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Topic Started: Nov 14 2012, 04:16 PM (1,261 Views)
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The night of the journey underground arrives. Antoine had told the Kindred to meet him in the lobby of the Flamingo, a hotel that maintains as a regency.

The Flamingo is the oldest resort/casino still in operation on the strip. It has a colorful, sordid history rooted deep in the culture of the city itself. However, due to it's age and lack of recent development, it attracts less attention than it did in decades past. It isn't a high traffic tourist area, and the crowds it attracts go there for nostalgia rather than excitement. With the trademark pink color and neon lights ever present, it was modern some time ago.

The lobby is not nearly as busy as that of the Bellagio only two nights past. While Kine still mingle and check in, the numbers are certainly smaller. Antoine sits in a small chair in the lobby, awaiting the motley group. He is as out of place as the other Kindred in this environment, but nobody seems to notice or care.

Once it seems like everybody is present, Antoine stands and leads the group out of the front door. Out waiting is a limo. A driver opens the door for Antoine and the group to enter. Antoine looks at his guests, particularly the Brides. "Don't have to take it, but figured we might as well splurge just the once."

The limo then leaves the hotel, and begins driving towards a destitute part of the city. Those who join in the limo discuss on the way there. Those who choose to drive separately can meet at the next location.
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Taking a small wound and shrugging it off, Sebastian acts quickly. He draws and sinks another blade into the Flannel Man.

He keeps a close eye on Antoine, saying to him quickly. "Don't die over this."
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With yet another blade sunk into his flesh, the flannel man lets out a quick gasp, and is shock to his senses for a moment. "Nnnnnnnnnnnnn......" he moans, before collapsing to the floor with a low thrum as the blades in his back strike the ground.
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Natasha is still attempting to strike at Trina. She knicks Trina along the arm, creating a slight gash in her porcelain flesh, but it's a small wound compared to that which the Coterie has suffered.

Jacky boy snarls as Trina is wounded, leaping to her defense, once again pinning Natasha to the ground.
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The fetid creature on the other side of the room swings wildly as vampires spin around it in a brawl to the end. It lashes out at the nearest moving form, which continues to be Sebastian.

It's continued flailing somehow connects with Sebastian while he is speaking to Antoine. (1 more bashing, Sebastian)

(we're getting to the end of this. Essentially, by the time either Trina or Razor girl drops, this will be over, it's a matter of endurance for the coterie at this point. Dana up again)
Edited by KosST, Dec 10 2012, 03:36 PM.
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Dana joins the rest of the Brides in confronting their once-President. She bounds up the mound of flesh, her own fists still covered in bits of the creature she had pounded into submission. "SIT THE FUCK DOWN" echoes through the chamber as she leaps through the acrid smoke of the brazier; her arm draws back and then releases as she puts everything into a single flying blow. Trina bobs and weaves, taking little of the attack's force (OOC: 1 Success, Spending Willpower and All-Out).
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Salvador's arms act as two, small shields against the pummeling from the man in flannel. When the enemy collapses under Sebastian's blade, Salvador also falls to the ground, shaking and muttering to himself in the darkness.
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Killjoy screams.
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Trina mocks the blows that Dana lands upon her form. Her hair again raises and wind roars through the chamber, causing a flickering of the candle-light. "Poor pathetic Dana... resorted to using fists. You can't replace what you've lost. Never"

Dana also collapses screaming.

"Not with anything, my dear."
Edited by KosST, Dec 10 2012, 08:24 PM.
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Antoine again balances on the balls of his feet, placing himself near Ariadne and Sebastian. "I won't let either of you die down here in my stead." He seems ready for something, but not yet aware of what.

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Whiskey notices Dana fall to her knees screaming. He angrily swings at Trina. "FUCKING BITCH JUST DIE ALREADY!"

He connects solidly with Trina's side, knocking her back a bit and breaking her towering demeanor for just a moment. (2 bashing)


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(Ariadne, you up!)
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Ariadne matches Antoine, half-shoving in front of him again. "She told me to help you. Not fucking helping if you die." The words are quick, almost growled. She makes no further move, her eyes staying on the other woman still.
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Despite being outnumbered by a number of other skilled Kindred, the woman remains engaged in the fight, rather than running away. The same can be said for Antoine and the others. She tries to gauge an opening.

