To continue:
After her back room blows up, Michelle goes in and pulls the unconscious Sharee out. For a few seconds, Michelle just stands there, caught between wanting to help Sharee and fighting her 200+ year old creole bred urge for revenge. She definitely wants blood. She manages to control herself with the help of Jim (a troll customer who had been in earlier and had heard the explosion). Because of KTS, Michelle knows he is good and honorable and to be trusted. Since they can't take Sharee to the hospital (readers of the Dresden books know that wizards and technology do NOT mix...at all), the two of them gather up Sharee and head to Jack's. When they get there and are waiting for Jack to show up, Michelle gets on the phone to Blue and totally loses it. She is beyond pissed. Because he brought Jack into White Court politics, there was an attack against Sharee on neutral ground...on HER neutral ground. That is beyond a big no no. Michelle basically gave him no choice; he would have to give her whatever information she needed so she can skin every one of the White Court bastards involved. With the ominous promise of "we will be discussing this later", Michelle hangs up and helps get Sharee into Jack's apartment. Luckily, she wasn't hurt too bad, just some cuts, bruises, and a backache. When Sharee woke up, she was able to tell everyone what had happened and the message that Arthur- the White Vamp Lord - had given her. He wanted his mask back, the one that Jack in the previous game session had stolen. After a phone call to Warden Weststone to set up a meeting, the three of them head out to Temptations, where the meeting is taking place.
Once there, Michelle makes a formal complaint about the Accords violation to the Warden. Basically that means we are waiting for it to go through the appropriate channels and then we will hear back. Then Sharee got into her usual argument with him about his alcoholism, which was rather amusing. After that, Jack and Sharee went home and Michelle stayed to have that little chat with Blue. It took a couple of rounds of social combat (which I won! And, I didn't even need to play the "we're having sex" card!) but Michelle eventually got what she needed- the address of the vamp who brought the curse/trap into her shop. Though, she did have to promise Blue she wouldn't use it since he didn't want her to get hurt or killed, which was really sweet. She didn't have a problem promising that since she has a few ideas on how to get around that particular restriction. Then they had sex...sober sex this time and it was GREAT. The afterglow, however, was cut short by a scream from outside. Getting outside, they found the bouncer unconscious and a dead girl, who had been gutted, on the sidewalk in front of the club. Not wanting to but needing to, Michelle called Sharee and Jack back down there. Which turned out to be a good thing. Jack recognized her from the escort service he had been to while getting dirt on the Lord of the White Vamps. He was also to see that there was tear into our world from the Nevernever, which was how she was dumped. Which placed it firmly into the lap of Sharee's boss, the Fey Lord. Earlier, Sharee had let him know that the attack against his business wasn't aimed towards him but at our little group, mostly Jack and that it came from the White Court Vampires.
Waking the next morning, our three heroes set out to see just what they could fuck up that day. Jack went out to Sharee's house because they both realized that mask the White Vamp Lord wanted back was not picked up by either of them after their fight with the White Vamp flunkie. He didn't find the mask. However he did manage to get threatened by Sharee's mother, who was armed with a shotgun. Luckily Sharee was able to rein in her mother and they found out that the mask had been picked up by her crazy uncle and it was in his possession. It gets better. As Sharee was leaving, her mother commented about her friend (Davi- the player character currently in a coma) in the hospital being released. That was not a good thing to hear. So, off to Michelle's they went, who was blissfully unaware of anything and just cleaning up her shop. She also mailed off two invoices to the White Vamps one of the estimate for fixing her shop and the other for replacing her inventory. Most of the rest of the game was basically running about. Michelle verified that Davi had been released from the hospital, into the care of his "uncle", his "uncle" who was the White Vamp Lord. Sharee and Jack attempted to locate Davi by using a location spell but it was blocked. Michelle went to set up a meeting on neutral ground with Arthur the White Vamp Lord. The game ended with all of them at Temptations having a meeting with the Archive, who basically was setting the ground rules for what would happen with the formal complaint Michelle made. It would be a duel to the death, which she, the Archive, would referee. However, the White Court could settle the invoices that Michelle sent (which would be for the best since there is no way in hell Michelle can beat a White Court Champion in battle and she wouldn't ask anyone else to do it for her) and the matter would be considered closed.
So, where does that leave us? Basically fucked. Trying to get all this straight, Lana and I sat down Tuesday and figured out all of our threats, allies, and possible threats or allies currently in the game. This is what we came up with:
Threats
Martin- which also includes the coin containing the Fallen Angel he gave to Davi
A second Black Court Vamp- who has just shown up in town
The Ghuls- attacking the gang members- and whomever is sending them
Red Court Vamps- our main guess for who is sending out the Ghuls
1/3 of the White Court Vamps- House Skavis...basically all of them
Adam- the Fey Lord trying to fuck Sharee
Sharee's Crazy Uncle- he has the mask we need and not sure if we can get it back
Jack's possessed dagger- that could get him killed, esp if turned into the White Council
Allies
Jim- the honorable troll/carpenter
Warden Weststone- even though he is drunk most of the time
Lucas Sims- Minuteman leader who investigates weird shit that happens
Possible Threats or Allies (unsure)
Tommy- Adam's son, he wants to date Sharee
Blue- no love for House Skavis but he IS a White Court Vamp. His possible feelings for Michelle may keep him on our side.
Us- really, no explanation needed here. If there is trouble, we will make it worse. If there isn't any trouble, we will create it somehow.
Next week, we take a break from Dresden to play the Mage game. Cannot wait!
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