Waking up, and after having breakfast in bed, Lottie makes a round of phone calls. Val didn't have any strange dreams, but he'll go Auspex Frankie to see if he's now glowing gold too. Frankie recounts the Greek creation myth to Julius over the phone (the Elder vampire's first ever phone call! We're so proud of him!), and it seems both Tartarus and Eros were missing. Seb reports more innocent shop keepers have been arrested.
Frankie also makes a phone call - Benny reports the cane is still on schedule and Angela was pleased about the flower delivery. Val shows up, confirms Frankie has a bright golden aura, and drops him off in Red Hook before heading off to speak to his cop contacts. In Coffey Park, Theo gives Frankie a history lesson. Frankie points out that the Sabbat attack is being led by Ekaterina, which makes Theo realise things are perhaps slightly higher priority than he previously thought - insert facepalm here.
Lottie and Julius go to a secret lab in Queens and meet up with Aisling the Tremere. She recoils having seen Jeanine's thin blood, especially as she finds out where it's from. She does a few experiments on it, and says it's similar to the thaumaturgic Path of Blood, but somehow inverted? It's like Entropy of the Blood, "Chaos undoing Creation", an Unravelling of the Generation. They also discover that it isn't a directed spell, or whatever, meaning it might have been directed at someone else and then spreading up the generation line. It spreads from Childe to Sire? Frankie is absolutely fine, but the Prince got a hold of Jeanine's other Childe - Maslowe. Coincidence?
Perhaps they do actually need to tell Aisling everything that's been going on, so Julius tells her everything. She may or may not thank him for this later.
Courtesy of Saturday 17 April 2021's Vampire: The Masquerade session.
“You may be our chosen chew-toy, I mean envoy.”
“There are three corpses dropped at this stage and yet it’s the notebook abuse that’s the problem.”
(Frankie is instructed to look at himself in a mirror)
GM: “One handsome devil is looking back at you.”
Player: “I thought you said he wasn’t Val?”
“Julius gets to speak on the magic box!”
Julius (on phone): “HELLO!”
Lottie: “It’s alright, sweetheart, you can talk at normal volume.”
“It’s character building. They’re going to be generous and let other people build their character. Some even for money!”
GM: “Forced love through blood bond. So romantic.”
GM: “Julius wants Lottie to have a family, and if the family doesn’t want to have Lottie then there are ways to fix that.”
Val: “Holy shit!”
Frankie: “Is that a good or a bad ‘holy shit’?”
GM: “Making a note of this.”
Player: “Bringing his cousin as a meatshield? Sorry, bodyguard.”
“A good crack with a baseball bat and the other guy doesn’t have fancy mind powers either.”
Theo: “Not that I’m sayin’ you’re too much Malk or anything …”
Lottie’s player: “Hrm-hm!”
GM: “You’re not there!”
Lottie’s player: “Throwing shade from across town!”
“Put it in food terms. Frankie understands food terms.”
“Even Ventrue think other Ventrue are arseholes. Not themselves, obviously, but the others.”
Aisling: “What is THAT?”
Lottie: “Judgin’ by your reaction, exactly what you think it is.”
“We need a new Tremere, this one’s faulty.”
To be continued!
