Virginia Fenbottom

**Clan:** Ventrue

**Rank:** Aedile ( < Nobbend; ≤ Quimm; > Coddpeace ) possibly obsolete

**Sect:** Camarilla possibly obsolete

**Status:** 2? (Ancilla): Known, Well-Connected possibly obsolete

**Merits/Flaws:** *Elysium Regular*

### **Bio**

No stranger to adversity, Virginia Fenbottom was Embraced in the small Camarilla holding of Santa Cruz along the California coast, surrounded on all sides by the sprawling Anarch Free States and a near-wilderness rife with lupines. Ashtown has provided her an opportunity to stretch her wings, and to grow out from the imposing shadow of her Elder Sire; here she achieved the prestigious clan rank of *Aedile*, responsible for the curation and prosperity of one of the city's several Ventrue domains.

### **Developing news...**

Gangrel Elder Jackson brought before the open Court allegations of a threat she had made against his life. She is now wanted for questioning.

* She wasn't even there to tell her side of the story. They really gonna do her like this?
	+ She had already tried petitioning first Nobbend de facto, then Herald Lehner for justice. confirmed
		- She should know better. There's no way the law falls on her side in this.
			* I thought y'all weren't *allowed* to off each other. Why can't she get justice?
				+ We're not "allowed to off" released and acknowledged Camarilla members.
				+ Gotta pay the extortion money before you get "protection".
				+ Meaning it's illegal to kill an Elder, but not an unreleased neonate.
					- it sounds nasty when you put it in words like that
* Baxter doesn't have to let failed Childer sully his good name just because some blue-blood wants to fuck him.
	+ I get your point, but she's not just *some blue-blood;* she's the Childe of **Oskar B.**, an elder from Santa Cruz, CA.
		- Status 4 (Primogen): Famous, Influential, Known, Revered, Well-Known, *Impolite* obsolete: see below
			* Word reached the Santa Cruz domain already; *their* harpies are calling her an Anarch, and him *Negligent*.
				+ He's a *Status 3* Primogen Elder?!
					- His status is already the most back-handed compliment I've ever seen.
					- It'd be even worse if he lost his seat (and free Primogen status).
					- Reliable sources near him say he's not taking his new status well. confirmed
						* Poor Ginny.
							+ He's not pulling *her* dossier, he's looking up Jackson and his Primogen.
								- And Nobbend.
								- What the hell would he need to ask for *her* background?
									* What the hell does he want to know about any of *them* for?
				+ Didn't he supposedly demand an apology from His Grace for "mismanagement of my property" or some shit? speculation!
					- He sent a private letter to "the praetor" care of the current Ventrue Primogen, and the Prince had to take possession of it before His Council settled on who would read the contents because they wouldn't let Primogen Nobbend open it. confirmed You'd have to ask His Grace what it said, because neither I nor any of the rest of you have any idea.
						* *de facto*
						* Because it wasn't *addressed* to him, obviously?
					- I don't care who opened the goddamn letter, do *they* have to apologize for *his* fucking Childe?
						* She wasn't an Anarch before she came here.
		- It's said between Childe and Sire, they can guarantee safe transit to and from the coast. possibly obsolete
			* But you'll pay them *both*.
			* She manages the Ventrue holdings in the Ashtown-Yosemite Airport. possibly obsolete
				+ First-class overnights to San Jose, San Francisco, LAX
		- He's said to be the one who taught her the path of the Ventrue *Via Regalis* she follows.
		- She's not "just some blue-blood" *anymore!*
			* Do Ventrue become Caitiff?
				+ Only posthumously.
			* She didn't get exiled from her Clan, dude. She isn't even *technically* sentenced by the Camarilla yet.
				+ The Ventrue *is* the Camarilla.
					- Don't let *them* hear you agree with that.
					- Nobbend is offering a Major Boon for her torpid body or verifiable remains. confirmed
						* Don't actually *make* the remains, though, that's still illegal at the moment.
							+ *... at the moment?!* speculation
								- Don't 'speculation' *me*, I'm not the one who said it!
* They know where she lives, don't they? What, is she *on the lam?*
	+ Don't be flippant.
	+ She fled to the SWD. speculation
		- Well she's *not* at any of her havens.
			* That *you* know about.
	+ I heard they're investigating a charter heli-taxi flight from Chandler Executive to Ashtown-Yosemite International. There were five privately chartered flights to San Jose booked that same night, but they all got searched on landing.
* It's too bad; she might have had Nobbend's job, before all this.
	+ She was never considered: her name wasn't really out there since she avoided Chevalier like he's contagious.
		- If darling Thistle would take off her training wheels and say something daring, someone of consequence might have heard of her friends...
		- If her Sire were a bit *more* influential, she could have struck out a bit farther afield.
			* If he were a bit less *Impolite*, she wouldn't have to go as *far* to escape his detractors.
			* If he were less *Negligent*, he might have taught her not to make threats against the Traditions.
				+ Bruh, you get mad and threaten *one asshole*...
* I heard from some of Nina's "primos" she'd been seeing that un-released childe that Jackson terminated, what was his name...?
	+ It's no wonder she's ducking Chevalier, then.
	+ It's no wonder she wasn't Primogen, either.
		- Dog hair on the skirt-suit is a demerit.
	+ She got him an A Perfect Mix cologne to cover up the smell, a custom blend called "*Rangy"*.
		- Works, too. He hardly smells like a cyclone of wet dogs at all anymore.
		- She's got her own custom blend there, too, called "Apollonia". She wore their first recommendation once, then politely returned it (*Thistle flower, datura, and larkspur*), but the replacement blend she wears quite often (*Plum, honey, and burgundy wine*).
	+ It's fucking bullshit that racist old fuck can kill a *person* and you all just nod your heads and shrug.
		- everybody sees behind the curtain eventually, kid, but the Ventrue fall farthest...
		- Touly really want to talk to you, ma'am.
			* I heard Rojo been looking for her, too. She really been talking to people in the SWD?
			* Toby ask around what she look like, too. Anybody got a phone snap or anything?
			* I heard *Thresher* been out looking for her, wtfffffff?
				+ GINNIE IF YOU ARE READING THIS: GIRL YOU *NEED* TO FIND TOBY!! CALL ME I WILL *GIVE* YOU HIS NUMBER *FOR FREE* SIS!!!
				+ Forget Thresher, have the Assamites who've been snooping around the SW asked about her?
		- Been *a lot* of closet Anarchs falling out of the boardroom lately, haven't there...
			* You-know-who is making book on who gets the Airport.
				+ You think someone set this up over domain?
					- With great responsibility comes great power, dude.
					- That's an *Aedile* position.
				+ You mean *a suspects list?*
					- Son, she's done this to herself. She needs to have princip*als*, not the other kind.
		- He wasn't even Presented. *Less than an Anarch.*
			* PEOPLE. AREN'T. PROPERTY.
				+ so then why do you obey, Virginia?
	+ What the hell *was* his name, anyway?