Below are the 7 most recent journal entries recorded in Jeremy Bento's LiveJournal:

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
9:04 pm	Journal for Marty Goodman (for Diana's review) From November 6th 2005 through January 24th, 2006: My heart is not so weary. It is good to have responsibilities and purpose. My two foster children no longer need me but they will remain mine. My ward John the Mekhet with the newly repaired mind rests in my home secreted away while I prepare the final restorative touches and make arrangements to locate his sire. My move into the Adams family house is complete and I may have a new ward. She is a child who has been dead for a number of years. I plan on discussing her situation and if we can come to a mutual agreement I will take her on as an additional ward. If not then I will exorcise her (without tools/equipment Marty has an exorcism pool of 10 and a base willpower of 10). With John's one time master the eldar David released from hunter captivity I carefully and with finesse arrange to relinquish control of David's assets. I had used a number of intermediaries to slowing take anonymous control of his assets to either safeguard them until his release or to take custody of them should he expire (I had been holding off buying up the additional resources until the hunter issue was resolved). David's childe Lewis no longer can be considered my responsibility with David's release. This creates a new predicament in that David may decide to kill Lewis out of hand. Lewis may insist that since he was abandoned and forced into his undead state that his fostering to me is more valid and carries more weight in this domain. Lewis has progressed well and should be released if for nothing else but to untangle me from the eldar David. My plans to disband the Ubber Ghoul Hunters did not go the way I wanted it to. Without my presence pushing the process along my foster childe Lewis was unable or unwilling to use his blood sympathy to locate and free his sire along with the other captives. Instead Edward took the initiative and after turning over the ghoul Kyle for summary justice freed most of the captives and earned numerous life and major boons. Boons that should have been mine and clan Ventrue were lost to an unaligned and unacknowledged gangril (Edward). It is within my power to frame Edward to taking control of David's assets but it is not in my character to do and it may bring the beast closer to the surface. Now the Doctor and I remain in contact and he is hopeful I can find homes for two ghouls; a girl with larceny and stealth skills and a wheelchair bound engineer. I have offered and will feed them from my own veins until I find them a benefactor or decide to accept them personally (-2 blood: they are most likely already 3 points blood bound to some kindred who is either now dead or fled the area because of bad memories). I continue to faithfully patrol my assigned small area inside Cambridge for anything that the Prince should be alerted to. I use my newly acquired heightened senses to assist me in this endeavor. As it happens my own home was broken into. At first I was not sure. I thought maybe a kid hit a ball through my window and tried to come in and get it but the ball was still there. The hold in the window could have allowed someone to reach in and open the locked door. So much for all the security I installed (level 2). It does not help if I forget to turn the alarm on when I leave at night. But just to make sure I called my direct superior in the city hierarchy, the Palladin Michael, and asked if he knew who broke into my haven. As it happens he did know. A prominent New Yorker named Fillipe Sauniet was responsible. He and possible a companion broke into my home and discussed something with the ghostly child. Eldars have some nerve. I have been attached by kindred in New Hampshire in front on numerous witnesses and no justice is done. Here in my home city where I hold some standing (status 2) and office (Sword to Michael) my home and privacy are invaded. Through all of this I feel energized to work on some self improvement. I am now researching what can be learned about improving common sense, wit and savvy. If I learn to better think on my feet I stand to improve my lot in this undead world. Current Mood: contemplative (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
8:36 pm	Between Game Journal October 9th - November 5th, 2005: My heart is weary with responsibilities; I have three foster children if I count John my wayward ghoul turned kindred. Chandler is still on his walk about. Lewis is seething over his unwanted embrace and is petrified of being killed out of hand by the Cardinal and his enforcers. John remains staked and stripped of all belongings (only wearing a bathrobe while I work most nights on returning him to his once highly intelligent self. How long this endeavor will take I know not but hopefully our blood tie (he drank from Marty on November 12th after he was embraced). The gentle extended use of forgetful minds used to remove the forced breaking and remaking of memories will take some time I have reset up a war room but this time instead of maps of the