#jacks prince of hearts headers | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

bloodiedcuriosity · 4 years

Text

Chronicle 1

Note: This chronicle is over a year long, so I will summarize story beats the best I can from Fangs perspective, labelled for skimming ease.

Headers: main story arcs Bold/italics: subplots

Strike through stuff are comments from me the player, not Fang.

Coterie: Fang (Gangrel), Jacks (Ventrue), Udjat (Ministry), Ariyah (Tremere), Alex (Banu)

The Gangs First Mission:

Jacks and I were summoned to the Prince, where we met 3 others to take care of a masquerade breach. Someone frenzied in the middle of a club and we were to take care of the police that responded and the witness at the hospital, the kindred was not our main priority. Me, Jacks, and Alex handled the Police. Loki caused a distraction for Alex to sneak in and Jacks commanded the head detective to head to Brazil, and to shoot anyone asking why. Which is a great idea. We found the evidence and took care of it as well as the 2 other witnesses.

Following some leads that Udjat and Jacks had found as the previous night ended, we found the Kindred responsible, but it looks like someone had gotten to her first. We head back to Elysium as everything is handled and overall we did well and were recognized as an official coterie with domain. Ariyah says there’s ghosts in the apartment we were given though.

The Curious Case of the Thinbloods:

Nothing happens for 2 weeks, I network and gossip at parties. I overhear that there’s a group of humans spreading odd rumors as well as accurate information on Torries and Nos at a bar in Etobicoke. at the end of the 2 weeks, someone is at our haven, an Anarch named Jeremy. He offers 5 more blocks into their territory for feeding as well as phones that have been Kindred proofed (Alex the resident techie makes sure). The humans are operating in the Banu domain, of which we were granted permission to stay in for a week to handle them. Watching the bar Loki and I spot 3 odd acting humans and alerted the others. I had Loki follow the humans home, and to follow Udjat if they split up. We found the homes of the humans and broke in to figure out what they knew and what they had. RED swooped down to collect me while they were finishing up searching the houses, an urgent delivery to a warehouse in Hamilton. I didn’t open the package. Though I really wanted her to. This is relevant info I promise

I met back up with the others in the Banu domain, following a lead for the ones giving the humans kindred info at a homeless camp. A nos named Slash gives us the name and location of three thinbloods at Humber College. They’re having a party tonight so we decide to crash it. I find one of them named Gil and in trying to get him alone/looking at what he has in his room I end up in a threesome because that totally happens, what can I say, Fang the knockoff torrie has her ways. In the process Alex obtains all of their phones and determines that there’s no breaches there, though Gil was interested in Ethan’s disappearance.

A Pillar Collapses:

We learn that Ethan was aware of him being a thinblood and of the masquerade, and sought to connect with the other two, teaching them the masquerade as well before he disappeared. Ethans parents were never aware that he was missing. We capture Ethan and Jacks wants to bring him to Liams (Jacks’s sire), but Ethan would rather go to Elysium or the sun than go to Liams. He tells us all the terrible experiments that Liam has done on him and other Thinbloods. Jacks makes the executive decision to still take him to Liam, and he and the other coterie members fight, and chase. In the end, Ethan makes it to Elysium where in a month he will have an audience with the Prince, as well as the other Thinbloods with Alex as their lawyer. Jacks tells me to go back to the Haven, and he will explain everything.

30 minutes to sunrise, I get hundreds of messages from Jessica (his ghoul) to go find Jacks, but its too late for me to go out to look for him. I pass out in the living room fighting the sun to wait for messages from Jessica. When I wake up the next night, Jessica leaves one more message, saying that he walked into the sun. I frenzy at the loss of a close friend in a puff of feathers. Patches of feathers remain even when the frenzy fades for the night. When I calm down, Alex invites me to go to a meeting with Udjat and Jeremy to talk about the Thinbloods and Liam. A meeting at Elysium is called, they confirm that Jacks is dead, and to confirm the time line given for the trial of the Thinblood that is now in 3 months. Someone under the Sherrif is dispatched to the Coterie named Vinny. After the meeting we go to Jacks’s haven, and find Jessica heavily drinking. I console her, give her me phone number, and convince her to let them look through the haven. I find a briefcase full of pictures of my graffiti on his buildings which makes me cry, I also riffle through his jewelry for a ring and put it on a chain. Ariyah and I have a heart to heart, she knows loss like this. I later gain custody of Jessica, and question the three thinbloods with everyone, as I am the better lie detector. Alex says he has business to attend to and leaves. We go to Ethans parents to try and glean more information, and find that they are missing and have been for a while. Found foot prints and tire tracks but that is more Alex’s forte.

