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They hear the stories, of Caine, erarchy or ed with Ge hen na Cru sad e to rec laim the graves of the eldest. My take? Either we use the myths D.

He makes a noise like sucking air through his fangs. French Revo- Beckett: We knew each other a long time ago. Yes, she invited me. You missed one of barehand it just now. The Sabbat was getting. The An- Carna did her Houdini. Primogen always been overr. Jacob and Esau. Two Malkavians who s ensur ed stability. One of the good old boys, s ng it a sign of Gehen na.

Lays it mostly of it. Jacob Esau. I got trouble that follows you around. Had she been actin g strange — ago that I was important stranger than usual, in recen t month s?

Decker: Primogen come in two forms. Controllers and of Milwaukee. Just ask the Primo gen. Beckett: This is the council? One destroyed, two hing guerr illa attac ks on the fourth decided to start launc they were marsh aling in Fond du Lac. Sabbat after discovering happe ned until Carna decid ed to start Of course, none of this talking revolution.

Attempting to turn antitribu, I have no doubt. Lucina: For a long time the Sabbat have known where a number of us make our havens, and our most important kine resources. Their attacks have been nothing short of devastating. This behavior from Carna was enough for Jason to openly ask her wheth er her loyalty was to the Sabbat.

Lucina: Carna lashed out at Jason in response. Parovich: We should have ended her there. Decker: She was out of kilter, but one of the first things you learn is not to piss off or on the Tremere. They deal with their own. He done lingered long enough to hear the screams after Victor extracted the stake.

Victo r was scream- ing just long enough for Scott to know to hightail it. By the time he returned with a bunch of my Anubi in tow, Carna and her new arrivals were fixing to leave Milwaukee. Beckett: Did nobody try to stop her?

Decker: The Anubi tangle with shapeshifters every week, and make good on their aims to defend Milwaukee from Sabba t, whenever they can. But these Warlocks? They just wanted out. Carna told Scott they were forming a new family. House Carna was going to exodus their way to the promised land, away from Tremere reprisals. How would a Beckett: But what triggered this change in Carna. No small feat, even for one as old as Carna. This must all tie in to the Book. I guess she just grew tired of havin damsel needs pulled, found a loophole.

You locating and screwing with Sabbat? Least I can do is my boots on. I assure no trouble. As if this city stick aroun d to watch your enough shit to deal with. You run! In my experience Camarilla cities rarely possess this attitude.

I suspect this is one of many havens owned by Carna. Curiosity overtaking me, as it often does, I decided to have a brief wander for the last hour before sunrise.

The cleanup crew did a fine job with the dorm room, and even the library, but not the heretofore locked administrative offices. This pilgrimage is rarely obvious erful relic that acts as a beacon to other vampires.

Clues to the breaking of blood bonds and It would not be unfair to expect Beckett to Clan ties are said to be written within. Its advice rid himself of the Book soon after discovering on the subversion of Gehenna and the Jyhad it. If it entered the hands of a coterie of young greatly appeal to the Gangrel. Supposedly, those vampires, the chronicle following would be un- who read the Book in its entirety are freed from like any other.

But I know the signs of research. I also found a draft letter in the trash. My beautiful dreadful Myca Vykos know my You have never read my words before, yet my hope is you name and afford it respec t.

I do not send this letter to mock or threaten. I will not remain kee overlong, but must be free to travel without interferenc e. I have been am.

Vexingly, I do not know why. What I know from my encounter with Jacob I woke to find him sitting at the foot of my bed is that Vykos is one of the parties responsible for the attack on Milwaukee.

She rallied her new troops and fled, with the Book of the Grave-War. Pathetic, really. I strug gle to keep up. Not like Esau. The bastard has a penchant for the sublime. Beckett: I was hoping you might know something about Carna, and a book she unearthed. Jacob: Oh, the delightful Carna. She was a wonderful agent in the eternal game. Beckett: Why were you not surprised by her departure? Everyone else in the city seems to have been caught unawares.

Not as such. Carna was used, passed around by her Clan, and frankly had enough. She en- joyed the little junkets I sent her on, before having to return to the kennel with that ghastly Victor, and the monstrous Morti- us. You know, Mortius was in with Esau? I belie ve him consumed. Deserved it, the wretch. Beckett: I hate to pull you back on point, but — Jacob: Carna! Oh, she was a precious bird trapped in a smelly cage. Reminded me of a childe of mine. Once, I was pursu ing activities out in the City of Angels.

