Advent 1 – Saturday, December, 12th, 2020 – Crazy Clown Time

 

The Cast of Characters

Returning from the previous pre-COVID chronicle

·         Erin Atkins, Toreador. A night club owner. Played by Alex

·         Barbara Fullerton, Tremere, owns an art gallery, occult expert, seeks knowledge of necromancy. Played by Mollie

·         Algernon, Nosferatu, drunk dealer, runs a methlab underneath the nightclub. Committed diablerie on a random nobody during The Sacrifice. Played by Mykell

New Characters

·         Faye, Bruja, played by Luna. Hound, primarily interested in protecting the kindred and queer community first and foremost from all threats irrespective of politics. Played by Luna

·         Solasa, thin-blood, blood alchemy expert, played by Inara

·         Kira, Toredor, childe of Erin Atkinson, played by Riley

·         Windel, Bruja, engineer, Algernon’s friend. Wasn’t in the story that much tbh

·         A certain problem player who was retconned out of existence, was kicked out during session zero, and never actually appeared in the story.

Advent 1 – Saturday, December, 12^th, 2020 – Crazy Clown Time

Scene – a Clandestine Meeting at O’Toileys

Barbara was contacted by Maldavis for a clandestine meeting at O’Toileys, the greasy fast-food restaurant in the Magnificent Mile that gets little traffic with her coterie. Barbara rather than bringing her coterie alone opts to go alone bringing only Algernon with her. Maldavis implored Barbara to help her convince duSable to join the anarchs given that the Prince had been cracking down on the Tremere and the Tremere were being targeted by the second inquisition. The conversation was interrupted when a group of exploding clowns started attacking people at random in the middle of Magnificent Mile during the biggest shopping week of the year. Algernon and Barbara had to jump into action and downplay the impact of the attack on the masquerade and the people. Because the party was split, they were under prepared.

The horrifying spectacle of terror wound up on the news which the other PCs could see from the club. Maldavis chased the main perpetrator, the clown at the control board. Flopsy the clown, a malkavian had mass embraced some shovelheads, drove them into becoming wights, painted their faces with clown make up and sewn bombs into their frenzied bodies. Those clowns were now diving on terrified shoppers and exploding in an orgy of blood and gore.

Abraham duSable and his caitiff childe Maldavis

Scene – The Succubus Club

Alexa Santos arrives at the Sanctuary to invite them to the Succubus club for an emergency meeting, given what happened. The prince assured everyone that the hounds would be hunting down the Anarchs responsible, rebuffed suggestions that this was the Sabbat with an insistence that the Sabbat are extinct. Either Barbara or Algernon noticed there seem to be invisible flies in the area. Balthasar, the racist former sheriff suggests terrorism against the anarchs in retaliation for the masquerade breaches, uses this as an opportunity to stir up fear against the anarchs.

The prince met with the group privately along with his new ghoul Malcom and his Senechal Alan Sovereign. Curiously, Malcom seemed to be permitted to use electronic devices. The prince made it clear he is not a fool and he strongly suspect the coterie of anarch sympathies and still wants to know where Malenkov is, who they were tasked with delivering to him. He also demanded to know the location of sheriff Damien. They wound up sacrificing Sierra instead and banishing the Lasombra from the Camarilla. Sovereign used auspex to examine the aura of Algernon and said nothing.

Alan Sovereign

Prince Jackson

Malcom Morris

The coterie travelled to the domain of the Anarchs in Rays bar, east Chicago, deep on the southeast side.

Anita Wainwright

Malenkov in a brothel, decorated with entrails 

Ghengis

Outside the bar was a kindred on a park bench wearing sunglasses, the cab driver. He grins at the coterie as they go in.

Malenkov continues to be in Anarch custody, he is dressed up like Santa Clause and the private area is decorated for Christmas. They remove the stake and revive him. Malenkov is aware of why they are asking him. During the time he was unaccounted for, he opened up and released a garage full of entombed Sabbat who were too crazy to be Sabbat. These were older kindred who would not conformed. They were kept entombed since the war of Chicago (between the Sabbat and the Black Spiral Dancer Werewolf tribe versus the Camarilla and a few packs of the moon) in the 90s to be a living time bomb, if the Sabbat were ever driven from the city.

The first of 13 was a clown, Flopsy the clown, the Malkavian. Malenkov does not know the fine details of each attack. He gloated about the damage he has done. Mocked each person present. Upon being put back under, a fly flew out of Malenkov’s ear. Fae went hunting for Damien, following up on a clue.

Using a stolen car, the group returned to the loop in the early hours of the morning, Maldavis had isolated Flopsy’s location. On the radio of the stolen car, Cassandra’s podcast played. She was venting absurd conspiracy theories about the New World Order putting chips in people’s brains to mind control them with 5G. The coterie took down the sabbat clown. The clown had in his possession a metallic tarot card. “0 - The Fool.” Invisible flies buzzed from his torpid body. The group turned him in to the Cam.

  

Cassandra the podcaster