Los Angeles: Blood Moon (VtM V20) - ❌🌙🟦ch11-the-caretaker

Chapter 11 Location: near Evergreen cemetery, Boyle Heights Players: Agnes Dunsirn, Baresco Giovanni @!Yr Hyennaes (Tash/Kris/Agnes) @Coffee [Baresco Giovanni] ST: @Slinar [Alexander Montferrier] Previous scenes: #❌🌙🟦ch11-rigor-mortis (edited)

The girl drove just across the cemetery to see if there's anyone walking late and that she could have as her victim. She made turn by turn making it a round...

As she drove, she saw a silhouette walking on the side, seemingly a young woman, maybe eighteen, with black lustrous hairs falling around her shoulder and what seemed to be a little dark skirt with stockings. She wore a fileted top with a leather jacket.

Dunsirn hit the break slowly and opened the window. - Hi! Sorry... - She wanted to attract attention first.

The woman looked at her with a soft smile. "Hey! Can I help you ?" She had a clear voice, very sultry and yet genuine.

- Yeah, I think I'm a bit lost... Can you help me? I need to pick up my friend and can not find the address.

"Oh! I know the place quit well, where do you need to go ?"

she mentioned the address that can not be explained easily. - I am not sure if it is far...

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She named the further one. Not here so to explain the girl would need to at least draw

"Oh, I know this place! It's not that far from here, you would need to look at the second street, after this one... Here, let me draw you that. You got paper ?" After being handed paper, she began to draw that, using as a support the front of the car.

- Could you come in here? I will turn on the light., - She offered the girl a seat next to the driver to get more comfortable with the drawing.

"Yeah! Sure!" She winked at her, before entering the car, and humping on the seat.

- Well actually I had a map somewhere... Maybe I'll find, - she got to the back seat and was about to catch the moment to strangle the girl from the back with her hand pressing to the back of the seat and headrest,

The girl began to struggle, as Agnes pressed more and more the neck backward. But soon, it appeared that the neck was a bit more large that expected. At the place of the girl was a tall man, muscular, and yet laughing slowly in a huffed way as his breathpipe was crushed.

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He grabbed the hand of Agnes with his own, and pressed, as he began to try to drag her in the front seat.

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The girl screamed as loud as she could, trying to break free from the grip. This supernatural things were not yet familiar to her and all the thing going reminded her someone's bad trip. Her bad trip to be precise.

As he began to grab her and bring her to the front, his hand pushed on a handle, and the seat collapsed on him, trapping him between the back of the seat and the the seat itself.

The girl screamed again and started to head out of the car and run to the most clouded lace and the most lit one she could find there. She took a few seconds to run the call to Baresco.

No one came at first. She was able to call him, looking around but seeing no one as she was at a bus top.

"I've been attached. I don't know who's that but he was in the car. Long story. I'm at the bus stop. Help me... " She spoke in a very quiet voice.

"Where are you now?"

She tried to explain her direction as well as possible. "I maybe could return, I'm just afraid he may find me..."

"You are with two...superhuman men, I highly doubt your stalker can stand a chance against us." @!Yr Hyennaes (Tash/Kris/Agnes)

Agnes felt the noise right behind her, as a slow thump was heard. A footstep. He had found her again. A leap toward her. She needed to act, now.

The girl screamed loud and made herself a sprint run towards the cemetery location.

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Head Like A Hole

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Agnes rushed, sprinting toward the place where she left her vampiric protectors. And yet, she felt him rush behind her. With each steps, she felt a sting inside her heart, a pain slowly creeping in her muscles as she was panicked, filled with fear for what awaited her if she stopped to run. The last turn was at the end of the street, before she felt a hand on her shoulder gripping.

She screamed all the way, signalling everyone in there of their presence. As soon as the hand grabbed the shoulder she tried to wiggle away of it screaming again.

