Leaving Limbo at 2AM, the four arrive at the Silver Hawg around 2:30, after the bar is closed and find no targets around. Hale and Grek decide to go to Dre's abandoned factory, while Claudia returns to her band and Derrik returns to City Hall and the guest rooms available there to one of his status amongst Kindred.
Claudia and her band develop a new song that is a halfway decent. She is understandably unhappy with her progress.
Hale and Grek arrive at the factory, finding the one remaining dog still around, though it looks as if he's been feeding off of the other dogs. Grek gives him some pickles, and they are friends. Meanwhile, Hale is wondering why they are there. Grek isn't sure himself, but his dreams about the mirror started when they last came here, and have been dayly since then. They wander around the simple-seeming area, finally coming back to Grek's "room" with the cracked mirror of Grek's dreams. Grek starts feeling aorund the mirror, running his fingers along the craks, finally, he puts his head through it, looking down into a hole going down and the floor below.
Downstaris, they find a large open room, stretching the length of the abandoned factory above, lit apparently again be Dre's motion-sensors. The room has an assortment of old furniture scattered about on one end, and what looks to be a Dark Alter under the high-arched celing on the ohter end. Approaching the Alter, Hale and Grek find a bowl used for the Vaulderie, a cerrimonial dagger, and a coffin behind the alter. Inside the coffin, is a staked dessicated vampire that looks strangely familier to Grek. Removing the stake and feeding the lick from the rats above, Hale and Grek notice the remarkable similarity to Grek as the skin fills out. When fully healed, it turns out that not only is the like exactly identicle to Grek, he's screaming in Ash's voice. After staking the lick and removing the stake again, Dre comes to the fore. He tells Grek that they are one, divided in two by "Mother". There is no first or second, for they are the same. One the right and the other the left, like an amoeba dividing in two. After another staking, Nolan explains how "Mother" made several "copies" of Grek, for the pourpose of making 'Dre' watch himself dies over and over again, in grizzly ways. Another conversation with Dre revealed that he thought it was 1993, and that they were in Dallas.
Growing tired of talking to himself out of his head, Grek let Hale behead the other body, watching himself die yet again. Snacking on the rats Dre bred above, and taking a pair with them for 'breakfast', Hale and Grek returned to Hale's apartment. There they found Beatrice, safely ensconed in Hale's spare bedroom. The sweet smell of marijuana smoke wafted through the air, and Grek decided that he wanted to snack on Hale's girl. Hale had an obvious problem with this, and the two struggled and argued for several minuets, while dawn crept up on them. They awoke Bea during this, and she decided that Grek was 'wierd', pulling a switchblade on him at one point. The matter dragged on until, two minuets before sunrise, Grek collapsed, sleeping the sleep of the dead. Hale deposited his lifeless corpse on the couch, and willed his body to respond to Bea's seductions.
Night 6: Wednesday, April 24th
Claudia wakes, feeling inspired. She heas over to Jared and Sarah's place, tunes filling her immortal mind. The full band jams, and they create a virtual masterpiece. This new song re-nvigorates Claudia, refreshing her hopes for immortal stardom.
Derrik awakens under City Hall, in one of the guest rooms. Inside a mini-fridge he finds a pouch of blood, with a microwave on the counter. It is not often the Gangrel have this much luxoury. He heads to Samantha's office where he sets up meeting up with Hale.
Hale and Grek awaken in Hale's apartment. Shortly after sunset, a worker arrives to replace Hale's door. This takes but a few minuets, and he leaves, handing Hale a new set of keys. Hale and Bea go to Wal-Mart and while Bea waits in her beat-up Escort, Hale walks in invisibly and steals a new door handle and deadbolt set. Heading back to Hale's, they find Derrik has already arrived. Spending a few minuets replacing the locks, Hale recieves another phone call, this time from his Brother in the Middle-East. Hale learns that the blood-curse on his clan has been broken, and once ZQ arrives back in the states (he's being UPS'd Red Label) he will be performing the simple ritual to free Hale as well.
Hale, Grek, and Derrik begin planning how to combat the Sabbat, but they don't guard their toungs, forgetting to perserve the Masquerade in front of the mortal Bea. She deduces that Hale is a bounty-hunter, like the TV show Renegade. She is getting deeper and deeper into the Kindred world. How far in will Hale bring her?
