Vampire: The Masquerade fifth edition
Empire
5. White Wings
Daisy
Echo
Emmet
Jesse
Silas
Thea Corbin, host of Rack alternative club Paradise Lost, asks Daisy for a favour, ahead of the Halloween weekend. The drummer for her Friday night show, Dan, is missing, not answering his phone or messages for two days.
The frontwoman Swan doesn’t know him well. The bass player Chloe knows him better, well enough to know he was looking forward to the show. She also laughs off the idea of asking the police to help.
At his apartment in Brooklyn, the group find the door has been broken open and Echo finds - and tastes - a trace of blood on the floor.
Dan’s computer has unread messages from the band and others - and some messages from a girl which stop suddenly around the last time he was seen.
Asking the Sheriff for access to CCTV confirms that Dan was force walked into a van.
Daisy recognises the girl who was flirting with Dan as Diane, a hanger-on of a member of her (and Thea’s) clan, Lucas Tan. A rival that Thea upstaged with the show she hosted for New Year.
Finding Lucas at the Electric, the group pressure him to release Dan.
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Early Friday night, Ella asks Jesse for help with a personal blood delivery. He brings Emmet for backup.
Off-campus housing near Lehman College in the Bronx. A young man calling himself Foster, who the vampires’ senses suggest is alive but dying. He accepts a keg with out-of-date blood bags under the beers, and agrees to a cut in the price in exchange for filling a flask with his own blood. He reveals fangs as he bites into his arm, but short ones, and the blood comes out like a dying mortal’s slow pulse. The other four or so people in the house stay out of sight.
Ella gives the flask to Jesse. A client wants to know how Thin-bloods work...
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Despite a black eye and a somewhat hazy memory of his time, Dan is able to perform the next night.
The group can tell there are a number of vampires present. Drawn to Swan’s bleak style. Thea makes sure to stay close.
Since Daisy brought help, Thea formalises the boon.
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Ahead of the Halloween gala, Ligeia asks to speak with Emmet...
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