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Anime Tremere Hacker Boomer Mage [heavy memes][VtMB]

Egosphere

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I don't know how to start this LP, so feel free to skip to the good stuff down below. I've sat here for a good 20 minutes, trying to formulate something interesting to say, but all I can think of is boomer memes and Jeanette's rack, so read the preamble at your own peril.

So, Vampires eh? Truth be told, my knowledge of these miscreants is scanty. Going into this game, my mind can conjure up but two anchor points of vampire media I'm familiar with: Stephen King's Salem's Lot and the 1985 classic Fright Night.
The former, although hampered with questionable pacing, remains one of my favourites from King's works. The latter, though much more humorous, revolves around a teenager's existential angst when he realizes that his new neighbour is a vampire: a vampire who has maxed his charisma and can now charm his mother and steal his girlfriend with nothing more than a chad strut outside their home.

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Great film.

And then there's Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines, populated by a bigger-than-life cast of devilish deviants that don't take long to stamp a big imprint on your auditory cortex and your retinas. A bit bit like this pic:

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My first experience with Bloodlines was, I admit, a disappointment. I had no real concept of what constituted an RPG and went into the game completely blind, expecting some quick thrills. What I got was a lot of stats, dialogue, world building, lore and bugs that were far removed from what I had come to expect of games. I was quickly overwhelmed by the game's density. Sabbat? Camarilla? Elders? Malkavians? Masquerade? Auspex? Humanity? What?

The fault was mostly mine, of course. With no prior experience of complex rpgs (or any rpgs, for that matter), my character build tried to chase content rather than carve out a viable play-style. Half way through the game, I was being relentlessly bullied in combat, with insufficient social or security skills to obviate any of it. I slogged my way through and was quite relieved to be done with it, but memories of this humiliating play-through lingered in my mind for months.

Eventually, I decided to revisit the game, but arm myself with a few reviews and helpful tips before making the jump. What started as a little googling for vtmb would eventually lead me to discover the treasure trove that is the rpg genre. I had hoped to take another stroll through Santa Monica, but wound up in Shady Sands and Sigil. For that alone I hold VtMB in high regard.

But let's get back on topic: vampires. Bloodlines, an outgrowth from the World of Darkness PnP setting, fleshes out the vampire with an impressive amount of lore. I am of a much simpler mind, so the questions that plague me whenever I'm subjected to vampires in media are never really answered. Perhaps someone who is more familiar with the lore than I am can dispel some of the mysteries?

If you suffer from periodontitis and all your teeth fall out and then you get 'sired', do you grow new teeth or are you truly fucked?
Under strict laboratory conditions, if you get sired by two vampires at once, do you become a cross-breed? Can you be a Malkavian-Nosferatu?
Sunlight is very dangerous for vampires, but not starlight? Is there something special about the sun, or simply the intensity of the light? Do vampires become ubermensh on the dark side of the moon?
Vampires can obviously survive daylight if they're not subjected to direct rays. Can they survive daylight if they wear a large, protective suit? Are furries really vampiric clans moving amongst us in broad daylight?

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PART I: BABY SITTER

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BOW WOW WOW WOW WOW

Few warnings about this LP. First, I can't capture the game in full screen, so I'm playing in windowed mode. Annoying? Yes, but I'm wasting my time cropping the top bar out of the full screens.
Secondly, unlike Arcanum, which had a neat way of presenting the dialogue through big paragraphs, Bloodlines has the annoying tendency to hide half of its dialogue and feed it to you piecemeal. What would take one 1 screenshot and 1 crop-to-size in Arcanum now takes 5-10 screenshots. There will be repeating dialogue, but I'm not fixing it.


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And we go straight to the character creation screen

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That's pronounced BROO-HAH if anyone's wondering

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No thanks Kaepernick

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Jeff Goldbloom

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Degenerates

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This looks like our guy. We'll be one with the way of the Thau

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Fuck me that's a lot to take in. Alright, let's see. Hmm. Well, we're picking up Thaumaturgy since I feel like we're under obligation to do it. Scholarship, I think, lets us read books to max out other stats, so sinking points there gets you a bigger bang for your buck. Computers and locked doors are all over the place in the game, but we'll make do with just computers for now. There should be books for bumping your firearms stat, so I'll go with melee and dodge. Strength gives us better fighting abilities, and Intelligence lets us intimidate and get better at scholarship.

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Let's do this!

The game kicks off with us getting laid.

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Viagra

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We hear a female voice telling us she 'will show us something'. Then we scream and black out. When we wake up, we're changed, somehow. Before we can get our bearings, the door is kicked open and both of us take a throwing knife to the chest

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Did we forget to pay our TV license? Said something mean about Muhammad on twitter? Apparently not. We're taken to an undisclosed location and dumped onto a stage, where a 'Prince' gives the small congregation a long winded speech.

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(I didn't catch that last sentence in this paragraph :( )

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They chop her head right off with the anime sword. These guys are hardcore, whoever they are.

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There's some commotion in the audience:

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Good evening

The show is over and everyone files out of the hall

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The Prince takes me behind the curtains to have a curt one-on-one exchange

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Good evening

So that's it, really. We go outside where the haggard hobo accosts us

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Who are you?

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Ok, I'm in

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What drink?

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What do I do?

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So.. uh......

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Won't he turn then?

Jack says that's all just comic book crap and to forget about all that nonsense.

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There's our guy, stumbling around in the dark

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Great! When do I get my cape? Do i get to pick the colour?

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Yeah, like what?

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So I'm going to live forever?

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Gunshots ring out from all around us. Automatic bursts.

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We climb up onto the boxes and reach the upper floor

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Jack is already there when we walk around the corner

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So what's up?

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Jack doesn't have time to give us an answer when the Sabbat storms the alleyway right underneath us

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The guy who kidnapped us, apparently the Prince's right hand man, squares off on the other side

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The Sabbat shoot up into the sky to intimidate the fucker. Doesn't work.

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He conjures up some glowing wolves that tear the Sabbat apart

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The last one standing charges and gets turned into dust with some other spell

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We go around the corner and put our lockpicks to good use

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Jack just breaks the window and climbs in that way

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I had my moments

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But I got some people from high school that need a good drubbing. Why not?

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What could happen to me?

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Camarilla? So they're the good guys?

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This is a mini tutorial on the use of computers in the game. You can get the password from the note on the wall, or you can hack the computer directly. Either way, you can unlock the safe through the pc.

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'safe'

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And voila
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And we run straight into a bullet storm from a Sabbat gang down the alley

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Jack, meanwhile, jumps down behind them, snaps the neck of the first one and punches the other one. The latter lands on the other side of the alleyway, right beside me.

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What's the difference? Blood's blood right?

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What happens if I get overzealous?

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The 'Beast'? What's that?

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So I can't kill anyone? That seems .. restricting

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He really does drain fast

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I'll think about it

Err how about no? We talk to Jack again

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Sneak where?

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Alright then.
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Now this part was a fucking nightmare on my first playthrough, primarily because it's an insta-fail if you get spotted, and in the patch-free version that I was playing, the Sabbat guy would turn 90 degrees and stare at the door I was supposed to reach.

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It's still no Thief, I'll tell you that much. You have to wander around the crates until the guy patrols back to his little corner.

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We finally reach it

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What makes you think that?

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How can that be?

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I was born ready.

Powerful boomer swipes make short work of him

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BANG! and the dirt is gone

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Ok

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The underground is the final part of the tutorial, telling you of the options when dealing with enemies

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First up is the popamole stealth kill

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The more, the merrier

Then we get the tutorial on our abilities. Bloodbuff, for example, buffs our stats that lets us get past locks that would be beyond our ability to pick otherwise

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Don't see much use for it

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Popamole numbers

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Then we have the Blood Purge tutorial, which incapacitates enemies in our vicinity for 6 seconds or so

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Then there's the sound mechanic, which lets you toss objects around to attract enemies to different places.

