It didn't take long to get to Davis from Sacramento that next night, and the locked classroom that Thomas was provided a key for was exactly what he was told it was. Out of the way. Unused at this point of the year. There was nothing spectacularly secure about it at all, save for locked cabinets and obscurity. Whenever they chose to bring the Eye, this place would do, but it wasn't Fort Knox by any stretch.
There were no Kindred interceptors.
In fact, as the Kindred moved through the city, they saw nothing that indicated vampiric presence in the area. No tags. No graffiti in the slang of the Cacophony. Nothing easily recognizable. To be fair, the town only had an average population of about 70,000, and it was a university town. In May, a lot of folks were going home for the summer.
The Circle of the Crone and the Lancea Sanctum members might have put their feelers out. No members of their Covenants were noted to currently reside in Davis. That didn't mean they didn't, or that there weren't other Kindred around, but it certainly lent itself to the understanding that this was not a big town, and the vampires here were likely running fairly quiet.
Which is precisely what the investigators of the Eye realized they needed to do. Find a place to stay, if they were remaining in Davis and not going back to Sacramento each night in these shortening California eves. Get some entrenchment.
This wasn't their Domain.
This wasn't their home.
For this Scene, your Blood Pool is Humanity - 1 for feeding away from your home Domain.
This means there are no Favor bonuses, no Haven bonuses, no Herd bonuses -- but also for any Kindred staying in the Barrens, the negative modifier is gone, too. You are, for all intents and purposes, feeding in another city for this scene.
Naturally, being smart Kindred, you fed outside of Davis's city limits, so if there
are Kindred here, you will not be deemed to be poachers.
Please note that I am
not going off of years-old plot about what was in Davis. If any of your PCs have Politics 3+ or the Cacophony Whisperer merit, please advise and I will give you some information about what Kindred could expect in this town from a recent standpoint.
Please let me know clearly where the Eye is - if it is staying at the Crone Farm for this scene or if it is coming to Davis now.
JonReeves
Woland
ErlangShen
Melissa
Psychangel