(10-20-32) Season 1 Finale: Fire in the City

## **Details**:

**Time:** 10-20-2023 7:36 PM - X:XX AM. Session time: X hours and XX minutes, Play time: X hours and XX minutes.

**Players:** Collin, Austin, Caden, Nick, Haden (Storyteller)

**Spectators**: Mairin (Partial)

**Location:** Haden's Kitchen

## **The Session Begins**

Nick's bets on death order: Alphonse, Diavolo, Gasper, Giovanni

7:37 PM: The monologue begins.

7:39 PM: Scene 1 with Alexander wandering. Moroe and Alexander meet in an alley. They speak about how Diavolo has killed their dark father. Moroe is convinced that Diavolo plotted to overthrow the Duke. Alexander is wary of everything.

7:45 PM: Diavolo has a flesh-crafted creature growing out of his back. Giovanni is mad at Gasper and fueled by the sword, Gasper feels like everything is going his way

## Scene 1: The Milliners

7:56 PM: Alphonse is in complete survival mode. He doesn't want to think about the politics of his life. Alphonse is feeling shaken after his recent brush with death.

8:00 PM: Alphonse hears a voice and a loud knock at the door. Danny talks to Alphonse about how its all setup and they can head out to the Milliner's outpost. Some sort of trailer park out in the boonies. Danny insults Alphonse's clothes. Alphonse defends himself. Danny speak up with suit tailor and his clothes. Danny tells him that the Don is coming to town. Danny and Alphonse head out to the Milliner's. In the car, Alphonse asks whats been happening with the Don. Danny says that its whats going on with everyone, not the Don. The Don's business is the Don's business. Alphonse tells him that they need to keep that shit on the down low.

8:05 PM: Danny asks him what he knows about the treaty of 1524, the pact between the Hecata and Camarilla. Alphonse knows that there was a treaty of something. Danny talks about how they need this protection because the Camarilla spread like STDs. The agreement was made when both organizations were weaker. A non-aggression pact that is 499 years old.

8:08 PM: "What do you think happens on the 500th year of the treaty?" , "Someone will break the treaty?" , "There will be no treaty."

8:10 PM: Danny tells Alphonse that a second family reunion is on the way, and that's what all the phone calls are about. He asks Alphonse if there is anything else to ask before shit hits the fan. Alphonse remarks that if there is going to be a war, at least we have potential allies. Danny says that Alphonse is family, and family never betrays family. Danny says that he will eat Alphonse's heart, personally, if Alphonse chooses his "allies" over family again.

8:12 PM: Danny is confused about the place they pull up to. A kid is white boi rapping on stage. People are going wild for him. This seems to be a song everyone here knows. It's Catfish Billie's Song. Danny says that he needs a bear.

8:16 PM: Hell breaks loose and the kindred begins feasting and killing in chaos. The song ends and the artist goes up to a trailer to talk to an older man, Danny says "I think these are some pig fuckers. And I don't even eat pork." Alphonse says that its all about presence, and getting people to do what they want. Danny say's it about getting the boss alone and away from his ego. Danny and Alphonse speak on the crowd before them. Danny wishes he brought more guys and feels shlubby. \

8:20 PM: Danny and Alphonse approach the Rapper and his father. Catfish Billy introduces Danny as Mr. Rothman. Danny clenches his fists out of pure frustration. Danny introduces himself and asks the man if he if Catfish Billy Milliner. Catfish says that Danny can call him Catfish. Alphonse can call him mister Milliner. Catfish introduces the rapper as Bass Boyd, his son. Catfish asks if Bass can come with. Danny mutter through his teeth "Not at all."

8:24 PM: Catfish Billy leads them into the trailer. Danny is somewhat calmer, but he hates the trash heap they are standing in. They live like Kine in squalor. Catfish sits in the recliner in the middle of the room. Bass stands next to him. Danny and Alphonse sit on a awful yellow plethora catch. Danny and Catfish exchange unpleasantness. Danny wants business, not this power game shit. Catfish asks Alphonse what he's for. Alphonse says that he's here to help Danny with a peaceful transaction. Catfish says that means Alphonse doesn't know why he's here. Catfish says that he doesn't need this city slicker shit.

