>>33648483
>3
Why not, doesn't hurt to ask

I wont be able to participate for long, work and all. Hope it picks up for you

>>33648483
4. Make them your mortal servants.

>>33648739
>4. Make them your mortal servants.

How do you go about this?

>>33648768
>Assuming the typical way of feeding them your blood, as popularized by VTM, is sound, then you give them a little taste.

>>33648794

(In this setting, vampires don't actually have blood. Some other vampires have shown mind control type powers, but you have no such ability. If you want to make servants of them, you'll have to convince them & given what happened on the trip here, it wont be easy.)

>>33648852
Ah.
Damn.
This is what I get for not reading the past threads.
Welp.
>1
Kill em all.

We have a tie between 1 & 3.

Will wait for a tiebreaking vote or a good bit of in character reasoning.

>>33648954
>Ask for opinions
It's a good way to get in to the heads of our new companions. What would they do?

I believe MC would likely let them go, unless we knew in particular who was a murderer or general bad guy, then they don't deserve to die.

>>33649043
>3. Ask Yasmin & Albrecht what they think.

You explain your dilemma to them and ask for their thoughts.

Yasmin: "They must die, it is a necessary evil. They have proven themselves to be your enemies and we will be walking into a strange city with no-one we can trust. The last thing we need is to be looking over our shoulders waiting for them to take revenge for their comrades no?"

Albrecht: "It does not sit well with me, they have done as you asked and we reward them with death. Yet Yasmin speaks the truth, we do not know what they may do if we let them go. Mercy is not an indulgence we can afford."

>>33649247
So they both agree to kill them, but would they do it themselves?

>>33649288
>but would they do it themselves?

Are you asking them or telling them?

>>33649463
Asking, I'm kind of thinking this is more a test of their resolves. They decided they should die, but are they able to go through with it? They killed before, in war for one and out of hatred for the other, but these are just regular people.

I'd say just tell them that since they agree they should die, then they should kill them.

>>33649247
Ok.
Kill em all.
No loose ends.

>>33649514
>I'd say just tell them that since they agree they should die, then they should kill them.

You tell them that you wish to see if they have the courage of their convictions and ask if they would be willing to do the deed themselves.

Albrecht but does not seem to relish the idea, but agrees with obvious reservations. Stating that you are right and he must live by his own words.

Yasmin on the other hand disguises her excitement at the prospect poorly. You catch her discreetly licking her lips.

You bid them be fast and thorough, let none escape the ship and leave no obvious sign of foul play in plain sight. They quickly depart to do the deed.

Whilst they are busy, you quickly take stock. You have a considerable amount of cash (the equivalent of 1 million dollars in todays money). The reward from Siduri for services rendered. The only other possessions you have are a few suits and your sarcophagus, which could prove troublesome to get off the boat. It should be trivial to get the vessel close enough for a pilot to come out and take the ship into port but the question is how do you go about getting into the city:

1. Conceal yourselves aboard, wait for the ship to dock, then slip away hopefully undetected.

2. Attempt to sneak aboard the pilot's vessel when they arrive.

3. Attempt to pass yourselves off as legitimate passengers to the pilot and enter as normally as possible. Though doubtless they will have many questions for you to answer.

>>33649772

Should have been an 'other' option in there for any additional ideas you may have. count that as 4.

>>33649772
1

Seems like the least troublesome

Let's unbound action to pocket a forward leap of several feet, in case we need to make a getaway

>>33649772
2. Attempt to sneak aboard the pilot's vessel when they arrive.
We could do 1 if we were alone but i dont know how the other two would able to leave undetected

>>33649772
>4. Go old school on this bitch. I'm talking abandoned ship, dead crew members, the whole shebang. Like a Post-Depression era Dracula.
If that isn't a valid option.
>1

>>33649925
Oh look a trip fag being a retard never seen that before

>>33649950
Hey man.
Rule of cool.
The classics never go out of style.
But regardless, let's just go with 1.
Like anon said, least troublesome.

>>33650025
Nah i think you are right in your original post lets decorate the ship with bodies that have been mutilated and for some reason every corpse has been drained. Its not like people will notice other corpses that have been drained too when we feed again and wont start a hunt for us or some vampire hunters finds out we have arrived. I mean whats the worst that can happen?

