Third-ish Session. The Prince had a job for Lasombra/Medtech and Tremere/Fixer as the city had a string of incidents where bodies disappeared in ways that would imply they got up and left. One of the bodies was found in the domain of his Childe, which is a strip club/dance club. Due to the lack of Gangrel, I had it so the Prince tasked a secret Caitiff woman (Claudette) to help them
Lasombra: So, I think we need to go to the strip club to get information.
Tremere: I would have thought that an Italian would have an Italian suit.
Lasombra:...I, what? My suit is Italian
Me: Is it?
Lasombra: Probably
Tremere: I am fucking with him. "It is French you imbecile"
NPC Claudette: *Smug French sounds* Yes it is.
Me: Wits+Empathy vs Manipulation+Subterfuge
Tremere won
Lasombra: I...will not say anything, mostly because I wouldn't admit I was wrong if I thought I was.
Tremere: I smile and get into my limo.
Lasombra: I have a car
Tremere: I am using a limo.
The moment they got into the strip club. Tremere was trolling the scene for potential retainers and blood dolls that would double as her models, but held off on actually attempting it until they got permission to be active from the owner of the Domain, Alicia
Lasombra: *tries to lie to the Prince's childe*
Me: She looks at her ghoul, and he says "Please, stop lying"
Lasombra: I had 5 successes
Me: Lasombra, you do remember that the Prince has Auspex right
Lasombra: Fuck.
They said the truth and got permission to look around and feed from anyone other than the staff and Alicia's blood dolls.
This resulted in all the duo finding Claudette feeding in a closet after they got their fill, also Tremere convincing an attractive young man to model for her on a different night.
Tremere: What is his attractiveness
Me; He rolled a five *the rolls on him were high for attractiveness and physical characteristics*
Tremere: Well, he is going to be even more attractive when I am done with him. and morally corrupt *has path of corruptionn
Me: *internally: There are so many tags that would apply to Tremere* He also has 1 int, though he has above average wits. so he knows he isn't that smart
Lasombra: Jesus
Me: He is a himbo
Lasombra: Himbo?
Tremere: Male bimbo, and that just makes it better for me.
Himbo: Is this one of those things where I have to learn how to sing?
Tremere: No, you just sit and walk while looking pretty while I put you in stuff that makes you look better. *squeezes his muscles* and keep yourself in shape, no one likes an ugly model
They learned that they vampires dumped the body in the woods where it was taken by the police and disappeared from the morgue, and that other bodies had shown up there previously. They went to the woods and made several rolls including investigation, awareness, and alertness. Awareness was the one which they both did well on. Tremere also got 7 successes on ann occult check
Me: The two of you can feel that the shroud between life and the underworld has thinned here considerably, you also find evidence of a ritual being conducted both of you roll occult *they succeeded* It looks like they reached across and shoved a soul into the body, resulting in it getting up later. Tremere, you notice that one of the symbols on the ground is commonly used by Hollow Ones, a subsect of mages
Tremere: I'm not entirely sure if this is a bunch of really bad mages or not, the fact that they managed to leave a trace like this isn't that great on them
Lasombra: I look for tracks from where there car should have been
Me: In the parking lot
Lasombra: Yes
*Not nearly a good enough set of rolls for him to have actually succeeded*
Me: You are pretty sure a lot of cars have gone through here. But you realize that there are cameras by the traffic lights
Lasombra: *uses influence to get in and obtain access to the video-feed*
Me: So, two disturbingly intense woman in suits, a woman dressed like a runway model, and a mobster-esque man enter the police station. How do you want to say this goes Lasombra
Lasombra: I am persuading them that the case of the missing bodies is related to that video feed and ask to be allowed to go through it with their expert *doesn't have tech or computers*
Me: Okay, I'd say you guys can use perception+investigation or alertness. Also Occult if you succeed
Both: A LOT OF TENS
Me: I am going to play fast and loose with dramatic physics and say that it is that thing where you guys notice something that is super blurry and have him stop the video while giving him a bunch of different orders
Lasombra: It is all "Wait a moment, pause that. Roll it back. Zoom, enhance, zoom, enhance"
Me: Yes and you guys notice that in one car, there is a bunch of people in it, but one of the guys in the back suddenly disappears in one frame and never shows up again. Both of you know that Mages who specialize in spirits and the like can physically step over into the afterlife if you are sufficiently powerful. Would either of you know about films?
