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A very quick update after yesterday's demotion
"'DO NOT DISAPPOINT ME AGAIN.' All caps. How subtle."
"Ah, yes. A routine mission to a hospital where people vanish. Clearly just misplaced paperwork."
"He’s setting us up. Again."
"Darling, at this point, I’d be offended if he didn’t."
(The coterie steps into the derelict hospital. Dust-covered gurneys and shattered vials litter the halls.)
"Well, I think it's behind this door. The rest of the hospital is deserted".
"Note to self: Never trust a Prince who says ‘routine.’"
(The door creaks—then slams shut behind them. And then...)
"Real terror is not the sight of death... it is the fear of death. What is the fear of death? Terror of the unknown."
"That speech feels rehearsed."
"She’s definitely used this before."
"Shut up. She eats people. Didn't you play Bloodlines?"
"Your ghoul smells of Ventrue. A Prince’s pawn. But you... you reek of desperation. Interesting. I wondered why he was sent to me. The answer? To be rescued. It seems the person who sent you was confident that I would protect my domain like a tiger and sent you here as an offering. This made me... curious."
"And what do you want?"
"A crystal skull. Hidden in Anthony Blackwood’s old estate. Bring it, and your ghoul lives."
"Why? It’s just a relic."
"It whispers... and you, little Tremere, know the value of whispers. It is mentioned in the Voce della Morte as one of Ravenwood's main relics."
"Kids, just nod and get me outta here. This broad’s creepier than my ex-wife."
It seems the necromancer has caught our Tremere's heart.
