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House Battles

Page history last edited by tonyp 14 years, 10 months ago

 

Battle at the Safe House

 

May 12, 2009

 

We decide to attack the other safe-house which is only about a mile away.

The house is a single dwelling home in a residential area. There seems to be a lot more activity here as people are coming and going. We realize that gunfire and such would be more readily observed than at the last house.

 

Daniel activates the teams mental link as the car arrives at the house. We park a few houses away.

Daniel scans the house to sense consciousness's. He can detect 5 humans and no vampires. Everyone realizes the sun is down although there is a little bit of light.

 

Daniel tries to read the mind of one of the humans, to see if he is somehow working over a vampire that is hidden from his sight. One of the humans is nervous about the vampires in the house.

 

Gordon gets the feeling he is being watched, but not by anyone in the house. He turns and thinks he sees a figure step behind a house a few houses away; he thinks it's undead. He tells everyone through the mental link as the garage door starts to open on the house we were watching. Stephen keeps looking down the street towards the undead figure but doesn't see anything as Carter walks towards the garage.

 

An early 2000 sedan starts backing out of the garage as Daniel tries to sense anyone in the car. He can sense 2 humans and a vampire as it finishes backing up and starts to drive away. Carter walks just in front of the car as it starts to pull by, and the car stops. The two humans look kind of distracted and impatient. Stephen walks up to the car, and the woman in the back seat leans forward whispering to the man in the driver seat who leans out and says to Carter "Duuuude, can you move?"

 

Daniel sends the message out "the woman in the back is a vampire, the passenger is stoned, the driver is human but not stoned."

 

Stephen draws a pistol and taps the glass saying "Get out" aiming the gun to the woman.

The driver rolls his window down and says "Can you move mister? Are you cops? Show me some ID?"

"Oh hell no" says Carter as he lifts both hands and slams them down onto the hood of the car.

Realizing what he is about to do, Stephan shouts through the mental link "block sounds Daniel!"

 

Daniel can suddenly sense 4 more vampires in the house and that they are awake; and some more in the general area but not where they are specifically.

 

As Gordon watches, Carters hands slam into the hood of the car as the radiator slams into the street, fluid splashes out of the car and steam billows from under the hood as the engine sputters and dies.

The driver, shocked, jumps out of the car and starts staring at his car, yelling "What the hell was that for? Who the hell are you?" he shouts at Carter.

"Whoa, dude, your car is totaled!"

"We are here for the vampire. Where are you taking her?"

"To a meeting. She has a meeting? We were just going to a meeting."

"I'm hungry, I'm going home since the car is broke. Bummer…." as he starts walking to the house. Suddenly, he turns and walks away as a voice similar to Daniels enters his mind and says "there are no snacks at home, go to the store…."

 

"You must be the Raynes I take it?" the woman says from the back seat. "Yes, you are definitely Carter. Dumb they mostly say." She steps out and leans against the car so she can watch both of them. "So what now?"

"Where were you going?"

"It's not any of your concern."

"Yes it is."

"No, it's not. Not in this particular case." saying that, her phone rings "Are you going to crush my phone if I answer it? No…I'm not giving it to you." She answers the phone. "Yes….no, I was interrupted. Yes, ok, I see, no, they are just staring at each other not saying anything. I suppose that's possible…."

"So which one are you?" she asks.

"Don't tell her Steven," says Carter.

She just smiles at Steven. Once she makes eye contact with Steven, she tries to convince him to drop his weapon. Daniel can tell she was trying to do something, just before the telekinetic attack from Steven goes off as she is flung towards Carter. He catches her without thinking.

She smiles back at Steven, "well, you have to give me credit for trying, you had a weapon on me."

Michael has had enough, he walks up to her and says to Carter "Carter, let her go a minute. We are here to kill the assassin vampires. Are you part of them ore what was your business here."

She laughed. "Well, we figured as much. I know I'm dead, but the others are all prepared now. Thanks for being honest," as a gunshot goes off hitting Steven in the chest.

Carter crushes the woman's head and throws her over the car, her body crumples into a bloody mess.

"Oh man oh man oh man" says the driver as he drops prone to the ground crying to himself.

 

Daniel sprints across the street towards the house but out of line of fire from the front of the house.

A shot rings out as he runs, obviously aiming for him. He takes 6 points lethal damage as a round plinks off the side of his head.

Another shot goes off smacking into Gordon for 2 points lethal.

