World Of Darkness - Shadows Of Ireland

[Baloth-Kul]

Mumph looked at Kris with some visible concern on his face as he entered the back seat, driver side. "You di'n' think that through, what y' just said, did you?"

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SASS. --Possible implication that Kris would/would have to use his gun on the way there, knowingly or unthinkingly. Or at least that's how Mumph perceived the sentence. Because he'd need practice to get better. So. No, Mumph does not hope you become a better shot from between here and there.

[Kerr]

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Wakefield was already given a Fire Axe and Blood. Hope you don't mind me having Wakefield drinking his blood now. I'll give you some time to chat in the car if you want.

Yes, you can duel wield. It would possibly be less or more efficient, it depends on how you do it. A machete or a hatchet will get stuck if you chop into someone. Having another weapon means you don't have to spend 2-3 seconds pulling it out before hitting again. Hitting with both at the same time though, probably not, it would just make both weaker.

Oh, in response to a question in the GRDT, Cillian is Gangrel. Mina too by extension seeing as she is his childe.

The four Fledglings downed their blood each gaining a blood point. The Prince simply nodded at Wakefield's decision. "We'll see you there then." said the Prince.

The four Fledglings all got in Ash's shiny new Mercedes with Ash behind the wheel. The convoy of vehicles set off with the Fledglings taking the rear.

[Hissien]

Wakefield

"Shot gun!" Wakefield yelled, jumping into the front passenger seat with a mischevious grin on his face. He was obviously faking it, however. The realization that all the other fledglings really were dead had started to creep in. If not for all the blood he had drank he would be feeling pretty low right now.

[Unionhack]

Once everyone was inside the car, Ash pulled out and got on the road. Once they were a good distance away from the Prince, she turned down the music on the radio and took a deep breath.

"Alright, Wakefield, listen to me." she began, considering her words carefully. "I don't know what the Prince has given you or what kind of offers she's made to you, but I have a good idea of what she'll have in store for me and the kid over there once we dust Mr. Butler." she said, referring to Kris. "So here's the deal. We bombed the place under orders from Butler. We weren't told what the briefcase was when we were delivering it, but we were smart enough to guess it was a bomb. Likely that Butler just wanted us as fall guys, so he couldn't be blamed. Whatever the case, Cillian fought back and I killed him. Then I... absorbed him, I guess is the word."

She paused for a moment, shuddering as she remembered the moment vividly. A small part of her felt uncomfortable thinking about it, while the rest longed to feel the rush of such an act once more. "When we get there, he's probably going to spill the beans and implicate us to save his own skin. I bet they have some way of finding out I basically 'ate' Cillian... So here's what I propose. We kill them. We kill all of them. Butler, the Prince, the Prince's cronies. Once we do that, I take over and start setting ourselves up for life. Or, unlife, as it were. We could like kings, you know."

As she made a turn, she noted the moon in the sky (or the lack of it, were it a cloudy night or a new moon) and sighed. "It's either that, or we take our chances and book it. Get out of Dublin, find somewhere else. Either way, me and Kris are dead if the Prince finds out. And death isn't in my best interest. Helping me is in yours. I help the people who help me. And that goes for all three of you."

With that, she fell silent to let the others speak.

[Baloth-Kul]

"Okay." Mumph said, apparently wholly willing to cooperate. "And," he added, wearing a smile now, "I have a plan."

"You have Butt...Butler's phone? Call him. Tell him to get his guys ready. If not, when we get there, try let them know. Wave. Make shooty fingers. Something. Or do that to Butt-ler. When we there, I will start the fight."

Mumph seemed to focus himself, become insular, as if he were searching himself for something. "Yeah. I know what to do. I will start the fight. I will get the sheriff. We need to...team up on each of them, not take them on our own. Too strong, so. Two for one." He pointed at every one in the car, including himself, as though he were counting them. "You, you," he said, pointing at Ash and Wakefield, "kill one of them. Don't care which. Prince or some other ass." "You," he said, now pointing at Kris, "help Butt-ler take out...whoever he shoots. Unless is us." He rubbed his hands together. "I, and my friend, we will take the sheriff." He scratched his chin. "Too many, we might not get the chance to kill Butt tonight. Depend how many holes we have in us. Make sure we good enough to do it."