As Baresco arrived, he could see a large and tall man trying to grip Agnes, but she was visibly battling with fury. As he approched, the humongus, and savage man looked at him. His hairs were messy, brown and dirty, and he wore what seemed to be a working suit. He let go of Agnes, and began to run away.

Oh hell no! How the hell is he going to fight that thing? Looks like Agnes is on her own on this one. There are many Dunsirns in the Family anyway. Baresco makes a turn and walks away, but he remembers that he has no other lead to the Vessel other than this girl. He crouches and moves closer to the man. @Slinar [Alexander Montferrier] @!Yr Hyennaes (Tash/Kris/Agnes)

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The man continued to ran away from them. There was something disturbing with him, as he was not that sure he was looking a Kindred.

Baresco burns the image of the man's appearance into his memory. He'll be sure to pay the Prince and the Baron a visit later. He would call the police, but the risk of the unhinged bastard popping his claws and flashing his fangs is too high. The Giovanni rushes over to the Dunsirn woman. @!Yr Hyennaes (Tash/Kris/Agnes) @Slinar [Alexander Montferrier]

- Oh my God... - she thought her heart would just jump out of her chest and she was frankly happy Baresco finally made it there... - At some moment I thought you'll not gonna make it...

@Slinar [Alexander Montferrier] @Coffee [Baresco Giovanni]

Agnes felt a bruise in her left wrist, where the man had tried to put her hand beside her back. [One bashing damage]

Agnes Dunsirn

- Oh my God... - she thought her heart would just jump out of her chest and she was frankly happy Baresco finally made it there... - At some moment I thought you'll not gonna make it...

"Odd," Baresco says. "Very few Kindred attack Kine so blatantly, unless that man was going for the kill." The Giovanni glances at the mortal's injury before continuing to speak. "You failed to bring a living being, I assume?" @!Yr Hyennaes (Tash/Kris/Agnes) @Slinar [Alexander Montferrier]

- Are you kidding me?! - The wound was not serious but still hurt. - That was a stupid idea of us all. There's obviously someone trying to kill me and I just go alone somewhere. Yes. That was definitely the most lucky thing I'm yet alive... She sighed standing. Her heart was still beating like crazy. (edited)

"Of course someone is trying to kill you," Baresco began to head over to the person on the gate is. "You are your father's daughter after all." "I think it's time you are turned into a Ghoul," Baresco motions her to come over. @Slinar [Alexander Montferrier] @!Yr Hyennaes (Tash/Kris/Agnes)

She silently came next to him. "What does that even mean", - she thought, looking around. The girl was touching her hurting wrist.

"Drink one of our blood, you are given power and addiction. A strange and fabricated attachment towards the person you drank from." "You will be stronger than Kine but weaker than Kindred. It should be enough to boost your defenses against potential threats." @Slinar [Alexander Montferrier] @!Yr Hyennaes (Tash/Kris/Agnes)

- If I understand right, it is not a regular process? Or... You want to do that secretly? She was a bit scared. Not only because just was attacked, but also because she could not understand the real consequences can follow both of them.

Baresco walks briskly over to the person at the gate. "In the Family, only a select few are chosen. It is in preparation for the Embrace, we call it the Proxy Kiss." "However, very few are found worthy of the Embrace and become Kindred. Selected from the finest stock, I was one of them." Though he makes it sound like he was unwilling to become Kindred. @!Yr Hyennaes (Tash/Kris/Agnes)

A old man looked at him as he approached, going from the interior of the cimetery. He was bald on the top of his head, and some locks of hairs were keeping ground on the side of his ears. He frowned looking at them, pushing his chin toward. In his hand, a baton was held loosely as he looked through the gate at them. "Whot you doin' ther', fella?"

"Evening," Baresco greets. "I didn't know the cemetery had a guard." @Slinar [Alexander Montferrier]

"Why yo've need' t'know that? You from the cout'?"

