Ok, since that game flopped

[Angry Sandwich]

I figured I'd share what I was planning with all that stuff that was happening. Admittedly, some of the more specific details came to me later that night, but they were neat ideas and I don't want them to go kapoof. It's how I work. There is an effect, and I think of the cause after.

That and I woke up early and can't get back to sleep :/

Anywho, the significance of the book which was sorta but not really the focus of the campaign. It was very simply, the personal journal of that guy whose house you destroyed. We will call him Fed. He was a mummy and kept a rather detailed account of where he went, why, what he did and, most importantly, how he felt. Veiling anything incriminating behind analogies and metaphors of course . Fred wasn't stupid enough to say 'Today I found a den of leeches and unleashed the power of Ra to cleanse their corrupted flesh'.

The one mage who wanted the book, the correspondence guy really didn't expect to be outright killed when he went to go get it from you. He was a Nephandi, although only recently converted and was under the impression that you two were mortals. This group has had no past experience with vampires or werewolves and he brought along his two friends for no other reason than strength in numbers. Obviously, that didn't help him.

He was gambling on "Hah, you can't hurt me, I'm obviously more powerful than you so you will just do as I say out of fear." Would have worked if you two were mortal

Continuing, he wanted the journal because he had recently come in contact with a Bane mummy. Now, he had only the basest understanding of what Fred the mummy actually is. Whatever the Bane felt like telling him really. This Bane mummy has been stalking Fred for a rather long time now and was on the verge of discovering Fred's True Name. That journal was the final piece he needed. In exchange for the book, the bane mummy was going to "introduce" the Nephandi too the Wyrm. The Nephandi thought he was manipulating the bane mummy. He thought the Bane was a pansy and a fool. Suffice to say, you did the mage a favor by bashing his skull in. His other fate would have been MUCH worse.

Moving on. The mage had been watching the book for a while, several months actually, but wasn't sure how to get it. Bit of a chicken really, didn't want to risk himself. The Bane was getting a bit annoyed by the mage's lack of progress, so he contacted a local Follower of Set. This Setite called in a favor to another vamp, and that vamp sent her childer, and that childer came to you. To add more intrigue to this, Rob's main fencer was in fact this Setite's ghoul. Wasn't sure how I'd introduce that, but I was trying.

Yes, my plots are amazingly convoluted despite the fact that I claim there is no plot And that was all just about the book. Fred the mummy was going to pop up once or twice and try and get his revenge, but he would soon begin to get more and more corrupted. He would blame you of course and you'd have no idea why. The why would hopefully be revealed later.


As for the skulls and the baby heads? Well, I actually have more thought out for that, and it once again involved Rob's fencer. How much crap does that guy have his tendrils in anyways? But my wrist is getting sore and I'm tired again. Maybe I'll post it later if anyone cares

Shauna, tell Rob to read this!!! I think it goes a ways explaining what goes on in my head. The random crap actually does have a completely valid reason for happening. I just don't always know what it is right away.

[blackest_knight]

I will tell Rob to read this.

In fact, I will bring Rob to a computer and SHOW it to him (otherwise he probably won't read it)

Also, i think it's funny that we saved the Mummy, in a convoluted way.

[Angry Sandwich]

Well, I'm at a little bit of a road block with my other story I'm writing so I think I'll add some more.

The skulls. Such a wonderful name. Every city should have a gang called the skulls. My skulls weren't all that great to start with. They ran some drugs but were really rather small time punks more than anything. At least until Giovanni took over. It wasn't actually the Giovanni clan, but a Ravnos that used the name Giovanni. He used his talents (read: Chimestry) to convince many of the dealers that it was in their best interest to work with the skulls, instead of against. He did this quietly right under the other gangs noses. Within a moth or so he gained enough supporters that he openly declared "I own this town".

This was done about the same time Rob's character got his head bashed in with a shovel. Thus how he was oblivious to this and why he also slipped under the Ravnos' radar. If that didn't happen, Rob's character would have been absorbed into the skulls like just about everyone else.

