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"Magic?" Kieron's eye brow arched up a bit. "What do you know about magic? But perhaps this is not the time for that. It does seem we are all coming from very different backgrounds to say the least. Ghouls are made when a human ingests a unique style of blood. We will leave it at that for now. I am sure with enough thought the like of you can figure out what I mean by that. Kieron watches Jason closely. He didn't seem entiely worried about this new information. That was a tell that Kieron would have to think on.

He inhaled another long puff of his cigarette as he watched Jason closely. A med kit might work. I don't know much about medical treatments, I was a college professor before life placed me behind a bar again. He let out a deep sigh. Life was much easier back then. Much easier.

Walking away from the car and towards the leader ghoul Kieron kneels down a foot from him. He glared at the bleeding man. I am offering this to you first and only once. You have done it before and if you survive you will do it again. This time though it will be my vitea, not your previous sire. Yes I said previous. And in return for me saving you, you will tell us all we need to know. What say you?
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Jason walks over to the ghoul he thinks has the best chance besides the one Kieron's with. He rips open the guy's cloths around the wound and pours wound powder in them. If it's one with a leg wound he ties a tourniquet, he doesn't care if the guy losses the leg as long as he lives to question. (0 successes....so yea)
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Elijah's brain still spinning to absorb all things happening now. Some human that could hold on themselves against bullet. And they were created? A bartender that seemingly fully aware upon what happened. Elijah knows that there are other supernaturals out there. Maybe these people are part of them?

Elijah's curiosity is piqued, so he approaches Elijah and says while frowning : "I think it is now a good time to tell your story, Sir. And could you ask about the girl?" Amazement or not, Elijah is being paid to search for the girl and deal with the perpetrator. So he needs an answer.

Elijah pays attention toward Kieron, especially after he said something disdainful about magic. Maybe there were more than it looks here.

 
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Kieron gives a small glance up at Elijah as he approaches him. It is brief with his eyes remaining majority on the ghoul before him. He chuckles slightly, still keeping his cigarette firmly between his teeth. "My story? I do plan on writing a book about it all someday. I unluckily must have you wait till I jot it all down and get it published. The bartender gave a large grin, revealing the age that had started to set in before he had turned to a darker path. I'll gladly send you a copy if you give me your address. And yes we will ask about your lady friend. Once this man has made his decision.
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Calliope huffs, conflicted as she hears the others casually discussing the fact that all three men are probably going to die, unless they take up the chain-smoking bartender's offer of... blood? That definitely reeks of vampire.

Even without any medical training, Calliope can tell that Jason isn't doing a great job of patching the ghouls up well enough to keep them alive, so she heads back to the back end of the van, with the two cowering women - although the fight felt like it dragged on far to long, it can't have been more than a minute or two, not nearly long enough for them to get clear - and one of those women looked like a nurse.

"Hey, it's safe for you to come out now." Calliope says, making sure to sound as comforting as possible. "It looks like a PI or something and his team have been following these *******s, and managed to catch up with us, but..." She gesturess towards her wounded shoulder, blood dripping from her fingers as that arm hangs limp - it hurts a stupidly unfair amount. "Things got a little messy, and I was wondering if you could help us patch these guys up enough so that we can get them to the cops, and make sure that whoever is behind this gets caught." She addresses the last sentence to the nurse. As she speaks, she pushes a feather-light brush against the Nurse's mind, aEmotional Urging praxis, free reach spent to make it immediate, no Yantras used so no physical tells for the spell. Also a failure. weak suggestion - not enough to overwhelm her free will, just enough to nudge it... and she can feel as the spell unravels without sticking - although it doesn't show on her face.

"After that, can I call someone for you? You've both had a really rough night, and this is handled - I'll take care of talking to the cops, and you two can get home to somewhere safe, okay?" Of course, Calliope was pretty much lying through her teeth for the last part, but she was better at that than the truth, and she needed these women to believe that the situation was normal - enough - that she could get them on side, without freaking out, going to the cops themselves, or succumbing to Quiescence.

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Kren riffled through the contents of the ghouls wallets as he walked up to ski-mask, guy looking for girl, and vampire smoker guy. One of the guys from the van was there looking a little scared. He seemed to handle himself well enough.

Driver licence, receipts, subway card, 5 more subway cards. Why does one person need so many? Escort service card....

