Story 2

Here comes a candle to light you to bed, 
And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!
==April 1 2014==
Evangeline wakes up to an invitation from Virginia.  She goes to Virginia's mansion and meets with Cartwright, Virginia's whip.  Virginia sits both of them down and brings out an old box of silver coins.  She tells them the story of Judas Iscariot, who was paid 30 pieces of silver to betray Christ.  The coins are said to contain power, and Virginia says that she's used them several times over the years. The Tremere used to have the coins, but Flavius took them from the Tremere a long time ago.  It was the Tremere that sank the ship that Flavius used to come to the new world, not knowing that Flavius had given the coins to Virginia to hide for him.  He's been in torpor in the Gulf of Mexico ever since.  She says that someone raided two of her hiding places, and now six of the coins have been stolen.  She gives two coins both Cartwright and Eve, and tells them to hide them and keep them safe for her.  Eve agrees to the task and takes her two coins with her to the Factory.
Julian spends the early evening at an art function, and then decides to go out to the Factory.
Lawrence meets with the Malkavians at the new Malkavian Chantry in the ice cream parlor where he gets the gossip from the last court held by the Prince. He gets a call from Harlequin, who asks him to meet with two members of Clan Giovanni recently arrived to the city. He leaves the Malk Chantry and goes to the bar where the Giovanni seem to be setting up shop. The meeting with Donatella and Valentino goes pretty well, and Lawrence even warns them that they seem to be setting up in Lupine Territory. They are quite alarmed at the news, and say that they will remedy the situation. Lawrence then goes to Satchmo's where he has an open mike night scheduled. He meets a young singer named Gloria, and offers her a standing gig at the club.
When Eve gets to the factory she puts her coins in the safe in the manager's office, and then meets with Colin and Aidan.  There are two new Nosferatu in the city playing with an x-box in the VIP room.  Aidan eagerly joins with Twist and D.J. much to Eve's disgust.  Colin meets a new Vampire at the bar who introduces himself as Stephan Stephan almost crushes Colin's hand during a handshake, which makes Colin suddenly wary of the new arrival.  Eve introduces herself to Stephan and gives him a tour of the club.  Stephan seems very interested in the city's vampire population and asks many questions, though he refuses to indulge anything about himself.  Colin calls Lawrence and tells him about the new stranger, and Lawrence tells Colin to keep him there until he can meet with them.
Lawrence soon arrives, and meets with Stephan. Stephan doesn't stay long past Lawrence's arrival, so Eve and Colin escort him from the premises. After he leaves, they discover that he was obfuscated the entire time at the club, and that he was a Nosferatu. Eve sends a picture of him to Virginia and she confirms that Stephan is indeed Flavius. Virginia warns Eve that Flavius is extremely powerful and he could be right there in the room with them, and they would never know it. After talking to Virginia, Eve panics about the coins and takes them from the safe so she can hide them in a better place.
== Wed, April 2 2014 ==
Aidan wakes for the evening and spends time working on his custom bike.
Lawrence hacks into a computer he stole from some Setites and gets information about their business interests. He goes to a house known as belonging to the Snakes and sets himself up on a roof across the street for a stakeout.
When Evangeline is getting ready to go out for the night, Gloria asks for Wed nights off so she can sing. Eve tells her it's okay and then she heads out to the Twilight Club.
Colin contacts his paranormal investigators and they tell him things have been crazy.
After finishing with his bike for the night, Aidan calls up a friend and while talking he hears on the news about another body being found at the University. The victim was withered unnaturally, and cause of death is unknown. It's the third body to be found like this in two years. Aidan decides to call Colin about it, and they meet up to try to investigate.
Lawrence gets a text from Isis during his stakeout. She joins up with him on the roof and they compare notes about Setite movements. After awhile they see two guys leave the house and put something in a truck. They decide to follow the 2 men in Isis's car.
Eve arrives at Elysium and she is greeted by Wilfred, Marguerite, Pinch and Jake. She meets a new Nosferatu by the name of Fab. Jake asks Eve about the new arrival to town, Stephen. Eve tells them about meeting Stephen, but doesn't let on that he is really Flavius. When Eve asks if anyone else has met Stephen, or has any news, Jake calls Freddie to see if any of the anarchs know anything, but is unable to come up with any information. Eve is surprised to learn that Marguerite knows about her friendship with Danior. Turns out that the Toreador have been gossiping about the relationship for quite awhile and Eve protests that she and Danny are just friends. It doesn't look like anyone believes her though.
Aidan and Colin meet up at Money Makers and then head out to the morgue. On the way, Colin gets a call from Huey (of the paranormal research team) about a job gone bad. A team member named Mark was attacked during an investigation and is now in the hospital. Colin and Aidan decide to check it out, thinking that the morgue will wait. Huey tells them that St Marius Animal Shelter burned down in 1984 and has quite a reputation for haunting. When Colin and Aidan get to the hospital they find Mark is covered in animal bites and scratches. Colin uses his Auspex to see what happened to Mark in the shelter ruins, and he sees that Mark barely survived being mauled by something they couldn't see. Before leaving, Colin feeds Mark a drop of his blood.
Lawrence and Isis follow the moving truck to an apartment complex. The truck stops in front of a building, the two men get out, and one guy goes into the building while the other opens up the truck. Lawrence cloaks both him and Isis with his obfuscate powers so they can move in closer to see what is happening. The man comes out of the building with 4 women being held captive, and he puts the women in the back of the truck. Lawrence and Isis sneak into the truck with the women before the men close up the truck. One of the men rides in back with the women, keeping a gun trained on them for the entire ride. Lawrence and Isis wait quietly for the truck to arrive at the final destination. After a half an hour they are still driving along the highway.
Eve leaves Elysium and meets up with Danior for a night of gambling at the Riverboat. While there, they see the Libertines, who seem to have had a new member named Freddie join the group. Hannibal stops to talk with Eve and Danny and introduces them to the rest of the group. He invites them to join them, but Eve and Danny decline. After going their separate ways, Danny pulls a scam with Eve on an old gentleman who had been winning big the whole night. Danior steals his money while Eve provides a distraction. Eve and Danny then decide to go out for a bite in the French Quarter and leave the Riverboat.
After a long while, the truck that Lawrence had hidden away in pulls to a stop. The man in the back gives instructions to the girls and they are unloaded and herded into a plantation house. Lawrence and Isis follow them into the house still using obfuscate to stay hidden in plain sight. It looks like a party is going on, some of the people in attendance are from the Swede's old hellfire club and look familiar. One guard stays with the girls, and Lawrence breaks his obfuscate right in front of him. He dominates the startled guard into falling asleep. Isis clocks the old lady that is preparing the girls for auction, and she and Lawrence get the girls out of the house. They block the doors around the house with some of the cars parked outside and then set the house on fire. They get back in the truck and make their way back to the city with the rescued girls.
When Colin and Aidan get to the parking lot of the old animal shelter, Aidan tries to provoke an attack like the one that happened to poor Mark while Colin uses his Spirit's Touch ability to try to see what is going on. Aidan notices some animal bones scattered on the ground and picks one up. As soon as he touches the bone, he is attacked . Aidan runs to the car to try to get away from the onslaught while Colin does his best to help him. Suddenly three people with ski masks come out of a parked van as the two try to escape the spirits. One of them shoots at Aidan with a shotgun and Aidan feels some of the attacking spirits let go of him. Another of the figures starts chanting loudly in latin and the ghosts leave. Aidan thinks quickly and spends blood to appear human and make his wounds bleed as his rescuers make sure he is okay. The newcomers call an ambulance for Aidan and head out after warning the two kindred to stay away from the old shelter. Colin drives Aidan away and gives him some of his own blood to help him heal up.
== Thurs, April 3 2014 ==
Al starts his evening at Satchmo's, where he hosts another open mike night. Zot is one of the first performers, playing the trumpet very well. Gloria also sings again. Al invites Zot to come back for a regular gig.
Evangeline, Aidan, and Julian visit the Twilight Club. Jake, Danior, Harlequin, Marisol, Bran and Fab are all there socializing. Eve goes and sits next to Danny, ignoring the Toreador's knowing smiles. She asks about Stephan again, and finds out that no one has seen him about the city yet. Julian does his best to mingle with Bran and Marisol, and asks about becoming a harpy. He seems immune to the Toreador's barbs and veiled insults, and is just happy to join them in socializing, taking what they say at face value.
Al gets a call from Carter about several vampires being spotted in a new club in Lupine territory. Al decides to investigate and when he arrives, sees that the place is called the Jupiter Club. He hides with obfuscate and checks out the inside, discovering five vampires. Once the black lights come up in the building, he notices that the walls are covered in snake designs, and he quickly leaves the building.
Danny and Eve leave Elysium and hunt for awhile in the French Quarter. Danior invites her back to his place, and he drives her to a trailer park on the outskirts of the city. Eve meets Danny's big gypsy family and parties with them for most of the night. She stays the day with Danny in his vardo that he parks in the woods away from the rest of his family.
Aidan and Julian check out the body of the dead college student in the morgue. They find out the victim's name and Aidan breaks off a toe to bring back to Colin. Afterwards, Aidan prowls the French Quarter looking for trouble and gets into a fight with a random guy dressed in a banana suit.
== Friday, April 4 2014 ==
Aidan and Lawrence head out to the Twilight Club after hunting first thing in the evening. Evangeline wakes up with Danior and he takes her back into the city. She gets dressed and head over to the Twilight Club as well. She gets a call from Colin on the way, and he tells her about his new bookstore and tells her to get the others to come.
Prince Alejandro, Harlequin, Jezebel, Bran, and Marguerite are all at Elysium tonight. Aidan talks to Alejandro about maybe having a Kindred bowling league. Eve tells the rest of the Regulators about Colin opening his book store, and that he wants the rest of the coterie to come to the opening. The other kindred are very interested in Colin's store and want to know what kind of store it is. Eve isn't sure, but promises to let them know when she finds out. At this point Aidan gets a text from Colin warning him that there might be a fight. Alejandro is very interested in this, and wants to know who Colin expects to be fighting. Marguerite starts stirring up the pot with Eve, when she starts criticizing Colin for using her as hired muscle and constantly putting her in danger.
The Regulators leave Elysium and go to Colin's store, the Abbey. Colin shows the private library to the rest of the coterie and tells them about wanting the Abbey to be a meeting spot for the group. He gets mad at Eve for blurting out about his bookstore at Elysium, but he had forgotten to tell her it was a secret. He then tells the group about his Annabelle being taken in by a cult. They decide to go to the church to find Annabelle, and see if they can talk to her.
Colin and Lawrence wait at the car as Eve and Aidan walk towards the church. Eve briefly talks to a parishioner outside the church building before she and Aidan try to go in. As soon as the two try to cross the threshold, they are horribly burned by soulfire. Eve manages to hold off Rotschrek and make it back to Colin's car, but Aidan isn't so lucky and he flees in uncontrollable terror. Colin sees Aidan running away and takes off after him to try to keep him from making a masquerade breach. Colin eventually catches up to Aidan outside a restaurant, and is able to make him calm enough to get himself under control again. Meanwhile, Lawrence drives Colin's car back to the Abbey while Eve huddles in the car, completely in shock. Lawrence goes back inside the bookstore, but Eve is unable to make herself leave the relative safety of the car. Eventually, Colin and Aidan make it back to the store and see Eve huddled in the back of the car. Colin talks her into getting out and going inside with the others.
Aidan makes his goodbyes and says he's going to his bowling night. Eve begs him to be allowed to come along so she can forget the horrible thing that happened at the church. She promises to not screw with any of his friends there, and Aidan finally gives in, though he isn't happy about it. When they arrive at the bowling alley, Aidan makes Eve pretend to be his niece. When he introduces her, she promptly hits "Uncle Aidan" up for twenty bucks. Aidan glares at her, but forks over the cash, and Eve heads over to the concession stand where she sees someone more her own age. Aidan bowls against Eddie Pitt, and Eve chats awhile with his wife, Connie. Turns out that Connie was a bike messenger from New York, and she and Eddie want to open a gym in New Orleans.
Colin spends the rest of his night researching Setite rituals for Lawrence and Lawrence spends his time researching Colin's library about the Shadowlands.
==Sat, April 5 2014 AKA "The Jupiter Club"==
When Julian wakes for the night, he discovers a message from his art dealer contact about stolen art, and a calling card with a dragonfly that was apparently left behind by the thief.  After speaking to the dealer, he decides to go to Elysium to mingle with other Kindred before leaving to meet with Lawrence at the Malkavian Chanty.
Aidan hunts and then goes to meet up with Colin at the Abbey.
Evangeline wakes and then spends the first part of her night summoning a shadow entity from the abyss.  She suffers horrible burns to her hand in the process, but eventually she gets a small shadow that she sends to follow Annabelle, hoping to find a better place for a confrontation than the church from the night before. After, she heads to the Factory, and finds Dr. John, Annie and the new gargoyle Angellica hanging out in the VIP section.  She chats for awhile and then leaves to check in with Aaron and Mike.  Aaron tells Eve that some gang vandalized the place during the day with grafitti- mostly snakes and the sign for Jupiter.  Eve realizes that it's probably Setites taunting her and calls Lawrence.  She tells him what happened and that there is a Setite sitting in her VIP room at that very moment.  Lawrence tells her to keep Dr John there.
Colin wakes and spends some quality time with Pinkie before heading over to the Abbey.  When he gets to the bookstore he finds out from Roman that the store had also been valdalized during the day.  Colin calls Larry and finds out that Eve was targeted as well.  Colin and Aidan head over to the Factory to help Eve confront Dr John.  Dr. John swears that he had nothing to do with the Setites that broke domain, and that he knows the elder Setite Jean Lafitte is known to use the symbol of Jupiter as his sigil.  Dr. John says that he opposes Lafitte and calls him nothing but a pirate and a whoremonger. 
Lawrence leaves the Malk Chantry, forgetting about meeting with Julian there, and spots a couple of gangbangers with spray paint outside of the shop.  He interupts them before they can do any damage and decides to follow them when they run.  They lead Lawrence to a house near the Jupiter club.  Lawrence reads the leaders mind to find out that the person that gave the gang their orders was at the club.  
Julian arrives at the Malkavian Chantry to find it deserted with no sign of Lawrence.  He decides to head over to the Factory as it also seems to be a gathering spot for the Kindred, and arrives just in time to hear the end of the conversation with Dr. John.  Eve gets a phone call from Lawrence telling her about what he found, and they arrange to meet up near the Jupiter Club.  Annie is very interested in the drama and pays attention to the outcome, but doesn't interfere when the Regulators decide to leave.  Julian decides to come with the group, and they head out to meet Lawrence. 
Aidan parks his bike in a lot down the street from the Jupiter club and then uses his presence to charm a random guy to keep his ride safe.  Colin parks next to Aidan and the guy agrees to watch both vehicles while they go towards the club.  Lawrence uses his obfuscation powers to make him look like someone else, and the others are unsure who he is until Eve asks him flat out if he is Lawrence.  When they get to the club, Eve entrances the bouncer at the door, and they all go inside.  They take a look around, and Lawrence sees one of the vamps from the last time he was there tending bar.  
Eve goes up to a random guy and uses her dominate power when she tells him to "go punch that guy over there in the face".  He promply obeys and a fight breaks out.  Eve and Colin escalate the fight, sending more and more people at random into the fray.  The other vampires in the building come out during the fight, and one of the bouncers starts to chain the doors closed.  Lawrence and Colin notice a strange gas coming through pipes in the ceiling, and the mortals in the club start obviously hallucinating. Saphra comes out of the main office, stands on the bar, and hits everyone in the room with her presence powers of majesty.  Aidan in particular gets hit hard and immediately starts worshiping at her feet.  The others are able to resist her somewhat and Colin hits her with theft of vitae, blood streaming in a torrent from her body to his.  Eve heads towards the door, thinking to unlock it.  As she moves to the door, Luna entrances her, making her fall in love, and then asks her for a kiss.  Colin sees Eve in trouble and uses his blood magic to grab ahold of Luna's leg and make him fall to the ground.  Eve rushes over to Luna to make sure he's ok and helps him up.  He smiles at Eve and asks for that kiss again, and she kisses him, helpless against the entrancement.  Luna uses the opportunity to lacerate her from the inside with Tongue of the Asp, causing massive ammounts of damage.  As Eve falls back, Colin grabs ahold of Luna and causes the blood in his body to boil over. Luna's smoking corpse falls to the ground, burned from the inside out.
Meanwhile, Benny used this time to complete his transformation into a huge snake and then attacks Aidan and Julian along with Saphra's pet snake.  Tony, the bartender comes out from behind the bar and sets himself against Eve.  Eve decides to summon her shadow arms from the abyss.  Tony attacks her, and she's able to take the hit. She mentally sends the shadows after Tony, and has a moment to realize something went wrong just before the shadows attack her instead.  Eve is knocked senseless by the shadow tenticles, and they start to retreat back to the abyss, dragging her with them.  Eve wakes briefly when she uses the last of her reserves to heal some of the damage done to her body, but the shadows don't give up and she is knocked into torpor.  Colin jumps to her rescue and pulls the shadows from her body just before they pull her into the abyss.
Lawrence goes behind the bar to the office where he sees the gas tanks for the hallucigens being pumped into the club.  He turns off the tanks and then goes to leave the office when Saphra jumps him and a desparate fight breaks out between the two.
Colin takes the fight back to Tony and Benny, using his thaumaturgy to devistating effects, pulling the blood from their bodies and causing massive injuries.  He quickly takes down snake Benny and Saphra's pet killing them and saving Aidan from further damage.  Tony leaves the fight and rushes to Saphra's defense as soon as he realizes she's in peril.
Lawrence has fought Saphra to the ground and is attempting to diablerize her soul, when Tony attacks.  Lawrence fends off Tony's desparate attempts to save her, and drinks her soul, putting himself a generation closer to Caine in the process.  Tony is put in torpor after seeing Saphra destroyed, and the Regulators pause to assess the situation. Most of the mortals are on the ground hallucinating, and each of the coterie has suffered pretty badly.  Colin is in the best shape and he carries out Eve before they leave and set the place on fire.  Lawrence takes the torpored Tony with him.  They hear sirens in the distance and figure some of the mortals must have called the police when the fight broke out.  On the way out, Lawrence gets a call from Harlequin who says Dr John called him and warned him to stay away from the Jupiter Club. 
Colin puts Eve in his car after fending off Aidan's new friend's concern by telling him that she's just drunk.  Aidan and Colin collect thier cars from the guy and pay him, and Colin heads out.  After driving a ways, he pulls over and takes Eve's phone.  He rolls his eyes at a message from Danior and then calls Virginia to set up a meeting to help Eve.  He feeds Eve some of his blood and then uses a thaumaturgy power to force her to heal some of her injuries. He sends a snarky message to Danior to make him jealous, and then drives out to Edmond Fisheries to meet up with Virginia.  He carries Eve inside, and Virginia feeds Eve some of her blood, waking her up.  Colin tells Eve that Danior called, but he took care of it, and then he leaves.
Aidan leaves his new friend after getting his name.  He goes hunting in need of blood to heal some of the massive damage that he suffered at the fangs of the snakes.  He meets a lovely lady named Star on a street corner and feeds from her.  
Eve tells Virginia what happened after she heals some of the damage done to her voice.  And Virginia tells her that she was being rash in rushing out to attack Setites just for a little paint.  She tells Eve to wait 10 years before trying to take revenge on anyone else, and Eve takes her lesson to heart.  Virginia takes Evangeline back to her mansion to keep an eye on her and let her heal up for a few nights.  Eve gets in touch with Danior and apologizes for Colin. Danior asks Eve about Lucien's chainsaw, saying that he wants it to bait Jules into coming out of hiding.  Eve warns him that Jules is batshit crazy, but tells him she'll ask the others about the chainsaw.
==April 9 2014, Wed aka "Fun With Strippers"==
Aidan starts his night off at Money Maker's, and calls Colin to meet him there at the strip club.  While chatting with Pinkie, he see's Sam Boucher argueing with another guy.  After the guy leaves, Aidan chats with Sam for awhile while he waits for Colin to arrive.  Aidan asks if everything is ok, and Skinner tells him it's just family squables.  Money Makers has a celebrity dancer for the night, and Angel tries to get Aidan to fork over for a private dance.  He politely refuses to her disapointment.
Evangeline goes home after staying with Virginia for a few nights to heal, and checks on the coins.  After seeing them safe, she gets Gloria to do her hair and make up while she calls Colin.  The shadow she sent out three nights before had been successful, and she now knows where Annabelle lives.
Lawrence goes to the factory on a stake out to look for Dr. John.  He sees Nails, Jake, Dolores, Icepick and Black Francis arrive and go into the VIP section.  Larry decides to obfuscate and follow them.  After awhile, Tinker arrives at the VIP room, and she goes to sit next to Lawrence even though he has remained hidden from the others.  After awhile, she decides to take Larry home with her for the night and he goes willingly.
Colin is heading out to Money Makers to meet Aidan, when he answers Eve's phone call.  She tells him she has a surprise for him and convinces him to pick her up at her haven.  When Colin arrives, Eve gets in the car and gives him an address.  She's practically bouncing with excitement, but refuses to tell Colin what the surpise is.  After a little while, they arrive at a modest apartment building, and they get out of the car.  Eve leads Colin to the building and shows him the name plate on one of the mailbox's.  To his surpise, he reads Annabelle's name.  Colin is unsure about what to do, wondering if she's home or not, when Eve decides to speed things up and knocks on Annabelle's door.  After a moment, Annabelle opens the door and Colin comes face to face with his lost love for the first time in years.  Eve says hello to her, and still excited for the reunion, motions Colin to the door.  To Eve's surprise, Annabelle acts very cool towards Colin, slinging several verbal barbs his way.  Colin gets a bad feeling and takes a moment to read her aura, discovering to his horror, that she's been possessed by a demon.  Colin mentally sends a message to that effect to Eve, and Eve quickly decides that they need to get out of there.  Colin retreats from the building as well, not knowing how to help his lost love.
As they leave, Eve tries to get Colin to drop her off at the Factory, but Colin refuses, saying he's supposed to meet Aidan and the Factory is out of the way.  Eve relents when she realizes she needs to give Skinner his monthly dose of vitae anyway.  When they get to Money Makers, Eve goes straight over to Skinner and asks if he's got a jar.  He motions towards the office and Eve follows him inside.  Aidan watches them leave together in surprise and asks Colin "Eve and Skinner?"  Colin tells him they just have a thing, and Aidan lets it go.  
Angel, the celebrity stripper shows up and offers to dance for Aidan and Colin again, and Colin decides to take her up on the offer.  Smiling, she leads him to a private room and then starts to dance.  She hits Colin with an entrancement and Colin becomes infatuated with her.  She gets Colin to give her all the money in his wallet, and then gets him to transfer 10k from his bank account to hers.  She then starts to feed from him, and gets a shock when she gets vampiric vitae instead of the mortal blood she was expecting.  She imediately lets go of Colin and then sends him on his way.  
Skinner takes a jar from the fridge in his office and Eve sees that he has several pints of her blood saved up.  She asks about the extra blood, kind of miffed that he doesn't seem to be using it as she fills up the new jar.  Skinner says not to worry, he's going to use it.  They talk for a few minutes as she fills the container with her blood, and then she leaves the office after healing up her wrist.
Colin leaves Angel and then leaves the club, pissed off about Angel's violation. He calls a car to take Aidan and Eve home.  Aidan and Eve realize he's gone and Eve gets pissed that he ditched her at a strip club. They leave the club, taking the car that Colin called for them.  Eve remembers about Danior's request to ask about Lucien's chainsaw and she sends a mass text to Lawrence and Colin asking about their last fight against Lucien and the whereabouts of the missing chainsaw.  Colin is immediately suspicious and wants to know why Eve is asking about it.  Lawrence says the chainsaw is dangerous and wants to know why Eve is asking as well.  Eve, still mad at Colin, takes him out of the conversation and sends a text just to Lawrence saying someone wanted the chainsaw as bait for Jules, and Lawrence tells her that's not a good idea.  
==April 10 2014, Thursday aka "Just A Really Bad Night"==
When Evangeline opens her eyes Thursday night, she sees the shadows moving in the corner of the bed canopy above her- someone spying on her using the abyss.  She glares up at the shadow and tells the person to get lost.  The shadows return to normal, and Eve senses that no one is there anymore.  She checks on the coin's hiding spots to be safe, and as she holds one of the coins, she just suddenly knows that if she holds one of the coins, that no one would be able to scry on her.  A little spooked, she hides the coin away again, and leaves to go hunting at the Factory.
Colin wakes up to find Pinkie next to him in bed reading Twilight.  Colin gets an uneasy feeling when he notices a bottle of glitter next to some glue on the nightstand.  He gets up and looks in the mirror and finds out that he's aquired a certain sparkle to his features.  Irritated, Colin sets the damn book on fire with a fire ball and then gets cleaned up to go out to the Factory.
Lawrence wakes up at Tinker's house to find her in a more agitated state.  Tinker calls her poker buddies over to the house so that Lawrence can get a meal.  Lawrence wins a couple hands of poker before he excuses himself to hunt some more.  He decides to feed at the Factory as well.
A band called the Black Shrouds is playing at the Factory tonight, and several kindred are in the VIP section when Eve arrives, including Bran, Dax and Danior.  Jack the Samedi is also there with his new companion, Jane, though only Lawrence is aware of them at first.  Eve sits down next to Danny, and Dax is soundly beating Bran in a impromptu game of Blackjack.  Dax asks about Colin, and Eve tells him he's on the way over.  Eve tells Danny what Lawrence said about the chainsaw, and Danny tells her it's ok, they found another solution anyway.
Bran tells Larry about June and Cleo, two gangrel with suspected ties to the Sabbat, who are rumored to be making trouble.  Eve hears them, and tells about what she remembers about the Ahrimane bloodline with rumored connections to a golf course out in lupine territory.
After Colin arrives, Danny asks Eve about the fun she had the night before.  Eve tells him about Colin ditching her at the strip club with no way to get home.  Colin snaps and confesses to being robbed by the stripper.  Bran perks up at the revelation, and starts texting on his cell phone so fast that his fingers blur, smirking the entire time.  
Colin and Aidan decide to go out and get some air.  When they reach the parking lot, an explosion goes off in the warehouse across the street, and the building goes up in flames.  Colin and Aidan are both able to master their fear of the fire, and as they watch, more and more people from inside the Factory come out to gawk at the spectacle.  
==April 10th - Continued aka "And It Just Gets Worse"==
Inside the Factory, the kindred in the VIP area hear the explosion over the music, and they leave the building to see what is going on.  Eve calls her head of security, Mike and asks if he knows anything about the building.  Mike assures her that it's ok because "He wasn't keeping anything in that one," and that he thought the building used to be a clothing factory that made tee shirts.  As the coterie watch the flames, Aidan gets a bad feeling that it might just be a distraction for something else.  The others agree and head back into the factory to make sure everything is ok.  Aidan goes around back to the employee entrance with Mike, and they see that the back door has been propped open.  They hurry inside.
Colin heads back into the main entrance, and see's that most of the people have left the building, and only some straglers remain.  He scans the crowd with his supernatural senses, looking for vampiric auras, and sees a gang banger (Tech-9) with a gun in his hands.  Colin yells "Gun!" at the last of the crowd to get them running, and then uses his blood magic to pull the guy's legs out from under him.  Eve and Danny see that he has the punk under control and continue towards the security room.  When they get there, Aaron and a security guy are watching the moniters. Aaron tells Eve that someone is vandalizing the VIP area, and Eve tells Aaron to stay put while she goes to handle it. 
Lawrence continues to scout around outside the building, and not seeing any of his friends, decides to head back into the building.
Eve and Danny rush to the VIP room to find a redneck (Herbie) dousing everything in gasoline.  Eve tries to dominate the guy to surrender, but he's able to resist her command.  Instead the guy drops the gas can and starts to shift into a werewolf.  Colin, Aidan and Mike rush into the room with some security guards, but as the man changes into a wolf, the mortals freak out and run.  Herbie attacks Eve, severely mauling her and tries to escape by jumping over the balcony.  Aidan jumps after him, landing on the werewolf's back and biting him.  Colin and Lawrence both join in the fight, each getting their own taste of lupine vitae.  Eve sends a shadow over the railing to grab Herbie around the neck, but isn't able to hold him long, as he shreds her shadows to pieces with his claws.  Danny sends a swarm of rats to hamper the werewolf, and eventually the coterie is able to bring him down.
They bring both of the intruders upstairs to one of the offices and question Tech-9.  Herbie starts to regenerate, but he is put down again when Eve hits him in the head.  Once they are sure he's dead, they go back to questioning the little punk.  Eve uses her visicitude powers to melt the guy's skin around his hands and feet, fusing everything together, so that he can't run. Tech-9 reveals that they were hired by some Sabbat to hit the Factory.  When pressed for details, he reveals one is named Jules, but that he never got the name of the guy.  Danny perks up at Jules' name, and Eve tells him she that she warned him that Jules was a crazy bitch.  Danny just shrugs.  Meanwhile, Colin reads the punk's mind and gets a picture of Remy.  He tells Eve his suspicions, and Eve flips out.  She tells the rest of the group to make sure that they kill the guy when they're done, and leaves the club by herself.  Lawrence gets the contact number Tech-9 has been using to contact Jules, and calls it.  The number goes straight to a voice mail, and he leaves a message pretending to be Tech-9.  Once that is done, they try to decide what to do with the Sabbat spy, and Aidan convinces the others to turn him over to the sherriff.  Harlequin arranges a pick up for the punk with Lawrence when he calls. Danior gets Colin to agree to share any information he gets about Jules, and tells him he will pass along anything that he learns as well.
After awhile, Lawrence gets a phone call from Tech-9's contact number.  Expecting it to be Jules, he answers and gets reemed by the guy on the other end of the line.  When Lawrence asks for help, the guy just laughs at him and warns him to get out of town.  After a moment, the guy seems to realize he's not talking to Tech-9 and hangs up.
