Jesos Alcala, El Lobo de Canto

Jes6s Alcal6 supported his family by playing the accordion and singing songs. A Mexican Mafia thug liked his performances and recommended Jeslis to his associates, and so Jeslis and his band often played for gangland figures. Jeslis obligingly wrote narcocorridos about his patrons. He won a small reputation as a musician who could write a song about anyone on short notice.

His gangland connections drew the attention of Venere Carboni, a powerful Cainite musician who had associated with criminals back when he was alive. Jesh reminded Venere of himself from his breathing days and so the elder spitefully decided to ruin his life. Such is the favor of the Toreador Mwco Cm BY NIGH[ 14 antiniibu.

Venere used his supernatural powers to send Jesk into a spiral of jealousy, despair and rage that climaxed with the musician murdering his wife. The Toreador smiled. Now his fellow musician had material for an eternity’s worth of songs. Venere was not the only Cainite interested in Jeslis. A City Gangrel Embraced the musician mere hours before Venere planned to do it himself.

Hartmann Strauss, a Cainite in El Grito de Dolor, thought that the coven needed someone to write Loyalist protest songs. The Gangrel knew nothing of Venere’s manipulation, and picked Jesds because he had heard him play in a bar. Venere destroyed Strauss for his impudence, but had to leave Mexico City on a month-long embassy before he could execute areally fiendish punishment on Jesds.

When Venere returned the moment had passed and the elder set aside vengeance for the time being. Jesds fulfilled all of Strauss’hopes. Sabbat neonates love his vampirocmidos about Lupine hunts, murders of Camarilla elders, Monomacy and sect festivals.

The musician has become the Loyalists’ greatest propagandist: His songs extol the rugged independence of Loyalist packs and mock the elders who try to impose discipline on the Sabbat. Jeslis can sing a song at a Blood Feast or fire dance and within amonth, half the Sabbat in Mexico City have heard the song and sing it themselves.

A satiric song from Jes6s can inflict a shortterm loss of prestige upon another Cainite. The musician looked up three colleagues from when he was alive and forced blood bonds on them, so he could have aproper band to accompany his songs. This group calls itself Los Lobos de Canto the Wolves of Song.

The ghouls rent apartments in Barrio de Tepito, while Jeslis sleeps at the El Grito de Dolor communal haven. Jeslis and his band often hang out at Garibaldi Square, where Sabbat packs can hire them for a night’s entertainment. Mortals also hire Los Lobos de Canto. Jesds retains his Mexican Mafia contacts and plays the occasional gangland gig.

He hears a great deal about who does what in the city’s underworld. Jesds keeps one great secret from the rest of El Grito de Dolor. He lost track of his young son and daughters during his Sabbat indoctrination. For all that Jesh talks the talk about abandoning mortal connections, he worries about what happened to his children, who would now be teenagers.

He seeks them through his gangland connections. If he finds them, he plans to find them a new home with a prosperous drug dealer. If necessary, he will subject the dealer to a blood bond in order to make him agree. Such concern for mortal relatives could hurt Jesds’ own prestige within El Grito de Dolor if it became known.

It would also give other Cainites a powerful hold over Jeslis if they could find his children first.