The Beach Episode:

Vinny and I decide to have some bonding time, and spar. He kicked my shit in but I proved my point to him that I could take a punch. Fortitude yeehaw. Udjat and I share blood since he was hungry and wanted some disciplines, we also learn that Vinny is Caitiff, and I wanted presence so you know. RED came and visited, saying someone came to the pack looking for me that fit the description of someone who ambushed me years ago. She doesn’t like it and offers to come with us to look for her. Udjat, Vinny, RED and I go looking for her at a close by conservatory. We find her, we fight and she falls into damage torpor. We take her to the haven with us and talk more but she falls into hunger torpor not giving us anything so we take her to the Camarilla. Ariyah mothers us and RED hits on Vinny and I hate it. Imagine if your mother started hitting on your friend, its WEIRD MAN

The Trial:

Liam gets fucked up for being a lying bitch, Slash is a lying bitch who kept lying and even tried to run away. Liams ghouls were killed, 2/3 thinbloods found innocent, we are given a major boon from the court. An explosion rocks Elysium, 3 bombs have gone off in the city. We were told to go home and wait for instructions. Vinny and I spar again while waiting, he wins again but not as bad. The following days they’re told to be even more careful and to not go near the bomb locations. Jobs for the pack have been cancelled for the next month, RED tells me to tell Vinny something and I am not having it but RED sees right through me and came over. Jeremy comes over and we learn that the man Ariyah saw in her sires library while preparing for the trial is Vigil, the Malk Primogen, and that Jonathan is his brother as well as the leader of the Anarchs. They also learn that the doors to the clubs prior to the bombings were boarded up. He also tells us that the phones will be updated soon. Alex after Jeremy leaves tells us to give him the Anarch phones and to not trust Vigil or Jonathan.

3 Years Later:

There is a remembrance every year for the bombings, RED tells me she mates for life and I realized that I can’t sabotage her and Vinny anymore. There’s CCTVs everywhere, everyone does their own thing. I try to start using my networking to gain some favor to plant the seeds of becoming a Harpy. Jeremy comes over near the end of the time skip, offering us a job to go get a shipment of thermal cameras for them to gain a Major boon from him. The mission goes well, though we had to fight SI, but I had Loki keeping watch and gave us a decent heads up. I take a couple bullets, but otherwise everyone was unscathed.

I keep my ear to the ground about the mission, to see if anyone knows more than they should and all I find is that people know it happened but no one knows who did it or why. The coterie is called to Elysium for a job, Julius Moon (Anarch) needs to be interrogated in connection to the bombings. Another Anarch we’ve kept in contact with sets up the meeting with him. The meeting was a mess, something tipped Ariyah off about his answers, he tried running, even got into Vinnys head to use him against us. In the end, he was chopped into pieces and stuffed into a suitcase to be easily transported as he was missing his arms for trying to fight us. He was brought to Elysium to be held and questioned by us, after I put him back together. He knew way too much. The Anarchs were trying to start a war with the Camarilla, and our Anarch contacts were all involved in one way or another, except notably, Vigil.

War:

Natio entrusts the coterie to deliver the first strike back in this war, granting us the right of destruction to any Anarch. Our job is to take down their main method of communication, the Anarch cellphones, by destroying their servers and bricking their phones. Udjat left, last talking with Ariyah. We scout out the building the Anarchs are using, a building at York University, to find its guarded well by mortals and kindred alike. Alex comes up with a plan and creates something to destroy and erase all the information on the servers as well as brick the phones that are attached to the servers.

