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[Funk]

it can be un-prius , we haven't put a confederate flag on the roof for add off road power yet.

[Detoxicated]

I don't know, we could be a hippy chick vampire with an e car, yoga, veganism, tantric sex, kung fu and meditation.
Especially the kung fu and meditation could lead to some bad ass vampire powers.

[Ross Vernal]

You've always liked your studio on the top floor. After all, it's filled with items that reflect your lifestyle. It's not just a place, it's home. It's not quite like the house you lived in with your parents up in El Dorado County. Neither is the city, but you like both.  Your parents were hippies - father a mail carrier, mother working at the corner store. For that matter, you would have been called a tomboy at a young age, and rightfully so: when you weren't running around outside, you were doing some sport or another. At least, until you discovered martial arts, and took as many classes as you could find: taekwondo,  kook sool won, judo, escrima, even some krav maga.

So, while you weren't exactly the typical "country girl", it was still in your heart, and you brought it into the smoggy hole of Los Angeles. Well, as much as you could, anyway - a 4WD hybrid vehicle, comfy and slightly dated furniture, and even an actual stuffed deer head from your one (and only) hunting trip.

I think I turned vegan for a year after that?

You look around and consider what you need. You might be safe here for another few hours, but thugs and thralls might just make that an issue once they figure out you're not dead-dead. First thing you need is a shower, and after doing so, you change clothes and start packing everything you think might be useful. You figure you can hit Barstow to the east, Santa Barbara to the vaguely west, La Jolla to the south, or Tehachapi to the north. Assuming you drive fast, that is - just a bit under two hours.

knock knock knock

You look for the nearest weapon and eye the door.

"LAPD, open up!"

The knocking continues. Somehow, you doubt that it's the police, but you never know. You did run from a burning building three blocks away.

Now what?

Spoiler: Gleeson the Cat (click to show/hide)

Gleeson, Cat
Healthy
Full
Unhappy

Spoiler: Jackie Sato (click to show/hide)

Jackie Sato, Traditional Vampire
Perfect Health / Stuffed (11/10 liters)
Dawn is coming in 1 hours, 55 minutes
3/3 days left to find a master or become your own

Inventory:
- Wallet w/$1000 cash
- Your cell phone/Boss's cell phone
- Boss's car keys/Your keys/House keys
- Small bottle of pepper spray
- Escrima stick
- 4.5" knife

Storage:
- Flask of alcohol
- .38 Revolver, 6/6 Shots
- Passport
- 3 days of clothing
- Cat food
- .22 rifle
- 5 50-bullet boxes of ammo
- Yoga mat

Equipped:
- Clean clothes
- Comfortable shoes
- .38 Revolver, 6/6 shots
- Purse

Vamp Skills:
- Enhanced Senses 1
- Time Dilation 1
- Feeding 1
- Superhuman Body 2
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?

Known Skills
- Generic life skills
- Hand to Hand Combat
-- Dodge
-- Martial Arts
--- Advanced Martial Arts
- Melee Combat
- Ranged Combat
-- Small Arms
-- Long Arms
--- Shotgun (Acquired Skill)
- Swimming
- Meditation
- Search
- Directioning

[Funk]

Lets try answering the door, if they haven't got a warrant then tell then to get lost.
keep a gun ready but out of sight in case it's thugs.
(if it's a raid then we don't have much time at all, and should run out the back.)

[Xantalos]

Lets try answering the door, if they haven't got a warrant then tell then to get lost.
keep a gun ready but out of sight in case it's thugs.
(if it's a raid then we don't have much time at all, and should run out the back.)

Do this.
Also, can we turn the cat into a vampire?

[Ross Vernal]

You peep up to the eye hole.

Yeah, unless the police use cheap plastic badges from the dollar store, I don't think so.

After a sudden burst of uncommon good sense, you move back from the door, switch the revolver to your off hand while grabbing the rifle with your main, take off the safeties, and then snarl,

"Unless you have a warrant, fuck off."

Silence for a moment, and then the doorframe rattles as someone kicks at it.

"Open the fucking door before we batter it down!"

I don't think so.

[Ross Vernal]

(I've been to L.A. a few times. Most recently was to see CAKE at the Palladium. Naturally, instead of going around the city, we all went to the park by the Hollywood sign and went climbing.

Thank goodness for Google Maps.)

[Xantalos]

How many are there?

[Ross Vernal]

(Two, in bad police uniforms.

At least, that's what you saw. At least two.)

[Xantalos]

Hm.
Fellow Bay12, think we should risk assaulting them?

[Funk]

No we should take advantage of our house and stay in it for now.

[Ross Vernal]

(They're humans. Once the door is broken, the only thing protecting you is California's castle law.

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/07/22/5-things-to-know-about-stand-your-ground-in-california/

Just don't use those obviously illegal revolvers you stole. Or, y'know, disarm and beat the crap out of them and try out your gaze to interrogate one.)

[Xantalos]

(They're humans. Once the door is broken, the only thing protecting you is California's castle law.

