Session 17 + 18 Recap

The Recap of Session 17 + 18 of the chronicle Detroit by Night.

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Recap
The team researches Campau Cultural Heritage Foundation at the Detroit Public Library. The Campau family is a wealthy family with rich history tied to Detroit. The Campau brothers where a French Furr-Trading Family from Canada which owned land in Detroit and the surrounding area. They made much of their wealth from owning land and trading furr with the Natives. The family founded the city of Grand Rapids and most of the family is said to live there. Historically the Campaus are known to have bought Belle Isle from the Potawatomi Native Americans. Today the family have sold much of it's land holdings outside of Grand Rapids, and the Cultural Heritage Foundation owns and manages several historical buildings in and around Detroit.

The team decides to break into Islandview Hall and try to find the blood-contract. Caleb uses Mask of a Thousand Faces to turn into one of the security guards, and then sends the real guard away using Dominate. Having gotten a better view of them up close, they also notice that the security guards all have the initials P.B. on a patch over their heart and on their shoulder. Saira follows Calab in obfuscate and approach the gate just as the electricity in all of Indian Village is cut off. Caleb dominates the guard at the gate to give him the keys and then commands him to leave as well. Once inside the premise, they notice several other guards walking around with dogs searching for intruders and trying to figure out what's going on. Caleb learns that there is a back-up generator inside which should start up shortly, and then notices that the dogs seem able to sense something is off even through Obfuscate. They quickly head inside before they are called out.

Once inside the mansion the team split up. Saira head to try and find the back-up generator. She has to press herself up against the wall as an old man and a young woman are escorted past her by a security guard. She eventually find the generator in the basement, and manage to screw with the electronics so it thinks it's overheating and won't start. Meanwhile, Caleb starts randomly looking for where the Blood-Contract might be. However, he's suddenly intercepted by a sloppily dressed Sophia Campau, the Republican representative, who exits from a bedroom door. She demands to know what is happening and for Caleb to escort her to safety, but Caleb manages to convince her that someone else will be coming for her shortly and he continues. By randomness and the power of sheer luck, Caleb manages to find a small lounge. Inside the bookcases he notices several artifacts on display in small display cases, and with some search he finds the blood contract. Saira and Caleb then rendez-vous and use Obfuscate to leave unseen.

The team heads out to Huron Forest and Camp Alcona the following evening, calling ahead to letting them know they are coming with the contract. Shaun drives them as usual and stays behind to rest in the car once they arrive. At the Norwood residence they meet Chaska, who escorts them around Lake Alcona and then up into the rocky hills. As they get further up they are surrounded by small volcanic geysers, who fill the air with smoke and the stench of sulfur. Chaska seems unaffected however, and tells them to stay close behind him. During their trek up the jagged slope, the team finds it hard to navigate and several times almost loose their direction if not for them having the view of Chaska's back to follow. Once at the top, they suddenly realize that they are standing at the edge of a caldera, a volcanic crater in the shape of a bowl. Chaska tells them that he cannot go any further and points them down towards the bottom and center of the Caldera about 30m down. The vampires head down, and notice that the ground is densely covered with some kind of ash-covered moss, which gets more and more brittled and charred the further they go. They even notice several patches of ember still smouldering in the moss around them, forcing them to batter against the insincts of their beasts to continue further. At the bottom they meet Waits-to-Strike, as well as two other old men in their werewolf forms. He takes the contract and thanks them for their service and together the three men throw the papers at the ground and a spout of fire suddenly engulfs them. The two men, who introduce themselves Unveils-The-Hidden the Sept Leader and Tips-The-Scales the Rite Master, congratulate Waits-to-Strike for restoring his family's honor as well as having raised a new young Garou into the Sept's service. Waits-to-Strike then tells the vampires that he will be honoring the agreement and offering them sanctuary in Huron Forest but the two other men express their disapproval of this They think that gratitude should be offered through a quick death. And while they will make no move at aggression here when they have been invited in peace, they assure that no such quarter will be given if the Sept ever meets them again. Once they've left Saira asks Waits-to-Strike about the blood contract, and he explains that Edward Augustus and his Tremere allies kidnapped a large group of their humans and blackmailed his forefather into signing the blood contract which magically barred the werewolves from entering Detroit.

A month passes and time moves into early winter.

Saira spends time getting to know Kailey, the girl she met at Club Gold Coast. With 2 successes on her roll, they establish that they are dating for real, but Kailey wants to know that relationship is going some place serious. Saira promises that she takes it seriously and Kailey is now considered part of her Herd.

Caleb and Saira sign up to dating sites to try and find more people to feed from easily. Caleb tries to find people who fit his feeding restriction, and Saira tries to find people on Tinder who think she's clearly out of their league. One evening while feeding on Shaun, Saira drinks too much and he needs to be brought to a hospital. While there, the receptionist only lets Saira in with Shaun if she signs some papers as his next of kin. As she is doing this, Saira spots her youngest brother Ravana who is working at the hospital as a doctor. They talk for a bit and Saira admitts that Shaun is her boyfriend, but makes Ravana swear not to tell their mother. He says he will, if she promises to call home more often.

Caleb and Marshall's lawyering business did an extremely well start and quickly rose to being a small-medium-sized company with about 20 employees. However, now that their buzz is starting to wear-off they've been growing much slower and are almost at a stagnate with a fairly constant base of clients. Caleb talks to Marshall about this, and they discuss the possibility of trying to find more clients engaged in economic crime. Marshall likes this idea and seems to think that some economic crime is just normal in this line of business and that it doesn't really hurt anyone. At the end of the passing month Marshall forwards an email to Caleb where he's been contacted by a man claiming to represent Tommy Romano and that he is looking for a firm to represent him in some cases and want a meeting.

Saira spends much of the month working. At the Beating Drum, Saira finds that Shaun have started working there as a bartender. Meanwhile, Josh still comes around at times but seem to be doing some other work for Luka. He seems to be doing fine from what she can tell. Saira also tries to work at another of the establishments which Luka manages, a strip-club called the Wild Rodeo. Luka brings her there for introductions, but find that the other girls working there aren't too fond of new competition. Saira meets Chastity, who seem to manage much of the day-to-day runnings of the club, and who seem to decide on who gets the best clients and the best workslots. During her month at the Wild Rodeo, Saira also notices a young teenage black girl hanging around the club. After a brief talk with her, she learns that the girl's name is Violette and that she is Castity's daughter. To Saira's surprise, it seems Jade from the Beating Drum also works extra at the Wild Rodeo under the name Harmony. She seems to be very embarressed about this and asks Saira not to tell anyone back at the Drum. She only works here due to her acting classes being very expensive. Jade gives Saira some information about the Rodeo, and that there are a lot of drug and sex-trade happening here illigally.