 

Michael, shifting into near wolf as he moves, leaps over the car and rushes up next to Gordon, hoping to draw fire away from Daniel.

 

Steven hides behind the car and heals himself up.

Michael rushes up to the house. As he gets close, he can sense trapped and tortured spirits in the area. They seem angry and mad, versus the warm and fuzzy kind. As he sends this information through the mental link, he senses one right next to where he stopped. Michael draws his sword, and attacks. It's a solid hit, but the spirit takes it.

 

Steven, standing behind the car, draws his weapon but isn't certain what to shoot at. So he rushes back to the truck and gets his hellfire shotgun.

 

Gordon aims and shoots at the spirit standing next to Michael. Rounds ricochet off the house as six rounds sink into the spirit, dissipating it.

 

Carter bends down and lifts the vampires car. He tosses it at the front of the house. It spins as it flies across the street and slams into the front of the house with a loud crash. Two vampires leap out of the second floor as it started to collapse and they land in the front yard, cradling their sniper rifles.

 

After healing himself, and seeing the car fly across the street, Daniel says "I am going to go full defensive mode trying to keep us from being seen or recorded. Get inside as soon as you can."

 

A spirit appears and attacks Michael, reaches his fist into Michaels chest trying to rip his heart out. He  fails, but causes a lethal damage. A gunshot rings out as a vamp shoots at Michael with a pistol and hits him for another point of lethal damage.

 

Gordon flips through the air and lands behind a parked car, dodging the other sniper vampire. It misses.

 

Michael swings the sword in a sweeping arch at the spirit, hitting it but not disrupting it, and positions himself behind it away from the vampire with a pistol.

 

Steven rushes from behind the car as he runs up to the vampires, lifting his hellfire shotgun, and releases a couple rounds.  He causes 4 aggravated damage to both of them as the yell out in pain.

 

Gordon aims and shoots at the spirit that has moved up next to him. He hits with five solid hits, but it doesn't even seem injured.

 

Carter leaps through the air, lands next to the sniper rifle vampire, grabs the rifle and twists it around as he then falls to the ground with all his weight. The force of the twist and pull snaps the arm and drops the vampire as well as crushing the rifle.

 

Daniel is still trying to pinpoint the presence that is watching the group, but decides to try and use the sleeper minds in the area to try and seal off the area in terms of noise and damage. This would free him up from trying to hide the group.

 

Accomplishing that, he again tries to determine the observers location. He finds him. Through the link "I see a really-really ugly nosferatu with a video camera across the road." Everyone answers back "Kill him!"

 

The spirit moves to attack Gordon but misses. The vampire with the pistol turns and shoots at Carter for 3 lethal. The other spirit again attacks Michael for a point of lethal damage as it hits his heart. Michael, growls at the spirit and swings his sword at it, shattering it's essence and it dissipates. He moves up towards the pistol vampire and growls menacingly.

 

Steven can sense the nosferatu, but not where it is exactly. He uses his control light ability to make the location brighter, but he still sees nothing.

 

Gordon shoots at the spirit next to him again, it vanishes into ether, and he rushes towards the nosferatu but he can't quite see where it is. He thinks he sees a vague outline.

 

Carter takes the sniper rifle in his hand and uses it as a club against the vampire by him. The swing of 9 lethal takes the head clean off the vampire as it flies across the yard and bounces off the neighbors house.

 

A vamp comes from around the corner of the house and shoots at Carter hitting him. Steven is hit by the female vampire that was not fully incapacitated and has moved up behind him, causing 3 points of lethal damage.

 

Michael moves up to attack the one on the side of the house, but the sword misses.

 

Steven spins around and shoots the female vampire in the head with the shotgun. The blast rips through her but does not drop her. As a matter of fact, she does not look happy.

 

Gordon, having heard Daniel say he has the nosferatu, moves towards the house. He leaps through the air just to look cool and rolls on the ground, unloading into the vampire next to Michael. At the end of the roll, he lands back up on his feet. 8 rounds slam into the vampire, pushing it back as they slam into it and knock it to the ground. Four of the rounds landed in it's head.

 

Carter, stretching as he moves, rushes up to the female vampire in front of Steven and begins squeezing her in a bear hug. As his grip increases, she breaths out "I surrender."

 

Steven, still aiming his shotgun at her, pulls the trigger. Five aggravated rounds later, her body erupts into fire and turns into ash.

 

Daniel, draws his pistol and shoots at the nosferatu, burying five slugs into the creature.