Lasombra: No
Tremere: Yes
Me: Roll either wits or int
Tremere: *several 10s success*
Me: You realize it is a 1971 Plymouth Barracuda with the same modifications as Phantasm. Do you know that movie OOC?
Tremere: Yes and I suddenly have respect for these cultists
Lasombra: What's going on?
Tremere: They have the same car as in this indie movie, Phantasm.
Me: Tremere, you are remembering that Phantasm while set in small towns, was all about creepy stuff going on in decrepit places where barely anyone lived there anymore, and weird people operating out of funeral homes and mortuaries were turning dead bodies into monsters.
Tremere: Maybe they are hiding out in a mortuary? Come, we are leaving.
They ended up barging into a funeral home that had lost bodies, and convinced the guy working there to show him a body that had clearly been experimented on *Had glowing fungus growing on the inside of it* While the Mortician was talking about conspiracy theories, they ended up dragging him into their limo while grilling him for places that the cultists might have been hiding in
Me; Roll alertness
*Both succeed*
Me: You notice a car following you,
Tremere: I use magic to make caltrops
Me: It keeps going and you see a hand reach out and put a police siren on top, your driver is looking back at you
Tremere: Why didn't the caltrops work?
Me: It isn't a normal car
Tremere: Can I use path of conjuration to dismiss it?
Me: That only works if it is a magically conjured item
Tremere: I tell the driver to keep driving, it clearly isn't a policeman
Lasombra: Oh fuck
Me:...Just so the two of you know. Police departments often have tires that are solid rubber or have other alterations to make sure the tires don't blow out.
Tremere/Lasombra: OOOOH
Due to failures on their empathy rolls, they ended up completely believing a policeman who pulled them over, name dropped Lodin and made other implications that he knew about vampires and was on their side, before showing them a picture of Evelyn, the girl Juggler sired
Lasombra: I don't know her
Me: Subterfuge
Lasombra: *Fails opposed roll*
Me: Yeah, he is specced for this and had better rolls than you.
Lasombra: *looks at all the tens*
Cop: Look, this girl ran at me in Chicago, yelling about a crazy man who was chasing after her. And I saw Juggler. You have to understand, since he moved her across state lines, that means it is a Federal crime. and That means the FBI can get involved, and one of the guys in their local branch is trying to hunt down vampires. This can be serious shit for all of us.
Tremere also showed off her casual...racism? towards other clans when Gangrel was mentioned, when a malkavian was mentioned, and was disgusted when a different Malkavian showed up in the abandoned school which they had tracked the cultists to.
Lasombra
*summons over eight tentacles and starts tearing apart fungus zombie monsters and crushing cultists to death*
The group ended up with a long-ass fight as everyone started trying to kill each other, Tremere got psychically assaulted by the actual Mage *the rest were basically assistants and batteries* who was using a violin that let him use mentally based magic *I forget which sphere*, the Malkavian brained him over the head with a guitar but most of the damage got soaked, and people were being torn to shreds by tentacles, claws. and gunfire
Tremere: I summon a statue of myself and use it to crush his legs. *9 successes on craft roll*
Everyone: *stares as the mage's legs are crushed into mush by an amazing statue.
Claudette the NPC Caitiff forced blood down the mage's throat to reduce his resistance *neither Player disagreed or thought that it might be a power play*, and Lasombra drained over 3 blood points from him
Me: I need to look in the book
Lasombra: Why?
Me: I'm pretty sure that Mage blood causes temporary derangements and causes bad trips *I was right* Roll...instinct I guess
Lasombra: *Fail*
Me: You are tripping balls and are having visions of your past but none of it is all that clear and you can't remember your name. But you do know that you are from boston, *starts describing different vignettes which have been altered by his hallucinations* Roll for derangement
Lasombra: *gets OCD*
Tremere: I am going to get back in the car with Claudette. *Intimidates terrified Mortician who thinks he has been kidnapped by the mob and is stuck between different terrifying women*
