Chapter 3: The Masks We Wear

(Originally played 2019-02-22)

Neonates Farah and Janet were summoned before Victor Geisel and met another young Kindred, a Toreador named Rebecca Montagne. They were instructed to stage another attack to draw out the suspected hunter, but this time to target someone whose death would be noticed. On the advice of their fellow Kindred, they went to an upscale cocktail bar, The Blue Room, to seek out a wealthy and well-connected victim.

Before arriving there, Rebecca made a call to one of the mortal members of her herd, Kyra; she brought her younger sister Ilsa along, and they went to the cocktail bar after Janet sneaked into a clothier's shop and stole a new dress. At The Blue Room, Janet set her sights on a well-dressed but slightly boorish man in his early thirties. While she departed with him, Ilsa found a young man of her own, and Rebecca made plans to meet back with Kyra later.

The thirty-year-old man brought Janet to his home, a large but oddly furnished mansion uptown; the walls were hung with rare masks of different sizes and origins. When he made an advance, Janet surprised him and began drinking deeply from him; she let Rebecca in to finish the job, until they were both startled by a sudden blast of loud music from a speaker somewhere in the house. The two neonates departed, and took one of the masks with them.

Returning to the Koga building, Janet presented the mask to Geisel, who identified it as being of Aztec origin. He and Janet discussed the ethics of killing the man - especially in light of Janet's suspicion that he may have been a serial killer, due to a strange tarp being found in a garbage bin in the mansion. Rebecca met back with Kyra and ecstatically fed on her.