He seemed to be even more startlingly aware of what was going on, than he ever did before. "Is like-uh-lee that Butt-ler might think he live longer if he kill us instead. If that happens, we are screeeewed. If Butt-ler try to help kill us, we need to run. Out window. Out door. Don't care. Run. Hide. LIVE."

"SO," Mumph said, now recounting his 'plan', "Ah--Ash, try tell Butt-ler. Ash, Wuh...Wakefield, you get one of them. Prince or that [&@%!], or, I don't care. I will get sheriff. Kris? You get whoever But...ler shoots, unless is us. If it is us, we run. And if we still standing when they die, we kill Butler too."

Mumph continued to show his recovering awareness by making demands. "And I need something for doing this, like you said. Help. Yeah. I want to 'eat' one of them too, we get the chance. One of the strong ones. Butler, or, Prince, or maybe sheriff. And...if we get chance...I want to kill the [&@%!]." Mumph scowled. "One who shot me." He thought for a moment as some of what Ash said rattled around in his head. "You take over?" He asked Ash. "Fine. But I want blood. I want eat someone. I want to hunt in the city. I want to live. I want...I want a home."

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KILL HIM NOW BEFORE HE BECOMES TOO POWERFUL. XP

To recap; Mumph suggests trying to communicate with Butler to get ready for this. Mumph will start the fight. He and...his friend...will take the Sheriff. Ash and Wakefield on one guy. Kris and Butler on whoever. If we get the chance, we kill Butler too. If Butler betrays us, we bail.

Of course, you may choose to ignore all that, but Mumph thinks it's a pretty good plan.

[Hissien]

Adderyn

Adderyn's eyes widened for a moment with the realization that Ash had not only committed Dialaberie but also bombed the building. He then quietly sat for a moment, unsure how to respond. [&@%!]. [&@%!]. [&@%!]. was all that filled his head, until he had an idea.


"Well if that's true, then I say we go with the first option." Wakefield decided, looking at Ash in the eye with the utmost certainty. "But how do we do it? Naoise may act like she trusts my intentions, but it's obviously a facade." Adderyn said to Ash and Mumph. "There's a lot of really old and powerful kindred that will notice her absence, are you sure you don't just wanna run for the hills?" He asked the pair.

[Baloth-Kul]

Mumph sighed and recounted his plan with an impatient, tortured tone. "Waaarn Butler, kiiiiill them two on one, drrraaain them, eaaaat them, laaady here takes over I guess. What so hard to understand?" He scratched his beard again. "Run now? They find us. Strong. Smart. Many of them. Four of us. Better kill them now while they think we helpin' 'em. We drink them, we stronger, I think. Then we are old and powerful kinnnndred. Tell other old powerful kindred [&@%!] off."

[The-Shadow-One]

Kris rose his hands up, the gun sitting safely on his lap. "I'm all for us getting out of this scot free but to fight them two on one would be difficult."

[Baloth-Kul]

"One on one is harder." Mumph simply replied. "Two on one, easier. Three on one or four on one or all on one? No, then someone get shot in the back of the head by ones not being fought. One group kill their one, they each help fight the other ones."

[The-Shadow-One]

Kris shifted in his seat, ever careful on that weapon he was given. "Right now we don't need to kill the prince and such, Butler however we do, he can give us all up. And then we are on our own then." He stated. "We could do recon, all of us on Butler then the rest of our time we can work our way to killing the rest of them."

[Baloth-Kul]

Mumph shook with anger in his seat. "Not [&@%!] listening, are you?!" He shook his head angrily, as well. "Butler more likely to 'tray us if we try to work 'gainst him. But if we help to kill Butler, they probably find evvv...ev-i-dents that we--that YOU blew up that place. And then they kill you. And probably me too." He shook his head again, but he seemed calm again. "I know how to kill, how to...survive. We have best chance doing what I said. We need to kill prince and his [&@%!], tonight. And Butler too if we can. If Butler b'trays us, we probably screwed, but we try to run anyway. Better than dying. But he probably want prince and [&@%!] dead too. Better than sitting and waiting and scheming. Why wait? Take them out now, while he has help."