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Jack, as always, is one step ahead

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So what do we do?

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Useless against vampires?

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The shooting was too frantic and I didn't get any pics. Not much to see when it comes to shooting in Bloodlines though.

Last tutorial

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I like the font and colour choices ffs.

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That's it?

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And this is normal?

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A car horn sounds outside

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And that is that. We get resettled in a tiny apartment in Santa Monica, with just one clue to tell us what to do

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The apartment is a mess

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Unfortunately I can't show you either the TV channel or the late night radio show, but they're all very good at setting the tone and the atmosphere.

Blood packs have been left in our fridge

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And pills in the bathroom

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A couple of notes stand beside the laptop on our desk

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Money in the table

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We sit down to take a look at our email

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There's a bunch of nonsense on it, as well as some stuff we already know. Took me a while to capture the pics because the emails would keep quitting back to the main menu. I did get a pic of the last email, though. It's the most interesting one.

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Alright, time to leave.

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The apartment across from ours is locked. We use Bloodbuff to lockpick the door.

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There's a book here that permanently increases some of our stats. I think it might be brawl? I've already forgotten.

We go back to the hallway and descend the stairs, taking a quick look at a newspaper outside our neighbour's front door

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Not quite as engaging as Arcanum, it must be said

We go outside

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I do. Not for you, though.

We get a little cutscene as our intrepid character walks out onto the street

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Some guy is dragging his bloodied self up the stairs into another building down the road

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Hmm. Before we go there, we pay a visit to Trip's Pawnshop

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What's your name?

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Cool. Do you stock weapons?

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You lying to me? I'll kick your ass with or without weapons

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We pick up another book as well. And again I can't remember what it is ffs. Anyways. That's it for today. We go back outside and take in our new surroundings.

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Join me next time as we start chipping away at the numerous side quests and meet the vampires that run the whole show from behind the scenes.

PS: I'm not updating this lp as often as I did my previous one. If I'm not posting for 2 weeks doesn't mean I've abandoned the thing.

PPS: This whole thing is just a coping mechanism as the Swedes create the sequel for this game
 
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Egosphere

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PART 2: TAKING OUT THE TRASH

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So we're outside Trip's pawnshop. There's a medical clinic to our left and some guy is loitering outside.

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Nothing right now.

Opposite him is another guy, sharply dressed. He's not from this part of town, that's for sure.

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What are you doing?

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Think you could spare a few bucks?

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You know, that sure is a nice watch you got

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Then I'm sure she won't be upset that you traded it for your life

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Bye

He does fire off an npc comment as we're walking away

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Whores linger in the streets and the neon lights of The Asylum traverse the alleyways

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Noir gallery is here as well

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And the end of the road:

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To our left is a car park that will lead us to the other street ( or the beach ). To our right is Gimbel's prosthetics. We're not interested in either for now, so lets follow the bloodied guy into the apartment block

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You Mercurio?

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What happened?

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It's a broken bottle.

He tells us a about setting up the drop point and then..

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Vamp blood?

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Where's the astrolite now?

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Where's the damn beach?

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And what do I tell them when I get there?

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Can I help you in any way?

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Alright I'm going

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Fine.

We leave his apartment. The door opposite his has a lock on it, which means we'll be able to open it at some point

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There's prostitutes all over the damn place

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How much?

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I don't think so

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Here's the asylum on the 2nd

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The whole level is basically a 'U' shape, with a little alleyway that turns it into an 'O'. Some guy's taking a leak in that alley, but he walks away before I can attack him

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What do we need to do now?

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Past the Asylum is the road to Kilpatrick's. There's a doomsayer not far from there.

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More misery

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You run this place, I assume?

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You looking for any help?

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Where do I look for him?

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Few questions before I go

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Santa Monica is going to hell, innit?

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Alright, later.

We take a detour in the car park to the gate leading to the pier. It's blocked off, but we can overhear the cops.

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Yeah, Ted. Vampires aren't real.

Across from Mercurio is the bounty hunter's apartment

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There's money on the table, a laptop, a voice recorder, a locked chest and a pin up poster.

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Here's the poster

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It's more than just pretty legs, though. Imalia is the password to his laptop if you don't have the requisite hacking skills.

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Oh yeah.. I'd never have noticed it.

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There's a very Max Payne-esque sequence here. The music stops and we find ourselves alone in the decrepit parlour. A phone rings out somewhere in the distance. We follow the ringing,

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He's not here. Can I help you?

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I don't. What sort of appointment?

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Too bad, I'm looking for him myself

(the phone in my hand resets for some reason)

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I'm a bounty hunter. He's skipped bail.

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Could you answer a few questions for me?

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Where are you located?

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I'll be there in a little while.

Some photos are hung up on the wall beside the phone

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The place is right around the corner from us

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There's a hobo in our way, so we feed and vault over

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*bzzz*

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I spoke with you on the phone

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thanks.

We walk inside and are greeted by the voice on the phone.

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Yes. Who are you?

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Tell me about yourself, Stan

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You seem disadvantaged yourself ( it might not be clear, but the guy is missing his left hand, having something akin to a white, plastic pincer instead )

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I'd love to hear it

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Go on..

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Now that's commitment! But let's talk about McGee..

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He didn't show up?

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I see. Does the name Carson ring any bells?

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Yes, thanks

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What?

But he turns around and leaves. This is a cutscene of sorts, since we're rooted to the spot and can't move for a few seconds until Gimble closes the door behind him

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You're left in the reception room, but Gimble doesn't come back. There's a newspaper on the table, but it's the same one as before. There's not much to do here. Perhaps we can take a peek into Gimble's work room? The place is huge:

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Yeah, I think I know where this is going.

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Another door and some stairs lead us deeper into the basement

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We walk into the final room. There are cells here.

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Who? Gimble?

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Ok ok! How do I open the door?!

Too late. Gimble comes storming out of his back office wielding a human arm as a weapon. He charges right at us.

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Since we're tremere and have thaumaturgy as a discipline, we're privy to blood magic. 'Blood strike' is basically a firearm substitute that shoots out, what I presume, clots of blood that eviscerate your enemies and eventually steal their blood back to you if you remain perfectly still. All it takes is 3 shots of BS to take Gimble down. He's still running around his own operating table when he succumbs to my powers.

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Carson, I take it?

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Kilpatrick sent me

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He's got work for you

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I understand. Good luck to you, then.

His cell mate isn't looking so hot

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We pick up the arm

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Back at Kilpatrick's

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My beerbelly. But I found Carson and he's not coming back.

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A psycho took his fingers off one by one

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He offers us another job:

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You haven't paid me for Carson yet

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So just find out if he's there or not?

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I'll do it

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What's the guy's record?

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What'd he do now?

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Sure pal. Few more quick qs before I get out of here.

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About the places in town..

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The Asylum

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And the owners?

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What about the Noir gallery?

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Alright, I'm leaving.

We leave Kilpatrick's and go back to the apartment block. Some random npc reaction:

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Nothing much, my dude

We go inside the Murietta apartment

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Ok, got it. Skyline 2A. Back to Kilpatricks..

More random hobo npc stuff:

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Hmm

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Durbin's gone Downtown

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Thank me in $

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Right..

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I'll do just that

Didn't notice the truck in the sky when I walked past the salvage place the first time

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Might as well go to the beach and get the Astrolite back

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The woman runs up to us

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What?

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How did you know?

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Well, thanks. Before we do that, let's look around. The woman is one in a group of four that are hunched over a fire. One of the guys here has a pretty big quest.

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What are you talking about?

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No, why did you think that?

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What? Why?

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What clan are you?

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How'd this happen?

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Please continue

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go on

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Is she dead?

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Are all the rest thin bloods as well?

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Should I look into the matter for you?

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I'll ask around

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Where do I start looking?

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You do know you're vampires, right?

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I'll be back later..

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What?

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You're not making sense

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I don't understand

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tell me my fortune. I'll pay you.

