouldn’t like him, he was a cop.”
“My favourite Italian-American has … played a lot of cops?”
“It wasn’t him.”
GM: “It’s gonna be slightly embarrassing if he botches.”
Player: “Let’s not do that, then.”
Player 1: “It feels like bait.”
GM: “It does, doesn’t it?”
Player 2: “Should I bring up Admiral Ackbar?”
Player 1: “It feels like an Admiral Ackbar moment.”
AltLottie: “We could just leave.”
Player: “And the GM’s going ‘but but but but but but but … plot?’”
To be continued!
