Chloe and Calvin! head out to get medical attention for her. Now this means her secret is getting very, very thinly held. You see, her mother is Olivia, one of the old guard mages in game, and their family is extremely wealthy, like hundreds of millions of dollars wealthy. No one in game knows this; Chloe is just a street rat to them. Calvin! is a bit surprised and suspicious when Chloe's doctor turns out to be in the most exclusive neighborhood. After being seen, the receptionist informs Chloe that her records are gone. No big deal; that can happen. While there, Calvin! learns Chloe's last name, which is Cabot. Then they head to her dentist, also in that area. She gets treated and once again hears that there is absolutely no record of her. Not in the computer, no paper file. Now she is worried. They make a side trip to her bank and it's the same there. No account and no record of there ever being an account. Fuck.
I should also mention that poor Calvin! is now a walking bruise because of the vampire blood spell. The blood was pulled out of every pore, every orifice, everywhere. He is totally purple with red eyes. His explanation- a skin condition. Poor Calvin!.
Okay, we have Romulus with the dead animal. Chloe having her records being erased. What is going to happen to Calvin!? The two of them, Chloe and Calvin!, head to his house and find out. When they get there, they see his front door open and go in to find that someone has trashed the place. Everything has been destroyed; his furniture, his clothes, his carpets, his walls, everything. More alarming, Casey is not there. While on the phone to the police, Brand (a werewolf) shows up. He does a wolfy thing and tells the two of them what he has smelled. Calvin! and Chloe also promise any help needed to get Casey back. When that shit goes down, they will be in it.
After all of this, they both decide the best place to be would not be in their homes. They call Romulus and let him know they are picking him up and they all will be staying at the observatory. They pick him up and head up into the hills. They get there without incident (yay!). After relating all their various incidents, the two boys rest until Rebecca can get there. Chloe calls her mother and, instead of getting the usual brush off (they have issues that are slowly being mended), she is asked for her cell number and told her mother will call her back. Her mother calls back and tells Chloe that the company is under attack, to stay at the observatory, and not to do anything stupid. Right. Finally Rebecca shows up and does heal Chloe and Romulus. Following that, she lets the three of them in on what's going down. Apparently a new type of Entropy is being used to erase records and such. This is what her and Olivia and some others are fighting against. The group then tells her about what has happened and she uses her computer to compile photo sketches of the two Nephandi, Shade and Petite. She then asks them to work on the vampire angle and to gather as much information about what is going on as possible.
To get information about the vampire attack, Romulus, Calvin!, and Chloe head over to Monique's place. They ambush her just as she is leaving. She plays innocent but agrees to let the three of them follow her to a vampire meeting at Lethal's place. They get there and Lethal comes out to greet them. He tells them they will be allowed to stay if, and only if, they agree to back him up. There was a few tense moments when Calvin! relayed the information that he used sunlight on the attacking vampires and that Chloe had turned one of them to dust. Lethal gets Father John (a crazy vampire priest) to verify what he said. When he does, it kind of creeps Lethal out a bit. They go into the meeting and learn that Sabbat vampires have made a move into California territory. They were the ones that attacked at the rave. His orders are explicit; warn the vampires in every territory, kill any unknown vampire on sight, learn where they are hiding. Lethal also points the three of us out and tells every vampire there that we are on their side in this fight. Now for the fun part of the meeting.
Chloe goes to talk to Lethal about the vampires and is a weirded out by his attitude. They really don't like each other but he is trying to be his own special brand of charming. He calls her sweet cheeks and even slaps her on her ass. Through gritted teeth, she informs him to never do that again. To not touch her, not ogle her, not even look at her. He acts confused and says he thought she liked him. She asks him where in the hell he got that idea. They both realize where at the same time and yell out, "CALVIN!" Meanwhile, Calvin! retreats to the bedroom with Monique and proceeds to break up with her in a very awkward manner. She seems rather incredulous that HE would break up with HER. Her parting shot was rather harsh. She basically told him that he was the lousiest lay she ever had (which is really bad considering she is a 300 year old vampire whore) and walks out. Now Chloe corners him about the whole Lethal thing and let's him know not to ever do anything like that again. He does get a bit of good news though. Chloe tells him, that since he broke up with Monique, she would now be able to sleep with him. During all this this, Romulus is speaking with Christian about all that is happening and keeping him at arms length. The blood drinking offer is still out there, after all. Then, poor Calvin! had to deal with Lethal. Calvin! made an offer to Lethal about sharing blood and quintessence. But Lethal wasn't buying any of it. He gave Calvin! an earful about how he knew Calvin! didn't like him and that he had feelings too. Calvin! eventually somewhat made amends and the meeting broke up.
The session ended there and it's back to Dresden next Sunday. Go Matt!
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