Stories

Amon will live

I had nightmares about "Amon" who will apparently live (Session 32). I dreamt of the desert and dancing and this strange message again later on (Session 33). I wonder what it means. I next dreamed about being on a beach, with ancient soldiers drinking blood from a bowl at a kindred party. I fled after a severed head was tossed into the party (Session 43). In Egypt, I was approached by a Shadow which said something in a language I did not understand but it mentioned Amon living... (Session 51) While visiting the Temple of Karnak, I had a vision about something that happened there (Session 54). We discussed some parts of it with Advisor Harwa, but his offer of help wasn't very helpful (Session 55). I told Merti and Amenia about my vision (Session 56). I completed my visions to Prince Menkheperre and Amenia who gave me a statue of Amon. What will become of this remains to be seen (Session 59).

Convince the Prince

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Marcus Gottschalk gave me the Gladius for Dwayne and use of his plane, but I owe him a big favour and I need to arrange for the Prince to agree to part of his plan. Also, the Prince needs to approve my trip (Session 45). The Prince would agree if I could convince Levi Wise. Levi Wise agreed once I agreed to do him a favour and the Prince honoured the deal. She also gave me permission to go to Egypt! (Session 46).

Escalating outfits

Nehbet arranged for us to meet a woman, Senepset as we'd learn later, to help us get clothes to wear in Egypt (Session 45). After meeting her in Cairo she took us to a women-only shopping center, where a complete disaster with an automatic staircase ripped my debutante gown (Session 48). Fortunately, the store - and various others - were able to provide me with a whole set of new outfits for my visit to Egypt (Session 49).

Cairo and Modern Egypt

We arrived in Cairo, and were taught the protocols to meet the Sultan (Session 47). Our presentation to the Sultan went well and we are allowed to stay in Cairo (Session 48), and I found a place to stay with the Keeper of Elysium for Cairo, Tayyib Masur. The Elysium in Cairo was actually the perfect place to gather information we need for the rest of our trip. I helped the wife of the keeper, Hala al-Nasira, find blood-dolls for the event (Session 49). I then attended the Elysium and found some contacts of Senepset there (Session 50) and gossiped and fed. The Elysium came to an end successfully (Session 51). After seeing the sights and preparing, we finally left Cairo to head to Luxor (Session 53).

Pharaoh's Gold

We purchased gowns for our visit to Luxor, but I'll really need to find some proper Egyptian jewellery to wear with it. The Egyptian Museum seems to have some good pieces, though my friends suggest I ask a contact of Senepset instead at the Elysium (Session 49). I spoke with Francine and Andre Le Compte who have the jewellery, but they aren't entirely convinced to loan it out yet. I dropped plans to use the museum (Session 50). I managed to pick up some useful knowledge about Francine and Andre through gossip which we might be able to use to secure our jewellery (Session 51). After promising to introduce Francine to the Prince of New York and arranging more car matters for Andres, I managed to loan 1.6 million in Egyptian jewellery. Once we are done in Luxor, we'll need to eventually visit Cairo again to return the jewellery loaned from Andre and Francine as they aren't allowed to visit Luxor anymore. (Session 52). After visiting Luxor and Abu Simbel, we returned to Cairo and I returned the jewellery. I'll miss having such fine things again, but fair is fair. As a return favour, I arranged for Francine and Andre to be allowed to visit Luxor again. (Session 59)

Luxor and Ancient Egypt

The Prince of Luxor, we hear, honours Egyptian traditions and we ought to dress in the appropriate style (Session 49). We travelled to Luxor with a plan and I may have overacted a bit to try to get us a place to stay in the palace. I angered Princess Menti and now I'm stuck sleeping on the foot end of her bed... (Session 53). I've settled into the household of the prince reasonably well now though (Session 54). The prince was kind enough to get me some new outfits (Session 56), but I may have gotten a tad overconfident as Sitamun tried to serve me up to the Prince (Session 57). The Prince was kind enough not to harm me and instead made me pretend to be his first wife, much to the chagrin of Merti and Sitamun, who waited for an opportunity and attacked me in the baths, only to be punished by Amenia who protected me. I did get hurt though (Session 58). Feeling sorry for them, I freed Merti and she immediately attacked, feeding deeply upon me and tying me to the ceiling. Sitamun and her were sent to the dungeons by Amenia and the Prince kindly had some extra blood provided for me. We've left Luxor now, but I'll have to write Merti later, I'm sure she didn't mean that badly. (Session 59)

