Arkwright Cemetery: Gathering of Haunts

[Jennifer Hazelton]

Jennifer had done a bit of prepwork in the Nosferatu meeting and covered what she thought was relevant in her letters. Jennifer and Liam had met the invited Kindred, Helen and Connor, a block out from the Necropolis in Jennifer's older Toyota sedan. Jennifer is dressed in a green wool sweater, jeans and grey hiking boots. Over the outfit, she wears her reinforced Leather trench coat tailored for Jennifer. Liam wears a grey athletic shirt, jeans and a black leather coat. He wears running shoes.

The group had traveled two hours out from the Necropolis into a territory that was still under Prince Alessandra's praxis. Yet it was certainly out of the way.

Liam parks the car underneath an old tree, off the road. Jennifer takes her small leather back pack off of the floor of the car and slings it on her back.
"Here we go. Anything we want to go over before the quiet walk to the cemetery?" She asks with Cursed voice.

The place that looms just out of sight is called Arkwright Cemetery. The place is huge, made up of a dozen different lots and old graveyards all closed in with a tall, snaking wall of smooth stones. You are some ways from it, having to walk down a dark residential street to get to the gate. Jennifer has assured you that she has been here and made this trip before.
It's still out here. Calm. It smells like wet, cut grass. Somewhere you can hear a car's distant tires glide through puddles.


Equipment:

Equipment

In Jennifer's pocket
Two money clips. One containing $40 and another containing $200
In Jennifer's black leather backpack a ‘go bag’ consisting of flash light, mace canister, emergency escape tool (seat belt cutter and window breaker). A pack of chalk and two burner phones
Liam wears a grey athletic shirt, jeans and a black leather coat. In his pants pocket he carries a wallet without his ID, $80 in cash, and a hair comb. In his other back pocket he carries a burner phone, a neckerchief and a red plaid bandana.

[Helen Kingsley]

It's been a while, but there's nothing like a nice trip to the cemetery, especially the sort where you don't want to be seen by anyone. Helen's complementing her jeans with a dark blue turtleneck tonight. With lighting, colour and time of day in general in mind, she's decided against the sneakers and is wearing her dark Army boots. A dark grey beanie helps hiding her hair in the dark. Her messenger bag holds some equipment.

Anything they want to go over ? Nothing that's opportune right now, really. So Helen shakes her head on the question for the time being.

Equipment

Telescopic baton, can of mace, notepad, pencil, magic marker, small pen light, burner phone, pocket knife

[Jennifer Hazelton]

The brunette gives Helen a nod and checks the straps of her backpack, ensuring nothing is loose that would make noise. Jennifer moves forward, quiet and without speaking. Liam keeps himself an arm’s length behind his Regnant. Jennifer leaves the vehicle parked in the dark and leads the way down a residential street. Houses line one side of the road, facing the cemetery. Porch lights are on. American flags flap lightly in the wind. The pace is set at a brisk pace and Jennifer keeps to the shadows on the side of the road. There are the occasional burr – depositing plants that Jennifer side steps.
The narrow-rusted gate comes into sight and Jennifer moves through it without hesitation. A slight sound rustles as her legs move through the overgrown plants outside of the gate, depositing some burrs on her legs. As Helen follows, the same sticky burrs affix themselves to Helen. You are well aware that beyond the wall and across the road lays a residential area. A small gated community, well maintained.

As the three visitors move into the cemetery, the impression is that place is huge, made up of a dozen different lots and old graveyards all closed in with a tall, snaking wall of smooth stones. You're standing on the edge of it, in the old Jewish section. This is the south entrance of the Arkwright cemetery.
To your left, the cemetery stretches into a misty haze turned orange by landscape lighting. Down there it's all low-cut grass and bland slab headstones. To your right, the cemetery sprawls up a hill and disappears into the dark. Jagged headstones, leaning obelisks and moss-spotted tombs stand out against the dark ground, some of them the bright gray of dead flesh. It's still out here. Calm. It smells like wet, cut grass. Somewhere you can hear a car's distant tires glide through puddles.

Jennifer stands still for a moment, listening for several heartbeats. Satisfied, she sets off towards the right. There is a well-maintained vehicle road that Jennifer crosses quickly. She faces her body towards the center of the cemetery and cuts across, moving into the low-cut grass.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2022-06-08 12:25:58	Jennifer Hazelton rolls 6 to Stealth, moving quietly into Arkwright (10 Again)	5, 2, 8, 2, 4, 1	1 success

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2022-06-08 12:28:17	Jennifer Hazelton rolls 6 to Perception (Listening for the Arkwright gaurds) (10 Again)	4, 4, 9, 2, 8, 1	2 successes

[Helen Kingsley]

Moving stealthily through some terrain without alerting too many folks to her presence... Damn, its been way too long !