city and surrounding areas I have diagrammed the architecture of John's mind as it is now and make notations as I catalog his memories both real and implanted (those that seem like filmed memories). One good thing going for John is that the Eldar David was never very good at Dominate. What time I spend away from John I spend coaching my foster childe Lewis in using his blood sympathy to connect with his sire David. By way of this connection we will come to locate David and the others. That added with the use of my contacts will get us some additional information to track down the trailers. I did manage to take an evening away for myself to visit my sire in New Hampshire. On my rounds to feed I discovered news that a Gothic Vampire party is to be held on Halloween in Portsmouth, NH. I utilized the gifts of the mind and plumbed the informant for additional information and set trigger for them to contact me with the specific information on where in Portsmouth. Then I made my way into NH and attended the Carnival where the Prince stepped down from his position of power for one night and his bodyguard held reign for the evening. My sire told me of Pierce who is no longer Pierce who obediently follows St. George around speaking to no one. His eminence from Boston appears and had Pierces talisman around his neck and he too followed St. George's example and stepped down. He gave princedom for the night to his grandchild Luther. That is when my troubles began. I wanted to discuss with the Prince of Boston my plan to disband the Ubber Ghoul Hunters without needing to kill anyone and also gaining powerful servants for some of our elders. I needed to offer two of the mostly likely to turn ghouls a chance to make amends and find shelter and service with a non-mind binding kindred. Someone they could love to serve (especially after having become blood bound over time). I figured Ventrue such as myself and Nosferatu were out of the question. But before I proceeded to make contact with the two most disenchanted members of the hunters I wanted to clear with the Prince of Boston that I could sincerely make this offer. That's when the court demanded I speak up and explain myself. I made the mistake of speaking to candidly and in "short hand." The elders where all in an uproar and called upon me to go slay the hunters immediately. In my cander I asserted that I would be walking into sure death as I am no match for 5 ubber ghouls. I was dismissed in disgust and promptly left the gather but stayed close by in case my sire needed me for anything. After a half hour the assembled kindred gravitated toward my location. Only three where unobfuscated. I was walked some distance away and berated for admitting I was not up to killing the hunters. What they do not understand is that I have had my fill of killing. I do not want to kill anymore. I will not unless it is in self defense. But this I can not tell to any of these predators. Especially I can not tell my sire. Which is why I so desperately am seeking a nonfatal solution to the hunter problem? Everything was o.k. until I was given permission to kill the hunters. I was much happier with permission to investigate. It is also the real reason I went back for the Irish Hitman. I did not want to leave him to die. I used my medical training to stop him from bleeding to death and then to cover up what I am sure would seem a weakness by kindred society I retrieved him for questioning. Now the two temporary Princes and my Sire are lecturing me and giving me a shove unto the spoon of a trebuchet. I was hurled over 400 feet to a hard landing. I picked myself up feeling as an outcast and dejected and left. It was about 45 minutes later when I suspected I may be almost out of blood sympathy range I decided to force blood sympathy so I could tell if my Sire was upset with me and also to make sure before I leave he was not presently in danger. Having satisfied myself and not wanting to interrupt his meeting with a phone call I continued home to Cambridge (dropping my car off at a rented parking spot, taking a cab, hiking a couple blocks and switching to another cab before walking home-all the while checking to see with Auspex if I am being followed or accompanied). It was not a good outing. I do not think I have much more time to live. It will not be long before to others figure out I am no longer interested in taking life. I return now to help John. I redouble my efforts because I know that John once healed can help me through blood sympathy locate his sire where she has been encased in cement and dropped offshore. If I am careful and take my time I can maybe help her too. Maybe I can provide some clearing away of clutter she has accumulated in her mind while in unrestful slumber. But I get ahead of myself. I may not get to her for years if not decades. It all depends on how receptive John is to my touch on his mind and to his feelings toward his sire. But then again I also need to get Lewis ready for release and to follow his blood sympathy to his sire. Current Mood: crushed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
