#Does rhsi make any sense

[eric-the-bmo]

Blood and Silicon ep1 recap except it's copy/pasted from me texting my friend about it

[context, he knows about Blake/Pauline/what happened in Leo's 0.5 so uh. no context is here bc they knew about it. Anyway lets go]

Ok ok SO: Scene is the Asylum: Pauline is at the best spot that overlooks everything, and Blake is beside her; despite being told he can go wherever, he's staying by his boss. Harrison enters, with Leo following behind, and greets Pauline and introduces himself to Blake. He introduces them to Leo, and Pauline asks if Leo is Harrison's childe. ("No, but our kind has to stick together! Maybe if you got out more, Pauline, -you- might've been the one to find him!" She raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Was he doing something?" "Oh, you know how fledglings are! Right, Leo?" "I don't know what that is.")

Harrison lets the three get acquainted and gives them the gist: we all know he's the Baron of Downtown San Jose. And, if we do some quests for him, we might be rewarded with territory of our own- the territory quality depends on how good we do. Blake is uncertain about sharing a territory with a fledgling, but it gets shot down, and we're given our mission options: -a VERY hidden mission about the whereabouts of an individual. So secret he wouldn't tell us the details. -a Hecata named Isabel is doing something strange. Go check on her (whats up, girl?) -There seems to be signs of gang activity between Thinbloods and Caitiffs down in the Northeast. Go check it out.

We all vote, and the last one wins, so we inform Harrison of our decision and head to an office room to discuss it. He wants us to investigate what's going on down there, and adds that he also wants to know how the Kindred down there think of him (which is odd, because Northeast isn't even a part of his territory..?). Leo expresses curiosity about the first mission, and Harrison makes a comment saying thats no longer his business. The coterie discusses details of the mission with Harrison, and he departs.

Pauline asks if Leo has any questions, and he does- Whats a Hecata? What did Harrison mean by us being a family? Also, what's a fledgling? Blake and Pauline explain, and Pauline also explains a Sire is someone who turned you to a vampire. She asks where Leo's is. Leo says his sire is busy and sent him away here. Pauline is shocked that the sire would send him off with no explanation, and please tell her he at LEAST helped pay for the tickets here, right? -right???- Leo doesnt respond, and she looks exasperated/furious at J's behavior. Leo asks Blake if other supernatural entities exist- what about werewolves?? Pauline says no the same time Blake says yes. Also, ghosts and mages exist, and Leo makes a comment about DnD upon learning this.

OH OH MY GOD ALSO?? Leo got a text from amy at like 9:15 that just read "call me!! tf?!?" And uh. Bestie he Has Not answered it. Blake asked Leo if he was keeping contact with family, and told him to cut contact with people he knew before his death and ogihggu oh my god. Pauline took a photo of Leo, showed it to him, and said that's what hes going to look like for the rest of his life. His family will notice. Cut contact, bro.

Blake says we should get going, and we vote for his jeep- Leo doesn't want to ride in Pauline's hearse. Once in the jeep Blake asks if we're okay with music, and proceeds to play James Buffet songs the whole way there. So we get closer, and Pauline tries to investigate the gang signs we see as we pass them by. She notices some of the spraypaint seems to be made with alchemied blood (thinbloods can do blood alchemy), but fails a roll. Her Bane activates, and she becomes incredibly anxious/agitated. Blake is concerned, because his boss normally isnt like this, and turns down his music at her request. Blake gets out of the car and investigates the area, and recognizes some of the signs as symbols for the DeadEye Gang, aka a human gang. He also activates Eyes of The Beast to like? See better i think??? (Idk that spell, anyway-) Leo gets out the car to investigate some of the signs as well, but i fail a roll and HIS Bane activates. Fuck, dude. So he dissociates, and actually gets a vision about a black sun enveloping three objects (a broken mirror, a crown, and a theatre mask) before it turns to devour the moon.

We hear some yelling in the distance, shouting really, and Blake asks Pauline if she's in a good mindset and if she can help, and how there might be food down the alley (bc like bro shes hungry). She tells him theres blood in the graffiti. Blake takes Leo by the hand (thank u blake), and leads the Malkavians towards the shouting.

There's a yard with a chain-link fence, and on the other side there are motorbikes, and two gangs are fighting: a group of five (the DeadEye gang), and a group of three (presumably the Thinbloods). Blake manages to get the two Malkavians to semi-normal mental states, and we let the two gangs argue for a bit with the intent of dealing with whoever is left, but its escalating a Lot so we walk on over.

They ask who the fuck we are, why are we here, and Blake actually manages to almost calm them down until Leo, still out of it, interjects with "Listen- we only want to talk to the ones that arent human here." (Blake: "excuse my friend, he's not well") The human gang gives us weird looks, and the Thinbloods give us... bad ones. Blake attempts to smooth things over again but Pauline notices the Thinblood leader walk towards the humans in a menacing way. She gets her attention, and uses Dominate on her- bc listen, Pauline's still in a SEMI-normal state- and ends up commanding the leader to like. bark like a dog. The humans at this point are SO weirded out and decide to dip, and the thinbloods are so pissed off, man, and wont take to Blake's attempts to once again smooth things over. He tells them his name and that they're doing a "vampire consensus for Harrison, the Baron of Downtown San Jose," and the gang seems annoyed about politics. They tell the coterie they dont think or care about Harrison, they just do whatever, and Blake asks what was up with the arguing earlier. Turns out the Thinbloods and the humans were arguing over who owned the area that a garage was in, with the Thinbloods having something Kindred-related inside said garage that could cause trouble if people found out about it. Blake, trying one last time, tries to smooth things over and offers them his services if they ever need it, since he's looking for work. The leader dismisses him, and the coterie leaves the alleyway.