#ANYWAY YEAH I SPENT HALF THE COMBAT FREAKING OUT THINKING AB WHAT KIND OF BACKUP CHARACTER I WAS GONNA HAVE TO CREATE IF NICK DIED LMAO

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Cameron’s death sounded rough OOF 💀

IT WAS BRUTAL AND I WAS ACTUALLY FOR REAL SCARED FOR NICK'S LIFE BUT THE WAY IT PLAYED OUT WAS SOOOOOO GOOD!!! perfectly-timed dice rolls (some good, some extremely bad) plus an absolutely stellar performance by our storyteller who absolutely killed it, the dialogue from every session of that situation STILL gives me goosebumps

(I tried to write a short tl;dr but this was not a tl;dr scenario so I PUT MORE DETAILS UNDER A CUT)

so some events had recently escalated, cameron was spiraling, and he & his sabbat bff claude had kidnapped two of nick's sisters who happened to be in town (the twins!) as a result. the coterie "rescued" them - except one of them turned out to be a shovelhead disguised with chimerstry, so it turned out they had only rescued ONE (gianna!) of the girls and the other (arianna!) was still being held captive

nick called claude and offered up himself leaving the country with cameron in exchange for the safe return of his sister, so while the rest of the coterie was rescuing ari (for real this time) and dealing with claude, nick was driving alone to meet cameron so they could leave las vegas together. except the plan all along was to make sure his sister was safe first and then 1v1 cameron when they were alone in the middle of nowhere

except nick! failed! EVERY ATTACK ROLL!! this man couldn't STAB, he couldn't SHOOT, I WAS NOT MAKING A DENT, meanwhile cameron is actually genuinely very deadly and got close enough to RIP NICK'S CHEST OPEN and only didn't immediately finish him off bc he was teaching nick a lesson

and then nick, who had been dealing with Other Stuff immediately prior to this and hadn't drank in a Long Ass Time as a result, had to make a self-control roll to prevent frenzying on an empty tank + within an inch of his life, and i rolled FOUR ONES!!!!!

so nick, who spent the first 1-2 months of his embrace having beast-induced nightmares about killing cameron with his bare teeth, in an accidentally perfect and gruesome moment of narrative bow-tying, had the most catastrophic frenzy of his life and ripped cameron's throat out with his teeth! (the circumstances were severe enough that the only thing keeping nicky from diablerizing his sire to quench his thirst was that I made ANOTHER self-control roll to prevent it and by sheer luck succeeded) and then immediately slumped over, covered in blood, chest open, with like 1 hp left, and had a complete mental breakdown over it

(also he took cameron's necklace off his bones! and still has it! no one knows!!)

anyway yeah it was VICIOUS and while yes killing off my favorite npc was very sad honestly it was just SUCH a phenomenal and raw and intense series of events, I'm gonna be thinking about it forever