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Dwarmin and Giglamesh
Whilst Rick sleeps Harry works tirelessly. (14+3) He makes a number of calls to a number of contacts, and by morning there is little left of the man Rick once was. In his place sits a John Ivans, a local shop worker until the troubles hit. His boss was a donor, and killed in the ensuing chaos. John too was killed, but records have grown sparse enough now that his identity can be filled. The two men look similar enough for an ID photo, and even have similar dress habits. The scar can’t be hidden, but in these times a new wound is easily enough overlooked.
 It will take until morning for the various documents to arrive and be edited, but when they do, Rick will leave the bedroom to a new name. The old Rick is currently staying at an apartment on the other side of town. Investigators can pull on a lot of favours in a short time, and landlords are always useful.

Remuthra and Criptfeind
 (11+2+1+1) A huddled conversation between the two men leads them to the conclusion that the site of their last raid would still be a danger zone, and so they slip into the night to the second nearest hospital, another couple of miles in the opposite direction. The signs clearly show the location of the blood bank, where the lights are still on. In fact, there appears to be some sort of struggle going on inside.

Joben
The girl remains stubbornly unconscious despite your best efforts, but you do find the offending item nearby - a shattered bottle, one of the shards stained crimson, which you cast into a corner.
 (12+2) Looking around, you snatch down a cable tie from a nearby shelf and form an improvised tourniquet. The bleeding slows significantly, but not completely, and the girl shows no sign of improvement. Your colleagues have already left, and don’t hear your yell. However, she should live through the night in her current position, or at least long enough for you to move her.

Spoiler: Remuthra (click to show/hide)

Name: Jimmy "Twitch" Walkman
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Group: Vamp

Luck: 10/10

Strength: 1
Agility: 2
Dexterity: 1
Intelligence: 2
Charm: 5
Willpower: 2

Perks:
+1 Knives
+1 Conning
+1 Computers

Difficulty: I may have had some, erm, dealings with some people who are quite keen on my repaying certain, ahem, debts. Look, it's just a little misunderstanding. Even if they had it in for me, I'm sure we can clear this whole situation up. Just- Just forget about it, alright?

Blood: 1/5
Craving: 0
Ability: Lucky Break- This character has a knack for getting out of sticky situations. If his well-being is threatened, he can choose to roll twice instead of once, picking the best results out of the collective dice pool, twice per day. (Instead of rolling 3d6, the character would roll 6d6 and add together the three highest results.)

Inventory
Pocket knife
Handwritten repayment note

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Spoiler: Joben (click to show/hide)

Name: Randolph Carter
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Group: Normal

Luck: 10/10

Strength: 3
Agility: 2
Dexterity: 3
Intelligence: 2
Charm: 2
Willpower: 1

Perks:
Crafting/Common Tools - Professional skills from his hands on job, he knows his way around a toolbox and various metalworking implements.
Edged Weapons - He's a knife maker, even without much pre-crisis fighting experience he was intimately familiar with most bladed objects. Now-a-days he feels twitchy if he doesn't have one or three.
First Aid - A sensible person person with his line of work and outlook doesn't neglect learning how to stop bleeding, he's added in CPR and other basics.

Difficulty: He has an anxiety disorder. He can handle acute danger fairly well, but sometimes freaks out if he has time to worry about things. Medicine, catharsis or companions to talk to call all help, but he'll always worry.

Inventory
Parang
Iron file

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Spoiler: Dwarmin (click to show/hide)

Name: Harry Jones
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Group: Normal

Luck: 10/10

Strength: 3
Agility: 3
Dexterity: 3
Intelligence: 3
Charm: 0
Willpower: 1

Perk:
+Guns/Harry is skilled in the use of a firearms from his years in service. Against a raging Vamp, you often only get one shot.
+Investigation/He long ago became accustomed to hunting for lawbreakers-background checks, collecting evidence, the works. He's noted Vamps tend to leave a messy trail that's easy to find, since they have no fear of consequence.
+Chemistry/The IOD had longer than most to actually study the Blood before it became a pandemic. Harry was at the front of this, looking for a 'cure'-either to make donors insoluble to Vamps, or to strip Vamps of their powers-or, at least a compound capable of injuring or killing them very quickly.

