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  1. #1
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    Jennifer Hazelton

    The two kindred notice someone following them out immediately. The man from the coffee shop gets into a waiting car, where the driver had been idling with the engine on. The driver was a Black man in his mid- thirties, natural long hair, who has a descriptive tattoo of a woman genie in red and green. The car was a 2009 Honda Accord in good condition, in silver. Current license plate for California.
    The car will pursue Wei Lei's taxi.

    A woman who was texting on her phone outside of the coffee shop glanced over at the Wei Lei as she exited. She looks back down at her phone, reading something.

    Two others were inside the coffee shop, who have been quiet and not paying much attention to the two kindred. They now stand and exit right afterwards. These men appear to be in their late twenties. One is a slim Asian man, with close cropped black hair. He was checking a new model iPhone. The other is a muscular man with longer blonde hair. He had no phone in sight, and glanced to the blonde upon exiting. The blonde woman appears not to notice. They walk together down the street, one checking his phone and texting. They appear to be planning on walking on the sidewalk for a bit.

    At this time, a car parked facing the opposite way of Wei Lei's departing taxi, starts up and pulls away from the curb. It proceeds the opposite way of Wei Lei's taxi.

    The blonde woman remains in the coffee shop, where she offered a handshake to the two beautiful women inside the shop. The couple, the man and the woman who filmed the trio leaving, remain in the shop. The trio have also filmed the man who followed Dirt Nap and Wei Lei out.

    ooc

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    New Identity Clayton Jordan Carter
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    Dirt Nap

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    Dirt Nap watches the coming and going outside the tea shop until Wei Lin's cab is gone

    It looks like whoever is following her has more reason than just Dirt Nap's mistake. Whether that's the case or not, Dirt Nap decides to ler her handle it herself.

    Dirt Nap walks the streets sticking to the darkest side streets and alleys, depending on his Direction Sense and his Tunnel Rat knowledge to make sure he's not being followed and then when he's sure he's unobserved, he slips down into the city tunnel system

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    Jennifer Hazelton

    As Dirt Nap walks a bit, he becomes aware of two people that are walking the same way as he. It was the slim Asian man and the muscular man with longer blonde hair. Even as he moves into a dark street and pauses, waiting to see if they reappear. After a moment, no one appeared to follow him into the alley. As he neared the access to the city tunnel system, he felt an uncomfortable sense. Perhaps not the original two as he looks behind him and doesn't see the same two men. Now, he notices three homeless people sitting together around some carts. Having a hushed conversation, to his ears. Yet was it possible that someone was trying to be more subtle?

    Make a Wits + Composure roll, please

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    New Identity Clayton Jordan Carter
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    Dirt Nap

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    1 success

  8. #5
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    Striking Looks
    (exotic)
    Distinctive Voice
    (low and textured)
    New identity
    (Wei Lin Carter)
    Wei Lin

    (Awe)Vitae 0 Spent
    +1
    SL
    +0.5
    DV
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    So she was followed, and they seemed too intent on it to be simply disturbed bystanders. An uncomfortable shiver of suspicion made its way down Wei Lin's spine, as her mind raced to think of a way out of this. Dirt Nap said to go to the hotel, but there she'd be just a sitting duck.

    Instead, another plan formed in her head. She gave a driver an address for a popular downtown dance club and ordered to drive fast. Perhaps he'd lose the tail this way, but there's little hope of it in the Succubus mind.

    She checked her makeup in her phone's camera app, checked how much cash she had on her. An evaluating look over her clothes, and she tugged at the t-shirt, freeing it from under the belt before tying it into a knot under her breasts to make it a crop-top. She could try to blend in the crowds. She could, but it never was her strong suite, so all the better to stand out and attract attention in the way she needed to.

    As the taxi stopped by its destination, Wei Lin quickly got out, her fair already paid with cash.

    3 successes


    She confidently walked to the bouncer completely ignoring the queue of people waiting to be let in the club. The Vitae sings in her veins, the waves of Awe blooming around the Succubus, drawing in eyes and minds, as she smiled at the bouncer, expecting him to step aside.
    BP: 2

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  10. #6
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    Jennifer Hazelton

    Dirt Nap notices one of the men walking slowly and with stealth down the opposite alley wall. He would turn the corner of the wall and be in sight of Dirt Nap in moments. What do you do?

    The car follows Wei Lin's taxi. Yet she is unsure if it still there when she arrives at the dance club. A lot of cars are pulling up and letting people out at the curb. Does Wei Lin look for the car?
    One of the legendary powers of Kindred, is the Blood of the Rose. The ability to attract and sway kine... so Wei Lin finds herself the recepient of many adoring gazes. Step aside? Yet she was so pretty and seemed there to connect!
    "Hey, are you here with somebody?" The lean, broad shouldered man manning the velvet rope inquired. "You totally look like the woman Chance Crawford is dating. And if not, sorry. Don't mean nothing by it."
    "Clearly, she's an actress." Someone at the front of the line suggests, a woman with a deep alto voice and filling out a gold sheath dress nicely. What does Wei Lin do?

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    New Identity Clayton Jordan Carter
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    Dirt Nap

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    Dirt Nap takes the opportunity of the moment before the stealthy man turns the corner. He quickly enters the underground, less concerned about witnesses to him going underground than with moving the pursuit if that's what is happening to familiar ground where he has all the advantages.

    If he's able to get out of direct sight of everyone for just an instant underground, he merges his form with the stone floor of the sewer tunnel for the next night and day, effectively disappearing without a trace.

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    Presence
    (magnetic)
    Striking Looks
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    Distinctive Voice
    (low and textured)
    New identity
    (Wei Lin Carter)
    Wei Lin

    +1
    SL
    +0.5
    DV
    4
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    Laughing and smiling sweetly, Wei Lin stepped up to the bouncer tracing a fingertips over his cheek, Awe making a simple gesture seem like so much more intimate. "I might be, handsome, but today I'm as free as a bird."

    failure


    Looking back at the crowd like she was looking over her subjects, Wei Lin actually scanned the street behind them trying to see if she was still followed. But there was too many cars and even more people to actually notice something by the quick look. Better safe than sorry.

    "See me inside, and I'll show you a play you won't forget, lovely," she addressed the woman in gold, adding a wink to it. And then she stepped around the bouncer heading into the club proper.

    Away from the prying eyes of the outside, her charming facade fell. In the bustle of the club, she was now trying to find a woman matching her own height and body constitution.
    BP: 2

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    New Identity Clayton Jordan Carter
    Obfuscate 2 Mask of Tranquility
    Occultation (Vampire)
    Dirt Nap

    (Haven of Soil)Vitae 1 Spent
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    PRE

    bookkeeping vitae cost for haven of soil

  17. #10
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    New Identity Clayton Jordan Carter
    Obfuscate 2 Mask of Tranquility
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    Dirt Nap

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    When Dirt Nap next rises, he suddenly looks startled. He takes out a small silver object, a cheap 'flip phone' and looks at a text he has apparently received.

    "Tarnation." He mutters, shaking his head in disgust.

    He shapeshifts to the form of an owl, and flies through the tunnel system of Sacramento until he is at the river exit. Then he follows the river south as far as it goes, beginning the long journey back to Las Vegas.

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