Mai:
JT is granted his audience with the prince and gets the bonus of the primogen council minus Saturn. The prince does some oratory magic and manages to grant us permission to do this while taking no responsibility for our future actions, encouraging us to protect the Traditions, and make it look like punishment to the others assembled. Mai is impressed and pleased but does her best to maintain a surly expression.
Then Jenny surprises everyone by asking that Mai be allowed to stay behind. Mai is stunned. Now how exactly does Jenny think this is going to work if the entire coterie is not present? No, we must stay together. However much Mai dislikes going to Windsor on a whim, Mai cannot allow herself the liberty of agreeing with Jenny. Mai tells the prince that it is his decision and she is in no position to agree or disagree... which is an exact illustration of the situation in her mind.
The prince appears to understand what is at work... or maybe not. Maybe it is just luck. Either way, the prince decides Mai should join the others to Windsor.
Alicia rushes from the room ahead of the prince once excused. JT rushes from the room after Alicia in front of the prince as well. Mai marvels at the ettiquette displayed here but then again, we've thrown away those graces long ago.
We ride to Windsor and park two blocks from the clinic. Mai slumps in her seat as she sends her mind to the clinic to do Recon. As she heads toward the clinic, she sees the other other Jenny again (the one with tentacles) who smiles at her. Mai promises her she will talk with her later. At the clinic, she discovers the aura in the room with the corner is not there but 6 people are present moving up and down the stairs. She feels the ward of presence and feels someone may be watching her. She returns to her group and tells them what she saw.
We move forward... JT and Manfred visible and the others not. J Starr's coterie minus J Starr is with a u-haul and packing the lab equiptment in to leave. Mai's coterie begins to stop the other coterie while Randolf rifles through the back of the u-haul and Mai stands in front of the clinic creating the best presence of "nothing to see here" she is able. Without showing her titties.
And then something unexpected happens. We end up staking vampires of the other coterie including Nurse Spencer. We drive back to Detroit and the place where we burn things. We set the u-haul ablaze and debate what to do with the others. Mai argues against killing them but it seems the rest of her coterie is for it... and the rest of her coterie attempts now to influence Mai to kill Nurse Spencer because they know deep inside she wants to. She really really wants to. But then JT wakes her up. He brings forward the demons of the past and throws them in Mai's face hoping to bring her over the edge and she realizes this is how JT has always gotten whatever he wanted from her.
Mai refuses and walks away from the coterie as they do whatever it is they are going to do to Nurse Spencer. Mai will not argue for her life but also will not allow what has happened in the past to define her actions anymore. There is a job at hand.
The u-haul is burned and the coterie heads back to Windsor to find J Starr. We go to the wrong Marina and realize that according to Jenny's reading of his coterie mates' minds, he is probably with his yacht, the gray queen, on Belle Isle. Randolf takes a jet ski as the cops arrive and we drive away.
(I'm sure Randolf has something to say that would be helpful right here)
At Belle Isle, we see Alicia's cadillac driving away. JT and Manfred levitate themselves out to the yacht which is just leaving harbor and Jenny... gets there somehow. I forgot how. (Jetski goes crash)
Aiden and Mai are left on shore. Randolf slips away. Aiden and Mai share some small talk and cigarettes... well, Mai ⚠ <i>attempts⚠ </i> to share cigarettes... as the supposed negotiations drag on for hours.
A dense fog begins to surround the yacht and it takes Mai several minutes but she soon realizes ⚠ <i>this is not good⚠ </i>. These aren't negotiations after all... so what exactly is going on? Mai decides to find out. She sends her mind to the yacht where she sees Jenny diablerizing J Starr as Manfred and JT debate the merits and demerits of allowing this course of action, and whether they are technically in power to allow or disallow it, and ultimately whether it is too late to decide if they are in power to allow or disallow it. Mai sees a chess piece and realizes from conversation that this is a black king.
Mai considers stopping Jenny and realizes that since she is in the other realm, she should be able to speak to the other Jenny. Mai turns to her. "Who are you?" Mai asks. "I am Jen." says the other Jenny in a vaguely demented tone. "I am almost completely free now" she says. And then disappears.
Well, Mai supposes she was too late as well. She turns her attention back to Manfred and JT who are also realizing they were too late. But something weird happens to J Starr. JT I think rips open his (J Starr's) shirt to reveal a perfect tattoo of the tapestry. It bursts forth with light. ⚠ <i>He⚠ </i> begins to speak through J Starr, to animate him.
