[VtR][Mature] Born into Darkness: Arc 1

Inside the Mansion
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Resolution achieved without making there a Willpower point tax. Lets think about this more in the future.[/sblock]

Nice leads Cole and Archer down the hall through the kitchen to an open freezer.
At the sight of Beth, blood dripping from her chin Cole loses himself snarling and running at her. Beth hears the snarl but finds herself fixated upon Archer. And Biggs, seeing Cole coming at him, can't seem to prevent the reptile mind from coming to the fore.

Before anyone comes to blows (or fangs) Oscar heaves the heavy steel freezer door closed. Biggs' stake keeps it from closing completely but Oscar, Nice and the others manage to keep the frenzying Damned out of sight and away from each other for long enough for them to regain a degree of control.

Once everyone is back to themselves the door is opened.

Nice's phone rings and he's pulled away from the conversation.

Now the young kindred face each other in an empty kitchen.

"How many more are comming to this party Nice?"

The scholarly neonate is startled by the look of aggression in the teenage girl's eyes when she turns on him, causing him to do a kind of quick hop backwards. Fortunately, the situation is resolved for him by Nice's quick thinking. Archer made a mental note to thank him later.

WarShrike said:

"How many more are comming to this party Nice?"

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So Nice was his name. Braddock had called him that before but Archer wasn't entirely sure, 'nice' normally being an adjective and all. Unusual, but no more so than Judas.

"I think he's a little occupied at present," Archer remarked to Biggs, indicating the phone.

"Evening, lady and gentlemen," Archer inclines his head respectfully towards the new faces in a kind of pseudo-bow, "I'm Archer, and my colleague here is Braddock. We're here to-"

Archer's statement was cut off by a gargle, and a drop of blood ran from the corner of his mouth. As he fished around in his pocket with one hand he indicated Braddock with the other. He took a step back and coughed a little into some already blood-stained tissues. He must have moved his head too sharply when he was surprised by the others' frenzies, or so he assumed.

WarShrike said:

"How many more are comming to this party Nice?"

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Biggs turns to Nice but he has stepped away from the group and is on the phone.
What do you mean it's missing? he's saying into the receiver

Cole Braddock

With a charismatic smile Cole steps forward and with a slight bow of his head he says, “You will have to excuse Mr. Archer. He has had the unfortunate experience of being severely injured during his embrace. I am afraid his injury is quite permanent. ” He looks at each of his fellow neonates in turn as he continues with the introductions. “We were sent here by the Prince though he did not elaborate on his reasons. Privileges of being the Prince I would presume.”

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The events that follow (in the blocks for Archer and Beth) unfold over about 8-10 minutes or "real" time. I've arbitrarily decided that means "every PC posts at least once". Until everyone has posted once Nice's phone conversation is not done.
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[sblock=Archer]As you wipe the blood from your face you have a chance to "tune in" to Nice's conversation. You focus and manage to overhear most of it.

Nice hangs up his phone.

A second conversation begins
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As she stands in the kitchen Beth feels an intense sense of vertigo.
Suddenlly she's having a full on out-of-body-experience.
She's standing where the man with the neck wound (Archer) is standing. She sees what he sees, feels him rubbing his throat.

His hearing is all weird, and so is hers.
She can see people around her speaking, but their voices sound distorted.
It's like her hearing is a radio and somebody else has control of the dial.

After a moment the person with the dial "finds the radio station" they're looking for. And she hears the conversations above, about as clearly as if she were Nice, and on the phone.

She also hears the conversation, of the PCs as well (though from Archer's standpoint).
It's like she's riding in a car, Nice's conversation is the "radio" and the PC's conversation is the conversation of the passengers.

ig,
How Beth reacts, if she reacts at all, is up to you. She may be stunned, OR her brain may go into overdrive and she may multitask perfectly (i.e. listen and speak in the conversation normally without giving anything away.). Whatever you think works for you.

Beth has basically developed Auspex *. Though she make lack fine control for a while.

Also see my Auspex post in the OOC thread.
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"Someone ought to tell me what the f--- is going on here." Diego is trying to control his impatience, but is rapidly losing the battle.

Archer pocketed the tissues once he was done cleaning himself up. There was the occasional pause in what he was saying, and he appeared a little distracted.

"We're not entirely sure either," he paused for a slightly unusual amount of time between phrases, "We were just sent here to deal with an undefined problem. Once we figure out what the problem is we can deal with it. Care to enlighten us?"

"Whatever it is, i can only hope it involves killing vampires."

Beth jolts for a moment as the shock of what's happening settles in. The man with the hole in his neck--seeing what he sees, feeling what he feels. If anyone were watching they'd say it only took a second to register--just a fraction of time to get cozy with this gift Constance has given her, But for Beth it seems she has all the time in the world. She wraps her mind around the situation at warp speed, and suddenly finds herself listening, and participating, in two conversations at once without any loss of detail.

... and through that man's eyes she takes note of his surroundings, absorbing every detail of what he sees and letting it soak in, the perfect memory in her head of a picture she has never seen with her own eyes.

Cool.

A thin smile curves around the corners of her bloodstained lips.