Session 19 Recap

The Recap of Session 19 of the chronicle Detroit by Night.

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Recap
Caleb signs up with the National Conference of Black Lawyers, an organization which offer legal assistance to black civil rights activists.

Caleb has stayed in contact with his family mainly through his mother. Recently, Caleb's brother Mikael was fired from his job at the neighborhood swimming pool for going against orders and giving free swimming lessons to black kids. Caleb's father Steven joined a Neighborhood Watch which had recently formed, and Mikael is considering working for them full time. Talking to his brother Duncan, Caleb is asked for legal advice concerning what the legal fallout would be for driving people who's performed a crime. Duncan says the information is for a friend.

Caleb contacts Peter Maguire, a man from his herd that's a Concept Designer at Ford, and asks him to help his father find a job.

Caleb sets up a meeting with a man claiming to represent Tommy Romano, the leader of the Detroit Mafia. They meet at Caleb's company, and the man introduces himself as Sergio Romano or "Smiles". Smiles says that there's a lot of buzz around their company and he claims that the Romanos might be interested in working with a man such as Caleb, but that now he hesitates seeing how young Caleb is. Smiles start asking him personal questions and Caleb suddenly feels a pressure in his mind. He suspects that Smiles is trying to do something to him and tries to resist. It does not take long however before Smiles seem to realize that Caleb is a kindred, and he drops the facade to reveal himself a Nosferatu.

They re-introduce themselves, but Smiles laughs with disbelief at the concept of a black Ventrue in Detroit. Caleb also doesn't reveal who his Sire is. The pleasantries end there however, as Smiles start interrogating Caleb for information about the Camarilla and the Sabbat. As Caleb tries to keep information from him, Smiles makes three armed mobsters with silenced pistols appear in the room and punish him with a shot to the chest. Caleb manages to keep his cool and reveals very little about the Camarilla, feeding Smiles with intel about the Sabbat, Darsh and Daniella, Ramon Palma, Duchovny, and the Mexicantown Anarchs. He also tries to convince Smiles that they should team up in a coalition to drive out the Sabbat, but Smiles seem rather uninterested. According to Smiles, the previous West-Side Nosferatu faction are under new leadership. The Costas are out and the Romanos run things now, and they are not a neutral, Nosferatu-only faction anymore. And Tommy Romano have no love for the Camarilla. Caleb takes the opportunity to let slip that he has no love for Prince Grayson, and that he is arrogant and weak.

Smiles takes a liking to this, and they decide to do some mutual beneficial business. Caleb gives Smiles 2 Simple Boons for intel regarding Tommy Romano's stand regarding the Sabbat, and learns that he thinks they are bad for business and need to be dealt with. In turn, Smiles uses one of those boons to task Caleb with laundering some money for them. They then part of good terms, and Caleb informs Marshall that they're now in dealings with the Mafia.

Once Caleb spends some time moving the dirty money around and laundering it through some international companies, he manages to dig out that the money is revenue from some kind of prostitution business conducted in the neighborhoods just east of New Center.