(The Dark) House Guests

[Bea]

Bea's reaction was about .4 seconds too slow, but when it came to putting the Brood in the ground, nothing was too much, and so two more bullets blasted through the bloody pocket of air the Brood had once occupied.

"Shit," the Daeva swore, the barrel of her Ruger falling to face the ground once again.

She took few moments to process what had happened, to recognize the still form of the deputy, and more importantly, to recognize that she had been driven into true death.

A tragedy for the Domain...yet one that created a new job opening.

"We should finish sweeping the building," she suggested, her voice butchering the momentary quiet after the fight. "Get phones, papers, anything. Then we should burn that dirt."

  Wasted ammo

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-03-05 03:36:24		Bea rolls 10 to Protean this! Bang 2 (dex4+fa5+dm2-1Second) (9 Again)		3, 4, 8, 9, 5, 9, 8, 6, 7, 8, 8, 7		6 successes
2017-03-05 03:35:42		Bea rolls 16 to Protean this! Bang 1 (dex4+fa5+dm2+bld2+WP) (9 Again, WillPower)		3, 10, 3, 6, 8, 8, 1, 2, 7, 3, 5, 7, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5		3 successes

Wasted rolls and stuff, lol.

[Alice Hart]

Listening as hard as she had, she flinches away from the gun shots. In a jerking strings pulled movement that could be mistaken for shaking, Alice pulls herself her her feet. Wiping her little fang on the leg of her pants, she puts it back in it's resting place in her waistband at the small of her back.

"Wh-what's going on?" asks the Blind Haunt, feeling useless and alone in the darkness.

[Hugh Everwood]

"I do like me some good fire. From afar." He was a Shadow, after all. Light and fire and him mix even less than with his fellow Kindred. He nodded at Bea's comment. "Also don't sound like a bad idea, that. Might make up for getting Brood all over me. Ain't going to ever wash out. Good thing this ain't nothing fancy of mine." He looked down at himself, shaking his head. Might just go and wear them if killing Brood was up on the menu again.

Might spare him losing good clothing to carnage.

Mystery Man dying in a hail of bullets as well, Jesse's eyes moved down towards the once-Emma body. Well now, that was just a pity.

"Deputy Emma's met her End." Jesse supplied Alice with what was happening. "Though seems we got us all Brood here for now. Dust in the wind." He glanced down at himself again, making a face. "More like viscera on various surfaces and people. Guy responsible for Emma's end certainly's making some statement with how he's sticking to the wall now. The one who held onto you seems to be gone into Torpor."

Without stopping to speak, Jesse moved over to Julia and crouched down next to her. Didn't see no reason to wait around, beginning to search her body for anything useful. "Want to take this one for questioning or get her deader too?" He asked without looking up as he searched.

[Alessandra]

When she finally lowered and holstered her smoking guns, she realized what had happened to Emma. Her Cousin, her Priscus and trusted Deputy. Slowly she stands, hands clenched into tight fists at her side.

She barely heard Bea, she didn’t have the words to tell Alice, and Jesse, well, she heard him.

Slowly turning, she faced him and the body. Her anger began to build as she clenched her teeth, trying to calm the storm that had begun to rage in her. It takes her a few seconds, her blood boiling. Someone was going to suffer for her loss, and at that point, she needed to reign her fury in.

“Take her. I have a warehouse we can use.” Her words were slow and calculated, spoken through gritted teeth. "There was talk of others, so we need that information as well. Someone is going to suffer greatly for what happened to Emma, and if she won’t talk, then I will make sure she does.” Oh there would be pain, pain like that little bitch had never felt before.

“And yes, sweep the building, specifically the basement, whatever that bat was had to have come up from behind us. Why stop at just the dirt?” she asks as her eyes slowly move towards the Daeva, “Burn the whole thing. Clearly they felt safe here, lets make sure they don’t, send our own message.”

[Alice Hart]

"Emma...no." Alice breathed, horrified. Shaking her head in denial. How could she not know when her Coterie mate met her Final Death? She'd wailed that her own sate of being a permanent liability, she's cursed the darkness, even as it terrified her and paradoxically comforted her as well, but this, this was the firs time she hated it.

Grinding her teeth together, she fought off her fangs. Bea's comment of burning the dirt made sense, but Ale's words that they burn it all down made more.

The Haunt heard the Reeve's voice, and nodded as firmly as she could. The bitch. Julia. Would tell them what she knew. Alice knew just how far a vampire's body could go before it broke. In that moment she crystallized her faith this past summer...for this blasphemous cur...they would just have to push her farther.

