THE BRONZE

**Status:** 4 (Former Sheriff; **MIA** & reported *Deceased*): Courageous, Dreaded, Feared, Known, Resourceful, Valued, *Brutal, Reviled*

**KIA** reported**:** Ambushed and killed by XSKO Anarchs in the SWD, primarily masterminded by JonJon and including Alejandro Moreno and J-Zeus.

* We know these bastards because we been running the bazookas or whatever they been buying off Rojo.
	+ *Cannot* be independently verified by us.
	+ We don't know anything about it either.
	+ So who the hell are these Nosferatu then?
		- Just some guys from out in the SWD.
			* Big-mouth Paulie says you can't trust them SWD dudes half of them are fucked-up blood cultists or devil worshippers or some shit.
				+ No, what I *said* was some dudes one time invited me to a fuckin' blood communion or some shit so you got to be careful about the kind of dudes who don't want to live in the group home, you know what I mean, chief?
		- Just some guys from down south.
			* How far South?
				+ Like it matters? Anything South of Downtown, chum.
					- Anything South of Friant.
						* South of the River.

**Sect:** Camarilla

**Merits/Flaws:** I don't think I can describe to you how off-putting he was.

THE BRONZE DID NOT GRANT "INTERVIEWS" KINDLY PROCEDE YOURSELF TO UNLIKELY ROMORS

### VISCOUS RUMORS dubious

* Bronze was/were not actually made of bronze.
* The Bronze was not allowed to take off the batshit mask any more, so no one else can be licked.
	+ It was *Lehner...* the absolute mental patient, how the fuck did he think he was going to get away with that?!
		- I heard it was Aethyr 9teen. The Tremere set his mouth on literal fire in retaliation, and he's covered up his fucked-up face ever since.
			* The Bronze has been locked in that hood since before that witch was born.
		- No [Lehner] was confirmed in "The Nossier".
			* It also *supposedly* had *"proof"* The Bronze is a Lasombra, *soooo*...?
				+ *Curious* the Laibon didn't mention *his* Protean is shadow-tainted, *too*...
					- #notmyprimogen
					- not The Bronzes' primogen, either
				+ What's LaCroix's Sheriff supposed to be, again?
					- What did the Herald say? *"Employing Naglopers is a California tradition?"*
						* *That's racist!*
				+ A few of the Ventrue have been going around implying they've seen this "Nossier" and they're still convinced he's some sort of devil.
					- Not "infernal"; *infernalist.*
						* You neonates don't even know what that word means.
							+ Maybe we didn't *before* we read about it in The Nossier, buuut...
			* Can we talk about Kreuger compiling a report *on his own clanmate* a couple of seasons before the guy just *up and disappears* off the face of God's earth?
				+ Yeah guy *whatever* the Bronze were, "Gangrel" wasn't it.
					- How do you know?
					- Are you contradicting the Prince?
					- Don't even respond, it's one of those "Multiple Bronzes" weirdos.
				+ Does it have a list of enemies and other potential suspects?
					- Kid *how long have you got?*
			* How much does it cost to view a copy of this so-called *"Nossier"*?
				+ I don't know what Freddy charges, but we can sell you the highlights.
		- It was both of them.
	+ Wait, the licking people joke is real? Fuck.
		- Of course not, he was just *Disfigured*. But he didn't want to talk about it, and you know how neonates natter on about anything they haven't had explained to them in small words.
* I lost a friend at a haven he busted in Sunnyside; thing is they said he hit two other havens at the exact same time.  How the hell is that possible?
	+ I hear them Assamite commandos can do that.
		- You idiots, he rounded them all up together somewhere and dumped their bodies in your safe-houses to scare you.
			* *All at the same time?*
	+ Aren't there some Sabbat that can divide themselves like Multiple Man?
		- Are you implying Anastos' chosen Sheriff is *Sabbat*?
			* Do you even know what "Greek Gangrel" *means*?
				+ Does Anastos?
				+ Greek Gangrel *Antitribu*
					- oh for fucks sakes
* That guy is corrupt to the bone.  Call me a liar if you can explain all the famous Autarkis in Ash Town.
	+ With the friends z3r0 turned out to have, maybe he only kills the ones he's *allowed to*?