1:43 pm	Working on a Mage Character for the NH game I have been developing a character that would be a Medical Doctor with some specialty (maybe he took extra courses in eastern medicine like acupuncture). He would have been awakened in his early teens and become a new age scholar and healer. Which explains his Occult and Medical interest. He would have been into healthy living and keeping in shape. His outlook would be that the world needs healing and repair. Emotional, physical, mental, and magical healing is needed in the world of darkness. Underneath the magical nature of people is their soul (whose health is inticated by the amount of wisdom a character has). I am operating under the concept that lasting affect on a characters growth and healing requires more than just treating the symptom but seeking and addressing the underlying causes of the clouded health. For this reason "Friend" might require or encourage as part of his compensation for healing that the patient do a good deed and make a charitable contribution. "Friend" is hopeful that doing this good deed will encourage a new habit to form and create good Karma for the soul and continued well being of the person leading to a hopefully better world. For those of high Wisdom (9-10) he obviously would ask permission to be allowed to be the Healer to administer to their injuries. He feels that he advances his own spiritual growth from the privilege of assisting and serving such enlightened souls. "Friend" is not limited to providing mundane healing. He has the Life 3 rote Healing Heart (with high speech his pool is 14), the Dream merit (level 1 with a pool of 8), and the Prime 1 rote Analyze Enchantment (with high speech his pool is 11). If he has tass available he may be willing to part with it if the cause is worthy. Because he has a shared hallow and has contributed 1 point toward hallow he expects to save some of his share of mana as tass. Though "Friend" is Mysterium he is known to be a Disciple of Life. His ranking in the Mysterium is low and presently he has no publicly known official assignment. He is thought to be so low in the Mysterium Hierarchy as to have no office or responsibility beyond keeping the Order's secrets and ways. (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 8th, 2005
9:21 pm	Greater Boston Saturday Night October 8, 2005: The night started out strange and become more unreal as the night wore on. First Cynthia Adams the Seneschal of Boston was not answering her door this evening. We were to look together for my temporary retainer John and to further investigate the hunter group. Also my foster childe the Gangrel Chandler was missing. I have some concern his friend Ax may not be much of a friend after all. I may have a more personal stake in working toward disbanding this powerful hunter group. On approaching the entrance to the underground warrens of our Prince I noticed John hiding under obfuscate! Wow! I did not expect the Eldar David to have such a powerful ghoul but then I fed him one month ago and he should not be accessing powers without further vitae from me (unless he drank from someone else). I noticed Edward (Warren's character near by and through slight gestures and eye contact worked out a rudimentary plan to capture John. It worked better than I thought. After taking John to the motel and questioning him and feeding him one's more my vitae I came to learn he was under mesmerism triggered to when he meets Prince Marcus. I called Pierce right away and he showed up shortly. Pierce was stepping down as Paladin and he wanted me to move up and become a Paladin and resolve the issue with John on my own initiative. I called Michael and asked him to pass on word to Prince Marcus. Soon the Prince arrived under disguise of a pimp. I had one pistol out in swift motion pointed between the pimp's eyes and instructed him to leave. It was then I heard Michael's voice suggesting firmly that I not point a gun at his Eminence. Soon we found out that John was no longer a ghoul but that he was embraced by a Mehket Elder who was captured and escaped the hunters. She said something about John being the hunter's tool and that she turned him into one of us to protect the Masquerade hoping it would strengthen his mind. Now he knows at least obfuscate, celerity, and dominate. Sadly it did not strengthen his mind and now Marty is working diligently with the staked John to lift the damage and make only the minimal required repairs to shore up Johns originally high intellect. John has been sadly used. We learned that the hunters took Nikko (Ruth's Childer), David (eldar Jewish Ventrue from Poland that Bella knows-not too good at dominate-he typically has three ghouls at any one time), Ophion (Pierce's friend), Ruth (the Mehket eldar who embrassed John), and Betty Black (a gothic attired Daeva Carthian). Lewis a newly embrassed ventrue (David's childe) was thought by the hunters to have been a drug dealer. He escaped the hunters and their tractor trailer, found his way to the Prince and now is my newest foster childe. Sadly he is lacking in almost every way of any true knowledge of our kind. It will be some while before he can be officially released. For now he will have to keep his own residence. I do not want to bring