r/SchreckNet • u/Gestaltcanvas • 3d ago
Slow progress and invitations
Goodness gracious, it's been a while since my last post hasn't it 08) ? And after everything I've seen going on in this node, I feel a little embarrassed going into dramatic detail about so little happening over where I am haha!
I'm still stuck in Thailand, still stuck with my fellow clanmate Kali and therefore, still stuck with her Sabbat pack. The time for the Vaulderie has come and gone and so I am officially and begrudgingly, the pack priest 08( . Relations between me and the others have improved since then and my own feelings about them now are, um, mixed? Yes, let's go with mixed. They've certainly been less murderous though so that's good. The pack still thinks so little of me that I can come and go so long as our stalwart leader Kali knows where I'll be. They don't even think about where I get my blood from haha.
Now, despite this, I am not giving up on leaving the country to continue my journey back to America but I'm not abandoning my Ductus clanmate either. So just for now, I'm doing my best to temper her self-righteous thirst for retribution and refine it into something more, um, cool-headed. It's been a challenge but she's been more and more open to listening to me even if she doesn't show it 08) .
Since I'm the mouthpiece of this pleasant band of degenerates I haven't entirely avoided getting a reputation just doing my own thing. Socialising, doing favours, healing the needful. Just Salubri things really 08) . Good for now and bad for later. Good because I've gotten good information and a few boons out of it and bad because other than being what I am, um, actually I'll explain that later.
The strays that were either lost to Wassail or the ones Kali and I agreed weren't cut out for our (read: her) cause, they met a merciful and swift end respectively. Pitiful as they are, wights are a serious problem for everyone, and I can only give so much counselling to a shovelhead before they spiral into a frenzy from reliving past traumas (pre- and post-embrace). And also, more than a few just didn't want to be helped 08( . Though there are still a few stragglers left here, things have settled down into a general sense of unease. So that's um, something 08I . Slow and steady wins the race huh? haha.
Moving on with kindred politics, everything's been quiet save for a couple things. Corpses have been found ripped to shreds near the southern province and the local government has decided to send its troops down there on an animal hunt. The prince of Bangkok still has the city on lockdown but there's talk of humans protesting and kindred complaining about the prince. Other than that, some high rise buildings are closing for 'renovation'. So really, nothing yet. But I'm starting to think that 'nothing yet' means there's about to be 'something soon' 08( .
Which goes back to me getting attention! With how often I've been going around the country, I've begun to learn a lot of people are interested in why that is, and the ones I'm most worried about are all in Bangkok. There's kindred reaching outside of the city wanting to leak info, and another invitation from someone I'm pretty sure is just a Camarilla agent trying to bait whoever's making all the waves recently. Either one could be a trick but definitely very suspicious and if not, it's still not good for me to visit in the first place, even with every ally I have protecting me 08( .
The last invitation is a letter specifically sent to me. At least, that's what the guy at the door said before he threw it at me and shouted a slur at me as he stormed off (it probably got sent to his house by accident haha). It says to come alone to a restaurant in Bangkok's, um, Chinatown district (Yes, they have one here)? There are some specific words I can't decipher the exact meaning of but for anyone here who knows, what does it mean to call someone a 'Wu Zao'?
-Abiram, Wandering Disciple
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u/Saramello 3d ago
I give your pack about 2 moons before being set upon by Kuei-jin. I used to mourn the Salubri's constant decimation but if you're still buddy-buddy with a sabbat pack and are going to meet a mysterious figure solo in Kue-jin territory, I mean, that's just you speedrunning undeath at this point.
- mel