Battlefield Bangkok

Pick up with Bruce, Vega, Propit and Jake meeting Khun Pot outside of Al’s hospital room. Vega squeaks and runs away. Propit kneels before his sire while Jake and Bruce avoid looking at the guy. Pot says “Well, well. What do we have here? Jake the entrepeneur, the great Bruce and my childe, Propit. Propit, I thought I told you that I would take care of things… yet here you are.” Propit immediately points at Bruce and says “He wanted to come.” Pot says to Propit “The next time I tell you that I’ll take care of things, I will and you stay out of it.” Bruce, wisely, keeps his mouth shut when Pot tells them all to go home.

Outside the hospital, Jake gets a call from Khun Sasawat and he asks to see him immediately at his home. Jake and Vega head back to his place. Sasawat is outside and tells Vega to go away as he’ll need Jake for the whole night (jokes about Jake being a bitch circulate the table). In Jake’s room, Sasawat tells him that the Prince has a blood witch (whatever that means) in his employ and she attempts to scry future events by viewing them in virginal menstrual blood. Most times, she sees nothing but sometimes, like this night, she sees something important. In her blood vision, she saw Jake as a vampire and having some significant importance (for weal or woe, unknown) to the Prince. The Prince, not one to take chances and firmly believing in this witch’s visions, told Sasawat that Jake must be Embraced immediately.

Jake tried to request becoming a Daeva but Sasawat said that it was already determined – Jake was to become a Ventrue and Sasawat was to do the deed. Seeing hesitation in Jake, Sasawat said that it will be done this night, the easy way or the hard way. When Jake’s eyes looked towards the window that he was thinking about jumping through, Sasawat knew he was thinking flight and commanded Jake to sleep. Jake fell asleep and knew nothing more until a terrible nightmare took him.

All the PCs had a vivid and horrid nightmare of some freakish monster chasing them down and destroying them all. They all awoke the next night drenched in blood and drained of will. They soon found out that ALL Kindred in the city had the same nightmare and experienced the same effects, including the Prince. Lots of phone calls to sires occurred as everyone was trying to figure out what was happening. The powers of the city didn’t know but were looking into it.

Things went on a wild tangent at this point when Adam, Jake and Vega met up. Adam had transformed overnight as the Nosferatu curse in his blood defiled his body (he now looks like a walking cancer tumor) and he was freaking out. When Vega arrived, all hell broke loose. She didn’t know that Jake had been Embraced so she wasn’t prepared to see him as a Vampire and she frenzied. A fight broke out in which Adam tried to electrocute Vega with a broken lamp but he slipping on blood on the floor, fell, cracked his head, and the broken lamp and its flying sparks when tumbling into the curtains and suddenly Jake’s apartment was up in flames (bad shit happens when you roll a dramatic failure!). Vega, Jake and Adam fled for their lives.

Downstairs, as Jake’s apartment was engulfed in flames and the fire was spreading to connecting businesses and house, Jake looked at Vega and lost himself in anger frenzy. She fled to her car. Jake ran after her with murderous intent while Adam got into Jake’s car and hot-wired it. Jake tried to jump kick himself through Vega’s car window but bounced off it and ended up prone on the ground. He looked up to see Adam driving his (Jake’s) car straight toward him. Adam drove right into Jake with the car and trapped Jake under the wheels. Vega drove away. Adam ended up calmed down Jake and the two of them went to Sanguine to feed.

Meanwhile, Chen and Propit were separately feeding when Propit heard a bloodcurdling scream into a nearby alley. He ran to investigate. As he neared the corner, he felt the blood inside his body run cold and it became a struggle to move. Looking into the alleyway, Propit saw a body with a nearby head. Both the body and corpse were quickly turning into dust. Propit fled as fast as his cold body would allow and phoned Chen. Chen came soon thereafter and they investigated the alleyway but found little.

The group eventually met up at Nana but the meeting was a bit frosty, especially between Vega and Jake. However, things heated up when Vega’s phone rang. It was her sire, Jay. “Fuck! It’s after me! I’m near the Emporium! FUCK!!!” Vega immediately jumped up and ran out the door. The party ran after her. Vega, tuning into her blood sympathy, knew exactly where Jay was.

Reaching the Emporium area as quickly as they could, the group turned down a soi and into an alleyway. They saw the horrendous monster in a fight with two vampires: Jay and David Ward. Entering the alleyway, everyone’s blood ran cold as they neared the monster. Guns were produced and bullets started flying towards it. However, it seemed to have some kind of metal skin cloaked under an illusion as each bullet bounced off its head without damaging it. Only once did a bullet pierce its flesh when Jake took a good shot at its chest. The creature looked genuinely surprised.

In the chaos of the fight, Propit took advantage of the situation and advanced quietly behind David Ward. Drawing his machete (and lamenting the fact that someone stole his katana), he surprised David Ward with a double-handed chop from behind. We’ve never seen so many 10s rolled before! David Ward, already damaged by the creature, did not survive the attack and immediately dropped the ground and turned to dust within seconds. The creature dispatched Jay soon after and then turned its attention to the group.

It charged Jake and drew its obsidian black claws across Jake’s chest. If Jake wasn’t wearing his kevlar vest, he would have met his Final Death (on his first night as Kindred). The claws went through vest, clothes and flesh, leaving a blackened burning wound behind. Jake jumped into Vega’s car and Vega quickly drove away. The monster promised that it would see them again tomorrow.

The night ended there as the group returned to their individuals havens and went to sleep… only to experience the same dream again. Drained of more blood and willpower, everyone awakens on Saturday evening…..