Sessions - Brief

**See Sessions for more in-depth stuff. This is *just* quicker summaries.**

## Session 6: Daeva in the Archives

Gatlin ingratiates his way into a Necropolis archive and is looking for occult info when he gets lost, and a Strix possesses him. Three days later, Torsten learns a Daeva has gone missing, and the following night, he heads out, with Genevieve to the same archive. They find Gatlin possessed, but Genevieve uses a mix of light and Dominate to kick it out.

## Session 7: The Case of the Missing Torsten

Torsten goes missing at Johann's penthouse and Piper goes to Gatlin's casino to get help. Gatlin offers Roxana as a second distraction, and they head to the penthouse, meeting Genevieve there. Genevive has a coupon for a flower shop that might be a lead, while Piper finds a lighter and evidence of a gargoyle. The gargoyle returns and knocks Roxana out in a dumpster, leaving behind a note:

[Don't Investigate.]

## Session 8: Flower Shop Fire Fight

Piper, Gatlin, and Roxana head to the Flower shop and meet the Schnables. Gatlin chats them up, while Piper sneaks into the basement, then apartment, finding runes (basement) and some books on mythology (apartment). Torsten wakes up in a cell with Johann, but they escape, then fight Markus. The others eventually arrive on the scene. Gatlin gets injured and Roxana and Johann are knocked into Torpor.

## Session 9: Aftermath

Piper gets a PC game in the mail and plays it in a sandbox. Torsten and Roxana have a fight, then the Count threatens Torsten. Genevieve drinks some powerful blood, and Gatlin drinks some normal blood.

## Session 10: Piper Gains a Friend :)

Torsten and Piper, along with Elise and the Count enter Lady Nobody's tomb, but Piper wanders off at some point and meets an odd creature, which takes her hands, leaving behind shadow. She thinks it's neat. It slithers off, and she's reunited with Torsten. Torsten finds Lady Nobody and gives him some of his Vitae, awakening her.

Meanwhile, Gatlin is trying to make Piper a new ID, but has no luck when he searches for her real name, only learning what it means. He texts her for a photo, which she gives, saying it's the only one she feels comfortable giving: it's a photo with her quite injured, with two people holding her in place. He also buys a derringer for self defense, and finds someone who can counterfeit the ID for her.

## Session 11: Krauser Kerfuffle

[Lis misses the first hour, so all I know is there were jokes about Gatlin being a serial killer, due to Krauser being last seen in his casino.]

To get access to the church archives, Torsten is taxed to find Krauser, a missing Carthian. They learn he was last seen at Gatlin's casino, so they head there and do research. For a bit, Torsten thinks Gatlin is at fault, due to a poor poker face, but in the end, they realize his Sire, Kurt, is more likely responsible, as a badge with a "K" is left behind in the bathroom.

## Session 12: Bye Bye Blackmail

At home, Piper gets visited by the Shadow Creature again, and gladly gives up her right eye, when asked.

Meanwhile, Torsten, Gatlin, and Genevieve arrive at Kurt's safehouse, Gatlin once again being a distraction by walking right up to the door and chatting Kurt up. Kurt tells Gatlin he needs to double his "allowance," and holds a knife up to his stomach, taking him upstairs. Genevieve fails to stealth and ends up being brought upstairs as well. The two annoy Kurt and a fight breaks out. Gatlin is shot, but before Kurt can break his legs, Torsten knocks him out, leading to his arrest.

While this is happening, Roxana wakes up in the basement and sees a copy of herself, unconscious. She kills her.

After Kurt is taken away, a lady Kurt was working for walks up to them and offers them power if they eat her current body and accept her into them. She's some sort of worm that feeds off of vampires. They all refuse, but Gatlin is tempted. Roxana asks for a tete-a-tete, then Torsten kills the worm.

## Session 13: Return to the Necropolis

Lady Nobody irritates Gatlin and unleashes her Competitive Beast on him. From there, the group heads to the archives to look for various information. Genevieve finds information on vampires, Gatlin finds a fake way to cure vampirism that he excitedly believes, and Torsten and Piper find out information about Piper not being the first Arioch Gomorrah and her design as a magical 'nuke' of sorts to allow for vampires to live freely with no Masquerade.

Afterwards, Gatlin tries to get his hands on Solace to 'cure' himself, and Genevieve tags along, to keep him safe. After taking it, he *does* feel human again—for now.

## Session 14: Downtime Split

Torsten wants to grow plants for a specialized magic garden, and meets Lorena Fraticelli.

Gatlin is happily sleeping as a human when he gets a text from Piper, asking him to hang out, because she needs to escape her house. He obliges, and they hang out at an amusement park, but her "uncle" notices her and questions if "the grandmothers" know. She asks him not to tell. He later texts Torsten about this. Piper and Gatlin ride a rollercoaster, which makes Gatlin throw up afterwards, which includes his drugs, turning him back into a vampire. He panics and becomes very depressed for the rest of the evening, but tries to keep on *some* semblance of joy, for Piper's sake. He doesn't do a great job.

Roxana is doing a movie shoot when Genevieve falls into a shot, but they make it work. Shortly after, the director cuts himself, but Roxana holds back on drinking his blood and Genevieve finds what they later learn is a werewolf for her to drink from instead, who happens to be a mega-fan.

## Interlude 1: Dates and Drugs

Gatlin gets more Solace (and a spare for later) from a drug dealer in a nightclub on the outskirts of Crone territory.

Lady Nobody shows Torsten a special place and they start dating.

