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- April 15
- The Coterie arrives at the city of Buda-Pest
- Steeple encounters Vassily Taltos and Anonymus the Chronicler in the House of the Red Hedgehog.
- The others involve themselves in the escape of a Revenant slave named Sherazhina, who Kiril soon claims.
- The coterie presents itself to Prince Vencel Rikard, welcoming Daniel to the fold.
- The coterie meets with their sires and Tiberu, blood-bound servant of their patron Radu. They are all offered princedoms in exchange for the construction of a fort over the Tihuta Pass, a task which they all eagerly agree to accomplish.
- The coterie spends the next two days planning to conquer their patron's land and ghoul entire villages, stealing from the prince of the city, almost killing each other and coming close to splitting up.
- April 28
- The coterie arrives at Klausenburg.
- The coterie is greeted by hostile locals. Brother Joseph questions the priest and hears legends of St Mitruu, the slayer of darkness.
- The coterie contemplates committing mass suicide/staying in the city during the day.
- The coterie leaves the city and gets out of Klausenburg.
- The coterie is ambushed by Mitruu, Prince of Napoca. Their caravans are set on fire and much of their company is killed.
- Myca Vykos' arrival causes the Prince of Napoca to flee, the characters join the generous Fiend - he happens to also be headed to Bistritz.
- Steeple makes the decision to ghoul the sole surviving member of his herd - Nadia, the maid.
May 6th
- The coterie finally arrives at Bistritz, meeting their patron for the first time.
- Radu is informed of the coterie's failure to keep the money he'd given them - generous as he is, the Count provides them all with some new funds and a wagon and sends them off to the Pass.
May 9th
- The coterie finally arrives at Tihuta Pass, and are greeted by Lucita and Anatole, two wanderers.
- Anatole, a prophet who believes his visions are warnings from God, informs the coterie that he is seeking important writings in the pass.
- While the others help him dig his way down the foundations, Steeple, using his strange magics, phases through the rubble and directly into the room they were looking for.
- After laboriously looking through the area, Steeple finds a hidden library and, within it, tablets written in an ancient, forgotten language.
- The others break through the rubble and join Steeple, Heldric continues searching and finds a golden translation key, they uncover the content of the tablets:
Thus, I set down my true visions that I may remember and keep to the path that I have chosen. Only I of us all shall know the truth and this shall be my shield and my spear. Most exalted shall I be in the time of the final days. Even the father shall quail before my might.
Let the lesser ones war one upon the other, each hearkening to the omens that I have foreseen. Fools, all! By my guile, they know not the actual signs, but merely shadows of the things that shall be.
Let the world tremble when I come in my might and majesty, for I shall rule above our father, above the mother who gave succor to our father, above the children of Seth, yea, even above God himself. Let the Reign of blood commence.
- The coterie makes copies of the tablets for themselves, and Steeple personally twists the key into an unusable mess. The tablets are sent with Anatole and Lucita to Count Radu.
5th of June
- The master Mason Zelios arrives at the pass and, with Sylvian, begins designing the fortress.
9th of June
- Having finished his work with the Fortress, Zelios prepares to leave.
- The coterie pays him - though with a little more than half their remaining funds. Indebted to the kindly mason, the cainites attempted to offer him the translation key instead - but Zelios warned them against such offers, the key was a very valuable secret.
16th of August
- The coterie has been plagued by attacks from a pack of fleshcrafted wolves and ambushes to their caravans for days, their workers have been rebellious and their efforts have grinded down to a halt.
- Anton, Heldric and Daniel split off from the group to go hunt down the wolf pack, and encounter and unknown Tzimisce woman who warns that her master would come for his stolen servant.
19th of August
- Steeple, Kiril, Sylvian and Lucien back at the pass are visited by Myca Vykos, who offers a large amount of money to help the coterie in exchange for one boon - a boon of any kind, that they would owe him.
- After they accept his offer, Vykos spends another few hours at the site before leaving for Constantinople.
- Anton, Heldric and Daniel return to find out the debt they have been put in.
29th of August
- The coterie finds the translation key put into Lucien's care to have been stolen. They investigate and find out nothing.
- Steeple cackles madly with glee to himself as he gets away with it.
28th of October
- With time to spare, the Coterie has finished their task and their sires and patrons have come to grant them their rewards.
- All members of the coterie partake of Radu's blood.
- Kiril is made seneschal of Sofia, Anton Prince of Kronstadt, Lucien Prince of Shaasburg, Daniel Prince of Muhlbach, Sylvian Prince of Temechburg and Heldric Prince of Balgraad.
- Steeple alone refuses to drink of his sire's blood, and the infuriated Vladivostok banishes Steeple from all his Domains, his clan, and threatens to ruin him.
- Radu offers Steeple Stewardship of Tihuta Pass, and Steeple gratefully accepts.
- The vampires and their sires retire to a makeshift Arena that Steeple had constructed (Vladivostok having departed), where a fleshcrafted Barabus (modified by Lucien) would be pitted against one of Daniel's creations.
- Barabus viciously cripples and kills Daniel's creation after having his throat ripped out.