 

Secret information that only Daniel is aware of.

The part of Daneil will be played by Tarlouath:

 

tarlouath: Okay, this is what I will do.  Using one half of my brain I will shoot at the nosferatu, trying to kill him.  With the other part of my brain I will make him feel that the best defense against me, regardless of whether I hit him or not, is to throw the camera at me.

evildmguy: "Hey!  I'm on your side!"

evildmguy: "Well . . ."

evildmguy: "I'm not on THEIR side!"

tarlouath: "Who's side are you on?

tarlouath: "What are you taping this for?"

tarlouath: "Why shouldn't I kill you?"

evildmguy: "Hey!  What the hell did I do to you to deserve that?"

tarlouath: Is he referring to my threat or to Stephen's action?

evildmguy: Did you send him?  HA!  HE can't see me! 

evildmguy: (Stephan)

tarlouath: "I told them you were there.  What they are doing they are doing on their own"

tarlouath: "Now, how about some answers to my questions."

evildmguy: I work for Scratch.

tarlouath: Okay - how is JiMG supposed to react to that!?!

evildmguy: However.  Obviously, an NPC.

tarlouath: So the name "Scratch" is purely coincidental

tarlouath: "Who is Scratch?"

tarlouath: "What is his association with these vamps?"

evildmguy: He's the head Nosferatu of Chicago. 

evildmguy: He doesn't know them.  He's trying to find out about them for Maxwell.

evildmguy: That's why he sent me.  We found this address. 

evildmguy: Who the fuck are you guys?

tarlouath: "We are allies for the moment.  The fact that I have not killed you right now should attest to that.  If you don't believe me, ask Maxwell about Shedd."

evildmguy: What about your friend l

evildmguy: What about your friend looking for me?

tarlouath: "What will happen to with the tape.  We, obviously, do not want any record of our presence here, as I am sure you don't either."

tarlouath: "I called him off.  He just reacted to me calling his attention to a vamp."

evildmguy: That's up to Scratch.

tarlouath: "Shouldn't it be up to Maxwell?"

tarlouath: "So, in order to not have my friends kill you, take the tape out of the camera, replace it with a blank tape and then throw the camera at me so it breaks."

evildmguy: Not as far as I am concerned.  I don't work for the Prince.

tarlouath: "Then leave."

evildmguy: Okay.

evildmguy: I will leave.

tarlouath: "After throwing the camera at me."

evildmguy: No.  (And he turns and runs.)

tarlouath: I shoot him

tarlouath is typing a message.

evildmguy: you hit him but he runs behind the house and keeps going

tarlouath: I pursue until I can see him and then shoot again.

evildmguy: re roll a perception

tarlouath: What nosferatu?

tarlouath: rolled a 1

The nosferatu gets away from Daniel.

 

Gordon rushes up to the house, sees what looks like a vampire in the house, and shoots center mass, dropping the vampire as it's pelvis is shattered. Several laptops fall from his hands as he falls to the floor in pain.

 

Gordon and Michael rush into the house as the vampire on the floor, already healing, starts yelling "Hey, I'm not one of them! I was paid to be here. I'm from New York! I was paid $100k to find out about you guys, the Raines. They wanted information about your neighbors, your family, any house plans, anything. I haven't found anything about your family other than your parents dying in a car crash a long time ago."

 

As Daniel works his way up to Carter and Steven, he says "I lost him." The three search the area but find no new details.

 

The rest of the group enters the house and start harassing the vampire prisoner. He says he hadn't found hardly any information and again pleads for his life.  Michael says we should hand him over to Maxwell instead of killing him, since he wasn't actually part of the European group. Steven really seems to want to kill this guy, but Michael convinces him to let the guy live.

 

"What else do you want to know? I was hired about six months ago."

Daniel can tell from his aura that he is scared, but there isn't a sense that he is strong. It's like he's way too much of a wimp for this type of danger. The guy even lists the passwords to the laptops during his rambling.

 

The group finds all the information about them that is paper or pictures and burns them in the fireplace. Once the house is empty, the group leaves. Carter grabs parts of the totaled cars and uses them to tie up the vampire prisoner.

 

Daniel can still sense the nosferatu is in the area. Michael can sense the nosferatu in the spot where he was contacted by Daniel, but otherwise nowhere. The vampire is starting to get freaked out as nobody talks to him, as if he isn't even there as the group drives. One car goes directly to Maxwell's as the other with Daniel drives to look at the neighborhood and then gets to Maxwell's almost at the same time.

