Session Notes

• We all received a personal invite to a UIC art student gallery event at the Grier House on roughly 4/13/22 (2 days ahead of time) directly from Annabelle Grier, the Tordiador Primogen.

Character Introductions

• Misty had a particular note, which she's come to expect, asking her to obfuscate/cover up so as to not break the masquerade
• Huntress from the Coyotes Pack
  • about a month ago someone did a mural about a dead cop and she knows she'll be there too so she's planning on killing him
  • She ran into her sire and they have a nice little interaction
    • there's a hearing about the Lupines?
• Kate brings a ghoul named Farah (around the same age ~20)
• Mine has a human daughter named Faith that went to school with Huntress
• Vienna Vienna knows Annabelle. and is wearing full clown drag
• Morrigan is looking up at the full moon, high fem goth, goes with an art student who is presenting their art
• Silo is scared but intrigued. Has an 11 year-old younger sibling (human)

The Party

• We all walk in to the gallery/house
• Some of the pieces are sculptures with red smears. There's slightly more Kine than Kindred.
• Huntress beelines for the food after failing to find her mark
• Silo goes looking for pets and finds a piranha, a lizard, and something else (?) scratching at one of the upstairs doors
• Misty knows of Annabelle but doesn't have personal relationship
• Other attendees are UIC students and others
  • a woman with shimmery gold hoop earrings, curly black hair, boots, street wear. Kindred. Misty notices she probably doesn't frequent gatherings like this
  • Dave the cum guy and other douche-y looking individuals
• Kate looks for a young woman. Isaiah Faust introduces her to a young woman. She's graduating with her MFA, she's the one who did the beautiful marble statue in the front
• Morrigan looks for captains of industry to target
  • there's a Tech CEO, United Airlines CEO, and CTO of an offshore oil company
  • she goes for the oil company guy
• Annabelle kicks off the event with special thanks to
  • Neil Russo - a professor at UIC art school whom she calls cute
  • Isaiah Faust (for generous donations)
  • the CEO of Argentum Vite
  • while she's up there she also makes eye contact with each of us
• We get the quest (see below)

The Quest

• Later in the party she brings us to a back room and tells us we were all recommended to her by a Nosferatu and we'll get a domain as a reward
• 4 people related to Kindred are missing:
  • Annabelle's husband John Grier is missing. He's a retired journalist. He said he was meeting Isaiah Faust in the loop
  • One of Faust's account managers, Jack Henry is missing
  • Sylvia Helmeck's dad Edmund is missing. They had just recently reconnected
  • Chloe's ghoul Felicia is missing
• We accept the quest Investigate the Disappearances

Back at the party

• Misty speaks with the woman with the earrings -- Erzulie
  • She tries to be a community builder for people on the outskirts
  • Anarchists?
  • Mainly works in Red#5, the nightclub
  • Tries to keep Annabelle at arm's length
  • Misty gives her her card and has a clan compulsion to find out more, and follows her the rest of the night
• Mine talks to Chloe who was looking toward the door, waiting for her girlfriend Felicia
  • hasn't texted her in a week but was supposed to be here
• Son the Malkarean Primogen, is a freak w/ bad vibes who's really into fledglings
• Silo talks to Sylvia Helmeck
  • she says she's here to forget
  • Someone in her life went missing, and they hadn't spoken in years
  • they were supposed to meet on Wednesday but he no-showed