Grand Theatre - Playroom Monday March 28th 2011

Corinna has been vaguely following the proceedings on the stage when the panicked shout rings out from the corridors. When the smoke starts to fill the room, she immediately drops into a crouching position and listens intensely for a few moments. She then turns to Griffin with a frown and quickly whispers something.

Linguistics Latin, Spying:

She peeks above the seats to get a good idea of where the fires are spreading, taking a few glances to orient herself, then looks back to Griffin. Just when she opens her mouth to speak again, the sound of gunfire interrupts her, turning her frown into worry. Without much more ado, she gestures for him to get moving and starts to sneak towards the side entrance closest to her.

Chris keeps his head low, suppressing an audible curse as the guns start to fire overhead. Great. He scowls, glaring in the direction the gunfire is coming from as though his eyes could penetrate the smoke and show him who’s responsible. It didn’t of course, and he wasn’t about to poke his head out from the relative cover of the smoke just to sneak a peek.

Taking note of Claudia’s last known location to him, he begins to make his way to the fourth row. He avoids the center isle as he moves, instead going between the rows of seats, squirming past the chairs. As he arrives there, he looks around low to the ground to try and spot shapes or silhouettes in the smoke that would indicate there was someone in this row. He also looks at the fifth row best he can through the smoke. If he doesn’t immediately notice Claudia, Chris carefully makes his way down the fourth row.
“Claudia, are you there? Can you hear me?” He keeps his voice low, only just above a whisper, but he does try to get her attention to speed up finding the Tremere.

ST:

Nyx ducked down and looks to her phone first.

William:

When Fred reaches her she grabbed him and yanked him down.

Fred:

Nyx carefully peeked to see if anyone had followed Fred before slowly and carefully making her way towards the exit William had used. She's obviously on high alert for the sounds of movement close by to them.

Nyx:

When she's certain she hasn't been followed she replies to the text.

William :

Corinna:

Lucienne:

Chris:

Another heavy round of shootings, but the smoke starts to be a bit less thick through a breeze of wind. The smell of blood is a bit more important, seemingly someone has been hit.
The Gargoyle is nowhere to be seen at first glance, as well as Vonzel.
The Prince's voice is quick to be heard.
(Gosuin) Fire!

Another round of shooting happens, but it's more regular and organized. And it comes from the stage and not the entrances.

Corinna freezes when Griffin touches her. With a worried expression on her face, she listens to his words and nods once. She doesn't try to wriggle out of his hold, but uses her free hand to tug at her skirt, adjusting it so that she can move quickly if it becomes necessary without ripping it in half. She also opens her blazer to be able to move her arms more freely. When the smell of blood becomes more prominent in the air, she sniffs with disgust.

ST:

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Lucienne moves fluidly along the wall, keeping Eric close. She keeps composed, as if not noticing the blood for now; but then perhaps she is merely pretending she doesn't. She stops and waits until he leans in close to whisper faintly, straight to his ear again.

Eric:

She indicates the direction, a crouching pose, and holding a gun up with a few quick, subtle gestures and then continues to move forward, determined to reach the stage before the smoke disperses completely and moving the length of the hall will become more of a problem.

Once Gosuin and his companions start to shoot, she continues moving still, careful to keep an eye on them - it wouldn't do to get shot by your own side. For that matter, she tries to gauge who it is with the Prince -- and how good they all are, compared to the opposing party.

Auspex 4:

Nyx:

Nyx:

William curses at the low visibility as he slowly nears the doorway next to the stage, he doesn't bother putting his ear against the door thanks to his Auspex and slowly pushes open the aforementioned object with his side while holding out his extinguisher pointed out in front of him.

Once inside, should there be any indication of nearby fire, he'll lower his eyes to the general direction but not directly at it as he would douse the flames while taking aim at the situation. Obviously he isn't breathing so the smoke doesn't bother him other than obscure his vision.

Christopher lets out a few carefully chosen and rather colorful words as the bullet scrapes his arm. He ducks back behind the protective cover of the seats and flips the attackers on the other side of the theatre off through the smoke. “Ruining my suit, they are.” He grumbles to himself as he glanced at the torn fabric.

Reaching Claudia’s side, Chris ignores his damaged clothing and turns his attention to the Tremere. He gives a slight nod to show he understood as she gestured at the spreading fire. “Quite a bothersome time for an attack I must say.” He crouches down even further when new rounds of gunfire fly overhead. “Most inconvenient,” he grumbles, annoyed. The gunfire, spreading fire, smoke, and blood is riling up his beast. The tips of his fangs are visible whenever he speaks. “How about we get out of here and wait outside for the results.”

The Nosferatu repressed back a squeak of surprise but quickly goes with the motion rolling into a crouch and cursing a little. Her mobile quickly draws her attention but she moves enough to make room for Fred.

William:

She turns quick but keeps her voice low to not be heard.

Auspex 1 & anyone close enough:

William gives a glance at his phone and rolls his eyes.

The fire begins to spread, the blood and gas smell begin to be overwhelming, and the cracking of the wood and other sounds cover up some of the screams, curses and other latin spoken orders.

Eric nods when Lucienne mentions something, but he makes sure to stay down, obviously not wanting to get in the cross fire. He follows his protégée as it seems she's doing well moving through.

Lucienne:

Fred stays on his side of the alley, after having thrown Nyx accross, and quickly disappears between seats, moving to another place further away.

Chris:

The door through which Alicia was taken by Lambert and Laure, followed by the Archon, opens when William comes back that way. However, the movement quickly earns him a round of suppressing fire. Whether it comes from the main entrance or the opposite stage exit is unsure.

