#secutura

[ponylamp]

the coterie is committing the greatest holiday sin: Inviting the Prince's Tyrant's husband to her New Years Eve party after forging an invitation in a group arts and crafts project

[psalacanthea]

I would like to tell you all about Lachlan.

Father Lachlan Patrick Typasius Doyle, is a if not THE major antagonist of our longstanding Vampire the Requiem campaign, and the vessel wherein I pour all my hatred for Catholicism.  He is my nightmare made flesh.  He’s a tattooed ginger megalomaniac with a maniacal need for holy purpose and a charmingly devious streak a mile wild.  He’s a misogynistic, racist, homophobic, narcissistic liar who gets his giggles fucking over everyone in his path.  He’s the devil.

He’s my coterie’s chew toy.

The first time the players met him, he was an ally.  They’d been kidnapped by a local Lancea and forced to suffer through a gauntlet of their sins, fighting their way free until they faced down the vampire cultists themselves in the local Methodist church.  Lachlan and his cadre of Catholic Lancea showed up to handle the fight, bringing guns to a church fight and ending things quickly.

He quickly endeared himself to them, by being his charmingly blustering, lying self, pretending to be nothing more than a suffering weapon forced to fight the Church's battles.  So, when he inevitably betrayed them, it was great.  And ever since he did, they’ve made it their life’s goal to defang this poor, poor man.

When he finally managed to execute his really annoying daughter, they reversed time.

One of them charmed him, and now they have a violent, twisted love affair that is very distracting when he’s trying to take over America (and Canada to a lesser degree).

They stopped him from destroying Los Angeles at least once, and Portland, and New York.

The one time they torpored him they didn’t even let him stay dead long enough for it to ‘count’ and he got very angry about it.

He’d been wounded by a Dhampir and thus was an empty pit of hunger for lost adoration, a restless seeker of glory, but they fixed him with the power of love (gross) and now he gets a lot less done.

They made him lose his faith at least three separate times and that’s his coping mechanism.

They never appreciate his longwinded fire and brimstone speeches any more.

Bound him in a geas to his mother.

Made a version of him that is gay.

Stole his favorite henchman and gave him to WEREWOLVES (why?!).

Used him as an attack dog at least once.

Killed his ex best friend and longstanding arch-nemesis instead of letting him do it (unforgivable).

They’ve finally left him free to build a soulless vampire megachurch in the South, but even from afar they’re still screwing him over by uncovering his local spies and then sending him mixtapes to prove they know.

I cannot tell you how sad I will be on the day he inevitably has to die.

This is healing my inner child.

[lystacre]

I got the pleasure to work with Jessicapendragon on this commission of Alyx, her character, and Connor, one of @writingmayhem‘s npc for their Vampire: The Requiem game!

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[champagnereverie]

A Fallen Doll

The dead don’t dream such lies, her eyes swim all night long with things gone wrong with visions stark of futures dark try not to seem dismayed The dead don’t feel such lies, she cries Doll on the shelf she lost herself in fallen heroes ones and zeroes “This isn’t real” she prayed The dead don’t change such lies, she tries a fallen Doll in pieces, all shattered, scattered frightened, flattered a love estranged she strayed The dead have time such lies, she dies to see him fall his pedestal a cardboard box a paradox this is the time he stayed And she could stand all by herself goodbye, shelf this is the strength she made.

[ponylamp]

*screaming*

So tonight in Vampire: The Requiem the disaster coterie is faced with a new destination they need to go to to discover what is up with the amulets they've been given by members of the Crones, Lorna Zelan's machinations, and Red Jack's deal.

No big deal, just sending their minds back to the 1500s. Right now the coterie agrees that's better than the time Lorna sent them physically back in time to 1994 from 2023.

Are their bodies gonna be stuck asleep for the same amount of days they're in the past? What do you mean they're gonna inhabit the bodies of 'the most appropriate' vampires of the time? Is this going to change the past/future?

We're not a smart enough coterie to ask these questions at the relevant time. So you know what time it is?

Time to build a new character sheet and see who Lenore is going to inhabit for the next Chapter of the chronicle.

[ponylamp]

In our Vampire: The Requiem game we are still working with our friendly mages (and their assorted crew) on helping our bruja Alyx with her possession problem. We got an upgraded protection? circle, but our resident Ventrue occultist has relied so much on her ghoul to take her notes that she's at a loss on recording this information. (Her ghoul that used to take notes got possessed by a Strix, it's a problem but don't worry about it. Ranch Dressing, her new ghoul, is inept at scholarly things. I mean her name is Ranch Dressing...)

So, since they have to sit with Alyx throughout the day, Lenore has taken it upon herself to finally user her embroidery specialty. There's going to be some lovely embroideries of the ritual circle and the symbols drawn in blood on Alyx's head.

Hell, maybe even one of the bunny whose blood was used in the ritual. That might make the high humanity Mekhet, Min, feel a little better. Maybe it'll get her out of the promise to buy Min 2 pet bunnies for her farm. The mages asked what they could do to keep the coterie entertained while they wait. Lenore asked to see a mage battle or at least an illusion of it. Miss Dash needs to send in some paperwork to the office to see if that request will be granted.

[ponylamp]

Okay, so, sometimes your vampire gets really into True Crime, right? Like right before the podcast boom. Then she finally bonds with her sire over it and they spend years following a serial killer with the kind of intense glee that unstable people have.

Oh, turns out, that serial killer is also a kindred (maybe it could be the werewolf but we're pretty sure its a vampire.) Oh and then you take out books from the Lancea et Sanctum's library (that they translate into English from Latin and piss off your Ventrue in the process) that show that the crime scene photos and the illustrations in the book of murders definitely translate to someone summoning a Demon or an Evil Entity...just like Jack our MirrorRealm enemy friend known entity that one of the coterie sold their soul to.

Okay and then sometimes the Invictus and Carthians of Greater Seattle make a pact with all the other cities and areas that your cotiere HELPED to um, maybe, defend themselves against you (and your evil boyfriend, wow, how rude.)

The coterie is getting fussy now. How dare they. We've been protecting everyone in multiple timelines. How *dare*.

[ponylamp]

In another session of Vampire: The Requiem: The Coterie Makes Great Choices, Alyx the Bruja is now possessed and is now the one unwillingly committing atrocities to summon a body for the (assumed) demonic entity. But the coterie has friends, like the Mage they have on speed dial, Tyler David Buster, to help them deal with this issue.

The mages are flying in to help with the possession issue since most of the kindred in Seattle are on the coterie's shit list after making a pact to band together against the coterie if they prove to be a problem. Which they would never be, how dare they.

In a totally, 100% normal move, the coterie decide to meet the mages at a totally neutral site: the acres of isolated land that's totally not covered in bear traps that was once used to create a totally not real horror movie by their Nelapsi friend that they starred in. (they prevented a lot of deaths ok.) The mages will like the atmosphere at the rusted dark carnival that resides on the premise right? We'll find out next week.