C3 S9 - Secret Agent Vampire

     For this session I really tried to step up my game and make the characters more interactive.  I think some of the best moments come from giving players a chance to voice their characters, and test their lying on the fly.  Kudos to everyone who actually attempted to do anything besides blasting their way in.  

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The night began with Rick picking up Darren's phone and learning about a recent witch hunter ambush.  It would seem that The Skull bit off a bit more than he could chew and was abducted.  The Blue Hunt on the scene were able to get a licence plate number, and with a bit of computer work the group was able to track it down to a medical supply company on the east side.  

Tony, Roec and Rick decide to try and sneak into the facility and perform a rescue.  Rick's disguise as a maintenance worker gets him into the building, while roec and Tony bushwack a couple of guards on the roof and come into the building from the top down.  What is discovered is that the buiding is not a medical supply center at all, but infact is a vampire testing center where all manner of disturbing medieval techniques are performed on captured vamps in the name of science.  The Skull is found to be on the second floor and the team of witch hunters that captured him is still there, barganing with the staff over a price for his head.  

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     No one could have predicted what happened next, as Giuseppe, Killgore and Darren burst through the window having comandeered a fire truck and rode the ladder up.  Killgore procedes to rig up the hose, and blast friends and foes alike amid the battle until they are subdued in a wet mess at the end of the second floor hallway.  This however is shortlived as the windows behind them buckle against the pressure and burst, spilling everyone out onto the concrete below.  The firetruck is returned and the group reconviens back at the safehouse to plan their next move.  

Following up on the address pulled from the surveilence cameras, the group heads to Wargrave's shop.  This powerful and affluent vampire seems to have had dealings with vernon, although also seems to be plauged by guilt about it.  His occult craftsmenship seems to hold the key to returning Kaytoss's power, but it comes with a price.  Wargrave is interested in obtaining Vernon's research into crafting the biological monstrocities that plagued the group through chapter one.  Although they don't like it, the group decided to steal the research from the federal building (knowing that vernon's laboratory was investigated by mortals at the end of chapter two).  

On the way to the Special Investigations Building two things of note happen : 
1.  Kilgore continues to hear voices talking to him, demanding knowledge of where Valdred is.  
2.  The Camirilla has contacted the group and told them that the vortex connected with the black pyramid has stopped.  No one know why...

Once adequately disguised only Kilgore and Tony are able to slip past the security check point.  Once on the other side however, Tony is unable to get inside of the evidence annex and Kilgore is captured.  Thankfully however the morals are looking for a conduit to interact with vampires and think that "Quin" as one of their own would be perfect to fill this role.  Kilgore is given his orders, Quin's family is threatened, and he is pushed out of the building (but not before bargaining for access to the digital files they were looking for).  
Fed up with waiting and with Tony unable to get to the evidence, Darren throws caution to the wind and runs to the evidence annex, takes a hostage, and proceeds to GET THE JOB DONE.   Meanwhile the rest of the group run interference and before you know it everyone is fleeing the scene.