Claudia is finishing a rather hot set with her band when Hale calls her. She goes to get the three in her SUV (where in the heck did it come from?????) a black Ford Expedition. Together the four go briefly to Claudia's place, she puts her music inside while Grek recovers his chainsaw from the trunk of the Mustang. Armed and resolved, the four head to Chicago Heights, first to Dre's place where the four feed on some of the rats, while Grek feeds more blood to the dog (and more pickles). Then it's off to the Silver Hawg, to confront the Sabbat.
Arriving, the party finds that besides he Three Brujah-antitribu the expected to find, there are three Gang-bangers handing out with them. Planning the attack this time, the partys circles widely around the block, parking a ways away and sneaking up on the bar. The Assamite sets up on the roof with his Remmington, and the other three take positions. Derrik begins walking forward, hands under his duster, one of Claudia's MAC-10's in one hand, a stake in the other. When he reaches the parking lot, Hale fires his first shot. In three seconds, Hale fires as many shots, downing one of the Crip's before the Sabbat even know what's happening to them. With the Assamite's Quietus, the shots are never heard. In the ext nine seconds, a vicious firefight ensues, masked primarily by the power of Quietus as Hale reaches Melee range and uses his Katana to deadly effect. Even Claudia manages to take down one of the Sabbat lick's, and Derrik more than proves his worth as most of the firepower directed at him is eiter dodged or absorbed by his armor and Fortitude. It isn't until the pack-leader got within close range and unleashed a few loads of buckshot that Derrik even took any damage, and his strong blood quickly took care of that. The Malkavian, now Ash, took out Marcus with his chainsaw, and when the dust settled, there were six downed Sabbat, and four hungry Party-members. Stakes were quickly improvised from a pallet, and the six bodies were piled in the back of Billy's Blazer, key being confiscated by Derrik. The party loaded Marcu's Harley up in the back of Claudia's SUV, and they all headed to City Hall to collect their bounty.
Samantha and twelve of the Prince's Guards meet them when they arrive, and the six bodies are taken to some form of ritual room where they are examined to determine what clan they are of, and weather or not they had practiced the Vaulderie. It requires either the Tremere art of blood-magik or high levels of Auspex to discover these things.
Samantha leads the four up to her office, wich is as messy and cluttered as before. She hands Derrik a briefcase with $60,000 in it, and in a few minuets recieves the phone call confirming that the six bodies are Brujah and have partaken in the Vaulderie. She takes a few notes, and tells Derrik she will transfer the information on the Blazer to an identity she will set up for him.
Claudia heads off to feed, spending two hours aquiring enough blood to recover fully.
Derrik and Samantha have a lengthy disscussion once Hale and Grek leave, speaking about the spot on the council that the Gangrel will be recieving soon, and wich of the Gangrel will occupy that position. Derrik does not like that the other Primogen of the Gangrel is considered a 'puppet'. Samantha informs Derrik that of the Gangrel, the only other Kindred popular enough to be ratified by the clan does not seek it. Derrik will have to socialize with the city Kindred for him to be on the Prince's radar to choose. Derrik makes other plans to get the Prince's attention.
Hale and Grek catch a cab uptown, and make a stop at Claudia's apartment. Hale quickly disables the security systems, and slips in while Grek terrorizes a cabbie. Hale makes copies of all the songs Claudia and her band have been working on, to take to Michael. Leaving things mostly as they were, Hale goes back to the street, and after a long and frustrating conversation with Grek, manages to get the Malkavian into a cab and off to the Michigan Undeground, where he itends to pay another nights fee to the bodyguards he has hired for The Blob.
Claudia returns home, and picks up her music before going back to Sarah and Jared's place. she spends the rest of the night composing another song.
Derrik spends the rest of the night moving amongst the Kine.
Whew! 8 hours of play! And another session coming Sunday, though only 5 hours. I've made a new rule, though, after being "over-Malkavian'ed": No 80 ounces to freedom for Kyle. Though he portayed his character with excruciating accuracy, I doubt the rest of us can take more of that kind Dementation without snapping ourselves.