This post is, as they say, out of character. I had had the gift of a brilliant storyline assignment by my crafty and ancient boss and it went place I never expected and let me encounter some wonderful new characters who've just been an RPer's dream. I got SO involved that I was focused there and let here slip. Since dealing with the Fellowship of the Sun business, killing a human trafficker of my own accord, and hunting down to vampires who were the supplier of illegal human immigrants as donor earned me some cred... my character ended up with the daunting to most other humans job of finding a missing Vampire Sheriff. Little did I know I'd get involved with something where the fate of country half a world away was at stake... hmmmm... let's say... at RISK.
My name is Cassandra Gibson, I work as a special investigator the @SheriffArea_9 – more personally known as Godric.
A few months ago, I was assigned the task of finding the missing Sheriff of Area 8, Herbert Montrcrief.
Looking at one of the only pieces of evidence, a photo of the sheriff and a human female companion, revealed that she was wearing actual royal jewels of great value. They turned out to be a massive ruby that is from the Jeweled Order of St. Alexander Nevsky and diamonds from the Diamond Diadem. They are the Romanov Family Jewels and I discover I am not the only one searching for them.
At @EricNorthmanSVM’s bar , @FangtasiaSVM , I arranged a meeting with the other person searching for the jewels: @AlexeiRomanov , the last tsar or prince of Russia, turned vampire to avenge the murders of his family. They are the last of the stolen jewels that he has tracked down around around the world. … but about these jewels there is something different, something that may have enable the Sheriff of Area 8 to have been taken - a curse that enables them to control all the vampires within a limited area.
Before, however, I can become fully invested in the search, I am summoned to New York City by the vampire magister, @FyodorGlazunov , purportedly because he is impressed with my work for Godric. I quickly discover that this wealthy, incredibly powerful vampire, who answers only to the AVL has an interest in me that has little to do with my work. Thinking I’ll be done with him if I let him feed and get the hell home, I allow him to do so and am relieved whe he passes out drunk from Fae blood and collapses back on the bed. Trapped by a staff that will only listen to him, I spend the night and bolt when the doors open again in the morning.
I return home and to my own surprise, shaken by being the prey instead of the predator for once, I call Alexei Romanov simply to have his company. To my further surprise, we are briefly intruded upon by my occasional partner, @Viktor_Chenko , a werewolf with a plethora of habits I would have arrested him for when I wore a badge and worked vice. The surprise is not his arrival but that he’s arrived only to check on me, even if he lies about the reason. So the were I often call “Roadkill” turns out to have a small, fuzzy heart.
Back home, Alexei Romanov and I begin working together to find the powerful Romanov Jewels, our work and joint determination to find them bringing us closer outside of professional lines. One evening, four vampires, arrived at the home of Alexei Romanov, one of them a vampire we’d seen before in photographs of the night the Sheriff of Area 8 vanished. Sensing they are are all older and a threat, Alexei, in a show of respect few vampires would offer a human woman, even with my track record, calls to report their presence. Arriving, I heard a scuffle inside, and killed the first vampire I saw. Working together, we captured two of the attackers and ended the other. On two taken prisoner we find a stylized tattoo of a bird of prey.
Following a lead, the only three illegal fences capable of having trafficked such large jewels into the country, we find the bird in the office of one of them again. Alexei - who it frequently escapes my mind is a prince, and I continue to travel west, stopping in El Paso. There, however, I am sent a package, a disposable cell phone and a warning from Godric that the magister is monitoring my communications in a way that has nothing to do with his job. I realize that something more is going on that Godric can’t tell me and there is a reason why he’s been demanding my reports in writing despite his almost impenetrable electronic security. The Magister may now be as much of a danger to me, to us, as our vampire-kidnapping and possibly vampire-controlling quarry.
Needing resources and safety, we head to AZ, to the estate of the Sheriff for whom I first worked. I send a message to @Viktor_Chenko to follow us as soon as he is able. Greeted as an old friend and a trusted new one, Alister Conrad, my Sheriff, gifts us with our selection of weapons— as much as we can take with us and refuge while we plan our next move. Viktor catches up with us and we are joined briefly by a former confidant of Alexei’s.
Our time of refuge is abruptly interrupted by two enemy vampires, one of whom kills Alexei’s long time confidant, briefly throwing him into a a tailspin but bringing us even closer.
Alexei takes on the second assassin, who opts to kill himself when under interrogation. He is foolishly carrying orders with him… that again have the seal of the bird of prey. Wondering who could have such power over vampires - I come to the realization that the person sending the attackers is Fyodor Glazunov. And since the last vampire, in the pitch of battle, attempted to take Alexei Romanov’s family ring, we now suspect Fyodor knows about the power of the jewels as well.
Godric also manages to get a message to me, that Fyodor’s fascination with me extends not only to a meal and sex but to becoming my maker.
Knowing we need to flee, we continue our journey west, our goal, California, to the Port of Long Beach where Alexei’s Royal Guard is due to arrive to reinforce us. Ahead of their arrival we have been joined while staying at the Russian Embassy in Los Angeles, my home town, by his trusted and able lieutenant @Irina_297 .
Fyodor’s intentions have followed us here already, however, even in the relative safety of the embassy where Alexei’s status as prince gives us resources and protection. Photos of long dead victims that still trouble Alexei Romanov have arrived by courier, disturbing him profoundly. Scouting out the Port of Long Beach I was attacked by the shifter agent of Fyodor Glazunov - @Nikita_Steel who I’m sure we’ve not seen for the last time.
One more complication has befallen us, however. I lost Alexei’s coat to the shifter and in the aftermath, he has beome afflicted with visions of those victims whose lives he so regretted taking and we suspect witchcraft is now one of the weapons we are facing.
THIS…. is our story so far and thanks for following…
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