On the Sheriff's trail - Conclusive part 3
And it all comes down to this.
The vampire team decides on taking Chiara's horrified advice of using their planned retreat tactic for moving forward, so Hans and Dom use potence and celerity to carry the others on their shoulders, running from the possible tentacly threat deeper into the sewer as fast as they can. Their chosen path leads to another hole in the wall after a few kilometers, behind which is a small basement room with eight empty coffins. Looks like Snow white and the Seven Dwarves might be home. Silently C, Dom and Hans with some skill in moving stealthily, sneak upstairs to find a vast industrial warehouse. Further back, up a flight of stairs, is an office, and C recognises the four characters hanging out inside it to be vampires. On one wall of the hall is a shrine with skulls and blood on it, but the drag marks lead outside, to the opposite direction. Still, the trio comes up with a quick plan to overpower the Sabbat members in the office.
C uses dementation on one of them, and the maddening voices soon make him delirious and tormented enough to jump out the window, Hans running after him to finish the Cainite off with his sword. The Caitiff uses potence to jump through the floor of the office like a Jack-in-a-box, shooting at three of the surprised bastards, killing one of them instantly. The racket lures the Warlock and the little Necromancer to see what's going on, and they're just in time to see the rest of the surviving Sabbat vampires executed. They can barely express their appreciation, when four more foes barge through the doors of the warehouse. thinking quickly, Walter uses his powers of Thaumaturgy to shoot a fireball (!) at the attackers, one of which catches fire and another suffering rötshreck, running away in panic. Chiara shoots at the burning man-torch, but the Cainite Priest next to him dominates Walter with a simple command: "run", which the Tremere does, scuttling to the basement, through the hole in the wall and off to the sewer. Hans hurries after the escaped Sabbat pack member to stop him in his tracks, and Chiara decides to take revenge on the smugly smiling dominate-user with his own medicine. Another simple command, "Hug him!" is issued to the burning man, who opens his arms wide and approaches the priest with loving intentions. At this time, only the two remain alive from the pack.
The priest tries to avoid him, making a desperate man's attempt by dominating him into falling on his knees. As the fire finally gets the best of the poor soul, the sabbat pack priest barely escapes returning Walter's second fireball by submerging himself into shadows of obteneration. He uses their cover to run to the night. The Concubine, who has not taken part in the fight, has instead made use of her time by closely examining the office with a gaping hole in its bottom. She comes to the worn-out quartet with presents she's found; Sabbat ritual books, one of which has a strange list of names, out of which some have been crossed over, leaving only eight.
Even with the team having then burned down this Sabbat communal haven and soon sitting in Dom's car, Chiara happily reading the ritual books, our heroes are taunted with the knowledge that they let one of the Pack-members escape. One which can easily identify all of them. At least now they knew who had taken the Prince, if he still was, indeed, alive.
The vampire team decides on taking Chiara's horrified advice of using their planned retreat tactic for moving forward, so Hans and Dom use potence and celerity to carry the others on their shoulders, running from the possible tentacly threat deeper into the sewer as fast as they can. Their chosen path leads to another hole in the wall after a few kilometers, behind which is a small basement room with eight empty coffins. Looks like Snow white and the Seven Dwarves might be home. Silently C, Dom and Hans with some skill in moving stealthily, sneak upstairs to find a vast industrial warehouse. Further back, up a flight of stairs, is an office, and C recognises the four characters hanging out inside it to be vampires. On one wall of the hall is a shrine with skulls and blood on it, but the drag marks lead outside, to the opposite direction. Still, the trio comes up with a quick plan to overpower the Sabbat members in the office.
C uses dementation on one of them, and the maddening voices soon make him delirious and tormented enough to jump out the window, Hans running after him to finish the Cainite off with his sword. The Caitiff uses potence to jump through the floor of the office like a Jack-in-a-box, shooting at three of the surprised bastards, killing one of them instantly. The racket lures the Warlock and the little Necromancer to see what's going on, and they're just in time to see the rest of the surviving Sabbat vampires executed. They can barely express their appreciation, when four more foes barge through the doors of the warehouse. thinking quickly, Walter uses his powers of Thaumaturgy to shoot a fireball (!) at the attackers, one of which catches fire and another suffering rötshreck, running away in panic. Chiara shoots at the burning man-torch, but the Cainite Priest next to him dominates Walter with a simple command: "run", which the Tremere does, scuttling to the basement, through the hole in the wall and off to the sewer. Hans hurries after the escaped Sabbat pack member to stop him in his tracks, and Chiara decides to take revenge on the smugly smiling dominate-user with his own medicine. Another simple command, "Hug him!" is issued to the burning man, who opens his arms wide and approaches the priest with loving intentions. At this time, only the two remain alive from the pack.
The priest tries to avoid him, making a desperate man's attempt by dominating him into falling on his knees. As the fire finally gets the best of the poor soul, the sabbat pack priest barely escapes returning Walter's second fireball by submerging himself into shadows of obteneration. He uses their cover to run to the night. The Concubine, who has not taken part in the fight, has instead made use of her time by closely examining the office with a gaping hole in its bottom. She comes to the worn-out quartet with presents she's found; Sabbat ritual books, one of which has a strange list of names, out of which some have been crossed over, leaving only eight.
Even with the team having then burned down this Sabbat communal haven and soon sitting in Dom's car, Chiara happily reading the ritual books, our heroes are taunted with the knowledge that they let one of the Pack-members escape. One which can easily identify all of them. At least now they knew who had taken the Prince, if he still was, indeed, alive.