BYO: Carnaval - Introduction
Paris, France.
Somewhere under the Louvres, a shrieking cry of pain fills the night... François Villon wakes from his (supposed to be peaceful) slumber... All parts of his body is covered with a bloody sweat... As always, the only thing he can remember is his Sire's smiling face : the beautiful Helena of Troy...
The same night, at the Elyseum :
François looks worried, his Nosferatu informants reported him that Helena, the new primary target on the Camarilla red List is coming back to Europe.
After the events in Montréal Helena was in a hurry to leave the New Continent and even if François knows that it might cost him his unlife, he is pretty sure that when he will be in her presence, he wouldn't be able to fight against their Blood Ties...
That's why he decided to disappear... The Praxis of France is now empty...
With the storms surrounding every move from Helena, the Marquis (equivalent to Princes in France, but all under François Villon's authority) decided to organize a Grand Conclave :
Gabriel, Ruler of Corrèze Denis, Monitor of Caen Jah, Emmissary of Alamut, Nhetic, Baron of Marseilles Petit Reuze, Archbishop of Brussels
decided to offer Bounties for every Kindred ready to hunt the Fiend : the possibility to sire a Childe, to claim a Domain in France, of course if Helena doesn't accept to surrender, the Amaranth, even if distateful, might be sanctioned...
Learning that, Enkidu sent some of his own minions to help Helena fleeing the Camarilla...
The last news from Helena came from the North of France... Why would an ancient Greek goddess go there ? Because of two things : the Carnaval, a period lasting from January to April during which every week the streets are filled with people feasting (and sometimes drinking a lot), all disguised so differently that even Nosferatus can go unnoticed with their real faces... So much easy Blood to gorge upon !!!
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk & http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnaval_de_Dunkerque)
And the better one is Jean Bart, an ancient Pirate from Dunkerque who became corsary in order to save the Kingdom of France from the famine... His presence is as strong and powerful as some ancient local pagan deities...
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The Baltimore Aftermath
The Baltimore Prelude
Greed and distrust drive the in-fighting and factionalizing that threaten to destroy the Sabbat's fragile hold on Baltimore. The Camarilla and other clans watch with great interest, waiting for a weak moment and a grand opportunity. The internal and external pressures are mounting and the arrival in the New World of the mysterious Kindred Semsith signals an inevitable tugging on the strings of power.
Read more about the events leading up to the struggle for Baltimore in the prelude.
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The Baltimore Epilogue
It took nearly twenty days for the great fires to be reduced to thin passionless wisps of smoke hovering over warm ash. Not surprisingly, the city shrugged-off the loss of the abandoned buildings, eager to believe their only purpose was to shelter the drug-addicted and the insane. The arson investigator's examination failed to note the bright white flames and the fire's violent reaction to the dousing it received. The uninspired inquiry raised no eyebrows and the matter was quickly forgotten by the few who even noticed the perfunctory motions being carried out.
The Ravnos who betrayed the location of Isaac Goldwin's haven naively believed the fire would not be set until after he left. His ashes now mingle with burnt timbers and blackened red brick.
Under the chaos of smoke and flame, and the panic it instilled in the Cainite population, hard facts were slow in coming. The majority of the reports that circulated, however, shared a theme: that there were Ravnos in the city reducing even the most carefully hidden havens to cinders.
Malachi, Lladislas, and Victorine Lafourcade each longed to move to safer areas of the city but feared leaving each other's company even more. A shredded corpse and yet another disappearance, the suspicion and distrust canceling at conception any thought that the source of these horrors might be from outside their ranks.
Before the last hot spot had been extinguished, Pier 13 received her precious cargo. From the shadow of a nearby warehouse Semsith emerged, seemingly followed by a darkness that was reluctant to leave his side. He greeted the elder Gratiano, confident that, with the controlled chaos securing the Lasombra grip on Baltimore, he would be more than satisfied.
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