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Saturday, February 4, 2012

The Vaulderie

Alex, Erica, Andromeda, Balalaika and Joran met up tonight for their first Vaulderie in a long time at the 'request' of the Archbishop of Montreal, a Pander whom none of them respect. They met in Niagara Falls and found their way out of the tourist areas so that they could perform their rite in private. The Vaulderie went well enough, with everyone able to drink enough blood to sate their desires, and the pack drew closer to each other.

After the Vaulderie, they realized that someone had been spying on the group. The pack leapt into action and caught the miscreants: two thin-blooded Vampires named Jessie and James. After realizing that the two were useless, the pack decided to play a game. One would live, and one would die. Jessie and James fought, with Jessie coming out on top. The pack forced her to diablerize her friend, and then Balalaika changed Jessie's memories so that everyone in the pack looked like James. They left her unconscious in a heap, lying in an alleyway. Who knows if the poor thin-blood managed to make it to shelter before sunrise?

The Ductus was then able to tell everyone about their new assignment. Their pack had been picked to infiltrate Toronto, a city that had recently changed everyone in its leadership. Rumors abound, and even the contradictions seem to be the norm for the Cammie crazies have been suppressed or ballooned out of proportion. The Prince is said to be a Nos, or a Tremere, or a Malkavian. He's less that 15 years old, a fourteenth generation... and a Methuselah. The reports are conflicting and each seems more ridiculous than the last. What truths are hidden in the lies? The only way to know is to find out in Toronto.

The Pack

Meet the Egg Snatchers. They're a Sabbat pack that's been around for a little over fifty years. A somewhat nomadic pack, the Egg Snatchers have never called any one city their home-- they recently went on a road trip all the way up the east coast, from Mexico City up to Montreal. The pack's a small one, and there are only five members.

First, there's the Ductuss, Alex von Ruden. He's a Nosferatu. He's not big on the Rites, but he's good at leading a pack that can ferret out information about whatever is going on in a Camarilla city.

Second is the Priest, Andromeda. A Gangrel with a FIrst Nations heritage, she was involved in one of the last true wars in North America. Her band was slaughtered around her, and she was left for dead, but a passing Gangrel saw her, realized she'd survived, and gave her the Embrance.

Balalaika is the third member of the pack. A Russian born Princess, Balalaika is a smart, tough Lasombra who wants to lead. Her Embrace happened while she was in a prison after attempting to usurp the Russian throne in the era of Catherine the Great.

Erica is the pack mascot. Embraced as a young child, she's a Brujah who survives on Celerity. She's constantly underestimated, but she doesn't mind-- it just means she gets to destroy and cause chaos without interference.

Finally, Joran is the pack's Malkavian. He has eidetic memory... at least, when he's not in a fugue, unable to remember anything useful at all. He teaches Occult studies at colleges and universities.

Together, they are the Egg Snatchers, so called because they have a non-traditional way of getting new recruits-- find someone who's being Embraced, get the neonate Childe to Diablerize their Sire, and steal the Childe into the Sabbat.