8:28 PM: Danny tells Catfish that Catfish isn't even part of the Hecata anymore. He's not making real money. Catfish tells Bass to lock the door from the outside. Catfish asks what he gets in return from betraying the one connection he has. Catfish thinks that Danny is bad for him. Danny says that every single family member is about to come to OKC. Danny has built an alliance powerful enough to control the other Hecata.

8:31 PM: Catfish and Danny exchange far worse unpleasantness. Catfish is very put off. Danny point at Alphonse, who has the necklace. Alphonse speaks of the abomination that has come to the city. Catfish says that the Milliners are not going to OKC as long as that thing lives. Alphonse speaks of the war that has arrived in OKC. He then mentions the pact is about the expire, Catfish tells him to shut is fucking mouth. Catfish says that it's dangerous knowledge Alphonse is carrying around, nobody knows what the treaty really is anymore. Danny says that they have two solutions for the Abomination. Alphonse pulls out the necklace and says that it kills Abomination.

8:35 PM; Alphonse says that the artifact constricts the neck of the user and creeps it's way into their mouth, past their esophagus, into the victims stomach, and then pierces the heart

8:36 PM: The other way they can destroy the abomination it their friends in the Duncern Family (Corpsefuckers). The Duncerns have a younger abomination named Lorry Duncern who is on a plane to OKC right now. A cautious agreement is struck between Catfish and Danny.

## Scene II: Suburbs and The Brujah

8:45 PM: Gasper and Giovanni are at the Suburb house. Alphonse calls Gasper and Gasper initially thinks that Alphonse is a woman because of how fucked up he is on drugs. Alphonse asks to tag along with the duo to their business.

8:46 PM: Gasper says that Alphonse is coming. Giovanni is annoyed that he wasn't asked, they bicker like an old married couple. Gasper tells Alphonse to come to the suburb. FuckShit walks up to Gasper and Giovanni and they talk about the time al the drugs got stolen. FuckShit, a man of many losses, says that he has never been defeated. Gasper says that they need Fuckshit to stay here to protect the place. FuckShit asks Giovanni why he's so hungry. FuckShit finds out that they're vampires Fuckshit was told is was anemia. Fuckshit has given them blood, thinking they were just sick.

8:51 PM: Lil Murda has been passed out for over 12 hours. Gasper and Giovanni decide to go get food. Gasper asks if they want Pizza. Giovanni doesn't want pizza, but Gasper says that they need pizza for both the humans and vampires. Giovanni is bickering even more like a person in a failed marriage. Gasper orders two large pepperoni pizza. Giovanni completely drains the pizza guy. He feels a lot better.

8:54 PM: Gasper makes a WITS + AWR to realize that the sword might be magic, and maybe that's not a good thing. Gasper rolls WITS + AWR, fails, and wonder where Giovanni even got that sword.

8:56 PM: Alphonse rolls 2/4 to get to the Suburban house. Lil Murda pulls a gun on Alphonse and panics and asks who he is. Gasper and Giovanni vouch for Alphonse a third time. They argue about what happened, and then they drive to the next location. Gasper accidentally calls Lil Murda Big Murda, and they argue back and forth. Gasper tells him that they have to go. They exchange awkwardness. Alphonse rolls a 0/4 for Driving. Halfway through a conversation, they crash. Alphonse blood surges for 2 to save the car. They approach the Circus.

9:02 PM: They hear music coming from a large speaker system near a central bond fire.

9:04 PM: They see a good looking blonde man playing next to the campfire. A small band with a three armed drummer. They have one hyper fan losing his mind at the front of the show. It seems like everyone is enjoying the music.

9:25 PM: Notes resume. The boys are talking to the Brujah Primogen. Gasper speaks to him about the safety and concern of his people. They talk about how things are going to change, and change has cost. The primogen talks about how allies see you fight, become scared, and kill each other. Kindred are killers at heart. Gasper talks about how it's in their blood to change, to win, to obtain freedom.