==April 10th continued:  "Seriously!?"==
Evangeline hunts in the Regulators domain, and then sits in a small park while she heals some of the damage done by the werewolf.  While in the park, she gets a phone call from Cartwright warning her that the city's homeless have been disappearing in large numbers in the past few nights.  In return, she lets him know about the Sabbat hit on the Factory.  She decides to head back to the club and has a quick chat with Mike regarding the items he is storing in nearby warehouses.  Turns out he's a fence, but he promises to not let his extra carricular activites affect the legitimate business of the factory.
Eve decides to ignore the problem of Remy for the moment, and instead see what she can find out about the missing homeless.  She makes a stop at the chop shop and asks them to let her know if they hear anything about the problem.  Shane tells her that the bums that used to hang around are disappearing and that it's been happening all over the city.  He promises to look into rumors for her.
Colin and Aidan decide to go to the funeral home where the murdered college student is to check out the body. Aidan hands Colin the desicated toe he had taken from the body earlier and Colin isn't sure what Aidan expects him to do with it.  When they get to the funeral parlor, Aidan charms the lone funeral director there at the building, and the guy lets Aidan inside, though he says Colin has to wait.  Colin uses his newfound ofuscation powers to follow Aidan into the building anyway.  When Aidan gets the funeral director to leave them alone with the body, Colin uses his Auspex ability Spirit's Touch to get a vision about the college student.  He see's the moment of death, something literally drains the life essence from the kid.  What ever Colin is seeing in his vision seems to be aware of him watching, and Colin looses some of his own mental strength to the figure in the vision before he breaks it off.  After he comes out of the vision, he and Aidan decide to go to Money Maker's and consult Skinner about the possibilities of what could drain a person's life like this.
Eve goes to the park where she knows she can find some homeless camps and hangs out with the people there for awhile.  She finds out from an older couple that Lenny dissapeared from the shore of the nearby creek, and decides to take a walk to see if she can find something, thinking that she might make good bait and she can handle anything that comes her way.  She walks for awhile and then is shocked when several shadow arms just like the ones she is able to command erupt from the creek and pull her in the water.  The shadows drag her upstream, and she sees Flavius swimming in the water towards her.  When Flavius reaches her, he looks at her, shrugs and then starts to drink her blood.  Eve manages to resist succumbing to the kiss and escapes at the last moment by transforming her body into living shadows and running away.  She ends up in an alley, and sees a young guy smoking a cigarette on the fire escape above her.  Weakend and  starving, she attacks him and loses her self in a hunger induced frenzy.  Eve kills the entire family inside the apartment before coming out of the frenzy, and when she finally is in control again, she calls Danior for help.  Danior sends Dax to her at the apartment, and Dax promises to clean everything up in return for a major boon.  Eve agrees and Dax sends her on her way.  Eve goes to Danny's vardo to spend the day.  (See Short Story: Aftermath) 
When Aidan and Colin meet with Skinner, they tell him about the dead college students, and ask if a mage could have done it.  Skinner says he knows a lot of people with abilities that could account for life draining.  It could have been a mage or any number of other things.  They ask Skinner to keep an eye out for what could be responsible, and then take off.   When they get to the Abbey, Colin gets worried about Eve's whereabouts and tries to call her.  His worries seem justified when he finds out that Eve's phone isn't working anymore, and he decides to try to scry for her.  After setting up for the ritual, he gets an image of her in the middle of a savage frenzy, covered in blood and writing on the walls with gore.  He watches her collaspe in the middle of the carnage, sobbing uncontrollably.  Colin tells Aidan what he's seeing. He's still watching when she seems to come out of the frenzy and she goes to a phone.  After a minute, Colin realizes she's not calling him for help and gets mad that she went to Dax instead of him.  Colin and Aidan go to their havens after it seems she doesn't need help right away.
==Friday, April 11th==
Al goes to Satchmo's in the early evening.  Everything seems to be calm and normal until one of his kitchen staff is attacked by three lunatics.  Al is shocked when his employee seems to transform into a rat man hybrid monster and fights back viciously.  The three hunters take down the ratkin guy after a brutal fight and then bundle him out of the door, not realizing what Al himself is, much to Al's relief.  
Colin goes to Eve's haven after he wakes, and gets stalled by the security guards.  They tell him that Evangeline is unavailable, and promise to give her a message that he stopped by.  He goes on to the Factory, thinking she'll probably head there sometime soon.
Aidan spends a couple hours hunting, and then goes to the bowling alley for Rock & Bowl 70's night.  To Aidan's dismay, he is not the only kindred in attendance tonight.  Alejandro, Bran and Leah also show up as a team and grab a lane.  Alejandro kicks Aidan's ass in the first game.  
Evangeline wakes up in Danior's haven and finds him already awake and feeding on a girl from his herd.  He offers her some blood, but she declines, worried about hurting his people.  The girl asks if Eve is sure as well, and Eve says she's ok for now.  Danny calls her a cab and sends her back to her haven, Eve spends the ride healing some of her wounds from the night before and then gets cleaned up back at home.  She calls Colin and arranges to meet with him.
Al meets a woman with red hair named Lorraine in a bar.  While talking with her, a guy (Gage) comes up and starts giving her hell.  Al uses his auspex to get a reading on the guy's aura and discovers that he is some type of were creature.  Al tries to dominate the guy into leaving the girl alone, but it doesn't work.  Gage grabs Lorraine's arm and hauls her out of the bar and into his car.  Al quickly follows them.  The car doesn't go very far before Al sees it pull over to the side and the girl starts screaming as a swarm of spiders appears by the drivers seat.  Al rescues the girl and takes her to a nearby coffee shop.
Colin and Eve meet up and Colin takes her to the French Quarter to hunt, but then gives her some of his own blood when she has trouble feeding from any of the mortals.  Eve tells Colin about her encounter with Flavius the night before, and Colin sends the warning along to Aidan and Lawrence.  They talk about what to do about the demons and Annabelle, and Eve asks Colin if he's asked the other Tremere.  Colin thinks about it for a moment and then decides to call Leah to arrange a meeting.  Leah is relieved beyond belief when she gets Colins call and arranges to meet with him at a house in the Garden District after she makes her apologies to the Prince for having to leave the Bowling Alley.
After the bowling game, Aidan goes out to a restaraunt with his mortal lady friend, Vera.  He catches her sketching on a napkin while they wait for service, and when she excuses herself to the restroom, he looks at the napkin and discovers her drawing a sketch of Alejandro.  Turns out that Alejandro made a very impressive figure at the bowling alley earlier tonight, and Vera seems to be admiring of him.  
Al and his new friend Lorraine chat in the coffee bar, and Al learns that Gage has been stalking her since they went out on a date together a couple weeks ago.  AL gets her a coffee and slips some of his blood into it.  She complains about the taste after she drinks it, so he orders her another cup.  He finds out she's a dancer and she invites him to see her show the next night.  After chatting in the coffee house for awhile, Al takes her to a hotel for the night and gives her his phone number.  She promises to file a police report about Gage in the morning.
Colin and Eve arrive at the meeting point and see a sign outside the small house advertising "Sarah Moon- Readings by Appointment."  A ghoul answers the door when they knock and leads them into the house to meet Leah, who tells them that she left a very important meeting to come here, so it had better be worthwhile.  Colin tells her about the demons possessing people out of the church and all that he and Eve have discovered.  Leah tells him that he needs to write up a report in triplicate for the chantry and sets him to the task.  Eve whispers to Colin, asking if they should tell her about Flavius, and Leah interupts to tell her ghoul to bring more paper for Colin.  She tells Eve she can work with Colin on the reports.  Eve does her best to remind Colin of things to write down, and they spend several hours at the house writing the reports.
Aidan dances with his Vera, trying to impress her and make her forget about Alejandro.  He also tells her a bit about the prince- saying things like "Alejandro's a nice guy when he wants to be." or "You know what he's really good at?  Lying." Afterwards, he walks her to her car and then folllows her home to make sure she's safe.
Eve eventually gets bored watching Colin writing and asks Leah if she can tell her fortune while they wait.  Leah agrees and has Eve sit next to a crystal ball.  She tells Eve that she can tell that Eve has experienced a lot of loss in her short unlife.  She says that Eve is looking for someone that she's lost and she can't tell if the person is alive or dead.  Then Leah drops a huge bomb, saying that Eve is going to suffer a series of unfortunate events.  Colin, looking over can see that Leah is using some type of thaumatergy, but doesn't recognize the ritual.  Leah tells Eve that she will suffer three losses in the next three nights.  She will suffer the loss of someone close to her.  She will suffer a grievous injury.  And last, she will suffer the loss of something valueable.
Eve leaves and goes to her haven, worried about Virginia's coins again.  She checks them before going to sleep, and discovers that she feels much braver while holding the coins.
==Sat,  April 12th aka "Hunters, Spiders, and Demons- oh my!"==
As soon as Manfred wakes up, he reads his messages left by Al from the night before and then sends Colin a text asking him "What do you know about were-spiders?"  Colin knows they exist, but not much more than that and he calls Lawrence/Manny.  Manny says he ran into one the other night and they decide that they need to get some silver for weapons.  After hanging up with Colin, Manny gets a call from Black Francis looking for Eve.  He has someone that needs a tattoo and wants to get Eve to do it.  Manny tells him that she'll probably be at the Factory.
Aidan goes hunting for a couple of hours, and then gives Vera a call, inviting her out to the street races for the night.  She agrees to meet up with him.
Colin tries to track down silver weapons after getting of the phone with Lawrence.  He calls Leah, and gets her ghoul instead, so he leaves her a message asking if she's found anything out yet.  He calls Aidan and butts in on Aidan's race night.  Aidan isn't too happy about having Colin with him, but Colin tells him there have been lots of sightings of were creatures in the city and tells him about Lawrence's experiece with the spiders.  They arrange to meet at the S-mart and then Colin calls Dax to ask about silver weapons.
Evangeline takes the coins out of hiding (knowing no one can scry on her while she's holding the coins) and calls Virginia to tell her that someone is going to steal the coins in she has in her protection.  Virginia doesn't believe Leah's prediction of dire events when Evangeline tells her the whole story.  Eve asks Virignia if it's better for her to keep the coins with her, and Virginia tells her it's dangerous to hold the coins and it would be better for her to hide them in a safe spot.  Eve takes the coins with her and drives Dean's car herself to the Factory.  She puts the coins in the safe and then decides to go to Dax's for a second opinion about her fortune.  When she gets to the parking lot, she finds Dean's car has been stolen right out of the lot.  She checks the security feed and see's 2 guys in hoodies steal the car.  She leaves a message with her contacts at Shane's chopshop asking them to keep an eye out for her car and then Mike volunteers to take her out to Dax, but he grabs a kevlar vest and a .45 from his locker first.
Manfred goes hunting and then to see Cats the musical.  He's not sure who he's looking for, but Al left a note to go to the show and look for some redhead girl he's supposed to meet.  He meets Lorraine after the show and agrees to go the cast party with her.  At the party, he slips another dose of vitae into her drink.  After awhile a waitress comes and tells him that he has a phone call.  He goes to the phone and it turns out to be Gage on the other end.  Manny has no clue why the guy is calling him, and Gage gets pissed and hangs up when it looks like his various threats aren't having the effect he wants.  Manny and Lorraine leave the party, and when they get to her car, they see it's covered in spider webs.  They decide to take a cab to the hotel instead.
Colin gets to Smart and goes inside to do some shopping after leaving a message for Dax.  He goes to the silverware section and see's quite a bit of it has already been cleared out, all of the knives made of silver are gone.  Colin uses spirits touch on the shelf, curious as to who else in the city has a sudden need for silver weapons, and he gets an image of Eddie Pitt, the hunter and Aidan's bowling partner (although he's unaware of that last bit).  Colin purchases a few silver platters and some silver forks. Aidan arrives at the Smart and calls his Vera, apologising and telling her he has to back out of their plans for the night.  She says it's ok, that her sister called and needs her anyway.
Eve get's to Madame Zora's House of Cards and finds out Dax isn't there.  She tells Zora that she needs a second opinion about a fortune, and Zora offers to read the cards for her.  She settles Eve in a room while she leaves to get her supplies, and when she returns, she gives Eve a spectacular card reading, even touching on Remy and Eve's missing sister, but she doesn't mention the things Leah was talking about.  After, Eve asks if Dax is with Danior, and Zora gives Eve a half price discount when she finds out that Eve is Danny's friend. (Turns out that Zora is part of his family.)  Eve calls Danny to try to get help about the fortune, but she hears gunfire and Dax shouting in the background when Danny answers.  He tells Eve he'll call her back and then hangs up.
Colin meets Aidan outside of S-Mart as it starts to rain.  As they walk through the parking lot, they smell a foul rotting stench coming from the east.  Colin gives Aidan a silver butter knife, and they decide to check out what's causing the smell.  Colin climbs up to the roof of the S-mart to get a visual of the neighborhood.  He sees red and yellow emergency lights two blocks over.  He tells Aidan and they go investigate, getting soaked by the rain on the way.  They see yellow road blocks and detours set up for traffic, and a garbage truck is on it's side in the middle of the street with garbage scattered all over the street.  The police are there and have the area around the truck roped off.  Aidan goes up to an officer and turns on his Presence to find out what is going on.  The cop is easily entranced by Aidan and tells him that something hit the truck and caused the accident.  Another detective notices Aidan and Colin with the officer and yells at the guy to get Aidan and Colin out of there.  The detective walks over to tell Aidan it's none of his business and Colin steps in as well.  Aidan tries to use his entranement on the detective as well and says he wants to know what's going on.  Colin asks to look at the truck, and Carter tells him to piss off.  Carter tells Aidan it's just a hit and run and the driver was taken to the county hospital.  Colin and Aidan turn to leave, and Carter taps Aidan on the shoulder and asks for a private word.  The detective tells Aidan that he needs to look out for his friend, that he's a pretty good judge of character, and that Colin gives off pretty bad vibes.  He tells Aidan not to get too involved, and that Colin looks like he's not too far from hanging around playgrounds.
Colin uses the opportunity to obfuscate himself and sneak over to the garbage truck, climb in and use spirit's touch. As Colin invokes his powers, he gets a vision of the garbage truck just before the crash.  He sees the truck drinving down the road and two police cars blocking off the street just ahead.  A moving truck suddenly slams into the side of the garbage truck and it flips over on its side.  The driver, a newer arrival to the city- the Nosferatu Twist, is pulled from the vehicle by Carter, and the vision ends.  Colin looks out of the truck and tries to get an aura read on Carter, but only gets that his aura is bright- indicating a human.  
Mike drives Eve back to the Factory- she sees a suspicious figure lurking outside the building and goes to find out who it is, only to find out it's a homeless woman looking for shelter since her normal building had been burned down.  Eve tells her about another place she could find shelter with other people for safty and sends her on her way.  She gets a message from Francis when she goes inside and calls him back, Francis says they have a group member in need of a tattoo, and Eve tells them to come over to the Factory, warning that the place is still closed for renovations.  While she waits for Francis to arrive, she tries to get in touch with Danny again, and gets worried when he doesn't answer the phone this time.  After a half an hour, the Lost Angels show up.  Dolores, Icepick, Nails, Francis, Jake, and the new member, Freddie.  Dolores and the others inspect Eve's work area, and then Eve gets started on Freddie's tattoo.  Jake and Francis hold Freddie down just in case, but he's able to handle the pain and not fall into a frenzy.  Eve and the Lost Angles chat about things going on while she works, and Eve finds out that the Angels have delt with a couple Sabbat attacks in the past couple months, and they have a couple other anarch gangs trying to move in.  Nails shows Eve his first tattoo- Snoopy sitting on a doghouse, and Eve finishes up with Freddie.  Dolores approves of the work, and it looks like Eve might have some new clients. Then Eve gets a phone call- it's finally Danny calling her back, but when she answers, he doesn't say anything.  She only hears someone being shot and tortured on the other end. Eve turns to Dolores and asks her if she knows anyone that can trace a cell phone.  When Dolores hesitates, Eve yells at her that she can hear someone hurting Danny on the other end of the line.  Dolores calls someone named Jazz and asks him to help.  Meanwhile, Eve grabs another phone and starts making calls to the other Regulators.
Manny leaves Lorraine asleep at the hotel and then walks back to her car.  It's still covered in spider webs and Manny sees a post it note nailed to the steering wheel.  He looks closer at the post it and sees that someone has written "You're Mine!".  Manny takes the car through a car wash and then drives to Lorraine's apartment.  He breaks in and takes a look around.  There are 35 messages from Gage on the answering machine.  Manny listens to the first one and then erases all of them.  Manny starts to leave, but then the phone starts to ring.  He answers the line in a high pitched voice and Gage starts apologizing for his last message.  He assumes he's speaking to Lorraine and asks to see her.  Manny keeps his voice high pitched and asks where Gage is.  Gage answers that he's at a friends house, and asks if she has a cold.  Manny coughs.  Gage asks Lorraine about the guy she was with earlier in the night and says his friends want to meet him.  He names a place on Clairborne Ave and wants Lorraine to bring her new friend there.  Manny/Lorraine says that's a dangerous part of town and Gage promises to always protect her.  He asks Lorraine/Manny to meet him there tomorrow around noonish, and then a voice in the background corrects him and he ammends it to 10 in the evening. Gage is in the middle of a sentence when someone on the other end hangs up the phone.  Manny takes the phone off the hook and then leaves the apartment. He gets a phone call from Eve as he leaves the building.  Eve tells him about the situation with Danny and he agrees to meet up at the Factory.
Eve calls Aidan next and tells him what is going on with Danny.  When Eve asks him if he thinks Colin will help, he says "I know he will.", not mentioning that Colin is right there with him.  When Eve asks who else is with him, he cuts her off and says that he's on his way.  Eve calls Colin last, worried about his reaction to helping Danior.  Of course Colin gives her a bunch of shit over the phone about Danny before relenting and saying that he'll help too.
Jasper, aka Jazz, calls Eve back and asks her for a favor before he gives her the information.  She says ok and asks what he wants.  Jasper gives her the name Jake Farley and an address, and tells her that he needs the guy to die.  Eve is appalled and says she's not a murderer.  She turns to Dolores and tells her that this asshole is holding Danny's life ransom so Eve will kill someone for him.  Dolores kinda shrugs and Jasper relents after awhile saying if the guy just leaves town that will be ok too.  Eve agrees and then Jasper gives her a street that he's narrowed the location down to- Plaza drive deep in werewolf territory.  The rest of the Regulators show up and they get ready to go.  Colin comes face to face with Freddie for the first time and mistakes him for Eddie, the tremere apprentice that disappeared during the 2010 hurricane.  Colin greets him, but Freddie is confused and doesn't seem to recognize him.  Colin lets it go for now, playing it off that he mistook Freddie for someone else.  The rest of the Lost Angels head out after Dolores apologizes for Jazz to Eve.  She also tells Icepick to stay behind and help the Regulators.  Eve tells Mike to bring around the SUV, so he can drive them out.  
Icepick asks "What's the plan?".  
Eve says, "We go there, and we get him out."  
Icepick says, "Good plan.", and he gets on his bike and starts the engine.  
Colin says, "It sounds more like a goal than a plan, but ok." and he gets in the car.
Icepick says, "Saddle up, Regulators" and they head out to rescue Danny.
Mike drives the SUV out into lupine territory.  Colin spends the ride doing ritual wards against lupines on the silver platters he got from the S-Mart.  Manny calls Carter and gets him to look into Gage. Carter tells him that he'll get into it the next day, as soon as he finishes up with his current case. He then calls Lorraine's apartment to make sure the phone is still off the hook.  Manny asks Colin where he knows Freddie from, but Colin just ignores him.  
The rain is coming down even harder when they arrive on Plaza dr.  They park along the side of the road and take a look around.  Not seeing anything obvious to point to where Danior is being held, Eve gets out of the car and performs an abyssal ritual to use the shadows to find the right house.  Through the shadows, she sees a living room of a house.  A well dressed white man is in the room with a red headed woman, and a black guy and an asian guy are at a table playing cards.  Danny is lying on the floor covered in blood with railroad spikes driven through his hands and feet into the floor.  
Eve points out the house to the others and tells them how many people she sees inside.  Manny obfuscates and heads towards a window.  He uses Auspex to aura read the 4 people and sees rapidly shifting colors in each of their auras, something he has never encountered before, but Colin knows is supposed to indicate demonic possesion.  Colin uses Movement of the Mind to knock the front door off it's hinges and send it flying into the house.  Eve, Mike and Icepick head inside.  Eve calls on the shadows and forms 4 Arms of the Abyss inside the house as she steps in the door.  Icepick walks in after her, and yells "Pizza's here!" as he fires off 3 rounds, hitting two of the people inside and sending cards flying.
Eric (the black guy) shoots back at Icepick with a .44 he pulls out of his coat.  Li (the asian guy) jumps on the card table and sprouts ragged claws from his hands.  Mike suddenluy drops to the ground, screaming in agony with tears streaming from his eyes.  The girl, Sasha, charges at Eve, but two of Eve's shadow arms block her and keep her from her goal.  
Aidan saunters into the house and locks eyes with Jerry, the well dressed white man.  Aidan hits him with a Dread Gaze and Jerry drops cowering to the ground.  Eve sends two shadow tenticles after Li.  He dodges around the first one and gets pinned by the second one which starts to constrict, slowly crushing him.  Eve runs over to Danny's body and pulls a railroad spike out of his hand.  Manny, still watching from outside, transforms himself with his Serpentis abilitly giving himself a snakeskin hide for protection.  Aidan grabs the cowering Jerry by the throat and slams him into a wall.  Jerry looks at Aidan and says, "We're going to have fun with you later,"  and Aidan gets hit with a wave of agonizing pain.  Aidan collapses to the ground, wracked with pain.
Colin, still outside the house, uses his obfuscate powers to walk into the house unseen and assess the situation.  Eric shoots Icepick a second time.  Icepick pulls out a knife and flings it towards Eric, stabbing him in the neck and sending blood flying.  Li tries to break free from the shadow and is unable to summon the strength, so the shadow constricts more.  Sasha attacks Eve again, and is unable to hurt her.  Eve sends a shadow arm to pin Sasha as well, and then stabs her in the stomach with the railroad spike pulled from Danny.  Blackish bile poors from the wound.  Manny takes a shot at Jerry through the window and hits him in the head.  Unfortunately the bullet doesn't seem to harm Jerry at all, and he turns towards the window, looking for the source of the shot.  Manny takes another shot, and this time Jerry gets a scratch across the cheek.
Colin, still hidden with his obfuscate power, walks across the living room to Eric and puts his hand on Eric's shoulder and boils the blood in his body.  Eric shrieks as his skin starts melting away from his bones and his body falls to the ground in a heap.  Jerry starts transforming his body, contorting around like something out of the Exorcist, and saber like teeth start sprouting out of his jaws.  He starts crab walking towards Manny at the window.  Sasha whips out a demon tail and tries to slash Eve with it.  Eve blocks her and sends the railroad spike into her chest, killing her.  Li's spine is crushed by the shadow arm holding him and his body goes limp.  Eve sends the last arm to hold Jerry in place for the others.  Manny pulls out his old sword and jumps through the window to Jerry and starts slashing at him.  Icepick sticks his gun in Jerry's face and pulls the trigger.  Manny keeps hacking away at Jerry until he cuts off the head.  
Aidan's pain fades away and he's finally able to rise up.  Mike is able to get up again as well.  Eve goes back to Danny and free's him from the spikes.  Danny is in torpor from the wounds, so Eve feeds him some of her blood. Colin tries to get in there to feed him some blood as well, hoping to blood bond him, but Eve doesn't let him get near Danny until he wakes up again. 
Meanwhile, Manny searches the bodies and finds identification on Jerry's body.  His name was Jeremiah Brickhouse and turns out he was a deacon with the Abundant Light Ministries.  He also finds some car keys for a sedan parked in the driveway.  Aidan wanders through the house and finds an altar room in the back of the house.  He calls for the others to come take a look at it.  Colin recognizes the symbol for Balphagor on the altar.  Each of the bodies in the living room had a tattoo of the same symbol on their bodies.  Colin takes the ritual tools from the altar, and he gets blood samples from each of the demonic bodies. Still looking around, Manny finds a safe in the wall of the livingroom, and manages to open it.  He finds 10 grand and a sheet of paper with 4 names written on it.  Danior Dakinov, Colin McCry, Marie Laveaux, and Samuel Prescott.  
Danny doesn't know why the church would want him, he tells the other that he got a tip that he and Dax could find Jules here, so they came looking for her.  He looks around and asks where Dax is.  Eve tells him they never saw Dax there.  Danny asks Colin why they would want him, and Colin says he doesn't know.  Eve reminds him about Annabelle being in the church, and Danny asks who's Annabelle?  Eve tells him that she's Colin's girlfriend, and that they found out that she's possessed.  Aidan is surprised to hear that she's now possessed, and Eve tells him that she tracked down where Annabelle lives.  Colin hangs his head at all his secrets being outed to his rival Danny.
Manny gets garbage bags from the kitchen for the bodies and Mike says he can call someone to take care of them, though it would be better if the others weren't there when they arrived.  Manny gets into Jerry's car and takes off without saying anything to the others.  Colin threatens Danny with fire if he tells anyone else about Annabelle.  The rest of the Regulators gather up and head out.  Aidan offers to drive and Colin snatches the keys away from him.
On the drive back to the Factory, Aidan tells Eve about the accident with Twist earlier in the night.  Eve tells Colin and Aidan about the old police task force headed by Carter that hunted vampires several years ago.  Colin and Aidan figure that Carter was the same detective that set up Twist.  Eve calls Cartwright and tells him about Twist, and then she calls Lawrence and leaves him a message warning him about Carter's activities.
Colin parks in the Factory's parking lot and parks right up on another car to fuck with Danny and make everyone climb through to the drivers side to get out.  Eve calls some of her herd members to come out to the Factory for a private party to feed herself and Danny after the fight.  After drinking some, Eve and Danny head back to her haven to rest for the day.  Danny tries to call Dax, but doesn't get through to him.
Colin goes to his car and calls Emyl.  Someone else answers the phone and Colin gives him shit until Emyl gets on the line.  Colin tells him about meeting Eddie/Freddie with the anarchs.  Emyl listens to the situation and tells Colin to go get him.  Colin asks for backup, and Emyl says "You have back up, don't you?"  Colin asks for Tremere backup and Emyl says he'll bring it to their superiors and tells Colin to get started on it.  Colin sighs and says okay.  They hang up, and Colin goes home to have a private party with Pinkie.
Aidan gives Ralph a hundred bucks for watching his bike in the parking lot for the past couple of hours.  Aidan chats with him for a bit and learns that he works for a massage parlor- Light Touch Masseuse.  Aidan hunts along Bourbon Street before heading home to his haven for the day.
Manny goes to Harvey's old apartment and puts out word to his contacts to find out who Samuel Prescott is.  He sits back and watches some TV getting caught up with his DVR before turning in for the day.
==Sun, April 13th aka "Things that go BOOM!"==
Colin wakes up and starts doing his early evening rituals.  Pinkie pesters him to help, but Colin declines.  Pinkie tells Colin she's going to meet her ex Rico (who used to run the cult she belonged to). Colin gets jealous and invites himself along, Pinkie says ok, but doesn't seem too excited to have him come along, so Colin gives her some money and tells her to go by herself.  He sends a text to Aidan saying, "what are you doing, need some help".  As he finishes his text, he gets a call from his paranormal investigation group, Dark-Side Paranormal who say they have a lead on a vampire at the sewage plant.  They arrange to meet at the Denny's later in the night, and Colin goes to the Abbey to research demons while he waits on Aidan.  He finds out about a voudoun shop that claims to do exorcisms- Henri's Voudoo Shop, and calls to make an appointment.  A guy with a thick cajun accent answers and says he can do the job.  When he asks Colin if the subject is willing, Colin answers, "We'll go with no."  Colin tells the guy that he'll stop by the next night.
When Evangeline wakes up, she finds Danior already up and watching TV.  When he sees her awake, he tells her that someone sent her the video he's been watching.  She gets up to take a look and sees it's a video of Jules being beat to shit by someone that doesn't show up on the camera.  The beating goes on for quite awhile and then the camera pans down to a piece of blood spattered paper that reads "I love you."  Eve is pretty shaken up by the video- she knows it's Remy beating up Jules in retaliation for her attack on the Factory.  She and Danny leave her haven and part ways.  Danny goes to see what he can find out about Dax and Eve makes her way to Money Makers on a hunch.
Adam wakes up in Harvey's old apartment and checks his messages.  He has a message from Lorraine saying she's staying with a co-worker.  He reads the notes left by the others and sees that he's supposed to go to a meeting tonight.  He drives out early to the meeting spot Gage gave him last night in order to take a look around.  He finds a good spot to wait and obfuscates himself.
Aidan wakes up and spends some time healing the wounds from the fight last night.  Afterwards, he spends a couple hours hunting.  When he gets a text from Colin, he gets back in touch with him and finds out about the PI group's lead and their subsequent hunt scheduled for later on.  He tells Colin he'll get some glitter and agrees to meet up with him at the Denny's.  He decides to go check out Ralph's place of employment to kill some time and heads out to the massage parlor.  Aidan goes inside the shop and asks the girl at the desk about Ralph.  She says he's a good guy, and tells Aidan that he usually works the desk.  The girl offers Aidan a massage and says that since he's a friend of Ralph's if he wants something else along with it...Aidan is in the middle of entrancing the girl, when a man walks out of the back room, kind of stumbling into things as he leaves.  The man is followed by Marisol who doesn't look happy when she sees Aidan standing in her place.  Aidan tells her that his friend Ralph told him about the parlor, and she says that she owns the place.  Aidan asks her about the plans for the Toreador party coming up, and she offers to have one of her people get him the right clothes.  He accepts her offer, and then heads out to meet Colin and the Dark-Siders.
Eve gets to Money Makers and looks for Sam.  They go in the office to speak, and she asks him if he ever uses the name Samuel Prescott, trying to find out if he is connected to the list of names found by Lawrence the night before.  When he says no, she asks if he has any connections to the Abundant Light Ministries and he says no, but now he's curious.  Eve says good, and then she leaves, heading out to take care of the favor she promised to Jasper in order to save Danny the night before.  She goes to Jake Farley's house, a publicity agent, and knocks on the door.  When they guy answers, she hits him with Presence, entrancing him.  He invites her inside and reads her some of his poetry (My favorite shade of black..).  She tells him she loves it, and then tells him she needs him to do her a favor and take a vacation out of town for a few nights, intending to make him leave for only a couple nights and then return since Jasper failed to specify a time limit and she was still pretty pissed about him holding Danny's life hostage.