Mumph shook his head one last time. "No time for recon. No time for wait-and-see. We kill prince and such, two-on-one, we run if Butler helps them kill us, or we just die anyway. We might not have helped blow up that place and them people, but they probably still kill us to be sure. So. Two-on-one. Best chance for all of us survive. If you want to run or hide AFTER we kill them all, GO AHEAD AND RUN. But if you run before, they find you, and kill you. If you decide 'hey, maybe I help prince kill me-us, get blood for pay', no. Not work. Either they kill you after, or I kill you then."

He held up his machete and looked it up and down. "Don't be a dumb. Best chance, kill them now. You can run, hide, whatever later, long as it's safe. Not safe while any of these people are 'live. Even Butler."

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Why is the homeless, near-feral Gangrel making just about the most sense. XD

Oh, I know why. Because he's not a complete idiot, he knows how to survive, and how to kill. >3 But ah. If anyone had any designs on giving him political power once this is over, he'd be absolutely [&@%!] at that. Or public relations. Or just about anything beyond hunting, hiding, drinking and killing.

[Unionhack]

After the series of discussion, Ash sighed. Taking one hand off the wheel at a stop, she took her phone in hand and scrolled down her contacts. "I'm calling Butler." she said simply, holding up the phone to her ear.

[Baloth-Kul]

"Ask him who he gon shoot first so Kris help him. Tell him I start fight first; I got sheriff." Mumph advised Ash as she was calling Butler.

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DISTRACTED DRIVING.

Watch us not even have to worry about Butler or the Prince. Ash crashes the car and kills us all, or a human police officer pulls us over, notices how [&@%!] terrifying we are, and opens fire on us.

Although the former is not so likely to occur. I seem to remember another "Ash" who had several car crashes and escaped unscathed. Hmmm. Who could that have been? Where might I have heard this? Oh well.

[Kerr]

Butler was the one who answered the phone. "Ah, Miss Lancaster. I didn't expect to hear from you so soon." said Butler in a very formal tone.

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This is Ireland, Garda officers generally don't carry guns. The vampires bribe them not to I imagine.

[Unionhack]

"Butler, you're in trouble." Ash stated plainly. "The Prince is on to you, she and her posse are on their way to your place right now. They plan to 'arrest' you, and I'm in a position to help."

She waited for him to reply before detailing their plan.

[Kerr]

"And how do you mean to do that?" Butler asked. His tone showing clear nervousness.

[Unionhack]

"I've got the other two fledglings in the car with me, plus one. We're planning to play friendly with the Prince until we can ambush them. Preferably, with your help." Ash outlined. "We've got a gangrel ready to tear a man's throat out here. Between him and the rest of us, we can do some damage if we take them by surprise."

[Kerr]

"Alright, I'll get my people ready. Wait until I say 'enthusiastic,' when I do kill as many as you can and we'll do the same." said Butler.

[Unionhack]

"I'll tell them. Good luck." Ash replied, clicking her phone shut after hanging up.

"Our keyword, when Butler says it, is 'enthusiastic', then we strike with Butler's people. With luck the fighting should thin the opposition one way or another... That's when we play our hand and wipe out whoever's left." Ash told the others in the car.

[Baloth-Kul]

"Enthuuuusiastic." Mumph frowned. "'Butler's people' might just try to kill us when we done killing the prince's [&@%!]. But. I guess wait and see. Le's just get this done."

[Kerr]

As the Fledglings pulled up outside Bulter's home they saw everyone else get out of their vehicles, including a face the Fledglings hadn't seen before, Omar's German Shepard Shelly. There was a single person standing on the steps of Bulter's home, his bodyguard, the one who wasn't Dorian, holding a Glock like Dorian had in his right hand.

[Hissien]

Adderyn

Adderyn, nervous and scared, looked for Naoise. He kept his worry plain on his face so she would hopefully realize something was amis. He fingered his axe and waited for someone to say something.

[Baloth-Kul]

"Remember plan." Mumph got out of the car, brandishing his machete, and approached the Prince's group to join them.

[The-Shadow-One]

Kris sighed and followed after, observing what little gun safety he knew. I doubt adding one more to us is.. gonna help much he thought to himself, standing beside wherever Ash would be.

[Unionhack]

Keeping her shotgun holstered, Ash joined the others, waiting for the Prince's men to confront Butler's.