Vampire:2020

Vampire 2020

In ten years, two Princes and then none. The tyrannical Prince Wallace, who called sixteen bloodhunts in six months, cut down by his former ally Victor Syrenno. Syrenno himself forced to step down pending the election of a new Prince… Now, enter a coterie of neonates, or more seasoned kindred, assembled for a job. Boons and rewards promised and signed. And then the job goes badly- somebody fucked up, intelligence was bad, and now the coterie is left holding the bag. But hey, there’s another job to make up for your botches in a city trembling on the brink of a power struggle.

Kindred of Note

BRUJAH CLAN

Prince Victor Syrenno. Formally the Seneschal of Prince Wallace. Lead the coup that unseated him and reigned as Prince for nearly a year before he lost the support of the Elders of the City and was forced to into abdication and exile. “I do not commit this foul act out of personal ambition but loyalty to the city.”

Bruce Hutton, Brujah, 7th Generation. Childe of Theodore the Armenian. Immigrated to the City from England in 1851. Sire of Mac Bishop. Publicly volunteered his childe for the Important Mission.

TOREADOR CLAN

The Toreador Clan has had a strong hold over the Easy City since it’s founding. While Wallace Markham was not it’s first Prince he was the longest serving one; his wild actions in the last year of his reign caused much harm to the Toreador Clan and Prince Syrenno’s coup unseated the Clan of the Rose from it’s lofty position. In the post-Syrenno environment Marissa took up the mantle of Toreador Primogen, dividing the clan between Wallace’s brood and the other Toreador.

Prince Wallace Markham. Toreador. Deposed and Killed by Victor Syrenno. 7th Generation.

Marissa, Primogen of the Toreador. Childe of Elsa Linden.

CLAN GRANGEL

John Motte, Sheriff of the City. One of Wallace’s officers.

THE CITY, East Coast of the US.

North-side area

Commercial Downtown

Museum of Mechanical Science

Ballard Institute of the Arts

Burlesque (Cosplay Bar)

City central PD and law courts

The Eastside dock district

Greene Shipyard

Naval Station Ames

Rumored site of a illegal Fight club ran by the russian mob.

Gotham Yacht Club

LeMay International Airport, an artificial island constructed in Gotham bay. Finished stage four construction in the late 90's. The project, compared to the abandoned subway project, finished on time but massively over-budget.

Old town. A Mix of old buildings and new business/commercial office buildings and sites. Brownstone buildings, plus gothic art deco.

The Confessional Nightclub (on the edge of the dock district)

Endron International Tower (South of the old town district)

Leonas Tower (a gothic style office skyscraper built in the 1980's. Features alternating sections with no windows). One of the primary Elysium's.

Old Church University, established 1880. (One of the campus' is the site of the Tremere Chantry)

Blackgate Asylum

West's Books, run by an eccentric lady who hosts Egyptian revival ceremonies every weekend.

Industrial District (West, and north)

Old canning factory

JB's Meat Packers

Blood Alley (slaughterhouse row)

United Carbide chemical plant

Southside ghetto/depressed

'The Project', seven blocks of never fully completed midrise apartments built in a failed attempt at 80s urban renewal. Surrounded by a 10' high brick wall.

Iron Hills Penitentiary, built just before WWI and shows every year.

The Subway

Six or Seven stations built in the 1920's and in use until at least the 1960s. Lack of funding saw the eventual abandonment of one station after another until by the 70's none were in use.

The Skytrain

An over-head skytrain system slowly being constructed through-out the city. Most of the North District and Downtown is complete with a single connection to the docks and western district finished. Full connection to Bludhaven and Montauk is expected to be completed in 2022 or 2023. The Lower East Crestfield line hasn't been started due to budgetary issues.

The Burroughs of East City

Bludhaven. Originating as a whaling and smuggling port in the 1700’s Bludhaven’s fortunes rose and fell over the decades but was ultimately eclipsed economically by The City. After the great depression it was eventually incorporated into it as a burrough. Roughly half an hour north, up the coast, from city center Bludhaven features a scattering of decaying buildings and old brownstone tenements.

And old coastal USAF Radar site. Concrete brutalism at its finest. Closed since the 70’s.

Montauk. Site of the Montauk Airport at the closed the USAF base.

Lower East Crestfield. Anarch Country. Bordering the city on the south Lower East Crestfield has merged completely with the Southside Ghetto over the years. The “Project” marks the rough dividing line between the formal territory of the Praxis of East City and ‘unclaimed’ territory. Various Anarch groups have existed over the years facing Sabbat incursions from the south and Wallace’s more benign harassment from the north.

Stuff

Characters

• Vampire 20th Edition. Revised books are compatible.
• By default it is assumed that the characters are members of the Camarilla (or if playing a clan normally outside of it, on the job to get in).
• Consider why your character as included in the job. What reward did they ask for? What were they promised?
• Example Character Sheet

Alive

Mac Bishop. WhiteStar. Brujah.

• Desc: Apparently Healthy caucasion male in his late 20's/early thirties, with short black hair and brown eyes. Usually dressed in nondescript and practical clothes.
• Bio: Former US Army Tracked Vehicle Repairer (91H), went survivalist after mustering out before being embraced by his sire Bruce Hutton who was in need of hands on technical skills from the modern day. When he proved to not be susceptible to blood bonding this caused a minor falling out, leaving Bishop to set up a fly by night PI business to get by, eventually culminating in Hutton volunteering him to the local Camerilla for a high risk mission. Bishop privately suspects it was a plot to tie up loose ends without his Sire getting his hands dirty but can't prove it. Yet.

James Rathmore. Oseng. Salubri.

• Desc: Tall, skinny, man of apparent Caucasian/Northern European origin and hard to determine age. Short cropped brown hair and matching eyes, typically dressed in neat business casual clothing.
• Bio: A doctor whose personality, philosophy, and skills as a healer attracted the attention of his sire, Fiona. Like his sire, whose last name he has taken/been awarded with in his current identity, he claims to be part of the Toreador clan. He and his sire came to a city a couple of years ago to settle a significant debt or favor his lineage owes. That favor was one of the reasons he was called upon to assist with the job. Though his sire is currently out of the city tending to other business she has plans to return later in the year.

Marek Valenta OmegaPaladin. Toreador.

• Desc: Mid-twenties geeky white dude with dark hair and a baseball cap. Missed the memo on Toreadors being attractive - even the cool shades don't help much.
• Bio: Marek had been good with computers all his life. Even as he was in high school he began to get a reputation as a White Hat and occasional source of mischief. After getting out of college, he began successful career as a consultant and freelance hacker. Then he got a big job from a drop-dead gorgeous lady named Marie Genevieve de Colombeau, which involved the most challenging data acquisition in his career - he pulled it off without a hitch. The reward turned out to include eternal darkness. Now, he's her surprise weapon and source of social intel.

Alice Mae White Silence. Toreador. Singer. Gun Moll

Jez (legally Amber Zeiss). Shrike. Toreador.

Sessions

Episode 1: The Legal Resurrection of Horace Blaze. 5 XP.