Since Sunday is fast approaching and that means another gaming session, I really should write about what happened last week. We took a break from Dresden and went back to the Mage game. And that means the return of the uberslut...Calvin! One caveat though, it has been almost a week, so some of the events may be out of place. Damn my failing memory.
Let's get some background going here. Playing in game are four characters. We have Nate- an older gentleman (40's and a doctor) who has a massive library fetish, a huge father hen complex, and tries to avoid danger. There is Romulus- a steampunk (20ish and coffee shop worker) loner type who loves technology, loathes vampires, and generally doesn't get excited about much. Next is Chloe- a combo indie/punk/hippie (18 and lives off a trust fund) who lives for raves/clubbing, constantly acts before she thinks, and has a fairly big secret. Last, but certainly not least, is Calvin!- a famous B movie star (20's and rich) who is a massive slut, lives for getting into trouble, and is charming as hell. Just for the record, I will always be using the exclamation point after Calvin's! name because that IS Calvin!.
Last Sunday, we started the main story after getting through the prelude and it was very interesting. It started with Nate, Romulus, and Chloe at the observatory (their base of operations) after learning from the old guard mages who they would be fighting and that they had to basically stop the destruction of the world. Calvin! wasn't there for that. He had been in China filming his instant classic Flying Fists of Fury 3 or something like that. In order to get more info, Romulus contacted Rebecca (another mage) asking her for some info about the big fights that had gone down in decades past. We need info and allies and that seemed a good place to start. Chloe stayed out of that since Rebecca really doesn't like her for some reason. Chloe was off in another part of the house working on a private question. That leads into the return of Calvin!. He came to the observatory after a stop at his house. I should mention his houseguest, a 16 year old werewolf girl named Casey. We ran into her at a club and she just kind of moved in with him. Nate also lives with him. Back to what happened. Calvin! gets to the observatory and gets filled in on what has happened and what we have learned. The best part, he gives gifts to everyone and promises to go clubbing with Chloe that night.
Sidenote- Chloe will never admit it to him but she really likes Calvin! and wouldn't mind getting with him. However, there are a few obstacles to that. More on that later.
Back to the story. Here is where the chain of events gets fuzzy but I will do my best. Romulus and Calvin! decide to visit the one name that Rebecca gave them, a Bastet by the name of Cassandra Wilson. She was involved in the fight that took place during the 80's. She is also a well-known porn director, specializing in hardcore SM. The meeting went quite well and they did get a name of a vamp who had fought alongside her. Calvin!, being the Calvin!slut that he is, just had to try and seduce her. It somewhat worked. She was interested but in a predatory way. If he pursues it, she will definitely put the hurt on him. Almost forgot, before sunrise, Calvin! called his current love interest, a 300 year old vampire by the name of Monique. Chloe does not approve of this, as vamps are never up to any good, and gets him in trouble by making it seem that she was in bed with him. Calvin! is not amused and neither is Monique. She hangs up on Calvin!.
The day turns to night without much more happening. That night, Calvin! goes to visit his love and finds his vampire uberfan, Lethal, there as well. He eventually makes nice with Monique (yuck) and let's her drink from him...bad Calvin! I mean really, he wants to sleep with Chloe, really really bad. However, until he gives up his vampire whore there is no chance of that happening. Which makes Chloe kind of sad. He also gets back at Chloe by telling Lethal, who she cannot stand, that she is interested in him. Meanwhile, Romulus goes to meet the vampire by the name of Christian. He is the one that Cassandra said to go see. He is also in the porn business. While there, Christian makes Romulus an offer- let Christian drink from Romulus and he will give Romulus information. Not only does Romulus say no, he says hell no. Luckily, a fight was averted and Romulus was able to leave. No information gathered but the door to Christian is still there.
While all this was going down, Chloe was hitting a few of the clubs looking for three Nephandi (bad mages) they had met in the prelude part of the game. By sheer luck (yay....right), she runs into a young man by the name of Brad. He overhears her asking about the female mage, who calls herself Petite. He doesn't recognize the name but he does recognize the description. Chloes finds out from him that he ran into this girl at Sadie's, a very nasty, very hardcore SM club. There she goes by the name of Morte. After giving Chloe this information, he asks her on a date, which is very flattering. She says yes and they exchange numbers. Take that Calvin!.
With the name of the club in hand, Chloe meets up with Romulus and Calvin!. They head over to Sadie's and realize it's worse then they thought. The place just felt all sorts of wrong. It had pain, evil, fear, and despair oozing from it. Once inside, they find an out of the way alcove and Chloe casts a time spell. She knows about when Brad's friend disappeared and searches for that specific time frame. She finds it and watches what happened. She sees Brad and his friend get there and sees his friend leave with Petite, aka Morte. She leaves the club, to keep the time scene going and to see what happened. The spell leads her to where Shade, another Nephandi, was waiting in a car for the two of them. He senses someone (Chloe) watching them and manages to unravel her spell but not before she is able to pass on to Romulus and Calvin! the make, model, and license plate number of his car.
The evening ended there and will be picked up tomorrow. I can't wait!
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