		- You mean he *asked somebody* if he could kill all those hundreds of licks in the SWD?
			* *Hundreds?* Come off it, maybe dozens.
				+ Maybe *you* only count the dozens who'd been to Elysia...
		- He's asked *repeatedly* for permission to fight Xiong, and been denied every time.
			* The first words out of his mouth after his appointment, and every single year since, on the anniversary.
			* Took CheJong's leg off way out on East Jensen last night.
				+ And *ate it.*
				+ She's *Tolerated*, can he do that?
		- He's said in public he wants a chance to duel the Caliph Abu al-Fuwaris.
			* Ha ha ha, let him loose, Nasty Nastos!
			* Isn't he the one ran over Yousafzai in the cross-walk?
				+ Better not be, that guy's *technically* still *Acknowledged*.
			* Guess we'll find out if Abu is any tougher soon...
				+ Guess we already did, guy.
					- Are you saying Abu killed The Bronze?!
						* I'm saying only one of them has a checkmark in the "Mobbed to death by Anarch neonates" column, and it isn't the Imam, inshallah.
		- He's implied he wants to wear Zora Nikolova's skin.
		- He tried to buy Bella Morte in Elysium, for like a briefcase full of money?
		- The Witches, too.
			* This one time, Bronze took the Prince's brand new sports car and tried to drive it through Ocampo's house at a hundred fifty miles an hour. The car wound up on fire in a ditch, and Bronze wound up on fire in the middle of the road, belly-laughing like a maniac.
				+ I don't think he even got in trouble for that.
					- Not from the vampires, you mean?
			* The Bronze keeps trying to talk/trick the Seneschal into asking him to "deal with" Blake Kaufmann.
		- He wants to walk out to the hills and bare-knuckle box the Lupines, too.
			* The reason Loud Mary be callin' in to the radio is so the Prince know when to lock him up. Last time he decided to have a riverside barbecue in the middle of their pow-wow, knocked some teenage werewolf out cold with throwin a beer bottle. Ain't nobody want scuffles like that out in public no more.
				+ No he did not.
				+ The fuck it is, we aren't afraid of a bunch of Wyrm-ridden corpses coming to our war parties. Your "Prince of the Night" or whatever can send whoever he wants or show up himself, if he thinks he's got the cajones.
			* Set them big metal bear-traps out around the Ham Palace one time, too, but I don't think he caught nothin.
				+ Nothing *worth* catching.
			* One of those his skins was a lupine (it turned back into a person when it died).
			* Old Man Jackson got wolfhounds for him when he set to go huntin' for real.
	+ If he's so corrupt, where do I send *my* stay-away money to?
		- Just take it on down to his office...
		- *I'll* deliver it for you.
		- To the masjid, good luck!
* I heard the tent city near China Town has potent wards against him.
	+ This is false, I know a guy who got grabbed out of there.  If you're running from Bronze you probably know who I mean already.
		- Back up now, last about twenty-nine, thirty night.
			* Mate starting *when*.
			* Must have expired: two caitiff vanished yesterday during broad daylight.
				+ Well, I mean... it was *cloudy*.
				+ *How in the fuck.*
	+ I know a guy who bought a charm off an old guy near Downtown, it worked for like three months until he tried to skip town and never made it to LA. The old guy's number is one of the ones in the bathroom at Central Fish.
		- Got one, not cheap, can't tell if it's doing anything. No Bronze yet I guess.
			* RIP in peace, Chango, gone too soon
				+ Very funny man, he's fine. I saw him half an hour ago in Tower, selling 2too an eight ball. You can call *him* if you don't believe me.
					- Bitch, whothafuck gon call TUTU for fuckin' ANYTHING? Pssssh, TONTO.
					- Anybody seent him *lately* tho?
						* Nah he been back now the Bronzes are dead.
							+ Cruiser just found what's left of his body at his place on Belmont. Looked like he been dead for *years*.
								- That happen sometimes, mijo.
								- Tell Cruiser I can get him out of town.
	+ Pues, Botanica Los Angeles en la Belmont y Fresno vende amuletas para protegerte de El Bronze y otros diablos.
		- Gracias, Bistia.
* The Bronze used to be a luchador or something.  My primo had a poster of him in our old apartment.