 

Walking up with the prisoner, the guard asks who it is, and says into a microphone "Sir, the Raines are here with a prisoner wrapped in a car. Are you Carter?" he asks of Carter, who smiles and pulls some of the car parts off the prisoner.

 

"Well, good evening gentleman," says Maxwell.

"Here is one of the mercenaries hired from Europeans. They wouldn't let me kill him." says Steven.

"I appreciate that. What is your name?"

"Wade!"

"Thank you Wade. Persephone, show him to the other room please."

"We thought we should let you know we are hunting cells of these vampires," continues Steven.

"Of course. They have not made themselves known to me so they have none of my protection."

Daniel smiles.

"Yes Daniel?"

"I had a talk with a nosferatu video-taping our encounter. In the end, I left him alone."

"Ah, good. The nosferatu that don't want to be seen generally aren't. Yes, he may have been working for me."

"Before we leave, do you have the information about the mercenaries or who hired them?" asked Gordon of Wade.

"There were two other groups that I know of, and one that I don't. They did a server farm update. The other two cells are here," as he lists off a couple of addresses, "Each group had a European vampire in the cell, but the rest are made up of hired mercenaries."

 

"Is there anything else we should know about?"

"Well, the others had a pretty powerful mekhet [type of vampire], and one had a circle of the crone that was casting spells [wiccan with lots of rituals]. There were some human groups they got as well, a Greek one and a Norse one, and maybe a Latin name that I don't remember." {Malleus Maleficarum, Valkyrie, and another}

 

"So I take it you are going after these other groups?" asks Maxwell.

"They are threatening civilians to us, so yes."

"Tammy Rush, a gould of a vamp said this, plus the items Wade was gathering were about us and our neighbors, last there was a tip to police linking us to some rituals that happened a few months ago."

"Well do you want people knowing that I am helping you, by watching the house? I am willing to help, but it might look like I'm giving you a favor to others, and it may look like a sign of weakness in the future," said Maxwell to the group.

 

Maxwell leaves to answer a phone call as Persephone walks in "I don't have the contacts of Maxwell, but if there is anything I could do to help, I will. It would benefit me more to be seen with you than it would for you to be seen with me. I suppose if you didn't know, Maxwell has a nosferatu named Scratch. "

Daniel smiles "the nosferatu that was filming us was sent by Scratch." Everyone nods in understanding.

Persephone escorts the group to the elevator and they leave. As they are riding down, she says "if the video tape doesn't have vampires on it, or it can be adjusted to not show vampires, Scratch may try and blackmail you. Just let him know you are friends with Maxwell."

 

The group leaves, decides the server farm group is the one we want. Head to a hotel, get a room, and order room service. This allows Gordon to connect via wireless to track the group.

He can tell that information about the fights were posted and some of it went to the hotel the group didn't go to.

 

The phone rings and Daniel answers, Martina's voice can be heard through the phone. Carter and Steven make kissy noises as Daniel flips them off in reply.

"Yeah, we had a bit of fight earlier"

"Let me guess, a car through a house?" says Martina.

 

Carter and Gordon help everyone heal up while there.

 

A few minutes later, Martina arrives. She takes one look at the bandages, crosses her arms, and says

"I thought you said you guys were ok?"

Daniel says "I said I was ok, they were the ones that got hit!"

She pushes her hands through a couple of the holes in his coat, and he realizes he was caught. She rolls her eyes and continues.

 

"The Mekhet are from the time of the pharos. They are probably a few thousand years old, or at least the bloodline is from then. The circle of the crone is the original wiccan. Baba-Yaga type. Circle of the crone is a group you join if you agree with what they say, where their version is whatever keeps the vampire on the correct path is what is good. Wait, you are dealing with the dragons aren't you. The order of the dracul, you can't stake them or burn them. The old ways don't work with them. The worst rumor I heard was that they could take their heart out so they couldn't be staked."

 

The group decides that if this is the last battle, we should call in all our markers.

They get Persephone to organize the vampires as they call in the marker from Maxwell.

Daniel gets Martina and the mages.

Steven has Julie get some police to work off-duty with some of her friends for a fee to protect the mages.

Michael tries, but cannot get any of the three wolves left in Chicago to assist.

Valerie and the other Scion are called and say they will help.

Steven and Daneil go to the hallows and try to get as much mana back as possible.

The rest of the party get new ammo and vests to prepare for the upcomming battle.

 

Back - Rayne

 

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