Lands of Israel

On behalf of Levi Wise, I need to visit Israel and do a favour there (Session 46). We finally landed in Tel-Aviv and found a place to stay, including a presentation to the Prince. My relationship to my Sire did not go over well, but we were allowed to stay and I spoke to an engineer to attempt to fulfill the favour I owe. I did have some issues with blood so now I owe a new favour to Dahlia Moore who is in charge of the Blood Dolls (Session 62). Though it delayed our departure some, I did fulfill my favour to her by modelling some scandalous dresses on a 'cat-walk'. I think I did alright, and Elijah seems to be happy! (Session 63)

Worldwide Etiquette

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I brushed up on my etiquette especially internationally - hopefully this will help in Egypt (Session 47). At the Pyramids, a guide helped me with some insight about Egyptian court customs (Session 51). I got to use my new skills too though as we need somewhere to stay in Abu Simbel, and through Hala I managed to arrange the address of Sir Blakely, a British gentleman of clan Ventrue who may provide hospitality (Session 52). I also got to use them when I was sent to visit Faysal by Prince Menkheperre, as Faysal had offended the Prince by not wanting to share his wife! (Session 55) After leaving Luxor, Sir Blakely received us and kindly provided me with an opportunity to buy a débutante gown with his friend Elize before he presented us to the Prince of Abu Simbel, and I got to practice my social skills there with them (Session 59). With a lot of effort, I managed to use those skills to leave a good impression in Tel Aviv in the end (Session 63).

Go to Egypt for Cierra

Cierra wants us to go to Egypt to pick something up for her. (Session 44) I arranged air transport via Markus Gottschalk and managed to get some introductions arranged working with Dwayne via Nehbet (Session 45). We finally flew to Egypt and arrived in Cairo (Session 47). After a brief stay we continued to Luxor where we met Faysal, a reasonable man who arranged for some contacts for us in Sharm El Sheikh where would have to go to pick up our package (Session 55). After a detour past Abu Simbel and Alexandria to see the sites, we travelled to Sharm El Sheikh to pick up our package, and we were presented to the Prince there (Session 60). The package consists of ancient palimpsest scrolls. We managed to extract them from an intimidating room in Mount Sinai (Session 61) and out of the country (Session 62). After a brief detour to Tel-Aviv, we finally arrived in New York and handed over the chest with palimpsest scrolls to Cierra (Session 63). I sent a letter of thanks to Mr. Gottschalk as he wouldn't receive me for some reason (Session 64).

Party

Lindsey's Presence Training

I am helping Lindsey to have a better Presence (Session 43), (Session 46). With some work, we managed to complete the training (Session 47)

Sad days

TODO: New York City Vietnam Memorial (make?)

I was having a very hard day and Lindsey and Dwayne both came by to check in on me. Lindsey and I talked the next day. She told me about the death of her husband and we shared sorrows. (Session 43), (Session 44) I accompanied Lindsey to a war memorial on the day of her husbands death. We cried together. (Session 46) Later on her wedding day, we went shopping together. I think she's feeling better! (Session 47)

Unacceptable Behaviour

I behaved quite unacceptably towards Dwayne. (Session 44), so I decided to offer my Tiara to Markus Gottschalk in trade for arranging the trip Dwayne is hoping for to Egypt as well as a Gladius I think he'll like. Markus decided to part with them in exchange for me asking the Prince and a huge favour in the future (Session 45)

