In Progress Let's Play VtM: Night Empire

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Exuberant Angels gonna frolic
in the World of Rainbows and Sunshine
reserved for musclebound demigods
smash shovelheads beneath your fists
dontcha think Gangrels are so cuddly
respect my manly Ventrue authoritah
or face the wrath of Caine's ceramic piss pot

Probabbly. But if we let suspicion and paranoia get the better of us, we will be very easy to be manipulated, since we are so predictable in that case.

A little crazy, a little rough play, a smile with teeth, is necessary for a politician.

You guys didn't want to play hard ball with Turcov in front of the Archon but now you want to play boss with some trash?
Admitting that's not a trap.

effect

....I think I was just trolled.

The plotting and scheming has gone so far beyond reasonable that I don't derive any enjoyment from participating in them anymore, but seeing as though there's danger of the herp acheiving their goals, here's my vote.

C, A

Just a quick comment, before I go back and study the comments in detail.

The first is that I am not espousing that Anthony starts leading counter-raids into Sabbat territory, nor am I saying that being reactive is not necessary. My concern is that we don't have a firm path ahead to help guide how we react.

The second is that while I was in favor of capturing the shovelheads if it can be done without threat to us if the winning vote is to go chasing after them like some plebe, I would like to change my vote to not attack the shovelheads. (I forget the option).

I suspect that I will also flip in favor of going after mandrake, but I need some time to mull options.

Derp!

Oh well. Sometimes they eat guts, sometimes guts eat them.

I am tempted to flop to A, A, just to make laclongquan feel better.

This shit is incredibly tempting.

No need to troll me. I laugh at your bait. Laugh, good sir.

Fuck it, changing my vote to A, A.

Reap the wind, sew the whirlwind.

I dont think it is lac who needs to feel better.
But the return of the Chaos boy works as a catalyst, I guess. DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!

Well, I want to see how horribly wrong this can all go when we get trolled a) by grotsnik's writing of action and b) by how badly this could fuck up the rest of the narrative, just because some people want Sommers to suddenly become He-Man from Castle Greyskull.

...in order to attract the attention of a certain Gangrel ex-sheriff.

Grow a perspective, kiddo. Dont stomp your little foot down a go all "ILL SHOW YA HOW WRONG YOU R!".

Plus, we all know that grotsnik wouldnt dare. He said it himself.

Now if i flip flop again A will win?

Fabulous secret powers

C and C

sigh.

playing safe and smart will just result that even if we survive, we'll end up vogler's bitch, like we were Eames'. It's very sad. Very tragic.

C is one ahead right?

1.A

A & A

I have deliberated...

You've got me there, man. The whole point of being courageous is doing something that you don't know will end up in being alive. If you knew the outcome, it wouldn't be courageous, now would it?

At the very least, the fact that the Sabbat are so far away from their strongholds in the South and that it is near dawn indicates that it is unlikely to be an organized attempt to ambush and capture/kill Anthony. Think about it: if this were a truly well-executed mission, I doubt they would have bothered to bait us so easily and so close to dawn. In fact, it's downright stupid and a bigger risk for them to attack us because finding safety before the sun's up would be harder for them than it would be for Tony, since we're right next to our home. If the attackers (a) tried to get us by surprise or (b) got here earlier, I could potentially see a well-planned ambush here, but I don't think that's the case. If it were, why attack a Ventrue Baron near dawn while in the middle of Camarilla territory, far from safety? It's a tactically stupid move.

... And if it's a tactically stupid move, I doubt whoever decided it was a good idea was very smart anyways.

There's intangibles at play that make a Kindred powerful. We know Anthony's cunning, and that's allowed him to build up his Kine contacts and kill Kindred of more potent blood and greater power than him (i.e. du Marchais and Angelos). On paper, these guys should have wiped the floor with Tony a long time ago. It would definitely nice if he had some balls to go with his brains.

Fuck it, you boys have convinced me. Tie game again.

AA

EDIT: Holy shit, in the moment I posted, two people went for A. My flip-flopping changed nothing, I feel like a BioWare game.

Good. I wouldn't want the responsability of breaking the tie.

I don't like A) because it's a perfect opportunity to get fucked, and because people are talking about courage or some shit, anyone would be brave as fuck with a Gangrel elder and a giant Nosferatu bodyguard going against a handful of shovelheads.

And I don't like C) because Tony might be a monocled Ventrue but he's a vampire before anything, I know I wouldn't take shit from a bunch of sabbat scum right in my goddamn haven.

B) is the best option. Just release the hounds and enjoy the show, but too late I guess.

In before Esquilax tells you a story about a hidden ambush, in which the enemy figured that you would send your muscle alone to the front and stay behind yourself, at which point you will be ambushed, etc...
Its like an Anti Bioware game. The consequences are real, the choices are not...

Quiet, I'm trying to rationalize a stupid decision here!

... Age of Decadence?

On a sidenote, I've got to decide who I should vote for to be mayor of our dark and midnight city. Options are...not promising.