The Elysium of Early January 1999

"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."

- Anita Brookner (born 1938), British novelist, art historian.

Rumours heard

The Prince: Conall MacArran of Clan Ventrue.
The Seneschal: Meredith James of Clan Toreador.
The Harpy: Alixander Wheelwright-Rook of Clan Toreador.
The Sheriff: Vilos Cohagen of Clan Toreador.
The duties of the Keeper of Elysium were performed by the Coterie Centari Elysai.

The Primogen Council

Elysium was held January 5th in the year of our Lord 1999, at the Toronto Dominion Centre.

Tonight's Elysium was marred by a dispute between two Primogen, Suzy Taylor of Clan Malkavian, and Aphroditie of Clan Nospheratu. Apparently, Suzy made the observation that there were a lot of stupid people in the Elysium that evening, or as she put it, a lot of 'gits'. However, this was misinterpreted by Aphroditie, who thought that Suzy was refering to the Primogen Council. As a result, a rumour was repeated in the Elysium (later attributed to Aphrodite) that Suzy had said that the Primogen Council was composed of stupid people. Some members of the Primogen Council were understandably offended by this, and during the evening Aphrodite had status loaned to her so that she could go to the Harpy and say that one point of Suzy's status should be removed. When Suzy heard of this, she became 'upset' that all of these lies were being spread about her, and went to the Harpy to say that she wanted a status point stripped from Aphrodite for spreading unsubsantiated rumours.

The Harpy opinion was that this was all a waste of his time, and he announced that he was removing a point of status from both Suzy and Aphrodite.

The Prince also made an announcement that all mortal influence in the city's police should be turned over to him. For this point onwards, it was to be considered the Domain of the Prince. Someone in the assembled asked if all mortal infuence was to be considered the Domain of those holding it from this point onwards. At this, the Prince raised his eyebrow, almost as if he were either amused or irritated by the question. Whatever the case, a smile did not grace his lips as he replied with a single word: "No."

And finally, Mercy Will, seemed in a very dejected mood. She spent several hours speaking with the Tremere, and near the end of Elysium, spoke with Meredith James, the Seneschal, who in turn became dejected as the conversation came to an end. And then Mercy left with the Tremere.

And no one has seen her since.

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