Who: Blade NPCs: Baroness Blood & other 'daywalkers.' When: May 28, 2009. Early afternoon. Where: An abandoned barn twenty minutes outside London, England What: Blade is surprised not only by vampires in broad day light, but Baroness Blood herself. All Hell proceeds to break loose. Rating: R
Blade constantly traveled the world in search of vampires and as such he had no permanent residence. At the most, he did have secret weapon caches hidden in cities he tends to frequent, but beyond that any actual housing would be useless to him. Like the creatures he hunted, he wanted to be constantly on the move, to avoid both retaliation by his prey, as well as detection by governmental or police authorities.
What he did instead was set up temporary 'shops' in places he thought he would be in for a prolonged period of time. In this instance, he had managed to move into an abandoned farm house twenty odd minutes outside of London. While his makeshift headquarters was hardly anything to fawn over, it was private and remote enough that, for the most part, he did not have to worry about being disturbed in his down time.
Having sent Whistler into the city to search archival date for the Baroness, Blade was himself still recovering from being shot. Even he had to take it easy once in a while. Sitting in a chair and holding a syringe to his arm as he prepared to inject himself with his special serum, he looked up from what he was doing when he heard movement. Just as he was about to dismiss it as nothing, the door of the barn blew open, with enough force to blown him backward out of his chair, shards of wood flying in every which direction.
"What..the.. Hell...", he grumbled, as he rose to one knee, reaching to grab his sword. As if in answer to his question, the interior of the barn began to fill with machine gun toting thugs, who wasted no time in opening fire.