	+ Ya for real his nickname was like The Bronze Gong or something because like, He'll Ring You Out or some shit like that.
		- That's why he can't kill you if you're wearing one of those lucha libre masks.
			* The first time he catch you, *he can only take your lucha mask.*
* If you light a candle in St. Mary's, The Bronze can't see you as long as it burns.
	+ An old man stall in Cherry Market where he place bronze moneda under you tongue, say old latin rezo a St. Vulcanus, that Bronze he can't hear you neither, long you see you no lose la moneda.
		- Fuckin' thing is the size of a half-dollar, how is anyone supposed to understand me.
			* A. Better than bronzing. B. You don't gotta report *beneficial* side effects.
	+ The Church has been bright as daylight from all the candles the last three nights...!
		- *rest in hell motherfucker*
* I watched that asshole put his hand on this Caitiff's face and just melt him into a puddle of skin and vitae on the floor.
	+ No you fucking did not. Ten thousand USD and a minor boon a Harpy owes me if I can watch your memory of anything *remotely like this*.
		- *Yeah right*, can you promise The Bronze won't be with you?
		- Well! Vittoria, you may resolve your debt to me via Pervis Sherbert, Anarch.
			* She sure *can't*, mate, nobody can find him.
				+ He was an Anarch, she wouldn't have to pay him anyway.
		- H&C Tremere can now testify to the truth of this: the Anarch saw what he thought he saw. They will not speculate on how.
* The reason he wears that mask all the time is because he's not even the same Bronze anymore. This guy is like His Grace's *third* Bronze.
	+ Are they going to put a mask on Abu al-Fuwaris?
		- Uh, *inshallah dude..?*
			* And through this holy anointing may the Lord in his love and mercy help you with the grace of the Holy Spirit...
		- They haven't *found* the mask yet.
			* Some fuckin' dudes in the Southwest trying to find Rojo to claim the bounty on it.
				+ Nah main that was last week
					- No I know, *after that.*
* I heard he has a secret police to spy on everyone which he keeps fanatically loyal through blood bondage.
	+ No, that was just Little Peter...
		- stfu i dont work for bronze, asshole
			* EVERYONE KNOWS SEREN TOLD YOU TO GO HOME, LITTLE PETER!!!!!!
		- No but seriously how many of them *are* there?
			* How did that Toreador know about them?
			* I heard the new Sheriff killed Deputy Shego at the Bronze Summit.
				+ He definitively did not. No one killed "Deputy" Shego (or anyone else) at the so-called "Bronze Summit", he was in fact evacuated from the room by security alive.
					- Thin how come nobody seent him sence.
					- Evacuated to where?
						* I don't keep tabs on his whereabouts, and I was a little distracted. Perhaps you could ask the security guards on duty at the time which way he went?
							+ Wait, those goombas got *names?!*
							+ The official Ventrue position is now that he was, despite their best and frankly valiant efforts, extremely unfortunately slain by Assamites unknown.
				+ Was he even a Deputy?
					- The Bronze did not request permission to promote deputies.
						* Well so who the fuck was he working for?
* He's in love with the Herald and vies desperately with the Prince for the right to woo her.
	+ Well *I* heard that the Gangrel Primogen was ready to box Bronze in Elysium for her honor, and their Prince was going to give her hand away to the winner.
		- Don't be stupid Kreuger can't hide from the Nos.
			* She wouldn't dare to say a word to him. Kreuger is an Alpha.
				+ He's *definitely* not top.
			* So where is he, then?
		- They're having some family beef or something, it's best not get involved.
			* Guy I can tell you one thing for sure, The Bronze is *not* a Gangrel.
				+ Hell neither is Kroyger.
					- #notmyprimogen
* Why does everybody keep acting like Bronze wears people's skins and that's TOTALLY FINE.
	+ Wasn't that just z3r0 pretending she banged him?
	+ Would you rather he go around naked?
		- He might catch cold!
* He used to have a girlfriend. She was this pretty, but freaky, Toreador girl, right? She used to work at the Harpy's club. She disappeared one night and nobody knows what happened to her, but she was last seen with Bronze.
	+ Bronze has consistently denied that you will ever find a body.
		- Whose was he talking about, man... Hers *or his?*
	+ Her name was Ginger Snap, if you can believe that shit.