The deal with Terrance. He was just a pawn plain and simple. To make sense of it I have to back up a bit. There is a Giovanni presence in the city. It consists of 3 vamps that are concerned with the major bank in the area as well as a couple of small businesses. (A book store, gas station, restaurant, hardware store and cancer clinic).

They don't like gangs. They don't like the slums. They REALLY don't like their family name associated with a gang in the slums. Of course, it's beneath them to take the fight to the Ravnos directly and they are too busy with the corporate world to worry about smiting some brain dead street punks. They did want it to be known that they disapproved however.

This is where Terrance comes in. The Giovanni pimped him out and in exchange, all he had to do was go and piss off as many people as he could. Terrance was a complete idiot. He was also completely expendable. The Giovanni fully expected for the kids to get themselves killed. They were planning on it. Why? Because when the kids died, well, thats 4 fresh souls for them to use.

Before they had let the kids loose, the Giovanni had performed a ritual on them. The moment the kids died, their souls would be guaranteed to be wraiths, bound to the Giovanni's will. The kids would of course be rather pissed at the Skulls for killing them. And the Giovanni would be more than happy to provide another ghostly mentor to assist them in their vengeance.

Of course, that doesn't explain the dead babies or why Rob's fencer was willing to pay extra for them. That, I will answer later. I could post it now, but I like the suspense

[Angry Sandwich]

Oh and you didn't actually save the mummy. You did give the journal to the lady and she was the vamp that the Setite contacted that the Bane contacted.

He's still fully doomed

[Angry Sandwich]

*stretches and yawn* Hmmm, good to relax. Work done with for the rest of the week. Anywho, time for the babies.

To start, Rob's fencer wanted to the babies because his master (lets call him Sven) got a bulk order for infantile corpses. No more than 1 month dead and no more than 6 months old. Terrance and pals were in the process of transporting the dead babies for one of the Sven's other ghouls when Rob scared the shit outa them. They were also one their way to get heavy weapons which is why the Skulls attacked that same night. (Think the kids were bad with a paint ball gun? Try an AK-47 The Ravnos knew about this transaction and wanted it stopped)

But thats not really telling you anything about the babies themselves now is it? Well don't get your spandex in a twist I'm getting to that. Yeesh. The nerve of some people. I don't HAVE to tell you this stuff you know.

. . .

Where was I? Oh ya. the babies. Short and sweet, an Earthbound wanted them. It was a Slayer originally but thats a rather moot point isn't it? Anywho, it had this little ritual that it was trying to create. It was attempting to bind the soul of a wraith into the body of an infant, and in the process revert the soul to that of a child's. Basically, it wanted a truly innocent soul free of all sin, even original sin. It was having alot of troubles however because the soul would either remember its past, be full so of necrotic energies that it would warp and destroy the body or just plain be destroyed in the process.

Now, why did it want a truly innocent child? It didn't. It wanted ALOT of trully innocent children. somehow, in it's warped mind it had become convinced that the key to all the horrible things in the humanity lay in Adam and Eve. And so, it deigned to summon Adam and Eve with the sacrifice of 10,000 pure innocents and use them as a focus. It would purge Adam and Eve of all things foul and reshape them into the ideal (in its mind) beings. Reshaping of Adam and Eve would of course, as the first humans, reshape all of mankind.

Ya, right. First problem with that is simply getting the 10,000 true innocents. Even dead, 10,000 babies would be noticed

Second, and much MUCH worse problem is the summoning ritual itself. Those babies, if it ever managed to create them, would not be pure and innocent. They would be truly horrible abominations. Death fused with death to create life only to be destroyed once again. Whatever that Earthbound ended up summoning (and the summoning would work, that ritual didn't come from nowhere), well, lets just say that it would make Earthbound look like cuddly kittens and Antediluvians look like saints.

I always seem to tie the apocalypse into my stories somehow Not that it would ever come to that. It would take years for that Earthbound to perfect its ritual and my campaigns don't last that long.

I think thats all there is to post. As for this Thursday, er, tomorrow, 7:00 good? Earlier? I won't be cooking anything this time so bring snacks XD