(S3 G1) Writ in Water

*"To Whom it May Concern,

 I would request the honour of your presence at a private function on November the 6th, 1879, hosted with the approval of Prince Bowden of Clan Ventrue. It promises to be a night of extravagant aesthetic delights, socialising, and exotic company that shall quicken even the oldest and venerable denizens of Edinburgh, and beyond.

Yours in blood,
Primogen Eva Stoker
Clan Toreador"*

The first game of Season 3

It was preceded by (S2 G8) All Follow This, and Come to Dust

It will be followed by (S3 G2) Don't Threaten Us With A Good Time

## Notable Events

* A number of visitors visited Edinburgh at the invite of Eva Stoker, including Juliet Parr, Sheriff of North London; a visitor from a Kindred circus and a Transylvanian elder.
* The appointment of Arthur Robinson to the position of Sheriff, and the accompanying appointment of Ronnie Carter and Sean O'Duffy as Hounds.
* The naming of Ronnie Carter as 'Resourceful' by Prince Bowden
* The appointment of Harris MacTíre as Primogen of Clan Brujah

## Headlines

● FIRE IN BONNINGTON! Number of houses burned down, extensive damage, sinkholes found beneath wreckage, 13 dead

● Tay Bridge Wreckage Clearing Continues, Architect Questioned over Safety As Forth Bridge Undergoes Construction, Architect’s reputation in ruins

● Fog Descends on London, remains for three weeks, no sign of lifting soon

● LAND WAR CONTINUES as rowdy Irish continue Land Agitations, Boycotting

● PM Disraeli’s health failing, General Election Looms in New Year, Gladstone to move for power

● Workers at The Scotsman newspaper form workers’ union, widespread boycotting of the paper ongoing

● 207 DEAD IN BLANTYRE MINING DISASTER, 92 Widows Left Behind as Mine Collapses, improper storage of explosives are to blame

● 9th FA Cup Begins, 1880 season off to a roaring start with victory for Finchley

● Crime Wave Sweeps Glasgow as union agitators turn violent, riots and looting ensue.

● Circus Comes to Edinburgh, Light Promised in these Winter Months

● Irish Rugby Football Union formed in anticipation of Home Nations Championship, to be contested in future between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

● Anarchist movement gains sway in Glasgow in night of broken windows and murder, villains roam the street as local police consider curfew

● Private Militia active in Dundee, HMS Erebus captain threatened at gunpoint on Victoria Dock

## Heardlines

● Has anyone actually seen the Ventrue Primogen? Is he even still alive?

● That fire was no accident, that house was Kat MacKenzie’s haven.

● I hear someone threatened Katherine MacKenzie and held her at gunpoint in Dundee.

● They’ve declared Highgate Cemetary in London a permanent Elysium.

● Khadir’s been seen in Glasgow, and he rules it with an iron fist, they say.

● I hear that Major Daly’s been harbouring Setites in his country estate. So has Lloyd, and a bunch of other people.

● Why hasn’t the Prince appointed a Nosferatu Primogen? Who’s the Sheriff these days?!

● Someone’s digging through that place in Portobello the Prince demolished a while back.

Yeah, the place with the creepy wind around it.

● Kat MacKenzie is gonna declare for the sabbat any day now, I know it.

● MacKenzie blew up the tay bridge.

● Where did all these Setites come from?

● MacKenzie has her main haven on a warship in Dundee harbour. If that doesn’t bode poorly for our future, nothing does.

● Major Daly’s pissed, half his Newspapers aren’t even for sale in the city these days. I’d love to know who took him down a notch.

● Lotta people coming and going through the sewers of late.

● There’s a new place to bet on fights in Portobello. Some are saying it puts Smith’s in Calton Hills to shame. I wonder if MacTire is trying to muscle in?

● Someone saw an honest-to-goodness cowgirl riding through the forests last week.

● Someone’s putting on a Panto, and they’re gonna do a send-up of the Camarilla. It’ll be a doozy, and they’d do well to get the theatre declared Elysium.

● Who blew up the Tay Bridge? That was no planned demolition.

● There’s a Londoner up here selling magic trinkets, I don’t believe him though.

● The Giovani have too much power here. One of them’s in a coterie with the Prince, and he’s not even a Camarilla member!

● Someone’s living in a cave in Holyrood estate. Must be some Gangrel.

● Whatever happened to the Edinburgh Ripper?

● There’s a circus coming to town soon- That’s gotta be some Ventrue’s feeding restriction, right? Still, probably some good and weird hunting there.