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Some cunt's recording this.
Steve Harris, Iron Maiden - "Mission from 'Arry"

Hobbes: Am I the only one who feels like we're being watched?
Calvin: You mean like in a really cheesy clichéd movie fashion?

With a Perception+Alertness roll, characters might notice a cloud of night-flying insects momentarily shape themselves into a pair of eyes, or see a gnarled face grow in a tree near their haven. The Antediluvian does not harm the characters, even if the coterie includes a Tzimisce or Tremere. It has no need of the characters... yet... but it watches them.

"In video games where you sleep to regain health, you cannot do so when there are enemies nearby because 'You are not safe'. Remember the last time you couldn't fall asleep?"
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Vila: I've the feeling we're being watched.
Avon: Automatic scanners will have picked us up as soon as we got here.
Blake's 7, "Pressure Point"

Someone is quietly spying on you from afar. Someone is constantly shadowing you. Someone is always right behind you, looking at you. Eventually the footsteps will be a little offbeat from yours, and you'll hear one extra. And then, when you turn off the light and climb into your futon, it will stare down at you from the base of your pillow. Silently, patiently, waiting until you've accepted your sins.

It was worth everything to hold her like that, to feel her warmth and weight and breath, even in this godforsaken century. Even if it was only for the night, and the next day.
Even if he was beginning to feel, as Kara had, that somehow, they were being watched.

Unnamed Lieutenant: ...Slipped the surveillance roughly half hour ago, nothing since then.[...]
General Lane: She's a smart girl. No question she suspects that we're watching her.

"I can smell your foul stench, Desaad. I will not tolerate lurking about my chambers."

Touji: "Hey Ken, ya ever get the feeling yer being watched?"
Kensuke: "Weird way to start a conversation but yeah a bit, yeah. But I'd chalk that up to living in a fortress city while going to school with the pilots of giant mechs that protect humanity. So that's probably the shadowy bodyguards watching you from a distance. Like, see there's one peeking out from the ceiling tiles right now. Hey Yamada."

"It feels like somebody... WANTS TO SELL ME SOMETHING!!!"
SpongeBob, SpongeBob SquarePantsnote 

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