Bob, you are seriously underestimating Hob (hey, that rhymes!). Hob never exposed himself here - that was the whole point. Everyone will just think that his Estate was attacked by werewolves and that'll be that. Nobody will bother examining it futher.
And come on - snapping a picture of Hob? Really? Has laclongquan hacked into your account? Hob's current form is that of a dork with nerd glasses - I doubt that anybody would be impressed. Exposing Hob is much more difficult than you're making it sound, because (a) we still barely have any idea of what Hob is (b) The Barons seem to turn a blind eye to any dark rumors surrounding Eames and (c) they might not even give a shit anyways if we told them because Anthony is an outsider among the Barons.
Other than the fact that Hob is a Fallen (probably) we don't know a single thing about him.
Excidium said:
But since Eames doesn't know about our plans and Turcov won't have the balls to open his mouth, we have time to prepare...but I'm starting to fear that going around the country looking for Erika is going to fuck us up. What if she doesn't want to come back? Why would anyone?
You're right. We've spent all this time thinking about how awesome it would be to get Erika back and how useful she would be as muscle, but we haven't thought about whether she'd agree to join us in the first place. I don't like the idea of pulling rank on her because I find it to be an inelegant application of power and it would really piss off her Clanmates, who will be extremely useful in the near future.
Gangrel are suspicious of Ventrue and don't give a fuck about the power games we play or about the Jyhad in general, so I'd like to win hearts and minds here if possible. I'd like to see if there's a way of exposing Hob and Eames' Infernalism.
We've been sort of all over the place here, and we need to organize ourselves or things are going to start spiralling out of control. Here's some thoughts:
WHAT DO WE WANT?
I think we can all agree that we want to expose Eames' Infernalism and find a way to make Hob GTFO. I suggest the following: we search for information about Hob from various sources* while simultaneously building a power base and convincing Kindred around London that there is a serious threat to the city that needs to be stopped. Eames has much more respect and clout among the Barons than we do, so we need to start by tearing apart her reputation before we can move in on Hob.
The Nosferatu will have hopefully remembered that Sommers came to defend their Warren. We need to come in contact with them, preferably through an intermediary. A few of them will be willing to spy on Eames for us and expose her Infernalist dealings. I'm aware that Joan is doing the same thing, but she's defecting to the Sabbat, we need Kindred loyal to the Camarilla to expose Eames if we want to avert a civil war.
The tricky part is, while we're doing that, we need to find a way to defeat Hob while also preparing for a possible war if it comes to that. We have to juggle all of that in a very short amount of time.
WHAT RESOURCES DO WE HAVE?
Turcov, provided he's on our side, has a lot of pull with the Barons. It will help, but it won't be enough to oust Eames. We need to find a way to expose her Infernalism, and I think that the best way of doing this is with the Nosferatu from Jack's Warren. I'm hoping (praying?) that a few of them will be willing to work with us on account of helping them defend their Warren before. I suggest we come in contact with them covertly and then have a few of them spy on Eames in order to expose her Infernalism and find out more about Hob.
While this is happening, we have to find out more about what Hob is, his motivations, weaknesses, etc. We have to do a lot of things in a short amount of time. Other than Grandmother Faa right now, there's another source that's much closer and has provided us with information about Hob before we even knew he existed: Victoria, Bob Griddle's Malkavian seer. She might even be useful in predicting future actions that Hob might take.
The Centurion is another source of knowledge about Hob, but I doubt a powerful and ancient vampire like that will help us unless we have something useful to offer him. I'd like to contact the Centurion eventually, but first we need to learn as much as possible about Hob so that we have something useful to share with him.*
Lastly, we have to prepare for the possibility that this conflict will escalate into civil war. The only way we'd be successful in a fight is through geurilla-style tactics. The Camarilla isn't aware of our ghoul squad, and hopefully a few Nosferatu from the Warrens can feed false information to the Camarilla so our ghouls can ambush them.
* Then, just as soon as The Centurion's got his guard down... KER-POW! WE DIABLERIZE HIM!!! YEEEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!