(1-3 - Salvador
4-6 -Sebastian
7-8 - Ariadne
9-10 - Antoine

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The woman leaps towards Sebastian, ignoring the opening she offers the other Kindred to launch a full assault on Sebastian. It is a clear mistake, as she is unable to land her claws on Sebastian. Thus, her back is exposed to Antoine, who in response offers vengeance - for himself, for the group, for any who died in his regency at the hands of Trina. The Primogen is a skilled warrior, and even at death's door he shows that skill.. He thrusts both of his talons into the back of the woman, digging through her chest up to his forearms. He then pulls his arms out, taking a large chunk of her chest cavity with him. The woman's vicious smile fades immediately, and she then falls forward onto her face.

He then looks back at Sebastian and Ariadne. "Told you. I got this."
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Sebastian has little time to reel from what transpires before him. One moment the woman is coming at him, the next her chest is missing. Sebastian nods to Antoine.

"Guess so."

He then turns his attention to Trina, not as worried about the shambling bodies around him. As Trina mocks Dana, he throws one last dagger, hoping it connects to the bitch.
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The dead thing lunges at Ariadne, but she deftly avoids the clumsy creature by stepping over the body of the razor woman. The dead thing stumbles into the chest cavity of the woman, twisting it's foot and falling face forward to the ground. A sickening snap is heard, as it's right leg cracks open from decay, rending the thing unlikely to pose an ongoing threat. (critical failure ho!)

Trina howls as the knife sinks into her. She scans the room wildly, and her imperious composure falls apart. Her servants are failing. "No... no! It is not meant to be this way!"

(Will give a few random rolls to see once and for all if Trina decides to try and finish off Antoine before being dogpiled by everyone)

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The room had exploded into violence. The Beasts from the darkness struck, and nearly brought down Antoine. Dead things rose and fought, though the lack of intelligence made them weak foes. And though Trina could rend apart a mind and will, physically she was outmatched.

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She knew her time was limited. But Brides aren't afraid, so rather than running, she defaulted to rage. IF she was going down, then fuck it, someone is going with her.

Trina wobbles through assaults by Whiskey and Natasha as Dana reels on the floor. She gets hit a bit, but still powers through, charging her way towards Antoine. Antoine had grown cocky during the fight, and the gore of his recent victim made him nearly oblivious to the real, present threat of Trina, who quickly grabs the knife out of her body to wield. Still, a warning comes from Whiskey, and Antoine eyes the arrival of Trina, snarling and lashing out as a cornered animal. She is a blur of movement, of a blade clashing against Antoine's talons. But by some grace of god, Antoine is able to anticipate her strikes, and quickly hops back as she is reeled by another blow from the Brides. Trina stumbles, and immediately Whiskey and Natasha are upon her, pinning her to the ground and trying to finish the job (though other members of the Coterie may join in the coup-de-grace if they feel it narratively appropriate). Jacky pulls Whiskey off and they tussle on the ground, but it is far too late for Trina to turn the situation around.

Trina is rendered into torpor quickly, and the Brides ease off the body once they know it's under control. Jacky quickly scrambles over the body, trying to protect it from any further, irreparable harm. He is a mess, alternating between snarling at the nearest Kindred and weeping openly and cradling Trina's face.

"Please. Please! You can't do this! Please!"



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Salvador had climbed to his feet, still muttering darkly to himself the entire time.
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The shotgun is clutched in his hand, but he steps aside to let the Brides handle the final push.

More whispers.
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Killjoy in turn studies the remaining Kindred, keeping to his not-quite-internal monologue.
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With a grimace he focuses his gaze on Jacky, leveling the shotgun though his finger isn't on the trigger. "Get away from her."
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Ariadne stares at Killjoy, narrowing her eyes. Slowly, she moves back toward Antoine, though her eyes don't leave the other man. Her squinting becomes more pronounced, more obvious, before she breaks off with a growl of frustration.
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Antoine mutters to himself in Greek for a moment, before leaning against a wall nearby the fallen body of Trina. He looks towards the imminent conflict, and shakes his head slightly before instead reviewing the bodies of the two other Kindred that still lay on the floor. He seems to occupy his moments investigating their bodies.
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Sebastian gives a large sigh of relief once the matter is over, taking the time to fix his coat and collect the blades from the backside of the Flannel panted man. Should hold on to these...lucky, he thinks to himself.

