"POV you just joined the Midnight Circle"
The Midnight Circle is a coven of Tremere witches. They are all played by Charlie Slimecicle.
Description[]
Appearance[]
They wear dark purple robes and keep their faces obscured. They are many different ages, but all female. One of them wears an apple watch.
Personality[]
While they try to keep up an air of mystery, the witches are much more mundane then they appear. They are very sarcastic and are always poking fun at those trying to gain information from them. They frequently speak in unison and refuse to give their individual names to the group when asked, and it is unclear whether they have their own separate lives and consciousnesses.
Background[]
Pre Canon[]
A time witch that was a member of the coven defected, leaving the Midnight Circle to find werewolves and be turned into a werewolf vampire abomination. She went feral and haunted Griffith Observatory Park, and stepping into a certain spot in the park at any point in time would cause her to spawn and kill you.
During Canon[]
When Arthur, Shilo, and Emizel visit Griffith Observatory park the area is surrounded in a purple glow, and looking up at the moon the craters seem to grow larger and closer, until it becomes clear the coven is floating down towards them. The Midnight Circle all began dancing in a circle, until they floated down to the ground as the sky turned into a canvas of starlight. Emizel tried to jump up to them, but they moved out of the way. As Shilo shouted up to them, they all stopped dancing and turned to him. Speaking in unison, they told the group that to enter The Midnight Circle they would need to speak their intentions one word at a time to prove they trusted each other. Emizel started the sentence and as they went around it became clear that this sentence was not going anywhere. The circle told them that they could not use the word "and," so they used the word etcetera instead. The Midnight Circle also offered them one mulligan for their sentence. Arthur took this mulligan, and the new sentence they came up with was "tell us the secrets of our curse." The tremere accepted this response, and they were allowed into the Lunarchive.
To transport them to the Lunarchive, the Midnight Circle offered Arthur, Emizel, and Shilo goblets of their blood. Emizel drank it first, and started to float upwards. Arthur drank second, and as he started to drift off the ground Emizel disintegrated into stars and disappeared. Shilo watched Arthur disappear before very begrudgingly drinking his share of the blood and joining the rest of the group in the Lunarchive. Once they were in the library, the Midnight Circle told the kindred they would be stuck here for a month. During this month, they would need to learn in time or they would become a steward of the Lunarchive and be stuck here forever as a shade. With that, they all disappeared for the next week. They returned the next week to check on them, saw they were all struggling, and disappeared again. The next time the circle returned, they were all hugging and bonding over Arthur's history. They made fun of Shilo and told him to stop crying. Emizel complemented their robes and the witches offered him his own before disappearing again. At the end of the third week, Arthur and Shilo had learned what they needed to learn and were given patches to symbolize their acceptance into The Midnight Circle. Upon Arthur's request, the circle took him to reteach one of his abilities while Shilo helped Emizel finish his trial. They brought Arthur to a dreamscape with a huge moon in front of him and told him that he could give up the ability of psychic domination in exchange for something else. He asked them for information instead of another ability, specifically what the end goal of The Midnight Circle was. They revealed to him that their goal was to resurrect the Moonbeast and set it loose on the world. He saw an image of the moon cracking in half and tendrils spiraling out of it, setting the Earth on purple fire. Arthur returned to the Lunarchive to see Emizel had successfully completed his trials. The circle gave him his patch, attaching it upside down because Emizel annoyed them. With all three of them having completed their trials, the witches told them they could now receive the answers they had come for. Emizel went first and was taken to the same place Arthur had gotten his abilities changed, now with a large silver bowl in front of him. They explained he would have to give something to the bowl, and his sacrifice would determine how much information he got. Emizel gave up the ability to do taxes and his memory of his father. In return, he learned why Shilo had been born a vampire and he hadn't, why he had nine lives, and when he asked the question "what is the nature of my vampirism" he was given a vision of himself on a rainy street. He looked down at his hands to see they were covered in blood and his veins were visible, and as he reached them up to his head the vision ended. Arthur went next, and after a lot of contemplating he gave up his appearance, a large portion of his humanity, and his income. First, he learned what the amber was that had driven his father mad. Next, he asked how he could be freed from his curse and was given a vision of himself as a human again, much older and standing atop a cliff. Then he saw himself as a vampire trapped in a glass cage with something golden running through his veins and shining from his eyes. Last, he asked how he could be freed from his curse of disadvantage and was given an image of his father's old friend Samuel in front of the symbol of the Grimslayers. Shilo went last and gave up his eye by ripping it out and putting it in the bowl. He learned his mother's history and how she had become The Queen, as well as Edward Twilight's history and rise to power. After everyone returned to the Lunarchive, Shilo, Emizel, and Arthur all began to discuss what they had learned and given up. They told the Midnight Circle not to listen in on their conversation, and slightly offended the witches did a witch dance nearby. After they were done discussing they asked The Midnight Circle to send them back, and they sent them down to Earth again and said they could come back any full moon.
Trivia[]
- Charlie's voice for them is supplemented by the voice of a woman, it is unknown who plays this role
- If anyone didn't complete their trial before the end of the four weeks, the Midnight Circle would've asked them to get rid of the WhenWolf
- The Midnight Circle cursed a unknown vampire into becoming The Cumpire