9:30 PM: The primogen speaks about Rezkov, Buckston's father. Rezkov said in an Elysium that for few to be immortal, many must die. He tells Gasper that he's not interested in making anyone immortal. Gasper says that he just wants a legacy to call is own. Not infamy, but hope and honor towards a rightful ruler. The primogen says that he will not make the Brujah fight the Camarilla. Returning to the old ways isn't what he wants. Gasper Acknowledges how he can't ask anymore than that. Gasper hopes that he will be allowed to ask each Brujah to decide their own fate, and choose their side. The Primogen says that he will not advertise Gasper's cause, but he won't stop Gasper. The Primogen says that if Gasper is responsible for his son's death he will kill each member of the party.

9:33 PM: The group approach various Brujah to acquire additional allies. They fairly simply recruit Will and Laslo Grayson. Gasper rolls 1 success to fail to recruit Tombothy. Gasper rolls 3/5 to convince Madam B. to fight for the Anarchs. Gasper tells her of the Siren's Bar, and to meet them there. She asks if the Graysons will be there too. She asks if there will be rooms to catch up in.

9:49 PM: They discuss where they are going and what they are doing. Alphonse realizes he needs to go to the meeting. Alphonse will drop them off at where they need to go, but after that he needs to go to the most important meeting of his life. Alphonse rolls 0/4, blood surges, and gets 4/4 to drive over. He gains one willpower point.

(MISSING)

## Scene IV: Anarchs Attack

10:57 PM: Discussions begin on what is to be done.

11:03 PM: Gasper and Giovanni are at the Siren's Bar. There is commotion inside and the bar is open. It is getting late, the bar is slowing down but it's still popular. Music, but no dancing. Decent showing of a rugged crowd.

11:05 PM: They walk to the back and find Carl, Bushmaster, and Madame B alongside the two Grayson brothers. The Anarchs have been fighting a few battles to test the power of the Camarilla. Some successes, some failures. They talk about preperations, and Gasper expresses that he feels anxious. Something is going to happen. Gasper says that he doesn't have much in firearms, he likes to get up close and personal. Still, he asks for a 9mm handgun.

11:11 PM: They ask what they should hit. They're asked how devoted to the cause they are. Carl says that the Ravnos are perhaps the best target. He also proposes attacking Moorhouse preemptively. Carl says that Gasper should do what he needs to do, and that he doesn't need to know about it.

11:21 PM: They decide to attack the Ravnos, and put them out of their misery. Gasper rolls to convince Carl that they need his car: 6/7. Carl says that he NEEDS Gasper to come back or Carl will have to take a cab. Carl emphasizes that Gasper needs to come back. He also stresses that he does not need to know who you attack or do not attack. "Just don't tell me man" Giovanni Drive: 4/6. Smooth fucking ride.

11:24 PM: They arrive at the Ravnos gym. It is dark inside. They are joined by: Madame B,

11:29 PM: Gasper is going to wait by the door while Giovanni rolls for stealth with Cloak of Shadows to enter. Gasper 5/6 to lockpick the front doors. Giovanni makes his stealth roll. Gasper: 2 successes. Gasper feels a heavy, thin fist slam into the side of his head. Into the base of his skull.

COMBAT HAS BEGUN.

11:35 PM: Gasper rolls one against two successes, and takes one superficial damage. Giovanni swipes with his sword: 5/5 against 4/6. He deals 1+4=5 damage to the kindred. 3/5 successes on willpower. Giovanni kills him in vengence for Gasper. Giovanni's sword eats his blood hungrily. Giovanni feels the mans last moments on earth. The comfort of defeat and death. Giovanni has never been happier. Giovanni has consumed a kindred in one slice of a sword. Gasper gets 2/3 and blacks out from the horror. Gasper enters a fear frenzy.

11:45 PM: A giant NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO resounds throughout the building. A massive form is now upon him. The figure gets 4/6 against Giovanni 3/4, who takes 2 damage of superficial. Giovanni is gonna make a willpower roll to do a non-lethal: 3/6. Giovanni will brawl 6/4 vs 4/6. The figure tell them that they took out Dimitri. Giovanni dodges 6/4 vs 3/6 figure. Away ~7-8ft from Gasper.