## Interlude 2: Death and Birth

After injecting himself with Solace, Gatlin and Piper drive back to his casino, only for him to accidentally ding a police car, leading to him having to take a bunch of drug tests—which he succeeds—until they check his urine. He's taken back to the police station, but after some convincing, Piper is allowed to go with him, waiting in the waiting room.

While Gatlin's with the police, the Shadow Creature visits Piper, this time, asking for her voice, which she gladly gives up, saying she rarely uses it anyway. When Gatlin realizes this fifteen minutes later, he's horrified and filled with guilt for failing to protect her while under his supervision.

Once at the casino, Piper tests a new 'luck' power the creature gifted her, which Gatlin takes an interest in, only to cause a stir when she's able to win the jackpot on a machine. He takes her to his office to try to have a chat of his own with this Shadow Creature, and unable to *stop* it from taking Piper's body parts, he offers his Sire's legs as a compromise, wanting Piper to *at least* keep those to herself. The Shadow Creature agrees, so they rollerblade down to the prison and are surprisingly let inside with no questions.

Gatlin doesn't chat long before offering Kurt up to the creature, but to his horror, it doesn't just take his legs, instead swallowing him whole, until *Kurt* is nothing but a shadow, while the creature is now a corporeal white, alien-like being.

Gatlin is harrowed by his Sire's sudden death indirectly by his hands, but Piper's happy to have her friend with a body of its own and hugs it. When the issue of a name is brought up, Gatlin brings up "Pepper," and thus, Pepper is born.

## Session 15: Homeless Party

Felix asks Gatlin to host some homeless vampires in his casino for a few hours, while they sort them to send them elsewhere. Torsten, Roxana, and Gatlin all come to the sorting, with Roxana eventually causing a scene downstairs to keep the paparazzi on her for her own protection against kidnapping. Piper, meanwhile, looks into Felix and Johann, noticing Johann is involved with both the Invictus and Carthians.

## Session 16: Hunter Hunt

Torsten talks to Johann, while Piper hacks. They learn Johann's real name and that he's been planted into the Invictus by the Lancea.

Gatlin and Roxana revisit the Schnables to learn more about vampire hunters. There are multiples: The Union, the Lawless Thule, and the Null Miseriis. They go on a patrol with her and meet a changeling ("Ogre") and a vampire they're protecting/working with (Beyhan). They meet Torsten's pack too.

That evening, they learn Beyhan has been kidnapped, and run into Piper and Torsten. They search the area and learn that she's been taken to a Bayer lab.

## Session 17: Bayer Break In

Torsten and Piper (and Gatlin, unwillingly) break into a small Bayer facility from the second floor. Torsten kills a bunch of creatures, while Piper finds three kidnapping victims: Harald, Beyhan, and another. Gatlin can't see the entire time, because he's still on Solace.

## Interlude 3: Session Not-Really-A-Session

### Research:

* Torsten learns the facility they attacked isn't very high up. There's another near Crone territory.
* There's a sub-section of hunters that are white supremacists/Nazis who use blood of vampires as enhancements.
* They're researching a virus called VLAD that makes vampires not be able to do vampire stuff, and it's transmissible. They want to both find a cure to sell and also to weaponize a non-transmissible version to shut specific vampires down (the latter being more for the Tula Society and Brotherhood of Blood).
* Gatlin asks the researchers about Solace. They are working on manufacturing it and want to distribute it among vampires that want an out.
* VLAD - Disease that shuts down Disciplines and other vampire stuff
* Chimera Virus - Shapeshifting virus that replaces a vampire's cells
* Noctuku Strain - Nosferau-exclusive cannibalistic disease
* Blood Mold - Last of us zombie mushroom
* Solace - Drug that turns vampires "human" for a time

### Politics Overview:

* **Ordo Dracul**: In charge. Whole city is their territory. Margrave is Ordo.
* **Crone**: Outskirts of Berlin and Night Clubs. Use them as a cover for their ceremonies.
* **Carthians**: A lot were members of political parties in East Germany. Lots of Communitsts/Socialists.
* **Invictus**: One of the smallest covenants, looking to get more influence. One of the suspects behind some of the disappearances.
* **Lancea**: Not much different form most other places. Religious. Slightly more power than in most Ordo cities since the Margrave is traditionalist, thus religious.
* **Watchful Eyes**: Margrave's Secret Police that looks into the disappearances.
* Most vampire here are Gangel or Nosferatu and don't have much political power. Nosferatu allied with Mekhet to get more votes in the Council.
* The Margrave himself is a Daeva, but he judges Daevas more harshly to avoid accusations of favoritism.
* Ventrue are pretty rare. Most that exist support the Margrave and initiatives to feed hunters info to have hunters deal with their problems.

## Session 18: The Fraticelli Incident

The usual gang and two others (Lucy and Astrid) are called to a safehouse to discuss breaking into another Bayer-related(?) facility, which happens to be an Italian restaurant, Fraticelli's. Astrid rides off first, with Elise, and starts arguing with the head chef almost immediately, while Elise sneaks downstairs.

Lucy Astral Projects when the rest arrive, but gets trapped. Torsten tells Gatlin to cause a distraction, which he does through singing the Italian national anthem, allowing the others to sneak downstairs—outside of Astrid, who has one of her Molotov cocktails light up. She throws it into the restaurant, hoping Gatlin will duck, but he instead catches it, as it explodes. Astrid catches fire and starts attacking the chef, eventually killing them, while Gatlin tries to sneakily roll away, but accidentally rolls into the kitchen instead, where Astrid is fighting. The chefs block his escape, knowing instantly he's a vampire, from his supernatural wounds.

Meanwhile, Torsten and the Count make it downwards and reunite Lucy with her body.