Difficulty: Harry is currently looking for a friend, one he once shared a romance with-his old partner Veronica Blue. She was knee deep in a dangerous Vamp disappearance case, having followed much the same path Harry did after they went separate ways. Now she's gone-and, he needs to find her.

Inventory
Pistol (6/10 - loaded/total)

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Spoiler: Giglamesh Despair (click to show/hide)

Name: Rick Haggard
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Group:Donor.

Luck: 10/10

Strength: 2
Agility: 5
Dexterity: 4
Intelligence: 1
Charm: 0
Willpower: 1

Perks:Karate: +1 at combat when he has no weapons in his hands.
        Parkour practioner: +1 at jumping, running, climbing that sort of thing.
        Evasive +1 at dodging attacks.

Difficulty: His brother disappeared into hiding soon after this all began. Rick doesn't think he's dead: and he's desperate to find a member of his family still alive. Rick's ex-girlfriend, Sarah, is also hunting him in particular, and isn't too fussy what she destroys along the way.

Inventory
Stab jacket
Climbing gloves

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Spoiler: Criptfeind (click to show/hide)

Name: Arther Penn
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Group: Vamp

Luck: 10/10

Strength: 2
Agility: 5
Dexterity: 4
Intelligence: 1
Charm: 0
Willpower: 1

Perks: Knife fighting. Athletics. Stealth.

Difficulty: Addiction: Blood is simply the latest in the long line of drugs that Arther has taken during his lifetime. Anything that can give a rush or a buzz, or better yet a promise of increased physical performance (or best yet, all three) has probably passed his lips, gone up his nose or been injected into his veins. Not only have the physical effects of this taken their toll on his body, causing addiction and a wrecking parts of his mind, but financially he has been ruined, and is now deep in the pocket of a number of dealers, from the lowest of street pushers to the highest of kingpins, he owes favors and is tied by need.

Blood: 1/5
Ability: The tainted flesh. Arthers body is deeply tainted by powerful drugs, from the roughest of heroin and meth from the street to the most refined experimental drugs synthesized in the most advanced laboratories. With the blood bonded to him and to it he can metabolize it impossibly quickly and thoroughly, abet at great cost to his body.
 Can expend luck or blood at will. Gain a +1 bonus to a roll for each point of blood or life used.

Inventory
Butterfly knife

[Dwarmin]

Harry had only gotten two hours of sleep, but he was up at 6 sharp, hot coffee in the pot, clean shirt and a tie-reading a newspaper. Rick's new file, or 'John Ivans' was waiting on the table.

Now to wait for his comrade to rise from the dregs of night, he thinks to himself.

[GiglameshDespair]

Rick woke, still bone-tired. He hadn't slept well, and during the night had read the files as a distraction. He lumbered into the room, showing none of his normal dexterity. One hand clutching his face, he fumbled for the coffee and poured a mug. He thumped down at the table and pulled his new identity to him. He muttered an incoherent greeting to the detective.

[Joben]

Carter's mind spins out for a few seconds. 'I don't like this, it's weird. Who is she? What was she doing here? What happened to her? ...This is a bad place to be hanging around with only questions to keep you company.'

Reflexively he reaches back and tugs on the handle of his parang, popping it in and out of the modern style kydex sheath that's slung across his back. It's a nervous habit; it makes a slight pop sound as the handle slides free of the molded material and another when it goes back in. He finds it oddly comforting, like clicking a pen, but better. *pop pop pop* He secures the blade again, decision made: 'Move first, figure out later; can't leave her.'

Carter hauls the girl up into a fireman's carry on his left shoulder. "Common miss, we can't stay here."

Walk out of bloodbank, not too fast, can't get tired.

Cellphone: Harry Jones

"Harry, this is Carter. I found a girl injured in the blood bank on <location>. Unconscious. Appears to have slashed her own wrist. There were vamps in the room with her, but I didn't see them touch her. I don't understand this. I think I need to take her to <location of doctors> to get her patched up. But you know how corrupt they can be these days...if she's a donor this could end badly. I figured someone should at least know where I was...Are you busy?"