The First Strike:

Vinny, Ariyah and I go directly into the building as students, as the servers are in the basement, and scout out/keep an eye out for not students while Alex sneaks his way in. We encounter another Kindred named Bennie, who also seeks to pick a bone with Jeremy. The chaos begins with EDM blasting over the speakers and a pulled fire alarm. The kindred near by burst in, fighting ensues, I get my shit wrecked by feral weapons and bot me and Vinny get wrecked by Sarah with Fist of Caine. Vinny is in damage torpor while Ariyah and I whittle her down to hunger and damage torpor, capturing her, though we later learn Benny took her while Ariyah tried to take her to Elysium. Benny disappears in the scuffle. Everything was so action packed I didnt take good notes, and Fang wasn’t part of the more ‘important’ scenes for the overall story. When the dust settles, the servers are damaged and phones bricked, though not to Alex’s satisfaction.

Cleanup Crew:

The next mission we were given, take care of some of the fighting forces for the Anarchs. The Anarchs were more Gangrel and Brujah, while the Camarilla distinctly lacked them and any fighters, besides the Camarilla Nos. We prepared to go to the Anarch Gangrel domain and smoke them out, napalm and flame throwers included. However upon arrival it looks like the SI beat us to it. It was a setup for us most likely, but Loki and I caught it before they spotted us. On the way back, I hunted. On that hunt I encountered the same bouncer I gave empty promises the night after my embrace. I was shook, he attempted to kill me, but I scared him off, I hope for good. Daunt is one hell of a drug

While we were distracted though, the SI stormed Elysium. We were told by a Nos that Vinny knows, Roach, and he asks us to come with him to kill the prisoners that are being held underground before the SI get to them. We accomplish that, killing some more SI on the way, and killing Sarah and Julius as well. No one has seen Alex in a while.

A new Elysium location is picked and called, the remaining kindred are all over the place in terms of happiness and or nervousness. 4 Anarchs want to switch sides as well. Natio announces that there is going to be a parley between him and the Anarchs, and that the coterie (and Benny) is to come with. It is not intended to be peaceful, no one goes in or out.

Parley:

There are three main figures, Jonathan is in the center, 2 guards inside and 2 more on the outside of the room. He denies having any part of the bombings, and gets aggressive when Natio accuses him of telling the SI where Elysium was. Another fight ensues, everyone killed besides Jonathan and one of the inside guards, he was an undercover Camarilla.

You Reap What You Sow:

The war is over, and things change.

Ariyah is appointed Tremere whip, her sire the new Primogen

I am the representative for the Camarilla Gangrel, not Primogen but still of some importance

Vinny was given the opportunity to Diablerize Alex, for he had tried to leave while we were killing prisoners, and he does, becoming Banu Haqim. He also becomes an official Hound

We all have our own domains as well as the coterie domain. And with that, comes the end of Chronicle 1.

#OC Fang #Campaign: Rebirth #Gangrel #Long Post #Chronicle 1

0 notes

afoolsingenuity · 7 years

Text

Five Thoughts About… Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

This is a slight adaptation to my 5 reasons to read feature. Normally I would give five reasons for you to read a book but I think you should read this play if you’re a Harry potter fan anyway. I also couldn’t find a way to put into words my thoughts on the play, especially as I was only reading a script and that could never compare seeing it live on stage. In the end, I decided the best thing to do was give you a list of non-spoiler filled thoughts I had whilst reading that may help motivate you to get reading, especially if you are one of those readers that gets so excited about reading something you immediately decide to not read it as it can never compare to the idea in your mind. It ended up being five thoughts (well, it was a couple more it seemed fitting to trim down to five).

Also, please admire my fabulous handwriting in my slightly edited header to fit the name change for this post.

Shall we begin?

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – JK Rowling, John Tiffany & Jack Thorne

Published: 31st July 2016 Source: Bought Genre: Fantasy, is Harry Potter a genre? My Rating:

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

It picks up where we left off in Deathly Hallows.