You know it? I met such a beauty. Despite my age, she was attracted to me! I never saw one so vi- vacious, yet such delicate depths, my lad. Such delicate depths. Such a delight. Esau had to go and ruin it by Embracing her sister. I miss her, though. So many uses. A bishop on the board, as it were. But the game is changing. Esau plays with his closed.

He denies the Jyhad exists. Jerusalem, Athens, Tunis, Milwaukee. Beckett: Decker quoted you on the subject of Gehen na. You see the coming war as one of its portents. Jacob: Esau and I have witnessed Gehenna at least three times.

Athens is mentioned in the Book, you know? When Athen s falls, the depths shall rise. The Book says so. The Sabbat are knocking at the door. I daresay I put a couple there myself— Beckett: I have to interrupt. Two things. Milwaukee is. Carna invited me here to view it, but with her gone —.

The Jacob: Foolish! Milwaukee was known as the Germa stree ts will wake the Methu-. Likely to be of errant bloodlines so far divorced from the 13 these.

Clans that the blood has split, but worth monitoring. Only enoug h. I belie ve she took it with her. I read y. I saw the effect it had at the thing mind. She grew hungry. There flip flops between Esau and I,. His tendrils run deep. And surprised I know so much? I play with an off guard.

Esau hates it. Has something to do with I three Sabba t packs until the docklands. Used them to house tipped off Decker and his Anubi. I believe Carna the Book is Jacob: I know what my pieces relay. If they heard Book says in Milwaukee Carna translated that and the clock keeps worry too much. We contract, we expand, Milwa ukee withi n the night ticking.

Where might Carna have gone? The next res in this is aimed at the havens of the most influential vampi Esau, let alone discussed. Parovich has given them all due to his talkative. And anywa strip ped the Chantry Isis — strange females — have already piece s, but Esau may have bare. Go west, young man. Now been clever there. Carna, thoug a chap and turn the recorder off. Reach out to Smiling Jack and try to find out whether the Free States have received a wave of Tremere.

At first r, for sure it was some elaborate Native American sepulche figur e. The artifacts within clea rly and while not possessing real world value, were crafted by master artisans.

I a kylix. I had a taste, and it was vitae. Old to prev ent myse lf from fled from the tomb and resealed it drinking more. No exaggeration. Methuselahs miliar Clans indeed! After the recording concluded, Jacob spoke on a number of topics. His interest in the dearth of magical energy at Marquette University rivals any Warlock.

His hysterics followed me out the University. It explains my suspicion of Parovich as a traitor, the fullness of the coming Sabbat attack, and the scorched earth policies of this Cult of Isis. That said, turncoats never fail to bait me. Carna se Tremere antitribu Hou seilles Carna? Childe of B countered Two centuries ago I en a was a her in Marseilles. Carn but for many troubled soul even then, destination of months we spoke of the s whenever we our kind.

They were ch from her privacy. I learned mu ation. Its talk of libe been t of Carna that since Embrace had chains of the elders, spoke to a par ok. She cticed rituals detailed within the Bo shackled and tormented.

She pra ned her joys of sex and intimacy. She ope took lovers again, reveling in the t path. Some has shifted so violently in recent tim part still in how her point of view ok of the to be in the ink of the original Bo of the madness of the writer is said. In truth, pt could drive a reader to insanity Grave-War.

If so, perhaps such scri myself. I can only speculate until I ask her. The Ca- pires preying on the kine, awaiting the command marilla are weakened by the flight of the resident to drive south into Milwaukee. Hrothulf now re- Anarchs, yet those Kindred who remain are stalwart turns to Milwaukee to form a guerrilla army of in their defense of the city. The Lupines continue ation, Decker is reluctantly forced to put out a to harass all Kindred on the outskirts, never abating call for aid to his longtime mentor Inyanga, the in a war Kindred fail to understand.

Prophecy — if Gangrel Primogen of Chicago. He offers feeding rights and limited Em- spelling doom for Milwaukee and a new age for the bracing privileges to those who travel to Milwau- waking Methuselahs. The offer is At the center is Carna and the Book of the Grave- tempting to many neonates. Decker knows such War.

Other Kindred in the city when meeting the enemy. Beckett Decker and accusing Parovich of feeding infor- finds evidence that the Warlock at least planned to mation to the Sabbat. The Kindred, now bearing write to the Tzimisce Vykos. What end the potential the letter, have a decision to make.