>>33650115
Ah, ah, ah.
Whoever said anything about mutilation?
We're elegan/tg/entlemen, not /b/arbarians.

>>33649925

1 is pretty much the same as that, empty ship, creepy sarcophagus, probably a few bloodstains despite your best efforts.
----

After a quick search of the ship you determine the large walk in freezer in the galley is probably the best hiding place for yourself and your offspring. You set the ships course for the island of manhattan as best you can then return to the hold to await Yasmin and Albrecht's return.

They arrive together after a few minutes, Albrecht looks grim-faced and has a few small bloodstains on his clothing. But Yasmin has clearly gorged herself on a great deal of blood, showing the signs of that familiar intoxication. Her clothing, face and hands are totally caked in gore.

Yasmin tells you that they have done as you asked, none of the crew escaped. Their bodies have been tossed overboard at the stern, so that the propellers will shred them into pieces and destroy much of the evidence.

Is there anything you wish to say to them before hiding away in the freezer?

>>33650214
If we are going to do something that retarded at least go all out rather than pussyfoot around it.
Not that it'd change the end result anyway mutilated or not it still rings off all sort of warning bells for regular people and if some hot shot vampire hunter clan wanting to prove their worth read in the national papers about a boat full of drain humans

>>33650308
Nah i cant think of anything

>>33650328
Eh.
It doesn't really matter now, seeing as how the QM has clarified that 1 is basically the same thing.
But yeah, warning bells would definitely go off.
Anyways, on with the quest.
>>33650308
I pat Yasmin on the head for gorging herself now, because who knows how long we'll be stuck in here.
On the other hand, I chastise Albrecht lightly for not thinking ahead and glutting himself full now, when he had the chance.

>>33650308
See if Yasmin can clean herself up a bit. Maybe a change of clothes somewhere. We aren't animals.

>>33650418
Havent we been against gorging our self i mean when we ate an entire village we were pretty shaken up

>>33650587
Well, that wasn't our choice. The Tree kind of made us do that

>>33650418
>Using self-referential pronouns instead of just not including a noun
Disgusting.

>>33650308
Try and find Yasmin a change of clothes, have her try and get as much blood and gore off herself as she can.

>>33650587
We did state in-character last thread that eating in excess for no reason isn't okay, but these men were dead anyway and there's no reason to waste perfectly good food.

>>33650418
Dude we choose regret and are trying to keep our humanity

We should discourage her from acting like that again not encourage it

>>33650738
Annnnd now I'm regretting not catching up in the previous threads.
Time for a quick fix.
>Chastise Yasmin for being a gluttonous pig.
>Praise Albrecht for not being like Yasmin

>>33649897
*You store a forward leap in a pocket of time*

>>33650418
>I pat Yasmin on the head for gorging herself now, because who knows how long we'll be stuck in here.
>On the other hand, I chastise Albrecht lightly for not thinking ahead and glutting himself full now, when he had the chance.

Albrect objects,

"I fed adequately, I simply did not feel the need to gorge myself and tear into the poor fools like a wild fucking animal."

He glares at Yasmin, who gives him a mock pout before laughing at him.

"You seemed to be enjoying the show at the time 'brother dear'."

With all there is to do, you are not in the mood to endure bickering.

"Enough! Both of you, go through the cabins and find some clean clothes, Yasmin wash the blood off of your face. Then both of you meet me in the galley freezer, we will hide there until the ship docks."

They quickly obey and a few minutes later you are all concealed within the freezer. After awhile you feel the ship turning, likely being steered into port by the pilot. Finally it comes to a stop.

A few minutes later you hear footsteps and voices. There are several men in the galley outside the freezer, from the words that you can make it out it appears they are local police searching the ship.

What do you do?

>>33650782
hump the children us and the sarcophagus forward till there done searching

>>33650782
OP, literally only one guy wanted to chastise or praise either of them.
He had no support, literally the only replies to his post were insults or doubts.

>>33650927
What.

>>33650944
And I changed it to chastise Yasmin, and praise Albrecht.
Cause, y'know.
Better to go with the one who didn't gorge, since we want to be as human as possible.
And I second that "What".