The vampire seemed to be taking good control of everything. He did have a good point about the EMT and the guns. Kren realized he still had some learning to do. If he kept on like this he would be killed by the angels for sure. Then not only would he be dead. Owen would be dead also and no one could fix anything. He needed to be more subtle about what he was. No more guns from nowhere. That he wasn't overly shocked by supernatural was already out of the bag. Changing tactics he decided to try to be more upfront about they fact that weird things were happening and that ,yes, he was already aware that some things existed. It may be prudent to try this escapade again another night. Maybe he could just get the local leeches to do the work for him. He knew it was a threat to their power structure. They would definitely intervene. He only had one problem with letting the Princes handle it. What if they decided the operation was a good idea? They could keep it going. Sure it would ruin one part of the God-Machines plan but Kren wasn't out specifically for that. That was a perk. He wanted the whole thing over so he could quiet his new-found conscious and more people wouldn't die. He decided to not let the vampire have everything his way. Really the more people who knew about this the more people there would be who want to stop it. Let the vampires try to keep it going then. He could stand back and push others to handle the worst parts ensuring that this whole operation was dismantled.
Putting innocents in danger for you own convenience again? Classy... Library card? These still exist? Somehow the most shocking thing out of this night was that any one of these three ever ventured to read anything besides erotic magazines. He leaned in and spoke lower so the nurse and college girl wouldn't hear. Let mage girl deal with them. They were safe.
Oh for crying out loud. He's talking about vampire's. These guys get vampire blood and they can take a few more hits. I mean that's it right? You all but said it. No one freaked out that bad so Im guessing you've all seen s*** to. Can we just hurry this up before something else bad happens.


Business card "Antar the male sword dancer". No gun licence to speak of. These guys are freaks.

Kren figured the ski-mask guy was something. He knew the girl was a mage. He didn't know about the 'guy looking for a girl' or the one who tried the leg sweep but they seemed to not be freaking out. Even if they were totally normal he figure at this point they would know terrible things existed. Better they know so that they can deal and prepare. If they can't, not his problem. He would not be responsible for what happened to them if they knew and failed to take precautions.

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Elijah could hear sarcasm in Kieron's words. But one thing for sure, the guy should have already made up his mind, if not, they wouldn't surrendered, right? Elijah curious what this is all about.

Not before hearing Kren's words, Elijah began to think upon an urban legend. A Vampire? I thought that is just a myth.... He looks toward Kieron with flabbergasted look. Elijah "Are you a vampire?" That would explain many things and if vampires are really exist, then Tammara, the girl that he looked for, maybe has become their meal.

That's a lot to be explained to his client. Would he hear Elijah out or he would just laugh and then decide not to pay?

 
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The ghoul looks up at Kieron. "You want to be my new sire?" he seemed to say in disbelief not quite believing everything that had went down accumulated to this. "Look man, I just... I wanted the vitae and they gave it to us if we did what they said." he seemed to look up at the others apollogeticly.

"It wasn't personal, I was just following orders."

The nurse given the slightest suggestion to do what her life mission called for was soon over the shock and acting by pure reflex moving to get the ghouls in a position that would minimalize bloodloss while she tried to stabalize them. "Someone call an ambulance, we need to get these wounded to the ICU. You over there come here and hold this on this wound." she called to Dan. "I know there's a lot going on, but we must focus on what we can do. Now can you hold this for me, we are going to need to relase some of the pressure." She said handing him a silver tool from her purse. "When I say so I want you to gently press right there with the tip."
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"Thank you, miss." she says, watching the nurse work, examining the ghouls' expressions. Having ambulances actually show up was suboptimal, particularly since Kieron apparently wanted to... she wasn't exactly sure whether what he was offering was morally acceptable, but that wasn't the most pressing point. The most pressing point was getting these two women away, since faking an ambulance was beyond Calliope's current abilities.

Still, she should at least pretend to make the call. Calliope goes to pull her phone from her pocket and pain flares from her shoulder, enough to make her want to vomit as the phone fell from limp fingers - fortunately, it didn't crack on the ground - as the bullet that had visited through her shoulder reminded her of her souvenir with a fresh pulse of blood.

She'd enjoyed managing to forget about that, but on the other hand, it probably wasn't a great sign that a gunshot wound was fading in and out of numbness. Maybe she can get herself sent to hospital instead. Or she should just talk to these strangers, since they clearly have their own plots going at cross-purposes to her own, and everyone really needed to be on the same page before there was even a notion of police.

"You... four." she says, pointing to the scruffy journalist, the car-jumping man, the vampire and the... PI?... who had come with him. She debated about inviting the last one - he seems less-than-usefully incredulous - but at least he seems to have some grasp on the true reality of the world. "Come with me - we need to call ambulances and cops and the such, and I could use a hand" Standing out of the line of sight of the Sleepers, she jerks her head towards the other side of the van, dropping one-handed air quotes around the word 'call'.
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Kieron rolled his eyes at Kren and mumbled under his breath. "Way to ruin my amusement." But there was no reason to get antagonistic about it, he was obliviously being pretty upfront and no one seemed to be getting worried or scared about the whole thing. Not that he would have minded he could be out of here in a flash. As the private investagator Elijiah spoke Kieron just shruged his shoulders. His shrug turned into a gapping grin. Does that bother you mortal? He chuckled slightly before turning back to the ghoul.