Jake protests that he can't leave work, but Eve uses dominate to tell him to take some sick leave and go.  He starts packing and making phone calls, and Eve sticks around to listen in.  She hears him talking to Mr. Castillano, and realizes that he's talking to the Prince.  She interupts him when he apologizes for not being able to make it in tomorrow night, realizing that Jasper is using her to screw over Alejandro.  She tells Jake to tell Mr. Castillano that he can come back for his appointment, but Jake gets confused and hands her the phone.  She greets Mr. Castillano politely, and promises that Mr. Farley will be there for him tomorrow night.  She tries to briefly explain the situation, without saying too much in front of Jake, and tells him that Jasper wanted her to invite Mr. Farley to take a vacation, but now that she knows more of the situation, that Mr. Farley will only take a brief one night trip before returning to fufill his duties.  When she stops talking, Alejandro pauses for a full minute, then sighs and says "Good evening, Miss Dubois."  Eve modifies her commands to Jake, sending him away to the next city over for the night and paying for his hotel with one of Mitch's credit cards.  Before she leaves, she modifies Jakes memories of the night, removing her involvement.
Meanwhile.... Adam sees Gage saunter across the street to the meeting spot.  He leans against a light pole at the corner and seems to be waiting alone.  The heavy rain doesn't seem to be bothering him.  Adam walks over and tries to pick pocket him, but he gets caught as Gage turns to look at him, saying. "I didn't think you had the balls to show up."  Adam, not remembering having met him before, says, "Who are you?"  Gage ignores him and gives a sharp whistle.  A girl with purple hair, a young kid, and another man start walking across the street to join them.  The girl asks, "Is that him?" as she walks up and Gage says, "Yeah, that's the leach that's been feeding on my girl."  The new girl sniffs the air a bit and says, "Yeah, I can smell something on him."  As she speaks, her eyes start changing, becoming more catlike than human.  When the older guy starts sniffing him, Adam says to Gage, "No wonder she doesn't like you.  You're friends are wierd."  The older guy, Pat, pushes Adam and Adam tries to use his presence to awe them.  He tells the new comers about how Gage has been stalking Lorraine and that they can reimburse him for having her car cleaned.  The girl looks like she's having second thoughts after listening to Adam, but Pat says "I don't like the way you look."  Gage yells "Fuck this, kick his ass!" and Pat's eyes change to snake eyes.  Adam changes his eyes to look snake-like as well and Pat steps back in surprise.  Adam kicks in his power of celerity and runs like hell.  When he sees that they don't give chase, he goes back to his car and gets in.
Colin and Aidan meet at the Denny's with Colin's investigation team.  Colin introduces Aidan to the group who all have garlic cloves strung around their necks. They hand some garlic to Colin and when Aidan asks what they're going to do, John answers with "We got a line on a vampire.  We're gonna film it, put it on the internet and get fucking famous."  With that, they head out to the van and take off.
Eve goes to the Twilight Club Elysium after her escapade with Alejandro's publicity agent.  Bran and David are there when she arrives.  When Eve asks if they have seen Wilfred around, David calls him for her and tells him to get over to the club.  Eve sends a text to Jasper saying "It's done, he left town tonight."  David invites Eve to go to the upcoming Toreador party with him and she accepts.  He tells her that she's the first to be invited.  When Wilfred shows up, Eve asks him to teach her some of the advanced techniques of the presence power.  She offers to exchange the life boon he owes her for a major boon instead if he'll agree to be her teacher and he accepts the deal.  Bran makes note of the transaction, and Wilfred arranges to meet up with her first thing the next night at Denny's.  When the deal is done, Eve asks about the Prince and the anarchs and if they know about any meetings going on.  The other three are very intestested in why she's asking and she tells them about Jasper being interested in Alejandro's business, and says she thought they were meeting.  The others say they haven't heard anything about it and they talk politics for a bit.  David offers to teach Eve to shoot pool for a bit and she joins him for a game.
When Adam gets back to his car, he circles the block back to Gage and his friends.  He watches as they get into an SUV down the road, and Adam follows when they drive off.  It soon become obvious that he's been spotted as they try to lose him in traffic by cutting across a red light.  Adam tries to follow, but they pull in front of a video store and skid to a stop.  Adam drives past them as Gage gives him the finger.  Adam circles the block again.  At first he doesn't see the SUV, but then spots their brake lights a few blocks away- he catches up and tries to follow again at a more descrete distance.  The SUV pulls up to an apartment complex and the girl jumps out.  The car pulls away and Adam writes down the address before he follows.  As he's driving down the road, he feels a tickling down the back of his neck and then gets swarmed by spiders pouring out of the backseat.  He floors the gas peddle and rolls up the windows, trying to make for one of the bridges.  The spiders crawl over his face, obscuring his vision and he hits the car in front of him on the highway.  Adam's luck goes bad as his car flips over and skids into the next lane of traffic right in the path of an oncoming bread truck.  The bread truck slams into Adam's car at full speed and causes a huge explosion.  Adam's car is engulfed with flames, and he manages to hold onto his reason as he frantically escapes from the burning wreckage.  Adam stomps on all the spiders he can see around him as he exits the flames.  A bunch of witnesses to the crash help Adam from the car and one man helps him stagger to the curb.  He tells Adam he's trained in first aide and tries to asses Adam's health, when he tries to check Adam's heartrate, Adam dominates him, telling him to go help the guy in the bread truck instead.  As police and ambulances start arriving, Adam steps back from the crowd and obfuscates himself.  He limps away from the scene while trying to use his blood to heal some of the damage.
The Scooby Gang pulls up to the sanitation building.  The group passes out stakes and ski masks.  Aidan asks then what's the plan?  They say they want to do this quietly and they don't want to get caught by any of the cameras.  John gets his camcorder ready and Eddie pulls out a flame thrower named Bertha.  Colin takes one look at it and tries to convince them to leave it behind.  Of course they don't want to, their source told them that fire works good on vamps- Fire kills everything, that's the law!  Colin finally dominates Eddie into leaving the flame thrower in the van, and they head into the building.  The plant only keeps a skeleton crew at night and there is only one guard at the gate.  When Colin says he'll talk to the guard, Nika lectures him about vampires, telling him they always have minions and they'll sneak in instead.  Aidan asks if they have any military experience, and Eddie informs him that he was special forces. John says "Yeah, on your x-box." and Eddie gives him a dirty look.  They go to the fence behind the building and cut a hole with bolt cutters.  They go in the backdoor by the dumpsters.  Colin uses his heightened senses to listen for anyone moving inside and he hears someone deeper in the building.  They slowly move through the dark interior, looking around.  
Nika lets out a scream when she sees a rat the size of a cat crawling up her leg.  Aidan makes a grab for the rat, but misses and it moves up her body into her hair.  Colin grabs ahold of it, but it's tangled in her hair, so he can't pull it free.  He shocks it instead with a subtle use of thamaturgy and it lets go of her.  Colin flings the rat away and Nika stays close to Colin as they go further.  Suspiciously, all the screaming and noise didn't seem to alert any security.  Colin hears someone ahead and warns the others.  He looks around the corner and sees a figure creeping along the wall with a nightstick.  Colin uses his auspex to try to get an aura read on the guy and sees that it's a vampire.  Colin sees through the nosferatu's obfuscation mask to his true appearance and recognizes Simms.  The others follow Colin around the corner, and as soon as Simms sees Colin he starts yelling about "the violation of domain" and how he's going to take this to the prince.  Aidan imediately starts yelling at the top of his lungs, trying to drown out what Simms is saying in front of the mortals.  Simms hisses and more rats come running to surround the group.  He asks Colin "Why are you in my domain?"  Colin tries to calm Simms down and quietly explains the situation.  The rats start backing away, and Colin calls out to the group that he found a guard.  Simms gets into character and tells the gang that they shouldn't be there and that he's called the cops.  
As Aidan leads the mortals away, Colin stays to talk.  Simms is pissed about Colin bringing mortals into his domain and says a heads up would have been nice.  Colin replies that he only found out an hour earlier and didn't have a phone to call anyway.  He tells Simms that someone told the group that they would find a vamp in the building and about the police taking Twitch the night before.  Simms doesn't look happy, but he backs down.  Colin says "You're welcome." and walks out.
Outside, Colin tries to find out who gave the group the tip about the vampire.  He ends up having to resort to reading John's mind and gets an image of Ponch from Chips- someone masked as a young Eric Estrada gave them the tip.  They were told that a vampire works the nightshift at the sanatation plant on the weekends and that he's the vampire of the city, but he just might make more.  The group is packing up and Colin suggests going out for a drink.  He gives Eve a call.
Adam comes across a goodwill bin and grabs a change of clothes.  He finds a Ford Escape parked next to a fire hydrant and tries to break in, but ends up setting off the alarm instead.  Three guys wearing red bandanas come running out of a building.  Two of them pull out guns and unload on Adam.  The first shot shatters the car's window, but they miss hitting Adam.  Adam tries to punch one of the guys, and he answers by pulling out a knife and attacking.  Adam manages to hurt the leader, breaking some ribs and knocking out his teeth, but the other guys keep shooting, and someone throws a bottle from the window of the building.  Adam gets tired of trying to defend himself, and jumps in the car.  He starts the engine and the back window gets shot out as the two punks don't give up trying to put a bullet in him.  Adam floors the gas and drives away.  After getting away, he drives back to the apartment building where he saw the cat-girl go inside.  He parks the car and goes inside.  He uses Spirit's Touch on the door knobs of the apartments, trying to find where cat-girl lives.  He pauses at the door belonging to a shifty-looking guy and listens in.  He hears someone speaking in another language on the TV- it sounds similar to Egyptian.  Adam picks the lock and goes inside, obfuscating himself on the way.  The guy is in the apartment watching an instructional video on his computer and working on building what looks like a bomb.  Adam grabs him and bites him, taking quite a bit of blood.  After, he dominates the guy to go to sleep and searches the apartment.  He finds thousands of dollars and takes it.  He spends some time healing up the damage from the car crash.  He reads Cleto's sleeping mind and finds out that cat- girl lives on the 3rd floor.  Adam leaves the apartment and goes to the 2nd floor, still hungry for blood.  He finds a young couple in another apartment, and feeds from them both.  He leaves the 3,000 cash he took from Cleto on the bedside table for the couple when they wake up.  He goes up to the third floor and looks for cat-girl's apartment.  When he finds it, he knocks on her door.  She answers and he tells her that her friend with the spiders attacked him and her friend isn't dead, but he's hurt.  He says that she needs to tell her friend to stay away.  She says that Gage is crazy.  She'll try to reason with him, but he does his own thing.  Adam leaves and goes back to the car.  He makes his way back to the Regulator's domain.
Eve is finishing up a game of pool with David when her phone rings- Colin is on the line and asks her if he can bring some people to the closed Factory for a private party.  She agrees to meet them there.  When Colin hangs up with Eve, he says that they'll need entertainment.  Aidan takes it upon himself to call Bran and asks him if he can send a band over to the Factory.  Bran says he will in return for a minor boon, and Aidan agrees.  They get to the Factory and meet Eve in the parking lot.  Colin tells Eve what's going on and she promises to help him adjust the memories of the mortals.  He tells her Aidan got a band, and she refuses to let them play in her club.  Eve heads in the building and finds Mike and Aaron playing poker.  She tells them Colin wants to impress his friends so she's letting them have a private party in the club.  Mike says to water down the drinks.  When the band arrives, Mike answers the door and tells them to "Fuck off or I'll shoot ya in the knee caps."  The band leaves.  
Adam arrives as Eve and Colin start to erase the group's minds.  He asks what's going on after Mike lets him in, and Colin rushes over to tell him about the night after Eddie says "Vampires!"  Dave introduces himself to Adam and asks for a dance.  Adam declines and Aidan gets jealous of the attention.  Eve takes a little blood off of Cara while they dance.  Aidan heads to the DJ booth for music, and they spend an hour or two getting drunk and talking about old paranormal cases- the skeleton man and the animal ghosts at the Animal Shelter.  John says New Orleans is full of ghosts and werewolves.  Eve says they're full of shit, and they tell her about lizard men.  They talk about their tip line- people showing up at hospitals with missing organs and the college students dying recently.  Dave catches Colin spiking the drinks with blood and suspects Colin of trying to slip him a roofie.  He doesn't drink anything else and seems suspiscious of Colin for the rest of the night.  Adam steals the flame thrower from their van and puts in in Lorraine's truck.  Eventually, Eve kicks everyone out- she sends the mortals home in cabs and the rest of the coterie goes home to their havens.  Adam hides his new flamethrower in a 50 gallon drum by his trailer.
==Monday, April 14th- AKA "Zombies, Pirates and Ninjas!"==
Evangeline meets with Wilfred early in the night at the local Denny's.  They settle in a booth and he starts teaching her the basics of summoning.  He tells her to focus on Aidan and has her keep visualizing the smallest details.  After awhile, Eve says she thinks she felt a connection.  Wilfred tells Eve to keep practicing through the night and they'll meet again for the next part of the lesson where she'll drink from him and they'll summon Aidan together.  Eve promises to keep practicing until then.
Aidan goes hunting in the rain shortly after waking for the evening.  For some reason thoughts about Eve pop into his head.  He shakes it off and goes to Money Makers.  
Colin prepares his nightly rituals and then decides to go to the Twilight Club  for the early part of the evening.  Colin opens the door, takes one step inside and looks around the room- Marguerite is talking to Jeremy.  Justin the Tremere is there and Angellica is standing still in the corner.  Colin sighs, takes a step backwards and slowly closes the door.  He calls Aidan on the phone and tells him Twilight is a bust for the night.
Lawrence does his hunting and then decides to go to the University to do a bit of research on the Judas coins.  He finds some sources that say there are spirits bound into each coin.  Last time the coins were seen was in Bavaria in the 17th century.  The book says that while they do offer minor blessings, they take as much as they give.  When finishing up his research, Lawrence notices another vampire in the library with him.  The guy looks Japanese and Lawrence doesn't remember seeing him in court.  Lawrence obfuscates and walks over to the new vamp to see what he's reading.  It looks like he's looking over maps of the city and he has a brief case that he doesn't let go of in his left hand.  The guy is looking up various tourist attractions, and looks like he's currently researching the aquarium.  Lawrence decides to follow the guy when he leaves.
Aidan is at Money Makers, waiting for Colin to meet up with him.  Pinkie is working there tonight.  Zot is there talking to Skinner.  Aidan goes over to talk with them.  Skinner tells Aidan that he looked into the life draining thing with the college students and it wasn't any of his people.  One of the dancers falls off the stage and can't go back on.  Pinkie volunteers to take her place and is right in the middle of a dance square in front of Aidan when Colin walks in the door.  Colin manages to maintain control enough to not punch Aidan in the face and sits down next to him staring and asking if Aidan is having fun.  He flips Pinkie a quarter.  Aidan says "Hey, they got a new dancer!"  Colin ignores him and fills him in on the supernatural rumors his paranoramal group has been investigating and says he wants to investigate the rougarou.  He suggests they go pay the Samedi a visit and see what they know.  Aidan agrees to go with him, right after he gives Eve a call.
Eve leaves Wilfred and goes to the Factory for the re-opening after the Sabbat attack.  While there, she tries to summon Aidan again, and feels like she's making progress.  She checks in with Mike and makes sure that security is good for the night.  She checks on the coins in the safe and the thought occurs to her that the only way to be sure is to keep them with her.  She remembers Virginia's advice and leaves the coins in the safe.  She tries summoning Aidan again, and this time he calls her when she focuses on him.  Aidan asks if she's ok, says he keeps thinking about her and she says she's been practicing summoning tonight and she'll try to tone it down.  
Lawrence follows the Japanese guy when he packs up and leaves the library.  He gets in a nice sedan and drives away.  Lawrence hangs onto the back of the car for the ride, and eventually they pull up next to the aquarium.  The guy pulls out a camera and starts snapping pictures.  After a few shots, he drives to a nice hotel and parks in the garage.  Briefcase in hand, he walks into the hotel, with Lawrence following behind.  They go to the 9th floor, but Lawrence stops short of following the guy into the room.  He listens at the door and hears several voices talking in Japanese- it seems like a heated conversation.  Lawrence gets back in the elevator and goes to the lobby.  He goes to the front desk and dominates the desk clerk to give him information about who is in room 912.  The clerk tells him Mr. Hiro Yokashi is renting the room.  Lawrence goes to a lobby phone and places an order for some beer to be delivered to the room.  He goes back to the room and waits for the room sevice to arrive.
Colin and Aidan get to Lafayette Cemetary.  Aidan climbs the fence and Colin struggles up after him.  Colin leads the way towards the old meeting place he'd been to before.  As they walk, they hear a gate creak open.  They bicker a bit about the best way to find the guy, and Colin climbs up on one of the tombs and tries to scan for Jack with his auspex.  He sees some figures walking towards them, but strangely, they have no auras.  Colin tries to alert Aidan by pointing, and then jumps down and obfuscates.  Rotting corpses come shuffling into view just as Aidan manages to hide himself.  Colin climbs on top of the crypt again once it becomes obvious that obfuscate doesn't work on the zombies and they can still see him.  Aidan sneaks behind one of them and hits it in the head with his knife.  It turns towards Aidan and tries to grab him.  Colin uses thaumatergy to lift another up into the air.  The  fight goes on and Aidan gets a chunk torn out of his cheek.  After awhile, Aidan finally manages to put down one of the zombies and climbs on top of a mausoleum.  Colin sends another two flying down the pathways and they hear clapping.  They look and see Jane watching them.  Colin asks, "Are these yours?"  and she replys, "Yeah, we're testing them out.  Jack made them."  Aidan says, "I like how you trained them to go for the face."  She asks them why they are trespassing and Colin says he needs to talk to Jack to ask about a rougarou.  Jane asks if that's a new drink.  Colin tells her that it's something stalking the city and he knows that the Samedi know things going on in the city.  She smiles and says that Jack knows just about everything.  She jumps down from the tomb and the zombies shamble away.  Colin tries to give her shit about siccing zombies on them just for walking in and she replys that Lawrence has Jacks phone number.  She says she'll contact Jack for them if they go and procure 6 live chickens for her.  Colin agrees to her terms and he and Aidan head out.
Meanwhile... Eve goes to check on the mortal she made leave town the night before.  She goes to his house and watches until he leaves for his meeting with the Prince to make sure Jasper doesn't decide to do something more permanent to him.  After the guy drives away, she gets a call from Danior who says he still hasn't heard from Dax and he's worried.  Eve offers to help look for him and Danny gives her an address to check out.  She gets Mike to drive her out to the house.
Room service arrives at room 912 and Lawrence reads the aura of the old Japanese man that answers the door.  The man turns out to be mortal and Lawrence slips inside the room with the room service.  Six young men are in the room along with the old man and the vampire Lawrence followed earlier.  The briefcase is sitting open on the table revealing a lot of japanese currency and a manilla folder.  They keep the beer and room service leaves.  The vamp starts speaking to the old man and Lawrence tries to read the older guys mind to figure out what is going on.  Lawrence gets an image of Dax and gets the impression that these people are there to pick up Dax in exchange for money.  He decides to wait and see what they do. 
Mike drives Eve out to the address Danny gave her- it's a small house on the east side of the city.  There are no cars parked outside and the lights are out.  Eve checks the mailbox and sees some mail addressed to Henry Truman.  She knocks on the front door and no one comes to answer, but the porch light automatically comes on.  She and Mike go around to the back and Eve pops the lock on the back door.  Before going in, she notices a trip wire across the floor, so she goes to a window instead to get in the house.  She realizes that Danny sent her to Dax's haven.  Inside there are several news clippings on the wall with Henry's name on the photographs.  The photos are from several different cities- Boston, New York and Chicago.  She goes to the bedroom and breaks the lock on the door.  There's no bed and the ajoining bathroom has been converted to a dark room.  She goes to the computer set up and sees that the computer is hacked into a security feed of a lab at Sunbelt Genetics.  Eve calls Danny and tells him what she found- nothing pointing to where he might be.  Danny says that he's never been inside so he doesn't know where to tell her to look.  She pokes around the computer and finds a live feed that seems to be for a hallway in Abundant Light Ministries.  She sees several other feeds that aren't active at the moment one of which is the Light Touch Massage Parlor.  She finds Dax's little black book and writes down the phone numbers for the vamps she finds listed.
Colin and Aidan try to find a poultry farm in the city.  Colin calls Roman and gets him to research it.  Roman comes up with Happy Clucks on the outskirts of town.  They park the car at S-mart because Colin refuses to put chickens in his beloved car.  Aidan calls Ralph for a ride and Ralph is happy to drive them out to the farm, which is closed for the night.  Colin tells Ralph to keep the car running.  Aidan decides to let Colin take care of things, so Colin goes and jumps the fence.  He obfuscates and makes his way to the trailers.  He sees a goat on a leash and lets it loose.  He gets a chicken and takes it to the fence where he calls for Aidan to come catch it.  Colin tosses chickens still in the little cages over the fence and Aidan catches them one by one.  They put the cages in the car and get Ralph to drop them off at the Value Mart down the street from the cemetary.  They walk back after Aidan agrees to meet up with Ralph to play magic again.  Aidan knocks at the gate and Jane comes out.  She whistles and Jack comes to the gate with his zombie servants.  Jack asks if they want to know about a loup garou and Colin corrects him, saying it's a rougarou.  Jack tells them about the legend saying it's a canine humanoid with teeth and claws that hunts down Catholics that violate Lent.  Jack says he'll keep an ear out for anything that sounds like it and tells them if they want to come back and be let on the property they need to bring two chickens.  Colin and Aidan walk back to Ralph and he drops them off at S-mart.
After about an hour wait, Yoshida gets a text.  He gets a duffle bag and puts a katana inside of it.  He packs some ammo and pulls on a shoulder holster for a gun.  He drops some hand cuffs in the bag and the other guys seem to be packing similar items.  Four of the men go with him and he leaves for a van parked in the garage.  Lawrence follows, still obfuscated and this time he hangs onto the ladder on the back of the van as it drives away.  The van drives to the Abundant Light Ministries and pulls into the parking lot.  Two guys get out of the van and go up to the church doors to knock.  They hand over the briefcase full of money and come back with a wooden box on a dolly.  Lawrence climbs in the back of the van as they load the box inside.  Yoshida is sitting in the van with his own thoughts- ignoring the others.  They drive away, but not towards the hotel.  One of the men opens up the folder and Lawrence sees pictures of a run down trailer park.  They cross the river and Lawrence carefully pulls out his phone.  He sends a mass text to the Regulators saying "Found Dax.  Heading West across the river."  Danny sends a text back in response- "If you want to help, meet up at the Sleepy Time Trailer park."
Eve answers the text, saying "I'm on my way.", and Mike drives her to Danny's trailer park.  When they arrive, Eve has Mike park the car outside the park, and they make their way through the woods to Danny's vardo.  She checks to see if Danny is there and they start back along the path to the park when they don't see him.
Lawrence sees the men in the van pulling out guns and swords and figures they must be getting close.  They park infront of a trailer, and the men pull on ski masks.  Yoshida exits the van taking 3 of the men with him.  The driver stays behind.  Yoshida and the three others walk through the park towards the woods.  When they enter the tree line, Lawrence tries to club the driver on the back of his head with his gun.  He hurts the guy, but doesn't knock him out.  The man turns and yells something in Japanese as he punches Lawrence in the face.  They struggle until Lawrence accidently hits the horn.
In the woods, Eve and Mike see two ragged looking men waiting along the path to Danny's trailer.  One guy has a knife in his teeth and both men are holding flintlock pistols.  Farther along the path, Eve sees four men in ski masks coming from the trailer park.  She tries to summon darkness, but is unable to concentrate.  Mike pulls out his gun and takes a shot at the man in the lead.  As his gun fires, they hear a car horn go off in the park.
Aidan and Colin pull into the trailer park and drive up to the van parked in the street, having raced each other the entire way there.  Julian, after following the two from the S-mart parking lot, follows them into the park. 
Eve manages to focus and summons 3 arms of darkness to manefest just behind the group of masked men.  Mike fires again, and hits the man in the lead square in the chest.  The two scruffy, pirate looking men start firing their guns at the ninjas.  One of Yoshida's companions shoots a gun at one of the pirates and another takes a shot at Mike, winging him with a bullet.  Eve dodges when the third takes a shot at her.  Yoshida sprints towards Eve and spits a green fireball, shocking the hell out of her.  It billows around her body, but doesn't catch hold to burn.  
Lawrence finally grabs ahold of the driver in the van, and the driver stabs him with a knife in an effort to make Lawrence let go.  Colin runs up to the driver's side window of the van and sees Lawrence fighting with the driver.  He calls to Aidan and tells him that Lawrence is fighting inside.  Julian goes up to the van and opens the driver's side door.  Aidan opens up the back of the van.  Lawrence uses the distraction to bite the driver and starts to drain his blood.  Colin hears the gunfire in the woods, and runs in that direction.  Aidan and Julian follow Colin into the woods, looking for the source of the gunfire.
In the woods, Yoshida cuts at Eve with a sword and hurts her pretty badly.  Julian runs ahead of Colin and Aidan and tries to grab Yoshida from behind.  Aidan arrives next and he sees Julian holding onto a guy with a katana and Eve on the ground next to them.  She's been cut up badly, and it looks like shadowy abyssal tendrils are the only thing keeping her arm attatched to her body.  Eve looks up at Yoshida and her shadows strike.  One wraps around his sword arm and another crushes his legs.  Mike shoots one of Yoshida's men in the head and Aidan gets hit with the splatter as he passes by.  
Back in the van, Lawrence is still drinking from the driver when he hears something in the back of the van.  He turns to look and sees Danior and two other men opening up the box in the back.  Danny looks over at Lawrence and says, "Nice job, mate."  Lawrence drops the driver and follows the others into the woods.  
Colin sees how hurt Eve is, and knowing she's not been feeding, he runs up behind Eve and shoves several of his blood-filled tic tacs into her mouth.  Eve directs some of her vitae to her wounds and some of her cuts start to knit back together.  Julian tries to take a bite out of Yoshida and he throws Julian off to the ground.  Colin makes his way to Yoshida's men as Lawrence arrives.  Lawrence pulls out his sword and lashes out at a ninja, taking him down. 
Yoshida tries to pull off the shadow wrapped around his sword arm and fails, so he switches his sword to his free hand and slashes at one of the arms holding him, slicing it away.  Eve tries to pin his arms with another shadow as the one holding his legs constricts.  He slashes at the shadows again, but the other one rips his legs from his body and he falls to the ground dead.  Julian walks back over and picks up Yoshida's katana.
Colin hits the last ninja with theft of vitae, and blood streams through the air from the mortal to his hand.  Danior runs up behind the guy and hits him in the back of the head with his machete.  Aidan goes to one of the fallen mortals to feed.  Eve asks Danny if he found Dax and he says that Dax is in the van the Asians arrived in and one of his cousins is with him.  He goes over to the pirates that are still shooting thier guns.  He puts his hands on their shoulders and says "Thank you my friends," and they disappear into thin air.
Colin looks over at Eve and says "Feed.  I know you need blood.  I'll dominate you if I have to."
Eve sighs and walks to one of the bodies and takes some blood.  She sits and starts to heal the rest of the damage. Lawrence takes blood from the last body.  No one tries to feed from Yoshida's remains.  Eve asks Lawrence how he found Dax and he tells them about finding Yoshida at the library.  He tells the others that the Church had Dax and gave him to these guys.  Danior puts his arm around Colin and says, "Thank you my friend."  Colin removes his arm and asks if Dax is in torpor, and Danny says yes.  Colin asks Danny if he knows what generation Dax is, and Eve interupts to ask if Danny needs her to try to wake up Dax.  Colin glares at her and she backs off.  Danny tells Colin that he can help Dax, but thanks him for the offer.
Colin asks Danny what he knows about the church and Danny says "The're demons," and spits on the ground.  They agree that they need to get rid of them.  Colin says "Remember, the girl is mine."  Danny perks up and asks, "There's a girl?"  Colin struggles with his temper for a second, and says, "Yeah, she's mine.  You already took one from me."  Eve gets indignant, but Danny says he understands.
When the group asks about Yoshida, Danny says that he appears to be a Bushi.  Eve says "What?", and Danny explains that he's Kuei-Jen - a vampire from the east.  He says that they come after the Ravnos sometimes.  Eve asks how they knew to come to the trailer park, and Danny says he doesn't know.  Julian loots the bodies and gets a couple smoke bombs.  Lawrence takes Yoshida's money and the keys to the van. Colin and Aidan both take some knives.  Danny calls the Denny's restaurant where he sent his family and tells them it's safe for them to come home.  Eve checks on Mike and gives him some of her vitae so he can heal up his gunshot wound.  Danny has his people take the bodies to a nearby bog and asks the coterie if they want to stay and rest.  Eve says she's going to stay for the celebration and the rest of the coterie decides to stay as well.  
Danny's family arrives and there's music and dancing in celebration.  Julien takes Danny aside and shows him a calling card left by an art theif.  He asks Danny if he's ever seen it before and Danny says no, but he'd be happy to look into it.  He plucks the card from Julian's hand and makes it disappear, much to Julian's distress.  Lawrence asks the others if the Samedi can get answers from the dead and Colin says he'll ask.  Danny mentions that there are Giovanni in town now as well.  Julian asks if he can be a part of the coterie, and the others agree.
A little while into the party, Danny takes Eve aside and asks her if she would be kind enough to wake up Dax for him and she agrees.  When Dax awakens he tells Eve that he'll call the boon she owes him as paid, and she apologizes for breaking into his house.  He offers minor boons to the rest of the coterie, but Colin and Lawrence demand major instead.  Aidan declines any boon.  Colin gets bored and leaves the party, but the rest stay for awhile.  Aidan gets in trouble with a pretty girl until Lawrence tells her to go to her father.  They go to their own havens a little before sunrise.
