Tale Weaver's Vampire: The Masquerade Game Board

[Tale_Weaver]

University Of Denver

She reached into a pocket and drew out a pack of cards that she carried out with her. She took them out of their box and began to shuffle them frantically. Then, she held them out fan-like and upside down to Koln, "Here, let me show you a magic trick. Pick a card."

You guys can play out the card trick, I'm going to assume you are heading over to Prof. Jones's office.

As you walk back to the School of Business building you all are thinking to yourselves 'What does this guy know? Should we even trust him?' Clover and Ruby think about what he said about the detective being manipulated. Koln starts to hear the static in his head like a broken radio, voices going in and out and he isn't able to make out anything in particular.

When you get to the building you see that the light is on in the Professor's office. You knock on the door and upon announcing yourselves you hear him say from behind the door "Come in. And please, shut the door behind you." When you enter and shut the door behind you you see the Professor behind his desk the same as before only now there is a small pile of books on his desk. He is reading the newspaper. He looks up at you and smiles "Good timing, I wanted to hold off the bulk of our conversation 'till everyone was out of the building." He motions for you all to site down and he places the newspaper on his desk with the front page artice showing. It reads House Destroyed By Fire, Police Still Searching For Suspects. "This is the only bit of information I've found from the media even talking about the fire. For someone as renowned a chemist as Jacob Prestor you would think that people would be more concerned." Vince says to you. He looks at Koln "Ah, a familiar face, nice to see you again Mr...who were you again? I apologize."

Koln
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The madness network is starting to buzz, check your private messages.
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[Strider_Koln]

Clover's mouth opened... then shut... and opened again... then shut...
Finally, she composed herself, drawing herself up to her full height (not amounting to much, but carrying herself in such a way to command authority, "Well, Koln is certainly Mr. Insane. But I don't see you as Ms. Primitive Beast, per se. But really, I don't know anything about being a vampire, or these different types of vampires that you both keep speaking about, so I don't know what to say."
She flushed and turned to Koln, "I'm sorry that I'm coming across as a 'stuck-up bitch', Koln, but I never used to be this way. Maybe it's just my way of protecting myself throughout this entire situation. Frankly, I don't know either of you. I'm completely confused as to what's going on with this whole vampire thing." She addressed both of them now, apologetically, "If I'm coming across as... crude... I really apologize."
With that, she took a deep breath and smiled kindly at Koln, "Anyway, I think we might have started off on the wrong foot. Hey! I have an idea."
^.^
She reached into a pocket and drew out a pack of cards that she carried out with her. She took them out of their box and began to shuffle them frantically. Then, she held them out fan-like and upside down to Koln, "Here, let me show you a magic trick. Pick a card."

"I fear you misunderstood, I am not insulting your character, just saying the type of venom that has infected you. You are going to do things you would have never done before you were turned, mark my words!" He then takes a card from the fan.

 

[izillama]

"I fear you misunderstood, I am not insulting your character, just saying the type of venom that has infected you. You are going to do things you would have never done before you were turned, mark my words!" He then takes a card from the fan.

Clover smirked, "And I fear that you might have misunderstood me as well. And I find it a shame that you might have gotten the wrong idea of my character. Maybe it is the vampire coming out. But I would like to prove that I am still myself, despite my ailment. Now, study the card, then replace it where you'd like to anywhere in the deck."

 

[Strider_Koln]

Clover smirked, "And I fear that you might have misunderstood me as well. And I find it a shame that you might have gotten the wrong idea of my character. Maybe it is the vampire coming out. But I would like to prove that I am still myself, despite my ailment. Now, study the card, then replace it where you'd like to anywhere in the deck."

Koln just shakes his head and places the card on the top of the deck.

 

[izillama]

Clover closed the fan and began to shuffle the deck.
Once.
Twice.
Three times.
Then, she squatted down to the ground and, in a lightening fast movement spread them out again and flipped them all face up.
51 cards lay splayed on the ground. One was missing.
Clover let herself laugh a little as she stood and stared Koln in the eyes, "Interesting. Your card seems to have escaped the deck! The king of hearts. The Suicide King. But, if you'll examine the inner contents of your hat, I think you'll be most amused."
'If he was crazy before, I hope this'll blow his mind.'

 

[Strider_Koln]

Clover closed the fan and began to shuffle the deck.
Once.
Twice.
Three times.
Then, she squatted down to the ground and, in a lightening fast movement spread them out again and flipped them all face up.
51 cards lay splayed on the ground. One was missing.
Clover let herself laugh a little as she stood and stared Koln in the eyes, "Interesting. Your card seems to have escaped the deck! The king of hearts. The Suicide King. But, if you'll examine the inner contents of your hat, I think you'll be most amused."
'If he was crazy before, I hope this'll blow his mind.'

