6/30/2007⚠ <p>
Mai awakens to a call from Randolf asking her ethical opinion as he has a catatonic Strauss in his clinic. However tempting it is, Mai decides to give Randolf decent advice about not killing Strauss and heads to the clinic to see what exactly Randolf has concocted.
JT calls as well and indicates that he has the archons and does not know where to show them around and says Mai's presence is requested. Mai tells him she'll meet him at the cathedral in two hours.
Mai calls Winston to make sure the archons have places to stay. He warns here that there have been "runyins" with people stalking or hunting vampires on this night. He wants to discuss more, so Mai asks him to meet her at the clinic.
At the clinic, there is indeed a catatonic and naked Strauss. Randolf seems to have put him out with our concoction of coterie blood and now he can't resurrect him. He considers offering a vial of Mai's blood but since Mai is present, she suggests equally tasty blood of Jenny, who is not present. That works alarmingly well. Strauss then gibbers that Achadremenos is after Jenny and we have to find her and goes running off naked.
Mai secures a couple vials of coterie blood from Randolf for any issues she may come across in New Orleans and asks about his supply. She advises he may want to increase the supply of coterie blood in the next couple nights as she may be leaving soon. Randolf seems weird about this and shoos Mai off.
In her car on the way to the cathedral, Mai calls Aiden. By some strategic placement of information so that they both have something to gossip about, Mai convinces Aiden to look after Randolf tonight.
At the cathedral, the tour group is just leaving. They want to talk to the prince of Detroit and the prince of Chicago. JT leads us to the prince of Detroit with a little detour at the rubble site from the night before. Strauss shows up here, naked, and Sirrus has little patience for him and stakes him. Mai had told him he should run along looking for Jenny but noooooo...
It appears JT has been keeping Murgatroyd in the infamous box under the Ren Center. He's not as sneaky as he thinks with the key. Murgatroyd is resuscitated and says that he has been serving the prince of Detroit by acting as prince under his orders and that our elders couldn't tell because they are not really elders. Sirrus decides to take Murgatroyd for questioning.
As we leave, Maximo (!!) shows up. He wants to question Murgatroyd before the archons get to and he does some mind tricks on Sirrus to make Sirrus agreeable to this. Apparently the other archons don't speak for themselves and do whatever Sirrus says, so they carry Murg into the back of the bus across from Strauss. The archons and Mai see some weird aura stuff and Mai starts asking them to place Murgatroyd elsewhere on the bus. Again, they neither think for themselves or react. Maximo comes along and joins Strauss's and Maximo's hands. Sparks fly. JT begins to fight with Maximo in mist form to protect the other archons, and as Maximo's facade flutters, Mai sees in his palm a black hand.
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