"You wouldn't be my ideal choice, but its an offer. Now either way its time for you to answer some questions before I decide I'm hungry rather than forgiving. Who are they, and of what clan? As Calliope spoke the vampire stood up. "I'll give you a moment to think about your answers.

Strolling over he made his way to the other side of the van with some of these new comrades. Arching his eyebrows he looked over each of them. "So you all know what I am, so what are the likes of you? And what are we going to do about this mess. Gunshot wounds and kidnapping usually end up high in NYPD's interest level. And trust me I hate when they get involved, they typically just get in the way.
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"...."

Elijah is speechless. Kieron affirmation just shatter his perception upon the world. He knows that ghost existed, but now a vampire? He lowers his gun and dazedly look toward Kieron. "So... the girls that had been kidnapped.... had ended up as their... master meal?" This is must be a sick joke, right!?

Now he knows why Kieron was reluctant to discuss it when he drive the car. They may crashed unto something when he was shocked. And then he saw the other passengers on the van. Elijah says in trembling voice : "Are you all also vampires? Or... or... their servants?"

He wonders what is vampire life all about. Are they like Underworld, Blade, Twilight or True Blood? One of those vampire movie should quite close to the truth, right?

 
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Kren wondered how honest he should be. Not very would likely be a good choice. He needed help. He was alone and he needed someone to help him or he wouldn't make it very far. That being said he didn't trust these people. Not yet and probably not ever fully either. He was a journalist. That was a good excuse. It's not like they had anyway of calling him on it.
Nah. Im human. Just not my first time meeting one of them. Name's Owen. I was looking into why people kept disappear and praying it wasn't anything like bad. Like vampires. No offense. He added towards Kieron.
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What do you think the red came from in our signature red stout? The amusement at verbally torturing this person was apparent in the vampire's eyes. Sighing he took on a softer tone with Elijah, he did remember when he first learned of the existence of vampires and it hadn't been pleasant. Don't worry it wasn't much, we got to keep the hunger going so they have a few pints and the bar makes some money. The alcohol hides the saltiness.

Turning to Kren he just nods his head for a moment and then lets out a hardy laugh at his comment on his species. No offense taken. I'm not like most vampires, neither is my sire. I was a professor, well known actually, at one point in time. I still teach a night class occasionally but bartending is easier lifestyle with my infliction. Hell it gave me pocket money during my PhD. My sire and myself only care about keeping out of all the conflict, but it seems outside forces are trying to make that difficult for us. The missing people are part of that. I fear they are trying to monopolize the blood industry and we are not very down with that. Unless its a single payer system or something like that. Until that happens which I find highly unlikely with the current situation, it is upsetting a lot of prominent figures in the vampire community and affecting our business. I don't like when people steal my customers. So Owen, mortal, we seem to be in the same boat, at least our goals are. And don't worry I won't try to eat you, I have my sources, and it has still taken me a decade or so to get used to killing someone for sustenance. I will say I've become neutral about it, but haven't enjoyed it yet. Now these things on the other hand... He broadly motions towards the ghouls. I have no issue letting bleed to death. I offered one servertude for information but I know my mistress would take him away so it isn't a very permanent situation for me.
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Jason looks to the others, mainly Kieron. "I'm mostly human, we can leave it there for now. Maybe later I'll explain better." It was mostly true and the easy answer.. "I kinda live on streets & noticed people going missing. I figured I might be able to do something about it. Honestly I was expecting human trafficking, not vampires.

I'm not a fan of dealing with cops, mostly I just leave before they show."
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Calliope raised an eyebrow at Owen, grinning slightly.

"There are more ways to be human than by being a Sleeper. Just like there are lots of ways to be a monster. For my part, I am lucky. More second chances than a bag full of cats, as they say."

"But, I have to admit - whatever advantages I have over the sleepers - I am really not okay with killing people. Even people that kidnap girls to feed to their dealers in exchange for a fix." Her expression is grim as she hugs her injured arm to her, speaking quietly so as not to be overheard. "I would also prefer not to involve cops at this juncture, particularly since if this is some sort of vampire blood-trafficking ring, it needs to be stopped, and Sleepers are simply not equipped to deal with vampires. But I'm not sure what to do to keep them away. I could try convincing the two women to leave - work the nurse angle on that one and make her take care of the other, but if anyone has a better idea, or an ulterior agenda, I think they should share now - at least enough that we aren't accidentally stepping on each other's toes. For my part, I want to get the victims home safely, and stop further kidnappings at the root."
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