LA By Night: Campaign Update Three

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It's a world of laughter.

Meanwhile, Allister kept working on his wardialing code for his modem, designed to search out and identify unlisted computer connection lines on the phone network without being found out. He didn't make much progress, but it will probably only be a matter of time.

Brandon, on the other hand made perhaps too much progress, finding not one, but two major investors for the homeless project: the Giovanni (who, being relative newcomers to the LA scene, need all the allies money can buy), and Thomas David, a Hollywood Ventrue financier. Both wanted to meet with him at some point in the future, but both he and Kirk, the Brujah information broker who David and the Giovanni contacted, needed to think things over.

Just the Fax, Ma'am

1. The Pueblo de Los Angeles would be turned over to her control.

   COMMENTARY: This one was hotly debated amongst the coterie as to priority. She listed it first, but it was difficult to know how much the Council really wanted to keep this, their only declared public Elysium.

2. KVOX-TV, a small UHF channel, would be turned over to her.

   COMMENTARY: A Christian/Spanish/semi-public-access channel that nobody seemed to know was important at all, let alone to know if any Kindred was "behind" it. A problematic demand at best.

3. A "significant" personal boon from Crake.

   COMMENTARY: This one was described as "a real kick in the crotch" by Reinhardt, although when informed about it, Beth didn't seem too concerned.

   
   
   If you want to see the actual fax, Ryan swiped it for his IC journal. There's some other stuff in it too, so you might want to check it out.

Also, she said she didn't want to get in touch with any Council member directly (that's what the ambassadors were for, after all), and didn't want these demands to be negotiated at all. That seemed to be unrealistic to the other members of the coterie. Beth seemed ambivalent, pressing them to continue work while she ran the demands past the Council.

Get down with the boogie.

Meanwhile, Norton zoomed off to meet Ethan and Victoria, a Toreador ancilla-wannabe and his slightly illegitimate brand new childe. He had spoken with Frank, one of the Harpies of Hollywood, earlier, and found that it wasn't widely known that Ethan had made a new childe...at least not to Sid. He arrived at the opening of Club 42, where he was to meet the pair. Ethan was there, Victoria was nowhere to be seen. "She's out eating," said Ethan. But things had apparently gone very wrong...a scream erputed from the alley behind the club...a terrified man ran past howling about a psychopathic killer. Norton and Ethan, pathologically interested, ran back there with one of the bouncers, who promptly lost his lunch all over the fire exit. Victoria had savagely killed an unidentified man, ripping his throat out with her fangs, soaking her, the alley, and her clothes in blood. Norton stalled the bodyguard whilst Ethan made his escape. Norton then put on a burst of speed, hustled into the crowd before the LAPD arrived, and booked it away from the place on his motorcycle.

Meanwhile, Allisyn went out to Beverly Hills to see what she could find about the mortals who she had met at MOCA. She had finagled a couple of invitations to parties there and wanted to find out what was what. But then she found that people in Beverly Hills in a club at 2:30 in the morning are hideously easy to con out of a hideous amount of money and decided to do that for a while.

As it turns out, she had attracted the attention of Lord Kiley's Assistant Chancellor, August Markov, who accosted her and cajoled her into coming out to see Lord Kiley. In the car on the way there, he finagled a small amount of information from her; that she was a Ravnos and that she was operating out of East LA.

Lord Kiley himself seemed a bit put out that he didn't have as much to punish Allisyn for as he would have hoped. He just stated that, for future reference, if she did wish to feed in Beverly Hills, she would require his permission to do so safely. On her way out, she pocketed a small golden box, leaving an illusion in it's place. Chimerstry is a fine thing...or is it?

Inside the box was a tape of Kiley's conversation with Martin prior to Allisyn's entry: it stated her clan affiliation, and Kiley asked "Do you think this is retaliation for seven months ago?" Martin's reply: "I don't know. I don't think so." Kiley: "That's no answer. Go and find out." She grabbed out the tape and made arrangements to sell the box to a contact.