Session 10 - That Time We Made a Ghoul

Session 10 - That Time We Made a Ghoul Jan 14, 2023 21:47:01 GMT -6

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Post by Cassian on Jan 14, 2023 21:47:01 GMT -6

December 20, 2004
Blakely Residence, Roosevelt District
12:06 a.m.

The cleaver-wielding vampire attacks Jack and gets a Messy Crit! Jack absorbs a hellish wound and takes 8 superficial damage, but he stands his ground. The attacker, upon witnessing Jack’s resolve, suffers a bout of paranoia then turns and runs!
Jack rouses the blood and mends 2 damage. Shotgun blasts can be heard nearby.
Jack moves to a window, signals Cassian and calls him on his phone to report what’s going on in the house. Cass tells him to flush out enemies toward the front door where he will pick them off.
Harri enters the house and sees a slumped female figure that appears to have been thrown through a central fireplace. The figure’s remains are charred. Harri hides near some chairs in the foyer.
A security guard is tossed from the second story balcony and splats onto the tiles of the living room floor. More shotgun blasts are heard upstairs.
A monstrous voice in the back of the house says, “Got that door open yet?”
Racing down the stairs is the panicked cleaver-wielding biker. He bolts past Harri and out the front door.
Cassian sees the biker through his scope and shoots, hitting him squarely in the chest and doing 7 superficial damage.
The wounded biker runs back into the house and Harri leaps from his hiding spot with his knife and brass knuckles. He surprises the biker and attempts to slash his throat, but misses. Harri hits the biker in the back of the head for 4 superficial damage.
The biker is infuriated. Harri laughs maniacally and skips out the front door.
Jack emerges from the upstairs hallway and stands at the balcony. The cleaver biker sees Jack and charges at him in a fury. As the biker leaps up and swings his cleaver, Jack leaps down. The cleaver blow splits the banister rail!
Jack moves toward the open front door. The biker says, “No, you don’t!” and pursues Jack.
Harri enters the house again, creeps along the wall and hides behind the fountain in the foyer.
Jack calmly continues walking toward the front door, intentionally allowing the biker to get closer. With his back turned to the biker, Jack prepares a called shot with his sword. At the last second, Jack whirls and attempts to decapitate the enraged biker. He is so close! 11 successes results in 5 damage!
Harri yells, “EMT! Stand back!” and cracks the stunned and bleeding biker in the face with his brass knuckles.
The biker exits the house again, and again Cassian tags him in the chest with a sniper shot, doing 3 damage. The biker gives up the fight and bolts for the motorcycles.
Harri sees a shotgun-wielding biker on the balcony pointing the shotty at him. Harri ducks behind the fountain and the shot misses.
Jack moves to a nearby bar cart and prepares a Molotov cocktail. As he lights it, he has to overcome an instinctive fear of fire.
Harri dives behind a chair in the foyer.
Another shotgun blast rings out as Jack tosses the Molotov. Jack is hit for 3 damage causing the Molotov to miss the shotgun biker. A fire erupts upstairs along the wall.
Cassian drops out of the tree and tweaks his knee for 2 damage. He bolts for the front door of the house.
Harri races up the stairs and charges the shotgun biker who yells while reloading, “Axel! Get out here!”
The shotgun roars again and Harri takes the slug square in the chest for 3 aggravated damage! He makes it upstairs and jumps into a nook outside the master bedroom.
Jack leaps up to the second floor, grabs the shotgun biker and pushes him into the flames, pinning him against the burning wall. The biker burns and takes aggravated damage and fails a terror frenzy test.
Cassian enters the house with pistols drawn. He sees Jack pinning the biker to the burning wall, shoots and misses.
The burning biker breaks free of Jack, smashes through a window and leaps off a balcony onto the back patio below. An audible snap is heard and he shambles off into the shadows with a broken leg.
Harri hears a voice from inside the master bedroom say, “I can’t get this open!” Harri picks up the abandoned shotgun.
Jack signals to Cassian to get upstairs to join him and Harri. The three vampires quickly formulate a plan to enter the bedroom and attack.
Harri enters the bedroom and levels the shotty at a large biker who is bashing part of the wall. Harri says, “Hey, fucktard. Call an ambulance?” and blasts the biker.
Cassian enters the room and zippers the biker with his pistols doing 4 damage.
Jack swings his sword two-handed and does 3 damage, shearing off part of his face! The biker is impaired but passes his fury frenzy check.
The biker looks at Jack and growls, “Get the fuck outta here!” using Intimidation and Daunt. But Jack resists!
Harri calls out to Blakely. “Blaaaakely! Your rescuers are here!”
Cassian barricades the doors to the master bedroom with chairs and furniture.
Jack attacks the biker again and slices his arm and hacks off fingers. Harri fires the shotgun again, but the wounded biker turns and leaps, smashing through a window and escapes into the night.
Cassian hears the faint sound of a trapdoor followed by a thump downstairs. He realizes that Blakely has exited his panic room through a secret door. Cassian informs Jack and Harri, and the vampires quickly move to catch Blakely.
Jack sees Blakely running for the front door. However, he also sees a bleeding guard in the living room. His hunger frenzy causes him to give up the pursuit and feed on the downed guard!
Cassian aims for Blakely’s leg and fires his pistol. He hits Blakely but gets a Messy Crit! Blakely screams and drops in the foyer with blood spurting from his femoral artery. Cassian stands over him and realizes that Blakely is going to bleed out unless he makes him a ghoul. But Cassian also feels a strange compulsion to just let the bastard die. He doesn’t resist the compulsion, so he does nothing.
Harri arrives and stops the bleeding using his belt as a tourniquet.
Jack finishes feeding, slaking all his Hunger and kills the guard.
The house is a wreck. The burned body by the fireplace is gone!
The vampires take Blakely to the ambulance. Harri drives.
In the back of the ambulance, Cassian grabs Blakely by the shirt, pulls him close and uses Mesmerize to say, “Shut up. Lie still and drink.”
Jack cuts his own wrist and feeds Blakely, imparting Awe to him, 2 resonance worth of vitae, and healing his wounds. Blakely is now Jack’s ghoul.
Cassian drinks all the bagged blood in the ambulance and slakes 1 Hunger.
The vampires leave Blakely and the ambulance at the emergency entrance to Morgan County Medical and walk back to their haven.

