Session 20 + 21 Recap

The Recap of Session 20 and 21 of the chronicle Detroit by Night.

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Recap
The session starts with that enough time has passed for Saira's blood bond to Darsh has lessened by 1-step.

The team contacts Kristoff Duchovny and heads to the church in Hamtramck to talk to him. Upon arrival, they are asked to wait by the priest as Duchovny is currently in a meeting, but once a homeless man is lead out he welcomes them in. They speak about permission to search the city for Kamala Khan, who they know is in a Hamtramck neighborhood block from a map that Waits-to-Strike made for them. He's surprised that she is in the city and annoyed that they are still searching for her, despite that he told them to stay out of it. But now knowing that she IS there, he gives them permission to find her if they capture her.

While there, Kristoff also asks the group for their assistance in tracking down the last two Assamite Wights. He knows for sure that they have left the city, and suspects that they've left for better hunting Downtown. He's been taking note of the one's he's caught and brought before the sun, and is pretty certain that the remaining ones killed and diablerized Elder Chladny and his childe Slavomira. Since it's important that they are caught, Kristoff wants the group to lure the Wights back into Hamtramck so he can capture them without entering Camarilla domain. Once caught, he'll make sure to perform rites so that the souls of his clan members can move on to Heaven. They talk about details, but then Kristoff suddenly changes his mind and tells them to simply track the Wights down so they can fight them together.

While they are still in Hamtramck, Caleb starts to look through what families are named Khan in the area circled on Waits-to-Strike's map, and find two homes with that last name. After some additional google-fo they figure out that one of the homes is Kamala Khan's brother and his family, and the other are their parents.

Caleb masks himself using Obfuscate and goes to Tevin Fox's office. He knocks on the door, and dominates Fox into drinking from a cup filled with blood. Caleb then books it and Fox chases him outside, but manages to loose him with Obfuscate.

As the team start looking for the Wights downtown, they look through the many abandoned houses and office-spaces. They find a homeless woman in the basement of an abandoned house and ask if she's seen anything strange. She's hesitant at first, but after bribing her with money and booze she tells them that her group was sleeping in an office-space under renovation and were attacked by monsters. They all ran, and now she can't find the others. They ask a bit more about who she is, and she says she worked at a Warehouse. But the hard labor forced her to use a lot of painkillers, and she became addicted to opioids. After her boss found her abusing pills, she was fired and ended up on the street.

The group check out the office building, which has a bank for international money transfer at street level. But going up a staircase from a side-alley, they find that the higher levels are under renovation. Sneaking around they find a couple of dead bodies and are then suddenly under attack from a female Assamite Wight. They fight each other and take damage, before fleeing down the staircase and outside. They call Duchovny, who shows up and they attack together. During the fight, he turns into a great monstrous being. As they are about to defeat the woman, a male Wight shows up and joins her. They fight and beat the Wights into torpor, but Duchovny is very injured.

Duchovny hands Saira the key to his car and tells her to go get it so they can load the bodies. As Saira reaches for it, Kristoff's other hand flies up and grabs her arm. He grabs it and forces his hand down, and Saira gives the key to Caleb. While Caleb gets the car, Saira hears Kristoff murmuring in Hindi that " 'they' have to die". Finally he begins to scream at Saira, calling her "Sister" and that she has to kill the Wights before the Fiend gets them. A strange fight for control seem to happen as Kristoff fights himself, or someone trying to control him. Eventually, the fight seems to stop and a feminine voice calls the others foolish boys and the players foolish Fledgelings. She introduces herself as Jasenka, Kristoff's sire, and explains that Kristoff consumed her soul as well when he diablerized one of the Wights out of revenge. Realizing that there could be more Tzimisce souls trapped in the Wights, she drove Kristoff to keep diablerizing each Wight he caught. This resulted in that there are currently several Tzimisce souls whispering to Kristoff, and even a non-Wight Assamite called Javed trying to stop Jasenka from ressurecting the Tzimisce clan in Kristoff's body.

Jasenka tries to negotiate with the team since Kristoff's body is too injured to really do anything if Saira and Caleb tried to stop it. She wants them to let her join with the remaining Tzimisce souls of Elder Chladny and Slavomira, and says that having the gratitude of the Elder and his childe will be worth it. The team seems hesitant to this, since it seems to take a lot of bodily autonomy from Kristoff. Jasenka tries to sweeten the deal with saying that she could try and only rescue Slavomira, explaining that she's an Anarch sympathizer and Elder Chladny is a Camarilla sympathizer. They finally agree and watches as Jasenka kills the male Wight, and diablerizes the female. The body of Kristoff suddenly falls into Torpor and won't wake up. As the sun is about to come up, the team takes Kristoff back to Hamtramck and the church.

Caleb pays for an office-for-hire and sends a notice to Tevin Fox. He shows up to a conference room with Caleb there and Saira in Obfuscate. Caleb draws him in and uses the knowledge that Fox is a conspiracy-nut to sell the story of what is going on. He gives him the jist about Vampires, The Camarilla being like the Illuminati, The Sabbat being a DeathCult wanting to take over the world, The Anarchs being freedom fighters, The Italian Mafia being controlled by Vampires, and the Opera Incident being a Vampire conference attacked by the Sabbat. He lies about Daniella, Darsh, Emily and Saira not being Vampires. He also convinces Fox that he and Alexus Broadway will help Caleb in gathering evidence of all this vampire activity and defeat them, and not to trust Isabella Dane since the police is controlled by the Camarilla. Fox reveals to Caleb that Dane sometimes seems to just have forgotten the evidence they've been trying to secure, and that he saw the bodies at the Opera decay before his eyes. He also agrees to copying all the evidence for Caleb.

The team gets a phonecall from the priest at the church in Hamtramck, who says that Kristoff have woken up. But as they return to see him, they find that Kristoff have ripped the head off the priest and have his entire face and front covered in blood from his feeding frenzy. The sight of the blood triggers Saira's hunger and she looses control to the beast, grabbing the head and crushing whatever blood is left into her gullet. As they speak to Kristoff they realize that Slavomira now is in possession of his body, and that the strength of her will have obliterated all other souls inhabiting it. She have consumed some vague memories about what had happend since she was diablerized from the other souls, and is filled in on the rest by Caleb and Saira. As she owes them a lifeboon, they negotiate what she will give them for aiding her return. They agree on that she will give over the domain of Hamtramck, and also support their claim to it against other vampires. Slavomira will also teach them each a Discipline. As a token of their agreement, and a sign of her support, she molds the stem of a potted olive-tree into a what looks like a wooden crescent moon and informs them that anyone who knows of her will recognize it as her insignia.