Lindsey can't courtesy

Lindsey does not know how to courtesy, and worse, she bows. That will need to be addressed (Session 48). When arriving in Abu Simbel, I managed to teach Lindsey before we were presented to the Prince there! (Session 59)

See the Sights in Egypt

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Dwayne wants to see all the sites since we're heading to Egypt anyway and I'm glad to come along and see them too. Before even getting to Egypt, we made a stop in Rome. Upon arrival, we realised we didn't know where the Prince Francesko of Rome was staying, but fortunately, Carol helped out. We were allowed to stay for a few nights and we looked at some tourist attractions in the inner city. It was very beautiful! (Session 47) We planned a date to see the Pyramids at Giza (Session 50). We visited the Pyramids and the Sphinx - they are HUGE, and we saw a shade of some sort (Session 51). In Luxor we first visited the Temple of Karnak (Session 54), where I had some visions and while visiting the Valley of the Kings, we were beset by some sort of demons (Session 57) - they might have been after the guide, but I'm not entirely sure (Session 58). We next flew to Abu Simbel and visited the impressive temples there (Session 59). In Alexandra we visited where the Great Lighthouse once stood, the Necropolis of Kom El Shoqafa (though I did not go inside), Pompey's Pillar, the Temple of Taposiris Magna, and various minor locations and I purchased some gifts for my friends back home (including Cierra) (Session 60). Upon returning to New York, I gave gifts to all the friends I left behind, including Egyptian silk scarves for Tamara and Carol, a necklace for Gabriella, alabaster carvings for Cierra, a bust of Nefertiti for Imogen and a plushie camel for Prince Michaella. What a beautiful country! (Session 63).

Friends

Comfort Tamara

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Tamara was alone at Elysium and feeling very sad and needed comfort later, or so the Prince said. I hope she is okay (Session 46). I spoke with Tamara and she seems to be doing better but I still think there's something more going on. I suppose I'll learn more later (Session 47)

Ballet

Stretching my Flexibility

I got some exercises to do during my trip to Egypt to keep up to date on my ballet training (Session 47). I contacted the Setites and Morocco and her snake helped me with stretching exercises (Session 52). I stretched more while preparing for a ballet performance for the Prince of Luxor (Session 55). I've practiced ever since, but the demon wanted to take me further and went looking for yoga studios to work on this more seriously, and visited one that looked alright (Session 81). I told the Prince about my plans in this regard (Session 83) and finally found a Yoga Studio where the demon signed me up for classes which I might now be stuck with (Session 84), especially now that Yoga outfits have started arriving (Session 86). I went to my first yoga lesson which was an absolute disaster. I'm terrible (Session 87)! I returned for classes once more and I failed again, the teacher wasn't even convinced I should be there (Session 88). With practice I seem to at least manage, but its still not very good (Session 89). I've kept practicing, but I am still making myself look like a fool every time I'm there (Session 100). After a lot of hard work, I finally had a good practice today though (Session 101) and it seems I finally have this under control (Session 102)!

TODO: Split

Egyptian Dances

While in Luxor, I got a chance to practice with some traditional Egyptian dancers (Session 55). They rather sabotaged me during the performance and I completely blanked out so it was a deadly embarrassing performance (Session 56). I took some time to show pointe to Sitamun and Merti, though I'm not sure I was the best teacher. They seemed to like it though (Session 58). Finally, I danced Nikiya and told the story of La Bayadère to the court, which I feel was a much bigger success than my earlier performance (Session 59).

Faith

A reminder of God

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A priest in Alexandra spoke about how there may be references to Kindred in the Bible. I'm not sure what to think of that... (Session 60) While visiting Mount Sinai, I felt the fear of God in my bones. Then people asked for my blessing. I am not living up to what I should be... (Session 61) Back in New York I celebrated Pokrov and bought an icon of the Theotokos for Prince Michaella. She seemed to appreciate it, and wants to talk about faith at some point in the future (Session 64).

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