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The First Task
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 12, 2024, 1:14 am
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Silent night for the rest of my life
Silent knight at the edge of your knife
“Forgive me father” won't make it right[/center]
Striking Looks 2
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Boston’s weather was horrible. Tonight was a dreary night, the
moon was hiding behind thick clouds that couldn’t even be
bothered to properly rain. It was an obnoxious drizzle, the kind
of precipitation that was enough to be uncomfortable and ruin
your hair but not the kind that warranted an umbrella.
From her position on the floor of the darkened alleyway, Lola
looked up at the fire escape, making sure it was still intact
and not just there for display. The ladder is rusted halfway up,
halfway down… making getting up there dangerous and potentially
noisy.
Fuck it.
--- Quote ---
> Strength 2 + Athletics 2: Can she climb it?
> 9, 9, 8, 5
>
> Dexterity 2 + Stealth 3: How quietly?
> 9, 9, 6, 2, 2
--- End Quote ---
Lola jumps up and grabs the bottom rung of the ladder, hoisting
herself up and climbing up the fire escape. The rust holds, and
she manages to scramble up to the first platform -- from there
it’s smooth sailing, silent steps slide her along to the
appropriate floor.
She peers in the window, dark eyes surveying a dark apartment.
“Anyone home?”she whispers to herself.
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Re: The First Task
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 12, 2024, 1:54 am
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Silent night for the rest of my life
Silent knight at the edge of your knife
“Forgive me father” won't make it right[/center]
Striking Looks 2
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First order of business is to make sure anyone inside is asleep
already. Having people awake in the apartment would make this
more complicated than it needs to be.
--- Quote ---
> Wits 3 + Composure 2: Anyone inside?
> 9, 3, 3, 3, 1
--- End Quote ---
She doesn’t see anyone inside through the window. She waits
there, listening for about five minutes, and ultimately decides
that nobody is coming. She tests the window -- locked.
Damn. This is going to take a little effort after all.
[Quote]Dexterity 2 + Larceny 2 + Lockpicking spec 1: Can she get
into the apartment efficiently?
8, 6, 4, 3, 1 = one success![/quote]
Or not. The apartment building is old, and it’s window locks are
easily futzed with from the outside. It takes but a moment for
her to pop them open, quietly slide the window open, and slip
inside the apartment.
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Re: The First Task
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 12, 2024, 2:23 am
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Silent night for the rest of my life
Silent knight at the edge of your knife
“Forgive me father” won't make it right[/center]
Striking Looks 2
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Lola didn’t want to be doing this, but she didn’t have a choice.
Whoever it was that was blackmailing her had been pretty damn
clear about what they wanted -- it was either this, or have the
Hunt called on her by the Prince. And she knew she wouldn’t last
a single night in Boston with the whole of the city’s Kindred up
her ass.
She crept through the apartment, looking for her victim,
listening for his heartbeat.
--- Quote ---
> Wits 3 + Composure 2 + Blood Potency 3: Can she find him
before a complication finds her?
> 10, 9, 7, 5, 5, 3, 3, 1
--- End Quote ---
She followed the smell of cheap beer, cigarettes, and microwave
TV dinners to the bedroom where he was sleeping. That was the
easy part.
The hard part was the follow-through. She produced, from her
coat, a sawed-off shotgun. She leveled it at his head while he
slept… her hand was shaking.
BANG.
Blood, bone, brains splatter across the pillow, up the wall, and
spackle back across her jeans and leather jacket. The blood that
splatters across her face is warm and wet.
--- Quote ---
> Breaking Point! Premeditated murder is two dice.
> 8, 6 = no detachment.
> She gains the Bestial condition: -2 dice to resist frenzy or
physical impulse, she becomes vulnerable to influences that push
her toward violent action.
--- End Quote ---
The Beast wells up in Lola. If she could retch, she would.
Instead she finds herself standing there, smoking gun in hand,
staring at what used to be his head.
What have you done, Lola?
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Re: The First Task
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 12, 2024, 2:31 am
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Silent night for the rest of my life
Silent knight at the edge of your knife
“Forgive me father” won't make it right[/center]
Striking Looks 2
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“...Daddy?”
Lola whirls around to see a small boy standing there in his
footsie pajamas, dragging a small teddy bear behind him.
Shit.
How did that heartbeat slip past her? She was fucking out of it,
that’s how. So wrapped up in her own little moral crisis of self
that she didn’t even notice a kid sneaking up on her. He must
have been sleeping elsewhere in the apartment, and got woken up
by the sound of the gunshot.
Now there’s witnesses…
FUCK no, she wasn’t going to go down that road. That was a line
she wouldn’t cross. Not even to save her own ass.
Right?
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Re: The First Task
DIR By: EvilSqueegee
Date: December 12, 2024, 2:39 am
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Silent night for the rest of my life
Silent knight at the edge of your knife
“Forgive me father” won't make it right[/center]
Striking Looks 2
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Right. Not eliminating the kid, so nothing to do about him.
Sirens in the distance. Someone must have called the cops when
the gun went off. She was supposed to be gone already--
“Sorry kid,” she manages to grunt, brushing past him. She makes
a beeline for the window, slides it open, and climbs out onto
the fire escape.
--- Quote ---
> Dex 2 + Stealth 3: Can she melt away into the shadows of the
alleyway without the cops finding her?
> 10, 7, 6, 4, 1 = 2 successes
--- End Quote ---
She drops down into the alley, calmly shoves her hands into her
pockets, wraps her coat around herself to fend off the cold, and
walks away from the sirens. She disappears into the foggy,
drizzly night, where not even the light of the clouded moon can
find her.
~fin~
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