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Here's $20.

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Who are my enemies?

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Whom do I trust?

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What's going to happen to me?

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Anyone has a job I can do?

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Any advice?

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(Important)

Alright I'll think about all that

We talk to one of the other guys

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What?

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Only in the movies

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No

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You can try to be a man, for once

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Being a thin blood builds character, son.

There's a wooden stake on the beach

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I wonder..

We go up the stairs to the pier. There's a wolf on the cliff! He runs away as soon as he sees us. Was he watching, surveying his handiwork on the pier?

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There's a games room here, with a bunch of declined games

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And here's the victim, strung up on the lamppost

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Alright, time to go pay a visit to the goons who stole our astrolite

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Yep. You can get out of my way before you're wearing that smirk on your ass.

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Oh I'll remember that

The astrolite is in one of the front rooms and you can see it from the window. The mob boss is in that same room though.

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There's at least 5 of them all in all

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There's a few strategies we can employ here. If you have high sneak, I'm presuming we can pick something up and toss it around until they go to investigate. If you have high persuasion or intimidation, you can talk to them. Or you can just attack them outright. Well, we're a decent shot with our handy thau magic, but we can even the odds a little bit by exploring some more.

There's a switch that can shut off the power behind the house. We press it. Unfortunately, the goons see my fat, balding melon poking into view outside the window and start shooting

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Missed me, you wankers!

We lockpick the side door whilst he baseball kid goes to check up on the power switch

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We sneak inside from the side door. There's a vent right across from us that leads to a little hidden compartment. Mercurio's money is right here (barely visible on the floor on the right )

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As I'm crawling out of the vent, the goons come out and see me. With little time to gather my bearings, I try to hit G ( which I've mapped to 'use skill' ) to cast Blood Strike, end up hitting F and attacking the boss with my fangs.

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All's well that ends well. The others are try their best to take me down with their peashooters, to no avail.

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We pick up the astrolite and the ammunition for the guns. I can't seem to pick up more than 1 of any given weapon, so we can't sell the guns at the pawnshop. Back at Mercurio's

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Did you die on me?

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I got the astro

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Yeah

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No, didn't find it.

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What's the story with the astrolite?

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Sabbat?

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tell me more

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Maybe what?

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He's feuding with the owners of the Asylum apparently, and if we're to find Tung then we'll have to put a stop to it

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Tell me about Therese

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What about her sister, Jeanette?

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What about Tung?

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What about yourself?

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And that's that. We have a lot to do in the next episode:

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RPG Wokedex Strap Yourselves In Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I helped put crap in Monomyth
(I didn't catch that last sentence in this paragraph :( )

Seems complete to me. Also :cainapproves: with that Macron pic for the prince.

You know where it's going with his black bodyguard, don't you? That's prime meme material.

No, I don't (I don't even know if you're talking about Macron or the prince :|). But I will follow this with attention.

Regarding the LP, are you using Wesp's patch?
 

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(I didn't catch that last sentence in this paragraph :( )

Seems complete to me. Also :cainapproves: with that Macron pic for the prince.

You know where it's going with his black bodyguard, don't you? That's prime meme material.

No, I don't (I don't even know if you're talking about Macron or the prince :|). But I will follow this with attention.

Regarding the LP, are you using Wesp's patch?

I'm using that unofficial one that's on moddb. But I dont have the optional content, just the bug fixes.
 

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PART 3: ER

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We pick up where we left off, cleaning up the side quests.

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We missed an email in the first part, so lets go back to the apartment and check the laptop

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Clinic, huh?

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Whole lotta crab nipple

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I'm bringing some personal items to a friend of mine

She lets us through. First door on our left:

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I'll see what I can do.

The doc is on the same floor, a couple of doorways down the hall

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But there's this girl..

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But..

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At least it's not an arrow to the knee

We leave the room and start exploring the clinic

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Hacker

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Very important piece of info is hidden away in these emails

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There's also an employee database here

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You get the picture

Another office has some pills on the table, but this time it's morphine. Mercurio needs that.

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This is Dr. Malcom's office, so his computer might give us a hint about the password protecting the werewolf blood

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Paige Benice

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So he's cheating on his wife, Trina, with Paige

Let's go back to that doctor for a sec..

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You Malcom? Your wife know about your affair?

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I guess you don't care if she finds out then?

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Then I'll go forward Paige's emails to Trina..

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$150

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Put it in the mailbox of 508, above the pawnshop

But what about the redhead?

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I can save you!

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(feed her your blood)

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Best cure in the world, amirite?

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Nothing. I must be going now.

There's a door at the end of the corridor that leads us to the stairs

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If we descend down, we eventually reach the bloodbank. Vandal works here

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You offering?

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How much?

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Show me what you got

We can buy some bloodpacks here, as a general consumable for health and blood metres.

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We explore some more

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Find a computer..

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but we're locked out of doing anything with the freezers for now

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There was a hole here, it's gone now

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We find the morgue and another computer in the adjacent office

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Impressive

The freezers are here

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Or wait, no, that's just the storage rooms aren't they? Anyways, there's a keypad deviously hidden away behind a cardboard box in one of these rooms

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But what's the code? We don't know

Ok, we got up to the topmost floor in the clinic

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Ah, ok..

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K k..

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He finally snaps when he sees me a third time

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The werewolf blood is here, but how do we get to it?

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There's a maintenance room key

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which leads us to the computer we need

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cs cabinet

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Paige? That's the one

Also, you could get to this room via a ventilation duct from another office, if you wanted a sneakier approach

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We get the blood and gtfo. The police are on the hunt.

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They give up eventually, but the cop car stays put outside the clinic

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Doc Malcom has been kind enough to leave the 150 in our mailbox, as promised.

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We take the money and leave the werewolf blood inside for Lacroix

And then we go to Mercurio's

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Brought you this. Hold still.

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Alright. Now E, the surfer thin blood on the beach, said that in order to find his lost gf, Lily, we should start looking at the diner.

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There's a guy to our left with a tad too much geometry to be a typical npc

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Chilly out tonight, innit?

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You're not eating. Waiting for someone?

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And that's that. I .. honestly can't remember what quest he's involved in. We'll have to wait and see.

The proprietor of this classy establishment is at the counter

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You ever see any pale types come here late at night?

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Surfer guy, pretty girl?

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Ever heard of thin blood?

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Try to remember..

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She finally remembers the girl. I lost a whole bunch of screenshots around this part and in my second visit to the clinic, so apologies in advance if the conversations are choppy at times

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I'll do just that

We get a photo and a bailbond

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Back to Kilpatrick's, I guess. What's with the tattoos on the shoulder blades?

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Hey Arthur..

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You heard anything about the murder spree?

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What are the cops doing?

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K. I'm gonna use your computer now

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s-z, Toten, Rolf

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Ahh. I've seen that car in the local parking lot.

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We pry open the rear

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And get the diary. TLDR I 'capped the important bits.

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Yada yada I'm on the cock carousel and went to the blood bank, the end

I missed this the first time, but there are records of patients in the clinic on one of the pcs. Arthur Kilpatrick isn't doing too well.

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And some other guy

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Downstairs

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I need to get into the back room

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It's okay, the queen bitch gave me the green light. Call her.

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Doesn't work. We have some spare points, so we bump up our intimidation by 1.

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I don't think you heard me. I said I need to get into the back, ghoul

*Click* the doors are open

There's another doctor here now

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Ahem. I need the code to the freezers.

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We go the computer which wouldn't give us any info about the freezers the first time. They show up now, though. Strange quest design.

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This opens up another door

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And leads us to what can safely be presumed as being Lily

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Calm down

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What will you give me in return?

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Alright, hold still. We unstrap her just as the doctor comes back in. She leaps from the chair and goes straight for the throat. He didn't stand a chance.

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The heat, mmm. It's never been so satisfying. All of it, I drank until I heard his heart stop and I was sucking on a dry, dead artery. It was .. euphoric. But I've .. I've .. killed him. I've never killed anyone before. What happened? What came over me?

