Chapter 2 - The Calm Before the Storm

[Chibichibi]

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Eve feels thrilled, and has to force herself to walk calmly along with the rest of her coterie.

 

[Copper]

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Izzy rests a hand on Raven's arm as they move with the others to join River again, but does little more than that for the time being. She seems a little more relaxed, now that Ronny seems to have calmed down some, but she's still keeping an eye on him, albeit casually.

"So, now that we have permission, what's the plan? Quick rundown on gun safety and use and off to scope this place out? See if there's anyone in there we don't need to put down and damn the rest?"

"Th-There is the M-M-Masquerade to consider. Even...Even if we know we're k-k-killing vampires, some-someone that hears sh-shots w-won't. S-Some-Something to k-keep in m-mind."

 

[dmronny]

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Ronny seems a lot calmer though he does keep looking back at the rest of the room as if he still has the feeling everyone's staring at him. "Well let's at least get out of here first. When we get someplace a little more private we can figure out the plan."

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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"My place is private and out of the way," Claire offered with a simple shrug.

 

[Shrike7]

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River waited until everyone had collected, then shrugged. "Claire's place is as good as any for a meeting. Their safehouse is a farm outside of town, far enough that guns should be alright. Do yourself a favour and don't wear anything you'd mind losing, these are always messy affairs. I'm going to go change myself, meet me over at Claire's in an hour." She says, then stands. "I have a few handguns I can bring, other than that you're on your own. See ya in a bit."

After that, she collects the jacket from wherever the ghoul had deposited it, and left out the door again.

 

[Copper]

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At the invitation, Izzy nods. "Just need to know where we're going, I suppose," she says to Claire, not knowing where the other Kindred spends her time. She looks down at what she's wearing currently. "Yeah, changing would probably be good. See you guys in a bit?" Once she has the directions, that is. Asking Ronny about his issue could wait, she supposed. Getting this done was more important, unless it was glaringly obvious he might do something to jeopardize what they were planning.

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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Claire quickly gives the gathering directions to her place on Riverside dr, mentioning how it sits in front of the park.

"It'll be easy to spot, it's pretty much a skeleton these days. I'll meet you all there, let yourselves in if you get there first," she says, before turning and leaving to find one of her stashes in the city.

 

[Chibichibi]

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Eve looks down at her clothes and grins. "I'll see if I can find something I'm not too fond of in my wardrobe." With a small wave, she headed home to change. She rummaged through her closet for a while, discarding mostly everything she came across, until she found something that made her laugh in surprise and be happy to finally be rid of.

(What is that, you ask? Find out next time! Same Vampire Time, same Vampire Channel!)

 

[Rule 34]

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At the mention of clothing, Fletch's eyes drift off for a moment, before something between a grin and a snarl show on his face. "I'm pretty sure I still have the blood-stained overall The Bitch buried me in," he grumbles. "Might as well put that rag to use again." After getting the directions, he gives Claire a nod and heads out.

 

[dmronny]

Ronny just waits for the directions and then leaves Elysium without waving or saying anything. Heading straight to Claire's, he'll wait in his car till the others arrive.

 

[Copper]

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Fletch's remark gets a soft chuckle out of the blonde and she mouths the address given a couple of times to make certain she has it. "See you all there, then," she states as she and Raven make their exit, heading back to the campus to take care of getting changed, dropping things off and picking things up.

Before they leve the car, however, Izzy pins her Sire with a look. "What dd you say to Ronny?"

Raven stutters, and not with his usual hesitation. "No-Nothing."

"You could have peeled paint with those words. It was the underwear crack, wasn't it?" No answer. She chuckled softly and continued. "Yeah, it threw me a little, too, but I'm a big girl, you know. I can handle myself and a few taunts."

The other Ravnos opened his mouth to say something, stilling as he felt her hand settle over top of his.

"But it's nice to know I have a champion. I'm just a little more worried about him for other reasons than frat boy humor. He seems to be all right with this fight coming up, but..." She trailed off, shaking her head. "I dunno."

"See...See if his problems are...are worth w-worrying over. Then w-worry."

"All right, good plan. Suppose we ought to get changed and get going. Wouldn't do to be fashionably late to this one." She grows thoughtful again. "Now, do I have any clothes I probably woudn't mind burning later..." she muses, getting out of the car.

Once sufficiently changed into what look like jeans, sweater, and sneakers that have seen better days, Izzy tosses a bag with yet another change of clothes into the trunk and waits for Raven to rejoin her before heading over to Claire's to wait and regroup with the others.