December 20, 2004
Marshall Manor, Marshall Campus District
2:00 a.m.

The vampires find Petey bleeding on the front porch of Marshall Manor. Carved on his his chest (and not with a knife) are the numbers from the ambulance that Harri instructed him to change.
Cassian notices a piece of parchment tacked to the front door of the house. It reads “NO MEDICAL”. The handwriting is the same as that of the note he received months ago warning him about Papagenno and signed “A”.
Jack drives Petey to the hospital with Harri.
On the way, Harri examines Petey and is convinced he hasn’t been bit. He asks, “Who did this? Did you see them, boy?” to which Petey responds, “Not... th...them... HIM!”
After dropping Petey at the ER, Jack and Harri return to Marshall Manor.
Jack calls Masuko to report that Blakely is now his ghoul. She dispassionately says she’ll report it to the Duke and hangs up.
Harri feeds on the herd and slakes 1 Hunger. His aggravated damage wounds force him to sleep or he risks extended torpor.
Cassian decides to meet with Alanna to try to negotiate with her over her journal. He asks Jack to accompany him to her club.

The coterie’s Herd bonus is now used for the week.

December 20, 2004
The Purple Rose, Ashton Park District
3:02 a.m.

Cassian and Jack find Alanna partying in her lounge with a sordid cast of characters. Cassian politely asks her to clear the room so they can speak in private. She acquiesces.
Cassian asks if she’d be willing to give up her journal in exchange for information about the disappearance of Carter.
Alanna counters by offering to produce a fake or redacted journal to deliver to the Bishop. Cassian refuses. He tries to convince her that the information he has about Carter, and the threat it represents to her clan, is far more important than the risk of knowingly delivering a fake journal to the Bishop. (And somewhere in the back of Cassian’s mind, he can’t help but think…)
Alanna counteroffers again. She will produce the journal if Cassian agrees to kill Grosde, who Alanna says is a “fucking liar”.
Again, Cassian refuses, unwilling to be played yet again. He thanks Alanna for her time and leaves.
Alanna cooly tells Cassian, “Next time, call first.”
As Jack walks out of the lounge he leans in close to Alanna and says, “Seven”. She kisses him squarely on the lips. Cassian does not hear or see this happen.

December 20, 2004
Marshall Manor, Marshall Campus District
7:08 p.m.

Harri wakes and makes 4 successful Rouse Checks!
There are two messages on the answering machine: 1) A return call from a local sword manufacturer, and 2) The analysis of the delivered sample is complete.

For their troubles the previous night, the vampires all earn 3 Experience.