Chapter 114 - 16

Maybe, if you're sure it's safe, you can try learning from what you discovered at Kiowa Xenogenetics, but you're not going to flash that information around.

Next

A few nights later, one of Dove's retainers knocks on your door and tells you to meet Prince Lettow at the Viper around midnight.

While looking down through the floor-to-ceiling glass window at the frenzied dance floor, the Eagle Prince interrogates you about the SI attack and Dr. Caul's "final death." You tell the Prince what you saw, which is easy since you really did watch Caul crumble to ash. Either Prince Lettow is a better liar than you will ever be—which is possible—or he really believes that the Tremere was destroyed the other night. And of course, since you successfully completed the delivery mission, you get more money to stuff under your mattress.

You return to your parking garage.

You've learned even more than when you began your journey. You might want to apply your considerable experience toward training skills, abilities, or the dark arts of the Kindred.

The fact that everyone in the world doesn't know about vampires tells you that even fairly significant breaches of the Masquerade can be absorbed without affecting the world too much. Over a long enough timeline, people forget, and people die.

But in the short term, you can't just hide. You need to act. More accurately, you need to spread disinformation that hides your identity and your movements. Hunters that are already alerted to your existence need to be redirected and misdirected. In short, you need to waste their time and frustrate them so that they seek out higher-priority targets.

And with the Second Inquisition watching the internet, you're going to have to go analog. You need to get in touch with local news services and use them to spread disinformation.

Where to tonight?

You head to the Viper to make sure you don't commit any faux pas while hunting in Tucson. There you meet Alexander, Lettow's favored retainer, who explains the situation.

After the destruction of the last Prince and before Lettow's consolidation of power, hunting in Tucson was a dog-eat-dog business, with frequent and costly breaches of the Masquerade. Lettow put an end to all that. First, there's no hunting anywhere near the Viper. Second, the more you've proven yourself, the more risks you're allowed to take while hunting.

You have not proven yourself, Alexander explains. That being the case, you are limited to the "kiddie pool." (He's very proud of himself for knowing that term.) In exchange for a small "consideration" each time, Alexander will provide you with access to blood dolls suitable to your refined Ventrue palate.