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Chapters 9-14
Beckett: Halim, I need to leave London ASAP
Halim Bey, a well-respected member of the Camarilla who also has Seen Some Shit: I take it you did not find the book you were looking for?
Beckett: Excuse you, I’m a professional. Of course I got the book!
Halim: then why--
Beckett:
Halim:
Beckett:
Halim: Mr. Beckett, did you do a Naughty
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Halim, I shit you not, stuffs renowned Gangrel scholar Cuthbert Beckett into a Punishment Cabinet to think about what he’s done.
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By “Punishment Cabinet,” I mean a literal cabinet, which is then packed up and mailed to Lisbon so Beckett can angrily drink blood tea and get a lore dump about a lady with a void for a head. Something something Kemintiri. The author actually cuts away from the lore dump and I’m sad about it. :(
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MEANWHILE, BACK WITH BLAKES
Edward Bainbridge: hi, my name is Ed and I can do something no one else can
Wallig: and what is that?
Bainbridge: I’m going to creep out the creepiest dude in the World of Darkness.
Wallig: wh
Bainbridge: This is Wollig, the Tremere Regent. He’s the Regent of the Lion’s Green Chantry, which is a pulsing magical heart of the British Empire, upon which the sun never rises and British Kindred rule the night. Wallig is the scholar among scholars, dripping uncanny magical spark that others only have nightmares of.
Wallig: ...thank you?
Bainbridge, with his Food Merit: [sips tea]
Wallig: holy fuc--what the shit, oh my goD
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Uh, Malcom Seward joins a secret society of imperialist white dudes who secretly rule the Empire???? Their secret is that they’re competent at military strategy.
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Regina: Dad, I know I’m teenager and therefore have little experience of the world, but what’s going on is Not Normal and I think we should talk about our feelings, air out our grief, and maybe scale back on the heavy drinking and Uber Goth phase you seem to be going through.
Colonel Blake, a grown ass man: no.
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Emma, literally breaking out of the Tremere Chantry and risking torture to visit him: Babe, I love you and need you to Get Your Shit Together for our daughter.
Colonel Blake, still a grown ass man: no.
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Badass Alert: Regina breaks into Elysium
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Badass Alert: baby Theo Bell!!!! He’s so cute!!!!! His sire, Don Cerro de Leon, is a bit of a tosser because he keeps showing off Theo like a shiny object, but, uh, it also sounds like he’s excessively proud of his childe and wants Theo to make all the right connections to become an Archon later? Very double bladed “hey, have you met my son who is handsome and intelligent and good and murdered several slaveholders with his bare hands.”
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Badass Alert: Juliet Parr is a genderqueer Sheriff and I love her. (though TW for suicidal idealation because White Wolf cannot write non-ableist Malkavians)
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Badass Alert:
Victoria, in most ominous, spooky Goth tones: now, to be your guide and patron in this secret night society, we must make a solemn oath...in blood.
Victoria:
Regina:
Victoria:
Regina:
Victoria:
Regina: all right. [takes hat pin, stabs her own finger, drops some blood in the glass, and downs it in one swig]
Me: holy shit, I love her.