a stranger into my home. I will make sure he has a place to be safe from the sun and then teach him our ways as well as guide him through his blood link with his sire to locate David. From there we can find out more information about the Trailers and the hunters. Interestingly Ruth told us the Old guy hunter released her and told her it was all Kyle's fault. He and Eliose where only trying to survive. Maybe I can disband this group of hunters by recruiting two retainers? Or maybe something could be worked out where they release my covenant member Betty Black and clan member David and we arrange for me or Betty to provide sustenance until some system can be arranged where criminal kindred that face final destruction could first be bled for their benefit. Or maybe they could be embraced if the Prince allows. Michael gave me the five addresses for the hunters. I learned of a Frank McCoy from Maine who is a member of the order of Dracul. John and Ruth were both raving about some tome being stolen. The tome was called the Rites of the Dragon. I learned that my kindred step brother Pierce has angered the Prince and is accused of wrong doing. Something does not seem right here. Pierce is for strengthen the princedoms of the entire region. He would never undermine the very thing he worked so hard to strengthen. The Prince really laid into him and so did his own sire and my sire. I was appalled at his treatment. What could really be happening? Crone's seeking to undermine and take down Marcus? Pierce would not have any part of that if anything it is the Dragons that he might do such low brow bidding. I've got it. It is all about going deep undercover to infiltrate the Crone conspiracy! Apparently the Mehket Vincent in Rhode Island is spreading word for his sire Rebecca. That explains it all. She comes back to the city where she has deep ties as deep as the Prince and of course she wants control. A war between Lance and Crone? Or is it Nosferatu and Mehket? Whose side is the Seneschal on? Once again I did not see Bree, a carousing low potency kindred with lesbian tendencies, who was working with my kindred step-brother Pierce. I wonder who her torpored sire might be. I learned that Michael plans on keeping the Irish hitmen I patched up last. He has been raised to Paladin and I am appointed to serve as his Sword. Marcus has raised both Michael and myself to city status 2. He wishes me to trace down the hunters. Me against five powerful hunters. Hunters who have taken several elders. I think at best I might convince two into leaving. Puval is out again trying to find a way to learn dominate without seeking my sires permission. It is my wish that he never learns it. If my sire does not want him to have it then that is as it should be. Now to gain enough influence over the local Ventrue to bar him from ever learning it from Bella, Lewis or any other new ventrue resident. Marty continues to unpack at his new home. The seven candle stick menorah goes upon the mantel. His fathers gold money clip with the Hebrew letter for 7 he keeps in his pocket and now he wares his father's gold medallion with the Hebrew 7 (Zayin). This is one of the greatest things the Jewish people gave the world. The seven day week. It was outlawed by the Catholics from time to time but now people just accept it without any thought. Seven days, each beginning with darkness (darkness then light, one day), and the seventh day a day of rest. A very unique idea. The idea of a day of rest. Marty takes off from Friday after sundown until sundown on Saturday. Nothing but eating, studying and prayer. No work. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
8:17 pm	Downtime Report/Journal (plus visitor’s report to NH game) September 24, 2005: During the past month Marty learned of a successful group of hunters gathering self-torpored eldar kindred. He learned that two torpored kindred and Ophien, who was looking to leave the city, were captured. He suspects this group of specially gifted hunters to be working for at least one ancient kindred in need of vampiric blood to sustain himself. He has a picture of the crew of five members: Axe, Kyle, Frank, Kelly, and the "old guy" along with the name and a recently purchased copy of the CD that has been left playing at the scenes of abduction. Disturbingly some of these hunters have the ability to obfuscate and can ferret out where unwary kindred reside. Marty realizes that though he was embraced in a domain with numerous kindred gifted with auspex the domain of Boston is sadly lacking this abundance. Marty has enlisted his kindred step-brother's mortal great aunt, Cynthia Adams, who is now an eldar kindred to teach him auspex. Whether her teachings take hold is yet to be determined (application added to the approval database and waiting presently on mid-level approval). Marty visited the New Hampshire court and managed to get Thaddius to agree to allow Marty to bring his firearms into the Elysium. He has to check is guns at the door and they will be kept in a "gun closet." While visiting the court of New Hampshire he met two fellow Carthians visiting from the Bangor area. They had some interesting things to say and asked