rundown (kinda)
[nb, ooc: I am trying to just kind of do this stream-of-consciousness-as-stuff-happened, if that makes any sense, but I hate present tense so it sounds like I'm telling someone a story, but I'm not particularly. Good? If it's annoying I won't do it again.]

So I was at this con thing that Esmerelda got me into, right? (She's so cool!) And I was looking at the art stuff. And most of the drawings were crap. I mean seriously, they looked like stuff a twelve year old would do. Or would trace from Theyre Favoryte Novel Evar. Anyway, some of the jewelry, on the other hand, was just fuckin' gorgeous. Perfect AND complicated. And I was doing my best to really get a handle on it, visually I mean, but the chick behind the counter was all 'can I HELP you?' and I didn't want to get kicked out so I wandered over to look at some of the less pathetic drawings and who should walk in but Simon Fancyass Osprey and some dude I never saw before. I mean, he was a vampire and I never saw him before - intriguing. So, not like the drawings were holding my interest so I asked Simon if he saw any Toreadors around (one thing those Ventrue are good for is knowing who's around) and he said no (well, first he gave me some minor shit for not being in the show, which, please, like I need that crap, not that anybody asked me to be in it), and I was bored, so they were going up to check out this human thing where they pretend to be Vampires, up on the 7th floor. The picture for it in the program was funny, you know? So what the hell.

Except we get up there and shit is really weird. Like this one chick who was wearing a ton of white makeup? A vampire! Cat among the pigeons, if you get me. So I told Janni (the new guy) because they did say they were looking out for people that were trying to make kids into juiceboxes, which seemed like a good thing to be stopping (though not something I would really expect the Cam to give a shit about, though I guess it would make them look bad or something). And he was trying to give her the ole stern talking to without tipping his hand to the kids (and maybe get her number for later, I dunno) and Jesus, I swear there was a diablerist up there too, but I dunno, I may've been distracted. That Missy chick was ... wow. She was pretty, for all she was vapid as hell. Anyway. Everyone was all angry and it really didn't strike me as interesting and I figured maybe the dealer chick would've relaxed or left someone else in charge of her booth or whatever, so I was going to go downstairs. This redhaired mobster looking guy got off the elevator and I got on.

Going down to the lobby and I felt blood hitting the back of my neck. Looked up and it was dripping from the ceiling. Holy fuck! So I panicked and hit stop on the elevator. Great. Alarms. So I sent it back up to the 7th and thank Beulah there's Janni right in front of the door just where I needed him. So I told him what's up and ... I dunno, I was kinda scattered from the total fucking derailment of the night I was expecting to have, but basically we get in the elevator and he climbs up to check out the scene. Guy can clamber! Also, many handy skills with alarms and locks and stuff. He seems like a good guy to get your back. Nice, too. Treated me like people - usually the clothes alone are enough to send out a good healthy fuck you vibe, but he didn't seem to notice. Right, anyway, I just kept people out telling them there was puke in there while he discovered the dead body. Of course, not like guy could TELL it was a dead body until I came up there and told him but apparently not everyone has my observational skills. Then he called Simon (I guess he's kind of working for Simon? Or with Simon? Something.) and Simon said we had to make it look like a mugging and take him outside because we didn't want to make the hotel look bad and blah blah. So first we went up to the roof (I don't remember why, maybe we were thinking of going to the Prince's place, but we weren't thinking that clearly) and then we realized that was plumb useless and we went down to the basement and got dude into a laundry cart. I noticed Janni is good at keeping things under wraps, though he could have given me a bit more credit, jeez, I know how to keep things quiet. Anyway, guy was FUCKED up. Blood everywhere, it was kind of overwhelming. And then Janni called Simon again because there was blood everywhere (the only time I ever saw blood like that was before I blew town, last time everything went to hell) and no way was it going to look like a mugging. So Simon said to drag him down a few streets and then it wouldn't be the hotel's problem. Whatever, it's not really my problem but this Janni guy is okay and besides I'd gotten the impression the Sabbat is involved (redhaired dude was important to them I guess - and he was around back in 89, I know I remember him) and while those fuckers scare the shit out of me, seeing as they KILLED ALL MY FRIENDS and all, if it is just a few of them refusing to die off I would kind of like to stay here if things are likely to get back to normal. This is home, I guess.

So we ditched the guy and Simon (on the phone) was all 'oh, make sure you tear up the laundry cart so it looks like a joyride' - guy is totally anal - 'and then maybe you can try and find redhaired guy, he just left' and this big Iroc with I don't know who inside came screaming around a curve and so Janni up and shoved the cart in front of it. Which makes total sense although it didn't actually work, the damn cart bounced off. So it stopped and the guy ... IS REDHAIRED GUY. I guess his name is Vlad? Right, so while I was standing there with my jaw on the ground, he hopped back in the car and drove off, shit, there went that plan. I mean, I guess we would recognize his ride now unless he gets that mirror fixed, but otherwise we're not gonna do much about him at the moment.

So I really couldn't be bothered dealing with the stupid cart so we just stashed it at my place and went back to the hotel. I guess Simon straightened out the elevator cleaning issue 'cause he was back up on the 7th floor when me and Janni got there. So Janni started chatting up Missy trying to get her to warm up to him, which was pretty amusing, so she invited us to come talk in her room, and the two of us just kinda followed those sweet hips back into the room and then BAM she'd got a gun pointed at Janni and mister angry janitor guy who had bitched us out about the elevator is all gross looking and between me and the door. AUGH. Plus Missy is all ha ha you stupid Camarilla bitches I am so going to kill you and the dumbass Schwarzenegger knockoff is all "YOU KEELED MY DOMITOR NOW YOU MUST DIE BOTH OF YOU" (he read as a mortal which seemed just weird and I figured I was still thrown off by miss hot thang but I guess since he turned out to be a war ghoul - how's that for fucked up - a human with fangs and practically a fuckin' shell - I wasn't WRONG exactly) and augh. Luckily Janni and I seemed to both have the same clue - get the fuck out of here - so we managed to get out into the hallway and then Missy and her grunt ran off but everything got smoothed over by Simon. I will grant that he is good at smoothing things over. Unfortunately by the time he convinced the con chick (I know I heard her name but I got distracted by her .. um, yeah, anyway) that we were not at fault and she should kick Missy out it was too late and they had gotten away. Sigh. The guys decided they needed to track down some dude they saw talking to Vlad but when Simon tried to get con lady to give him that dude's digits she was all sleepy and cranky and no dice. Janni did get Missy's address from her though. So I guess that's where we are going next. Once I get some blood into me.