If out of blood-bank without incident: Go toward medical services. the clinic Harry suggested, look keep an eye out for followers.

[Dwarmin]

"Looks like you had a rough night." Harry says, taking a long sip of coffee.

"Your new name is John Iv..."

His cellphone goes off at that moment-the ringtone sounds like The girl from Ipanema...

"One minute..."

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He listens a moment.

@Carter:

"You know me, Carter. I'm always busy...but, I'll help if I can.

There's a little clinic on the corner of Shiron and Mulligan, in the blue building-room 17Y, 3rd floor. It's a quiet place, and they don't ask alot of questions-they only deal in hard currency. Take the girl in through the back, up the stairs. Ask for Kathryn Pettigrew, she's usually on staff this time of week. And if you don't have the cash on hand or if she's being onery, just tell her Harry will pay her back, and I owe her dinner. That usually calms her down...

And make sure you're not followed. If you think someones on your six, call me back. You got all that? I can meet you somewhere if you need me to."

[GiglameshDespair]

Rick slowly clawed his way to coherence. He flicked open his new life and read it while Harry talked on the phone. When he'd finished skimming through he kicked his feet onto the table and looked directly at Harry.
"Trouble?" He scratched idly at his facial scar. "And yeah, I don't sleep well lately. Shit. Slept better in prison. What's the plan?"

[Dwarmin]

"A friend of mine found a girl injured in a blood bank. He's trying to get her some help.

Give me a moment."

[Joben]

"Shiron and Mulligan, blue building, third floor room 17y. Sharon Pettigrew. Got it. Thanks, I owe you one. I'll be in touch."


As he rang off Carter wondered if he was being overcautious. She was probably just some poor soul who couldn't handle things anymore. Probably the slightly odd circumstances of her discovery meant nothing. Probably the public hospital would be fine. Probably no one would follow. Probably.

Carter once knew a man at the gym, a big fellow who could deadlift 250 kilos. He figured he probably wouldn't get attacked walking home at night even though he was a Donor. Figured he was probably strong enough to take care of himself if he did. He was fine through the first troubles. Then he wasn't. No one had seen Big Aaron in six months.

'Probably' was fine if it was a 5 pound bet with friends. But a lot of men made 'safe' bets with their lives and lost. The churchyards were full of them. At least those who's bodies were found. Best to be cautious. Carter looked around carefully as he headed out.

((btw, does Harry drink?))

[Dwarmin]

((@Joben: Surely, but not to excess. Harry is a man who has made a conscious/unconscious choice to avoid most vices in his life due to his feelings against vamps.))

"Alright. Be safe, friend."

Harry clicked the phone shut.

He turned to Rick.

"...anyway, that's one emergency averted. I've got some leads to run down today on our cases. You in? I could use an extra pair of hands."

[GiglameshDespair]

"Sure. I owe you anyway."

[Dwarmin]

((All right, at this point the 'game' starts and I'm not sure how much I or Sjm should do. Running down leads probably runs into GM plot territory? I've already finagled some points earlier, but no word on them-but, I assume a clinic could be found anywhere and the information is just window dressing.))

[sjm9876]

(( Yeah, that's all fine. Was just waiting on the vamps. 2nd PM time, I'd say. ))

[GiglameshDespair]

((I'm going to be away or the next ~36 hours. Just assume i lurk around behind Harry or something.))

[sjm9876]

Dwarmin and Giglamesh
 (14+1) With your contacts, tracking down anyone who isn’t a normal comes easily. One in particular gives you a name - ‘Josh Trae’ - a vamp who was involved in a the disappearances of a group of researchers a few months back. Further enquiry even gives you a place of residence, an apartment block on the edge of town about half an hours walk away. The clinic to which you directed Carter is only slightly off route, too.

Joben
 You make it to the clinic without trouble, the few people you do see quickly averting their gaze. (10+2) Your luck holds with the doctor on duty also, whose initial suspicion is overcome by the youth of the girl. The man even offers to look after her himself, and leave you to get on. There is no paperwork to fill out, and no questions asked.

[GiglameshDespair]

"So we got a lead. What's the plan?"