The beast took over. Happens to the best of them.

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Shh...

I tried to steal some blood. I've heard they sold it - I was hungry and I couldn't hunt in the town. They caught me and I was strapped - trapped .. thought I'd never escape. But .. I killed a man. I have to get out of here


Who are you?

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E told me about you

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I said I'd help him. What do you know of thin bloods?

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You should go see him. He forgives you, and he wants to see you again

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No. Quite the opposite, actually

We tell her he's on the beach and she runs off to the love of her life. Vandal shows up just as we're exiting the room

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Haven't had ghoul blood in a while. Looks like I'll be needing to get me some new blood soon.

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No, thanks. We visit the beach once again

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Hey, Lily, how'd it go with E?

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Good luck with that.

E?

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I did what was right

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If the shithouse goes up in flames, it'll probably be my fault

Back at our apartment, we find another 150. I think that's from Lacroix for the werewolf blood

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Yep

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So.. time for the Asylum I guess. We have to get to Tung, and our only way to him is through the sisters who own the place

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We step through the door and..

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Who are you?

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Do you have a name?

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Soon can't come soon enough.

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Dealing with her is going to take you down a whole other rabbit hole which I don't have the time for right now. So I'll wrap up this part the only way I know how.

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Crank up that meme magic. For now it ain't bad, esp with prosper masquerade and prince macron, most of the time it's just a regular LP, so would benefit from either more jokes or more commentary.
 

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this bump sponsored by Elder Vitae blood packs - it's not diablerie if it comes in a plastic bag!
 

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this bump sponsored by Elder Vitae blood packs - it's not diablerie if it comes in a plastic bag!

Diablerie? Haha. You must mean "blood bond". It'd be a chance of diablerie if the Elder was dead. Were there any in Vandal's stock? I bet they come from Therese.
or do they really...?

Well, she's the Queen Bitch lording it over Vandal the poor Ghoul, so she's in the perfect position to enact the scheme. Also fits her dominating personality.

Now, I had a sublime thought about diablerie. So you and your pack find a slumbering Methuselah, 5th gen, and ancient as fuck. You heard the stories. His ancient mind might overwhelm your own. What do you do? Empty the torpid Cainite's veins into containers of some sort. Grab as many kine as there are members of your pack, drain them, feed them the blood, wait for them to turn into low-gen confused fledglings with no command of their powers. Then profit.
 

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this bump sponsored by Elder Vitae blood packs - it's not diablerie if it comes in a plastic bag!

Diablerie? Haha. You must mean "blood bond". It'd be a chance of diablerie if the Elder was dead. Were there any in Vandal's stock? I bet they come from Therese.
or do they really...?

Well, she's the Queen Bitch lording it over Vandal the poor Ghoul, so she's in the perfect position to enact the scheme. Also fits her dominating personality.
let me rephrase: or do they really...? dundundun :imnotsayingitwasaliensbut:
 

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PART 4: HOTEL SPOOKS

After getting some much needed exercise on the dance floor, we go to the bar.


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Looking for Therese

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I called earlier, about the bartending job

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Sorry it had to be me. Bye!

There's a dude hanging around the bar whom we've seen before outside the medical clinic. We try to talk to him:

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Okay. I'm looking for someone.

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Let's say that I am, what's it to you?

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How do you know all this?

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Was it hard to enter this brave new world?

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What's a ghoul?

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Who's the vampire that did this to you?

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Small world. I'm looking for him.

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Enjoying your new life?

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What's Bertram like?

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How does he get in touch?

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Why'd he choose you?

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What do you do for him?

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So what's the problem?

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That's pretty unnerving

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Want me to take care of it?

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Driver license? But you've got all the info you need on it..

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Alright

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Yeah yeah..

Up the stairs:

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More so than you think :)

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She's not interested.

We go back down and into the elevator

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There's a little foyer between the elevator and the main room. You can find a ring and a newspaper here

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We hear some voices on the other side of the door. Jeanette is arguing with someone.

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*suits


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So the other is Therese. We knock on the door and walk in.

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Big painting on the wall

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Cozy

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Jeanette? She was no trouble

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Where is she?

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So you must be Therese?

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I thought Jeanette owned the Asylum?

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Call off the feud with Tung

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Why do you hate him so?

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Want me to kill him?

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Just put the word out that you have no feud with the guy

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I need to see him

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Spirit? Like, ghosts?

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What do I do to exorcise this spirit?

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I'll do it if you promise to call off the feud

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I respect and appreciate that. Goodbye.

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Sewers? You kidding, right?

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Alright

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Acshully, few questions before I go..

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(We already know all this)

It's possible to jump on top of Therese, here

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Up on the room divider

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Voila, our corpulent frame now rests entirely on Therese's skull

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She doesn't mind

We take the elevator downstairs and leave the club. This guy is hanging around the front door

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Can't speak with him. That's for the best.

The license regarding the Asian vampire:

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Let's look up the name on the criminal database

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Sure enough..

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The key to Foxy Boxes is in the storage chest. That's pretty close to the clinic. We stop over at Trip's pawnshop and ask him about the killings

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(nothing of interest)

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An abandoned workdesk sits on our right, with a discarded laptop

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Hmm.

We go father into the warehouse

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The guy was expecting us. He appears from behind some boxes.

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BLOODSTRIKE BLOODSTRIKE BLOODSTRIKE BLOODSTRIKE

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This is for Pearl Harbour

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Yes

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What was he?

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We leave the club and go to the sewers

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There's a lot of back and forth before I find a map that tells me how to reach the hotel

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And here we are

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We take the front door key from the guardhouse. One of the lamps blows out as we approach.

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We walk inside

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You can catch a glimpse of the ghost on the right as soon as you walk in

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This level was a decent stab at horror at the time, but given the explosion in cheap, jumpscare laden indie horror games that would occur 8 years later, the hotel hasn't aged gracefully. Shalebridge Cradle it ain't.

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We try to walk upstairs and fall through the floor into the basement

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(the ghost of a woman runs right by us; the still picture is creepier than the actual scripted event)

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2Edgy4Me

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One of the washing machines opens up when we reach the laundry room

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No head, but a key. Disappointing.

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You get another shot of Freddie as you go to switch on the boiler
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We manage to make our way back up. We see the ghost of the woman once more, pointing at something on the other side.

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It's a newspaper

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We go into the bedroom. Some kid's drawing is on the floor.

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Subtle

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Make me

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We go back outside. Is that the ghost again?

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We go to the other room and find a hole in the floor. Falling through puts is in the bar.

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Up we go to the kitchens!

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Diary

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blah blah

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See, I told you it was frEDdy

Haunted saucepans viciously attack our face

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We reach the elevator shaft. The elevator collapses on top of us, but we deftly dodge out of the way. We take the ladder up to the next floor.

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This part is a mess. Flower vases hurtle themselves at you, shaving your health bar. They're hard to dodge, so you end up getting pelted with porcelain.

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A materializing memory lets us cross

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We get the pendant. Hey is that Elizabeth Dane in the background?

Back downstairs

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Aaand we're out

From the saucepan and into the fire

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I need to see your sister

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I need to give her something. It's from the hotel.

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No

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Still no

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Still no

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Yeah, but no

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Depends on what it is (it's the gallery)

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I'll be back

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Gallery Noire, here we are

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There's this fat bastard protecting the side door. I don't quite remember why I killed him and didn't simply put him in a trance. Oh well.

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We wreck the paintings

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And get assaulted by a blood guardian for our troubles. This guy comes out swinging. We just about scrape past.

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Back at the asylum..

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(the gallery event was Therese's)

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I swear i didn't! Look! I even brought you the pendant!

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How?

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We hack one of the computers in the room and have a quick glance at Jeanette's email

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We go to the diner. Not suspicious at all.

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Cubans?