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/07/22/5-things-to-know-about-stand-your-ground-in-california/

Just don't use those obviously illegal revolvers you stole. Or, y'know, disarm and beat the crap out of them and try out your gaze to interrogate one.)

Why don't we try this?

[Ross Vernal]

You listen, take a breath, and spin, your foot whipping around as you envision it hitting the door-busting thug starting at the obvious male weak point and continuing up through to somewhere around his bellybutton. As a vanilla mortal, a nearly full spin kick to the groin, coupled with knowledge of how to kick efficiently would be immensely painful - as a pissed off vampire, it's orders of magnitude worse. When his forward momentum gets added to the equation, the results weren't pretty, but were incredibly satisfying: the poor thug gets neatly lifted off the ground, the air in his lungs escaping in one quick gasp before blacking out on the floor in agony. You're pretty sure that his head bounces off the door frame, but you don't look to confirm: momentum first, investigation later.

You plant your feet, reach out towards the hand holding the gun pointing at you, and apply torsion to the wrist, neatly breaking it. Not wanting to take a chance, you  smash your hips into his lower abdomen as the gun falls, twist, and throw him across your body into the apartment, his shoulder violently and audibly dislocating in the process.

Shit, I hope my neighbors didn't hear that.

With your other hand, you grab him by the hair on the back of his head, yank it backwards, and glare at the man, looking him directly in the eyes.

"Talk."

He tries to look away until you tighten your grip on his hair, and after a few seconds of struggling, his pupils dilate and he goes limp.

"Talk," you tell him again, sweetly, and he starts spilling the beans with a big, cheerful grin on his face, seemingly not noticing the horrible pain he's in. You turn slightly to keep an eye on the testicularly-impaired comatose gentleman in the hallway, who, aside from breathing, shows no sign of anything resembling consciousness. About ten minutes later, Gimpy (the one with the shoulder) runs out of words. You tell him to go to sleep, and after dragging Geldy (the sterile one) in, you strip them both, and apply handcuffs and duct tape so they're not going anywhere.

Well then, I think I'm screwed.

You always sort of knew your boss was involved in illegal things, but maintained plausible deniability. Turns out, he's one of the bigger fish in this pond. Not the Master of the City (presumably, El Vampire-O Grande), but the master of the fourth largest scourge (so that's what you call a flock of vampires? Cool) in town. He knows who you are and what you are, and has contacts in the LAPD. It seems that if you're not dead by tomorrow morning (not this dawn, the next one), your apartment building is going to experience a structure fire, and witnesses will report that a certain Jackie Sato was seen near the scenes of multiple fires in the neighborhood and wanted for questioning regarding a few murders.

Now what?

Spoiler: Items (click to show/hide)

Fake Police Outfit x2
.45 ACP Semiauto 8+1/8+1 x2
4 magazines of .45 ACP
$243 in cash
36" baton x2
Taser
Zip-ties
Duct tape

***

Gimpy, Pistol Thug
Rolled, Moderately Wounded

Geldy, Pistol Thug
Knocked Out, Moderately Wounded

Spoiler: Gleeson (click to show/hide)

Gleeson, Cat
Healthy
Full
Unhappy

Spoiler: Jackie Sato (click to show/hide)

Jackie Sato, Traditional Vampire
Perfect Health / Stuffed (11/10 liters)
Dawn is coming in 1 hours, 44 minutes
3/3 days left to find a master or become your own

Inventory:
- Wallet w/$1000 cash
- Your cell phone/Boss's cell phone
- Boss's car keys/Your keys/House keys
- Small bottle of pepper spray
- Escrima stick
- 4.5" knife

Storage:
- Flask of alcohol
- .38 Revolver, 6/6 Shots
- Passport
- 3 days of clothing
- Cat food
- .22 rifle
- 5 50-bullet boxes of ammo
- Yoga mat
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

Equipped:
- Clean clothes
- Comfortable shoes
- .38 Revolver, 6/6 shots
- Purse

Vamp Skills:
- Enhanced Senses 1
- Time Dilation 1
- Feeding 1
- Superhuman Body 2
- Gaze 1
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?
- ?

Known Skills
- Generic life skills
- Hand to Hand Combat
-- Dodge
-- Martial Arts
--- Advanced Martial Arts
- Melee Combat
- Ranged Combat
-- Small Arms
-- Long Arms
--- Shotgun (Acquired Skill)
- Swimming
- Meditation
- Search
- Directioning

[Tylui]

We need a goal. I want to start our own scourge. We need victims helpers. But I also don't want to be that asshole vampire turning people and leaving them for dead on my office floor with no explanation. I say we find somewhere where vampires are almost revered, and talk to them first; turning only if they accept. Don't expose yourself though, just say they have to believe for it to work or some crap. That way they have no real proof vampires are real until they are one. talk to them one at a time if possible. But for new we need out of the home. Let's go get our car, and see what's in the bosses car, since we have his keys, if we know where it is. His den is likely somewhere near, so we should set up shop at a corner of the city that has little paranormal activity.