Hey all,
I wanted to take a break and let folks play before commenting.
Enid- I think he is a Wolf-Boy (Markus and Sharon use that term, so Gangrel)
Princeps- Reasonably old, full of himself, but less dangerous than Virgil.
Virgil- A can of woopass in a stay-puff wrapper. I don't think he is what he seems to be, and he is definitely the more dangerous threat between the Princeps and Virgil. A lot of very smart movers and shakers preferred to act behind the throne. I would think a watching of Game of Thrones is in order, or read the books. Virgil is very very interesting.
Astrid- So maybe she is not a Tzimisce man. She may be the wannabe important person who has overplayed her hand. Sharon for her part should have shut the fuck up until she was ready to act, rather than tell Astrid she knows.. On the other hand, fear of death is worse than actually dying, or so they say. Astrid is still totally fucked. The fact that she thought she could get the MC to help her causes me to think that there is going to be potential for some serious mind fucking.
Fabian- Agent Provocateur for Calisto's Sect. He is a mole. They do not know of his ties to her, and they want it that way. Calisto is very likely analogous to a Cardinal of the Sabbat (NOT saying that she and her folks are Sabbat like, just that it is a separate sect from the Princeps and the other folk of the city which are semi Camarilla like) Fabian is likely to be dangerous to both teams. (and more dangerous to "Our" team)
Laurie- She is wonderfully classically herself. IF you are behaving on the blood feeding I think she will remain somewhat like Andrew, capable of independent action for your own good. Unless you want her to be Gregor like. True she is taking some chances, but she has a gun, and neither of the former hunters are armed. If she thought either was a threat to the MC I fully believe she would gun them down. And then need a hug.
Carmen- she is falling for the MC in spite of her hatred of vampires. Vincent must have died to a vampire and she became a hunter after that. I find it odd that an image of Laurie flashes just before the vision of Carmen and Vincent. There are some other images that flash also (in various places).
Gregor- yeah.... a mess. Might make a good thrall once Astrid is toast... if he can heal up his brain fry.
MC- Treatment of the humans. The MC is just barely starting to think and act like a vampire. People should not expect the MC to be a nice guy forever. Sure his mentor and current interest is very humanity based, but MommyVampFu sure as fuck isn't and she is not likely to let her boy go too far astray. Some hard choices I am thinking. At the end of the day, we, the MC are immortal, barring outside action. We have to protect that status. The sooner we realize that, the better off we will be, so-------
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Threat Assessment in my humble opinion
Astrid-0 She has got nothing but pain coming.
Crew of the MC thus far-Gregor minus 10, Carmen 1 Sharon 1 Andrew 2 Laurie 1 Miri 0 Kassandra 2 (This is the crew I believe we will be working with for a while, and yeah Kassandra will be ours.. She is damn cute and having her income stream coming in would be nice!)-I even think Eloise will come to our team eventually.... if we play our cards right. Eloise threat 3 purely physical.
Marcius-2 (Physical threat, yeah. Not sure he has many allies)
Southern and other un-named Archon-unknown but due to association with Sharon, the Southern Archon is a 4, un-named I will say the same as Marcius 2
Enid and the female agent of the Princeps- 3 They will do as their master tells them... and probably die for it.
Markus and the Nos Net- 4 you can never really trust those sewer rat bastages.
Fabian- 6 Because he is possibly playing both sides... Or if he is not the same generation as the MC then he may want to take a stab at drinking him down himself. Fabian could turn out to be a very powerful ally also. I kind of hope he takes a stab at us, so we can actually drink him down.
Calisto- Either our strongest ally or our worst nightmare. Worse than below if roused against us. (Sharon has some pretty shitty odds is all I am saying)
Princeps-5 He is a powerful elder. He either tolerates you politely or impolitely depending on how far down the shaft of his
Vamp-Prick you went on bowing. He is very very very punchable, not to be trusted at all, and he shall die by our hand, I am almost sure of it, though it would be great if Sharon did the honors... It would truly graduate her to the Archon level if she did, if not Princeps. She does have a lot of popularity as the princep points out. For many reasons I think he will not be the "Him" that our Vision Girl Artemis mentioned....... I think that is:
Virgil-10 I am betting Virgil is fricking Roman Empire or Republic in origin, making him 2000+/- years old. I am thinking he is probably a generation higher (weaker) than the MC but is much older. This should make him the HIM......apologies to
Ayhsel for causing shrinkage regarding Astrid. Though she would be more interesting the way I posit. If Virgil was the thing in the woods, things start to get very interesting. He has some inkling that the MC is something dangerous to him, possibly the only thing in the city that might be a threat (barring Calisto and the Ancient) What if Virgil wants to dig up Vision Girl and snack her down??? It would then make sense for Vision Girl to have her forces start maneuvering to defend her.
The 2nd episode or chapter or whatever we call it is functionally concluded with the investiture. I think that Sharon has 1 step of thralldom towards the Princeps from the glass of blood she was fed. It was short, as the investiture was the only thing left to complete the chapter, but if you noticed there were some conversation corrections and such, so yes it was short, but it concluded the chapter and set us on our course for chapter 3.
I like where we are going. It is sure to be at least interesting if not gripping and soulful. I think folks who never played a table top or computer vampire like game are going to have a hard time with where this might go.
Peace All!
