Happy Hour

[hoopsonfire]

There's nothing special happening tonight: people are drinking, eating socializing, and of course, there's a bar-person tending the Bar while Bar has her beauty sleep

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[scots_wolf]

"Haven't seen you in a while," Urquhart says, coming up to the bar.

[hoopsonfire]

"Been not here overmuch. Shadows and pestilence, darkness abounds." She finishes the blood substitute concoction, and puts the mug away. "How paths wind about you?"

[scots_wolf]

"Interesting paths, with a dog," Urquhart says. "What pestilence, though?"

[hoopsonfire]

"Someone spreads sickness in the city of angels. The Ivory Tower wishes I'd find the source. The Rabble too." Ah, the normal solution for all of California Kindred's problems: send in the new blood.

[scots_wolf]

"Sickness," Urquhart says. "How would you look for a source of that?"

[hoopsonfire]

"Someone is spreading it." She nods. "On purpose."

[scots_wolf]

"What does the sickness do to the people that have it?" Urquhart asks.

[hoopsonfire]

"Fever, cough, shakes, death. Attracts mortal authorities, and the kindred can not feed." And that is problematic. "Don't feel safe feeding there."

[scots_wolf]

"And that affects mortals, not your kind?" Urquhart asks.

[hoopsonfire]

"I don't know." She leans to the counter. "They say kindred don't get sick. But we can carry diseases from moral to mortal."

...she's talking making sense... "CDC is on the city, putting up quarantine, too much Law around. Strauss thinks the Anarchs are spreading it, feeding sloppily. The Anarchs think the Camarilla is doing it to get them in trouble."

"Going looking for people who got sick first. See where they went, with whom..."

[scots_wolf]

"But aren't they all dead?" Urquhart asks.

[hoopsonfire]

"The shade of oblivion visits not all at the same time. Some carry the pestilence far, others stumble sooner." And, it's gone. "Death, death, the rod of Asclepius kept thee away, but threatens to knock off the masks of tragedy."

[scots_wolf]

"Could I help you with it?" Urquhart offers.

[hoopsonfire]

"Maybe." She nods. "If someone -is- spreading disease on purpose..."

They are not likely to want to be stopped.

[scots_wolf]

"Then they will need to be taken down," Urquhart says.

[hoopsonfire]

"Not let them have fun with pestilence." The vampire nods again.