after the visit of Pierce to their court. Marty mentioned it may have been on official Prince business as Pierce is a Paladin for his Eminence of Boston. They asked Marty how he was associated with Boston and Pierce and Marty volunteered what he thought was common knowledge; that Marty is Pierce's Sword. They were intrigued and asked what this title "Sword" meant. Marty told them that he investigates and spot targets for Pierce. It was at this point Luther (His Eminence's great grand childe) entered and hearing the last of Marty's statement told Marty directly that He is saying too much. Marty respectfully received Luther and verbally acknowledge that he will say no more in the present company. Marty was also approached to teach dominate discipline in exchange for night mare. This would have worked out well for Marty considering he has Intimidation at level 5. Proper Ventrue etiquette is for Marty to seek out the ranking Ventrue resident and ask permission prior to agreeing to enact this trade. As it happens the ranking Ventrue is Marty's sire and he simply without further explanations stated "No." Marty as a good Ventrue accepts this. After all in Boston since Bella is Harpy and thus disqualified to be Primus (even if we had one) that leaves Marty as the ranking Ventrue of the city. Marty would not want visiting Ventrue teaching other Boston resident's the unique clan disciplines without his knowledge or permission. Marty was present when it was discovered his kindred aunt and those who want Aiden to die had us all fooled. Henry Lieghton Production Company is active and so is Sandra Leighton. The company is being used to film a story about Kionika (spelling) and betrayal by Aiden of his allies. Acting doubles where used to create film showing Aiden's betrayals. Life size and Life like dolls of Kionika were found along with dossiers on prominent CT and NH kindred. All this is also linked with Carthians out to get Aiden for his efforts to organize the Carthian’s into a respected Covenant. Visiting Carthians are no longer warmly received in the NH court. They must first past an ordeal of questioning before being extended the protection of Elysium. Marty learned that nothing new could be discovered yet from the Irish Hitman he captured (apparently the Storyteller chain is still working out the details and ramifications). Marty is concerned about the missing retainer and will attempt to locate him through normal mortal channels. He has friends in the police (his total Contact score is Contact x4). He will check up on him through these channels and ask his buddies on the force to keep it unofficial (-$500 dollars for tickets to a Red Sox game or other suitable event). What Marty would like to do is continue fixing the damage done by other Ventrue to his new retainer's mind. This is not to say Marty will be keeping him. He is still holding out hope that the retainer's true boss will be found and Marty will simply return the retainer in better condition to serve. The retainer seems to not really want to serve anyone else. Marty can respect that. Other than that Marty would like to get the retainer some financial help; shelter/housing (for low income people), food (food pantries and soup lines), food stamps and disability checks, and hard cash to help him wait out these trying times. Marty does have the address of the boss (David) and since it was set up to care for him for years while in torpor it looks like a great place for Marty to acquire as a emergency bolt hole. Fall River is not that too far out though it is beyond the Domain of Boston. Marty through his legal allies and begins work to unravel the ownership of David's Haven with the intent to pick up his assets if he is not recovered. Being that David is a Ventrue other assets might somehow be discovered in this search (this would give me justification to raise Marty's Resources from x3 to x4 once he accumulate enough xp in another month). Marty is thinking back upon the time he and Pierce discussed Marty being the Elysium Keeper. This would be a great challenge. Sadly the most popular Elysium is presently not owned by any resident Kindred (though Pierce has plans to acquire it with some legal assistance from Marty to keep it concealed). This could pose a problem. It might be considered part of Pierce's personal domain and thus disqualify the location as an Elysium. Another suitable site is needed. But Marty does not want the city to be littered with Elysium's. The question becomes is their another site that Marty to acquire or gain control over that once was an officially declared Elysium? Who would know of such? Carthians used to rule here but Marty, newly embraced, is the only resident Carthian in Boston. Marty is afraid to ask his Eminence but he may have no choice. For Marty to fulfill his self-concept of a Builder he needs to work toward building Boston into a better home for himself and other kindred. An Elysium people actually use may be one of the building blocks to this end. Current Mood: determined (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 10th, 2005
