Nicole rumbles through the slums on her Harley.  She's made a few contacts at Elysium tonight and she still has a few hours before the cheap motel becomes a necessity so she decides to do a little recon.  The wastelands of the city have serviced her well in the past.  A wandering vampire on a tight budget sometimes can't ask for much more than an abandoned building close to a primary source of food.  Of course sometimes said buildings were already inhabited by squatters and addicts.  All in all it was worth looking into.  Nicole intended to scout out most of the city trying to discover just why she was drawn here.  This was just as good a start as any.  Rolling through the streets she keeps her eyes open and her senses on full alert.

2008-11-03 14:49:31 Nicole Bannister rolls 7 dice to Searching (Per. + Alert) (Diff 8) 9,10,6,1,1, 7,6,2 (failure)

Nicole keeps getting bad vibes from the buildings she passes or enters to inspect. Some of the junkies seem like something more, others are inhabited by gangs or other people who seem way too interested in her to let her sleep through the day in peace...

With her options and time dwindling Nicole may need a new plan...

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She silently curses under her breath.  A dizzying display of pushers, addicts, and hookers pass by.  Crumbling dens on iniquity by the dozen but no secure place. Too many beady bloodshot eyes staring from broken windows.

She really doesn't want to spend the money to rent a room but she may just have to bite the bullet.  Still its worth one more pass.

A thought strikes her and she starts to laugh.  An almost uncontrollable giggle bubbles up as she rides through the streets.  "This isn't exactly the romantic lifestyle i envisioned, rumbling through the slums looking for a place where i can lay in filth.  Its a far cry from backpacking through Europe with the Professor, but we did sleep ramshackle sheds and barns under bales of hay so i suppose its not THAT far off after all."  Finally she sighs.  "Sometimes i wish i was a Gangrel." and then the giggling starts again.

2008-11-05 09:07:56 Nicole Bannister rolls 7 dice to Searching (Per. + Alert) (Diff 7) 6,8,6,8,4, 1,9 (2 successes)

There are places even pushers, junkies and hookers are afraid to go. What stands before Nicole is an old chemical processing plant. The chain link fence rusted and fell to a drunk driver years ago. Half the building is demolished, leaving nothing but precarious floors and open windows.

But outside is the real prize. A pair of tall chemical cylinders easily twenty feet in diameter stand thirty feet tall. The rusted sentinels of this long closed buisness.

One of the cylinders has a hole in the side, rusted out by leaking water. If shes willing to crawl she could get inside the cylinder, into the inky blackness that promises to hide her from the sun...

Nicole bites her lip as she inspects the huge cylinder.  It wasn't exactly what she was hoping for but it could be better, under the circumstances.  Slipping off the bike she opens one of the storage compartments on the back and pulls out a battery operated light.   It was a lot like a flashlight only it gave off a larger radiance of light.  Like most vampires, fear of fire made coleman lanterns just not an option.

Nicole shines the light though the hole and gets down to make a cursory inspection.  Spiders and rats were fine, she'd slept with them before.  Satisfied there wasn't anything too dangerous inside she takes the bike to a secluded corner of one of the buildings.  There she removes Her laptop and slides it into a plastic grocery bag with her "pay -as-you-go" cell phone.  she also removes two folded tarps, duct tape, her .45, shotgun, and another plastic bag.

After she's retreived everything she needs she finds a few large peices of detritus, broken doors and large boards, some cardboard boxes.  With these she carefully hides the bike further from view.  No one should be able to really see it in the secluded spot she's found but you can never be too cautious.  Walking back to the rusted entrace into the cylinder Nicole strips out of her clothes and slides them in the second empty bag.  She has a limited wardrobe and her clothes get filthy enough without rolling around in an abandoned chemical vat.

Satisfied she turns on the light and crawls into the dark.  Making a slow walk around the perimeter she checks for anything out of the ordinary  with her heightened senses before  taping the first tarp over the entrance and laying the second one out so she can lay down with her weapons and fold the tarp over herself.

2008-11-06 15:09:20 Nicole Bannister rolls 5 dice to Perception + Auspex 8,7,3,5,10 (3 successes)

The inside of the sylinder is deceptively clean. Beyond the expected spiders webs and some debris that has blown or been dragged inside. There are no signs of graffiti or anything else that would suggest someone else resides here.

When the wind picks up the vat seems to moan, a very eerie sound but one that shouldnt bother Nicole too much, especially in her daytime coma. This isnt much of a permanant haven, but for at least today she will be safe from the sun or any curious interlopers.