Session 9 Recap

The Recap of Session 9 of the chronicle Detroit by Night.

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Caleb meets up with his old teacher Lucas Maitland, a lecturer in Environmental Law at Wayne State College. Caleb wants to impress him and deepen their relationship beyond him drinking from Maitland, so they talk about the state of environmental protection and Native Rights in Michigan. Maitland gives Caleb some information that there are logging, mining, fracking, and oil tar extraction going on in the State which ruins both nature and lives of some communities. The Native American Community is fighting back and winning legal battles such as often as they loose them. Caleb really manages to show how good he's gotten and impress Maitland, who says he'll mention it to everyone he speaks to. He also mentions that he's going to the Conference on Governance and Public Administration Reforms and Innovations, and says he'll meet Caleb there.

Saira lockpicks her way into Caleb's apartment and surprises him so much that he shouts in surprise when he gets home. Saira fills him in on what she found out about the security of the Public Library. They discuss how to approach stealing the Deed, and decide on trying to break the electric circuit and simply break into the glass casing. Caleb fills Saira in on what he learned, and gives her the floor plan to the building.

Saira heads to the library the night after to scout it again. She sees a security guard waiting to close up, and she uses Obfuscate and her lockpicking skills to move into the non-public areas of the library. She messes with the locks on several doors on the way, and finally finds the main circuit breaker in the basement. Knowing where her target is, she makes her way out.

Meanwhile, Caleb responds to Shanice's text that Prince Grayson wants to see him. They meet up and Shanice picks him up in a fancy car. They chat during the car-ride and Shanice seems curious what Caleb's been up to and if he's managed to secure his feeding. Caleb informs her that he's starting his own law company with Marshal Holland, and Shanice seems happy for him. She, on the other hand, seem to have been stuck at Einhorn & Associates doing just boring old business economics, and she seems frustrated about Grayson being too busy to use her abilities. She mood seem to swing back and forward between expressing frustration and anger, to then expressing graditude for all Grayson has done for her and shame for feeling the way she feels.

During the conversation time, Caleb notices how Shanice is shaking slightly while she's driving and not really keeping attention on the road. When asked about it, Shanice reluctantly confesses that she haven't had any vitae since Caleb last gave her some, almost a month and a half ago. When Caleb offers her some of his blood once again, she seems unable to refuse this and pulls the car over. Using a knife in the glove compartment, she gets Caleb to slice a wound for her to drink from. She seems ashamed for doing it, but drinks readily from his arm. The whole ordeal seems to leave her completely breathless and flustered, and she takes several minutes to try and cool down. But as Caleb puts his hand on her arm to ask if she's okay, it seems as if any last means of self-control evaporates and she kisses him. Caleb is initially stunned by this but freaks out as she then continues to try and have sex with him. He attempts to talk her down without success, and finally has to forcefully hold her back whilehe shrieks and starts hitting him. She seems much stronger then her bodytype suggests, and Caleb has to hold her like this for a long time before she finally seems to regain her senses. Breaking down into sobbing, Shanice apologizes profusely and says she hates what the blood does to her. This seems to be why she always takes her vitae back home in a container.

Once Shanice have collected herself she takes Caleb to the Detroit Courthouse and leads him in to one of the conference rooms. There he meets Grayson, who has called him to teach him about the ways of the Clan, the Traditions of the Camarilla, and to tell him that he needs to "bring the Assamite under control or his Dignitas will suffer". Caleb has some questions of his own and he learns several things.

- Detroit used to be ruled by the French Toreador and their Gangrel servants, but was driven out by the Ventrue and Tremere during the Seven Year War. Somewhere around this time the "Moonbeasts" and their humans were driven out as well, and somehow the Tremere was important in achieving this.

- Edward Augustus was the Prince of Detroit and Grayson's Grand Sire. He is allegedly the brother of King George III of England, and came over as a kindred with his mortal family to take Detroit for England and the Ventrue Clan. Grayson is the first of the Ventrue Clan in Detroit who isen't of English blood.

- Latricia Delage, the Senechal of Detroit, are from a group of Black Toreadors originating from the Caribbean. Her sire were of mixed blood between african noble slaves and noble slaveowners.

- All of both Grayson's and Delage's older clan members are presumed dead since the Opera Incident. They are the eldest living of their clans in Detroit

- The Nosferaru of Detroit control the Italian Maffia, with an Ancilla called Gigi leading them. Grayson don't know if they are still alive, but claims that a Nosferatu ghoul called Tommy Romano is still leading the mob as a frontman. They've tried to make contact with him without any success.

Saira along with Emily dresses up and goes to the extra Annual Meeting and Memorial Service that are being held at the Epsilon Sigma Sorority. They arrive along with many other sorority members and are greeted by Pearl who seems to be acting as hostess. Saira immedietly notices a strange scent and thinks that there might be a scent of vitae coming from the punch bowl. She stands in line, but is given drink from a different bottle by the server since she is "allergic to raspberries". Grabbing a drink for Emily, she sniffs the drink and confirms that it is indeed vampire vitae. Fearing that the entire Sorority is going to get bloodbonded to Daniella, she stands up on a chair and proclaims to everyone that someone has pranked them and poured blood into the punch. Everyone puts their drinks down, stopping anyone who hasn't already been bonded from being so, and Saira can see how some of the new recruits leaves the gathering immedietly.

As they wait for the meeting to start, Saira and Emily and many other sorority members are approached by an unknown woman moving around at the party. She introduces herself as Abigail Thompson from the College's Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), and says she is there to invite everyone to come get help their department if they need anyone to talk to after the incident with all the missing students. She also mentions that there are a lot of rumour floating around campus and that part of her job is to dispell them. Emily takes the calling card, but Saira isen't very discreet about wanting to get rid of her. Daniella finally comes over and demands to know what Thompson is doing here, before finally making a show of force where she basically kicks her out from the sorority house.

The meeting is them called to start and it continues pretty normally. The missing posts in the leaders of the sorority sections are filled, new members are initiated, and Daniella is finally elected Sorority President with an overwhelming majority. The gathered members are then ushered out into the back garden, where photoes of the missing 20 students are all lined up. Pearl holds a speech where she talks about each individually, and there are a lot of people crying and hugging. But as she calls for a moment of silence, there is suddenly a knock on the front door. Detective Dane of the Detroit Police, along with a bunch of police officers, enter the sorority and gather everyone up. They have a warrent to search the place for drugs. Daniella makes her way over to Saira and whispers to her that she needs to help her hide things or they're all in deep trouble. She also says that she needs to do this if she wants to stay on her good side after the "big stunt" she pulled earlier. Saira first tells her to solve her own shit, but as Daniella reminds her that this can all blow up in Darsh's face too she agrees in return for a "big favor". Using her Obfuscate Saira heads upstairs to Daniella's room. Inside the bathroom she finds wine bottles, syringes, and blood stains. She empties the bottles into the sink and cleans everything up, before breaking the syringes and scattering the pieces outside.

Back downstairs, as the search is over, the police found some weed in one of the girls rooms. She'll probably get away with a fine and a mark on her record, but what's worse is the ziplock bag of cocaine that was found in Emily's old room. Emily is taken into custody and driven to the Police Station.