"We'll burn it all." Alice says, her voice cold and distant in her own ears. A small part of her feared what she sounded like to the others. "Only dust and ash and less then that should be left." Alice was resolute. Emma's Funeral Pyre deserved nothing less.

Sorry to jump ahead Cayce, but Alice's response now that she knows about Emma wouldn't leave me alone!

[Bea]

"Perhaps you don't realize it, but there are more brood coming, Bea shot back. "If we burn this place, then they'll scuttle like roaches back into the dark. It will make our job harder, in the end. The only reason why I suggested burning the dirt is because they also talked about raising something, and I dont know if thats skeleton warriors, or elders, but whatever it is, we just spilled three kindred worth of vitae on the dirt. Maybe I've been influenced by too many movies, but when it comes to the occult, a controlled burn seems like a safe bet."

[Yumyumcrow]

While the group talks, Jesse pats down the Torpid Brood.

He finds a traumatised smartphone, a dead mouse, and some scrunched up papers. The papers have an address near Elk Grove and a code sequence.

[Hugh Everwood]

Jesse saw Emma's death with somewhat more detachment. Not because he didn't care, just didn't know her long enough to have much attachment, was all. He was preoccupied with searching the torpid Kindred anyway, sneering at the phone but kept it anyway in case it could be salvage — then stared at the dead mouse with no small amount of disgust.

Rats, he got. Could drink the fellas, even if you got fur in your teeth for days, but mice were tiny and not really much a snack.

"Where you a pet?" He muttered to the dead thing before ignoring it again in favor of the papers. Now that looked more interesting!

"Ah! Found me an address on her, I did. And something some code sequence." He waved the papers around after committing both to his memory in case anyone wanted to take a gander at them. Jesse got back up, taking the shard up as well in case they might have some more company. "Should go and check out the place instead of lollygagging, fellas. Anyone even got what it takes to burn the place down to cinder?"

Again, Jesse didn't much stop moving as he talked — listening in on what might be discussed, anyway — as he went to give a quick look around for anything else catching his attention that might have gone unnoticed with the Brood around.

  Perception; 1 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-03-08 06:48:01		Jesse rolls 5 to Perception (Wits 3 + Comp 2) (10 Again)		9, 7, 3, 1, 3		1 success

  Quick sweeping the room; failure

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-03-08 06:48:36		Jesse rolls 4 to quick sweeping the room (Wits 3 + Investigate 1) (10 Again)		6, 7, 4, 3		failure

[Alessandra]

She would be lying if she didn’t admit she was surprised at Alice backing her idea. Giving what the Brood did to the farm though, she wasn’t really surprised.

A look was shot back to Bea, “I do realize, I also heard what they were saying. They are going to scurry like the rats they are anyways, this building is compromised now, not safe for them. They will find a new place to gather, if they haven’t already. Rats always have more than one safe house, and if burning this building makes them run, so be it. But they won’t run far, they have plans, and are too invested in seeing them come to life so to speak. Not to mention those running and pissed make mistakes. It will be burned, and the message will be sent to them that we know about them are not going to be complacent any longer.” If the Daeva didn’t have the resolve for this part, than she could leave.

Looking to Jesse, “That’s great, it gives us direction. We sweep the basement, just to make sure we are not leaving behind useful clues then move to that address. Anyone here good with codes?” certainly wasn’t her thing.

[Bea]

"It's your show," Bea replied with an unimpressed shrug. It wasn't the first time she'd had to deal with this sort of shit. She slipped her pistol smoothly back into its holster and walked over to stand next to Jesse.

"Let's examine the code later. We've got a lot of property to cover. Just tell us where to go, Reeve, and we'll get started."

  Secondary actor!

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-03-09 02:12:17		[05] Bea rolls 5 to sweep dat house! (10 Again)		5, 9, 3, 8, 7		2 successes
2017-03-09 02:12:17		[04] Bea rolls 5 to sweep dat house! (10 Again)		10, 10, 9, 6, 3, 6, 5		3 successes
2017-03-09 02:12:17		[03] Bea rolls 5 to sweep dat house! (10 Again)		10, 3, 5, 8, 7, 5		2 successes
2017-03-09 02:12:17		[02] Bea rolls 5 to sweep dat house! (10 Again)		2, 4, 4, 7, 8		1 success
2017-03-09 02:12:17		[01] Bea rolls 5 to sweep dat house! (10 Again)		6, 10, 10, 4, 10, 9, 2, 10, 9		6 successes

Bea will act as Secondary actor for extended wits+investigation, giving all the successes as bonus dice to the primary