9:57 pm	Greater Boston Saturday Night September 10, 2005: I took note of the kindred and visitors to our great city. [Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<warren’s>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] I took note of the kindred and visitors to our great city. <Warren’s Character> Addendum to follow. Katherine a Ventrue from Connecticut and an Invictus of some standing is now Harpy of Connecticut. She and Antonitus had some discussion and came to the conclusion they where of the same standing within their covenant (status 2). She tells me that I should be careful around Pierce, he has designs to topple Marcus. I have informed her I am displeased that she would spread such news especially as he is my kindred step-brother and I am his “Sword.” Later she warns me about the Connecticut Prince Antonitus and how terrible a kindred he is. She warns me to stay clear of him. Again I express my displeasure at her revelations and explain he is one of my sire’s best friend and allies. She is a Harpy attempting to spread gossip. I wonder if the Eldar Ventrue Bella of the Invictus is instructing her and giving her the targets of her banter. She admits to some small skill at firearms and was lent a sub-machine gun from one of my sire’s coterie. She did not seem interested in the sword I had available from Ophion’s travel bag. My foster childe Chandler a Gangrel Burglary has settled into Greater Boston. I continue to show him some of the better places to hunt in Cambridge. Though he remains independent he is leaning toward the Carthian covenant. His summoning and directing of birds for information and to interfere with gun fire shows he is savvy with the use of his disciplines. I have decided to help him in his quest to become Herald of Boston and to work toward getting him feeding grounds in Northern Cambridge adjacent to mine (a location 4 area that is a little more visible than my own). He claims to be equally proficient in sword and pistols. Whether this means he has no skill in both I do not know. What I do know is that when it came to combat he used neither. I gave him Ophion’s sword. I am somewhat concerned with his past choice of associates as “Axe” of the Hunters is a chum of his. He ran with some pretty dangerous kindred and mortals. Though I will return to my lair this evening I will be moving up my efforts to move into a new location in North Cambridge within my chosen feeding grounds at a location 3 (seasonally moves up to a location 4). I remove this night all information from my "War Room" in my Waltham haven. I mail it to myself at my law office with the box labeled “Personal and Confidential for Mr. Goodman eyes only.” The information within the box is further wrapped and tapped up to ensure no accidental prying occurs. Being a lawyer whose practice is focused on real estate, estate planning, and trust has it’s advantages (I move my haven shifting my size 2, security 0, location 0 to Cambridge size 2, security 2, location 3 – Carthian ½ = 0+3+7 or 10 xp spent). The Eldar Mekhet Rebecca’s childe Vincent did not show up this night. Maybe the fruits of his verbal disagreement with the Prince have earned him some displeasure with the Lancea Sanctum and his Eminence. I did see him in Rhode Island a few weeks back when my kindred step-mother and kindred step-brother went visit my kindred step-grand father. I did not see Bree, a carousing low potency kindred with lesbian tendencies, who is working with my kindred step-brother Pierce. I wonder if she and her torpored sire have gone missing. Several eldar kindred who are sleeping the deep sleep of torpor have gone missing this evening. I learned that Cynthia Adams may not be a Crone as I originally thought. She is a great aunt or other mortal relations to Pierce and in kindred society a Mekhet who most likely is Ancillea. She serves Pierce as a fellow “Sword.” She hosted these evenings’ festivities. She can obfuscate and use auspex. She has retainers and only has a small section of her basement converted into a suitable haven. She has already begun to work with our fellow “Sword” Michael, Pierce’s childe (which he refers to as his “Lance”). She says she can use firearms but does not claim any great proficiency. I gave her a pistol and ammunition from Ophion’s travel bag. When Cynthia assisted me in moving a bleeding body I learned she has low strength (either a one or two). The multi-state manhunt on Anthony Smith (Antonitus St. George) is winding down. The political fall out between Antonitus and two other kindred has caused serious threats to the masquerade not to mention trespassing into domains across New England. I learned that my sire’s coterie mate is now a Prince of Connecticut. He uses celerity, obfuscate and vigor. He is an Invictus of the same covenant status as the Connecticut Harpy Katherine (status 2). He does not have any great skill at driving but seems well able to acquire what equipment and vehicles he needs. Two Irish hitmen after Antonitus interfered with our investigation into the disappearance and rescue of sleeping elders (and Ophion). One fled the scene while the other I and Cynthia Adam’s carried away after I performed first aide on him. He was turned over to Michael and Luther for questioning. Luther did some