After a few very long seconds, one of the side entrance's door blows open and the distinct sound of a skull being crushed followed by the still distinct sound of a fire extinguisher foam covering part of the fire.

The smoke begins to clear as strong wind blows in the room, certainly an unnatural one. A quick glance up and the flying Gargoyle is using his wings to clear up the view. No Vonzel to be seen yet.

The person responsible for the fire extinguishing on the right side of the theater is the Archon ; he used it to crush whomever was guarding that door. He tosses it over to Griffin and Corinna who are the closest to him, as they were quite close to that door, and quickly moves towards the only standing armed man by the main entrance. Sadly for Hanzo, Gosuin's bullet reaches him faster, blowing up the poor man's head.

William pulls back at the fire, letting out a stream of curses in Flemish. "Well, bullets, haven't been injured by those yet."

He checks his person to see if he got hit, narrowing his eyes at a particularly singed looking hole in his jacket. As the room was cleared, he pushes his back against the wall and pushed open the door in it's entirety with the fire extinguisher, if no new dose of bullets would fly his way, I'll poke his head out carefully before proceeding to douse the flames.

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Lucienne cringes at all the noise and unpleasant smells assaulting her on all sides. She mutters something under her nose.

Eric:

She frowns as the smoke in the room is cleared and ducks down, immobile, looking up to see what caused the change.

Eric:

Cringing at the explosion on the opposite side of the theatre she instinctively lurches forward some, as something like that is likely to distract anybody for a moment or two, and waits for Eric to catch up.

Eric:

She chances a look around and then goes back down and looks at her mentor with a grim face.

Eric:

Nyx is quick to take advantage of the ensuing gunfire and smoke, keeping herself low to the floor using the sides of her knees and elbows to crawl quickly to the door where William is. She pauses and peeks up to catch a glimpse of what's going before ducking back down once more to not make herself an obvious target and look back to see if she had been followed.

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Griffin takes the fire extinguisher that was thrown at him and Corinna and with a certain dose of courage, he starts putting off the fire on his end of the outside alleys of the theater room, giving a passage for Fred, then for Claudia and Chris, so they can join the sides, and approaches towards Eric and Lucienne.

Hanzo makes sure to check if the last shooter is, indeed, dead, and quickly he goes back outside, obviously looking for possible others or runaways. Gosuin is quick to follow the Archon, leaving behind his companion in arms, Victor and Theodore, leaping over the dead bodies of what some have recognized and rumored to be Alicia's Ghouls. The Prince seemed pissed off enough when he passed by the others and didn't spare a glance to those around him on his way out to the main entrance.
(Theodore) Everyone's better scatter and get out of here before we get Masquerade problems.

Lucienne:

The fire has spread quite a bit, and Theodore's words caught the attention of Duncan, Eric, Fred, Neve and Mikael. All but the latter make their way to the stage, willing to go by the stage entrance/exit as Theodore indicated.

William looked inside the Theatre once more and took a quick look around, taking care of any fires he sees until his eyes focus on Nyx.

"Come on pretty girl, we got to get out of here."

He took out his phone and looked at the time, placed it back in his pocket and gestured to the room, holding out his hand for her to take.

"This place is going to be loaded with kine in a couple of moments and I'd rather not have any of their doctors inspect the reason for my awesome gothic complexion or zombie heartbeat."

Nyx is quick to move herself to the end of the row of seating, keeping herself low to the ground. She doesn't just run for it, taking a second or two to assess if any unwanted attention is looking her way. Once she's certain there is none she runs to the door William has open.

When inside she speaks.

"It's more any fucking lookie-loos with cameras on their phones I'm worries about. I have to call Pierre so we can bloody damage control."

Nyx quickly pulls her phone out, she eyeballs for the time before hitting speed dial for Pierre whilst walking to follow William.

As the gunfire begins to die down, Chris cautiously pokes his head out above the chairs. He sent an observant gaze around trying to make sure that the fighting was indeed finished with their side coming out victoriously. Satisfied for now, he rises and holds a hand out to help Claudia up.
"That seems to be the end of that part of this fiery arguement. Whats ay you we get out of here hm. Before the Kine come poking their noses in here."

The vampire sends a quick look at the fires still burning brightly in the theatre.
"And before we all start to imitate the burning end of a cigarette."
His tone is light hearted as though the whole attack was nothing serious whatsoever. The half grin curling his lips is carefree and confident.

perception + alertness >= 4:

Reaching into his pockets Christopher rummages around, the grin falling from his face as he doesn't find what he wants. He lets out an annoyed sigh, turning to Claudia.
"Next time I seem like I'm about to break my phone, do please stop me. Smack me on the head or something."

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Lucienne looks about, registering the quick reversal of fortunes all around. And the Prince walking out after the Archont via the main entrance. Alone. She straightens up and moves to the middle aisle quickly, nimbly dodging what is left of the flames, seemingly unconcerned at their presence.

"We can't possibly leave his highness alone." She looks back at Eric with sudden determination and then adds wilfully. "And besides, I will not to skulk in the shadows. If there is a Masquerade breech, it is our clan's responsibility to make it null." She turns to march out after the Prince, her pace quick.

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So to not leech on CE's forums anyway I'm in the process of moving the game over to http//secretsbynight.boards.net
I am opening it up as Season 2, so I will wrap up the events that have happened here in an ellipse soon, and we will start over a few months after the events that have happened in the first season here.

If you want to continue with your character, you can with no trouble, but please create a new account on the new forum.

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