		- Pretty sure that's a stage name, bro.
	+ What the hell did she see in the Bronze?!
		- Was he already this weird?
		- Was he already *wearing the mask?*
			* Can anyone remember him *not* wearing the mask?
* Somebody said he's two short guys in a coat.
	+ *At least* two guys.
	+ That why he got so many *auras?*
		- It's the *prisms*, man. The CIA makes artificial prisms from atomically re-consituted carbon infused with a *secret cocktail* cooked up by the AIH in their chemical labs, *by which means* man, instead of refracting visible spectra (or *additionally*) it refracts your *spiritual spectra*. That's why their skin is always covered, man, they've got an entire layer of prisms sewn into their clothes.
		- Big-mouth Paulie been going around telling everyone half of the Bronzes escaped into hell and been eating up all the sinners' souls.
			* That's ghosts, not auras.
				+ That's not better yo.
		- Can someone please explain to me how this is even possible.
			* Did anyone *witness* these "multiple auras" that we could interview?
* Bronze was frequently seen with perfumes from the Nosferatu Whip's store, but was never seen actually buying them or even in her store, and never actually smelled of them neither.
	+ But he liked how that elder that sleeps at the zoo smells too, so what does he know.
		- You idiot, go home little peter.
			* omg *prehistoric*
	+ See? Shoplifting. Crooked as they come.
* He used to be one of the guys that made Mortal Kombat and if you enter a code you can play as Bronze
	+ *Ultimate Mortal Kombat IIL: Hardkore: Tournament Edition: Komplete: Kollection II Gold*
* BRONZE WOULD LIKE TO INQUIRE TO ALL YOU INQUISITIVE FRIENDS: WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A MOMTRAPENEUR LIKE WE ARE? PLEASE TO DIRECT YOURSELF TO THE OFFICE OF THE BRONZE TO FERRET OUT VITAL INFORMATIONS ABOUT A FANTASTIC ŒCONOMIC OPPORTUNITY BY PEDDLING AND MONGERING doTERRA ESSENTIAL OILS? DELIGHTFUL AND HIGHLY FLAMMABLE!
	+ ... and very likely to get you barred from Elysium for half a year.
		- *Fabulous* work packing the hotel full of Assamites and other Anarchs - since now it's the one place they know he *won't* be.
		- Anybody else notice the Seneschal had got him a new office space in that strip center out past Jensen and had him completely moved out before the six months was up?
			* Who want that psycho rubbing shoulders with class in Ashford?
				+ Nobody.
					- It was *rhetorical, Earl.*
			* There's *still* hoods of all sorts all over that place, which is why you'll find *civilised* meetings now take place in Anastos Tower.
				+ Please stop showing up at His Grace's offices un-announced, Roger. *- AL*
					- Isn't that why you're always at His elbow, Lehner? To *announce* His visitors?
				+ Speaking of the Tower, The Bronze was up there a couple nights ago picking up a hundred gees in new bills. Packed them all into duffel bags and walked on out.
					- He made Mr. Coddpeace and Mr. Uranus wait while he counted.
						* They didn't flinch though.
							+ Pretty sure one of *them goombas* winced when he licked his fingers to start counting though.
								- That dude's gonna be on neonate blood for a year.
								- *But did he see his face?!*
						* Somebody must know what those two were paying him for? AFAF
							+ They weren't so much paying *him* as providing cash for the purposes and use of the office of the sheriff. As is their job, like.
								- Fine, fine. So *what was the money for?*
					- So where the fuck did it go to? Who were you following?
						* *Not.* THE. fucking. BRONZE. chief.
							+ Chicken.
						* Didn't 2too have a duffel bag stuffed full of cash the other week?
					- He's trying to buy a tank.
						* He going to drive it to that factory in Sunnyside?
							+ *Finally*.
						* Having another go at Ocampo's house.
						* I don't think "tank gun" means an actual gun off a tank.
							+ Where the fuck do you think he's going to buy a "tank gun" either.
						* Who needs a tank, he could give me the 100k and I'd shoot myself.
* Of course I know what's wrong with him, but who do you suppose I should report Infernalism to, *the Sheriff?*
	+ I'm sure you could find advice at the appropriate place of worship...
		- He done exercised That Bronze, thet's how he got the job.
