Gideon decided to talk to the Union members. They hadn't after all committed any overt crime, they were just wanted for questioning. It quickly became apparent that their minds were dominated beyond compare and they began to mindlessly attack. So Vitali utilized tried and trusted petroleum bomb technology. Throwing a lit jerry can into the ship they were pouring out of seemed to deal with some of them, but a few others were caught on the wrong side of the flames and Gideon and Vitali were forced to incapacitate or kill them with extreme prejudice. Two were successfully incapacitated through head shrinkage and head beatings. They left the scene for interrogation, but a lone police officer caught sight of them as they left...

Later awoken at Reg's haven (who had managed to get his leg trapped in a hole while sneaking around the beach in the fog), one of the caputured kindred identified himself as Turk. Not entirely friendly, he said he attacked because their territory was being invaded over and over again. He seemed to know who the culprit was, describing him as the 'rogue vampire killer', but found himself unable to utter the name. Quickly realizing that a thick layer of Dominate lay between them and answers they resolved to visit the Prince.

There they met up with Thomas Thomason who had been added to the Servire list after Tasmoszius had finished demonstrated his two day long sonata. After some obligatory sadistic treatment of the prisoner's by Vitaly (he's now an official member of the Gang!), the spoke more soberly with the Prince who was annoyed at the news regarding the Union and said a Union member was seen headed out to Lupine territory. They were given access to an armoured vehicle and smoke grenades (though the Prince was keen for them not to take an armoury of loud heavy weapons) in an attempt to liberate the Union member from his unlife (or for bonus points return him for some more creative punishments). Meantime, Merik would question Turk and his friend to see which of his rivals were responsible (and to try and get intel on Erica's whereabouts). Merik had one final message: Annabelle had contacted him, asked him to pass a message to Gideon. His car had safely arrived in New York.

Taking the Mayor's armoured car and a normal sedan they headed into the fearful countryside.

Shortly thereafter, the air was filled with a hellish staccato roar as the cars were impacted by hundreds of bullets fired from unknown places by unknown assailants. Vitali in the standard vehicle was immediately surpressed and the car came to a halt. The armoured car fared better but after Gideon performed a hand brake turn in an attempt to mount a rescue mission it was torn to shreds and came to an abrubt halt. Gideon was convinced that the problem wasn't holes in the engine block but that the bonnet had flown up and convinced Thomas to go out and right it while taking shots at their assailants. Thomas identified at least two machine gun 'nests' one one side but didn't get a good luck on the other side. Throwing caution to the wind he charged at the machine gunners with celerity speed hoping to survive long enough to capture a machine gun.

Meanwhile, Vitaly rolled out of his bullet strewn car and began crawling away from it. Now I suppose everybody gets why I was a bit reticent about letting APCs and pride and joy cars get to Milwaukee?

Thomas went down. Gideon swore, grabbed the grenades and created a smoke screen and launched a second rescue attempt, giving some blood to Thomas, making Thomas well disposed of Gideon all round, he charged to the Machine Gunners using unpredictable paths.

Once he emerged from the smoke he was faced with three



One of whom was resting a bipod MMG (gun geeks might have identified it as a Belgian FN MAG 58 aka an M240) on its thigh. Wisely adopting a different course Gideon fled back to the smoke and turned into ash.

Vitali found himself being hunted and instead of delaying the inevitable gave himself up. And got himself staked.

Thomas Entranced one of the Dark shapes that approached him, but a shot to the head and a stake to the heart soon put an end to those kinds of shenanigans.

Gideon reconstituted himself and decided the best course of action would be to pursue. And so he began to track through the wilderness. He didn't rate his own chances but he couldn't give up. He came upon a weapons cache (which he spent some time undigging), boosting his confidence. Where now?