[Camarilla] Let's Go Kill Some Dudes.

I got back from the Awakening venue a while ago with Brent and Jolene, and the game was really kind of light because the ST is in the middle of a move and hadn't gotten a lot of prep notes together. But, to his considerable credit, he said to go on with whatever goals we had IC, and he'd run with them as gamely as possible. I really think this is pretty fair, considering. Employee of the Month is new as a cabal in the city (we totally named our cabal after the band, which Atol staunchly brought with him in hopes of a little success this time) and it just happens we're all Free Council.

Seriously, this wasn't on purpose, it just kind of happened. Our concepts naturally gravitate to the FC for a number of reasons. But, we're also the only FC in town, so I guess you can imagine the chagrin of a heavily Diamond order city where a trio of Councilors stroll in and demand to see "the King Dick. You know. The Heirarch."

We needed to introduce ourselves. I was just trying to be polite. Actually it went over pretty well. Most people recognize that they're vaugely opposed to the Free Council, but don't really know why, except that they often come into town with molotov cocktails. Which I will certainly not do. Atol has, like, one dot in Athletics or something.

But the players are setting the pace, and you know that means just sitting around the table talking. The one downside of this is that conversations often degenerate into something that's just barely removed from OOC chatter. Characters tend to adopt whatever things players themselves like, and talk revolves around recent movies, games, or events in their relm of interest. I don't really oppose this staunchly, but it's pretty dull. Our cabal doesn't really have any idea of what's up in the city, so we get together and decide to grill the local concilium about what's up in the city lately. Quite a lot, it seems, but as dangerous as a lot of this stuff sounds, nobody really sounds like they're doing anything about it.

There's something awful in the downtown library which possesses Awakened but not mortals. There's some awful abyssal shit in Capital Hill, but I'm not clear what. There's a bunch of Neo clones with no eyes walking the streets with the intention of dropping the world into the Abyss forever. And I'm like, "I don't really want to be the one to ask this question, but what are your plans to track the source of these guys and deal with the problem for good?" I don't have an answer to that. I think they just avoid them. That's my fault, Atol decided he wasn't interested in the answer because it was too long.

Anyhow, it felt like a long three hours. What I got from it is that the cabal now has a set of downtime actions they'll want to file so that when the game cues up next time, we'll have a base to operate from in terms of accomplishing goals. On the way back, Brent and I talked.
"They said to stay away from Capital Hill." I said.
"That just makes me want to go to Capital Hill." he replied. "Where do we go next?"
"The phone says to just keep left and continue straight. Ok. We'll have to stage a concert in Capital Hill. And they said they'd just leave the library alone?"
"We need to check out that library and see what's up with that."
"Good call. One thing at a time, I guess. That thing sounds big. Shit, we're going to cause so much trouble for these people."
"Oh we totally are."