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Sure enough they open fire as I approach the phones. We duck behind the counter and the barstools.

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Bloodstrike and gunshots are our friend here.

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We leave the best till last

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After that clean up, the phone rings. We pretend to pick it up.

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Jeanette's in trouble. Seems like Therese has gone off the deep end. Did she hire this mob to kill us, as well? We'll see. We hurry back to the Asylum and barge into the upstairs bedroom

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Soo... Jeanette and Therese are a split personality disorder residing in one body.

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What are you doing?

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Go on Jeanette..

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Go on Jeanette..

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Is that true Jeanette?

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Hey if it wasn't for Jeanette, I'd be on my way to Tung

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(I took this a while back so I can't remember what I chose here)

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Therese survived the first time

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I reloaded and then chose something different, which led to Jeanette surviving

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I'm not sure if I reloaded again a third time to get this extra bit at the end:

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Now, quick word on this part. Before starting this LP, I did a little practice run to familiarize myself with the mechanics and the stats so as not to embarrass myself completely when it came to the proper run. I got as far as the museum before restarting. Funnily enough, I managed to save both Therese and Jeanette on my first try, using optional persuasion dialogue. I think I distributed the points exactly the same way on my second run, but I never got those dialogue options. Why? It seems that your primary stats aren't the only factor that affect this conversation. How you talk to both sisters during EVERY encounter with them will also change the final encounter You have to compliment Therese and flirt with Jeanette, as far as I understand it. Fail to do that, and one of them will die.​
 
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yeah, you have to keep their "rep" balanced it seems.

never figured out the details, but blind luck works for me (guess it's karmic compensation for the toreador curse of beauty?)
 

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If you suffer from periodontitis and all your teeth fall out and then you get 'sired', do you grow new teeth or are you truly fucked?
You probably end up having to do the same thing regular people with no teef do: Drink through a straw.

Sunlight is very dangerous for vampires, but not starlight? Is there something special about the sun, or simply the intensity of the light?
Apparently, something about the sun, because isn't there this level where people are attempting SCIENCE to find out, and replicated sunlight doesn't work?

Do vampires become ubermensh on the dark side of the moon?
No, because the dark side of the moon isn't "dark", it's merely perpetually facing away from the Earth. It still faces the sun on occasion. But you know where they WOULD be pretty uber? Alaska, when it's night for nearly three straight months, after which they migrate to Antarctica. Vampires don't give a shit about the cold, after all.

Vampires can obviously survive daylight if they're not subjected to direct rays. Can they survive daylight if they wear a large, protective suit?
I imagine that's what the big trenchcoats are for.

Are furries really vampiric clans moving amongst us in broad daylight?
Possibly?
 

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PART 5: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

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Here we go again

In the last episode, we rescued Jeanette at the expense of her sister, Therese. Our reward was the info on Tung's whereabouts. Sunco Gasoline is not far from the asylum. Its doors are now unlocked.

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Good lord

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<few dialogue lines are missing>

I need to get to the warehouse, the one Mercurio mentioned. You know him?

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Just humans?

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They're in the know?

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Can you smuggle me in?

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I was born ready.

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We're thrown into a tunnel that runs beneath the train station

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We climb up and claim our first kill

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There's a few scattered troops lazily patrolling the perimeter. Not a problem.

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Few more thugs are hidden in the maze of the rolling stock

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We stalk around to avoid a confrontation. I don't know how many more guards are within earshot of gunfire.

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*casts ghillie suit*

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A tunnel leads us away from the main platform. We clamber over another train car and spot a ladder that will take us to the top floor. 1 guard is working as maintenance man, it seems.

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3 quick shots of blood magic takes him out, without attracting any attention from the others

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It turns out that the ladders leads us to the structural beams right under the roof.

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We get a clear view of the warehouse from up here

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The only way is forward. We climb along the latticed metalwork and jump down outside the office

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We eavesdrop on more chatter

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Whilst they're talking, we lockpick the door and plant the bomb. That flying ability isn't a joke btw.

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Aand we get spotted and shot up in a few seconds. At least we die posing as the statue of liberty

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On my 2nd attempt, I pick up the shotgun which I didn't spot the first time.

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Fortunate favours us, and the guard closest to the exit faces away from us.

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We pick the lock and make a break for it.

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Their forces are scattered and we can chew our way through them piecemeal

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A cutscene rolls as we jump up onto the main platform

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The direwolf looks blazed af

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Yeah that was me, I reply, wondering whether vampires can regrow their crotch if it gets bitten off

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So who are you and why are you following me?

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Jeanette and Therese are the same person

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Met some thin-blood losers on the beach

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Met Freddy at the hotel. He threw vases at me.

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Gnight Beckett

His animation freezes and the screen fades to black

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Back at Tung's, brace yourself for a massive lore dump. Feel free to skip it if you're familiar with the lore.

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You know Beckett?

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Spoke with him just now

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I have some questions

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I met your ghoul, Knox

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You knew?

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It didn't seem like he was expecting me

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But he needed my help..

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Well played

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I want to ask about someone else

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LaCroix

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And the guy who decapitated my sire?

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What about Nines?

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Tell me about the clans..

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Bruja

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Gangrel

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Malks

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Like therese?

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Those voerman sisters are one person

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Sounded a lot more than just pain in your ass

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based Brian

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You don't want the job?

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About those other clans..

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You lot

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lucky you

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you loyal to the camarilla?

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That wasn't an enthusiastic endorsement

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What about the Toreador

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Tremere?

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There's one standing right in front of you

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And the last ones, Ventrue

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Tell me about the Anarchs

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What's a caitiff?

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What are thin bloods?

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Sounds like bottom of the barrel

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Gehenna?

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and who is Caine?

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You mentioned hunters?

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What about the Sabbat?

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That's enough of that.

Let's fill up the blood meter

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We spot a taxi at the end of the road

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Just drive

We get a map of LA. I decide to go east, the only place I can go unfortunately

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Another cutscene. We climb out of the taxi, when one of the Sabbat steals up on us from the shadows of the alleyway

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Boys, I think we could all use a little entertainment.
Those of you sitting in the first rows will get wet.


If you're playing as Malk female, this last sentence carries an unintentional second interpretation


A gunshot rings out


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Son of a bitch!

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Leave

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There's 3 of us, Rodriguez!
Whaddya gonna do? Shoot us?


Nines lovingly caresses the grenade on his belt


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This isn't over! We'll find you.
You too, Rodriguez! Nobody messes with the Sabbat and lives!

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Keep moving


The sabbat leader tries one last mad dash to get to Rodriguez, but he's too slow


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Good effort.
Execution needs a little work.

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And you look like shit. Name's Nines.

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Thanks for the help

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Should have been more careful, newbie. This ain't the burbs.

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I'll remember that

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I'll do that

*Fade to black*

Downtown

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Immediately to our right is a conspicuous door

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We walk inside and down the corridor until we run into some poor sod half crazed with fear

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What's going on?

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I'm about to slap you. Tell me what happened.

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Wait here. I'll goo see if I can find them

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He doesn't run away though. He just sort of stays there, cycling through his cowering animations

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We go through the funhouse, seeing the crew members get picked off one by one in increasingly sadistic ways

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Ah, who's that?

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Nice lenses. What are you?

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You have to eat flesh?

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Who are you?

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Why are you staying in this condemned building?

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You gonna eat him?

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He'll never come down. He's too scared.

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Well, if it has to be this way, then I'll do it

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wyb?

I take the long way back like an idiot

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Jacob's ladder

But the guy isn't there. Took me a while to spot it.

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We go back outside and check out the map.

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I also enjoy spending nights standing outside, watching the vibrant diversity enrich the neighbourhood

We go to the apartments

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He's in apartment 1, I think

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Terrible decor. I'm guessing the library is a fake as well.

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He's in the walk-in closet

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Just a prank, bro

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Well, he's dead

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I understand. You mentioned some artifacts?

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Tell me about the one in the museum

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And the other?