11:54 PM: Gasper uses melee, the figure pulls out a club: 2/5 vs /. He blood surges, fails the roll, and gets hungrier. He spends one willpower to make 3/5 vs 2/6. Gasper inflicts one more superficial, and now has lost 3 total.

11:58 PM: The figure attempts to hit Gasper with his club: 3/6 vs 0/5. Gasper gets his motherfucking ass beat. Torn skin, broken bones. The figure is viciously and almost primaly hates Gasper, dealing 3 superficial damage.

12:01 AM: Giovanni rolls 3/4 sword vs 3/6 to defend.Standoff. The sword clashes off the club.

12:05 AM: Gasper 4/5 Gun vs 1/4 dodge. The figure is disabled. When they don't kill him the figure calls them cowards. Gasper and Giovanni smell smoke, likely caused by one of their allies. Giovanni rolles 4/six

12:10 AM: Gasper realizes he can't see in the dark. Giovanni can see in the dark. They both roll 2 to remember who they are. Giovanni gains 1 Blood Potency and 1 Chimerstry (Illusions). He gets the first level power of creating a illusion to one of the senses for free. Giovanni makes 2/six to not get annoyed with Gasper. They turn the lights on in the first corridor. They hear a big struggle.

12:18 PM: The struggle seems like it's coming from the fighting room. They go to the struggle. There's a big window in the door. The see Ivan Dracul fighting an isolated Madame B. As they enter they see that Madame B is almost holding her own, but she and Ivan and trading blows. He has not drawn his sword.

12:22 PM: Giovanni attempts to shoot Ivan with surprise: 3/5. Ivan takes 3 superficial damage. Giovanni yells "Get off of her!" . Ivan takes Madame B down with one kick, and then pulls his sword off and decapitates Madame B with his drawing of the sword. "Three against one is cheating, but now two agianst one and I am the one who is cheating".

12:25 PM: They take no time to mourn. They decide to get the fuck out of there. Giovanni rolls 2/3, then blood surge, gains a hunger, rolls two more dice: 3/5 total. Gasper rolls 3/? then blood surges, gains hunger, and only gains one more.

12:30 PM: They just barely make it to the light switch before Ivan makes it after them. He sees them before they flip the switch. His gaze is an unsettling thing. Giovanni's study of Galconda tells him that he knows so much more about the universe than this being, but this creature knows what it is and be lives it is truly righteous.

12:32 AM: Giovanni gets 2/4, Gasper gets 7/7 to get the fuck out of there. Gasper gives Giovanni a 4/7 and now has a 3/7. Gasper needs Giovanni. Gasper feels a slash agianst his back. He cannot doge. He rolls STR+BRWL 5/six. He takes one superficial damage.

12:38 AM: The decide to run for the car. Gasper 2/5, Giovanni rolls better. Ivan attacks Gasper 0/six, 3/six.

12:44 AM: Giovanni 2/4 to sprint, Gasper 1/5. Giovanni: 0/4 on second sprint. Used two willpower and gains one point back. Gasper 3/5 on second sprint. Gasper uses 2 willpower and makes a 4/5 total. They just barely get away from Ivan and into the car. Ivan will attack the car and they are at a -2 to drive. Giovanni rolls 1/4. He uses willpower and gets a 2/5 total. They get away.

## Scene V: Family Reunion

12:51 AM: Alphonse prepares to go to the reunion. He checks on Danny. He finds Victor Hung. They talk about the history that's lead them to this night. Danny talks about how he wants a place to shape and build into his own. Danny says that the Don is going to be fine, and that they are going to run things here. Danny says that Alphonse should shut the fuck up at the meeting.

12:58 AM: Many weird and evil creatures and factions fill the room. It's a large gathering of the Hecata. A speech is made about a how the family must protect the family. A toast is raised to an unofficial second family reunion. Everyone raises a glass and the toast is "To US, and Only to US." Danny visits with friends of the family for the most part.

1:05 AM: Scene Close