Tale Weaver's Vampire: The Masquerade Game Board

[Tale_Weaver]

The Broadstreet

Koln embraces Ruby tightly, he wishes he could tell her something as comforting as Clover, but he cannot. He really does not want to lie to her about the current state of her mentor's corrupted soul. He could never lie to her, so he resigns himself to quietly assuring her, "You could never let me down..."

Koln shrugs at Edward's question about who Duke saw in the house. "I really don't know.. besides the obvious charge of breaking and entering, why is it a concern?"

Duke replies to Koln "Well, when The Count, Earl, and me first entered the house we saw someone in some sort of lab coat dart out of the house and escape through an open window. We were then approached by Prestor who accused us of rifling through his things."

Edward adds "The reason why this is important is because Prestor obviously had some rather ground-breaking research going on in his lab and made something that can create vampires. I'm sure you can all see how this could be bad if it fell into the wrong hands. The very thing I feared with the three of you could still come true. But Duke and the others couldn't find anything in the house that would be worth stealing and no research notes either so most likely it was simply some burgler or a rival chemist in the wrong place at the wrong time."

 

[ladyphoenix]

Duke replies to Koln "Well, when The Count, Earl, and me first entered the house we saw someone in some sort of lab coat dart out of the house and escape through an open window. We were then approached by Prestor who accused us of rifling through his things."

Edward adds "The reason why this is important is because Prestor obviously had some rather ground-breaking research going on in his lab and made something that can create vampires. I'm sure you can all see how this could be bad if it fell into the wrong hands. The very thing I feared with the three of you could still come true. But Duke and the others couldn't find anything in the house that would be worth stealing and no research notes either so most likely it was simply some burgler or a rival chemist in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"That must have been Professor Roger Liverman!" Ruby blurted out after Edward. The light bulb showed up over her forehead. "We heard rumors that he was fired for experimenting on his student's blood. He might have had ties with Prestor too. Maybe he had a chance to steal research notes." The whole idea made Ruby's red stomach turn. No wonder her village kept everyone in their own little world, for this one has turned sour...

 

[izillama]

'Hm... this sounds familiar... ah!'
Clover snapped her fingers, "Yes! That's what I saw in that article the other night in the library. Remember? You went to Emerson's house? The article said that Prestor and Liverman were working together on some sort of biochemistry project. Only I think I remember reading something about Prestor going under the name of David Champs, if memory serves? So then, Liverman would have had access to Prestor's house, right? I mean, there was a lab there and all, and Liverman had left the University so he wouldn't have had access to the resources." She looked directly at Edward, forgetting for a moment how much she should be speaking less informally to him, "Do you think it's possible Liverman knew that you were coming for Prestor? I mean, I'm assuming you didn't advertise the guy was a wanted man, did you?"

 

[Tale_Weaver]

The Broadstreet

'Hm... this sounds familiar... ah!'
Clover snapped her fingers, "Yes! That's what I saw in that article the other night in the library. Remember? You went to Emerson's house? The article said that Prestor and Liverman were working together on some sort of biochemistry project. Only I think I remember reading something about Prestor going under the name of David Champs, if memory serves? So then, Liverman would have had access to Prestor's house, right? I mean, there was a lab there and all, and Liverman had left the University so he wouldn't have had access to the resources." She looked directly at Edward, forgetting for a moment how much she should be speaking less informally to him, "Do you think it's possible Liverman knew that you were coming for Prestor? I mean, I'm assuming you didn't advertise the guy was a wanted man, did you?"

Edward says "No, this was more or less a surprise attack. I didn't call a blood hunt on Prestor as I wanted the problem taken care of quickly and with the least amount of publicity possible."

Edward then goes to his desk and pulls out a newspaper. He opens it up to an page with a whole bunch of notes scrawled on it. "This must be the article you are talking about." He holds up the newspaper and you see the same article you read only Edward has highlighted the name David Champs and written "David Champs?" and under it "Louis Pastuer?" and under that "Jacob Prestor!" and below all of that is written "UNBD".

"Now it all makes sense." Edward says. He sees you all looking at his notes and adds "The UNBD stands for United National Bank of Denver. I wrote that there as a reminder of what we found in his house." He puts the newspaper down on his desk. "I want you three to handle this. First go to the bank and get whatever it is that Prestor left there, maybe it will lead you to finding this Liverman fellow. Find Liverman and bring me back the research that he stole, I need to know what we might be up against here. In the meantime, I will track down Thaddeus, he couldn't have gotten too far."

 

[Strider_Koln]

"Now it all makes sense." Edward says. He sees you all looking at his notes and adds "The UNBD stands for United National Bank of Denver. I wrote that there as a reminder of what we found in his house." He puts the newspaper down on his desk. "I want you three to handle this. First go to the bank and get whatever it is that Prestor left there, maybe it will lead you to finding this Liverman fellow. Find Liverman and bring me back the research that he stole, I need to know what we might be up against here. In the meantime, I will track down Thaddeus, he couldn't have gotten too far."

Koln is hesitant to accept Edward's request (demand?). Why should he bother to help this vampire? To stop a bitter civil war between the leeches? It would be nice if they openly fought each other, Koln would have many new converts to the faith as humans rush for the comfort of the cross in the wake of the open wave of violent vampirism.