			* He gonna keep goin' on the *rest of the Infernalists?*
			* The Bronze weren't infernalists, they were members of His Grace's council and Sheriff of the Camarilla.
				+ Do you multiply the status by how many Bronzes there were?
				+ Hey guy, you think they have to split their status evenly?
					- Once there's more Bronzes than status, he starts killing the anarch ones.
						* Shit you got grim.
				+ Well, so was Kreuger.
					- Why has Anastos got so many infernalists in Cabinet?
						* Perhaps you mean, why are there so many unsubstantiated claims of infernalism circulating in His Grace's domain?
							+ They're not *all* unsubstantiated.
						* When's the last time an Archon checked in on Nasty 'Nastos?
							+ 1964.
	+ Go tell his *Infernalist Primogen*...
		- Nobody *but* the Elders are going to have the status and ability to *deal with* his awful ass anyway, and they wouldn't even help *Lehner* when he was coming after her...
			* Guess Seren finally got Reiny-weiny wrapped up. He's *not* fighting a Bronze for her now?
				+ #notmyprimogen
			* He got his office moved out of Elysium.
				+ Yes, *that's* stopped him.
			* *"Nobody but the Elders are going to ... deal with his awful ass"*
				+ Ha ha yooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
* Remember that one time in the 90's when the Nossies had everyone convinced he was one of them?
	+ That went on for like *seven years* and wasn't even funny for the first one.
	+ No, he *is* a Nosferatu, that huge scandal when the Malk Primo proved he wasn't *was a prank*.
		- *I'm telling you*, man, it's more than one dude.
	+ There's very good evidence at least one Nosferatu was passing as Bronze for several years during this period.
		- Yeah "passing as" like indistinguishable. Even their blood.
			* The blood was Obfuscated.
				+ You must not have met a Tremere.
		- There was a cover-up while the original Bronze recovered from torpor.
* I heard z3r0/Sarah banged him while masked as the Herald and that's why Bronze is all obsessed with her.
	+ I don't think that's the way he wanted to eat her.
		- ya nasty
	+ *Not funny*, guy. She had to sell-out and swear into the Cam to get away from his nasty ass.
		- Her illegal embrace unverified isn't even as big a scandal as *where they got the tip-off* The Sheriff was coming for her, and what she must owe for her rushed presentation with no questions asked, all the way up to His Grace.
			* She must be very indebted.
* Actually, the name came *second*. It used to be called "Getting Bronzed" because he would give dipped Anarchs to the Prince as statues, back in the day. Eventually they started calling him "The Bronze Man" and it just stuck I guess.
	+ I mean, I'm not saying this is true but there are like half a dozen life-size bronze statues in the sub-sub basement at Anastos Tower collecting dust.
		- Do they all look like they're screaming and writhing, or what?
			* The Bronze used to stake 'em first, and pose 'em.
* A bunch of 'narch bangers way out on the west side caught what they claimin was Bronze's *Childe*, but they'd already set it on fire by the time Toby got there to check it out. Just to be *sure*.
	+ The Bronze has definitely *not* been granted the privilege of Progeny.
	+ Well did any of you Anarch idiots manage to GET the ASHES?
		- Mm, while I dislike your language... yes. Clan Malkavian would be quite interested in obtaining these ashes.
			* We'll pay ten times whatever the Malkavians are offering, no questions asked.
				+ You idiots already bought three coffee tins of fireplace scrapings.
* Other night a pack of Rojo's thugs put fire to someone they claimed was The Bronze and were literally *meeting with their boss* to sell his hood when The Bronze showed up and killed them all.
	+ *Hubris.*
	+ I heard he put them through an actual wood-chipper after they was dead.
		- Didn't even take no skins.
		- I know a guy whose friends with a guy who work for Roho and he say nobody find no parts of none of their heads.
			* hold tf up who tf ROHO?????
			* What do you mean "no parts of their heads"?
				+ I mean he only chipped their bodies.
	+ So ... they *did* get him? Or what?
		- Dude can I come out of my basement yet?
		- That's what they sayin'.
			* Who's saying?
* He takes a short-cut to Sunnyside through Burness, feeds the dogs vampire body parts to keep them from howling and carrying on.
	+ He just keep *chopped up vampires* in his car in case he gotta dip south, or what?