"huh..?" Koln blinks, taking off his hat... and he thinks he sees a cute white bunny inside. It giggles and hands him the card. He pets the cute rabbit before it disappears.
"Hm.. well what do you know.. it is... nice job... that can only mean one thing... A WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!! Ruby, hasten to get some rope to help me tie her down!" His expression has the look of maniacal joy on it as he fumbles in his pocket for his lighter... lighting it... then his expression changes back to normal for no apparent reason ".... er... where are we...? Aren't we off to see a professor or something... and was there a bunny around here?"

 

[izillama]

For once, Clover laughed out in earnest. She emptied her lungs of a string of chuckles at Koln's reaction, feeling all the pent-up animosity in the air disappear. She didn't bother answering him about the rabbit, letting his confusion continue. Then, she nodded, "Yes, let's go see my professor. Perhaps we'll let you give him a piece of your mind, Koln."

(Ok, we can fast-forward now. Thanks for humoring me)

 

[Strider_Koln]

You guys can play out the card trick, I'm going to assume you are heading over to Prof. Jones's office.

As you walk back to the School of Business building you all are thinking to yourselves 'What does this guy know? Should we even trust him?' Clover and Ruby think about what he said about the detective being manipulated. Koln starts to hear the static in his head like a broken radio, voices going in and out and he isn't able to make out anything in particular.

When you get to the building you see that the light is on in the Professor's office. You knock on the door and upon announcing yourselves you hear him say from behind the door "Come in. And please, shut the door behind you." When you enter and shut the door behind you you see the Professor behind his desk the same as before only now there is a small pile of books on his desk. He is reading the newspaper. He looks up at you and smiles "Good timing, I wanted to hold off the bulk of our conversation 'till everyone was out of the building." He motions for you all to site down and he places the newspaper on his desk with the front page artice showing. It reads House Destroyed By Fire, Police Still Searching For Suspects. "This is the only bit of information I've found from the media even talking about the fire. For someone as renowned a chemist as Jacob Prestor you would think that people would be more concerned." Vince says to you. He looks at Koln "Ah, a familiar face, nice to see you again Mr...who were you again? I apologize."

Koln
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Koln blinks at the professor... he seems familiar... but where has be seen him before.... he can't remember, it actually hurts to think... maybe church..? "Ah.. I am... Father Maxwell" Figuring it's best to give him an alias. "And you must be the famous Doctor Jones.... it's an honor.." He then looks over at the corner... some figure wearing black and a fedora emerging from a door that wasn't prievously there... The figure moves to the nearby table, placing a book on it. Inside is a picture of a man with the caption "Jacob Prestor....." Then there is some sparse mumbling, only a few words he hears.. then all goes silent... meanwhile, to everyone else, it just seems as if Koln went into a transe...

"Now professor, im curious, does the name 'Jacob Prestor' mean anytihng...?"

 

[Tale_Weaver]

University Of Denver

Koln blinks at the professor... he seems familiar... but where has be seen him before.... he can't remember, it actually hurts to think... maybe church..? "Ah.. I am... Father Maxwell" Figuring it's best to give him an alias. "And you must be the famous Doctor Jones.... it's an honor.." He then looks over at the corner... some figure wearing black and a fedora emerging from a door that wasn't prievously there... The figure moves to the nearby table, placing a book on it. Inside is a picture of a man with the caption "Jacob Prestor....." Then there is some sparse mumbling, only a few words he hears.. then all goes silent... meanwhile, to everyone else, it just seems as if Koln went into a transe...

"Now professor, im curious, does the name 'Jacob Prestor' mean anytihng...?"

Vince nods at Koln "Yes, Jacob Prestor was a great Bio Chemist. I hadn't really heard the name until he came to Denver a few months ago though. I'm not sure why that is, it's possible that he might have been going under some other name. In any case, I never got to meet Jacob Prestor...at least not formerly. I came to find that it was his house we were all at when we were in the basement. I have no recollection of how I got there." Vince looks off seeming to be lost in thought.

Before you can say anything in response he says "It doesn't matter right now I guess. What matters is what happened to us last night. I'm under good authority that we were all part of some experiment. I don't know what Prestor was up to, I feel perfectly fine. Do you guys?"

 

[izillama]

An avid linguist, Clover felt her eye twitch at Professor Jones' awkward phrase, "I'm under good authority..." 'The guy should learn how to speak, geez!'
Then, she smiled through gritted teeth, "Well, professor, I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we feel just fine. Yes, absolutely ducky..."
'Does he not even remember the blood, the violence, the etc? Does that mean he was in some sort of trance? He even seemed very... very calm after the whole incident. Hey! Speaking of which...'
Clover suddenly felt concerned, "Professor? Where's that little girl? What happened to Suzie?" 'Is she ok!?'