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Alright, bye

We go back outside

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Realistic portrayal of LA? Is every gal fit and sultry?

Time to visit the Prince

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Aw fuck, I forgot to reload the game when I killed him.

I'm sorry about your brother

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I need to see LaCroix

He buzzes me in and up we go

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Now this decor is more to my taste

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Wish we could pilfer the cool dagger

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Yes

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Some of the kindred are a tad two faced

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What is to be done?

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Yes

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What do I do?

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Asked for my audience at the Last Round

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Okay

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As we exit, we take one last look back at the Prince.

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baud

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RPG Wokedex Strap Yourselves In Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath I helped put crap in Monomyth

Nah, that's too young for Macron. His tastes are closer to this:

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I like how the prince has decorated his office with Cain & Abel paintings. Looking quickly there's one by Titian, right on the first picture and one by Rubens on the left of the second picture.
 
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CappenVarra

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i witness that you sir have your priorities straight: Pisha first, LA downtown fit and surly delights second, knock-off prince third
 

Egosphere

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PART 6: PLAGUE, SHIP, MANSION

Armed with instructions to pay the Anarchs LaCroix' regards, we set off to search for the Last Round. We don't get far before I get distracted.

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Yarp

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With our precious bodily fluids repleted, we venture forth to find a glamorous cathedral, it's windows ablaze ruby red and it's front yard buzzing with animated throngs of npcs
American religiosity? Lolno

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Garish lights bathe the club in ugly hues, illuminating the dancers that twist and writhe out of sync with the soundwaves. We approach a woman that has secluded herself from the hive.

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Who the hell does she remind me of so much?

Vampires, huh?

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Fine, who?

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Never heard of him

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Alright..

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Why should I?

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I don't know what to tell you

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Goodbye.

We leave Patty to her woes and slink off to pester the bartender-ess: a British doll that has thrown a lot of money at the surgeons to pad the Wall with 2 inches of polystyrene.

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You are?

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Few nights ago, my life was shattered into a million little pieces

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Know the warehouse that was launched into orbit few nights ago?

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Go on..

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What's in it for me?

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I'm a teetotaler

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Oh I'm worth it alright

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Back in a minute

The crowd still dances, fueled by drugs and pheromones, throwing out their arms and legs out in misshapen patterns.

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We leave.

The empire hotel is far away. We stumble upon the Skyeline apartments as we make our way across the city. Skyeline? Sounds familiar. I check the journal to find a note about Kilptarick's search for 'Muddy', the guy who has skipped bail.

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I'd scour the place, but there's 5 apartments in total and the front doors are all locked. We'll leave it for now. Empire Arms is in our sights, anyway

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The russian mobsters aren't too welcoming.

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That she did

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No money

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No

They draw their guns, I draw my bloodstrike. The two on the centre left fold almost immediately, whist the third backs away from the car park as I catch my breath behind a dumpster.

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I'd run if I was him, but out of either foolishness or bravery he stands his ground to weather a blood torrent.

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Back at the club.

I solved your little headache.

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Nice candles. Table wasn't big enough for a pentagram, was it?

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I'm all ears

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I wouldn't be bandying about derogatory remarks about bodyweight, Venus. But what's the catch?

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Still human, right? He'll be dead within the hour.

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Walking through the front door seems a tad brazen, so I circumambulate the hotel to find an open ventilation shaft. It takes us to the elevator shaft, with the elevator parked right underneath us in a fortunate stroke of serendipity.

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The KEDR wielding bully boys don't take too kindly to my presence.

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We fight them in the bedrooms and in the halls, and we never surrender.

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Nice to know that cthulhu mythos is alive and well in the world of darkness

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And there he is, the false king

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Venus sent me to pay her regards

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The club is hers

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Let's go then. You first.

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We grab all we need from the office and head back to wrap up this questline

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I've got some ideas about the club

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Alright then, 'partner'. I'll be back for the money.



The Skyeline apartments are abandoned and eerie. We find our way to the security room unopposed and hack the computer for info

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Bespoke

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What a thrill

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We climb inside one of the apartments and find a message on the answering machine

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So this is Durbin's place. He really is a slob.

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I can't really remember which other apartments I entered here at this stage, but I have a pic of a safe

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a locked grate

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and a digitally locked door

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Make of that what you will.

I seem to have abandoned the apartments here and went back out.
A hobo is locked in a staredown with some security personnel clad in hazmats

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And a lakers fan is trying not to fall asleep behind his van

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Who the hell are you?

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You sell counterfeit jerseys or somethin?

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Then show me the wars, fatboy

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I'm not a weapons type of guy on this run, so there's little to entice us to part with our cash

We leave Fat Larry and straggle for a while, sightseeing. We find an edgy skull logo

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and Hogwarts

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and the bar

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Let's follow up with the Durbin quest first, though. We follow the back alley to a nondescript door, which takes us inside for a nasty surprise

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Durbin ain't looking so hot

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Hard to miss

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Who was the second guy?

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Aah, so that's not Durbin drying on the scaffolding.

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Did Muddy ever return?

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If you open your mouth, they'll throw you in jail. Leave.

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The decapitated head is resting in a pool of gore under the scaffolding

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We pick up the key card for Luckee Star motel. Hmm, don't think it's in this part of town. We leave the body as we found it and head off to the Last Round.
The place is cramped and stuffy.

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The braindead bartender won't even acknowledge our presence, but a feisty redhead larping as Che has quite a few words to share

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The fuck's your problem?

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Not a fan of Camarilla, I take it?

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Is there a point to all this?

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Who are you?

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Drink some bad blood, or something?

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I upset you. How unusual. What's a plaguebearer?

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How do you solve this 'plaguebearer' problem?

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Hmm. Sounds serious. Nines helped me out before, so perhaps I can repay a debt?

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I'll go check it out

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Alright, alright, I'm gone.

We head upstairs to meet up the rest of the crew. First up is Skelter.

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Yeah, yeah, cute. Is Nines here?

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Few questions before I go..

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This vampire circus makes no sense

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curse?

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Servitude?

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I want to break freee

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Kain?

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Bible? You believe in it?

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Where are you going with this?

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But you have no problem with the masquerade?

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Patty..

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Hard to miss

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What do I do?

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Ok. For the Masquerade.

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More questions, what's Gehenna?

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Is all this Camarilla lore?

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Then who's the true believer?

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And you?

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So your problem with the Camarilla is that..

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10 commandments?

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I see your point

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So the Anarchs are the good life?

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And what about Nines? He isn't your prince?

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Cool cool. I'm gone.

Up next is Jack.

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Not much time for sightseeing

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You could say that

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ever heard of the elizabeth dane?

Jack tenses visibly.

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On prince's command, no less

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Why, what's up?

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No.

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For real?

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Could be hearsay

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Why is the prince sending me?

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How did Nines make a difference

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You're not into PR yourself?

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I thought LaCroix was the boss around here, yet he's afraid of Nines?

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So you're with these guys and not with the Cammies?

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Tell me about the anarchs

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It's good to know history

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How can you win, though?

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Does Nines share this vision?

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How come you're not running the show?

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What about the rest of the crew?

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What clan are you?

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Let's talk of Camarilla

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What's your take on their ideals?

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Is LaCroix one of the big boys?

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Yeah, he definitely wants the corner office

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He can't be totally worthless

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What do you know of the Sheriff?

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What about the Sabbat?

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I hope not

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They're anti Camarilla, right?

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You a fan of Nines?

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Ok, enough of that. Last up is Nines.

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(I missed a screenshot here, but he talks about the camarilla and how..)

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Aren't you a part of it?

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So what are you all about?

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So the camarilla are new to these parts?

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Not a fan of the prince, I see

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You're a prince of the anarchs

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Have you tried meeting with them?

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He unholsters his gun and reloads it whilst wearing a comical rictus

Any advice?

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Can you teach me how to fight?

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Aye, before we do that, we've got work to do.


