Didn't want to leave you
With the wrong impression
Didn't want to leave you
With my last confession
Of love
Wasn't trying to pull you
In the wrong direction
All I wanna do is try and
Make a connection
Of love

--Natalie Ambruglia Wrong Impression

Have I mentioned that my vampire coterie hates each other?

From my character's viewpoint: Joshua picked a fight with three KKK members and murdered them in an alley just down from her haven. He was then so horrified about going into frenzy and gaining a nice set of alligator teeth that he just left the bodies laying around. My character, being both poor and not particularly strong, was left to deal with the corpses and panicked. She hauled them a bit away and dumped them in the river. However, there wasn't time to clean up or anything, so it was pretty obvious to everyone where they were killed. Had Joshua been less concerned about his mouth or Alexis any use whatsoever (Mucking Falkavians!) then we might have been able to hide the bodies for a while and buried them later out at Joshua's estate.

Anyway.... the murder of these three white boys sparked off a vengance riot where the KKK came in and burned out several blocks of shanty town around my character's haven. Rather than deal with her own guilt about the issue (after all, if she'd done a better job at covering up the murders - which weren't her fault!! - then the riot wouldn't have happened.) Sara's decided to just be mad at Joshua for causing this mess.

On the other hand, her guilt about the issue has led her to do as much charity work as she can over the next few nights - leading prayers for the bereaved and helping to supply food and money to the newly homeless. Which is a good thing and has gained her a mortal who might help her out, a ghost that owes her four favors before his pennance is up, and the name of the KKK leader. Not that we didn't know that already, but it's good to have back-up proof. Now, unfortunately, the word of a spirit is not admissable in court, even in 1872.

Alexis wandered off during all this praying and whatnot and I had a sort of good idea (well, sort of. I'm trying not to question my own motives too much, since the idea will either get us what we need to bring down Major Templeton or get Alexis killed. What am I hoping will happen? I think I'll just move along here, shall I?) I went to track her down.

She was in the company of a young soldier that she's trying to seduce (and completely freaking him out instead, but he's both green and really polite) and I came up to her and started chatting, then absently did an Aura Perception on him.

I botched my roll.

In any case, Sara now thinks there's an extremely powerful, malicious mage wandering around in New Orleans who has started manipulating one of the members of her coterie for whatever dire reasons of his own...

Sara panicked completely and made hasty excuses to run away. It wasn't long past midnight when Alexis - worried about her friend - showed up to ask what was wrong and what happened and...

"Go away," says Sara. "I'm going to bed!"

"But it's only midnight..."

"I don't care," she says with great exasperation. "I have had a very trying day!"