Session Zero: Nights in the Forgotten City

## Details

Player Characters: Diavolo, Gasper, Yahir, Giovanni, Alphonse, Mia, Josiah

Time: December 4th, 2021

Location: The Lodge

## Notes

Diavolo vouches for the Nosferatu at the Primogen Council meeting when they come under fire.

Alphonse is sent by Oliver Thrombe to Yahir in order to forge an alliance with the Ravnos. Yahir agrees to hear him out at this favorite local drug den. The travel to Gasper's Blood House. Alphonse successfully bargains his way into only paying $2,750 out of the $3,000 asked by Gasper, even though the human only cost Gasper $1,700 to abduct and drug. Yahir uses seduce on Gasper to instead pay with a sexual favor.

Mia, Diavolo, and Josiah reach the Blood House to investigate. Mia decides to distract the guards (only Gasper) by going to the front door and asking if they have any drunk humans to feed on. Gasper lets Mia in, not threatened by her appearance and unknowing to her status. Meanwhile Diavolo and Josiah sneak into the building through an open window in Ricky Thompson's room. Diavolo takes photos of Ricky's family and current state.

As Josiah cracks open the door to peer into the hallway, Mia alerts Gasper to her comrade's stealthy attempt. Josiah decides to hide Diavolo's involvement and quickly steps out into the hallway, shutting the door behind him, and claims to be Ricky's new caretaker.

Yahir and Alphonse reach the top of the "really fucking annoying" stairs. They are now right in front of this whole ordeal. Gasper is suspicious of this, and begins to call for his friend Giovanni. Alphonse begins to panic when he realizes that two Primogens are now standing in the same backwater drug den as he.

Diavolo hears Gasper call for someone, and decides to step into the hallway. He tells the assembled group to get into the room and stand against the wall under threat of death.

Alphonse fails his roll, and appears the most guilty of the group. Diavolo speaks to him first. Alphonse tells Diavolo that he has been sent here by the Primogen Oliver Thrombe, and successfully insists that Oliver will tell the same story.

Diavolo then begins interrogating Yahir. Before Diavolo can say a single word Yahir unsuccessfully attempts to seduce him. Diavolo threatens to fleshcraft Yahir's genitals to Yahir's asshole. Yahir does not react. Diavolo then states "Your life depends on his truth" while pointing at Alphonse.

Next is Gasper, who is extremely distributed by this event and is reluctant to give more than a yes or no answer. Gasper knows not to talk to cops. Diavolo and Gasper trade questions and short answers back and forth, before Diavolo decides that it doesn't really matter. Gasper holds his own, but endangered himself greatly.

Giovanni is far far far far far far too stoned for this kind of conversation, and replies to the first three questions with "What?", "Who?", "I am?". Diavolo gives up and decides that they should head back to the Prince.

Upon exiting the Blood House the group encounters four black SUVs parked on the other side of the street, with armed thugs taking cover behind the vehicles. The unidentified assailants open fire on the group. Diavolo uses celerity to dodge, and begins sprinting towards their vehicles. Gasper doges and follows Diavolo, Yahir hides behind Alphonse and then joins the group sprinting at the enemy. Others begin to user their firearms. Once at the vehicles, Diavolo, Gasper, and Yahir begin to tip the attacker's vehicles onto them. Crushing and mangling those caught underneath. The other attackers are dispatched by firearms. Gasper insists that he doesn't know those guys, and is angry at the damage to the Blood House.

The group get into David's limo, and head to the Prince. The Prince scolds the new faces, and especially Gasper, who talks back at every occasion. The Prince uses dominate to make Gasper sob, throw up, and eat his vomit. Giovanni stays perfectly silent, believing this all to be a very peculiar hallucination.

The session ends with the group leaving once again in David's limo, heading to the OVN headquarters where they will be instructed on the legal Kindred ways.