Post by Victor Adelai on Nov 26, 2013 16:42:23 GMT -8
Oi. You know what fuckin' sucks about blood hunts an' war? It means I gotta do stuff. People call me and I gotta do this whole... job thing.
Alright. Look. The followin' was sent ta me by the now infamous Durante Giovanni. He's asked me ta print it here. I'm doing so unedited and in the spirit of journalistic integrity. Neither I, my organization, or the powers-that-be of Tacoma endorse it. However; we've been kicked around enough ta know that everyone needs a voice, and what they do with that voice is their own business.
So. Without further ado. Here's a letter from Mr. Giovanni.
To the Honorable Colin Colisimo,
While I can hardly say that I am surprised at the announcement that followed the events of the morning of the 24th of November, I can certainly say I am disappointed. I am disappointed, Prince, that your advisers are so woefully uninformed and your own memory of the topics contained within your announcement so skewed.
To begin, what is presently your city, and has been countless others reaching all the way back to Isaac Goldwin when I arrived, has been rife with infernalists. Individuals so eager to sell their existence and prayers to the denizens of the pit of Hell that is wrapped within the Abyss. We have seen several confirmed of such, most notably Tiberius Harkness and Jean-Luc BonSange. There have been, at minimum, three agents of hell that individuals have followed, including your Sophia Chapman. What I can also tell you is that the entity that Harkness followed has been banished from your domain. A fallen angel of the Halaku house that had the entirety of Seattle shaped to house its evil. And while the ancient Earthbound is not destroyed utterly, the Namaru 'Balthazar' has been unmade from creation, to whom your Sophia Chapman made pact.
To your specific claims, they are laughably misguided. When the Samedi was being questioned by those of your court, I was on hand as an expert of the Dead and the Infernal, of which those that claim the same title among you are so woefully wrong. The only thing that I 'assured' anyone was that there was a demon in Smith tower and that the dead inside the building were infernally bound to it. These dead who are bent on the destruction of everything, and nothing else.
These are the same variety of restless dead who were, as you so eloquently put, were sucked up. Though, I can say that I had never even stepped foot inside Smith Tower outside of one visit with your Morris Tobias and another to address the threat within it. What you are thinking of, however, was Naja Ghiberti who gathered up quite a few of the dead for purposes still unknown, from the domains then-held by Giovanni in Everett. Which, I will point out, is a great deal different than downtown Seattle. Your kind killed Naja, as well. They invaded our possessed lands and murdered him in cold blood. And then attempted, and failed as you have failed with me, to murder Nadia Giovanni.
But, as you also said, back to the story.
Your domain has still yet to offer an ounce of payment for saving every single undead soul within it for services rendered removing the Federal Bureau of Investigation from it. Your domain has reneged on payment for actions taken against your own enemy in Dylan Bruce, former member of the Sabbat. The individuals involved in Smith Tower, who fed a hapless, innocent street vagrant to the very definition of evil within it, were not Hellspawn, no. But they certainly were not the paragons of virtue, as you seem to believe.
Let me repeat that for reminders-sake. Who fed a hapless, innocent street vagrant to the very definition of evil. For someone else, this was their Sophia Chapman. This was their Sonya Dombroski. You were there for that discussion, but you cared little for the life-lost of someone else's existence. Because they were not in your life.
Moving on, lets address what offers you are said to have received. I never wanted Bellevue. I never wanted additional domain at all. Up until this pointless affair, I have existed quite well with the others in this domain. Why would I want to take their homes? No, my offer was quite more simple for you. Do not declare a blood hunt, allow the two of us to speak on this as men, and any involvement you had in the actions this past Sunday morning would be forgotten. Bring the pair who directly attempted to take my existence from me. It would have been in your hands to negotiate or barter for the lives of those who so brazenly attempted to take mine.
I came to you in honesty, Colin, to show you and yours that all had suffered, not just those within Seattle proper. Instead, you attempted to take my life in sedition and deceit. It took the entirety of the newly arrived Tremere Chantry to fail at murdering me, by myself, unaware.
I ask you a question, Colin. Is this your city? Do you truly rule here? Or does the so recently arrived Silas Boren rule? Do the newly arrived Tremere hold your hand to the scepter, and speak with your mouth? Or is it another elder of your clan, who so curiously speaks to inanimate objects and performs ritual? You were the hope of so many in this domain. A prince without bloodlust, the likes of which Seattle has not seen in quite some time. I am very disappointed that this has proven to be not the case.
If you are so keen to keep a tally, consider how many kindred lives each of our factions have taken from one another. Keep in mind who the aggressors are in each instance.
Be seeing you.
Durante Giovanni