 

[Rule 34]

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Fletch digs through his closet until he finds the blood-stained, old, dirty overall he used to wear. With a grin he zips it up, steps in front of the mirror to inspect himself and sees Jimmy stumbling towards him, his gory arm stumps outstretched, blood flowing out of the wound where his head used to be and dripping on the carpet. Fletch spins around, but there is no one there. Still in the mirror Jimmy stumbles towards him, and he just gets blood all over the place, and now he suddenly has Mist's head, and she grins and whispers "say goodnight" and Jimmist just keeps on stumbling towards him, and Fletch is frozen to the spot, his eyes filling with tears as this abomination has almost reached him, it can almost embrace him with its terrifying arms, and now he can feel those arms closing around him and the arms are his own, and there is no Jimmy and no Mist. Just like that, the apparition is gone, and no matter how thoroughly Fletch searches the carpet for blood stains, it was never there. "Fucking... great," he growls. "I'm driving down the road to Crazytown in a fucking Lamborghini, and the brakes have all melted." He slams his fist against the wall to vent some anger before turning and storming out of his little apartment to get to Claire's.

 

[dmronny]

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As soon as one of the others arrives Ronny gets out of the black sedan he's driving and heads over towards them to wait for the others to show up. He knows that Claire said to let themselves in, but he would prefer to remain outside as it still seems rude to just enter someones haven in his mind.

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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Claire arrived shortly after Ronny stepped out of his car, a duffel over one shoulder. She eyed the other kindred for a moment.

"I told you to head on inside. There's nothing in there worth spying on anyway... I keep my good underwear hidden away," she said with a slight smile, before moving up to where the front door had once been, and carefully picked her way through the charred debris to the kitchen and the cellar door, ignoring the flesh melted into the remains of the floor where the doorway to the living room had been.

"It's downstairs," she called over her shoulder, pulling aside a few burnt boards to reveal a surprisingly intact stairwell and cellar.

 

[dmronny]

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"Honestly I wasn't quite sure what you meant by go inside when I took a look at the place. It didn't look like there was much of an inside till you moved those boards." Ronny said following along right behind Claire. "Plus I was a little afraid that you might have forgotten a booby trap somewhere in this mess. You should fire who ever does you're cleaning"

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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Claire let out a short laugh, scrubbing a small smear of blood on the floor with her foot. A reminder of her stint after feeding off that druggie, and falling in her own haven.

"I like it messy. Keeps the riff raff away because they think riff raff live here," she said, tossing her duffel bag onto the small cot in the corner, nestled beneath the window covered up with soil and leaves.

Following after her tossed bag, Claire sat on the edge of the cot, and looked down at something poking out from beneath it. A framed photograph of the sunrise above a forest. She looked at it for a moment before setting it down again and pushing it under the cot.

 

[dmronny]

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"I don't know, it's not bad if you ask me. A couple more cobwebs and maybe a coffin in the corner and you may have something here." Ronny says with a laugh.

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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"Coffins are overrated. What I really need is to get a pickaxe and hammer down here so I'll have some dirt," Claire said in response, noting some natural cracks in the foundation.

 

[Copper]

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Recognizing Ronny's car from before, Izzy parks her own a bit away so as not to draw unwanted attention to a pack of cars suddenly outside of what appears to be a burned out husk of a house. Bag slung over her shoulder, she and Raven pass the other Kindred's vehicle and since no one appears to be inside, they pick their way up to what's left of the house. Scanning around, there's no sign of the other two upstairs, obviously. Their footfalls can likely be heard by the ones in the basement, though, and the steps do seem to be approaching the stairs that lead downward. A pause and then the slow creak of someone who doesn't quite trust what they're walking on.

Izzy's the first down, Raven not but a few seconds behind her. She takes note of who's there already, nodding to the Gangrel as they reach the basement proper.

"Cozy little place. Few curtains and it's gold," she grins.

The two find a place to park themselves. It might just be habit or it might be because Ronny's there, but Raven keeps himself close to his childe, sliding an arm around Izzy's shoulders, though she doesn't exactly seem to mind the gesture, returning it with an arm around his waist.

 

[Chibichibi]

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Eve is surprised to fin she isn't the last to arrive and gives a lightly cheery wave when she reaches the others. She looks hideous in a dull pink t-shirt covered in neon unicorns and awful jeans covered in butterfly patterned embroidery. These clothes were already ripped in places, and looked as if she'd rolled them in the dirt to hide the obnoxiousness. It obviously clashes with her hair, and like she wouldn't be caught dead in them at any other time. "Gift from my aunt last Christmas. She forgets I'm not five anymore. They've been waiting in my closet for a chance to get ruined."