>>33650927

I dont really understand. (Also the sarcophagus is still in the hold, not in the freezer with you.)

>>33650782
Stay in the freezer until they either finish searching or come inside.
If they come inside, kill them; if they go away then take the opportunity to get off the ship and onto the dock.

>>33651042
Neither of them needed to be chastised or praised, is the problem.
Yasmin didn't do anything wrong, those men were dead anyway and wasting their blood and flesh would've been worse.
Albrecht fed sufficiently, and we know that we aren't going to be in the freezer for too long.

>>33651086
I see.
Welp.
I dun fucked up.
Also, I second that plan.

>>33651047
o the just us and kids

>>33651047
Hey if we are holding onto someone then time stop can we move them with us?

>>33651086

Meh, it gave us a snippet of insight into their character and relationship with each other.

>>33651042
Don't feel obligated to just go along with what the MC has been doing so far, call it as you see it within reason.
Both the MC and elder vamps in general are supposed to be a little mentally unstable so the quest can accomodate some erratic behaviour.

Helios, given that we created Albrecht and Yasmin and they have the potential to develop Chronomancy on their own. Can they move on their own or be moved by us under the effect of our time stop ability?

>>33651246
Will do, anon.
For now though, sleep is calling.
Stay classy, /tg/.

>>33651217
>>33651246

You don't know, however it would be simple to quickly test it out, so you do.

You discover that whilst they cannot move under their own power whilst time is halted (yet), their minds are fully aware. Furthermore you can move and affect them.

Your grasp of Chronomancy has increased slightly and you now feel a little more confident in it's use. (You're a step closer to either unlocking a new ability or improving an existing one.)

>>33651362
Grab both of them and money wait till some guy opens the door, we time stop drag them to the coffin do the same but with the coffin in tow and get off the boat, find some place safe to resume time and make a plan on where to stay the night.

>>33651472

The only objects you can move whilst time is stopped are small things on your person (clothing etc). Something as large as the coffin is not possible (yet). It would be trivial to carry your children though.

>>33651535

Open the freezer door gently, so that it might appear that it simply drifted open on its own. Then stop time get ourselves and the kids off the boat and a safe distance away. We'll have to get our coffin later.

>>33651535
What if we do that bar the coffin thing and come back for it latter when they left the ship?

>>33651602
>>33651587

You gently nudge the freezer door open enough that you could go through then you employ your ability to step outside the flow of time.

Whilst the world is frozen you pick up Albrecht and Yasmin and quickly get off the ship. There are numerous men in uniforms gathered about on the dock and more appear to be arriving.

You go to a small alleyway behind a nearby warehouse, well hidden from the view of the police. Then you put your children down and step back into the timestream.

They are both clearly impressed with this display of supernatural power and curious as to how you did it. But you have no time to explain now.

(Like you, Albrecht & Yasmin will learn more about Chronomancy the more they are exposed to it and will eventually learn to use it themselves. Additionally as their understanding grows, they will be less and less affected by 'shadow out of time' to the point where they are able to move about freely whilst time is frozen.)

Now that you have landed in Manhattan, what do you want to do first?

1. Find whomever rules the local vampires and introduce yourself.

2. Seek out a place for you and your children to sleep during the day.

3. Wander around abit and ask some general questions of locals to get the lay of the land.

4. Other.

You have about 6 hours until dawn.

>>33652110
>2. Seek out a place for you and your children to sleep during the day.
>3. Wander around abit and ask some general questions of locals to get the lay of the land.
They seem to go hand-in-hand.

>>33652141

Just finding/breaking into some place to sleep seems risky and theres only so much you can learn about a city as complex as NY in a few hours.

I'll go with 1. Our cover identity as some long lost member of the second generation is still a big deal in vampire society, we'd probably be treated like royalty.

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>>33652110
>Mfw we stop time

We Void now.

>>33652110
Find a decent place to stay, tomorrow we can gather info and decide on where to set up our base of operation.

The local vampires can fall in line or be crushed. No need to rush it, they are not a pressing threat, so just deal with them as they show up.

Any excess time should be spent fortifying or concealing our temporary place of residence.

