LA By Night Campaign Update Part One
We spent most of the first session getting settled into the characters and watching them react. They received a phone call from Beth Crake, of the Council regarding a job she wanted them to undertake. As they had heard about her interest slightly before they heard directly from her, they started in their own Paranoid way to research Beth, finding out, at first, few specifics, but trading information up and down the line to a couple of Nosferatu contacts and information broker allies.
Reinhardt continued his efforts to help the South by finding contributors for a homeless shelter in Lynwood: one of his Herd members was part of a gospel choir that was going to be doing a benefit concert there, and with her help, he set up a number of interesting things to draw cash from the audience.
A pair of Ravnos got into contact with Allisyn: Irene and Mac, with their "kid", Eddie. She was told a frightening story. Someone had Embraced Eddie at age 11 and let him go. They had picked him up and held onto him, although he never seemed to mature much after that, even mentally. This may not sit too well with Twilight (the pair set up their carnival in an Anaheim park), whose rules about children are both strictly enforced and incomprehensibly Byzantine. Allisyn is trying to help smooth out the friction that arose.
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The group
acquired invitations to one of Grace's parties, to be held at MOCA, where
visiting Toreador Lily Faulkner was
displaying her static and kinetic sculpture. Beth wanted to meet them
there in order to have a neutral ground. (Norton, being Overconfident and
Vainglorious, also thought it was so that he would be distracted by the
wonderful art.) Lily was rumored to be a Camarilla vampire, and hearing
that she was from Tacoma seemed to bear this out. Beth sent two
invitations: Reinhardt and McAllister took them. (Norton scammed his from
his sire/mentor Prince Valerie of the Senate.) They came hoping to hear
the scoop.
First, though, they saw a brief cameo appearance from Council member Michael Borden, who was snubbed by Lily, fairly hard, although in true Borden style, he didn't much seem to notice...or did he? They also saw Tony, another Council member, and a few other notables: Senator Tyler Salvatore, Ventrue Harpy of Beverly Hills Nash Aggleton, up-and-coming Bottom Five Senator Bianca Cabot, and many mortal luminaries.
Finally, Beth arrived. They adjourned to a small conservatory to discuss the job. Allegedly, Twilight had sent "ambassadors" to Lord Kiley and Sid, both of whom refused them. Beth feared that the Council would be next on the list of ambassadors: refusing them would seem to go against the Council's policy of "whoever controls something, controls it", accepting them would seem to be admitting that Twilight's rule was sanctioned by the Council, another contradiction. It would be a no-win situation. Beth also added that it was possible that Twilight never really intended her ambassadors to be accepted anywhere: that the threat of sending them to the Council (and by implication, the Senate), was merely an attempt to gain something from the Council by threatening them with a PR disaster.
What Beth wanted the coterie to do was to:
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