==Tues, April 15th AKA "Stan the Plummer"==
Colin wakes up in his haven.  Pinkie is there knitting instead of smoking crack.  Colin does his early evening rituals and orders some take out for Pinkie's dinner.
Evangeline gets ready to go out and meets with Wilfred in the city park on a footbridge over a creek.  It's raining for the 3rd night in a row and Wilfred shares his umbrella with her when she arrives.  He asks if she's been practicing, and she tells him about Aidan calling her out of the blue.  Wilfred pulls a shot glass out of his pocket, fills it with his blood and hands it to Eve.  She takes it and drinks.  Wilfred tells her to clear her mind and focus on Aidan.  Eve does as he says and he tells her failure will result in a caning.  She ignores that and tells him she thinks she made a connection.  He taps his cane on the ground and says "We'll see."
Aidan wake up in the early evening and hears a helecopter passing over his condo.  He gets a flashback of the choppers in Vietnam and loses himself in his memories of the war.  He barricades himself in the apartment, and then all the sudden he gets an image of Eve in his head.  He is filled with certainty that Eve needs him- she's lost in the jungle and needs help now.  He goes out the window to avoid snipers and falls five stories to the ground.
Lawrence wakes up and goes hunting in the rack.  He decides to go to the Twilight Club to catch up on the gossip since it's been awhile.  Leah is there with Tinker and Cartwright.  They greet him when he arrives and Cartwright asks if he's taken down any straglers.  Lawrence asks about Eastern Kindred and Leah offers to research it for him for a minor boon.  Lawrence accepts and Tinker asks why he wants to know.  Lawrence shrugs and says that he killed one last night.  Tinker says that a few neonates came into town and were killed somewhere between the park and anarch territory by someone fitting the Swede's description. Marty survived the attack and was taken to Harlequin.  Tinker asks all about the eastern vampire.  Lawrence tells her it came with a pack of ninjas.  He tells the tale of the battle the night before and the others seem impressed.  
Julian wakes up in the gypsy camp, having spent the day there with Danior's family.  He leaves and makes his way to the Art Gallery.  He checks it out, recognizing several people including a drug dealer he's seen before.  Julian asks about any parties and the dealer tells him about a rave the next night in an abandoned warehouse.  He gives Julian a plastic key chain as a pass to get into the party and tells him to park at the Factory and walk to the warehouse.  A goth chick named Mary Anne says she hopes he shows up.
Aidan is running through the city jumping over barriers to get to Eve and he realizes that he's just not going fast enough.  He decides to take a jeep from one of the gooks so he can get to her before they start to shove bamboo under her fingernails.  He sneaks up to a car sitting at a light, throws open the door, gets the driver in a choke hold and hangs on until he passes out.  He sees someone calling in an airstrike on a cellphone and pulls out his .45 and shoots.  She drops the phone as she falls to the pavement.  Aidan gets in the car and floors it.  He gets a few blocks away before he hears sirens and sees flashing lights in his rear view as he heads down the interstate.  He swerves to the side of the road and jumps out of the speeding car.  He rolls a bit and then jumps off the side of the overpass to the street below, right into the path of an oncoming minivan.  Aidan dodges to the side of the road, but gets clipped as it goes by.  He shakes it off and runs towards his goal- Eve needs him.
Colin is watching TV with Pinkie and decides to call Aidan.  When he gets his voicemail, he calls Eve instead.  She answers and he begs her for something to do and she tells him that Aidan's on his way to her and she's finishing up her lessons so he's welcome to come join her in the park.  He agrees and heads out.
Julian goes to the Twilight Club and sees Lawrence is there with the others.  Leah greets him politely as he walks in.  Julian says "Have you heard the news?"  She says,"The news about the Swede? Have you met Lawrence?"  Julian says yes and then tells her about the fight the night before.  Then he tells her about the rave tomorrow night.  Tinker puts her arm around Lawrence and asks if they can go.  Lawrence gets a call from Harlequin.  Lawrence asks him about the Swede rumours going around and Harlequin tells him that it sounds like it was the Swede- he's been questioning the survivor.  He tells Lawrence that it would look good if he were the one to bring the Swede down.  Tinker gets a phone call as well and then makes her good byes and leaves.  Leah also leaves and tells Lawrence that she'll start on his research.  Lawrence decides to go to the park and take a look around where the Swede was sighted and Julian decides to go with him.
Aidan is covered in mud for camoflage and makes it to the edge of the park.  He sees a jogger on a path and tackles him to the ground.  Aidan feeds from him and drains him dry.  He moves through the park, makes it to the bridge and sees Eve standing under an umbrella with Wilfred.  She doesn't notice him at first as he stalks closer.  As he sneaks up to the bridge to get to Wilfred, Eve recognizes him at the last moment and says, "Oh, God!  Aidan!"  Aidan leaps into the bushes.  Wilfred eyes Eve and asks what he was doing earlier.  She says she has no idea.  Aidan, still out of his mind, pulls a gun on Wilfred.  Wilfred hits him hard with an entrancement and tells him to put away the gun.  The entrancment is enough to pull Aidan out of his flashback and he obeys.  When Wilfred questions him, they find out about the dead jogger left lying on the path and Wilfred sends him to clean up after himself.
As Aidan leaves, Eve smiles at Wilfred and says, "I guess it worked."  She asks if it's always like this.  Wilfred sighs and says he's going to leave.  "I don't want THAT following me around all night." He says congrats to Eve and leaves her the umbrella as he strolls away from the bridge in the rain.  She saunters over to follow Aidan, but sees Colin coming, so she waves him over and tells him "Let's go get Aidan."  Colin asks if something's wrong and she says, "We'll see."
Lawrence and Julian hear a lot of police in the area as they near the city park.  When they get to the site of the neonate's fight, Lawrence finds a pipe wrench with blood on it.  He does spirit's touch on the wrench and his mind is flooded with visions of Stan the plumber- He hears voices telling him he's got to get to the water main before the whole park gets flooded!  It's your job man!  The voices and images are so strong, they overwhelm Lawrence's mind and Stan's personalitly takes over.  Stan snaps out of the vision and sees an access point for the sewers about 100 feet away.  Julian is watching Lawrence/Stan wander around with the wrench and sees Eve and Colin walking through the park along one of the paths.  Stan goes about checking the pipes and tries tightening things on a water fountain near the bathroom.  Julian asks him what he's doing.  Stan replies, "Fixing the water main.  Did you bring your tool belt? I can't find mine."  Julian points out the other coterie members to Stan and he says, "Good, maybe they brought the van."
Eve and Colin catch up to Aidan.  Colin takes one look at him and says, "Holy Shit, man!" Aidan is sitting there, stabbing the body of the man he killed over and over again.  Aidan looks up and says he's trying to make it look like a psycho killed him- Colin says, Ok.  Colin picks up the body and obfuscates as he carries it into the water.  Lawrence/Stan yells over to them, asking, "Do you have the van?"  Eve yells back at him, "You lost it."  Julian walks over to meet up with them, calling public works on his cell and leaving a message about a broken water fountain in the park as he does.  
As Colin wades deeper into the water, he feels something tug at the body he's carrying. He lets it go and quickly exits the water. He warns Aidan not to go into the water as he heads towards the public restroom to wash up. Julian tells Aidan about the Swede sighting, and Stan/Lawrence starts walking towards the parking lot, looking for the van. Eve runs after him and tells him he lost the van months ago, talking about the van Harvey used to drive. Stan tells her that he needs his tools to fix the water main. She sees blood on the wrench he's carrying, and tells him that Colin would like to take a look at it. Stan shrugs and says it's the wrong size anyway. Eve eye's him for a moment and then tells him that they were introduced, but she doesn't remember his name. He tells her it's Stan and that he wants to go to the S-mart. She says, “Let's get with the others and we'll make a run to the S-mart soon for tools.” He says, “A belt too.”
Colin checks out Stan's wrench with Spirit's Touch and gets a vision of a middle aged plummer with “Stan” embroidered on his shirt checking on the water main. Someone jumps out of the shadows and starts beating Stan bloody. It's the Swede, but not like Colin remembers him. He has crazy wild eyes, and black claws on his hands. Colin comes out of the vision and tells the others, “Yeah, the Swede is back and Stan got it pretty bad.” Lawrence/Stan looks confused and Eve introduces him to Aidan and Colin, saying “This is Stan.” Colin nods at Eve and whispers to her, “Stan's dead.”
The group decides to make the S-mart run for the new Stan. Julian calls a cab and the driver turns out to be James, the Swede's old retainer. He seems to recognize Lawrence/Stan and Aidan asks how he knows him. They chat awhile about his old employer, Jake Issacson on the way over to the store. Julian asks James if he's willing to work for him, but James declines and says he already has a job. Julian tries to used dominate to make James quit his job, but James resists and tells him he can't. He says he needs the money. Julian pulls out some cash and says, “Here's a sign on bonus.” James still tells him no- he wants to keep the job he has. Julian takes note of the number of the cab company and gives James a few bills.
They go in the store and Stan goes and gets the tools he needs for the job. He picks out a nice tool belt and gets various drills, etc. He pulls 10 grand out of his pocket at the register to pay for the selection, and as the cashier hands him the receipt, he suddenly remembers where he left the van. Harvey's old van had been parked outside the church the night the coterie went after Katherine, and due to the arcane nature of the structure it had been forgotten by the rest of the coterie when they left it there. When Stan tells the others where he left the van, Aidan is skeptical- “I don't remember a church being there.” Colin gives him a look and says, “Trust me.”
They take a cab to the intersection and low and behold, there's the van. Stan pulls Harvey's key chain out of his pocket and finds the key to the van. He opens it up and all of Harvey's spy equipment is still inside along with a laptop. Stan glances around and says, “There's a lot of leak detecting equipment in here.” They find the earpieces Harvey had made for the group so long ago and pass them out to each other. The van is long dead after sitting for so long, so Colin jump starts the battery with a levinbolt and Stan starts the engine up. They stand there looking at the church where the demon was released into the world and debate on whether or not to take a look inside while they have the chance. The group decides they can't let it pass and decide to take a quick look around where Balphagor was summoned. Stan hands Eve a pair of coveralls from the back of the van and she changes out of her dress before they go in.
Colin walks towards the church, turning on his Auspex powers as he does. The entire buiding radiates an aura of hate and insanity to his eyes. He walks back to the others and tells them that the building has a chaotic aura. The others finish gearing up, and Colin makes Eve feed on a passerby before they go in, knowing that she's probably not been feeding and low on blood again. The coterie hops the fence and makes their way to the door. Colin notices that the graffiti covering the entrance is actually the symbol of Balphagor. Colin tries the door, but it appears to be jammed. Eve solves the problem by kicking it open with potence. Julian and Aidan each click on a flashlight and enter followed by Stan, Eve and Colin.
As they move deeper in the building, Colin sees a flash of green move behind a desk in a side office. He warns the group. Eve wants to leave it alone, remembering the things they encountered the last time they were in the church, but Aidan doesn't listen and goes in the room and moves the desk aside. He doesn't see anything green, but there is a human skull sitting on the floor. Colin goes in and uses Spirit's Touch on the skull. He is pulled into a vision seeing through the eyes of a school teacher meeting her priest lover. The priest kills her in this same room when she catches him doing something wrong. During the vision, something tries to force itself inside Colin's head. Both Stan and Julian see Colin's eyes flash iridescent green for a moment. Colin puts down the skull and Julian asks if anyone else saw Colin's eyes. Colin backs out of the room and feels uncomfortable for a moment. Julian asks Eve if she knows where to go and she takes the lead with a worried glance towards Colin, moving towards the auditorium where the Baali did their summoning ritual.
As they get outside between the buildings, they hear a bell toll 12 times. Everyone but Aidan sees reality kind of pulsate for a moment, and everything just feels wrong. The old lights flicker for a moment even though the electricity hasn't been on in years. Colin hears a voice in his head pleading for help. He uses a thaumatergical discipline to center himself and defend his thoughts against intrusion. Eve continues to lead them, taking the path she remembers from before, focused on her goal and trying to ignore distractions. As they pass a stairwell, Colin sees Annabelle at the top of the stairs. She turns and runs away. Colin stops Eve and tells her what he just saw and says he saw Annabelle here last time too, but then she turned into a demon and attacked him. They agree that the demons are trying to get them to follow and they decide to ignore it and move on.
A little farther down the hallway, Eve sees the symbol for Dead Reckoning with the other graffiti on the wall. She freaks a little and tells the others “That shouldn't be here.” The others look and she tells them it's the symbol for the Dead Reckoning pack. Stan gets a “phone call” on his cell, though no one else hears it ring, and he answers. The voice on the other end tells him to pull out his spear for the Shadowlands. Stan says, “Okay, if you think that will help.” and hangs up. He pulls the spear out of his backpack and says the trigger word. The world falls away as the Shadowlands superimpose on the world. He sees a woman in white standing next to where Colin was in the real world. Colin flickers into Stan's view for a moment and she draws her finger across Colin's throat. She motions for Stan to be quiet. Stan tries to talk to her, but she doesn't answer. Instead, she tries to take over Colin's body again. Stan puts away the spear and tells Colin he has a ghost attached to him. He tells Colin, “If you let her posses you, we could talk to her.” Colin shakes his head and says she feels like hate. Stan says there are lots of spirits around.
Eve notices that the Dead Reckoning symbol was drawn in old blood and the others ask Colin to try tasting it. When he does, he gets a quick image of two boys- one was sacrificed to Balphagor. Colin sighs and uses Spirits Touch to try to get more information. As soon as he does, Colin and Stan hear a heart beating. Colin gets a vision of the head of Abundant Light Ministries and two others painting the symbol on the wall. Eve hears the heart beating as well, and is overcome by Rotschreck. She bolts upstairs and the others follow after her. Aidan kicks in celerity to catch up, but he gets caught by a busted up section of floor and falls, his foot stuck in the hole. Colin also uses celerity to follow her, ignoring Aidan on the ground. He grabs Eve, but she throws him off, still lost in terror. Colin goes flying back down the stairs and smashes into a mirror. Julian stops to help Aidan and pulls him out of the hole, revealing long pale worms with mouths lined with razor sharp teeth under the floorboards.
Colin picks himself up and sees movement behind him in the mirror. He turns to see a demonic spider creature coming towards him, so he activates a levinbolt. Stan obfuscates himself and continues to follow Eve as she runs down the hallway. He sees three figures flickering at the end of the hall, one cloaked and the other 2 dressed regularly, but Eve doesn't seem to see them and continues to run straight toward them. There is a open doorway behind them, but Stan can't see anything beyond it but darkness. Eve gains enough presence of mind to start shifting her body into shadow. She reaches the end of the hallway, and to her shadow infused eyes, the doorway is filled with blinding white light. She pauses there in the doorway, searching for another way out and not wanting to go near the light.
Aidan pulls out his knife and stabs at the three worms that have already attached themselves to his legs, peeling one of them almost all the way off. Julian tries to shoot at the worms and does a little bit of damage. Aidan sighs in relief when Julian doesn't shoot him in the legs by mistake, but then the worm latches on and it's like a chainsaw cutting through a log when it bears down on his leg with its teeth. Down the stairs, Colin uses theft of vitae on the spider demon and pulls, but no blood comes out, and he starts cursing. The thing tries to grab him, but Colin dodges out of the way.
In the upstairs hall, Eve is still paused before the doorway, her body is almost completely shifted to shadows, and she's trying to gain control of the fear. Stan sees the three figures circling around Eve as she stands there shaking, and he yells at them to get away from her. They seem to look up and the one in the hooded robe flickers as he moves down the hallway towards Stan. Stan tries to club him in the face with his pipe wrench, but it passes right through him.
Julian hears Colin in trouble downstairs, so he jumps over the stair railing down to the first floor as he pulls out a sword and stabs into the back of the demon horror. The thing screams out in pain and Colin runs up the stairs to get above the demon.
Aidan starts methodically stabbing at the worms. One of them dissolves as he kills it, so he moves onto the next and it dies as well. He keeps stabbing at the last worm and takes it apart. He goes over the stair rail after Julian. Julian dodges away from the demon when it goes after him and Colin charges himself with a levinbolt, becoming a pillar of electrical power. Julian stabs at the demon again with his sword, almost cutting off a leg. He stabs again and the thing collapses, seemingly dead.
Eve shifts fully into shadow and manages to maintain her self control and not run through the open doorway. She turns away from the door and sees Stan down the hall, so she starts to move towards him. Stan sees the doorway slam shut as soon as Eve turns away from it. The two other horrifying figures move down the hallway towards Stan as well and look like they're ready to attack. Stan slams his pipe wrench into a minion's face and this time he seems to connect, but it doesn't seem to hurt it. The other one tries to bite Stan and clamps down, but Stan somehow keeps it at bay. The second demon tries to grab Stan but misses and Stan sees the one with the robes flicker down the hallway back towards the closed door. When the minions attacked, Eve was able to see them for the first time, so she summons five shadow tendrils from the abyss and sends them after Stan's attackers. The Rotschreck returns, and she wants to run, but she hangs onto her self control through force of will. Her shadows grab each of the demons and one of them is completely shredded apart. Stan stabs the other one with his spearhead and there is a burst of smoke from the demon's stomach. Stan stabs it again and it dissolves into smoke. Stan looks up just in time to see the demon with the robes vanish through the door at the end of the hall.
Colin, Aidan, and Julian come running up the stairs to see the last demon vanish in smoke and shadow. Eve gets panicky again and starts to run away, but Colin calms her down with thaumatergy. Julian asks about the door at the end of the hall, and Stan tells him, “That's where the head ghost went.” Julian starts to walk over to the door and Eve gets between him and the door, still in shadowform, trying to block him. Colin walks right through her, ignoring the warning and uses Spirit's Touch on the door. Aidan warns him, “If you get possessed, we're taking you down.” As soon as Colin focuses on the door, his eyes flash with unholy green light, and he hears a voice in his head saying, “Attack her!” Colin turns to Eve and releases his stored electricity into her shadow. Eve retaliates and grabs hold of him with two shadow arms, holding him suspended in the air for the others. Julian looks around at the others and asks, “Do you think he's possessed?” Aidan ignores the question and stabs at Colin with his knife.
Stan holds his spear and activates the power that lets him see into the shadowlands. Stan sees Colin, but his image keeps flickering in and out, alternating with a demonic figure standing in his place. Stan stabs at Colin with the spear, trying to time it so he hits the demon, but Colin's form flickers into view right as the spear makes contact. Colin siphons blood away from Aidan with Theft of Vitae, but Eve commands the shadows holding him up to start constricting and Colin falls into torpor.
The group decides to leave the church. Aidan carries out Colin's body while Eve goes ahead, still in her shadowform, scouting for a quick way out. They come to a window back on the ground floor and Stan pries it open. They get back to the van and Eve shifts back into corporeal form. Julian grabs Colin's supply of blood tictacs and pours them in his mouth, scattering most of them across the back of the van in the process. Eve tries to rescue as many as she can for Colin later, but only manages to find three. They discuss what to do and decide to take Colin back to Leah as none of them are strong enough to wake him from torpor themselves.
They drive to Leah's place of business and tell her about Colin being possessed by something demonic. She says that the Tremere will cleanse him before waking him up. They leave Colin in her hands, but Eve leans over and tells Colin she's sorry before they go. Julian tells Colin that he was trying to help, and Aidan leans over to tell him, “I told you so.” Leah hands some documents to Stan on his way out.
As they leave Colin with the Tremere, the coterie parts ways. Aidan and Eve go hunting together and Eve apologizes for the summoning earlier. Stan and Julian decide go to the rave near the Factory.
Later in the evening, Colin wakes up to the smell of stagnant water and moss. He opens his eyes and finds that he's in the swamp surrounded by animal bones. Leah is standing over him wearing a ceremonial robe. Damon is leaning over Colin and drawing symbols in charcoal on his chest. He glances around and discovers that he's stark naked and that the rest of his chantry is there as well. Colin still has the heady taste of vampiric vitae in his mouth. Leah sees his eyes open and says, “Good evening, Colin. I hear you had some difficulties.” She asks him what happened. Colin stands up and starts brushing himself off and says, “I was dealing with the demon issue we've had for the past three years.” Leah tells him that he'll need to make a report. Colin says, “I've already done a report, but fine. I'll write another one.” He spots his clothes on the ground and puts on his jacket and boots and starts walking. Leah clears her throat and asks if he wants a ride. Colin stops walking and says, “That would be nice.” He asks her to take him to his car still parked outside the church. When they get there, he gets out of the car and then pauses to say, “Oh, by the way, this is where the demon is if you want to check it out.” Damon says, “Shit!” and he starts tracing symbols on the car windows. Colin gets in his own car and leaves.
After hunting, Aidan and Eve get to the Factory and see thirty cars in the parking lot even though the club is closed. Eve asks the security guard about all the cars and gets pissed when he tells her that Mike said they could park there. She calls Mike and finds out about an after party rave four buildings over in a warehouse. She asks Aidan if he wants to check it out and he agrees.
Stan and Julian get to the rave and are overwhelmed with loud music, strobe lights and the haze of drugs as soon as they get in the door. Julian does an aura scan of the crowd, looking for other vamps. He spots Pinch and Isis in the crowd along with his friend Maryanne. Mike, wearing a tux, walks over to them and greets Stan, calling his Lawrence. Stan doesn't correct him. Julian gets a drink and goes over to Maryanne and her artist friends. Stan talks to Mike for awhile and then mingles in the crowd. Eve and Aidan arrive a short time later. Julian spots them and goes over to tell them that there are some Brujah at the party. Eve just shrugs about it. Aidan and Eve head out to the dance floor. Aidan makes himself dance better after he sees Eve.  Isis goes over to Stan and pulls him over to the dance floor to dance with her. She tells him that she took out some snake ghouls and he says that he just had a run in with some ghosts. They spend most of the party getting high together. Icepick makes his way over to Eve and starts talking to her. He tells her that the party is a Brujah thing and asks why she's there. She tells him that her ghoul is the one running the show.
After a bit, the Brujah gather together and have a short meeting. They talk for a short time, and then it breaks up and they all split off. Eve asks Mike about the Brujah being there, and he says that they paid to get into the party. She remarks that she likes a few of them, but points out Jasper, saying, “That guy can die.” Mike looks down at her and asks, deeply serious, “Would that make you happy?” She eyes him for a moment and says, “Not tonight.” Mike nods and pulls out a little black book and makes a note in it. Icepick and another anarch start fighting at that moment and Eve goes and pulls Icepick away from the fight to dance with her instead.
Julian wants to leave the party with Mary Ann and tries to convince her to go, but she tells him the party just started and she doesn't want to leave just yet. Annie sidles up to Eve and says she heard about someone coming back to town. Eve asks which one, and Annie says, “The Swede.” She gives Eve a card with a phone number on it and tells her to call if she hears where the Swede is. Eve sees Mike talking to a guy in a baseball cap and sunglasses. She gets curious about the guy and goes over to them and tells Mike she's leaving. She gives Mike a kiss on the cheek and asks who his friend is. The new guy introduces himself as John and asks Eve for her name. He gives Mike a thick envelope of cash and tells him to put it towards the next party and then he leaves. Aidan watches John leave and sees him get into an extremely expensive sports car with quite a bit of jealously. As the party gets closer to sunrise, and the vamps start leaving, Isis warns Stan that the Brujah will be looking for the Swede.
Colin goes back to the Abby and works on his demon research. He finds out that Balphagor is an earth bound demon tied to an object rather than possessing a person, because he's too powerful to possess a mortal. He starts working on a ritual to detect when something is under demonic influence. He sends a text to the rest of the coterie just before sunrise, saying, “Thanks for.. something. I'm going back.”
==Wed, April 16th aka "The Return of the Swede"==
Julian wakes in the early evening and makes his way back to the Sleepy Time Trailer Park. When he arrives, he sees several people hanging around outside. They stop him when he starts walking through the park and ask him what he's doing there. Julian tells them that he's looking for Danior. One of the men invites him to wait inside his trailer. Julian goes inside with him and ten minutes later, Danior arrives. The mortals leave the room and Danny asks him why he's there. Julian asks about his business card that Danny took the other night and Danny tells him that he gave the card to Dax and that he hasn't called yet. Danny says, “Hang on,” and he goes over to the phone to make a call. When the person on the other end answers, they talk in another language for a few minutes. Danny hangs up and turns back to Julian. He says that the dragonfly symbol has connections to an art thief that has stolen several items in London and Paris, “The guy is called the Dragonfly. If he's here, lock up your valuables.” Julian thanks Danny for the information and then tells him he wants his business card back. Julian goes back to his ghoul's house to check on security. He gets a sifter of flour and puts a layer of dust all over his art collection so he can tell if anyone touches his stuff. He looks into some martial arts schools, and is disappointed when none of them are open at night. He decides to write a letter to one of the schools, and crafts a beautiful letter with calligraphy, asking for private lessons. He leaves to hand deliver the letter to the kendo studio.
Aidan wakes up in his haven and checks the newspaper. He sees a story about last night. There is a composite sketch of a black man that is being blamed for Aidan's rampage. Feeling guilty about his actions, he sends flowers to the people he hurt. He gets a phone call from Bran's flunky telling him that he owes Bran a major boon for taking care of the traffic cameras last night and to keep it quiet. Aidan doesn't argue. He goes to work on his bike for a couple of hours.
After Evangeline wakes, she goes back to the little park in the Regulator territory near the Factory. She settles on a bench under a street lamp, focuses on Remy and tries to summon him. After waiting awhile, she sees a shadow moving swiftly through the park. It circles past her and scouts the park looking for a trap before returning to her on the bench. She watches it and says, “I wouldn't do that to you”. The shadows coalesce and Remy is standing there. Eve asks if he's gone back to the Sabbat and he shakes his head and says he hasn't joined a new pack. She asks him why he's with Jules and he tells her that he's just using Jules for now. When Eve asks why, he says, “I'm trying to save you. I know that Warlock ensorcelled you. That's the only reason you didn't leave with me.” Eve starts to protest about Colin, but then remembers that he had Skinner mess with her head and changes what she was going to say, “Well, yeah he did do something then-”  Remy yells, “I FUCKING KNEW IT!” and he turns and kicks a tree so hard that there's a loud crack, and the tree crashes to the ground. Eve is shocked and stands there a moment staring at the tree while Remy rages. She tries to do some damage control and says, “All he did was get rid of Bedlam's mind control!” They argue back and forth for a bit, before Remy says, “Look, I'll wait for you. I'll be there when you need me.” He steps closer to her and kisses her as he resumes his shadowform and leaves the park. Eve goes to the Factory to check on Virginia's coins.
Manny wakes up in his haven. He makes a phone call to Lorraine and checks in with her. They arrange to meet at Satchmo's at 9:00pm. He goes hunting to pass the time. When they meet, he spikes her drink with some of his blood, giving her a third taste and making her completely blood bound to him. She tells him that someone from Ego magazine is coming to take pictures of the cast the next night. They do a karaoke song together up on stage.
When Eve arrives at the Factory, she gets a message from Jake. He tells her that he has three gang members that need tatts and wants her to come out to Pair o' Dice to work. She agrees to go, and heads out. She hitches a ride in a pick up truck with a random stranger. Halfway there, they get pulled over by a cop for a busted tail light. The cop makes the driver get out of the car and accuses him of driving drunk with an expired drivers license. When the cop asks Eve for her ID as well, she uses a little Dominate to convince him he doesn't need it. While she's sitting in the cab waiting, she hears a shriek and turns around just in time to see the cop's head go flying by, no longer attached to his body. The driver is being held up in the air by the Swede and a second later the Swede rips the spine from the guy's back. Eve tries to obfuscate herself in the cab. The Swede walks to the truck, gets in the driver seat and starts driving away. Eve tries to hold perfectly still, keeping up the obfuscate, until he stops at a red light. When the light turns green, Eve flings open the door and jumps out, running through traffic to get away. She turns and looks for the truck, but it looks like he's moved on instead of following her. She pulls out her phone and sends a text to the rest of the Regulators, saying she just saw the Swede.
Manny leaves Lorraine's company for the night and decides to head over to the University to scout for signs of the Tremere on campus. He recognizes Rafael and follows him into a building. When he goes into an office, Manny tries to listen at the door. He hears Rafael humming and shuffling papers. After a few minutes, he hears light jazz playing on a radio. Manny focuses on Rafael's thoughts, trying to read his mind, but is unable to get through the Tremere's defenses. Instead, he gets a surge of backlash and fries his auspex abilities for the night. Manny obfuscates himself again and stakes out the area for awhile. After a bit, he sees the cleaning staff and corners one of them. He dominates the guy to go clean Rafael's office. The guy bitches and complains, but does as he is told. Manny obfuscates and follows him in the room. Rafael looks up when they enter and tells the cleaning guy to leave, but he says, “Orders are orders. The guy in the hall said I gotta clean it now.” Rafael stands up and starts looking carefully around the room, but doesn't seem to see Manny there. He goes out in the hall and Manny takes the opportunity to look at the desk and sees that Rafael is looking through student files. A file is open for Danielle Porter and Rafael seems to have been taking notes on her- promising student with good grades and an interest in the occult. It seems like she might be a potential recruit. Manny writes down her address. Rafael comes back in the room and says that he doesn't see anyone out in the hall. He uses dominate and tells the cleaner to leave, but he just says, “No, you're not the boss of me.” Rafael looks flabbergasted and makes a call saying he's got a security breach. Manny makes it out of the room before Rafael closes and locks the door. As he leaves the building, he sees a text from Eve on his phone.
