Session 22 Recap

The Recap of Session 22 of the chronicle Detroit by Night.

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Recap
There is a month timeskip and the following happends:

Caleb makes contact with Aiysha Gales, the Chief of Police at the Hamtramck Police Station. She's never seen a black vampire before, but once Caleb manages to convince her that he is one she immedietly asks for vitae. She's having some heavy withdrawal symptoms since she's a ghoul and haven't been fed for months. As Caleb feeds her, she gets a sudden burst of energy and incredibly hyper. They go for a walk and Caleb manages to get some answers about what she knows.


 * There are Polish Vampires and Muslim Vampires in Hamtramck.
 * The Polish rules and she serves them, but she's been unable to contact them since the Church Massacre and Gang War that preceded the Opera Attack.
 * The Muslims control their own subterf in Banglatown. The police are not allowed to patrol there and only engage major stuff.
 * There is a club called the White Star Night Club which both sides attend. The owner is called Ewa Kolek
 * The police are aware that the Pawn Shops buy and sell contraband at times. They're supposed to keep records and ID all sales for the police but get around it through clever bureaucracy and inter-selling between shops. The police don't prioritize these crimes unless someone finds their stolen things on their own.
 * Aiysha's been told to fake records for the Rat Queen's Blessing Pawn Shop, but she don't know why.
 * They've been having trouble with increasing drug crimes during the last few months. They suspect that the Mafia are recruiting sellers localy
 * Aiysha accepts that Caleb will be her new contact, and is leading the domain with the Polish vampires' blessing.
 * Aiysha will take care of the body of the dead Vicar that Slavomira killed at St Florians Catholic Church, but expresses that bodies might be hard to make disappear if this happends too often.

Saira uses the information Caleb gathered to seek out Ewa Kolek at the White Star Nightclub. The club isen't doing very well, and it seems it was never designed to. From the story as Ewa tells it, it seems a few Tzimisce and Assamites together invested in starting the club as a neutral feeding ground and place for both sides to meet under Elysium Rules. But very few visit the club organically, and if it's to continue to exist would need a significant flow of resources (Will lock 2 points of resources, which can be reduced if the club gets more popular). She's also very clear about refusing to be blood bond, having seen what it does to people.

The Vicar which Slavomira killed at the St Florian Catholic Church is to be replaced by a new one. The Arch Bishop of Detroit is the one who will technically pick one, but he's very old and mostly just approves what the other Bishops bring to his table. If they intercept it, the players might be able to influence who gets picked.

After the timeskip both Caleb and Saira talk with their herd


 * Saira is approached by Kailey, whom she's dating and promised a serious relationship with. Kailey has gathered up enough courage to ask Saira to move out from her current place with Emily, and instead move in with her. She don't think its proper that Saira lives with Emily, even is Saira claim they don't have any sort of romantic relationship. Saira uses the fact that she's clearly the 10/10 in the relationship and gaslights Kailey through feigning shock and outrage. The threat of breaking up makes Kailey swiftly backtrack on the whole thing and apologize
 * Caleb is contacted by Peter Maguire, whom he asked to find a job for his father at Ford. He says he could fix him a job at the assembly, and even make it so he's promoted to a cushy manager position. However in return, Peter wants Caleb to settle his gamling debts. He's been playing at illigal high-stakes games which are held in the basement of the MotorCity Casino Hotel and owes a lot of money to a man called Samuel Natale aka "Sammy Smooth". He's been unable to pay back, and now he's being blackmailed to release schematics on a Ford model prototype he's working on.

Caleb and Saira have a talk with Emily since they're planning on moving their Havens to Hamtramck. They want her to move with them for her own safety, but she says she'd rather stay in Midtown with people around that she knows. She's also been taking self-defense classes, so she thinks she'll be fine. Emily has a short talk with Caleb while he's is over, asking if Vampires can drink animal blood. He explains that they can, except for those of his clan. On a following night, when Saira raises after sunset, she finds that Emily brough a goat into their apartment. Emily explains that her uncle has a farm, and she got the animal delivered so Saira could drink animal blood instead of human blood. Saira tries to explain that animal blood only can sate her so much, that she'd be walking around constantly hungry. Emily doesn't seem to understand and they argue back and forward. Eventually Emily gets mad that Saira doesn't want to do what is right and storms off.

Caleb sells his shitty apartment Downtown and buys a nice middle-class apartment in Hamtramck. Saira moves out from her and Emily's apartment in Midtown and buys one of the nicer apartments in Banglatown.

Caleb meets with the Executive Manager of the GM Assembly Plant. With his powers of Dominate, he forces the Manager to drink his blood and to take in Caleb's company as legal consultants.

Feeling she's going to need more money for what they want to do in Hamtramck, Saira decides to try out working at the Chakra Conference and Wellness Centre. She was offered to try out working there a Burlesque instructor by Manjira Chakrabarti, the owner of both the Chakra, the Beating Drum, and the Wild Rodeo.

Caleb then lastly tries to reach Shanice. It takes a couple of calls and messages, but finally Shanice seem to reluctantly agree to talk with him. Easing her with some nostalgic talk about old times, he asks if she's doing alright. Shanice says she's doing fine, excusing Greyson not giving her blood with that he just probably forgot. He's so busy, being the Prince and all. But she gets her blood now and is hard at work.