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-- Towards the end of March --
Katie focused on the security whistle Herald gave her and then mailed it to Florence with a "take care of this for me" note
MG spied on Kaspar around the house
someone dropped off a bag on the front porch. 9 bottles of lemonade. drank one bottle of the good stuff from asylum and gave one to kaspar. he was weired about it.
baron of barstow is having an issue, people are spread thin down there. baron is a malk - keeps an eye on the border of cali and nevada - baron Fisher. has a giant gun and is pretty batshit. hangs at bat country golden pawn. katie got a paranoia compulsion meeting him
INTERNET DIED!!!!!
while i was gone he gave MG a meaningful look when saying we need to stick together got info from park ranger about a chupacabra? calico ghost town
chupa vision: nothing, then suddenly claws and teeth, then nothing
katie is attacked by an ugly, zombie-looking thing. katie thinks it's an uglier than normal nos or a super-hungry wight. we torpor it after a very hard battle with it and its familus coyote. we find a nest with clothes, a human head, jewelry and blood, and a picture of a beautiful young woman. MG takes jewelry and dresses. one is a diamond engagement ring. nos' wallet: ID matching the photo - candace jameson, nevada - ID expired last year
gave wallet to fisher - he said he's "got us" - something like a major boon is the impression MG gets. he doesn't recognize the name but said the C probably sent her katie killed her. we come back to herald's, MP and Kaspar help Katie heal
--- SPECIAL CHARLOTTE S.T. EDITION ---
4/20/2020 - 5 weeks into stay-at-home
Baron T - meet him at the club at midnight.
MP breaks into a lab on campus and drinks some contaminated blood - Spanish Flu and some kind of blood-borne parasite.
MG drank from a lady at the bus stop. Bus driver is lactose intolerant!
Kaspar ate a cat. Its name was Bobo :(
--- MAHARANI ---
In the car on the way, MG hears a voice in the radio static: "The bell doesn't ring"
Nelli is a little irritated with us but has something she wants us to do. Large shipment of blood going to Urgent Care Clinic -- pretty weird right now.
- disputed territory - could be Cam, Anarch, or something else?
- MP can score some of the blood if she wants
- tomorrow night at midnight
- from "illicit back channels" that Baron T is aware of -- wants to know to whom it's going
We meet Victoria Rourke - super hot vamp on Baron T's label. Has a ghoul named Terrence.
--- EAST BEVERLY URGENT CARE ---
Kas bites himself to fake an injury. Victoria feigns concern. The woman at the desk says the doc is busy in the back but she'll take them to the hospital. As they leave, MP runs out to distract them and MG runs in.
- Premonition: layout of the clinic. Long-disused operating room the left. Supply closet. Stairwell going up. B with fangs flying around at the top.
Nurse comes back in and says to man in waiting room: "Gerald, I thought they'd never leave!"
Dusty examination room. Stole a scalpel. Supply closet. Random crap. Not very medical. Top of the stairwell door - Sounds of whirring. Lots of fans. Someone moving maybe. Back alley - rat in the dumpster. It's Ramona's.
--- NEXT DAY ---
Victoria goes back to the clinic in the day time (thinblood). She livestreams about "how LA is handling the pandemic" but Gerald grabs her phone and crushes it. Played it innocent but got kicked out. Came back with Terrence. Says "Tell me who you work for" with Compel. "Trent, the big guy upstairs." They leave.
Premonition upon waking: bag of blood. turns into 1s and 0s. turns into flying B. B - I somehow know it's tied into Boons somehow, don't know how.
--- NIGHT TIME ---
Victoria calls Baron T: Trent - came down from SF? made some enemies in the Cam. We don't trust him either but maybe we could see if he's on our side.
head back to the clinic
--- CLINIC ---
MP picks the shit out of the back door lock. Need to get through the keypad.
Keypad Premonition: Black Monday. MP figures out the code: 101987
lady inside: "Oh Fiona -- oh you're not Fiona" "trent isn't here right now, he won't be here until later, what do you need? I'd love it if you fucked him up" "he's making me help him out with his stupid bite coin thing" he's blackmailing her, she just wants to do research. lots of lab equipment and computer stuff, sense of old blood, almost burnt away? MP knows it's some kind of Technomancy
Trent came to her coterie. They'd been doing alchemy, trying to figure out how to go back. He's killed off the rest of her coterie. Back when Chaz died, no one to watch over Boons. Bitecoin tracks Boons via the Bloodchain. (!!!!!!) Every transaction needs more blood.
Lennon is her name. MP invites her to work with us and we can smash this shit. He's not strong but he's "got a lot of muscle". She's never met the Barons
Gerald, Fiona, and Drummond from downstairs + Terrence and Pam come up when Victoria yells. Lennon does weird alchemy shit and makes a mist so they can't see us. MG tries Cloud Memory on top of it. We fuck up the lab and run to the alley.
MG tries Cloud Memory again and Kas does Forgetful Mind but we shoot some folks also, oops. Drummond dies but Fiona and Gerald don't remember what happened and they run inside. Rat Pack will take care of the body.
--- MAHARANI ---
Baron T is pleased that we cracked the case but is going to send people over to make sure Trent doesn't just set the lab back up. Says Nelli will be happy. he gives us 3 bottle of blood wine and some plain lemonade
--- MATT TAKES BACK OVER ---
Premonition: Katie panicked in a dark room, banging on a door. Vision goes black.