⚠ <i>He⚠ </i> is ⚠ <i>here⚠ </i>!
Mai rushes back to her body. She is surprised to realize that she feels thrilled... thrilled because for once she knows exactly what she must do. She must bring the coterie to him so he can suck their blood!
Mai convinces Aiden to hotwire a speedboat and calls Randolf, and when he dithers, threatens him that she will bring him to her the impolite way if he does not come the polite way. He agrees to come the polite way.
The three speed into the fog. As soon as they are within range, Manfred begins drawing blood from them and throwing it into the portal of J Starr's chest. This appears to hurt the ancient Malkav. Thank god we have a tremere or this would've been much messier! Mai, Aiden, and Randolf climb aboard the yacht and Randolf promptly throws himself into J Starr's chest.
W T F?
Aiden grabs on and tries to pull him back and Mai tries to help. We are losing our grip, so Mai shouts at Manfred to draw what he can from Randolf because he is about to leave the scene. Manfred does just that as Aiden loses her grip. Similarly large chunks of vitae are drawn from the others and Manfred throws this into J Starr's chest as well.
And then.
Mai finds herself floating in the cold water of Detroit river. Not ⚠ <i>dead⚠ </i> dead. This was surely a surprise. Manfred his helping her and the others to the shore and into feeding grounds. JT is frenzying, eating every animal in site. Aiden is not much cleaner. Jenny is on a stake. Randolf is gone. Manfred helps Mai find some food and finds himself some food as well.
The group regathers and Manfred announces that we must figure out what is going on with Jenny. Mai indicates that she has some insight into that. "Oh, that's ⚠ <i>Jen⚠ </i>" says Mai. The group agrees to repair to Pages of the Ages to discuss this.
Mai is still stunned though is attempting not to act it. Did we do actually do it? Will we find we didn't and will that discovery destroy us? What of Randolf... Mai was going to apologize to him for bringing him to his death, but willingly jumping into the portal? What is he running to... or from? And what of Jenny? Who will she be ⚠ <i>this⚠ </i> time we unstake her?
Jenny:
Jenny took the Jet Ski to the Grey Queen. She, Manfred and JT talk with J Star for a long time. Finally, as the conversation winds down, Jenny steps outside. Moving to the other side of the ship, she realizes that Star had dropped something.
A chess piece. The Black King.
She grabs the Black King, and its as if a freight train is now passing by. Things begin to happen, as if in a blur...
I am staked. I am aware of others around me, and I am wet...
I know what happened, what I did. What we all did.
I feel as if some weight I did not realize I was carrying, is now gone.
Something has happened in me, to me, and its not just some new power I have developed.
Somehow, my blood has been changed. I am of a Clan now, but, a Sabbot Clan.
I am a Lasombra.
Some how, when the Old Malk started to come thru J Stars corpse, I gave him something. It was dark, and cold, and it filled a void in him, awoke something within him, that now has some measure of control over him. An Ancient, so long forgoten, that he accepts the name we call him. He is part and parcell with the Old Malk, they are the same, they are now one.
And, I did this.
Randolph is in that relm of Oblivion now. Why, I am not sure, only that I did not stop him because that was the path he has chosen to walk. i can not deny anyone there destiny, now.
And, Mai. Whatever plans others had for me, or Aidens mother, can now only be completed with Mai. And, I believe, that what ever split that came together with me, exists in Mai. Except, her experience will be vastly different, and it may mean...
Well, it could mean a lot.
Manfred. All the blood of his that I took, and now, he has done the same to JT. Does he mean to bond JT to him, since he has an idea what kind of monster JT could be? Off all of them, perhaps could he explain to me just what I am? Can I trust him, of all of them?
Aiden. I no longer need her protection. But, some one else does...
And, who is the White King?
So many answers now, relief of knowing, finally, what I am... yet, so many new problems to be faced. Am I ready for them?
We begin to move, to Manfreds book store. Why, is not clear, but, I think I know who staked me now. Sorry Manfred, I can not let you experiment on me like some lab rat. I'll sit and talk with you all about what has happened, but, no, never will I be a slave to the Tremere. Besides, Manfred, you probbably have a better idea what has happened to me than I do.
Oh, and one last thing. I no longer wish to be called Jenny, not after what has happened. I think I prefer to be called... Jen. Yes, Jen. My mothers nickname for me, when I had been especially bad. Sorry, but with what has happened tonight, I'm afraid all of you will agree...
I am very bad.
(Laughter)
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