Julian gets a cab, intending to go to the Twilight Club, when he gets a text from Eve. He goes to the Ice Cream Parlor instead, and then sends a text to Eve asking if she's OK. She responds, “He just killed a cop and the guy I was hitching a ride from, but I'm OK.” When Julian gets to the Malk chantry, he sees that someone is already there inside. A guy in a gas mask is there, scanning the room with some device. Julian does an aura read on him and sees that the man is a vampire who is psychotic and distrustful. The man says, “I haven't checked for contaminants, but I think the air is OK.” He says the room is clean- no bugs, and takes off the gas mask to reveal a black silk mask underneath. Harlequin asks Julian if he's part of the Regulators now, and Julian tells him he's not sure yet. Harlequin gets a phone call on his cell, and answers in another language. It seems like he's talking in code. He hangs up and starts cursing. Julian asks if everything is alright, but Harlequin doesn't answer. He calls Manny instead and tells him he needs to catch the Swede, who just caused a Masquerade breach around St. Rock. Manny tells him it will take awhile for him to get there. Harlequin tells him this is top priority and to leave a note for Lawrence. When he hangs up, he tells Julian he has to go talk to the prince. Julian offers to go with him, but Harlequin tells him it's not a good idea and to go help out his coterie instead. Julian calls up Manny and says he wants to come with him to the crime scene. Manny sets up a place for the coterie to meet.
Aidan gets Eve's text, followed by Manny's a short while later. He responds that he's on his way. Manny sends a message to the Regulators, all the anarchs, and all the Brujah that he knows to all meet up at the McDonald's near where the Swede was seen. Jake picks up Eve. Icepick and Nails arrive, then Aidan shows up. Julian arrives and gets in line at the counter. He orders a Happy Meal and then sits down next to the group. Manny sends a message to Harlequin with the Swede's last known location and a description of the truck he was driving. One of the new anarchs, Money, arrives. Manny sends out all the motorcycle guys to scout for the truck. Jake tells them that Dolores and Francis are out of town on business and won't be joining in the hunt.
Aidan suggests going to the police car and looking around. He and Eve leave to go check it out. When they get there, they see that five cop cars and a news van have arrived and the area has been taped off as a crime scene. Eve sees Carter at the scene and texts Manny to see if he can get the crime scene footage from the cop car. Manny calls Carter for information and asks him if it was “One of ours”. Carter tells him he can't talk yet and will let him know later. Aidan and Eve stand in the crowd of gawkers watching the police, and Eve notices Connie is behind the tape with the police. She points her out to Aidan and they both wonder why she's there. It looks like she's listening in on the other cops. Eve points out Carter to Aidan and tells him that he's Lawrence's ghoul. Connie starts walking away from the crime scene and she pulls out a phone to make a call. Aidan and Eve decide to follow her. She walks to a white van and the side door opens as she gets there. Rosanna lets her in the van. Aidan takes note of the van's license plates. Aidan says to Eve, “I think Connie isn't who she says she is.”
Back at the McDonald's, Isis shows up and Manny fills her in on what is happening. Isis asks if the anarchs mind the Camarilla operating in their domain for the night and Money tells her that the Kings say it's alright. Manny gets a call that someone found the truck and he sends a message out for everyone to head there. Manny rides with Isis in her corvette and Julian hitches a ride with Money.
Aidan and Eve follow Connie in the van which turns out to be heading towards the Swede's truck. The van stops about a block away from the parking lot along a tree line. Three people get out of the van wearing hoodies. Aidan sends a text to Manny about the three mortals stalking the area- it looks like they are casing the joint.
Manny, Julian and the others arrive on scene and park a block away. Eve ducks in the alley and performs an abyssal ritual to locate the Swede using the shadows, but is unable to find him. Frustrated that it's not working like it should, she tells Aidan that she can't see him. Aidan spreads the word to the others.   
At that point, everyone gets a mass text saying “Jacob Issacson has been seen in the city and is under the Lextalionis. You know your duty.”  
Manny walks to the parking lot where the truck is parked and goes up to the building.  He looks through the storefront window and sees several people lying on the ground, trying not to move and shaking.  Julian makes his way to Connie's van instead.  Several motorcycles pull up and surround the building, several more are circling the area.  Jake, Nails, and Icepick all pull up on their bikes.
Manny walks into the building and goes over to the people on the floor.  One guy looks up at Manny with his eyes bulging in fear.  Manny uses Presence to try to calm him, but then all four people on the ground look up at him and start speaking in unison, “Jupiter is rising!”  Manny notices that all four of them have a bulge under their coats, and he turns and runs for the door.  The bombs explode as Manny leaps from the building.  Many lands on the cement, burned and singed.  The three anarchs get thrown to the ground with the blast.  Eve and Aidan, still in the alley next to the building, also get caught in the blast and both flee the area in Rotschreck.  Jake and Icepick both pick themselves up from the ground.  Nails sees the damage done to his bike and starts cursing at the top of his lungs and kicking the bike.  Money takes off in his fancy car, leaving everyone else behind. Manny holds himself together for a moment after he hits the ground, but then loses himself in Rotschreck, and runs away.
Down the block, Julian tries to break into Connie's van.  Once he gets the door open, he finds a set of keys under the floor mat.  He sees the hunters huddled together talking down the street towards the now burning building.  He starts the van up and drives away.  At the end of the street, there are two guys on motorcycles blocking the way.  Both are wearing vests with patches for the Black Jack Motorcycle Club.  Julian slows the van and rolls down the window to tell them it's over.  One of the bikers makes a phone call and then says to the other, “Let's go pick them up.”  Julian drives on, taking the van to a car wash and then searching through it.  He finds manacles attached to cinder blocks, black sacks, handcuffs, and four different large magnet signs for the side of the van.  There's a sawed off shotgun under the seat along with two sets license plates and a police ban radio.
Aidan comes to his senses when he hears pounding on a door in front of him.  He looks around and realizes that he's huddled in a port-a-potty. Someone outside is pounding on the door and hollering, “You gonna be in there all night?”  Aidan opens the door and steps out, looking like hell with burns on his body and singed clothes.  He's on a construction site.  The loudmouth pushes past him into the john and Aidan looks around to get his bearings before trying to contact the others with his earpiece.  
Eve is hiding under a car only a block or two away from the explosion.  She hears sirens rushing past and sees she's in front of an apartment complex.  She pulls out her phone, but can't get anyone to answer.  She leaves the cover of the car and slowly makes her way back to the burning building.  As she gets there, she sees a couple fire trucks and several police cars.  A news van is parked across the street.  It looks like none of the kindred stuck around.  A cop notices her and calls out, but she steps back into the crowd and makes her way back to the McDonald's. 
Manny's personality has been hijacked by the little girl, Darla.  He's unconsciously obfuscated himself to look like a little girl.  She sees huddled across the room from her and they look scared to death.  There is a voice in her ear asking “Is everyone all right?”  She pulls the earpiece out of her ear and looks at it a second before yelling and dropping it.  The adults beg her not to hurt them anymore.  She asks them if they know where her mommy is and the woman says that she can call her.  She moves slowly to the phone while keeping a wary eye on Darla.  Darla complains that her back hurts and then says she wants to talk to her mommy and pulls the phone from the woman's grasp.  She puts the phone to her ear and says, “Mommy?” just as the 911 operator answers on the other end of the line.  The operator asks to talk to the grown up, so Darla passes the woman the phone.  She gets back on the phone and starts screaming for help.  Darla asks the man to take her to her mommy while the woman sobs on the phone.  The man grabs his keys and opens the door, and Darla follows him out of the apartment.  Cops arrive as they get outside, and the man yells to them, “There she is!”  The police talk to her, trying to figure out what's going on and one calls child protection services.  The police ask if the man touched her, and she says no, but tells them that her back hurts.  They call an ambulance for Darla.  As they drive to the hospital, Manny takes over again as the dominate personality.
Meanwhile.... Colin has spent most of the night researching ways to overcome a demon and finds a ritual using holy water that might work.  He goes to Jackson Square to the cathedral and the guards at the door greet him by name as they let him in the building.  Colin sees a priest and asks him for a vat of holy water, saying that he has demon issues.  The priest blinks and says, “Demon issues?  Surely you don't believe in actual demons..” Colin says, “Yes I do, and I would think you should too, but I'm not telling you how to religion.”  The priest tells him he can't get more- the priests there during the day do the blessing.  Colin gets fed up and says, “Fine, I'll just steal my own.” He marches over to the stone bowl holding holy water and tries to fill up a flask, but manages to knock the entire bowl over and it shatters on the marble floor.  He turns around and says, “I need some more!” The priest looks horrified and pulls out a phone to make a call as he hurries away.  Colin goes to the second bowl and fills up his flask.  As he leaves the church, he notices that his phone is dead.
Julian searches the van for any tracking devices, but doesn't find anything.  He tries to call Lawrence, but he doesn't answer the phone.  Julian drives to a 7-11 and buys a track phone.  He activates it and puts it on mute.  He turns on the tracking for the phone and hides it in the van.  He sends a text to Eve saying he's okay and asking if the hunters are still there.  Eve tells him she doesn't know and to head back to the McDonald's.  Julian leaves the van parked and makes his way back to the meeting point.
Icepick and Nails are at the McDonald's when Eve arrives.  As she goes inside, Jake and Money show up as well.  She asks them what happened and Jake tells her “The Castelon went in and came running back out as it blew.”  She tells them about not being able to see the Swede through the shadows.  She gets worried about no one in her coterie answering their phones, and Jake tells her that they'll check in.  Danior arrives and she fills him in on what has been going on.
As Manny's personality overwhelms Darla, and takes over, the obfuscation masking him as a little girl, drops.  The EMT sees a grown man sitting there instead of the little girl and starts to freak out.  Manny dominates him to fall asleep.  The driver calls from the front, “What's going on? Lem, you OK?”  Manny answers, “It's OK.”  The driver says, “Lem?”  Manny looks around for a camera in the back and doesn't see one, so he lays back down on the gurney and plays dead.  When the ambulance stops and the back door opens, the driver takes one look and says, “What's going on?”  Manny continues to play dead as the driver takes his pulse and then slaps Lem to wake him up.  Lem points frantically at Manny and says, “That's the little girl!”  They call their supervisors and someone wheels Manny to the morgue.  Manny waits for it to get quiet and then pulls out a phone and sends a text to Eve- “It wasn't the Swede.”  Eve texts him back asking what he means and he responds, “It was the Setites.  Keep quiet for now, maybe they'll reveal themselves.”  Manny feels a chill as he waits there in the morgue and heals some of his wounds.  He gets up and makes his way to where they store the blood.  
Colin turns on his phone after charging it up and gets spammed with all the texts he missed during the night.  He calls Eve and she fills him in on what has happened.  He asks if he should come, and she tells him that it might be a good idea since Lawrence almost got blown up in a building.  He tells her he's on his way.  Aidan sends a text to Eve that he's hurt, but OK.  Eve tells him to go to the McDonald's.   Aidan and Colin show up at the same time.  Several bikes are parked outside.  They go in the restaurant and find Eve sitting between Jake and Danny in a booth.
Julian calls Eve and tells her what he did with the van.  Jake sends one of his guys to pick up Julian.  Julian gets on the guy's bike and then tries to read the biker's aura, finding out that he is mortal.
Manny gets back to the crime scene and takes a look around.  He doesn't see Carter or the hunters in the area.  He obfuscates and goes past the barricade towards the cops that were working with Carter.  Officer Steinbeck seems to be the one in charge.  He's telling the other cops that he wants forensics in there as soon as the fire is out.  The bikes in the parking lot are being taken to impound along with the truck left by “the Swede”.  Manny follows Steinbeck to a police car and sees him sending a text.  Manny takes a peek and sees him writing, “Suicide vest. Under control. No leaches.” Manny tries to make himself look like a cop, but can't get it right, so instead he just knocks on the window of the car.  When Steinbeck looks up, he dominates him to sleep.  Manny opens the door, pushes Steinbeck over to the passenger seat and drives away from the scene.  As Manny drives, he picks up Steinbeck's phone and sees that he was texting Carter. Manny texts Carter from the phone saying, “Found one more body partially burned, sending to the morgue.” Carter texts back a moment later asking if he checked the body. Manny types, “Yes,” and he sends a description of himself with burns. Carter texts back, “Don't worry, I'll check this one out.” Manny pulls over, feeds from Steinbeck and drives back to the hospital.
Back at the McDonald's, Eve asks Colin what he was doing earlier and he tells her that he was dealing with the demon infestation and he needed to get some holy water. She asks if he got it and he tells her yes. Jake asks, “Did it work?” and Colin replies that he doesn't know yet. He turns back to Eve and says that he found a guy to exorcise Annabelle, so he can go after the demons and not worry about her. Nails adds that he goes to Gold's Gym when he wants to exercise. Colin ignores that and starts to complain about not getting help from the other Tremere to deal with the problem and Nails asks him if he needs a spotter.
Money listens to Julian talking about the hunters and the van for a while and then looks around at the Kindred gathered and asks, “So where's the Swede?” Eve says, “We can't find him.” At that point, Alejandro walks into the restaurant and everyone notices him right away. He sits down at a table next to Aidan. He enjoys the silence for a good minute, then says, “Well, I take it that none of you have completed your endeavor, or I would have heard from you by now.”
Icepick glances at the other anarchs, and says, “Who the fuck is this guy?”
Aidan says, “Icepick, meet Prince Castellano.”
Jake says, “Icepick, this is the gentleman whose car you're going to be cleaning for the next month.” and he asks Nails to take Ice back to the tattoo parlor. Alejandro smirks as they leave and says, “I have seventeen cars.”
Colin mutters under his breath, “That's excessive.”
Alejandro points at Aidan and says, “You. Explain what happened.”
Aidan says, “We saw the Swede. We tracked the truck to the Value Mart. We were looking for him, when the building exploded.”
Alejandro looks at Eve, who is doing her best to not be noticed, and says, “Anything to add? Find your tongue.” She tells him that the group is waiting on Lawrence to get back because he was the only one that went into the building before it exploded. Alejandro looks at Colin, and he says, “I just got here!”
Alejandro stares down Colin for a moment, and says, “We're having an emergency session of court tomorrow night to address current events. You will report early. No more than a half hour after sunset.” He looks towards Julian, and says, “Do you have anything to add?”
Julian stands up to speak and the Prince snaps at him to sit back down. Julian complies and goes into a long tale from the beginning of the night. He mentions the hunters and the Prince decides that they were likely minions of the Swede. Alejandro looks at Jake and asks if Dolores is around. Jake tells him no, and Alejandro says, “See that your people keep looking for Issacson. I will have the Nosferatu search and they are not to be interfered with if they are seen in your domain.” Alejandro stands and addresses the entire group, “Anything else?”
Eve starts texting on her phone under the table, sending a message to Lawrence to ask him if she should tell the Prince about not seeing the Swede with the shadows, and he responds, “No! What would he do if it's an imposter?” Eve looks up and raises her hand before asking Alejandro, “What if it was an imposter?” Alejandro looks at her a moment and says, “I would wish to be informed and if it could be proven, then the blood hunt would be extended.” Eve texts that back to Lawrence and asks if they should tell. Lawrence responds he doesn't know yet who they're working with. Julian latches onto the imposter idea and starts sassing the Prince about the Swede until Alejandro looses patience and dominates him not to speak unless spoken to. He then charges the Regulators to officially hunt down the Swede. He looks around the restaurant again and rolls his eyes, saying, “Ah, yes. Lawrence. I wish he would arrive so I don't have to spend anymore time in this.. establishment.”
Manny arrives at the morgue and dominates the morgue attendant to remember that his body was brought in awhile ago as a victim of burns. He lays down on a gurney and plays dead again until Carter arrives and asks for the John Doe. Manny sneaks behind Carter as he fills out a form, and clubs him on the back of the head. Manny searches his body, takes his cell phone, car keys and gun before depositing him on the gurney. He adjusts the morgue attendant's memory and wheels Carter out to his car. As he deposits Carter in the trunk, he becomes focused on Prince Alejandro and needs to see him badly. He gets in Carter's car and hauls ass back to the McDonald's.
As Manny walks in the restaurant, he see's Alejandro relaxing and the rest of the kindred waiting anxiously with him. Alejandro looks up and says, “Good evening, Castelon. I'm glad to see that you survived the ordeal.” Manny doesn't waste time and drops the bomb that it wasn't the Swede after all. He tells the Prince that it was a Setite imposter instead. Alejandro asks how he knows and he says, “Because of the message he left me. Jupiter rising. My enemy says this.”
Alejandro asks, “Who is your enemy?” and Manny responds, “Jean Lafite.” Alejandro says, “The pirate? If you can prove it, I will extend the blood hunt. We're having court tomorrow night. Send word to every Kindred in the city. This is mandatory with possible loss of domain or hospitality for any not in attendance. The Regulators will hunt the Swede and find out who the imposter is.” With that, Alejandro stands up from the table and leaves the restaurant.
Aidan turns to Manny and says, “You have a pirate enemy? That's awesome!” Manny looks back at him and says, “I don't even know why.” Eve asks him if the Swede was really another guy and Manny says, “Yeah.” Colin notices that Julian is still rather silent and tries to counter the dominate command given to him by the Prince. Eve tries as well when Colin is unable to help, but doesn't get anywhere either. Money looks over at him and says, “Tell us what's on your mind.” Julian responds, “The Prince is an asshole.” The anarchs laugh and the domination is apparently broken as Julian keeps going on about the hunters in the city. Eve asks Colin why he has to go to court early and Colin says that he broke a bowl.
Manny says that the Setites are into drug trafficking and the group might be able to track them that way. Jake looks at Money and he gets miffed at the assumption that he's into the drug trade as well. Eve asks Danny if Dax would be able to help point them in the right direction, and Danny says he was thinking the same thing. Jake and Money say they'll make some calls and they leave. As Jake leaves, Danny asks him if he minds him spending time in their domain if he doesn't cause trouble. Jake just shrugs and goes out the door. Aidan stands up to leave and says he needs to hunt. Danny goes and gets an application from the front counter and starts filling it out. Eve and Colin say they'll go with Aidan and Eve says goodnight to Danny as they leave.
Manny pulls out Carter's phone and starts going through his messages. There's one from Cindy about a date. The second message is from Brandy, who says she had a wonderful time and wants to see him again. There appears to be quite a few messages from women. Finally, Manny comes across a text that appears to be in code from a few night ago. He gets up and leaves the restaurant. As he drives, he watches for any followers, but doesn't see anything. He drives to his trailer behind Satchmo's and then checks on Carter in the trunk. When he opens the lid, Carter says, “What's going on?” Manny replies, “I don't know. We'll find out tomorrow.” He closes the lid again and piles bricks on top of it before going in the trailer.
Eve, Aidan and Colin go to the French Quarter to hunt and Eve asks the others to make sure she doesn't loose control when she feeds. They are able to find the blood they need and the rest of the night passes uneventfully. They part ways and each goes to their own haven to prepare for court the next night. Twenty minutes before sunrise, Manny pulls out three jars, each containing a heart that he had stolen from the Setites, and uses pencils to stake each one.
== Thurs, April 17th AKA "The Prince is pissed....Court!" ==
Colin dresses in his best suit and goes to meet with the Prince early at the church.  After a little chat he heads to Muriel's Bistro to help set up for the Court.
When Manny wakes up, he heals some of the damage from the night before and then opens the trunk of his car in order to feed off of Carter.  Carter's pretty upset and starts yelling- "I didn't do anything!  Can you at least give me a drop?"  Manny says "We'll see.  I have questions and you need to answer."  He closes Carter back in the trunk and sends the message logs from Carter's phone to his ghoul Bobby.
Evangeline has Gloria do her hair and makeup for the night and Gloria does her best work.  Eve gets a bite to eat at the Factory and then has Mike escort her to court.  Ghouls aren't allowed in tonight, so she tells Mike to wait for her outside.
Aidan dresses in his 70's best.  He hunts, but doesn't have much luck.  Maybe due to his Saturday Night Fever look.
Julian dresses in his Toreador finery for the night.
As they enter the restaraunt, a trio of musicians are playing in the corner and the head table is still empty.  There are several round tables through the room and each has a table cloth with a clan symbol on it.  Place cards have been placed at each table as well.  Julian sees that he has been placed at the Malkavian table- the Toreador symbol on his place card has been scratched out and replaced with a Malk one.  He decides to not make too much of a fuss about the oversight for this one night as the Prince is obviously stressed.  Eve finds her place card at the Nosferatu table and is relieved that she doesn't have to sit by herself.
Eve goes over to Colin and asks him if he's ok.  Colin says that he's okay.  He owes the Prince some favors and it's not too bad.  He says that the Prince is actually pretty nice when he wants to be.  Aidan goes over to the anarchs and starts talking motorcycles. 
Julian tries to listen in on the converation at the Toreador table next to the Malks.  The are gossiping about the reason for court tonight.  One of them thinks it's about the disappearences.  Jeremy says, "It's probably about those fucking Regulators stiring shit up again.  Everytime there's a problem, they're in the middle of it."  Marisol tells him not to talk behind their backs.  Julian gets up from his seat and walks over to Jeremy. He says, "Hey kid, here's a breath mint."  and then he walks away.  Jeremy says, "Huh?" and Marisol hisses, "He heard you, idiot."
Eventually the tables around the room fill up and the Court members walk in to the head table.  The Prince with the Primogen along with the Sheriff and the Castellon.  The Prince glances at Celeste's empty chair and looks at his watch.  Apparently she hasn't shown up yet, and Alejandro is visibly annoyed.  Emyl stands up and convenes court in Celeste's place.  Alejandro starts by asking if there are any new arrivals to court.  Virginia speaks up and says the one that she knows about doesn't seem to be here yet.  Alejandro replies, "Yes, I'm not expecting him tonight."
Jake stands up at one of the tables set aside for the anarchs with Freddie and Carlos.  He starts to introduce Freddie.  The Tremere take one look at him and there's an immediate commotion.  Those at the Tremere table look livid.  Emyl stands and says, "If I may interject, you say your name is Freddie? Can you tell us where you come from?"  Freddie says that he's been around here and there.  Emyl says, "Yes, I mean specificly."  Freddie pauses and thinks for a moment before saying, "Boston, maybe?"  Emyl leans over to the Prince and whispers a few words.  Alejandro orders Freddie to stay behind after court so they can decide if he will be allowed to remain where he is.  Jake doesn't comment on the Prince's order and moves onto Carlos from San Bernadino, saying that Carlos is an old friend.  The Prince says "Mr. Redmond, if you would be so good to pass along Mr...." Carlos speaks up and says "It's just Carlos."  Alejandro continues, "Mr. Carlos's particulars after court."  Jake agrees to do so.
Alejandro announces the second order of business and asks the Castellon to stand.  He says, "I understand there have been some problems with the Followers of Set in the city."  Manny says yes.  The Prince turns to Dr. John and asks if he knows Jean Lafitte.  Dr. John says that he once knew a Lafitte in the Carribean, but he never came to New Orleans.  Manny aura reads Dr. John as he's speaking and picks up on deception.  He glances towards the others at the head table and several Primogen seem to be studying John intently as he talks.  John tries to spin things that the Castellon is imagining things or is just crazy.  Alejandro asks Dr John when was the last time he saw Lafitte and John replies about 65 years ago.  The prince looks over at the rest of the Setite table and asks, "Do the rest of you concure with Dr. John?" They look at each other and agree.  
Alejandro says, "Mr. McCry, please take care of the liar."
Colin stands up from his place at the Tremere table and raises a hand.  Blood rushes in torrents from Dr John's body through the air to Colin's hand.  In seconds, Dr. John is drained of blood while the rest of the Setites look on in shock.  When Dr. John's dessicated corpse collapses to the ground, Alejandro says that the rest of the Setites have three days to vacate the city.  Any Follower of Set still in the city after three days will be hunted to the death.  The Setites at the table scramble to leave.  When one of them tries to take Dr John's body, Alejandro snarls at him to leave it.  The Prince asks Manny if he needs the body, and he says yes.  The musicians stop playing long enough to drag the corpse back into the kitchen.  
Alejandro waits patiently until the musicians resume playing before going on.  Then he announces that he's making some changes to the city's leadership.  At this, Julian sits up straighter and adjusts his tie- sure that he's going to be announced as a harpy.  Alejandro appoints Lawrence Fitzroy to the position of sherrif and says that Harlequin will step down and become the Castellon instead.  Manny is surprized by the announcement, but accepts the position.  He leans towards Harlequin and asks softly if he has people following the Setites as they leave.  Harlequin says, of course, and adds that Isis has most of the addresses for their drug ring now.
The next thing the Prince announces is that Jean Lafitte is to be blood hunted along with Jacob Issacson.  Julian stands and asks to speak.  Alejandro pauses and says, "Yes, Mr...? I see you've found your tongue."  Julian ignores the barb and asks if maybe Jean Lafitte was impersonating the Swede during the original crimes as well.  Alejandro dismisses the notion, saying that the matter was investigated thoroughly and it is known what Jacob Issacson has done.  
Alejandro asks if there is any other business.  Colin stands and brings up the issue of Abundant Light Ministries.  Alejandro says that he will be appointing a task force to deal with them.  Aidan volunteers for the task force, but Alejandro says that he was thinking of people with financial influence for the team.
Simms speaks up next and says that someone targeted one of his havens earlier in the day.  Someone attacked the sanitation plant, set charges and blew it up.  Colin asks if he knows who it was, but Simms doesn't know.  He hopes that the sherrif can get to the bottom of it and says that he's worried about their herds disappearing.
Just as Alejandro says "No other business then..", Flavius appears in the middle of the gathering- looking like he just stepped out of thin air, and says, "I have a few points."  Alejandro seems really surprised that Flavius showed up.  Flavius has an obfuscation mask on to make him look like a kindly old man instead of his normal terrifying visage.  He goes on speaking, "Some items were taken from me.  Some precious coins were taken by Virginia and I want them back."  Alejandro tells him to take it up with Virginia and Flavius responds that he would if Virginia would stick her head out of the sand.  At this point, Alejandro glances at Virginia sitting with the rest of the primogen at the head table, and she's sitting absolutly still.  It seems that Flavius doesn't see her sitting there.  "I want my property returned and I want the Nosferatu punished.  I'm growing tired of this."  He steps closer to the Prince and the head table.
Colin whispers to the other Tremere, "Should we do anything?"  and Marie answers, "This is still Elysium."
Flavius continues, "I want the Nosferatu delivered to me, and I understand why you are reluctant to do so.  Those of you that are still alive tomorrow night... Hopefully, you'll come to the correct decision and surrender the Nosferatu to me."  As he finishes speaking, Fourteen hideous looking vampires in tattered clothes rush through the doors into the room- Flavius's childer.  Flavius says, "I tried to do this peaceably when I spoke to your senechal, but she was every bit as uncooperative as you."
Alejandro slams his fist on the table and says, "Elysium is revoked!"
The room explodes into motion.  Manny dives to the now empty Setite table and turns it on it's side for cover as he obfuscates himself.  Justin and Marie both pull jets of vitae from the baby nictuku vampires and Emyl focuses on Flavius as he tries to activate some thaumatergical ritual.  Flavius turns and stares Emyl in the eye as he shakes a finger in admonishment.  The two Giovanni flip their table over for cover as well.  The Gargoyles position themselves inbetween Flavius and the Prince.  Rebecca runs behind Harlequin at the Primogen table, trying to get someone else between her and danger.  Wilfred stands up and says, "You will cease this mindless prattle imediately!"  Flavius just smirks, seemingly immune to Wilfred's will.  Alejandro staggers a moment, and gets a confused look on his face.  He looks around wildly and then dives under the table for cover.  
The Gangrel have all grown wicked looking claws and all five charge Flavius who steps into a shadow and disapprears before any of the claws can land.  Aidan is at the Toreador table with  Marguerite and David- the others have already ran.  He asks if either of them have a knife and David responds, "This is Elysium.  Of course I have a knife."  He hands it to Aidan and says, "Consider it a freebee."  Colin focuses on one of the Nictucu and boils the blood in it's veins.  It screams as it falls to the ground.
One of the Nictuku slashes at Eve with a broken bottle.  He misses, but several others leap on the gathered Nosferatu and the anarch tables.  One of them grabs Julian and starts trying to crush him.  Julian bites the guy holding him, trying to make him let go.  Carlos, the new anarch, jumps on top of a table and keeps going, jumping from table to table trying to get to the Niktuku attacking Eve.  Two of the Nictuku gang up on Icepick and one of them bites and starts drinking from him.  The Nosferatu all vanish as one, and they include Eve, making her disappear as well.  When she vanishes, Carlos yells, "EVE!!!!"  Eve looks up when she hears her name, startled and not realizing that she's no longer visible to the attackers.  She summons a cloud of darkness to cover a corner of the room, and then moves to Danior, grabbing his hand and moving him and Dax back away from the tables, telling him "It's Eve" as she does.  
Virginia gets up from her seat and casually walks through the brawl.  None of Flavius's childer seem to notice her as she walks right out the front door.  Flavius steps out of a shadow behind Deeds and punches him so hard that he flies halfway across the room. Blood pours from Flavius's fingers and streams across the room to Colin.  Flavius turns and glares at the group of Tremere still gathered together.  Colin gives him the finger with both hands and steps back out of sight into Eve's shroud.  Albert, Justin and Damon form up ranks inbetween Colin and Flavius.  Damon tries to drop a chandelier on Flavius's head, but Flavius leaps across the room, landing on top of the Tremere table.  Another Nictuku rushes at Rafael and there is a loud crack as something in his body breaks when they hit the table next to Flavius.  While under cover of darkness, Colin obfuscates and moves across the room to the other side of the fight.  The Gangrel join the Tremere around Flavius trying to take him down.
Manny runs to Julian and slashes at the vampire holding him with his sword, but he still doesn't let go.  Carlos turns to one of the Nictuku and three chains of darkness burst from the shadows to grab it and tear it apart.  Dax appears to be fighting by himself in a corner, doing pretty well against three of the Nictuku.  Travers changes into a huge wolf and grabs ahold of the one crushing Julian.  Most of the guy's leg gets ripped off and he lets go of Julian as he falls.  Julian pulls out a hidden knife and slashes at the guy, beheading him.  Manny sees a ghostly figure appear in the room next to him- the Giovanni havn't been idle.  The ghost slowly makes it's way towards Flavius.  
Over by the anarch tables, Eris and Freddie are being overwhelmed.  Hannibal jumps on a Nictuku's back and sinks in his fangs.  One of the Nictuku pushes a shopping cart into Beagle and knocks him down.  David yells at Aidan to go use the fucking thing- and Aidan jumps into the fight with his borrowed knife.  He jumps on the guy with the shopping cart and stabs him, taking him out.  Julian goes to help Claire as Aidan moves onto the next one, slashing twice and dropping it.