nightmare thing to him and if it were not for his “Iron Will” he would be dead by now. I am happy that I did not kill him. He sadly was sent by two kindred wishing to kill Antonitus. I returned Ophion’s computer to Pierce. Ophion’s abductors now know what Ophion knew. I hope I am not in his computer. Also I hope Pierce, Kaoniki (spelling) and my sire are not detailed in the computer database. I do hope Pierce gets whatever information he needs out of it and passes it along to me so that I may more easily and thoroughly carry out his plans regards to Ophion’s holdings. Just in case I am canceling my cell phone and getting a whole new one with a new number. I call my sire, Pierce, Kaoniki, Katherine, Chandler, Michael and Antonitus to give them the new number and warn them that my haven will be cleared out shortly for security reasons. And for those same security reasons I can not go into the new location at this time. On returning this evening to my haven I discovered a note from my sire. The Brood my sire was keeping secure in Waltham is no longer being kept safely in my home. I am hopeful my sire was able to release the Brood without suffering a loss of humanity. I feel my sire is slipping away and am becoming concerned he may go the way of my grandsire. Marty learned something new. He is sadly lacking in the ability to spot those obfuscated and there are few around who can spot them. Though he knew his skill with firearms though great is nothing compared to the shear devastating force of Antonitus and Pierce he now realizes that many Kindred around him are amateurs and physical defense. Marty falls in the between area of deadliness. Marty takes time to meditate upon his latest self discoveries and accepts that he is lacking in some areas, average in others, and excels in some specific few categories. He does not have to be envious of others. Current Mood: worried (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 1st, 2005
12:03 am	Between Game Journal for Diana's review Greater Boston between Game Musings: What I have found out about the forces behind the investigation of Antonitus is disturbing. Kindred are behind this. They risk the masquerade for a mere payback. They place us all in danger. On visiting my kindred step-grandsire in Rhode Island I learned that Boston’s own Grand Paladin Canus had performed an exorcism while aiding the city. I wondered about my early childhood teachings of the torah and secretly overheard discussions of kabbalah. These "children religions" of Judaism have exorcist. Why not us? I looked through my fathers old tomes and though they were not much help they led me to others at the public library and at Jewish book stores. I used my access to a college library and delved deep and recalled much I took for granted from my earlier studies as a youth in an orthodox and prominent Jewish family. Spirits are real in this world and so are demons. I hear that the Brood deal in demonic rites and I need to be prepared. Occult study is alright but there is so much to weed through. Serious religious study delving into the same matters gets closer to the truth (picked up Religious specialty in Academics giving Marty an exorcism pool of 10). Investigations x 5: Marty visits a number of car rentals that would typically be used by government employees and works his mojo (dominate command pool of 12, forgetful minds pool of 7). He wants to first learn if any one with a government credit/debit card rented a car in August. Prior to the forgetful mind and in case it does not work Marty uses the “gold currency” to gather information and loosen tongues (up to -300 cash spread around in his search for the rent a car used by the agents tracking Antonitus). Once the rental car place is located he can get the address of the hotel they are staying at, the expected stay in Greater Boston and at least one name along with the credit card information. Marty does not have obfuscate but he is of average looks, build and height so is easily forgotten out of mind. Once I know the location I can visit the hotel and talk with one of the employees after they leave work. See if they are bribable. If so have them go back into the office and while no one is looking print out the information on those government agents along with credit cards numbers (-300 cash and the use of forgetful minds to change my appearance and mannerisms). The hotel name and address, length of stay, names of the six agents, and their credit card information is what I am looking to bring back to the Paladin Pierce. If I can some how learn which federal office building they are using as a base of operation that would be awesome but I am not taking any chances of discovery on that score. If the employee I end up bribing recalls them discussing the building or has phone logs that will help me track where in Boston and elsewhere they called that would be helpful and worth an extra 200 cash). Marty is starting to realize that he is fully capable of being a mover and shaper of his own destiny. He does not have to be a carbon copy of his Sire or his kindred step-brother to be a vital part of kindred society. Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)