>>33652110
>2. Seek out a place for you and your children to sleep during the day.

>>33652110
2. Seek out a place for you and your children to sleep during the day.

>>33652110
Find the best spot in town, take it and anyone who tries to stop it can go get fucked, we are the king of the hill.

Holy shit
>Wake up
>One retarded trip who hasn't even read this quest is making all the decisions due to lack of participation

Why must retarded things always happen to this quest?

>>33652487
Sorry, I missed the last thread and had to catch up.

>>33652487
Only one of his decisions got through, and that was more due to OP deciding to throw it in because it wasn't mutually exclusive with what everyone actually wanted.

>>33652715
Several people actually voted against it. I guess the OP looks at the reply count, not the actual replies.

Conscious of the time, you head deeper into the city to find a place you can sleep. After two hours of searching you have discovered three potential options.

1.Central Park. There are numerous bodies of water deep enough to conceal you and shield your progeny from the sun. There is also something instinctively comfortable about sleeping in fresh soil surrounded by plant life.

2.Derelict hospital. You notice a hospital that appears to be derelict, it is flimsily fenced off and has structural damage and many broken windows. Albrecht informs you that most hospitals have extensive basements, which would serve your needs nicely. He also states that it likely has a few vagrants seeking shelter within.


3.The sewers. A disgusting but practical option. Sunlight would not reach you, however the smell would permeate your clothes and doubtless draw attention when head up to the streets.

4.Keep searching/Other.

You have 4 hours until dawn.

>>33652805
1 cause nature and shit

>>33652805
>2.Derelict hospital.

>>33652805
Hospital.

Use our spare time fortifying it.

>>33652805
>2.Derelict hospital.

>>33652805
Pimp my abandoned hospital!

>2.Derelict hospital.
The size of the building and the potential offered by a large basement level strike you as ideal and you decide to make it your home, at least for now.

As you walk around the perimeter looking for a discreet way inside a nearby drunken vagrant calls out to you.

“If yer thinkin bout looking for a place to sleep in there, turn yerself round. It’s haunted or cursed. Mebbe both. Got friends in there went in, never came out. City Hall likes to pretend it aint there, knows better than to go lookin inside. Go back if you value yer lives.”

What do you do?

1.Continue on regardless
2.Turn back and go elsewhere
3.Continue on with caution, search the place thoroughly before getting comfortable.
4.Other

>>33653283
well looks like we found some vampires
1

>>33653283
>3.Continue on with caution, search the place thoroughly before getting comfortable.

>>33653283
>3.Continue on with caution, search the place thoroughly before getting comfortable.

>>33653283
3.

>3.

The three of you cautiously make your way inside.
The interior of the building is a mess; debris, discarded furniture and fallen masonry litter the hallways and the electricity and water supply have been disconnected. There is some evidence that the premises have known human habitation recently, a mattress and a lamp set up in a corner with a few empty bottles of alcohol. But there is no sign of human activity now.

You reach out with your sixth sense.
There is a presence here, another vampire. It is somewhere below you but the presence is fuzzy and indistinct; you cannot establish exactly where it is or how strong it is. It is as though this vampire is muffling their aura somehow to avoid detection by its own kind. Neither Yasmin nor Albrecht can sense it at all.
To the best of your knowledge, this is not an ability that a young vampire is likely to possess.

Do you...

1.Seek out this presence.
2.Avoid it, try and set yourself up in another part of the hospital.
3.Try to get its attention.
4.Other

>>33653805
>2.Avoid it, try and set yourself up in another part of the hospital.

>>33653805
1.

>>33653805
>1.Seek out this presence.
We doesnt want him hurting our children, so maybe call out telling him we can sense him and ask him to leave no need to be a murder hobo about this

>>33653805
>1
No reason we can't be civil

You make your way downstairs to the basement levels; you are forced to search room by room due the strange muffled effect. Eventually you find your way to a large room which looks as though it was once the morgue but now appears to have been converted into some kind of study filled with books and papers.

The rooms sole occupant is a male vampire, sat a desk with several books open in front of him. He appears to be in his forties and has the bald pate of a Christian monk and wears simple brown robes likewise in the style of a monk. Now that you are closer you can sense his aura more clearly. You’d guess that he is between 600-800 years old.