At the Skyeline apartments, we find Paul's apartment via elementary deduction

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As expected, he's dead

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We punch in the code on the keylock and walk into Apartment number 6. Hannah is sprawled on her bed, upstairs.

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I'm a friend of Paul's. He sent me.

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What do you do?

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Hiding something?

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You can trust me

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Prostitute. Interesting choice of profession.

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Who was your ''client''?

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Give me a name

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Where did you two meet?

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He's dead

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Hannah dies screaming. If your humanity is low enough, you'll have the option to taunt her here. I'm a good guy so I don't.

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Orange jumpsuit - this guy is SICK! Pliers and blowtorch - perfectly normal.

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At the hotel, I take the front door this time. Can't be bothered hauling my fat ass through 100 metres of narrow vents again.

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I'm looking for Jezebel Locke

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I need a key to her room

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I'm an old friend on a surprise visit

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We meander along the corridors, snooping around as we go

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Honey I'm home

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I take it you're Jezebel? You're in dire need of a haircut

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Not so fast, missy..

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Sorry. Forgot my jimmy-hat.

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So I can end up like Hannah and Paul?

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Stay still

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She gets absolutely wrecked. There's not much to loot here, though.

I take a short detour to the skull graffiti place to see what's that all about

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Yeah, man, totally

He tells us to fuck off until we're enlightened. We comply.

The building with the purple smoke happens to be en route to the bar, so we make a quick stop to explore

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Yeah, that email.. You are..?

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Regen of the chan.. what?

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You're a tremere as well?

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What's a chantry?

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You mentioned a pyramid?

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How do I get 'inside' the pyramid?

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What's a regent?

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Ah, so you're like head of our tribe? Cool.

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Thanks for the sagely advice

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Hmm..

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Camarilla, what's that all about?

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Few more questions plz

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Are all vampires Cammies?

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Good of Nines to help me out of a sticky situtation

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Yep

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Your purposes? They don't align with LaCroix's?

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It's alright. You can trust me.

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Perhaps you think you're more suited for the role?

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In that order?

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Tell me of the anarchs

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I ask a question about the prince, but it loops back to an answer we've already heard

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I'll look into the epidemic for you

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What will I get in return?

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Alright, I'm gone.


Patty..

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I've found Kent, Patty.

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He's in San Diego

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No problemo!

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We pay the homeless a visit to see if we can coax out anything more about the plaguebearer from them

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Condemned: Criminal Origins flashbacks

I need to talk about the sickness that has been ravaging the people around these parts

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Don't you remember? I'm your old friend, from the shelter..

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Where is he?

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Tell me about the illness

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I'll pay you after we talk

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Thanks for the info. See ya!

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He groans and sinks to the floor.

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The sewers eventually open up into a large room

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I can see you, fucker!

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Le 56% Na'vi, built like a brick shithouse

Who are you?

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Brother? Bro of the 9th circle?

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Why eat the homeless?
(what an utterly retarded question)

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Lock and load.
I do kill him, but he beats me around like a sack of potatoes. I'm within an inch of death by the end.

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We're enlightened!

The receptionist lets us through the door. We encounter a woman who looks like a deer caught in the headlights.

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Summoned?

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What goes on up there?

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You sound scared

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Don't worry about Bishop. He's as good as dead.

We head upstairs and encounter some .. zombies? They look like em anyhow.

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I'll spare you the details. We reach the top floor to find Bishop standing atop a table, preaching to the cadavers that shuffle across the room.

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Who are you?

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You mean Gehenna?

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You're the one spreading the disease?

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I understand being a vampire is hard, but this is not the way to deal with the predicament

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Have it your way then

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I get absolutely owned

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And again..

The fucker won't play fair. He sprints at 5x my speed and keeps bobbing in and out of view just long enough to plant a shotgun slug in my forehead, over and over.
You want to cheat, man? Fine by me. I'll cheat as well.

I find a nice niche where his AI doesn't get triggered and lovingly send him small samples of bloodstrike, taking short breaks between each shot until the receipt arrives. His shotgun soon clatters to the floor and the screen fades to black. So much for bishop.

Hey, regent, I killed him.

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The item

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Back at the bar

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Paul's chilling face down on his kitchen floor

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All the plaguebearers are dead

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I just wanted to help the community

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Why don't you join me in the Camarilla?

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Good luck with that

We tell Skelter the news of Patty

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and take our leave to go back to the prince. We exchange some small, talk, until I remember Beckett and decide to ask him.

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This leads to more questions. First up is Jack.

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What about the man standing to your right?

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Camarilla itself

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sabbat

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the sarcophagus you're sending me to study?

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Ok. I'm ready.

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No fire arrows

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Acshully, there's something I've forgotten.

Larry..

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You want some of this?

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What's on your mind?

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I'm listening

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I want the new stock AND a discount on top

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No. I'm going in dry.

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The level is boring af. Your best bet is crawling through the vents. That way you get to hear the back story from the voluble gangsters. The trade off is that you're now at the mercy of Troika's half baked stealth system.

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**

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**

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**

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AYY

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Oh, don't let me get in the way of good old-fashioned fun

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This it, Larry?

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No. I'm away, grave robbing.

****
Just some random stuff that I couldn't hack/find on first attempt: at the apartments

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There was a hole here. It's gone now.

****

We take the taxi to Santa Monica and go to the beach. LaCroix is sending me on a very important mission with a, ahem, dinghy. Mercurio is here as well.

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Feeling better?

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I need some info

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You

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LaCroix

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Sabbat

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Santa Monica?

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Downtown?

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sniper rifle?

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shotgun?

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flammenwaffer

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mini nuke

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We talk to, erm, this gal, about the murders

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Well, we've got a long trip to the Dane. Better get to it.

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The ship is teeming with cops. Luckily, the first one is on the right payroll.

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He didn't tell me this was a formal affair

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Enough of this bollocks. We need to do this fast.

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He drags away a second cop from our path.

The mission is surprisingly short. I'm always wary of video game ship missions because they usually take a long time: MGS2, Soldier of Fortune 2, Tomb Raider 2, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory etc. This one is a breeze.

Couple of doors away is the computer that's connected to the cctv cameras

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We already have the password

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deck cams ON

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Jump down from the walway and go to the room right underneath

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And that's it!
We run back to our little boat and GTFO

Back at our apartments, more mail

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We kill some time in the Asylum

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Are you lonely?

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Yeah. Thief 3 has just come out. Can your laptop run it?

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KOTOR 2?

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:')

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I don't drink

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Hey, Tung, what's your take on the murder spree?

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Guess not much else to do other than going back to the prince.

Well hello there

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Not at all

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Yeah you can stay

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Here's the key

Up we go to the penthouse

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The prince is at it again

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He's not too happy at being disturbed, so he wants to keep it brief

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The ship is empty

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Openend from within, judging by the bloodied prints

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Who were they?

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Alright, I'll look into it. Is that all?

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Any useful info on Grout?

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Tell me more of the primogens

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Ok, I'm off.

I decide not to dilly dally and hail a taxi outside the hotel. Grout's stout mansion is an impressive piece of real estate. I'm admiring the architecture when Nines pops out of the front door and spoils the moment.

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Yo, Nines!

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What? You feeling alright?

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Err, ok?

We part ways and I enter the mansion. Now, again, there's not much fun in posting 50 pics of every room in the mansion, so I'll condense it to the bare minimum. The place is bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent. I have a theory that Troika bought some s&m character model pack when making this game.

