Another cunning plan
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Renate has another plan.
Okay, I admit the last time I had a flash of screaming genius, it worked out okay. This plan, however, depends not on Renate’s friends, but on a bunch of crazy wannabe-terrorist thugs in Eridu. If it backfires, it’ll backfire big.
Right, so here’s the situation. Renate is working security on the Purgatory tour of the Silver Coast. The wannabe-terrorist thugs, who call themselves the Knights of Destiny, got to the concert venue in Eridu and made nuisances of themselves. Purgatory’s Heaven bodyguard, Darm Sobredaño, suggested to Renate that they strongarm the Knights into something so stupidly violent that even the corrupt Eridu police would have to arrest them.
Renate was not pleased with this plan; not only does it endanger Eridu (the Knights not being terribly careful with crossfire), but it scores Purgatory big pity points if it works. Darm as much as admitted that was part of his reasoning. So our Rennie made a counteroffer. Let me talk to them, she said. I’m one of theirs. They’ve had their fun already. Maybe I can convince them to back off.
Darm chewed on that, and bought it. Much to the good of Rennie’s plan, mind you. Mua-hahahaha.
If this works, it’ll be a beautiful, beautiful thing. The big bad Heaven knight, outwitted by a no-account little backwoods farm girl. Purgatory goes down in flames. Sleazy promoter Hadley Domingo burns right along with ’em. And best of all, Renate will have broken neither the law nor her word. I’m talkin’ beauty, do you hear me?
If it works. Which it may not. And Darm wants to take Renate out somewhere he can talk to her privately, which frankly scares the daylights out of me. What can he possibly want? But she’s a game little thing, so she’s going to dress up pretty and go along.
She’ll have to depend on Darm to keep vampires off her. The Purgatory tour has been marred by two murders, both done by vampires. And it just so happens that Purgatory has a vampire on staff. Rennie established through a fairly solid logic chain that Purgatory’s vamp didn’t do it—and somebody (not sure who yet) on the local Camarilla-equivalent did. Also not sure whether the frame-up was for convenience or in malice; could be either. Rennie being Rennie, she went straight to the press, and the Camarilla is, shall we say, less than pleased.
In other news, Renate and Lyria had a little chat, in which they drew up the first plans for establishing Lyria’s religion. I had been afraid that I’d have to turn Renate into a fire-breathing evangelist, which doesn’t suit her one bit, but in fact I don’t. All I have to do is recruit people with dreams—and I’ve got two or three in mind already. One is a former member of the demon evangelists we defeated along with the Ruido Grande. Another… is Dorothy Durai, and I’m really not sure how that’s going to play out, because there’s a really weird kind of, um, go-away-closer thing going on between Dorothy and Renate, so weird it bewilders even me. Just weird. But Lyria says she’ll help with the Dorothy-wrangling, so we’ll just have to see how it goes.
The third candidate… had better wait until Lyria’s a bit stronger, I think. But she definitely fits the profile, oh, yes…
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