Manny joins the fight against Flavius and he lashes out with tongue of the asp, but Flavius grabs his tongue, ignoring the damage it does to his hand.  Marie uses the distraction to steal some blood from Flavius.  Manny tries to drink some of Flavius's blood as well, but Flavius pulls on his tongue, yanking it from his body.  Manny colapses to the ground, falling into torpor.  Flavius summons his own shroud of darkness and pushes back Eve's cover with it looking for Colin.  He sees Eve instead and smiles, "They'll miss you."  Eve runs from the darkness, knowing that someone else is controlling it now and she pulls Danny with her.  She summons three shadow arms and sends them at Flavius, hoping to contain him.  One misses and grabs onto Charlie instead, but the other two latch on and start constricting. Unseen, the Giovanni's ghost reaches Flavius and tries to hold him in place as well.
Jack pulls a gun from his stomach and starts attacking with it.  Jane follows suit.  Several of the Malkavians surround one of the Nictuku and unleash Dementation.  He falls to the ground screaming and crying.  Colin uses Movement of the Mind to pull Manny's torpored body away from the fight to safety.  The group around Flavius keeps attacking.  Marie pulls more of his blood away from his body, and Damon tries to break his neck.  Julian tries to hit Flavius, but doesn't seem to do any damage.  Carlos sends his chains of darkness at Flavius as well.  Eve sees Carlos's chains and recognizes them as Remy's trademark.  Julian tries to grab ahold of Flavius.  Flavius tries to break Eve's shadows holding him, but Eve manages to hang on.
Colin tries to feed Manny some blood, but he's unable to wake him up from torpor.  He sees Annie at the Primogen table looking like she's trying not to frenzy.  He hollers for her to come help Lawrence.  Hannibal is trying to drain one of the Nictuku, but Nails pulls him off before he can go too far.  Aidan continues to carve his way through the Nictuku, killing another one.  Three of them decide to gang up on Aidan, and Icepick takes one of them out.  Aidan takes a hit- a barbeque fork to the kidney.  The other tries to hit Aidan over the head with a hubcap, but Aidan dodges out of the way.  Jake grabs one of them and pins him to the ground.  Jake breaks his neck as Aidan takes out the last one with his borrowed knife.  Aidan starts feeding from one of the bodies.  Colin snaps Annie out of her frenzy and tells her to help Lawrence.  She kneels down and feeds him some of her blood, but it doesn't seem to be working.  
Flavius summons his own shadow arms around Eve.  She summons more trying to counter his, but is only able to conjure two more to his four.  Colin fires up his levinbolt, and his body lights up with coruscating power.  Colin lets it loose on Flavius, and it manages to hit him some, but everone in contact with him gets electricuted as well.  Julian is shocked and goes flying backwards.  Carlos's shadows disintegrate, but two of Eve's shadows manage to hang on.  Flavius rips one of them apart and has one of his own shadows pull away the other, freeing himself.
==Thurs, April 17th continued...AKA "No Laughing Matter"==
Evangeline is surrounded by Flavius's newly summoned shadow tenticles.  They are about to strike when Colin uses Movement of the Mind to yank her across the room out of reach of the shadow's arms.  He drops her on the ground next to him.  Marie and Emyl both hit Flavius with Theft of Vitae and some of his blood streams into each of them.  Eve tries to pin him with her shadows again, but can't grab ahold of him.  Flavius breaks away from the surrounding Tremere and jumps into his shroud, taking cover.  Colin aims and puts a thamaturgical bonfire in the middle of Flavius's cloud of darkness.  Tarry tendrils of darkness writhe away from the flames before being burned away, but Flavius isn't exposed.  Instead, suffocating darkness floods the entire room as Flavius unleashes a shroud of night that covers the entire building.  Eve tries to push back with her own shadows, but the darkness is too powerful for her to counter.  Colin tries to navigate to a window, but is unable to find it in the dark.  Aidan decides to keep his head down and keeps drinking from his victim.
The opressive dark suddenly lifts, and Colin sees Flavius standing in the spot he just moved away from.  Colin slams him with Movement of the Mind, and "Flavius" goes flying back, through the bathroom door and slams against the wall.  (Eve is shocked when Colin suddenly attacks her, she yells, "Dammit Colin!" as she lands, but everyone sees and hears Flavius instead.)  Travers and Beagle run into the bathroom after "Flavius" with Harlequin close behind.  (Eve starts the process of turning into living shadow- yelling at her attackers to stop.)
Colin looks for Eve in the main room, but can't find her.  He goes to the "Prince" under the table and says, "You need to leave, sir."  He looks up at Colin and says "Yes!  Help me!".  Colin grabs his arm and escorts him to the door.  Marie looks around and several of the kindred are feeding on the downed Nictuku.  She orders everyone to leave the wretches- they'll be collected.  Aidan looks up from feeding.  Tinker is elbow deep in the stomach of one of the bodies and her face is covered in blood.  The Ventrue and Tremere seem to be staying to get things under control.  Several kindred take the opportunity to leave.  Aidan yells to Colin, "Where's Eve?" and Colin yells back, "I can't find her."  Aidan stands and starts looking for her.  Carlos is frantically looking around.  He runs to the kitchen and a couple anarchs follow him.  Aidan goes as well.
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Meanwhile, in the bathroom... Travers, still in wolf form lunges for Eve's throat, still thinking that she's Flavius, and tears her up pretty badly.  Beagle slashes at her back, but Eve twists and leaps out of the way, landing on the sink.  Harlequin lunges towards Eve with his sword, and she jumps away from the sink, landing on the other side of him.  She yells at them to stop attacking, that she's Eve, but Harlequin and the others don't listen.
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Outside, the gargoyles start breaking off table legs and staking the downed Nictuku, while the Tremere are putting out the fire.  Colin asks Angellica to take the "Prince" home.  She asks if he has the situation under control then.  Colin says, "We got this.  Take care of the Prince."  She smirks and grabs the Prince by the back of his collar before guiding him out of the room.
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Eve makes the transition to shadow form and hauls ass from the bathroom.  Harlequin shouts, "Dammit! He's getting away!"  Eve pauses in the main room for a moment and looks around.  She flies to Danior and circles around him twice before flying to Colin and doing the same, hoping that they will understand that it's her.  She flies out the front door, desperatly needing to hunt.  Danny and Colin look at each other and then take off out the door, following the shadow down the street.
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Jake, Carlos and Fishbone are in the kitchen with Aidan.  Carlos is freaking out, throwing pots and pans and yelling, "WHERE IS SHE?".  Jake says, "Dude, she's OK."  Aidan is watching Carlos with interest, wondering how he knows Eve and why he's so upset.  Aidan tells Carlos to calm down.  Carlos turns on him and yells, "Don't tell me to fucking calm down you jackass!"  Aidan says, "How do you know Eve?"  Carlos just says, "Fuck off" and starts walking away.  Aidan yells, "I'm talking to you, asshole!"  Carlos stops and takes an uneeded deep breath, turns and walks out the door.  
Aidan leaves the kitchen and sees that the real Alejandro has arrived.  Alejandro looks at his dead musicians ans shakes his head, "What a waste."  Marisol is next to him, promising him the security tapes of the incident.  Alejandro looks at Emyl and says, "Mr. Darling, take care of the bodies."  Emyl says, "Yes, sir." and the Tremere start gathering up the Nictuku bodies.  
Aidan says, "So he got away?"  Harlequin says, "Yes.  He turned to shadow and escaped from the bathroom."  Travers, standing nearby, rubs his mouth and mutters, "He tasted like..." He pauses and growls a bit before continuing, "I'm gonna get him."
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Outside, Colin and Danny are following Eve's shadow as she moves down the street.  They see a woman sitting at a bus stop.  Eve's shadow pauses and looms over the woman, ready to strike before wheeling away and streaking towards an alley.  Eve hears a dog barking in the alley and kills it, draining its blood pretty quickly.  When she drops the dog's body, she hears Danny's voice talking to her- "Are you ok now?  Are you in control."  Eve nods her head a bit and says "I think so."  He asks, "Will you kill anything you feed from?"  She says, "I think I'm ok.  I didn't attack the woman."  Danny nods and makes a call to one of his cousins, asking him to come get him.  Colin puts his hand on Danny's shoulder and says "Looks like you got this, I'm going to head back."  Eve sits in the alley, absently petting the dead dog beside her as they wait.
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Colin gets back to the restaraunt and tells them that Eve's okay.  Alejandro looks up and says, "Am I okay?"  Colin looks at him and says, "Yes.  Angellica took... you... home."  Alejandro nods.  Colin looks around and sees that the bodies of the Nictuku are gone now and Bran is on the phone using his contacts to keep the news crews away. The anarchs seem to have all left as well.  Colin goes and sits down next to Aidan.  Alejandro starts speaking to those that are there, issuing his orders, "Elysium will be closed until repairs are done.  If you see Flavius, do not engage.  Contact the sherriff or the appointed deputies."  Harlequin speaks up and says to contact him, if people are unable to get Lawrence.  The Prince continues, "There is a hunt for Flavius, don't offer him aide or shelter."  Aidan says, "I'll say this for New Orleans, it never gets dull."  Alejandro says, "I'd kill for dull.  Good job to everyone for subduing this methusela."  
Aidan turns to Colin and says, "So where's Eve?"  Colin says, "Danior is helping her.  She ate a dog.  I think she's hungry."  They talk about Lawrence.  Annie took him from the building and Julian went with her to keep an eye on him.  Aidan says he needs to go home and change.  They get up to go, and Colin calls Eve's phone.  The hear her phone ringing under one of the tables.  He looks and finds her purse with her phone in it.  He pulls out one of her credit cards and says, "Well, tonight's on Eve."  As they decide what to do with the rest of the night, Aidan asks about Colin's paranormal team.  Colin calls one of the guys and they chat a bit- Colin asks about any new leads and John tells him they looked into a posession, but she was just an epileptic.  He says later they're gonna play some records backwards to see what happens.  Colin tells him to try Jayne Jonestown.  Colin hangs up and then asks Aidan if he wants to help kidnap his possessed girlfriend and if he knows where they can get some cloroform.  Aidan says he'll make some calls.
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In the alley down the street, a Ford truck pulls up and Danior's cousin, Ricardo is driving.  Danny helps Eve in the car, and Danny asks Ricardo to drive them back to the park.  Danny takes Eve to Ricardo's trailer and tells her not to eat him while he's gone.  Ricardo tries to chat while Danny goes out.  He asks Eve her name and tells her that she's pretty.  Danny comes back to the trailer with two sets of handcuffs.  He goes into the kitchen, looks at the chairs and shakes his head.  He says, "Lets try the bathroom."
Danny brings Eve to the bathroom and chains her to the pipes under the sink with both sets of cuffs.  He looks at his handywork a moment and nods.  "That should slow you down a bit if you lose control."  He leaves the house again and comes back awhile later with Rawnea, who's flirting and laughing with him.  She's surprised when she see's Eve and says to Danny, "I thought this was for you."  Danny says, "It is for me.  This is my friend, Evangeline."  Rawnea says, "Why is she locked up?"  "Oh, that's so she doesn't murder you."  Her eyes widen at that, but she gives Eve her wrist and Eve starts drinking her blood.
Eve manages to maintain control through the hunger and only takes a little.  After a little while, she stops drinking and is thinking about maybe taking a little more, but Danny shakes his head no.  Rawnea gets up and kisses Eve on the forhead before she leaves, saying, "Give me a call sometime."  After she's gone, Danny teases Eve about the cuffs for a little bit, saying he might not let her go.  He eventually undoes the restraints and they go back to his vardo in the woods.  Danny mentions that he didn't see Flavius attack her, and she tells him about the others thinking she was Flavius before she got away.  He says, "Ah, illusions."  
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Aidan gets a line on some chloroform, but it will take a day or so for him to get it.  Colin decides to forget it, and says let's hit a dentist office for the nitrous.  They find a dentist office in a strip mall- Happy Teeth.  Aidan picks the lock on the door and they go in.  Colin electricutes the security system before the alarm goes off.  Aidan gets text from one of his contacts about a skyline he wants to sell- he doesn't bite yet, and looks for the recording system for the security cameras while Colin goes to look for the nitrous.  Aidan rips the recorder right out of the wall, and moves on, looking for a safe.  He finds one in an office and rips that out of the wall too.  Colin finds three tanks of nitrous and grabs them along with some hoses and masks.  Aidan snatches some dental tools as well and they leave.  Colin drives to Annabelle's apartment.  On the way Aidan gets a text from his guy that one of his rivals in street racing offered 18g for the car.  Aidan can't let his rival get the car even if he wasn't interested at first, so he texts back, offering 19g.  The guy says "Sold!".   
They get to Annabelle's apartment and Colin takes one of the tanks, obfuscates, and then goes up to Annabelle's front door.  He sets up the tank to pump gas into the apartment under the door.  Aidan takes another tank and tries to sneak up the fire escape to Annabelle's window.  Aidan's phone rings while he's on the fire escape, and he fumbles to answer it quickly before someone hears him.  It's his guy telling him he can pick up the car anytime.  He says that Sara wants to ride with him in his next race.  Aidan says, "Who?".  "Sara.  The red head with the plaid skirt and the fuck-me pumps."  Aidan pauses for a moment and says, "No!  And don't call me anymore!"  He finally turns off his phone.  
Around front, Colin finishes setting up his canister and then obfuscates again.  He hears a dog in the next door apartment start barking furiously- sounds like an angry pomeranian.  Colin draws a devil's trap on the ground infront of Annabelle's door.  After a moment the next door opens up and an old lady steps out with a little dog on a leash. The dog is barking and lunging at Colin, but the woman doesn't notice him.  She pulls the dog along the hallway- stops and shakes her head when she sees the pentagram drawn on the ground, and then moves on.  Colin tries to text Aidan, but doesn't get a response.  He goes into the apartment the woman just left, and obfuscates when he hears a man call out to his wife.  Colin goes to the window and eases it open.  He crawls out to the fire escape and makes his way to Aidan.  "Can you see?"  Aidan says, "It's dark dude.  The window's locked."  
Colin peers inside with auspex and doesn't see anything moving.  He uses movement of the mind to unlock the window and goes inside. Aidan follows him in, and they look around.  Colin's phone rings- it's Marie.  He quickly silences it and puts it in his pocket.  Still no movement in the house.  He goes to the bedroom and finds Annabelle passed out on the bed with the TV on.  Aidan goes to the front door to scout the way, and peeks outside.  He sees the old lady from next door complaining to a guy in an overcoat about the pentagram infront of Annabelle's apartment and all the weird smells. The guy goes to the door and knocks.  Aidan opens the door and says, "Can I help you?".  "Is Ms. McKaid here?"  "She's asleep."  "Can I talk to her?"  "You want to come in?"  
Aidan moves aside, and they guy comes in and says, "What's that smell?  I warned her the last time."  Aidan tells him it's just incense.  He asks who Aidan is, and Aidan gives him the name Calvin.  Aidan chats with him for a bit, waiting for the gas in the apartment to affect him.  Eventually, the guy passes out and Aidan feeds from him before they pack up Annabelle and leave, going down the fire escape.  Colin puts Annabelle in the back seat and he puts a mask over her face and turns on the gas from the second canister to keep her unconcious.  Aidan watches over her, and checks her pulse.  Colin pulls out his phone and calls Marie back as he drives.  She gives him a list of items that she wants him to get for a ritual, and he tells her about Annabelle and asks if she has a place he can put her until they can get Henri to do the exorcism.  She tells him to bring Annabelle to her voodoo shop, but to get the list first.  Colin calls Roman, who was sleeping, to find out where to find the things on the list.  Roman tells him to go to Smart.
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Danny is playing some soft music in the vardo.  Eve asks him if he thinks that Flavius is still at the restaraunt.  He says, "Maybe.  Hopefully he didn't follow us."  Danny tells her he has trip wires set up with bells through the woods and some people are on the rooftops, keeping watch with rifles.  She asks if he's hungry and he says, "Are you offering?"  He smiles, and goes to order a pizza.  After awhile a confused delivery guy arrives, and Eve feeds from him while Danny samples the pizza.  Eve asks how he's doing that and he replies that it's ancient gypsy magic.  She looks at him and says, "You're gonna have to puke aren't you?"  He just grins.
Annie and Julian are driving in her lincoln towne car.  Lawrence is in the backseat, still in torpor.  Annie asks Julian where he wants her to take them, and Julian tries to think of a place to go.  They stop behind a car at a red light.  The light turns green, and the car ahead of them doesn't move.  Annie honks and the guy driving flips her off before driving away.  She gets pissed and starts cursing.  Julian tries to calm her down, worried that she might frenzy right there in the car.  Annie says she knows where to take him, and drives to the sheriff's office.  She lets Julian in and they bring Lawrence inside.  Julian smooth talks Annie for a bit, trying to impress and make friends.  They end up getting cozy together on the couch, leaving Lawrence stretched out on the floor.
Colin and Aidan pull into the Smart parking lot.  Aidan stays in the car with the unconcious Annabelle while Colin goes inside with his list.  He finds an earthenware bowl, red wine and distilled water pretty quickly, but is unable to locate anything resembling a slab of marble.  He finds an employee who tells him that they sell uncut grave markers made of marble in the lawn and garden section.  Colin says he'll take two.  He pays the bill and goes back out to the car.
They drive to Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo.  The door chimes rattle as they go inside- Colin carries Annabelle in his arms while Aidan follows with a nitrous tank.  The man behind the counter, Pierre asks if he can help them.  Colin says he's there to see Marie.  Pierre says, "You do know that she's been dead for a long time right?"  Colin sighs and asks to go in the backroom.  Pierre asks if the woman is okay.  Colin says she's just tired.  Pierre messes with them for a few more minutes before directing them into the backroom.  
When they duck behind the curtain, they see Marie there waiting.  Colin tells her he has her stuff in the car.  She citchats with Aidan for a bit, asking about his racing.  She asks if he wins more than he loses and Aidan replies that he does.  She says she has something for him and rummages around until she finds a pouch stuffed with herbs.  She gives it to him and tells him that it will help him in his races if he drops it in the glove box.  Aidan tells her she's generous and asks if it is for free.  She scoffs, "Of course not.  I'd like to ask a favor sometime."  Aidan agrees to the deal.  Marie inspects the items Colin brings inside.  Colin asks if it will be okay to leave Annabelle there.  Marie says that she will have Henri come tomorrow night.  Colin is worried about Annabelle wakeing up, and Marie assures him that won't happen.  Colin is obviously worried about leaving her with Marie, but eventually agrees and leaves the store.
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Eve decides she needs to get moving and calls Mike from Danny's vardo.  She instructs him to bring her a change of clothes and pick her up from Danny's trailer.  Mike arrives awhile later and she says goodnight to Danny- she has Mike drive her back to the Bistro so she can find her phone and see what happened after she left.  The place is closed down when they arrive and she leaves Mike in the car so she can go check and see if anyone is still there.  She goes to the front door and knocks.  No one answers, so she goes around to the back alley, thinking that someone should be on guard.  
There are two homeless guys on the ground sleeping in the alley and a third is drinking a bottle of hennessy.  The old guy says hello to her and asks what she's doing there.  She's not sure if these are guards for the elysium or not, so she says she left something in the building earlier and needs to get it.  "You want to go inside?"  She says yes.  He says, "I can help you do that.  What did you leave?"  She says her phone.  She asks him if he saw people leaving there earlier, and he says, "There were a lot of people leaving earlier."  That reassures her that he's a guard or something until he goes up to the back door and breaks the window.  She yells at him to not do that, but it's too late.
He knocks out the window, reaches inside and unlocks the door.  He opens it up and says, "After you, pretty one." She winces at the broken window and then steps closer to look inside, to see if she can see anyone coming after all the noise.  She decides to leave just as the old guy puts his arm around her shoulder.  She immediately tries to remove his hand, but it doesn't budge despite her strength.  His other arm curls around her stomach and she feels long talons running along her body.  Her heart sinks as she realizes that Flavius never left after all.  She focuses on Colin in a panic, trying to summon him as Flavius forces her inside the door.  She tries to pull away from him and run, but he's too strong and his grip on her doesn't budge as his teeth close in on her neck and he begins to drink.  She falls into torpor as he drains her body of vitae.
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Colin gets a sudden compulsion to go find Eve, but it fades almost as soon as it starts. He gets worried and calls Danior, but Danny tells him that Eve took off awhile ago with Mike.  Colin hangs up and calls the Factory.  He tries to get Mike's number, but they refuse to give it to him.  He explains that he needs to talk to Eve, but they still refuse to help.  He hangs up and tells Aidan what's going on.  Aidan is unconcerned and tells him that Eve summoned him before.  Colin is still worried though, and calls Danny back.  He tells Danny that they need to look for Eve, she's probably in trouble.  Colin decides he needs to try to scry for Eve, so he and Aidan head for his boat where he keeps his equipment and ritual notes.
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Julian gets a phone call from Eve saying that he needs to come to the Factory first thing the next night so she can show him something.  She hangs up before he can ask any questions.  Colin and then Aidan get the same phone call.  Colin is suspicious at first, but decides to let it go and see what she wants the next evening.  He and Aidan part ways, each going to their own haven for the day.
==Friday, April 18th...aka "Flavius Strikes Back!"==
Adam is deep in torpor and dreaming of a red star that gets closer and closer when he wakes up to find Annie feeding him blood from her wrist.  He looks around confused, he doesn't have any notes left behind from any of the others and doesn't know where he is or how he got there.  Julian is there as well, and Julian tells him about court the night before.  Adam finds out that he's now the sheriff, and they are sitting in the sheriff's office.  Julian tells him about Flavius's attack on court and how he landed in torpor.  He also mentions that Lawrence made him his first deputy.  Adam doesn't question it and then asks about the rest of the Regulators and Julian tells him about the call from Evangeline to meet at the Factory first thing tonight.  Annie says she's taking off and tosses Adam the keys to the sheriff's office.  Adam decides to go back to Muriel's Bistro to look for his car before heading to the Factory.  He checks his phone and finds a message from Bobby saying that he cracked the coded messages from Carter's phone- "The package is on the way.  Put it with the others." Adam and Julian share a cab and head out to the restaurant.
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Colin wakes up on his boat.  He sets about doing his nightly rituals and then drives out to Marie's voodoo shop to check on Annabelle.  He calls Aidan on the way and tells him to let him know what's going on if he heads out to the Factory.  Aidan hunts and then heads back to the Bistro to pick up his bike.
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Adam doesn't see his car parked by Muriel's Bistro, so he calls the number on the towing sign to see if the car was taken away.  He talks to a guy on the line that says a sedan and a motorcycle were picked up the night before.  He says that the sedan was taken by the police after he reported the bullet holes in the trunk.  Adam hangs up and heads out to Bayou Towing along with Julian.  There are two people in the office- Ernie and Delores.  Adam flashes his stolen police badge and tells them he's looking for a stolen car that was picked up.  Ernie tells him that the police took it to their impound lot earlier in the day.  Adam asks for the make/model and liscense number and Ernie gives him the information.  Ernie also tells him that Robert Carter signed for the car when it was taken in.  Adam looks outside and sees a motorcycle and a pick up truck that were also towed the night before.  He looks in the pick up and finds out that it's registered to John Jones.  He goes and dominates Ernie to go take a break and forget he was ever there.  He puts the motorcycle in the back of the pick up and hot wires the truck.  He and Julian drive away, heading for the Factory.
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Colin drives up to Marie's shop.  She and Henri are both there when Colin arrives.  Annabelle is awake and tied to a chair in the back room.  A devil's trap was drawn on the floor under the chair.  Colin asks how's she been?  Marie replies that she has quite the mouth.  Annabelle looks at Colin and spits, "What the hell is this?  Let me out of here!" Colin asks if she's been harmed.  Marie rolls her eyes and says,"Your little girlfriend is okay." Colin is ready to go, and says "Let's get this started."  Henri informs him that he needs to fast for 36 hours before he can begin the exorcism.  Colin is pissed that Henri hasn't started the fasting already, and Henri makes excuses- saying that he had no idea when Colin would have the girl ready.  Marie tells Colin that Henri is experienced in these matters and knows best how to proceed.  Colin tells them to call him when it gets started and he leaves the shop.
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Aidan tracks down the name of the man he killed in the park three nights ago.  His name is Jon Wong and he's still listed as missing.  He was an art major at the university.  Aidan decides to head out to the Factory after his research, and gets a phone call from Colin on his way there.  Colin complains about the timing for the rituals and says that he's heading to the Factory as well.  They complain about Eve a bit and arrange to meet at the club.
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Adam and Julian are the first to arrive at the Factory.  A band called Rawhead Rex is playing tonight and the place is packed since it's a Friday night.  Adam obfuscates in the parking lot and follows Julian as he heads inside.  Julian heads to the VIP section and finds Danior waiting.  Danny asks if he's seen Eve tonight and tells Julian that he got a phone call from Colin saying that Eve was in trouble and then a phone call from Eve saying to meet at the Factory.  Julian says that he got the same call from Eve.  Down on the main floor, Adam scans the crowd looking for vamp auras.  He doesn't see any vampires in the crowd, but he catches just a faint glimpse of something coming from behind the stage curtain.  
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Aidan arrives at the Factory and goes inside.  He sees Aaron and goes to ask him about Eve.  Aaron tells him that she hasn't come in tonight and that everyone's looking for her.  Aidan says that he'll wait upstairs and heads for the VIP area.
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Adam gets behind the curtain on the stage where it's pretty dark.  He doesn't see anyone, but he does smell blood.  He looks up and sees a foot dangling above him.  He peers in the dark and makes out a couple of bodies hanging above.  At that moment the curtain separating him from the band comes loose and falls to the floor and Adam sees twelve bodies wired together in a paperdoll chain across the wall at the back of the stage.  Each girl has been eviserated and nailed to the wall and Eve is hanging right in the middle.  The people in the crowd seem confused at first, but then the band stops playing when they notice the carnage and it becomes obvious that it's not part of the show.  People in the crowd start to panic- some start to run, some are screaming and some start snapping pictures.  Adam finds the smoke machine and turns it on in an effort to screen the bodies from the patrons.  
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Colin arrives to find people running out of the building in a panic.  He pushes his way in.  Danny and Julian hear the commotion and go downstairs to see what's causing it.  They see the bodies with Eve and move to try to contain the situation.  Colin scans the crowd for vampires as Julian goes to the stage to turn off the lights.  The stage is filling up with smoke, furthur obscuring the view.  Adam and Aidan try to figure out how to get the bodies down.  Aidan climbs up and sets to work.  Adam recognizes one of the other bodies as Celeste, the Senechal and the Prince's childe, and it's obvious that she's met final death instead of being torpored.
Colin calls Leah to get a handle on the situation.  He tells her that he's found Eve's and Celeste's bodies.  Leah asks if the sheriff has been informed, and Colin tells her he called her first and they need to keep this out of the public eye.  She says that she'll make some calls and Colin says that he'll look for the sheriff.  When Colin hangs up he goes to talk to the others.  He says "We need to canvas the area to make sure nothing else is here.  Danior can take care of Eve.  He can be the dog"  Danny glares at Colin.  Julian goes to intercept the band before they decide to leave.  Danny climbs up and cuts Eve free from the other bodies.  He lays her on the ground before discreetly feeding her a little of his blood, hoping that it's able to wake her up.
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Blood trickles down Eve's throat and she hears Danny's voice talking softly, "Don't panic, there's people around."  Her eyes flutter open and he continues, "Your stomach is open and you're naked."  She looks and sees that she's lying on the stage of her club.  He says "What happened?"  and she whispers, "I went to go get my phone and he was there."  Danny says, "He must have your phone."  He takes off his coat and covers her body with it.  Aaron rushes over to Eve and asks if she needs his blood.  She only hesitates for a moment before nodding.  Aaron offers his wrist and she drinks.  Colin uses a little thaumatergy to keep Eve centered so she doesn't frenzy from hunger while she feeds.
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Aidan goes to help Julian with crowd control, turning on his Presence and herding people away from the stage and towards the bar while offering free drinks.  He calls Bran and tells him the situation.  Bran wants the security tapes and tells Aidan to get a good qualitly picture or video of the bodies.  Aidan hangs up and looks for Aaron and finds him with Eve and Danny.  He asks Aaron if they have a video camera and he goes and brings one back for him to use.  Aidan goes over to the other bodies and takes video footage for Bran.  When he's done, he asks Colin to borrow his car so he can get the video to Bran right away.  Colin grumbles for a moment and then tosses Aidan the keys.  Eve asks Danny to bring her upstairs so he carefully picks her up and carries her out of sight.  Aaron follows them up to the office.
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Adam gets a call from Alejandro telling him he needs to get to the Factory right away- "There's a situation. The senechal has been killed and Evangeline has been harmed."  Adam asks who's the senechal and the Prince responds, "My childe, Celeste."  Adam tells him that he's arriving on the scene now and it seems like they are trying to get the situation under control.  The prince tells him that Eris of the Anarchs and Rebecca of Clan Ventrue were casualties of the attack on Elysium the night before.  Adam hangs up and he and Colin head towards the band members and crew to start changing memories.  Adam uses Dominate to make the band remember something about the roadies setting up a special surprise for tonight's show.  Meanwhile Colin sets up the crew to remember setting up manequins and a really bad job of special effects in a gruesome display for the band.  
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Aidan gets to Bran's apartment in record time.  When Bran answers the door, he tells Aidan to remind him of what they talked about the last time they met.  Aidan pauses for a moment to think, and then says it was about a band and Bran says, "Good, it's you."  He takes the camera from Aidan, and immediatly plays it back as he goes back inside.  Aidan heads out to the car and drives back to the Factory.