One thing I really enjoyed about the play is that we are essentially going from where we last left Harry & Co and I loved that. It’s like returning to old friends and seeing how things are. I think it needed to be that way so you feel comfortable. I was very nervous I wouldn’t like the play so to begin somewhere familiar was a comfort. I mean, I know the characters are familiar, but there are new ones and the ones I know have aged and growing up can change a person a bit.

It’s sort of like reading fanfiction but not at the same time.

One thing I will say about this play is it feels a bit like fanfiction. I think it’s because I never expected to get more of the Harry potter world. There were brief glimpses of character history on Pottermore but I never expected a story beyond that of Deathly Hallows so immediately reading it I already felt like I’d entered the fanfiction world. Then, some of the story elements just smacked of fanfiction to me as well. That was probably unintentional, I mean, the fandom has explored every potential storyline you could imagine and some you probably had never even thought of so it was difficult for the play to not have elements of fanfiction to it. The voices felt very spot on and I really enjoyed it but I couldn’t help questioning ‘is this really part of canon?’'’ and I can’t decide if that is good or bad.

I loved the characters, Ron is my favourite and that is shocking.

Now, don’t hate me, but I was never a massive fan of Ron. He complained too much and got jealous of Harry for the most ridiculous reasons. No matter how much I reminded myself he was a kid growing up and they get jealous over stupid things, and he is one of like ten million children (or 7) so it sucks feeling like you’re competing with your best friend to be noticed. I get Ron wasn’t being a dick in the books but I find it really hard to forgive his childish behaviour, such as in Goblet of Fire when he took forever to forgive Harry or in book 7 when the Horcrux totally affected his moods. I think my issue with Ron has always been that he realises his mistakes but he struggles to apologise and admit when he’s wrong.

Anyway, this is not a rant about Ron. I actually want to say I liked him so much more in the play. he was funny and a good friend and I loved his relationship with Hermione. And I just really liked him. There were some darker moments in the play and I think Ron really gave it some light-hearted relief when needed. He wasn’t just comedic timing, though. He really cared and I think grown up Ron was everything he had the potential to be and showed glimpses of in the books without the hormonal teenage drama and jealousy which frequently ruined the character for me.

The thing is, it wasn't just Ron. I really enjoyed so many of the characters in this book. I really liked Draco and Scorpius and their relationship. I don't want to say too much, but I enjoyed all the characters we saw, I only wish some people got a bit more page time. Also, the absence of certain characters was strongly felt and I wish everyone got to be in it.

The story was completely unexpected and I liked it.

I think, for me, The Cursed Child was very much shrouded in mystery. I didn’t know what to expect from the play or what kind of storyline it was going to be and I thoroughly enjoyed what I got. I remember the theories which used to bounce around with the announcement of each Harry Potter book title. The ideas about what it means and who will be what. I mean, don’t we all remember trying to guess who the Half Blood Prince was? I liked that they kept it all secret with the play and what it would be about. Everyone was guessing who The Cursed Child was an dit made me all nostalgic for previous release dates.

It was a perfect dip back into the Harry Potter universe and I love that we got this.

Look, people may have their issues with the play, I certainly had a few thoughts about it, but I am so glad we got to bring back the excitement of the previous Harry Potter books. I know it wasn’t whole new book and we haven’t necessarily gotten some of the stories we all want but it was a pleasure to return to a world which feels like home. And the best thing is if you didn’t like it you can ignore it as canon. It doesn’t affect the world we already know and love and you can ignore the exploration 19 years in the future (or the present day world of Harry Potter). I think that’s why it was so mart to do the play in this way, if Rowling had decided to delve into the past and do something then it very well could impact the Harry potter canon and that would be awful if people didn’t like it.

Have you read The Cursed Child yet, or even been lucky enough to see it on stage? What were your thoughts? Are you happy to return to the world of Harry potter or did you want to leave it as it was?

from Blogger http://ift.tt/2bRlKNW via IFTTT

#a fool's ingenuity #books

0 notes