uing out of the side of his mouth, walks past the befuddled Jessica Lange and Sam Sheppard and opens t... y spot with an elevator which most people seem to be ignoring.
Fearing a trap, Magenta scans Bob, and... r and such. A few doors and corridors are visible beyond. Behind the elevator there are clicking cabinets, stacked as far as the eye can see and later ide
top of Peril =====
Desperate to switch vehicles (because they assume they are being followed), [[Smith]] & [[Magenta Jones|Jones]] **keep driving the tru... ate|commander]] a driver, but his hunger gets the better of him, and he find the local popularity of t... lling himself that he would have stopped drinking before killing the poor girl, knowing that he is lyi
he skies are getting brighter - Mr. Sun will soon be up and about.
With no time to waste, [[Smith]] t... well placed rock bashes the back of his skull in. Being a vampire he cures this with a simple expendit... is already feeding from the torn throat of a now beheaded burning-maner whom she elegantly "uncorked"... anner, found out by a disappointed Magenta to not be a writer, is scornfully discarded. Smith, hearing
ith rightfully considers suicidal), but it has to be her call.
The most Magenta is able to put into i... plane she is surprised to see [[Albert Saxonville|Bertie]] talking on the phone, and to O'Hara no less. Bert is not the first person one would send on such a delicate mission, being an official executioner of [[Camarilla|the Cam
e you sure? Isn't Gehenna just a myth? There must be a rational explanation to this," objects Jones.
... lains that he doesn't think this will affect him, because there was something unique about his Embrace... iness to attend to.
O'Hara warns Smith that he is being placed under supervision pending an inspection... he air of agreeing to this supervision thing only because he wants to run along and investigate the me
if|The many faces of}}
**Magenta Jones** used to be someone else, perhaps someone like [[wp>Hope Mirr... ency in opinion and a corresponding taste for the beautiful and elaborate in literature.
{{:smith_and... ground (and Disciplines!) perhaps she should have become someone else, like a [[wp>Toreador (World of ... she didn't officially die until the late 1970s - being legally alive was too useful to give up. She d
, [[Smith]] tries to put the Dominate on the more belligerent of [[Theodore]]'s friends. However, perh... the ambient macho aggression of the pack, perhaps because of their slippery and foul supernatural natu... use of a hidden blade remains a mystery). As the befuddled Theodore stumbles to intercede in this sud... hone (or perhaps takes great care to keep it off) before they go to sleep.
===== Enter Piven =====
S
his childer (who are resenting his inconsiderate behavior, which he ignores, which they resent) and s... xplosives, encased in a shiny metal shell that it being hurled down at them from high up in the atmosp... m a path into the Umbra, which they scramble into before the soldier's startled, soon-to-be scorched eyes.
As on the other side of the veil people at the
pen she picked up in an LAX stationary shop, and begins scribbling. She's not focusing on what exactl... deep breath, without even thinking about it, and begins once more to put words together. Slowly this ... desert you seek the Drops of Dew, while my Ocean beckons you."**
She can almost here the lisp, like she heard the words before, in a meadow, looking at the sun shining thro
me stupid Web enterprise or something, and is now being honored by his clan members across the ocean. ... e in a competing domain and seeming to do an even better job.
Attending the party are close to thirty... tinents, most of them caring less for the rivalry between Smith and McDermott than for the opportunity... t, of course, is expected to do the same, and has been allotted ten minutes of speech time to do so, s
, they delay and decide to go to sleep.
However, before Abdallah returns from prayer, Magenta sends D... the 50s star actress [[Marilyn Monroe]], who has been the house ghoul for over 40 years, and has been keeping "young" because of her condition, her mental state, not so good. Smith decides he should em
====== The Beast Within ======
The vampire is a complex being. Part of it still believes it's human, born of loving parents, an integral part of that endless fl... es vampire society possible. The other part knows better.
Every vamp knows that part intimately, for
ali office is blocked by a group of soldiers busy beating up on some poor old guy. Smith sorts this out, making the captain pay the beatee and take the platoon out of there. Magenta ca... onfirm this, and more. Surprisingly, vampires who believe they are going to die are less likely to obe... mpires, and more powerful vampires, are coming to believe just that. [[Traditions#the Masquerade|the M
Cat circles them, reluctant to engage lest it too be sucked into the mess.
Finally, perhaps through p... spartan chamber and withdraws from the non-space behind its surface two figures: a peevish [[Jeremy P... ador (World of Darkness)||toreador]] who has long been suspected of being an [[assamite]] spy.
Smith wants to reach New York, where he remembers [[B]] le
====== Frenzy ======
Vampires carry [[The Beast Within|a Beast]] inside them. Under extreme circumstances, the Beast sometimes takes total command of the vampire. ... n't avoid.
The Frenzy continues until either the Beast is sated enough for the vampire to resume cont