When you enter he quickly rises to his feet.

“Honoured elder, forgive me. I was distracted and did not sense your approach.”

He gracefully bows low and remains bent over, awaiting your acknowledgement.

What do you do?

>>33654518
Greet him and ask if he mind us staying here for a while
When we get set up we need to own new york

>>33654518
Ask what he's reading.

>>33654518
Introduce ourselves and inform him that we will be taking up residence in the hospital for the time being and wished to meet our new 'neighbor'.

>>33654654
I like this the best

hell we could take L.A. too

>>33654654
>>33654757

You introduce yourself and your progeny and inform him that you will be taking up residence in the hospital for the time being.

He introduces himself as Domitius and is extremely accomodating, telling you that whatever is his is of course yours. He expresses suprise at you being here as he had believed himself to be one of the oldest of your kind in the city.

He shows you a room adjacent to his makeshift study where there are several large bathtubs filled with soil. He sleeps in one himself and brought the others down here in case he ever had guests, which he very seldom does.

He apologises that these basic quarters are all he can offer you.

Dawn is rapidly approaching, is there anything you wish to ask of him before you sleep?

>>33654654
yeah this is a good action

>>33655190
Ask him who made him a vampire.

>>33655190
Ask him who sired him.

I'd like to ask about the local politics, but I doubt there's enough time left in the night for him to explain it in any detail.

He tells you that he was sired by a vampire named Xatia in Constantinople during the 12th century, she was one of Csreka’s progeny. As such he is a fourth generation vampire.

> I'd like to ask about the local politics

He would be happy to tell you all he knows of the local political landscape tomorrow night, though he himself tries not to become involved so he is far from an expert.

You begin to settle in for the dawn and lie in your soil filled bathtub trying to ignore Albrecht and Yasmin whispering to one another at the other end of the room.

You are the first to awaken the following sunset (it appears that how early a vampire wakes corresponds to their age and power). You likely have a few minutes before Domitius rises and longer still for your progeny.

What do you do?

>>33655985
Scan over his books to see what they are about

>>33655985
See what is the largest object you can move in time stop

>>33655985
Peruse his library, sure, why not.

Look for anything suspicious

>>33656240
Or see what happens when you throw an object in time stop

>>33656133
>>33656267

You have a quick glance over Domitius library. There are a huge number of books old and new covering just about every subject imaginable, however the bulk of them seem to be devoted to occult topics.

>>33656240
>>33656336

You decide to do a little experimentation. You step outside of time and try to move a few inanimate objects that are not on your person, unfortunately you are unable to do so. Then you try something else, you take a coin from your pocket and toss it forward. The coin travels through the air for two feet or so as normal then simply stops, it slowly continues rotating. You can feel some kind of uncomfortable discharge building around it. Bolts of energy arc from the coin like an electric current then the coin simply vanishes.

Your understanding has grown, but you feel as though you are meddling with powerful forces you do not understand.

You return to the normal flow of time to ponder what you have just seen. Whilst you are doing so, Domitius awakens he greets you.

"Good evening Anon. Please forgive me if I sound rude or presumptious but may I ask you a personal question?"

You bid him continue

"Who are you? I know your name but I have not heard it before. I have been in the presence of the eldest of the second generation and your aura is comparable to theirs. I am something of a historian of our kind, it vexes me that I have not heard of one so old."

1. Truth
2. Politely decline to answer
3. Angrily refuse to answer
4. Lie (please state what you would like to tell him.)
5. Other

>>33656845
>5. Partial Lie
>"You have not heard of me simply because I was imprisoned shortly after my transformation, even my own siblings didn't know of my existence until recently."

>>33656845
>4. Lie (please state what you would like to tell him.)
Tell him that we were warped and defiled by a group of vampire hunters. Through a stroke of fate we were free by vampires who killed the coven of hunters

>>33656845
>>33656966
this but change even my own siblings didn't know of my existence until recently."

to almost no one knew

then pump him for history information tell him we have missed much

>>33656966
>Update
second

>>33656966
>>33657128
>5. Partial Lie
>"You have not heard of me simply because I was imprisoned shortly after my transformation, even my own siblings didn't know of my existence until recently."