	+ What's he got against the freeways?
		- THE BRONZE can't cross *the shibboleths*, man.
* Girls, please do not let this creature touch you.

#### **Somebody said they're dead? Are The Bronze dead?**

* This is it then, I'm trying for L.A. before they find him.
	+ Hey cuz did you ever get there? Hit me back.
	+ R.I.P. - Ran Too Soon
* Who said he's dead? He was dead like a week ago until he showed up for revenge.
	+ The Prince seem pretty convinced, he's got a meeting about it tonight.
		- Who the uglies got covering it, I got five on the crib notes.
			* Seren and Sasha: I hope you mean 5mil.
				+ I meant who *else*.
				+ Can I get the ficusnotes?
		- His Highness convinced enough to replace him.
	+ Nobody's been around trying to sell his hood this time.
		- There like three gangs say they got it *tonight*.
			* One less now, I went to go see it for myself and found the house burned to the ground.
			* Ain't none of those guys tryin to sell it anywhere to be found now.
				+ They found at least one of them skinned.
					- Copycat deputies, that one.
						* Deputies or "deputies"?
							+ Who can even tell the difference anymore. They're *all* Scourges.
	+ Rojo's still smarting from their *last* run-in.
		- *He* sure as fuck don't think it's safe to come out of hiding yet.
			* I heard there's Assamites all over Sunnyside asking about him.
* How many of them dead?
	+ All of them?
		- Are you *certain?*
		- Did you *count them?*
		- How many of him do you think there *were?*
* Xiong's got Nosferatu watching his office for nights now: no sign of him.
	+ Plenty of his childer coming by to report in.
		- His *what did you say*.
		- Someone must have a count of his Deputies.
			* Mr. Bronze neither asked for nor was even implied authorization to deputise anyone.
				+ So who all these scurges y'all got combing my barrio meng?
					- The Prince does not believe in Scourges, *sir*.
						* What the fuck do you think Bronze ~~does~~ all night.
							+ *Did* homes, we're free!
							+ Uphold the Traditions.
								- Like Domain, and Hospitality...
			* Abu has not appointed any deputies either. obsolete
				+ You know, *officially*.
				+ He had a posse *before*, do you think he *fired them all?*
				+ They brought a bunch of Deputies in from Merced or some shit.
					- Nah The Deputies and the Merced motherfuckers are different guys.
						* What in the hell is going on out there in the Southwest District?
						* Which ones are supposed to be his *actual offspring* though?
							+ Mr. Bronze definitely did not receive permission to Embrace.
								- He was an *extremely* law-abiding citizen, and we can trust *that* stopped him...
						* And neither one of those are actually deputized by Abu.
							+ Neither are Hafiz's killers, technically.
							+ You don't see him saving us from them...
								- That is definitely not *his problem*.
* The Nosferatu are very sure [that he's dead].
	+ The Nos know because they delivered the guns to the Anarchs that bushwhacked him.
		- There is no way in hell he finally got done in by some assholes with bigger guns.
			* Well who do *you* think it was then, smart ass?
	+ Word is, so are the Tremere. So the harpies are claiming.
		- How do the harpies know what the Tremere think? Did they release a statement to *the gossip rags?*
	+ The Prince called everyone to meet about it before anyone started "confirming" anything.
		- So of course everyone told him, but who could have proved it so he was positive?
			* Or maybe, man, who does he believe implicitly, and how did *she* know?
				+ She knows when *anyone* leaves.
				+ She felt him die.
					- Was Lehner *bound* to The Bronze?!
					- She *heard* him die.
						* tf does *that* mean
					- How *many* of him?
	+ I'm not celebrating until I can hold his fucking mask in my hands.
		- Amuletas still for sale on Cherry.
		- There a thousand candles burning in St. Mary's.
			* Hope is sparking all over the Southwest.
				+ Just be careful mija, he been dead plenty before.
				+ People are still dying out here.
	+ Three guys who came up from L.A. to lie low got killed last night in Chinatown, and skinned.
* Greasetrap says people been putting twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills under the beer bottle flower vase he set up under the "NO ICE NO BRONZE" sprayed up at the Meat Shake.
* *You ass next Rod.*
	+ Oh yeah, *I* don't *need* a rook...