Lottie and Frankie continue their discussion about what happened while they split the party. Lottie then explains to Angela why Frankie can't take her out on a date, and her reaction leads the players to surmise that a certain crush might actually be reciprocated. She also gives strict orders about which Kindred are allowed inside the house, i.e. definitely not Charlotte.
In this week's "ghouls acting kinda weird": Angela gives Frankie's neck a funny look.
The Commissioner of Plants and Buildings in Brooklyn is apparently excited about the Brooklyn Bridge building works, which are taking place during daylight hours and begun the same day that the three cousins were Embraced.
Frankie meets Val to discuss plans, how Val needs to talk to his police contacts to find out everything he can about the hits on Red Hook. This turned into a more personal conversation between the two cousins, where Val finds their new lifestyle to suit him very well, but he notes that Frankie might never get used to it - as highlighted by Val, who had brought them a couple of women to snack on, was busy sweet-talking his before biting, whereas Frankie apologised to his.
Val, it turns out, is worried about the situation between Lottie and Charlotte. That the air gets frosty when Charlotte is mentioned around Lottie is one thing, but it also seems to be happening the other way around ... However, if it comes down to it, he's on his cousins' side. He also kindly offered to stake Jeanine for Frankie. So thoughtful!
Meanwhile, because of the lack of a phone in the Manhattan residence, Julius says he's getting a new place, which will have a telephone. He's confident he can get that house tonight ... because he wasn't planning on paying for it. The family living there are mindwhammied into submission, will be great at answering the phone and taking messages and acting as snacks. Plus, he's just given Lottie a family, which she's never truly had. It's incredibly romantic - and sexy. They can totally take time out for a bit of bedroom fun, despite previously telling a certain cousin that there's absolutely no time for anything other than business right now.
Left brooding after Val's heart-to-heart, Frankie asks Benny to arrange a flower delivery for Angela. In a further doubling down on his humanity, backed up by dice, instead of driving to Theo, he thinks about happy childhood memories and somehow ends up outside Golconda Park. All sounds and all lights around him fade out, spooking him and making him return to the car, handing a passing drunk some spare change in the process.
So in a strange turn of events, Val might actually become a sort of bridge between two cousins who are clearly heading in opposite directions on the morality scale.
Player 1: “Say something reassuring to [Player 2].”
GM: “[Player 2]? Reassured!”
Player 2: “I feel … reassured?”
GM: “Good! It worked!”
GM: “The good news is ‘what is a slave, really?’ And that’s also the bad news.”
GM: “Theo’s a muppet? Not by Brujah standards.”
“That would spark a hundred-year-old revenge plot against the Ventrue that said that to her face!”
“We’re not gonna sit here while you dehydrate. Not when we can’t watch it.”
“I have prescription morphine.”
“Aww. That makes you much less cool.”
“This got spicy real fast.”
“We will share the dangerosity, as it were.”
GM: “For that, put an extra point in Athletics. MENTAL Athletics.”
“We’ve already got Pentex and the Sabbat, let’s not bring in the Technocracy as well.”
“I know I’m cockblocking your character, I’m sorry.”
Player: “Are we killing someone to get this done?”
GM: “No, that would be gauche.”
“There’s no level of idiot Boomer man he can get without her thinking he’s so smart and sexy.”
Angela: “Forever is an awful long time. I don’t mind waiting.”
“I can’t really trust him not to set his own hair on fire.”
(Lottie wouldn’t want a Childe of her own)
“Julius needs to look at someone else for grandkids, basically.”
“You are busy defending turf. You do not have time to shag the dog!”
GM: “Aww, that’s nice. Other people register with her.”
(So many technological advances have happened in the past few decades)
“The next century’s gonna be WILD!”
“The Camarilla will put a lot of money into NASA. Vampires in space!”
“Have you any idea how hard it is for Lottie to listen in and not be there to boss everyone around and tell them what to do?”
Val: “Subtle is my middle name.”
Player: “It’s ONE of your middle names. It’s Subtle and before that, Not At Fucking All!”
Val: “But ya gotta understand, it’s like apologisin’ to your soup for drinkin’ it.”
Val: “You were a good kid. I mean ya weren’t a Boy Scout or nothin’.”
Frankie’s player: “No, but he WAS a choirboy. At least until he realised baseball with Benny was more fun.”
GM: “It’s Val, any advice he gives is golden.”
GM: “Dancingly is not a word, but fuck it, I just invented it.”
“I reach for a pen, starting to fill out another circle of Conscience … No reason.”
GM: “Sit back, relax, slowly become monster …”
GM: “Nah, YOULT! (That’s YOLO, but You Only Un-Live Twice!)”
GM: “Technically the term ‘sociopathy’ hasn’t been introduced to the US yet.”
Lottie: “We’re ahead of the curve.”
“Oh my god, girl! Grow a conscience!”
To be continued!