Still, it is best to keep these things as quiet as possible... who knows how many the leeches will take once they've been exposed, figuring why bother with the masquerade anymore. Besides, something inside of Koln just cannot allow Koln to deny this request...

"Fine, we will do as you request..."

 

[Tale_Weaver]

The Broadstreet

Koln is hesitant to accept Edward's request (demand?). Why should he bother to help this vampire? To stop a bitter civil war between the leeches? It would be nice if they openly fought each other, Koln would have many new converts to the faith as humans rush for the comfort of the cross in the wake of the open wave of violent vampirism.

Still, it is best to keep these things as quiet as possible... who knows how many the leeches will take once they've been exposed, figuring why bother with the masquerade anymore. Besides, something inside of Koln just cannot allow Koln to deny this request...

"Fine, we will do as you request..."

Edward says "Glad to hear it. You're free to go but I would suggest staying in or near the club for about an hour so that I can notify everyone that the blood hunt is over. And just so you know, there is no feeding on the premises. If you find someone, you must take them elsewhere, we don't serve the same goth freak crowd that the 24th Diocese does so that kind of behavior won't pass here. Until we meet again, have a good evening."

You all are all led out of the office by Duke who pulls Clover aside and says "Here" as he shoves a folded up piece of paper in her hand and then goes back inside the office and closes the door. Clover looks at the piece of paper and sees that it is a lovely stick figure drawing of a large stick figure man giving a smaller girl stick figure a flower. The stick figure man has the serious face of Duke on it and the girl one has blond hair and tear drops coming out of her eyes. It says "I'm sorry I made you sad" on the top in fancy cursive handwriting.

As for the club, everything seems the same as when you first entered the office. The vampire crowd has left the lounge area leaving only the guests at the bar and on the dance floor with the same band still playing. You all feel much safer already.

You all get the Achievement: Take Me To Your Leader (worth 3 xp).

 

[izillama]

Clover felt her face flush slightly at Duke's primitive yet heartfelt gesture, and she quickly tucked it into her bag before Koln or Ruby could question her. While doing so, she felt the envelope with the heavy "something" inside brush her fingers.
When out in the club, she leaned over and whispered covertly to her friends, "How about heading back out to the courtyard for a while? I want to look at this envelope they gave us. It would also probably do us some good to get outside and clear our heads. Right?"

ps- sorry, what did Duke do/say to Clover? (drawing a momentary blank)

 

[Tale_Weaver]

Clover felt her face flush slightly at Duke's primitive yet heartfelt gesture, and she quickly tucked it into her bag before Koln or Ruby could question her. While doing so, she felt the envelope with the heavy "something" inside brush her fingers.
When out in the club, she leaned over and whispered covertly to her friends, "How about heading back out to the courtyard for a while? I want to look at this envelope they gave us. It would also probably do us some good to get outside and clear our heads. Right?"

ps- sorry, what did Duke do/say to Clover? (drawing a momentary blank)

He was the one who picked up Clover by the neck and was going to choke slam her! I really want to draw that picture with crayons and scan it in for the world to see

 

[Strider_Koln]

Clover felt her face flush slightly at Duke's primitive yet heartfelt gesture, and she quickly tucked it into her bag before Koln or Ruby could question her. While doing so, she felt the envelope with the heavy "something" inside brush her fingers.
When out in the club, she leaned over and whispered covertly to her friends, "How about heading back out to the courtyard for a while? I want to look at this envelope they gave us. It would also probably do us some good to get outside and clear our heads. Right?"

ps- sorry, what did Duke do/say to Clover? (drawing a momentary blank)

"Sounds good.. let's go.." Koln walks with his friends back out to the courtyard, sitting down on the nearest bench. As he does, Socrates pokes his head out of his pocket and gives Koln a look as if to say 'What the was that?!'
"Heh, I know my friend... I'm surprised I'm still alive too.. I do not know exactly what happened... I cannot separate reality from fantasy anymore..." He mutters down to his furry companiion as he contemplates somehow bleeding himself free of Edward's vampiric blood..

 

[ladyphoenix]

"Sounds good.. let's go.." Koln walks with his friends back out to the courtyard, sitting down on the nearest bench. As he does, Socrates pokes his head out of his pocket and gives Koln a look as if to say 'What the was that?!'
"Heh, I know my friend... I'm surprised I'm still alive too.. I do not know exactly what happened... I cannot separate reality from fantasy anymore..." He mutters down to his furry companiion as he contemplates somehow bleeding himself free of Edward's vampiric blood..

Ruby follows the both of them back to the courtyard. She was curious about the envelope too, somehow she felt an obligation to set things right once and for all. She didn't want anyone else to share their fate. Preserving innocence was the key. In the end it felt like a big weight lifted off her shoulders knowing that Edward, as big an authority he is, knows their true intentions.
"I'm glad that is all over," she said with a fake sigh. She plopped herself in the closest chair and waited for the contents of the envelope to be exposed. "If anything, maybe we can gain allies from him, especially during a difficult fight.." she optimistically said. Somehow the idea of fighting still stuck to her being like a fever she didn't feel like curing.