#anyway i want to see skelter and beckett argue about noddist lore

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728 tonight, 23,524 total! Hit the 23,456 mark which is very fun. Next milestones are 25k, 30k, and I suspect I’ll still be going for 34,567, haha.

Sebastian visits the Last Round. Interesting conversations are had.

Session quote:

"Do you think," he asks bluntly, meeting Sebastian's gaze straight on, "It could be an Antediluvian?"

Sebastian blinks. "There are no such thing as the Antediluvians," he says, wishing the words had come out more confidently, less hesitantly; the Camarilla party line is not the belief of a clan that still called themselves the Children of Haqim. "There has never been any proof of - of Antediluvians, or that the Book of Nod is anything other than a Sabbat propaganda piece."

"There are Noddists who have never been Sabbat," Skelter challenges, folding his arms. "And yeah, there's scholars like Beckett who are skeptics, but what about ones like Vykos? They were there when the Salubri were being hunted down. They met Tremere himself, and if he's real, why couldn't Saulot be?"

Hiding a wince (Olivier had mentioned the Salubri in wistful tones, once, a long-lost and noble clan fallen to the fangs of the Usurpers), Sebastian shakes his head. "We simply cannot know how much is truth and how much is propaganda. There have been many rumours and falsehoods spoken about the Tremere. That they owe their beginnings as a clan to the diablerie of someone as powerful as a supposed Antediluvian is... unlikely."

"And the Giovanni and the Cappadocians?"

"Again, heresy. We simply have no proof that there was any diablerie of any Antediluvian. One faction of a clan subsuming the rest - yes, that is documented history. The Antediluvians are not."

Skelter shakes his head. "It's propaganda on the Cammy side too," he says with a sigh, then straightens up. "Anyway. Sorry we can't help more, Prince LaCroix. When Nines is in, I'll get him up to speed."

I'm sorry, Sebastian wants to say, every fibre of his being vibrating with the need to apologise, to explain. Of course I believe in the Antediluvians. I am a Child of Haqim, and my clan orbits around the reverence and terror of our own founder like planets around a star. Could it be an Antediluvian? Could that be what the sarcophagus holds, could that be why the city exists in such terror? The very idea is both terrifying and plausible. Oh, God, what will we do if it is, if I am the architect of bringing such a monstrous being into the very heart of my Domain?