09-30-2013, 09:30 AM
Despite the skill and prowess shown when helping take down a pair of lupines, anyone who looks at Vee can tell the Tzimisce has not the form for combat. Tall, slender, ethereal, that is truly the weakest person in that room this night. The Tzimisce does not even have basic hand to hand skills. A razor? That's a different story, but Vee is not using a razor on their childe tonight. Not here, not now.
Even so, this is Vee's childe, Vee's responsibility. Not a problem, though, never that. Vee may not have the physical skill, but they are vampires. They have other abilities, other strengths. Vee's lies in their blood, old, powerful, potent, filling the Tzimisce with a supernatural strength with each step forward.
With a loud KLANG! KLangrattlerattleclang the rod falls to the floor and clatters away as the Tzimisce steps in to aid childe, brother, and the critiquing Brujah. Vee steps forward, wraps those long slender arms around William's waist while Flood's shadowy companions hold back his arms, while Flood himself comes to their aid. Because even without the rite of the Vaulderie, they have the pack mentality. They key is that they work together, aiding each other to forward their personal agendas or at least not getting in the way of them. They have no need for commands or orders. It's been so since the night they met, when Flood came hoping to claim Vee's dead childe's domain for his own. The partnership is unlikely, but it works.
Vee strains to hold back this new childe as he rages, so that when Bertram, self-proclaimed outsider to the sect he pays lip service to, who agreed this pack was not for him, who stands back and judges the rituals of the sect and this clan, when he steps forward to lend his assistance, Vee all but laughs when he attempts to advise William while they struggle to hold back the powerful childe. Vee's childe, driven to madness by this new world in which he's found himself perhaps a step before he was truly ready.
"Do you think he can hear you?" Vee asks, digging in, pressing forward with one more step that holds the giant in place.
Eventually, William calms. Vee's grip relaxes, until it is finally released and the figure steps back. Looks down at the childe now tested and marked True. He rises as he was commanded what seems like hours ago, but was in fact mere minutes. He moves to stand straight, fully a foot taller than his slender Sire. He doesn't know what's "right" here, but he picks it up fast. Flood adds his blood to the lupine chalice first. Then William. And finally Vee.
And when Bertram makes to join them, Vee, fangs still bared, blood still dripping into the bowl, looks at the Brujah with mild curiosity.
"What do you think you're doing?" And then, "If you take one step closer, Mr. Kohl, I will rip your skeleton from your skin as I did the lupine, and I will leave you that way until some kinder soul decides to put you back together." Lifting their pale wrist, Vee licks the wounds closed, and offers the bowl back to the Cardinal to complete the rite.
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niko @ 8:45AM
[I HALP!: restraining Billy-buddy, straight strength (no brawl), -3BP to strength, WP because EEP!]
Roll: 5 d10 TN6 (1, 5, 5, 6, 10) ( success x 3 ) [WP] VALID
niko @ 8:45AM
[and again, -3BP again]
Roll: 8 d10 TN6 (1, 2, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 10) ( success x 5 ) VALID
Joey @ 8:53AM
And witnessed!
Even so, this is Vee's childe, Vee's responsibility. Not a problem, though, never that. Vee may not have the physical skill, but they are vampires. They have other abilities, other strengths. Vee's lies in their blood, old, powerful, potent, filling the Tzimisce with a supernatural strength with each step forward.
With a loud KLANG! KLangrattlerattleclang the rod falls to the floor and clatters away as the Tzimisce steps in to aid childe, brother, and the critiquing Brujah. Vee steps forward, wraps those long slender arms around William's waist while Flood's shadowy companions hold back his arms, while Flood himself comes to their aid. Because even without the rite of the Vaulderie, they have the pack mentality. They key is that they work together, aiding each other to forward their personal agendas or at least not getting in the way of them. They have no need for commands or orders. It's been so since the night they met, when Flood came hoping to claim Vee's dead childe's domain for his own. The partnership is unlikely, but it works.
Vee strains to hold back this new childe as he rages, so that when Bertram, self-proclaimed outsider to the sect he pays lip service to, who agreed this pack was not for him, who stands back and judges the rituals of the sect and this clan, when he steps forward to lend his assistance, Vee all but laughs when he attempts to advise William while they struggle to hold back the powerful childe. Vee's childe, driven to madness by this new world in which he's found himself perhaps a step before he was truly ready.
"Do you think he can hear you?" Vee asks, digging in, pressing forward with one more step that holds the giant in place.
Eventually, William calms. Vee's grip relaxes, until it is finally released and the figure steps back. Looks down at the childe now tested and marked True. He rises as he was commanded what seems like hours ago, but was in fact mere minutes. He moves to stand straight, fully a foot taller than his slender Sire. He doesn't know what's "right" here, but he picks it up fast. Flood adds his blood to the lupine chalice first. Then William. And finally Vee.
And when Bertram makes to join them, Vee, fangs still bared, blood still dripping into the bowl, looks at the Brujah with mild curiosity.
"What do you think you're doing?" And then, "If you take one step closer, Mr. Kohl, I will rip your skeleton from your skin as I did the lupine, and I will leave you that way until some kinder soul decides to put you back together." Lifting their pale wrist, Vee licks the wounds closed, and offers the bowl back to the Cardinal to complete the rite.
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niko @ 8:45AM
[I HALP!: restraining Billy-buddy, straight strength (no brawl), -3BP to strength, WP because EEP!]
Roll: 5 d10 TN6 (1, 5, 5, 6, 10) ( success x 3 ) [WP] VALID
niko @ 8:45AM
[and again, -3BP again]
Roll: 8 d10 TN6 (1, 2, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 10) ( success x 5 ) VALID
Joey @ 8:53AM
And witnessed!