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Eve, Danny and Aaron start looking at the security tapes for the club.  Julian goes to the office and tells Eve about the phone calls all of them got from her last night.  He shows her the phone number and asks if she knows it.  She doesn't but Aaron tells him that it's the number for one of the phones behind the bar downstairs.  Colin walks in the office with Adam and asks Eve if she minds if he uses Spirit's Touch on her to try to get some information about what happened.  She tells him it's ok, and he puts a hand on her shoulder and concentrates.  Colin gets an image of Flavius holding Eve's unconcious body in his arms, and he watches as Flavius tenderly caresses her face before ripping open her stomach with his talons.  The image changes and he sees Flavius spiderclimbing up and down the wall downstairs, nailing bodies to the wall and wiring them together.  
The image shatters as everyone in the room hears a muffled phone ringing.  They realize it's coming from Eve, and she pulls a phone from her stomach.  She turns the speaker phone on, but stays silent, knowing who must be on the other line.  Flavius's voice comes over the speaker, "Hello, Evangeline."  She doesn't answer, so Colin says,"Hello." Flavius says, "Ah, the Regulators."  Colin says, "You missed the show."  Flavius says, "I trust you enjoyed it.  Evangeline, I need you to tell your friend that I need my coins very soon."  Eve is too scared to respond to him, so Colin keeps talking shit to Flavius until he says, "And I'm going to take the head of your Tremere friend."  Adam tries to listen for background noises on Flavius's end, and thinks that he hears a bus station.  Colin says, "How will we find you?"  Flavius says, "I will find you."  and he hangs up the phone.  
Harlequin walks in the office, dressed as a police officer wearing a motorcycle helmet and walks up to Adam.  He says, "Do you need anything, Sheriff?"  Adam says, "The keys to the office."  Harlequin reaches in his pocket and tosses over a keyring.  He says, "We need to control the situation.  Your vendetta with the Setites must wait.  I'm going to recommend to the Prince that he doesn't make any public appearences."  
While Harlequin is talking to Adam, Eve picks up the phone and makes a call to Virginia.  She tells her about Flavius's newest visit and about his ultimatum.  Virginia asks, "Are they safe?"  Eve sighs and says she hasn't had a chance to check yet.  Colin, Adam and most likely Harlequin are listening in on the call with Auspex, but Eve is too flustered to remember they can do that.  Virginia offers protection to Eve, saying she can go to ground with them, but Eve says what about everyone else and says that's she's with her coterie now.  Virginia points out that they haven't protected her so far, and then says she'll call when they decide what they're going to do.  She pauses and then says that a mage named Sam Boucher has one of the coins and it might distract Flavius for awhile if he were to find out.  Eve hangs up the phone, confused about what to do.
Colin asks about the coins and Adam tells him what he knows- 30 pieces of silver that were given to Judas Iscariot and how the coins are said to posses powers.  Colin looks at Eve and asks her if she knows where any are.  She tells them that Virginia told her that Sam Boucher has one, leaving out mentioning the coins that Virginia entrusted to her.  Colin pulls out her phone that he picked up the other night and tosses it to her.  He sends her a text saying, if they're safe, it might be good to move them- letting her know that she's not fooling him. Aidan arrives from Bran's and Colin asks him if he has his bowling tonight.  Aidan leaves to do his thing when he sees that others seem to have the situation under control.  Alejandro sends some of his people to help with securing the building and Eve tells Aaron to work with them.  Eve gives Harlequin shit for attacking her last night- "Maybe before you try to kill someone that tells you she's Evangeline, you can take a look in the bathroom mirror to see if there's a fucking reflection first." Harlequin pauses for a moment and then says, "I'll take it under advisement."
Colin leaves after it looks like things are under control.  Adam stays with the police to monitor the situation. Julian tries to take Celeste's body when he goes, but Harlequin stops him.  As soon as the others leave the office, Eve gets up and goes to the safe to check on the coins.  They are missing and she sends a text to Virginia to tell her the coins are gone.  Virginia doesn't respond.  Danny helps her out of the office and she feeds from the other bodies before he takes her home.  He tells her "You need to stop getting hurt."  She replies, "It wasn't the plan, I just wanted my phone."
==Friday April 18th continued....==
When Julian leaves the Factory he decides to go to the Twilight Club to check on the gossip.  The lights are out and the door is locked when he arrives.  Julian calls Adam to let him know about it being locked up.  Adam says he doesn't know Marisol's phone number to ask her about it.  Julian asks if Adam has anything going on and Adam says that he's about to leave the Factory and head over to the office.  Julian says that he'll meet him there.
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Evangeline is at her haven with Danior when she remembers that Mike was waiting for her in the car when Flavius abducted her last night.  She calls Mike's phone and gets his voice mail.  She checks in with Aaron again, and finds out that no one has seen Mike since last night.  She tells Aaron to keep working with the Prince's guys and to call her if he hears from Mike.  She tells Gloria to start calling the hospitals and morgues while she cleans up.
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Colin is at the Abbey finishing up some research.  He calls Eve to find out what she's doing and she tells him that she's looking for her ghoul, Mike.  Colin says he'll come over.  He packs a bag with supplies and heads over to Eve's haven.
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Adam drives his new pickup back to his new office.  Julian is there waiting for him when he arrives.  He looks around the office and finds a list of phone numbers for most of the kindred in the city.  He also finds a list of ghouls- a registry for domain disputes.  He peruses the files and gives Julian all the harpy's phone numbers.  Julian immediatly pounces on Marisol's number and calls her up.  When she answers, he asks why the Twilight Club is closed.  She says that it didn't seem wise to open it with Flavius on the loose.  Julian tells her, "Well, if you're gonna close your doors, I'm gonna open mine."  He invites her to join in, but she says she can't since she's getting her nails done.  Julian asks if she wants to hang out at the Factory and she just hangs up on him.  
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Aidan gets to the bowling alley in time for Rock 'n Bowl.  He goes and chats up Eddie while they get set up for the game.  He asks what Eddie does for a living and acts really interested in his life, remembering seeing Connie at the police scene after the incident with "The Swede" and trying to feel them out for answers.  Eddie tells him that he's a cab driver from New York and says they moved to New Orleans because they have family here.  Aidan tells him they should hang out more and asks what he does for fun.  Eddie tells him that he's going to the Illumitarium next month- it's a convention for people interested in conspiracy theories and the paranormal.  Aidan tells him that he's gotten into paranormal investigations with a friend.  Eddie takes his turn to bowl and gets a total gutterball.  He seems really distracted.  Aidan takes his turn, and then they start talking cars.  Connie takes interest in the conversation and steers it more towards Aidan.  She asks him about racing cars and Aidan tells her he races motocycles.  She asks where he's from and he tells her Ohio.  He says he's traveled quite a bit and he likes New Orleans.  Connie says that the city's been getting pretty dark lately.  She says that the police were at the Factory tonight and found all those bodies.  Aidan plays dumb and tells her that he hadn't heard about it.  She says, "Yeah, I got a friend in the news room."
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Colin arrives at Eve's mansion and security lets him on the property.  Gloria lets him in the house and brings him to Eve and Danny.  Eve asks Gloria what she's found out and she says that she hasn't found Mike yet.  Colin decides to scry for Mike and he goes to the bathroom to fill a sink with water.  Using a worn Cheap Trick cassette tape that Eve manages to scrounge up, Colin focuses on Mike.  He see's an image of the train tracks between the Factory and the river.  The image zooms in and he sees Mike with a rag shoved in his mouth.  He's been bound to the spikes of the train tracks in the rail yard.  Colin relayes what he sees to the others.  Eve wants to leave immediately- afraid for Mike's life, "Let's go!"
Colin says, "Now?"
She yells, "YES NOW!"
"Is Danior coming?"
Danny says, "Yes!"
"Fuck."  Colin pauses a moment, "Only two seats in the car though."
"Oh Well,"  Danny goes to snag the car keys from Colin's hand, "You can stay here then."
Colin snatches the keys away from Danny and fixes him with a glare.  Danny is unfazed and he tells Eve that she can sit on his lap.  They leave the house and pile in the car.  Danny notices the safe from the dentist office still sitting in the back of the car.  He says, "You seem to have some junk in your trunk."  Colin says, "That's how I like it."  and he starts up the car, driving fast towards the Factory.  He pulls out his phone and sends Aidan a text telling him where they're going and why.  They get to the railyard and leave the car to start searching for Mike.  They hear a pack of dogs barking in the distance, and when they get closer, they see that Mike is unmoving on the ground and surrounded by the dogs.  Eve manipulates the shadows around the dogs and four of them run away in terror.  Colin sends one of the dogs flying with thaumatergy and Danny kicks another in the face while Eve tries to get to Mike.  Of the 2 left, one dog tries to bite Danny and the other attacks Eve.  A murder of crows flies in and surrounds Colin, pecking and slashing at him.  Eve creates a small shroud of darkness around her and Mike, leaving a breathing space where Mike is lying on the ground.  Colin fires up his levinbolt, filling his body with electricity.  He shocks the birds around him, but whoever is controlling them is strong enough that they don't flee.  Danny grabs the dog attacking him and bites it, swiftly draining it of blood.  The birds close in around Colin, but are unable to hurt him.  Eve tries to hit the last dog, but misses in the darkness, her fist slamming into the wooden railroad tie and splintering it.  She hits again, and the dog collapses to the ground.  She runs to Mike.
Seven inky black Arms of the Abyss arise around Colin and the birds.  The birds attack Colin again, but his body absorbs the damage.  Colin releases the electricity from his body into the cloud of birds and the they fall to the ground dead.  He sees the shadow arms about to close in on him and he flies up into the air.  He uses Lure of Flames and tosses a fireball into the shadows and they writhe as they die.  Eve hears the psychic screams as the arms burn and die.  She breaks the bonds holding Mike and ungags him.  He's still awake and tells her what happened- "Something jumped me.  Don't know what happened.  It was shadows like you use."  Eve tells him, "He got me too.  Don't worry, we're getting out of here."  She helps him to his feet and Danny helps to carry him.  It looks like Mike is hurt pretty badly and he has at least one broken ankle.  Eve floods the entire railyard with darkness and grabs Danny's hand to guide him as they make a run for it.
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In the sheriff's office, Adam is going through files with Julian.  He goes outside to the truck and takes the motorcycle out of the back, telling Julian, "Let's go take care of the Setite's gang of thugs."  Julian is all for it.  They pack up a duffle bag with ammo, several pairs of handcuffs, and radios.  They get in the pickup and Adam drives to the gangland house in the slums- technically in werewolf territory.  They pull up at the curb outside the house- there are about three guys standing around in the yard.  Adam scans with Auspex and sees only mortals around- they have distrustful auras.  Adam gets out of the truck, walks up to the first guy and tells him to go to sleep, using dominate.  The guy stares at him and says, "Who the fuck are you- just a minute..." He stumbles to the porch, sits down and falls asleep.  The other men are surprised, and one of them punches Adam in the gut.  Adam just stands there and takes it- doesn't even flinch.  Julian walks up behind the guy that punched Adam and pistol whips him on the back of the head.  The guy collapses to the ground, unconcious.  The third guy runs into the house as Julian puts cuffs on the unconcious guy.  Adam puts cuffs on the sleeping guy on the porch and they load both of them into the back of the pickup.
Adam and Julian head towards the house and gunfire errupts from the windows.  Julian gets tagged in the shoulder and Adam gets hit by a bullet as well.  Adam turns on his Presence and yells towards the house, "Put down your weapons and come out of the house!"  Someone inside yells back, "Fuck you, Porky!"  Adam yells at Julian to cover the back door and runs up the porch to the front door.  He kicks it open and enters the house.  There are five people inside.  Adam yells, "Down on the ground and hands on your heads!"  Two of them unload on Adam as the others go for their guns.  
Julian makes his way to the back of the house and goes in through a window.  He hears a woman screaming and when he gets inside he sees her throwing some plastic baggies inside her purse.  He dominates her to sleep and she curls up on the floor to obey.  Julian cuffs her hands before drawing his sword and heading deeper into the house.
Back in front, Adam punches one of the guys and knocks him out.  Three others start shooting at him, but they are too freaked out to aim well, and no one manages to hit him.  Adam steps up to the next guy and punches twice, but he misses.  He punches a third time, and this time he connects sending the thug sprawling to the ground. Adam moves with superhuman speed, knocking them unconcious before they know what hit them.  The last guy turns to run, and dodges right into Julian, who raps him on the head with the hilt of his sword, dropping him to the floor.  Adam and Julian cuff everyone and gather up all the guns and drugs.  Adam thoughtfully covers the girl with a shirt before loading her and the others into the back of the pick up truck.  Adam covers the bodies with a tarp and they drive back to the sheriff's office.
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Aidan ends up having a pretty good night at the bowling alley- he wins in his group.  Eddie congratulates him and says that he'll call him over to the garage to hang out sometime.  They exchange numbers before heading out.  Aidan sees the text from Colin earlier in the evening saying they were going to look for Mike, and decides to check out what's happening with them.  He gets on his bike and drives off intending to meet up with the others at the railyard.  After about two blocks, the bike dies and Aidan sees that he's out of gas.  He maintains his composure and manages to not frenzy as he gets off the bike and looks it over.  The fuel lines look intact, and he can't find any leaks, but for some reason, there's no gas left in the tank.  He pulls out his cell phone, but there is no service, and it won't work.  He takes the key to the bike and goes around the corner of  a nearby building to hide.  As soon as Aidan gets out of sight, a  truck pulls up along side the bike and five people get out wearing coveralls and ski masks.  Two of them are holding midieval longswords, two are holding 9 mm guns and the last is sporting a flame thrower.   Aidan hears one of them say, "I thought you said he was going towards the east."  "Looks like he got away."  The voices sounds familiar and Aidan thinks he recognizes John and Cara from Dark-Side Paranormal.  "Well find him so we can find out what the fuck was done to us!"  Aidan slinks away before they notice him hiding.  He walks to a gas station and gets a can of gas.  His phone is working again.  He walks back to his bike and sees that both of his tires are slashed and the headlight is busted out.  Aidan immediately falls into a frenzy.  He gets impressions of tearing up his bike and another car.  There are car alarms, sirens, screaming and maybe a broken neck.  After awhile he comes out of it.  He's flat on his back under a merry-go-round that's slowly spinning above him in a playground.  He crawls out and tries to get his bearings.  He leaves the park and looks for some street signs.  He figures he's about five blocks away from his bike and starts walking back. He looks at his phone and it has a crack along the face.  It's also an hour later.  The bike is gone when he gets back.
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When Eve's shroud of darkness covers Colin, he obfuscates and then flies up until he breaks out of the cloud into clear air.  He pulls out his phone and sends out a text to Aidan - "Attacked by Flav- need your help."  He looks and doesn't see Flavius anywhere.  He lands on the roof of the nearby S-mart and looks for Eve.  He sends her a text saying, "On the Smart- are you ok?"  Eve is on the ground leading Danny and Mike through the darkness.  She sees the S-mart and leads Danny towards the loading docks.  She asks Danny to make an illusion to hide them and she drops the shroud covering them.  Danny makes an illusion of pallets around them while Eve pulls out her phone to text Colin.  She tells him where they are hiding and then feeds Mike a little vitae.  Colin looks out over the parking lot and sees a jeep parked off by itself.  He leaves the roof and  heads over to the jeep.  He jump starts it and drives around the back of the building.  Danny sees him drive up and says, "I think our ride's here."  He helps Mike up and they run to the jeep and get in.  Colin drives away.  He sends Aidan a message saying "We got away.", and wonders why he hasn't heard from him yet.  Colin asks if they're going to the Factory, and Eve shakes her head.  Danny tells Colin to take a left.  Colin takes a right, and says, "Oops.. meant to take a left."  Danny ignores him and says he knows where to go.  He directs Colin to drive to a 7-11 and tells them that his cousin, Raymondo, works there.  Colin is worried about staying there, and Eve says, "I don't think he followed us."  Colin replies, "I think you're underestimating him."  Danny says, "Why so afraid?"  He pats Colin on the back and says it will be okay.  They bring Mike inside to the back room where he starts healing some of the damage done by Flavius.
== Friday April 18th... continued... again... ==
Adam and Julian put the humans in the cage in the sheriff's office.  As they start waking up, Adam starts scanning their minds with Auspex to see what they know about Setites.  They start yelling and protesting being locked away.  "You can't lock us up like this!  I want to talk to my lawyer!"  Adam gets an image of a guy they call the Arab as the source of the drugs.  He gets an image of them meeting the Arab at the New Orleans chapter of the Satanic Temple. He also finds out that the Arab and Jean Lafitte paid the gang to vandalize the Factory, the Abbey and Malkavian Chantry. As Adam is staring at the guy in a trance, the guy spits and hits Adam right in the face. Julian gets upset at the insult and Dominates the guy to kneel on the ground. Adam focuses on the apparent leader and scans his mind as well, finding out that he is supposed to meet the Arab at the Temple tomorrow night. Julian keeps toying with TDog. He reaches through the bars off the cell and runs him through the shoulder with his sword. The guy yells, "Holy shit!" and they all back up afraid. Julian tells the guy with the purple do-rag to come forward, but he refuses. Julian asks Adam what he wants to do with them and the girl speaks up, saying that she'll do anything they want if they let her out. Adam lets her out of the cage and takes her into the next room to feed from her. He reads her mind to find out what she knows about vampires and comes up with that she thinks Edward's hot. He alters her memories to make her believe that they are allies- that this is all some sort of scared straight program or cult deprogramming. He puts the cuffs back on her and puts her back in the cage.
The phone in the office rings and Adam goes to answer it. It's Simms. He wants to know if anything's been done about the attack on his sanitation plant. He says, "A bunch of people came in with that douche bag Colin and that rose- they had cameras and Colin said he'd take care of it. Couple nights later, my place gets bombed. He didn't take care of it." Adam tells him that he'll look into it and hangs up. He sees a bunch of messages on the answering machine and starts to go through them. There are several messages from Simms. Fab called about his missing friend Twist. Jake called to remind him that he's the Liason for the Anarchs and that they have the right to beat the hell out of anyone in their territory. Jeremy calls and says, "Everyone hates me and I think they're going to hurt me." Marguerite calls to complain that Marisol was disrespectful to her. The last message just says in broken english, "Me be good deputy. *click*" 
Adam calls Aidan and asks about their visit to Simms' haven. Aidan tells him about that night and about Colin's paranormal team, but he doesn't mention his own encounter earlier in the night, and says that he doesn't know how to find them. Says he's been trying to call Colin, but hasn't gotten in touch. Adam calls Simms back to ask if he has any pictures of the hunters. Simms says he'll see what he can do. He bitches awhile longer about the bombs ("You know what that's gonna cost the city?!  Me neither!") before hanging up. Adam and Julian decide to check out the Satanic Temple since they can't get in touch with Colin.   
Aidan hangs up his phone after talking to Adam and decides to call Ralph for a ride. Ralph answers the phone and it's obvious that Aidan woke him up. Aidan asks him to come pick him up, and Ralph agrees, saying that he thinks he's okay to drive now. Twenty minutes later, Ralph pulls up in an old VW bus. Aidan gets in van and immediately smells marijuana. Aidan eyes Ralph and says, “Why don't you let me drive?” Ralph says, “Nah, I got this.” Aidan eventually convinces Ralph to let him drive instead, and takes over behind the wheel. Aidan asks Ralph where his apartment is, but Ralph can't remember, so Aidan offers to let Ralph crash as his place. He drives back to his haven as Ralph sleeps in the back. He gives Eve a call after dropping Ralph off.
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Colin gets pissed at Danny and ditches Eve at the 7-11 with Mike. Eve questions Mike about the first time they met, making sure he's not Flavius in disguise and Mike is able to tell her exactly what she was wearing down to the earrings. Mike asks for some morphine for the pain, and Danny grabs some tylenol off a shelf and puts the pills in a plastic baggy before tossing it to Mike, saying that his cousin had some good pain killers. Eve gets a call from Aidan and she tells them about the latest encounter with Flavius. Aidan offers to pick them up from the store and she agrees.
Aidan drives into the parking lot with Ralph's VW bus and goes inside the store. Eve helps Mike out to the car- by now he's feeling good with the drugs and he says to Danny, “Good stuff, gypsy.” Eve asks Aidan if he thinks they should warn Sam Boucher about Flavius since he has one of the coins. She tells him that Virginia is going to put him out there as a target. Aidan agrees that they should let Skinner know and he drives them out to Money Maker's. Before they go in, Eve tells Danny that Skinner is a mage, and Danny spits on the ground as he goes inside. Money Maker's is packed tonight, and they see Sam is tending the bar tonight. He greets Eve as they approach the bar, and then he asks Aidan where his friend is tonight, referring to Colin. Aidan says he's with Eve tonight, and Skinner asks, “Switch hitting?” Aidan shrugs and says, “Sure.” Eve says they need to talk, so Sam motions them to his office and tells them to take a seat. Eve starts talking, “It's a long story, but I know you have one of those Judas coins and it's going to be common knowledge soon that you have it. There's a very old vampire in the city that will probably come after you for it.” Sam looks unbelieving, and Eve goes on, “Look, I spent the early part of the evening nailed to a wall and eviscerated so he could take the two I was holding.” Sam asks if this is a case of her people trying to get him to take care of a problem, and Eve tells him that she's passing along the warning because of what he did for her. Sam nods and asks for more information about Flavius- his name, where he's from, how old, etc. Eve tells him what she knows and tries to impress how powerful Flavius is. Sam thanks them for the warning and tells them not to come by the club for the next few nights. Aidan asks if Pinkie can get some time off for the next few nights, and Sam says, no before kicking them out of his office. As they leave, Danny circles around the club, snagging a beer in each hand and filling his pockets with cash. Aidan drives Eve back to her haven so Mike can rest up and heal.
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Adam and Julian arrive at the Satanic Temple and find there's a lecture going on. About a dozen people sitting in folding chairs are in the room listening to a woman speaking about Anton LaVey and some of his writings. They both obfuscated as they entered the building, and Adam scans the crowd for vampiric auras. He sees that the speaker is a vampire, but it doesn't look like anyone else in the crowd is as well. The lecture winds down and people mingle for awhile. One of the followers goes up to the speaker and hands her a notebook with information on Abundant Light Ministries. The follower says that she's been following a minister and spying for awhile now. The speaker tells her that she has done well and takes the book. She sits down and looks through it as she pulls out a phone to make a call. The call goes to voice mail and she says, “Anthony, this is Julia. I need you to come by tonight. I have what you need and we need to step up distribution. Oh, and from now on, answer when I call you.” She hangs up and calls another number. “Khalid, I have the info you requested and the itinerary for Preston Anders. I know which route he's going to be taking, so I would do it soon.” the voice on the other end of the line says that he'll send someone to pick it up later tonight. She sets the notebook down on a chair next to her and at this point she's the only one left in the room. Adam makes his way to the door and locks it. She glances at the door and shakes her head. Julian moves behind her and swings his sword at her head. She ducks out of the way at the last second. Adam swings his sword at her as well, but she dodges back out of the way. Julian swings again and his sword slashes across her arm. Adam hits her with his sword and she grits her teeth and continues muttering under her breath. She finishes her incantation and Adam feels the blood in his body light on fire. Adam hunches in pain, but resists succumbing to Rotschreck. Julian aims for her head and hits. His sword gets stuck in her collar bone for a moment before pulling free. Adam cuts her arm off, and she looks up at him with her big blue eyes before she falls over in torpor. Adam drinks some of her blood to repair the damage her magic did to him. He studies her face for a moment, trying to commit her features to memory. He obfuscates again, trying to look like her and gets the features pretty close. Julian picks up the notebook. Adam looks around and says, “We need to stash her somewhere.” Julian says he'll take care of her and hands the notebook to Adam along with her phone. He drags her body over to a closet and pulls her inside, where he proceeds to diablerize her soul. After awhile, Khalid's bike messenger shows up for the notebook. Adam hands it over and plants a dominate command for the messenger to call his phone number once he has delivered the notebook to Khalid. Julian comes out of the closet and they both head back to the office. On the way back, Adams phone rings, and he does his best to answer as Julia. The voice on the other end says, “Another personality? God.” It turns out to be Harlequin, who tells him that there's a meeting tomorrow night. “The Tremere are working on a solution to the situation with Flavius.” Adam asks if there's any word on Lafitte and Harlequin tells him that it looks like he's gone to ground. Adam drops off Julian and picks up food for his prisoners in the office. He spikes the food with his vitae before feeding them.
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As Colin leaves Eve and Danny in the 7-11, he feels a summons deep in his bones. He drives the stolen jeep deep into one of the worst neighborhoods deep in werewolf territory. He remembers hearing rumors about the Black House from some of the people in Marie's Chantry. Rumor says that there is a place the Tremere use for doing rituals too dark for the majority of the Chantry. He parks his jeep in across from an old Victorian house and goes to knock on the door. He scans for auras while he waits, but doesn't pick up anything. It's almost as if the auras have been bleached.
A very tall gentleman wearing a tux opens the door. “Good Evening, Mr. McCry. You've been expected.” Colin pulls out his phone to send Eve a text before going inside, but finds that his phone doesn't have a signal. The man continues talking, “There will be no names from this point forth.” He ushers Colin inside and shows Colin to a room with several robes hanging from hooks on the walls. He directs Colin to put on a robe and a mask. An antique mask has been laid out on a bench next to the robes. The man exits the room, and Colin does a quick Spirit's Touch on the door frame. He gets an image of Damon walking through the door. “Fuck, I hate that guy.” Colin puts on the mask and robe. He hears a knock on the opposite door, so he knocks back. “Very funny, Mr. McCry. I am amused.” Colin opens the door and the tall servant says, “I've been told to instruct you that your name in these environs will be Wolfsbane."
Colin asks, “What other names should I know?”
“That's not for me to say.”
He directs Colin to another room down the hall. When Colin enters, he sees four figures dressed in the same robes and masks all seated in a circle. There is one open space left. Colin steps toward the circle and hears the others humming. One of the robed figures stands, “You are Wolfsbane?” Colin says yes and the figure continues, “I am Wormwood. Everyone, this is Wolfsbane.” He introduces Colin to Sweetgrass, Mugwort, and Cedar and tells him to have a seat. Colin takes his spot on the floor and says, “Am I treble or am I bass? I didn't get the memo...”
The servant wheels a cart with the ingredients Marie told Colin to gather on it. There are five glasses each filled with a portion of the wine. Wormwood says to Colin, “Play along man. Start humming.” Sweetgrass stands and moves the ingredients from the cart to the center of the circle. Sweetgrass says that they will meditate the rest of the night over the ritual tools, “Tomorrow night, we will enact the Ritual of the Bitter Rose.” Colin hesitates and says, “Isn't that illegal?” Sweetgrass says, “If anyone asks, you can tell them your accomplices are Wormwood, Sweetgrass, Mugwort, and Cedar.” The cabal spends the rest of the night in meditation and they stay in the same room through the day.
Saturday April 19th...
Evangeline wakes up and gets ready to go out. She hunts and then goes to check on the Factory. The club is closed. Bran had replaced the bodies with mannequins and there are still investigations going on. Eve calls up Jake and tells him she can do those tattoos for his guys if he still wants them done. He tells her to come on over to the tattoo parlor. Eve gets Mike to drive her this time, while she heals up the rest of the damage from the night before. She sends out a text to the rest of the coterie to let them know where she's going for a change. Mike drops her off at Pair O' Dice Tattoos and she goes inside to find Icepick, Carlos, and a few bikers there along with Jake. Jake says, “Let's go to the back.” and he leads her to a back room where she can work. He says that she needs to make the tatts stay- these are the tatts for initiation into the Lost Angels. She agrees, but warns them that the process is going to really hurt. Icepick goes first- Jake and Carlos strap him down on the table in case he goes into a frenzy from the pain. Eve chats while she works on Icepick's tattoo, using vicissitude to make the tattoo permanent. She asks Carlos where he's from and he says, “Around. I hear you like Gypsies.” She looks up at him and says, “Sometimes.” He just says, “I don't.” She works on Icepick's tatt, but she keeps sneaking looks at Carlos, trying to figure him out.
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Aidan has his ghoul escort Ralph out of his haven during the day. When he wakes in the evening, he goes hunting. He gets a phone message from Vera, who says she has tickets for RAW and invites him to go with her. She says that she thinks he would like it, “I hope Hulk Hogan still wrestles! Call me!” Aidan calls her back and finds out when the show is. She says, “I hoped you would come with me, but I guess I could find someone else if your not interested. Like Alejandro?” Aidan quickly says, “Well, I don't think it's his thing.” They make plans to meet Monday night for the show. Aidan decides to meet Eve at Pair O' Dice and get a tattoo himself. He drives his motorcross bike there, since losing his regular bike last night. He hears laughter from a couple bikers as he pulls up to the tattoo parlor. One of them asks, “Which Power Ranger are you?” Aidan ignores him. Nails is just arriving as well, and Aidan almost falls on his face when Nails slaps him on the back in greeting.
Jake has an unconscious guy in his arms that he's taking to the back room when Aidan and Nails go inside. He greets Aidan and says, “Eve wanted a drink.” They go to the back and Eve takes a short break from Icepick's tatt to feed. Aidan asks if there's a line and Eve says, “Uh yeah, working on Icepick and Carlos is next.” Icepick looks up from the table and smiles through gritted teeth. Carlos speaks up and says, “Hey little man, Power Ranger convention in town?” Aidan sighs, “I don't even know what that is!”
Eve finishes up Icepick and says it's Carlos's turn. Jake unclips the restraints on Icepick and Carlos takes off his shirt. Eve watches Carlos and sees Remy's old tattoos on Carlos's shoulders. She asks him if he's sure he wants to do this, and he says, “I can take anything he can.” She says, “Okay.” and the others strap Carlos down on the table. She does his tattoo very carefully and tries not to hurt him too much as she goes. Jake is watching and says, “Hey man, I think she's sweet on you. She's taking it easy on ya.” Eve glares at him and says, “I am not!” Carlos looks up and says, “Fuck you, man.”
Eve asks Jake about maybe getting a job at Pair O' Dice and Jake tells her to come back next week and talk to Dolores. Aidan spent the time during Carlos's session talking with Nails and trying to get some information about the Anarch Territory. He finds out that Dolores is the Chairman instead of being a Baron and Francis is a sweeper. Aidan asks what a sweeper is, and Nails tells him that he keeps a head count of whose in our territory. Nails tells Aidan that they like having Dolores in charge. He finds out that the Anarchs are more or less united in defending their territory from the Camarilla. Nails asks Aidan what kind of tattoo he's going to get and Aidan tells him a fleur-de-lis. Nails says, “A what?” Aidan tries to describe it, but Nails is clueless. Nails offers to help him build a new bike. Eve looks up and asks what happened to Aidan's bike. He tells her it was stolen last night. 