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Florence and the Machine fan art

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There are recorders scattered across the mansion, which will playback Grout's slow descent into madness. Unfortunately, I missed 1 and failed to properly screenshot another. I found the full transcript on another site, though, so I've included the full text below. The writing is really damn good here. Great job, Brian!


dictation_message_1:
It is quite peculiar the happenings I've been made to witness from my supernatural longevity. I'm thinking of one unfortunate phenomenon in particular of unique interest to my station both as a professional and as a sufferer of this vampiric condition. It seems the stream of time has begun to erode the moorings of my chosen course of study, for the methodologies that gave birth to psychology are slowly disappearing. I find myself in an era that overlooks the physical component of psychological pathology time and again in favour of the sophistic practices of Freud. Phrenology, dactopenalism, and the rest of the old guard is fallen by the wayside, its champions all silenced in death with my unique exception. Would if I could make my voice heard again although it may be suspicious should I return to popular medical discourse fifty years after my apparent death. No, better that I continue my studies into the psychosis in secret. One day may I hold up my own cure as validation of the methods. I am confident no cure for my conditon or that of my beloved wife lies within our figurative minds waiting to be unlocked by the correct combination of memories recovered from our childhoods. And I'm most certain that it has nothing to do with the relationship between myself, my parents, and my genitals. Sorry, Sigmund, but I choose to stay my course. In time, too, may your star faint and disappear.

dictation_message_2:
Another unfortunate casualty to tide of time: insane asylums. I lament their loss not only as brokerage houses for the breadth and depth of human psychosis, but also I shall mourn the disappearance of that peculiar environment present only in an insane asylum. That palpable atmosphere of blistered brains and churning bowels, the odiferous melange of freely flowing bodily humours, that gently rolling cacophany of distant sobs and screams, the muttered cursing of perceived enemies and the blissful gurgling of the lobotomized like a new-born babe discovering the sky. I shall still find test subjects as surely as I find bloody sustenance in the night, but this climate, I fear, will never be replicated.

dictation_message_3:
Often I reflect with great regret on the missed opportunity that was my infector. Had I been conscious after the attack, I could have stopped the orderlies from locking her in a roaming pen. What I would give for just one interview, a few simple questions of the plague ridden woman who met her end that dawn. Of course there is no guarantee she would have been any more helpful than my current crop of test subjects. Mulling wretches! Few could be called 'enthusiastic'. Given the nature of the tests, I cannot expect the same fervor from all, but a modicum of cooperation would be appreciated. Animals! The one called 'John' went so far as to gnaw off his arm and escape into the floor boards like some feral rodent. I still hear him scurrying about that night, he must have made an atrocious mess in there.

dictation_message_4:
My studies proceed at a languid pace. I'm mired in a foul anguish as my wife's illness advances. My subjects grow restless without proper supervision, but I cannot pull myself back from this black depression. How many nights I've wasted now gazing from the tower walk, pondering the frailty of existence.

dictation_message_5:
After decades of solitary studying into this affliction, I have learned that it is by no means mine alone. Indeed, the city is homed to an entire society of similarly afflicted individuals with whom I've only recently made contact. They are an understandably standoffish sort, by and large, but I have been able to confirm with them that the condition is indeed vampirism which apparently comes in a multitude of strains, each with a spectacular set of symptoms such as invisibility and even a sort of lycanthrope. Through numerous official interactions with the governing body of this secret society, I have concluded that their fundamental understanding of the vampiric condition is woefully lacking and mired in suspicion and pseudo-religious dogma that would make a Turk balk for its strictures. Indeed, they seemed impressed with my studies and the eloquence with which I was able to present them, apparently the typical suffer of my particular strain of vampirism is far from the vanguard of the king's English. So impressed where they that they even offered me an office in their government, a rather high office by the sound of things. I believe I shall accept. If nothing else, it should provide a lofty vantage point from which to observe the breadth of epidemiology of the afflictions so that I may move more expeditiously toward a cure.

dictation_message_6:
I have accepted the role of 'primogen' for clan 'Malkavian', the dreadfully winsome label applied to the particular strain of vampirism I suffer. So named for some supposed vampire father figure of old, more poppycock grown from a backwood culture that seems interminably drawn to childrens' tales and the fiction of Victorian romance when it should concern itself with the science behind their suffering. No matter, for I have taken this office for no greater reason than to advance my research. I must make mention however that even among my would-be peers in this governing body of vampires the level of paranoia and superstition is frightening! Their intelligence is not the question, no, indeed, as they courted me for this appointment, I had to suspect that their overtures were hand-tailored to what must be my obvious infatuation with reason, for the devil would do well to have such honey-tongued tempters. Even so I could not help to notice the dressing of language the vampire leaders chose for their siren song. Whether it is born of habit, from addressing their unwashed ill educated subjects, or from their own deep-seated beliefs, their linguistic flourishes belie a faith in superstition over the providence of empirical reason that must be an all-pervasive theme in this society of darkest night. Damn it all now, I'm doing it, too!

dictation_message_7:
As I expand my dealings with the vampire government, I have encountered a disturbing new symptom of this affliction. Frequently, in conversation, I will hear voices emanating from other vampires, voices that are not their own, but which seem to have insight into their lives beyond what I could gather from simple conversation. These voices seem to echo from deep within my fellow vampires, and I cannot be certain if this symptom belongs to my strain of violous or theirs, for the voices are various and inconsistent. I dare not mention this symptom to my vampiric peers, for they have proven themselves true predators to whom I could be lured to reveal any sign of weakness. Indeed, these voices have counseled me against confessing their presence, and until I can confirm their source, I will listen. The information the voices have given me ranges from curious to frightening. The latter case is especially true of one powerful vampire whose name I shall not commit to recording in the interests of self preservation.

dictation_message_8:
The voices have increased in frequency and direction of late. They have begun to stay with me long after conversation has ceased and are serving as quite a distraction. I fear others are beginning to notice my preoccupation at the vampire gatherings. I'm thinking again of the particular vampire of whom I spoke previously, who I dare not name for my growing fear. If the voices are to be believed, then my caution is warranted, for they speak of his blackest crimes both past and future. More than once I have seen the suspicion in his eyes and heard the distrust in his voice when speaking with me! The fear must register on my face as it is all I can do in these moments to keep from crying out in chorus with the voices!

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I am no longer safe - I know it! The voices have proven themselves authentic, and I have withdrawn from the vampire society entirely. My absence will no doubt draw attention, but I could no longer hold my fragile composure around the ravenous eyes of my vampire peers, especially not from him! The voices compelled me to make what I fear is a Faustian bargain, but I had to, for their demands are constant and merciless. I have secluded myself within the mansion. I know he will strike out at me. He will go to any length to achieve his ambitions, and he knows that I know! I have taken precautions to protect my beloved wife. A cure will have to wait until our immediate safety is guaranteed. The mansion was constructed with security in mind, but at that time I was not privy to the full range of vampire capabilities! The voices echo in the twisted corridors of my psyche, dark whisperings of a m'carbon formless menace the approach of which portends an end, an end to all of this!

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elder vitae

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And here's Grout, with a stake through his heart. I remember reading some fans dissecting this scene, saying that he wasn't supposed to evaporate if he had been killed with a stake etc. I'm not knowledgeable in the lore, so I'll refrain from musing on the matter.

As we leave Grout's room, several explosions tear through the building. A man stands on the mezzanine across ours.

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Grout's dead. Who the hell are you?

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execrable kraut

We do our best to avoid the flames and the crazies

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We go straight back to the prince

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Grout's dead

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Bach set his house on fire

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Who is he?

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I saw Nines at the mansion as well

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Want me to whack him?

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So what happens now?

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I'm a little short on cash

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What's your story with Bach?

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Leopold society?

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Blood hunt?

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Ok, got it

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I wonder if Nines is still at the bar..
Oh hi Damsel

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Regent blames you for the plaguebearers

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Nines isn't upstairs, and Skelter is furious to see me show my face in their little shack

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I did not 'finger' Nines. Fuck right off with those accusations.

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I don't know what to tell ya

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Where is Nines now?

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And Jack, what's your opinion on all this?

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Skelter didn't take it so lightly

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Where's Nines?

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The Anarchs will protect him, right?

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Well, that's it for today. We head back outside. Damsel is still glaring at me.

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Aesthetics are important

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*sip*
 
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