He manages to find the blade Trina attempted to use against Antoine. He does not pocket this one, instead handing it, handle first, towards his Primogen.

"Here. A reminder." Sebastian is somewhat lost for words. Genuine concern mixes with personal desire. Is Antoine a friend, or merely a path to power? Either way, his death isn't something Sebastian wants, and he will take every step to remind Antoine to stick around.

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Antoine takes the blade without much pomp or circumstance. "Thanks" he offers, before slipping the blade carefully into a pocket.

He looks towards the form of Jacky on the body. "That ain't gonna go well."

Natasha tries to calm Jacky a bit. "Jacky, look... This ain't Trina no more. She ain't the girl you used to know. You gotta let her go, Jacky. You gotta."

Jacky doesn't respond to Natasha, nor the threat of the shotgun from Salvador. Instead he merely wraps his body more closely around Trina, burying his face against her to hide from the world around him. "No no no no no......."
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Killjoy glances toward Natasha, slowly lowering the gun, but keeping it handy. He continues it under his breath.
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"What do you want to do with her." The questions seems directed at the Brides.
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Dana's screams end when Trina gets knocked into torpor, but she remains huddled in a fetal position for a few moments after the conclusion of the battle. When she does look up, it is with pupils that seem to take up her entire eyes; she glances frantically until she sees Whiskey and Natasha, and her gaze bounces back and forth between the two Brides until something in her seems to subside.

"So... we all made it? Shit... shit," she says to herself, shaking her head and rising to her feet. The grime of the caverns coats her jeans and jacket, the blood of the zombie is still caked on her fists. Haggardly she makes her way to Trina's fallen body and Jacky's pathetic cries. Seeing Salvador's shotgun, she says, still shaken, "He ain't gonna hurt nobody." She turns to the body and joins Natasha in trying to pull Jacky off of it. "Hey, Jacky-boy... fuck, Jacky, you in there?"
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Jacky continues to whimper, clinging like a vise to the torpid body of Trina. His physical attachment to Trina is about the only way of knowing he's cognizant, as he holds on tighter and whimpers louder as the Brides try and move him. He could be pried off of her, but it would require force, and he clearly wouldn't like it.

But it may need to be done, as he's not responding to any attempt to calm him down.
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"Yeah, well who's to say this shit is permanent?" Dana raises her voice, with an edge of desperation. "There could be another Winnowing any day, we don't know. No one knows anything! Maybe it's one asshole casting some voodoo, we crash him and this all reverses! Fuck me..." She sighs, "We ain't gonna ash her, or him, till we know something. Jacky, Jacky, come on, we need to go."
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Salvador passes the shotgun off, hands resting easily at his side.
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He seems to be studying Antoine, as if watching for a reaction.
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Antoine notes Dana's outburst. He pushes himself off the wall a bit.

"Dana, look. I get it. Loyalty. Loyalty is big. It's important. Without it, we fall apart. But your loyalty needs to be to Jacky, the victim in all this. And from the look of things, he's not gonna get better without Trina getting out of the picture."

He offers a casual glance towards the torpid body of Trina. "I'm guessing she wasn't like this before, right? Rebirth did strange things to people. I dunno who she was before, but I know who she is now, what she's done now." He points to the flannel man and razor girl. "That ain't typical, I imagine. So I'm guessing that the Trina you knew? She's gone."

Whiskey nods in support to Ariadne, seemingly already made up his mind some time ago. "She ain't been the same since we got here, D. You know that much as I do. Been riding with her longer than you, and let me tell you - whatever shit she did to Jacky, besides the juice? That ain't the Trina she was before."