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Colin wakes with the others in the Black House. They start chanting again as Sweetgrass stands and exits the room. She comes back with the tall servant wheeling a gurney into the room. A Nosferatu bum is strapped down on the gurney. One of Flavius's childer from the attack on the Court. They put the body in the center of the circle. Sweetgrass starts to drink from the body of the torpored vampire. The servant says, “Mr. Wolfsbane, please take the dagger and cut out his heart.” Colin takes up the cold iron dagger and starts cutting. He pulls the heart out and puts it in the bowl. Cedar gets up and crushes the heart into a pulp with the marble. Mugwort mixes the red wine with the pulp. The servant exits the room and then returns with some ashes. He tells Wolfsbane to add it to the mix and Colin does as instructed. Wormwood pours the distilled water over it and Sweetgrass stirs the concoction. She divides the mixture into the goblets while chanting. Each takes a goblet and they drink together. Colin feels an intense rush and a burning that spreads through his body as the ritual takes hold. Each member of the cabal lowers a generation closer to Caine as the diablerie is shared among them.
After the ritual, the servant offers refreshments, but Colin declines. Cedar takes him aside and says, “I understand you were looking for something quite some time ago. It took me awhile to put this together.” He hands over a leather journal with a ritual recorded inside. Colin thanks him. Sweetgrass tells him that the Tremere will be having a meeting with the sheriff in one and a half hours and he will be expected to attend. Each ritualist is sent to the changing room one at a time as they leave. Once Colin ditches his robe and mask, he heads over to Marie's shop for Annabelle's exorcism.
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Lawrence and Julian go back to the Satanic Temple to look for the Arab. They make their way inside the building and Julian pauses to take one of each of the information pamphlets in the entry way. There are a couple of gangbangers here tonight. Lawrence recognizes that one of them is a member of the Bloods. One tough looking guy walks over to Lawrence and says, “I haven't seen you before.” Lawrence says, “I'm OJ. Antonio sent me.” The guy says he knows Antonio, and asks if Lawrence wants to go burn one with him. He steps out on the doorstep and lights a joint. He takes a drag and passes it to Lawrence, asking, “Which group you with man?” Lawrence reads his mind with Auspex and gets the name of a local gang- the Mongrels. Lawrence finds out that this guy is here waiting for the Arab too. Lawrence asks his new friend when the Arab is supposed to show up, and he says it should be soon.
A little while later, a sedan with dark tinted windows pulls up to the curb next to the Temple. A window rolls down halfway and a young guy walks over to it. Lawrence follows him over there. Khalid is in the car and he glances around and says, “Where's Tony?” Lawrence says, “He sent me.”
Khalid doesn't answer and starts to drive away. Lawrence pulls out his gun and shoots out the back tire of the sedan. Khalid jumps out of the car and looks at Lawrence with Dread Gaze. Lawrence jumps and drops his gun. Khalid yells, “Who sent you? Who are you?” Julian, standing guard at the porch, sees the Arab advancing on Lawrence. Julian tries to sneak behind Khalid, but the guy sees him, so Julian just pulls out his sword instead and attacks.  Khalid looks up at Julian and says, “I only want to be your friend,” and he hits Julian with an entrancement. Julian suddenly feels like this is all a huge misunderstanding and that he really looks up to his new friend, Khalid.
Lawrence swings his sword at Khalid and guts him. Khalid drops to the ground with a horrified look on his face. Julian sees Lawrence cut down his best friend, and goes into a raging frenzy. He lunges for Lawrence, but misses. Lawrence ignores Julian for the moment and stabs the Setite again to make sure he's down for good and Khalid drops into torpor. Julian goes for Lawrence again, but Lawrence fends him off. Lawrence picks up Khalid's body and starts running away, vanishing with obfuscate as he does. Julian forgets that Lawrence was even there and turns towards the gang members. He pauses for a moment, almost getting himself under control. The guy puts up his hands and says, “Back off man..” Julian loses control and lunges for him. The gang members take off running.
Lawrence goes to his truck and puts his torpored captive in the back before getting in and starting it up. He revs the engine twice and then floors it, heading straight for Julian. Lawrence slams into him with the truck, and Julian's body spins around as he falls to the ground. Lawrence puts his head out of the window and makes eye contact with Julian long enough to dominate him to calm down. Julian comes out of the frenzy, but doesn't remember Lawrence being there with him at all. Lawrence tells him, “It worked. We got him.” Julian is confused and not quite sure what is going on, but he gets in the truck with Lawrence and they drive away.
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Back at the tattoo parlor, Eve finishes up Carlos's tattoo and they unclip him from the table. He gets up and stretches. Carlos's tattoo is a better job than Icepick's but they both look good. Eve motions Aidan to the table for his turn under the needle and asks him what he wants. He describes the design and she gets a stencil ready as the others strap him down to the table. Eve does a decent job on the tattoo and when she finishes it up, Aidan says that it didn't even hurt. Icepick smirks and throws a glass of whiskey over the new ink, making it burn, and says, “How 'bout now?” Aidan grits his teeth and glares at him, keeping control of himself as he gets up off the table. Eve and Aidan both get a text from the Prince telling them to come to the Denny's for a meeting. Eve asks if one of the anarchs can give her a ride over there, hoping that she can get a moment alone with Carlos. Carlos starts to offer her a ride when Nails interrupts, saying, “I got it. My bike is bigger.” Aidan looks over at Carlos and says, “I bet you hear that a lot.” Everyone else in the room takes a step back as Carlos starts to frenzy and visibly tries to stay in control of himself. He takes a deep breath of air and calms himself. Then he turns and sucker punches Aidan anyway. Aidan goes flying across the room and hits the wall, knocking down a bunch of pictures. He picks himself up off the ground and feels his jaw to find out it's dislocated. He leaves the tattoo parlor without a word and goes to his bike to find a box of rice and a lighter sitting on the seat.
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Colin arrives at the Denny's and sees Marie and Leah already inside at a table. They tell Colin that they've come up with a solution for the Flavius problem. Julian and Lawrence arrive next and a few minutes later, Aidan drives into the parking lot with Nails and Eve close behind. Nails asks Eve, “You want I should come in too?” Eve tells him, “Sure,” not caring if the anarchs are supposed to know about the meeting or not. Alejandro arrives with a beautiful girl on each arm. The women move away from him as he approaches the group. He takes a seat at the table and starts speaking,
“Evening. Our dilemma is that there was something that threatened Methuselah and Neonate alike.” Marie pulls out a jar with a stopper in it and he continues, “We saved a dose of it.”
The older Regulators realize that she's talking about the Rot, the disease engineered to destroy the Kindred. They all eye the bottle on the table warily, and Eve says, “Won't he just start eating us to stop the disease?”
Marie speaks up and says, “This is something that could destroy him.”
Aidan looks around the table and asks, “What is it?” Colin tells him about the Rot spreading through the herds in 2010 and the cure that was found.
Alejandro says, “We need a way to to deliver it to Flavius. Anyone new to the city hasn't been exposed to the cure, and so some may want to volunteer...”
Aidan asks for the particulars about what the disease does, and Colin explains it to him- that is seems to degenerate one's generation until it kills and that draining the unaffected seems to hold the disease at bay. Aidan turns toward Alejandro and volunteers to be the bait, saying that since he is 13th
generation, he doesn't have it to loose. Eve tells him that it doesn't work that way, “That means you'll just die quicker.” Colin suggests infecting some of the homeless and hope Flavius gets infected that way. Alejandro tells him that he doesn't want to risk the food supply.
Alejandro says, “Why don't you discuss this as a coterie? Try not to poison our food source. I trust the sheriff.” Leaving the bottle on the table, he and the two Regents to leave. “This is a law enforcement matter.”
The Regulators look at each other as the Prince and the Tremere leave. Colin asks Eve if she is able to make someone look like Virginia with her Vicissitude, and she says no. “All the people I knew that had that much skill are dead.”
Nails says, “I'm glad I'm not a Regulator.” Eve thanks him for the ride and he nods. He rubs Colin's head and says, “See ya later squirt.” as he heads towards the door. The others decide to go the the sheriff's office to plan.
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They get to the office and start planning without much luck. Eve gets a call from Danior and she tells him to come on over. Danny's call gets Colin thinking and he suggests that they try to stake Flavius with illusions, just like Jules did to him when they fought against Lucien. The others like the idea and they wait for Danny to arrive.
They hear Dream Weaver playing loudly on a car radio outside and Eve goes out to see three station wagons pulling up with a bunch of drunken gypsies along with Danior and Dax. Danny gets out of the car and says, “Sorry for not showing up earlier, but I don't go running for your Prince.”
Eve says, “It's okay. The Prince charged us with killing Flavius.”
Danny pauses and says, “Well, Okay.... My family needs me for a few days...”
Eve pulls him inside and they run Colin's idea by him. He thinks for a moment and then says he needs to talk to Dax. He goes back outside, and after a few minutes, both Ravnos come inside. Lawrence aura reads Dax and see's that he's feeling desirous and suspicious. Dax offers to make Flavius think he's been staked in return for boons owed. Colin and Lawrence both agree to the deal. Colin says he can get some hardwoods so they can stake him for real afterwards. They ask Danny to make an illusion of Virginia in order to provoke Flavius into showing himself. The group decides they should do the deed at a high school football field, so they can flood the area with light and make it harder for Flavius to escape using shadows. The group decides that Eve will summon Flavius the next night.
Colin makes a call to Henri about Annabelle's exorcism and asks him to delay a little longer. Henri agrees for an extra five grand and a dozen chalupas from Taco Bell.
Julian corners Dax and asks about the art thief. Dax tells him that his sources say that the thief is Kindred and based on the locations he's been, he suspects that the thief is Jackson Miller, a Toreador whose last known residence was in Paris. Dax says that he was in three of the cities at the time the Dragonfly struck.
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Colin leaves the group to prepare for the next night. He goes to a construction zone where workers are repairing the roads at night. Looking like a cop, he goes to the foreman and dominates him to bring the flood lights at the site to the high school football field and set them up there. After that, he drives to a furniture store and drives around back. He breaks in through a window and an alarm sounds from inside the building. He finds a nice dining room table, breaks off the legs and then leaves before anyone shows up to deal with the alarm.
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Aidan leaves and contacts the guy that sold him the car the other night. He tries to talk the guy into giving him the car instead as an investment and Aidan could give him a cut of the profits from the races he wins with it. The guy isn't having it though, and says, “Do you want this car?” Aidan says, “I don't want anyone else to have it.” The guy pauses for a moment and then says, “I need a thing done. If you do this thing, you can have the car for 10 grand. Do I have your word? You'll do this thing no matter how repugnant it might be?” Aidan agrees to the deal and goes to pick up the car. He goes to a street race and wins the last race of the night in his new car.
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Eve stays with Danny and his family for awhile as they barhop. She feeds well, and then calls Mike to see if he has had any luck tracking down Dean's old jacket for her. He asks if she'll give him a kiss if he tells her yes and she says, “If that means you found my jacket, then yes!” He says he has it and she tells him to come pick her up from the bar. When he gets there, she gives him the promised kiss and has him drive her to the S-mart to get a new knife for her ritual the next night.
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After the others leave the office, Lawrence pulls Khalid out of his truck and brings him into the office to begin the interrogation.  
==Sunday April 20th....==
Lawrence does ghoul maintenance and heads out. He gets the flamethrower out of it's hiding place on the way and goes to the meeting place at the high school.
Evangeline has Mike take her out to the site after she wakes. She has Mike set up by the concession stand and tells him to keep out of sight. She starts doing an abyssal ritual to augment her abilities for the night, but messes up the first attempt due to nerves and the shadows keep slipping away. She focuses and tries again. This time, the shadows obey and she spends an hour in pain wracked agony as the shadows fuse themselves with her body.
Colin spends the first part of the night in his haven doing his rituals to prepare for the night, including finishing a freshly crafted bloodstone, and then makes a stop at the store to pick up some hammers to go with his newly made stakes.
Aidan spends his prep time hunting and filling up on blood before heading to the field.
Colin and Danior show up at the field and check on the lights. Colin asks Aidan to give Bran a call. Aidan gets on the phone and asks Bran for another favor. He says, “The Prince has charged us with taking care of Flavius and in order to do that, we need the police and the media to stay away from International High School.” Bran says that he'll do what he can and Aidan hangs up.
Everyone does their last minute preparations. Colin enacts some thaumatergical rituals to make it harder for the others to loose control of their beasts. Colin and Julian both obfuscate themselves. Lawrence does the same for himself, Dax, Danior and Aidan.
Danny and Dax take places sitting in the stands, while Aidan and Eve both move to the center of the football field and try to summon Flavius. Danny makes an illusion of Virginia standing in the middle of the field. Eve turns her body into full shadow and burrows out of sight in the grass. Colin turns of the lights and the field is flooded with light. Everyone stands ready and they wait for Flavius to arrive.
At the thirteen minute mark, the coterie sees a shadow stretching across the length of the field. Arms extend from it and it seems to be looking around the area. The shadow zeros in on Virginia on the field. “Virginia" gets a scared look on her face and starts backing away from the shadow. Flavius assumes his normal form and yells,  “You will give me what I want!” Four arms of the abyss rip from the ground and lash out at Virginia. Eve materializes behind the ancient vampire and summons her own arms of shadow, snaring Flavius with four of them. Flavius twists around to see who is attacking him, when a sign post slams through his chest from behind. Dax's Horrid Reality seems to be working as Flavius stops moving. The others rush into the fight at this point. Julian tries to behead Flavius with his sword. The sword slams into his neck and it's almost like Julian has hit steel. It doesn't even leave a mark. Aidan tries to put a real stake into Flavius's body, but the stake doesn't even penetrate his skin.
Colin steps up to Flavius and forces the bottle with the Rot disease and his bloodstone down his throat. A shadow snakes around and tries to stop him, but Colin gets it done anyway. Several more shadows lunge at Colin as he steps back and one of them wraps around his neck and lifts him up off the ground. Another shadow tries to snare Eve, but she sidesteps it, and slams Flavius face first down on the ground with the shadows already holding him. She steps closer and puts a stake to his back and tries to hammer it in, but ends up breaking the point off of the stake instead as it can't get through his skin. Aidan tries to cut away the shadow strangling Colin, but can't damage it. Lawrence tries to get his own stake into Flavius, but is just as unsuccessful as the others.
Colin does theft of vitae and pulls a stream of blood from Flavius that rushes to his hand. Flavius tries to crush Colin with the shadow holding him in the air, but Colin hangs on for the moment. A second shadow wraps around Colin's body and starts to constrict. Another shadow snakes around and snags Eve in it's grip, but Flavius's last shadow arm breaks free from his control and dissipates. Lawrence lashes out at Flavius with Serpent's Tongue, and this time he breaks through Flavius's massive Fortitude and burns a channel down his scalp. Flavius starts hissing and growling in pain and anger.
Eve summons more shadows and eight more arms of darkness break through from the Abyss. She pulls herself free from Flavius's shadow and sends the swarm descending on on Flavius, trying to crush him in darkness. One of her arms goes to aid Colin and pry him free of Flavius's grip. Julian keeps chipping away at Flavius with his sword and adds a little to the damage done by Lawrence. Aidan attempts to stake him again, but still can't get the job done. Lawrence lashes out at Flavius again with his tongue and this time he pierces right through Flavius's temple and through to the other side, killing the methuselah.
As the Regulators stare down at the ancient body, it starts to crumble into ashes and bones. They poke through the remains and find two gold coins. Colin snags them, but Eve asks for them so she can return them to the real Virginia. Colin relents and hands them over. Lawrence snaps several pictures of what's left of the body and then starts gathering up the remains.
Eve grabs a finger bone and a handful of ashes so she can bring proof to Virginia. She pulls out her phone and dials Virginia's number to tell her it's over. Lawrence starts to protest about telling everyone he's dead, but Eve is already on the phone and Virginia answers before she can hang up. When Virginia answers, she asks Eve how they met. Eve says, “Wyatt brought me to you from the Sabbat.” Eve tells her that Flavius is dead, and she pauses for a moment before responding. She sounds doubtful and says, “Okay.. He's really dead?” Eve says, “Yes. The Ravnos helped. They made him think he was staked, and we pounded on him till he crumbled.” Virginia tells her to come meet with her at the Fishery and hangs up.
Colin sends a text to Leah saying “Flavius is deceased.” She responds, “Diseased or Deceased?” He types “Deceased.” She answers, “Very well.”
Lawrence calls the Prince. When he answers, Lawrence just says, “Flavius is destroyed.” Alejandro asks, “So soon? I must know the details.” Lawrence tells him the basics, but leaves out most of the details. Alejandro says, “I see. Your efforts will not go unrewarded.” Lawrence adds, “I figured I should call before you heard from some unofficial channels. It's already out.” Alejandro says, “Yes. It figures that the Ravnos can't keep their mouths shut.” He asks Lawrence if there is any evidence of Flavius's destruction and Lawrence tells him he has a smashed skull and some ashes. Alejandro tells him to bring it to him and hangs up.
Aidan calls Bran. “Everything is fine. The deed is done.” Bran says, “Really? I have to know the details.” Aidan says, “We dipped him in a vat of acid...” There's a moment of silence and he adds, “I'm kidding.” Aidan tells him the short version of events. Bran says, “Good work. Have you cleared the area?” Aidan says for the most part.
Colin walks over to Danny and says, “I guess I can accept you into the coterie now.” Danny smiles and says, “And I can accept you.” He spits into his hand and holds it out to shake with Colin. Colin stares at the hand for a moment, clearly rethinking this, and then licks his palm and shakes hands. Colin goes back to the pile of bones and ash and fishes around until he finds his bloodstone. He brushes it off and hands it to Eve and tells her to hang onto it. Eve says, “What is it?” Colin says, “It's kind of like a GPS. I know where it is at all times, so if you get in trouble, I can find you.” Eve shrugs and says, “Okay,” as she slips it in her jacket pocket.
Eve tells the others that she needs to bring the coins back to Virginia and walks over towards Mike's hiding spot. She calls Skinner as she walks to let him know he doesn't have to worry about
Flavius showing up anymore. He tells her thanks, and says he's glad he doesn't have to have the miniature suns ready to go at a moments notice anymore.
Lawrence leaves the field and goes hunting first. Then he stops back at his construction trailer to stow the flamethrower before bringing the proof to the Prince.
Colin and Aidan leave together and Colin asks Aidan if he wants to come with him to Annabelle's exorcism. Aidan agrees and tells Colin about his encounter with his paranormal team. They decide they need to check in on them soon. Colin says he didn't think they were that smart, but he'll go have a chat with them. They get to Marie's shop and find Henri in the backroom with Annabelle, who has been tied to a chair for the past three days, and looks like hell. When she sees Colin, she says, “Can't you help me? Colin, he did bad things to me!” Colin says, “I highly doubt that. He knows his life would be forfeit. Let's get this moving.” He turns to Henri, “Will Marie be joining us tonight?” Henri says, “No, she's a very busy lady. She has more important things to do.”
Henri hands a bowl of oil to Colin and tells him to count and every time he hits 3, to sprinkle her with the oil. Henri moves to the circle surrounding Annabelle and starts chanting. Colin starts sprinkling the oil. Aidan finds a place in an out of the way corner and watches. Annabelle watches Henri and snarls, “Fuck you Priest! Get away before I hurt you!” He eyes turn milky white and dark veins appear under her skin. She flexes and snaps the bonds holding her to the chair and stands. Her eyes go to Aidan in the corner.
Aidan is watching the ritual and suddenly it doesn't make sense to him why they are hurting this poor innocent girl. He shakes his head a bit and the veil lifts and he sees it for what it is again. He glares at the demon and shakes his head.
Annabelle forces her hand through the barrier of the circle to claw at Henri. He yells at Colin, “DO NOT STOP!”  He points at Aidan, “YOU! Restrain her!” He starts chanting again at the top of his lungs. Aidan looks around for something to tie her up with and sees a tablecloth. He yanks it off the table, sending everything flying, and steps in the circle with Annabelle. He throws the tablecloth over her head and tries to wrap her up. Annabelle tries to fight Aidan off, but he overpowers her and holds her down on the floor. Henri's chant picks up in intensity, and the tablecloth starts to turn black where it comes in contact with her body. The demon tries to take control of Aidan's mind again, but fails. Suddenly, the fight goes out of her, and her body slumps to the ground.
Henri stops his incantation and says, “I think it is done.” Colin steps closer and reads Annabelle's aura. He sees no sign of demonic influence- her aura is finally clean. Colin pushes Aidan aside and says, “Thanks, I can take it from here.” He pulls away the tablecloth and picks her up. He carries her out of the back room and leaves the store. Annabelle is barley conscious, but she looks up at Colin and tries to talk, “Colin... They've done such terrible things... their plans...” Colin says, “And I want to hear all of them, but first let's get you safe.” He takes her to the marina where his boat is docked. He gets her settled in on the boat with some food and plans to spend the day there with her.
Mike drives Eve to the fishery to meet Virginia. He pulls in the parking lot, and she asks him if he wants to wait in the car. He asks, “Do you need me?” She replies, “I should be okay.” He nods and says, “Call if you need me.” Two ghouls come out to the car as she gets out. One escorts her inside while the other waits in the car with Mike. The factory is dark when Eve goes in the door. The ghoul leads her to an office and opens the door. She steps in the room and it's too dark to see who else is there. Eve concentrates for a moment and her eyes turn black, allowing her to see through the dark. It looks like all the Nosferatu are here in the room with her. Virginia is sitting at the desk with Wyatt, Simms, Jezebel, D.J., and Fab standing in a loose circle around her. Eve walks up to the desk and the others move to surround her. There is a definite aura of menace in the room.
Eve asks, “What is going on? Virginia?”
Virginia is watching Eve closely. She says, “Evangeline?”
Eve finally understands what is going on and loses patience. “Oh, for fuck's sake!” Eve slaps Flavius's finger bone on the desk and drops the gold coins next to it. “Can any of you read auras like Colin does?”
Jezebel steps forward and places both of her hands on Eve's face. She concentrates a moment and then says, “It's Evangeline.” The Nosferatu relax, but Eve is still pissed that they doubted her. She snaps, “I told you so.”
Virginia walks around the desk and says, “We had to make sure. Flavius can look like anyone.” Virginia gives Eve a quick hug, and Eve starts to feel better.
Wyatt says, “I thought you said Flavius was tough.” Eve glares at him and he says, “You're like a week old!” Eve spends some time with them, telling them the particulars about the fight and Virginia takes her coins back.
Lawrence goes back to the sheriff's office and lets the gang of humans out of their cell now that he has them blood bound. He has them take him back to their house. On the way, he questions them about their deal with the Arab guy. They tell him that sometimes he pays them to hurt people- rival gangs or dealers in order to expand territory. They get to the house and the lights are off- the power bill hasn't been paid. Lawrence gives them some gun lessons before he leaves. He teaches them how to hold a gun right so it doesn't jam. He tells them if anyone comes looking for the Arab, send them to the 7-11 in the French Quarter. As he leaves, he gets a phone call from the Prince. Alejandro tells him to work out some plans to secure their borders against the Sabbat and the lupines. He also mentions that he's spoken to the Primogen, and there will be a formal announcement that each of the coterie will be given the right to embrace.
Aidan heads home and calls his sire, Lucille. They engage in some small talk and then Aidan updates her on what's been happening in New Orleans for the past couple of months, playing up his own role in recent events.
She's impressed by his news and says, “They let two Malkavians be sheriff? I may have to visit. It may be awhile though. Right now, I'm on a train.”
Aidan says, “Really?”
She goes on, “Best way to travel. I'm on my way to Manhattan to visit family.”
Aidan says, “I didn't know you had family there.”
She says, “Clanmates. Yes, I'm planning on staying there for awhile, so it will be some time before I can visit New Orleans.” They talk for awhile longer and then Aidan goes to sleep for the day.
Monday, April 21st...aka  Aftermath
Annabelle slept through most of the day with Colin on the boat. When Colin wakes, he can smell some burnt popcorn, so she must have been up at some point. She wakes up when he stirs and tells him that she's feeling a little better. Colin asks if she's hungry, and she says no. She's anxious though and tells him that she needs to get out of there, that they'll be looking for her and she doesn't think that Colin can protect her. She says, “They're planning something big, but I don't know what. Whatever it is, it's global.”
Colin tells her that the boat is safe, “It's warded from demons. Have you seen Balphagor?”
She says, “Oh, God no!”
Colin tells her that he was there when Balphagor was summoned to this plane.
She asks, “How did that happen?”
He says, “Fucking vampires messing where they shouldn't.”
She says, “They know you've been watching and they aren't worried about the vampires or the mages.”
Colin tells her he'll have some one pick up some things for her and takes out his phone and calls Roman, interrupting a book reading about to start at the Abbey. Colin says, “I need you to go shopping for me.”
Roman gives a very put upon sigh and says, “What do you need?”
Colin says, “I'll send you a list.”
Roman says, “I'll wait with baited breath,” and hangs up.
Colin calls Eve and tells her about Annabelle and the demon problem.
After talking with Colin, Evangeline goes to the Pair O Dice Tattoo Parlor. A couple of people are getting tattoos in the front room. Eve asks if any of the Angels are around, and one guy tells her that Nails is in the back. She asks about Carlos and the guy says, “He's on a run with Jake. They should be back soon.” Eve nods and goes to the back room to wait. She sees Nails is sitting there with three bimbos. She rolls her eyes and decides to wait out front instead. Eve takes a seat on the curb outside the shop and after about twenty minutes, two motorcycles come roaring up.
Jake gets down off his bike and says, “Hey Darlin'! What's going on?”
Eve smiles at him and says, “Just came by to pass along some news. Flavius is gone permanently.”
Jake says, “That's good. Ivory Tower will be happy.”
Eve says, “We deserve a party.”
Jake grins and says, “Well, we'll make sure that happens.”
Jake heads inside the shop and Carlos tells him, “I'll catch up.”
Eve looks up at Carlos/Remy and says, “Go for a walk?”
He says, “Okay.”
They start walking down the street. As soon as they get out of earshot of the shop, she turns to him and says, “What did you do??”
He says, “After Riley aged me a bit, I've been able to move my face around like he did. Not as handsome as my usual face, but it'll do.”
She asks, “Are you sure about this?”
He shrugs and says, “I can keep an eye on things this way. On you and the anarchs. I've tagged six havens already.” He laughs a bit and shakes his head. “These guys are way too trusting.”
They talk about the anarchs for a little while. Remy says, “Nails is okay. He just needs a friend.”
Eve tells him that Nails looks out for her. She says, “Most of the Lost Angels are good. Don't like most of the others. Hannibal is funny. Remember when you punched him in the face?”
Remy smirks, “Yeah, that was great.”
Eve sighs and says, “He stopped hanging out with me after that.”
Remy says, “What about your gypsy friend?”
Eve looks at him warily and says, “Yeah, Danny's my friend. After you left, he looked out for me.”
Remy says, “Well trailer parks- you know they're unsafe.”
Eve says, “He's been good to me while you were gone for three years!”
Remy shakes his head and says, “I was watching out for you.” He switches tactics and says, “I haven't seen Jules since the gypsies took her.”
Eve is surprised, “They took her?”
Remy says, “See? Your boyfriends been keeping secrets!”
Eve snaps, “He's not my boyfriend!”
They bicker back and forth some more and Remy tries to get some information about other vampires from her. After a bit they call a truce and Remy tells her he has a place nearby. They go to his haven for the rest of the night.
Colin offers Annabelle the chance to be a vampire like him, but she looks terrified at the prospect. She tells him she just wants to have a normal life. Colin is saddened by the refusal, but tells her he'll arrange some new identification for her so that she can leave. She's thrilled at the prospect of leaving the supernatural behind, and finally sleeps with him.
Colin calls Eve a second time during the night. Remy perks up and listens in on the conversation. Colin asks Eve to get fake ID's for Annabelle. Eve tells him she'll do it for him, and calls her contact, Joel to set it up.
Lawrence starts trying to track down Carter. He spends the next week looking, but doesn't find him. He does hear some rumors about the Order of Saint George.
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A week later, there is a party to celebrate the victory over Flavius. Prince Alejandro stands before the assembled Kindred of the city and speaks, “The city owes the Regulators a great debt for ridding us of the threat plaguing our city.” Several people are shooting looks at the Nosferatu at this point as quite a bit of blame is being thrown their way. Alejandro continues, “I have discussed the matter of reward with my fellow Primogen, and we have decided to grant each of the Regulators the right to embrace a childe of your own at a time of your choosing. Make sure that your candidate is prepared properly for this life and their mistakes will be your own.”
After the big speech, refreshments are provided and the Kindred mingle and dance. Colin takes a moment to talk to the Prince and tells him what he's learned from Annabelle about the demons. Alejandro tells him that he's aware of the situation, and he's been in communication with the regents of both Chantries.
Aidan pulls Eve aside and tries to talk to her about Carlos. He tells her that she should stay away from him. Eve thinks that he sounds exactly like her Dad used to about Remy and says, “You just don't know him like I do.” Aidan says, “I get a bad vibe from him.” Eve just brushes his warnings off.
After awhile, Jake grabs a violin from one of the musicians and plays it like a fiddle. Eve pulls Carlos out on the floor to dance.
A little while later, Colin and Lawrence are pulled aside by Leah and the Prince. Alejandro tells them that Leah has been putting out feelers among the Tremere. Leah speaks up and says, “One of our sister Chantries in New York has experience with similar situations and will be able to offer information to help with our current demonic problem.”
Alejandro says to Colin,” You'll be going to Manhattan. The Ravnos, Dax has offered his services to act as an escort to the city. Get your team together and say your goodbyes. You leave in a week.” He turns to Lawrence and says, “We'll need you to shore up the borders. They weren't strong when I took the city.” Colin lets the rest of the coterie know about the impending road trip.