"No," Baresco shakes his head. He approaches the gate and gestures at it. "Will you please open the gate for me?" His words cleave through the feeble mind of the mortal. @Slinar [Alexander Montferrier]

The old man looked at him, his eyes becoming blank, as his mouth opened up. Some drool falled on his jacket, as he goes to the gate and unlocked the heavy lock and began to pull the chains.

The Giovanni locks his gaze at thr man once more."Follow me please," he strides into the cemetery and heads over to where the old Kindred was.

The man didn't even had the chance to be bring back to senses as he immediatly followed, sluggishly, Baresco.

The Giovanni would start looking for the Kindred before the effects of Dominate wears off. (edited)

Baresco looked around, searching for the ancient Kindred. It wasn't that hard to find him, roaming the alleys, looking at the graves and reading. Sometimes, he reached out toward one, muttering something to himself, before going further.

The Giovanni approaches the Kindred with the man in tow. [Italian] "I brought you someone for that ritual of yours," he says. "And on the way here, the mortal woman was attacked by Kindred, so I will have to check on the local Camarilla if not Anarchs for that."

The Kindred immediatly looked into the eyes of the man, before gazing again to Baresco. "My powers are useless against one that doesn't understand me. Keep him in check, would you?" His tone was directive, but not really in a superior way... More in a martial way. The old man in a young body looked at Agnès with a concerned sight, frowning his eyebrows as a pained expression showed up on his face. [Italian]"She must live. I like the way she looks, and the Fates sometimes provide with the people with the potential to go. If a Kindred has make this domain his... We should either neutralize him or kill him. No witnesses of my resurrection in this world."

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He procedeed toward what seemed to be a crypt with a name inscribed on it : "Escaz". The fence was with huge bars of tarnished iron, locked by a built-in cadenas. Zanni grabbed it, and broke it with one hand. The feeling of helplessness arose in Baresco... He could make a huge ally of him... But also a deadly threat.

[Italian] "Very well," he gazes at Agnes, then back to Zanni. "I doubt this part of the city, or at least this cemetery, is under one of the Sects' rule." "Los Angeles is in a peculiar state. I heard that the Anarchs were significantly weakened by one of the enemy faction. Weak enough for the Camarilla to gain a foothold in the city, but I doubt they'd try to coerce you from leaving this place." "And what of the mortal girl? Shall we turn her into a Ghoul?" In his mind, he calculated and observed. Six hundred years or more, Baresco estimates that Zanni might be closer to that of a Methuselah in Generation. A powerful ally, and unfortunately, an inevitable master as well.

"I would say yes. Give her the Kiss of the Dusk and she shall serve us. But first..." He approached the man, which was in a paralized state, held by Baresco powers. His movements were akine to the one of a moving statue, as his hand bursted toward the neck of the poor old man. He was held above the ground, trying to cry but no air would burst out of his mouth as Zanni began to descend the stairs, holding him with one hand. As they dissapeared in the darkness, Agnes and Baresco could see the expression of sheer terror of the man, reaching his hand toward them. His eyes, swollen from the pressure, as his bleuish tongue was out of his opened mouth.

The girl froze as she was noticing what was going on. She tried to catch some words about the subject. It was hard, but in general, she notices the gazes towards her and knew it was something about her. They spoke about her., they decided something, Agnes just needed to know what exactly. Her look froze on the man being... killed? By a vampire?.. How did she even come to this...

They couldn't hear what was happening downstairs. It was terribly silent.

The girl came closer to Baresco, but still with the feeling she's a little afraid now of both of them.

END SCENE Next scene : #🌙🟦ch14-the-lost-and-the-damned

Recap: Agnes went to find the English-speaking person for the ritual. She found a girl that appeared not a girl but a huge-something-guy trying to hurt her. She was lucky to run away and let Baresco know about what happened. The follower find her again but Giovanni scared him and made run away. Vampires decided that they need to give Agnes blood, but Zanni need a ritual first. He got the man Baresco dominated. (edited)