Well, what can you do ? The contents of the messenger bag are secured enough to not clatter or making too much noise. Especially in some residential area like the one they're in right now. Gated community, that might make for some troubles if things go wrong, so Helen just hopes for the best and moves up behind Liam and Jennifer. As they reach the Ceetery gate, she stops shortly to take in the scenery. Knowing what might happen and what is up, she doesn't like the idea of desecrating a cemetery with that sort of business, really. Still, it is what it is... After a short moment of silence and an equally short sign of the cross, she moves on to catch up to Jennifer and Liam again.

1 success

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2022-06-08 13:06:14	Helen Kingsley rolls 5 to Sneaky sneaky ! (Dex+Stealth+WP) (10 Again, WillPower)	6, 5, 8, 4, 4	1 success

The atmosphere doesn't help, even without knowing there might be others about they better evade. Good thing the setting seems to favour them for the time being ! As smooth and silent as she can amaneg, she follows Jennifer and Liam across the road and towards the grass. Still gives an eerie feeling, but again, best she can do is not let that get to her too much and move on ! How did that go ? roll the feet just right, try to keep balance, control breath and all that... Shew manages to move somewhat silently, but falls a little behind while doing so.

[Seryna]

The cemetery appears calm. Quiet. The well maintained road that circles and carves into certain areas of the cemetery suggest that someone patrols this old cemetery. The kindred and ghoul move on, hopefully not alerting any of the mortal residents that are left at their backs. As the three move on, they enter a new part of the cemetery. The height of Chapel Hill drops suddenly into this dank, shallow ravine. The only light that falls into this crack slips through a wooded canopy to make weird purple patterns of light on the ground. Smooth river stones wind a path through this place, like a serpent winding through. Urns lay along the steep ground like teeth. Narrow mausoleums poke from the hillside here and there.

[Jennifer Hazelton]

Jennifer and Liam stride towards one of these mausoleums, the one closest to the path. Jennifer turns towards Helen and waits for Helen to look at her. Jennifer indicates a mausoleum father away. Sunken almost sideways into the ground to your right, like a shaft, is an open-mouthed mausoleum that reeks of stale blood. It's difficult to see from here, draped in spidery green vines, but you can see a broken iron gate flanked by imitation-Grecian urns. Black soil spills over the edge of the mausoleum, unkempt. No groundskeeper has been here in years.
“That mausoleum is the Haven for these Arkwright Haunts.” Jennifer indicates another building before Helen and Jennifer.
“This is where I have been meeting our Family.”

[Helen Kingsley]

Its calm and quiet... Calm and quiet is good. Doesn't mean they all's sunshine and rainbows, but for the time being, it looks like they haven't drawn too much attention from whoever might have been in the vicinity. That's a plus !

By the looks of it, the ravine separates the willfully kept unkempt part of the cemetery from the ones fewer people go to. Sort of makes sense. Helen stays alert as she follows Jennifer and Liam along the path and avoids the stray urn that pokes into her path here and there. She nods as Jennifer catches her gaze and indicates a mausoleum a little further out. Well, not as far away as she's thought. But as dilapidated as the mention of savage Haunts would imply.

The smell of stale blood, broken gate... It fits. But then, so does the entrance into Necropolis. We'll she'll find out soon enough !

"I see. You think they're already awaiting us ?" Helen frowns and looks (and listens) around once more.

3 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2022-06-10 15:52:02	Helen Kingsley rolls 6 to Anyone here ? (Wits+Comp) (10 Again)	10, 8, 2, 3, 8, 4, 1	3 successes

This place is suspicious, that's for sure.

[Seryna]

You can feel the other Beasts as the doors to the dark building are opened. One formidible and one that could make you want to give chase. BP 3 BP 2.
The person wearing a torn and dingy black T shirt is a white guy who looked like he lifted weights, but only ate cheap food. He looks over Helen first. Then looks at Jennifer. He turns and walks back into the building which is kept quite dark. The door stands open.

[Jennifer Hazelton]

"We arranged the time and date at our last meeting." Jennifer shared, watching the Kindred go back through the doorway. The appearance answered the question to her satisfaction. She gave Helen a look, meant to be encouraging.
"Time to meet the family."

The Kindred looks to the ghoul among them.
“Keep watch for the people. Let me know if they approach.” Jennifer leaves Liam outside with this instruction.

Jennifer faced forward and strode into the darkened building. Head helf high, shoulders back and appearing confident.

2 successes

Date	Action	Roll	Result
2022-06-10 19:45:47	Jennifer Hazelton rolls 6 to Appear confident to the Arkwright Haunts (10 Again)	10, 4, 10, 2, 4, 7, 2, 6	2 successes

[Jennifer Hazelton]

Bookkeeping: the earlier expenditure was for Blush