This letter clash between he and Vykos serves is unknown to pinpoints exactly where the Sabbat are going to Beckett, but the attentions of the Fiend and an army hit, and how they know to do so. The ultimate of Sabbat are now focused on Milwaukee.

This elder wages a war with Anarch, now loyal to the Camarilla — is about to himself using the inhabitants of Milwaukee and be- investigate who triggered the alarm on the execu- yond as his agents, unaware his year foe is one tive suite.

Esau laughs that he placed the run raids of Milwaukee, before having to return Book in the Marquette University to be found by via Lupine-infested towns and countryside. One pack has the order to enter the city, and rapidly assassinate the Tremere before Following are chronicle threads stemming from finding a book in the Chantry to be brought to these flashpoints in Milwaukee, and activities in the Archbishop. As the pack sets out to perform which a coterie may wish to become involved.

Deck- Representatives are being dispatched from as far er has run with the wolves on more than one oc- away as Vienna on assorted missions. Some are casion. Decker seeks vampires, favoring Gangrel, to locate the missing native Tremere of Milwau- to meet and treat with the werewolves of nearby kee, Mortius and Victor. Others are to discover Menomonee Falls. Decker knows the Lupines the truth behind rumors that Carna broke free want the King Distilleries operations in the dock- from her bond.

Her cult hatred for the company — and is prepared to consists of a sizeable number of followers. Such a mission to Lupine territory will spreads fast that the mysterious Book of the Grave- require incredibly brave Kindred accompanying War was, or still is, in Milwaukee.

Practiced Nod- and backing the diplomatic queen of Milwaukee: dists and amateur scholars alike hurry to reach the Toreador Primogen Lucina. The information it con- the Tremere Chantry, before turning their at- tains pertaining to Gehenna, and the secret of tentions on fueling the war between Camarilla how to eradicate the blood bond without the and Sabbat. This vampire hears the whispering vaulderie, entices a range of disparate visitors, voices of forgotten vampires in Lake Michigan.

She has no clear destination in mind, but in-. This is why she wanted Vykos — a vam- until she reaches the Pacific coast.

She knows her pire long known for their rejection of the Clan former clanmates are hunting her and the other founders — to read the Book. Any cepting the enlightenment presented within, the who do so may realize freedom to be an addictive power of Antediluvians and Methuselahs will be drug. A Tangled Weave The events taking place in Milwaukee provide don him to Milwaukee, the Anubi following the as many openings to the opportunistic as they do Anarchs in order to escape the sinking ship.

The chasms for the unfortunate. Little can stop the situ- pragmatic, yet loyal to a fault, Prince is left with ation in the city from reaching a dreadful crescendo, a skeleton crew of questionable trustworthiness.

Listed below are Whether he puts city before Clan becomes ap- inspirations for twisting Milwaukee in more extreme parent on the night of the Sabbat offensive. Carna has always been obsessed with Beck- he soon finds himself hunted by the Sword of ett after receiving his brief affections. She real- Caine. The Sabbat has little use for betrayers. She wrote to Vykos to get revenge on from Milwaukee and has information and wealth Beckett for his tardiness but, realizing the great aplenty.

The idea while others form compacts, steadily Embracing of finally throwing off the shackles of her Clan a new era of childer. Of the routes described in the Book, Carna gion to find out more about the new Kindred seizes the opportunity to diablerize a vampire and, if possible, draw them to their banners.

Through the coaxing of Jacob, ers. His own clanmates aban- spreads they held it even once. When were you in town? Wh al. Landing in Montre bloody Milwaukee. In me. What about that busine beneath Venice? That is a response I can trust. Better to go to locations I loathe or Bereft of air transport, Cesare and I are forced to make travel arrangements through the Lupine-haunted wasteland between Milwaukee and Chicago.

Travel in that space between is treacherous for Kindred, and most go by air. There was, however, an alternative via my intrepid Clan. Prince Mark Decker of Milwaukee and Inyanga, elder and sometimes- Primogen of Chicago, operate a sort of underground shuttle service between the two cities.

Survival, while not guaranteed, is generally agreed to increase exponentially. A trip to the Second City might afford me the opportunities to look into some loose ends regarding both the Book of the Grave-War and the Eye of Hazimel.

Chicago stands as a bastion of the Camarilla, but it shows the stress cracks of years of conflict. Conflict with the Anarchs. Conflict between its puissant elders. It has regrown, in the years since, on its strong, twisted trunk.

