Tempted by (C: Ignore his malkavian ideas of an alternate lifestyle, but try to engineer a mutually beneficial exchange), but not sure if our dealings with a Camarilla-law-defying ugly could be painted as a big enough transgression to make Anthony the Archon's scapegoat if exposed... For all we know, this guy could be a plant specifically targeted at making us get tangled in attempted schemes... Remember the barons' snickering etc. etc. Not to mention he has Oscar the Reliable working for him (say, what was his Willpower score again? :whistle: ).
It's certainly possible that Oscar and Bullcracker are in cahoots with a rival Baron looking to get us out of the city. Oscar's worked against us with Eames before because she was the "strongest option" and it's entirely reasonable that he's working with one of our rivals to get us out of the city. I'm certain it's not Turcov, as most of Turcov's lackies are faggy Toreador types rather than filthy Nossies.
But honestly, what would we get staked for if we decided to ally with them? Working with a bunch of Anarchs in order to find a Hunter nest is hardly anything that could be considered a serious transgression. It's not like we made a deal with a cunning Sabbat Bishop in which we decided to hand off one of his spies we had in captivity in exchange for information, right? Or, for example, sacrifice a legendary Hunter-killer in order to eliminate the head of the local Sabbat and to secure our long-term power in Whitehall. Oh wait, we did that already. And that was much, much worse.
The Camarilla may not like the Anarchs, but they are tolerated. While our association with these people could be frowned upon if exposed, it is hardly playing with fire here. Especially if association with Anarchs leads to discovering and killing a whole bunch of Hunters - I'm pretty sure that's the sort of thing that the Archon would conveniently ingore.
I'd say, politely explain that we're not interested in leaving London for a life of international buggery, but don't mind him staying around as long as there are no further Masquerade breaches and funny business like Mandrake - and we're not against exchanging a favor or two. Like using his information network to track down the huntards and sabbatards, what would he want in exchange? And we use the time to sound him out, find a few strings to pull, info that could be supplied to parties interested in barbecued Nossie etc. In other words, be a politicking schemer who can't resist finding an angle even in unlikely situations, while trying to manipulate the fucker into handing his local resources to us (while he finds better ones in Japan or whatever they like proverbial hydras)... even if it makes us predictable and easy to set up... for now.
As Bullcracker said, he would want Anthony's banking connections. Bros, we are Ventrue: if we can't negotiate a deal here that doesn't work in our favour, then we are a rather shitty representative of our clan. To ensure compliance, we'll only hand him our banking contacts
after we're given the location of a Hunter nest. From there we can leak information to the Hunters via our government contacts.
I believe that we are on the verge of being able to pull a really good plan together. If we have the location of a few Hunters, along with the location of a Sabbat Den from the shovelheads we've just captured (I
know the male shovelhead knows something, the trick is just getting him to talk), we can put together something that will skyrocket our status in the Archon's eyes and make Vogler a far more likely candidate.
city than SF/LA couldn't be chosen, unless unequal time was to be spent in each city. You could spend more time in London, land in Honolulu for a little while, and then hit Tokyo, but fitting in Moscow, New York, or popping by to visit Richard in Warsaw would be difficult.
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