Natasha remains focused primarily on Jacky-boy, trying unsuccessfully to call him back to awareness.
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More muttering.
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He places a gentle hand on Natasha's shoulder, his talk turning up a notch, "Natasha, in your heart, you've already made this choice. Find that place in you. What you wanted to do coming down here. Is this what you were looking for? You have them both as they are, fogged and insane. If that's enough, if you can hold out faith that something will change and one or both might find their way back from this. There's no shame in holding to it. But if your faith was in Jacky, that he would survive this slavery, that he would survive this fight. If the choice you make is him over her..." fingers flick toward Trina's form. "Then I believe in you."
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Dana is visibly agitated when Antoine starts to speak, and her response is strained, "No, you look. You don't know how we run our show, I don't know how you run yours. Far as I know, you knock off any Crone's give you beef. But Brides don't got that luxury, especially when we can't tell if what's makin' them crazy can't get broken. She's out of your way, you got your tunnels back, that's good enough."

She then turns to Whiskey, "Yeah, I know you and her go back farther. But, I mean, Whiskey... you really think we can't bring her back? I mean, she's gonna be down for a long time, but we figure out this shit before she pops back up..." she trails off, not seeming entirely convinced herself as the big Gangrel shakes his head in doubt.
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Natasha offers a grim nod with a set frown. She knew this was going to happen the moment she escaped from this room, and from Trina, the first time.

"Dana, she lost herself. She lost herself when she lost sight of things. She went after it too hard. I know what needs to be done."

She rises from Jacky, and looks towards her friend. "Dana... can you... can you and Whiskey get Jacky off of her?"
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Salvador begins to quietly chant in Latin.
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"Amen."
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Dana's shoulders slump as she realizes the rest of her covenant does not share her hope. And here, with her mind still barely holding together from the events of the night, she cannot resist their influence. She nods at Natasha, then at Whiskey. Quietly, "On three. One, two" and where three would be, the two Kindred reach out to restrain Jacky-boy.
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Whiskey and Dana overpower Jacky's desperate attempts to maintain a hold on Trina. He reaches out as the two other Brides drag him some distance away. Whiskey mutters "It's for your own good Jacky," trying to reassure himself and the frantic creature in his arms. Whiskey offers a sad glance towards Dana as they wrestle Jacky to the dirt floor.

Meanwhile, Natasha plants one hand tenderly holding Trina's short hair. She stares into Trina's natural brown eyes, apologizing. "I'm sorry Treen. I.... I didn't know. I fucked up and I... shit....."

Natasha slowly and carefully slices through Trina's neck. It is surprisingly intimate. As Trina's head comes free, Jacky lets out a final, panicked yelp, and then falls limp and then stiff in Whiskey and Dana's arms. A quick attempt to rouse him to his senses fails. He similarly doesn't seem to respond to physical stimuli. It appears that he has fallen into torpor.
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Ariadne turns away for the final severing of Trina's head, but after a moment is back to staring at the Brides and Antoine. Another beat passes before she mutters, "Can we go now?"
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(expediting scene end a bit)

Trina's body begins to crumble into dust. Natasha rips off one the sleeves of her shirt. Delicately, Natasha collects a few handfuls of the residue, placing them carefully in the folds of her shirt, and tying it off. She then places the parcel inside of her jacket.

Whiskey shoulders Jacky into his arms, easily cradling the smaller man. Jacky looks like a corpse, but it's somehow more peaceful than the frantic mewling animal he was before. He walks carefully at Natasha's side, never more than a few feet away, even in the narrow tunnels and darkness.

Antoine again chants to himself in Greek for a few seconds. He then looks to the group. "Ready whenever you all are." He stumbles occasionally while walking, clearly in great pain, but otherwise remains aware and mobile.

The group escapes the tunnels without any further issue. They shoulder past the kine who seem content not to raise any issue of the lack of Roache and the dead looking body. For whatever reason, they seem dazed and confused for a bit, as if waking from a long sleep. When they reach the surface, Antoine walks to the limo, which has still been waiting for the long period they were under in the tunnels. At the limo, Antoine extends his hand to Dana and the other brides.

"I know that wasn't easy, nor what you hoped for. For what it's worth, you have my thanks, and my support." He looks to the rest of the coterie. "That goes for all of you, actually."

The woman who was present before is shocked at Antoine's appearance, and gently eases him into the car. Antoine offers a ride back for those who are willing, taking them wherever they wish to go before the sun rises.

The Brides don't take him up on the offer.


(transitioning out of this, but scenes are flexible. Folks should feel free to move on to new stuff, or continue this scene as they like, but wanted to get other things available. As always, I'm down for whatever)
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