The gravity of the U. Another reference to the shadow-sleepers. Frightful reading when you misplace your pen, only to find. Chicago proper was established in , near Fort Dearborn. Then came the Great Chicago. Lodin, of Clan Ventrue, took the opportunity to seize praxis. He was known for his particularly violent clashes with the Anarchs. It was all going so well until he was torn apart, literally, in the war with the Lupines. Out of the vehicle stepped Malcolm, a Clanmate.

I understand he was a narcotics officer, of the kind who go deep undercover and do things that leave track marks on the soul. By the state of his pupils, and the tilt of his head, I deduced he recently supped on someone under the influence of several mind-altering substances.

My driver. At first, our journey brought us south along I Malcolm made odd detours through burnt-out neighborhoods, and consulted vagrants, before weaving back to the freeway. All-night roadside shops blurred by, selling various combinations of cheese, sausage, and pornography.

Somewhere before the Illinois border, we tore away from the freeway. Our route became erratic. We doubled back in places. Malcolm performed odd rituals, like getting out of the car to offer blood and prayers to a roadside memorial, a lonely cross wrapped in barbed wire, dead Christmas lights, and withered flowers.

He consulted neither map nor electronic device. Purely toxicological curiosity, I assure you. Malcolm: Who? Beckett: Pardon? Malcolm: The question is: who am I on? Special blend. That worry you? Beckett: Not nearly as much as it ought to. I see the interplay of chemicals and the Beast boiling in you. Remarkable self-control for someone under the influence. Back at out of your gourd and still keepi ng polit e. Malcolm: Your fangs are showing. Beckett: How embarrassing. Can practi- Malcolm: No shame.

The goblin roads have that effect ogue and grin. Beckett: What brought you to such a hazardous enter [chuckles] Malcolm: Needed something to do. A focus. Fresh air. Was there ever anyth like my life never ended. Guess I was trying to live Beckett: What happened? Realized the War on Drugs was I aveng ing? I was no kille r of killers. Who the fuck. I was a user of users. Still am. Malcolm: Terrified. Beckett: But excited.

Malcolm: Yeah. Still, this is a hazardous pedigree. Beckett: Hmm? Read that somewhere. Out here fear. Even as a another flavor of a ne hides breather.

As a narc. Saw what happens when someo bag son, and the stash of junk inside their living infant s to you. Then I died. I saw worse. Chicago dread cling aroun d your head like Seeps into the pores and marrow. Wraps ed, And the only time I notic cellophane. Beckett: Freed? Had nothing to do with her a month ago. Then cated Casab lanca plots wax. Then I notice, despite overcompli is flowing in choking the city, all the blood in the gutters Then the alley pavem ent turns to one, maybe two directions.

Malcolm: No. Just the wolves and the weird and me. Sudden death in the briar patch , and I keep run- ning. Beckett: I think— Wait. What was that? Beckett: Can you get around? Malcolm: Shhh. Is that the blood y corn? Beckett: Drive. Beckett: Drive! The road only gets weirder. Malcolm drives. I jot down these notes as best I can. I compulsively look back, certain some Grimm boogeyman or black dog is in pursuit.

Insane, really. I myself have played both the black dog and the boogeyman. This fear is In this peculiar wilderness, there is an oasis for the dead.

Volo Bog - Ingleside , Illinois. Malcolm dropped me off at the bog, before driving away with Cesare to refuel. The light flickered under the impressive response of leathery wings. They returned a minute later. I shouldered my bag and proceeded.

The motion, combined with the sloshing of water and the sound of boot to wood, reminded me of walking on the decks of old ships. Sphagnum moss formed a layer over the water, supporting plants and even trees. One could walk on that quaking surface, but one would never know when it might swallow one up.

In that obsidian mirror, I counted two sets of glowing eyes other than my own. Xaviar stared into the water, arms crossed. He glanced up at me with that pinched bat face.

Inyanga perched on the boardwalk railing, as perfectly balanced as a resplendent bird. A sandhill crane called out, a positively Mesozoic sound. Fitting, I suppose, to announce the meeting of three old things. Vitae, like bog water, preserves the corpse indefinitely. Xaviar: [grunt] Beckett: Mother Inyanga, always a pleasure.

Inyanga: Likewise, Beckett. I am pleased you made the journey from Milwaukee in safety. Beckett: Thanks to you.