"Interesting, very interesting. So you were sired by Mother. If I may, when did this happen? How did you come to meet Mother, why did she turn you?"

1. Politely decline to answer
2. Angrily refuse to answer
3. Lie (please state what you would like to tell him.)
4. Other

>>33657302
>4
The reason for my turning is...complicated and sensitive. Maybe one day I will share it with you.

>>33657302
Just tell him she was your lover.

>>33657302
>4. Other
There weren't such things as dates when we i was sired, she was wondering into my village and we spoke for a time then she turned me

>>33657382
Naaaaaa

>>33657302
I am not sure when it happened other than a very long time ago

And I have no idea why I was turned >>33657385
this is good to

>>33657385
I think this gives too much away. We never have let people know even ballpark how old we are

>>33657490
But it tell them shit all, we could have been sired in a very unadvanced culture

>>33657302
>"It happened a long time ago, I don't know exactly when."
>"She came to my village, we talked and enjoyed each others company."
>"I made a foolish decision and was fatally wounded, she turned me to save my life."

None of these are lies.
OP's probably already started writing, so posting this is likely pointless, but eh.

>>33657358
>>33657385
>>33657433

>I am not sure when it happened other than a very long time ago, the reason for my turning is...complicated and sensitive. Maybe one day I will share it with you.

"Regardless I thank you for telling me. I have made a great study of Mother, trying to separate the truth from the mythology. Uldin himself once granted me an interview... I know more about her than even some of her own progeny, yet there are so many mysteries...."

Whilst he is in the middle of his sentence, a loud droning sound fills the room, builds for a few moments then suddenly stops as the coin you threw earlier appears in the same spot it vanished from and falls to the floor.

Domitius stares in suprise "What is that?"

What do you do?

>>33657726
The last one is a lie though. We became a vampire before her.

>>33657785
"I have the power to summon money."

>>33657785
Stop time, pick it up, step back in to place, unfreeze time and say "What is what?"

>>33657785
I think i broke something
How can we weaponize this?

>>33657831
Lol, this is good. Do we have a sense of humor?

>>33657785
>"I was...experimenting, earlier, with my powers."
>"They are rather esoteric, and, evidently, full of surprises; you'll forgive me if I don't wish to reveal more than that about them, for obvious reasons."
>"Never thought I'd see that coin again..."

>>33657793
I thought she rose before us and accepted the deal to become vampires from the tree on our behalf, but I might be misremembering.

>>33657831
This please

>>33657831
>>33657944
>>33658032
We need to become a scenery chewing large ham to put our enemies off guard and amuse our allies

>>33657863
>>33657785

You have discovered a potential new ability: *Banish* - The ability to send an object or potentially a person from the present into the future. You will need to devote some time to practice and experimentation before being able to use it and meddling with such forces is not without risk. Whenever you attempt to learn this power a roll must be made:
90+ will unlock the ability.
50+ will reduce the difficulty of the next roll to learn the power by 10 ie you will unlock it on a roll of 80+ next time.
0-49 triggers a temporal anomaly, the lower the roll the more severe it is.

>>33658013

The exact circumstances of what happened to whom in what order when you and Kassa were turned is not clear due to The Pale Tree manipulating the perceptions of all involved.

>>33657831
You turn to Domitius and matter of factly tell him.

>I have the power to summon money.

Domitius seems uncertain how to respond, whether to laugh or take your statement seriously.

Fortunately for him, your progeny awaken and give him a way out, as he quickly turns and greets them.

Now that everyone is up, what do you want to do with the night?

>>33658351
Discuss how we want to take over the city, im all for going to the most wealthy businessmen try to intimidate them into servitude

>>33658351
Check out the nightlife.

>>33658351

On second thought I'm getting kinda tired and this seems like a pretty good point to stop for this evening.

Hope you all enjoyed!

Will probably run part 13 next weekend. I'll lurk around for abit for feedback Q&A etc

>>33658660
Cheers for thread OP

>>33658812

You're very welcome, thanks for playing.

>>33658660
Great as always. Thanks a lot. Sorry I wasn't able to participate as much as I wanted, work and junk.

>>33658660
Thanks for running, OP.