Vancouver Briefing

Tradition

Hasseltine House

Where Tempus Spatium hangs its wands and cosplay outfits.

At the corner of Cordova and Dunlevy, right across from Oppenheimer Park

4 point node

Gate to Arcus Prima

The Protopad

The original quarters of Tempus Spatium.

Condo stack just west of Chinatown, near Andy Livingstone Park

3 point node

The Roach Motel

Newly renovated formerly beat-up apartments owned by Arcus Prima. We're getting into real estate now!

At the corner of Gore and Railway, backing into the railroad tracks themselves.

3 point node

Vancouver Chinese Alliance Church

Believed to be associated with a Chorister mission. Has two locations, one in the East Vancouver suburbs and a new building in South Vancouver near the Fraser River, bordering Burnaby.

Vancouver branch is at 3330 Knight Street

Richmond branch is at 3330 S.E. Marine Drive

Keep to themselves - if there's even mages there.

Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture

HQ for the infamous Ectastic Marc Emery.

307 Hastings St W

Sells lots of books and pot-related paraphernalia. Probably actually a front with the Ecstatics living in DTES (Downtown East Side) and keeping a low profile.

The Ecstatics here would probably also be active in raising awareness and supporting programs to help drug addicts.

Granville Island

A very bohemian and artsy area of the city, set up solely for small businesses of the artistic sort. Also includes the world-famous Emily Carr Art Institute. Proof positive of the political clout that the Ecstatics wielded in Vancouver when they had a Syndicate 'Magic Man' defect to the Cult.

The Iterators have managed to cap the node here though, with a cement plant (I'm not kidding), though the cement plant actually predates the artsy upgrades.

Mundy Park

It's not nicknamed 'Sherweed forest' for nothing. Probably infested with Ecstatics and Verbena trying to corrupt our youth.

It's a park. Plenty of trees and various amateur wicca groups do their thing there.

Musqueam-Tsawwassen Indian Reserves

Being close to the Delta wetlands, there may be Dreamspeakers and/or Verbena in the area, both trying to keep that piece of nature alive and to fight for redress against colonial policy against natives.

South-west Delta, near the ferry terminal.

Maritime Museum of BC

A museum dedicated to the fading glory of the Etherites, back when they were a member of the Order of Reason and Steam was King.

28 Bastion Square, Victoria

They've got cool ship exhibits

Not sure if they've got any fight left though.

Bright Woods Spiritual Centre

A Shinto shrine on Saltspring Island (about an hour's ferry from Vancouver) with a small community. Abandoned by the Traditions since the fall of Hasseltine House in 2004-5.

250 Holmes Road Saltspring Island

Node is almost certainly fallow. Will need a shrine maiden to properly renew it.

There already is a shrine maiden there, surely. Perhaps a bitter christmas cake.

Overall Tradition presence in Vancouver and region is relatively light. Members of the Cult of Ecstacy are the most common and have ride the generally easygoing, progressive politics of the region to shape public opinions. Verbena and Dreamspeakers are also prominent, though the Dreamspeakers have been unable to make substantial headway against the NWO when it comes to repairing the damages of the colonization era. Most other Tradition mages are simply transients.

Technocratic

Ballenas Island

Laser Bear Central. Right next to CFB Nanoose Bay

Void Engineer base.

Solid defenses

DTI Finance

The local Syndicate HQ. Takes up floors 17-29 of Bental tower 2. Probably a lot of mirror shade hanging happens here.

At the corner of Dunsmuir and Burrard. Right down town.

Civilians everywhere.

Right next to the Burrard Skytrain station, which is underground.

TRIUMF

The Tri-University Meson Factory. With a name like that though you know it's something more.

Near the south end of the UBC campus, right next to the woody expanse of Pacific Spirit Park

Probably one srs bsns node, recharging meson powerpacks for plasma rifles, ectoplasma blasters and voidships.

Pinnacle Architecture

A small and long-running NWO-Iterator construct that lays claim to guiding Vancouver's development for the past fourty years, being made up mostly of planners and architects. Whatever they're doing, they're doing it right (or so they'd like you to believe) since they keep winning the Most Livable City awards. Technocrats patting technocrat backs.

5th floot of the Scotiabank building, West Geogia and Seymour

Iterators without guns? What are they supposed to shoot you with? Protractors?

You young'uns weren't around for the architecture wars in the '60s. They didn't call it 'Brutalism' for nothing.

Ballard Power Systems, Inc

They were gonna be the next big thing in fuel cell technologies. Except they weren't. Maybe they've been cut off or maybe their work was deemed too 'sensitive' (or simply too advanced) to be introduced yet.

Their site is in south Burnaby, on the Fraser River.

Technocratic presence in Vancouver and region has been relatively light and has been dominated for some decades by the Syndicate who find Vancouver's status as a gateway port city excellent to build economic bridges across the Pacific. Iterators and Progenitors are mostly only in town on business - Vancouver is not known as a research hub, and those sites with connections are generally satellites - and the NWO seems content to limit itself to (or incapable of managing more than) keeping the Dreamspeakers out of any meaningful political influence. The construction of a Void Engineer base on Ballenas Island several years ago is unexplained and with the fall of Hasseltine House, has left the Council intelligence-gatherers at a loss.

Vampires/Kuei-Jin

Yong Xian Benevolent Association

Ozu-sama's primary front organization, where the local Camarila pays its respects. Recently renovated after some gang warfare got exceptionally violent in the summer of 2009 and the building was mistakenly attacked by thugs. Yessss, 'mistakenly'.

On Main Street, between Keefer and Pender

Means Forever Immortal. Hubris much?

Has several state of the art meeting rooms and a very Japanese martial arts dojo on the top (5th) floor.

Hotel Vancouver

Kang's underground palace/lair/labyrinth was under the Hotel Vancouver. It's now used as a meeting room when Ozu entertains important guests from out of the city.

Barely a block from the Syndicate HQ. Coincidence? FOX news says no!

Republic Nightclub and Boss Nightclub

Two trendy, popular clubs owned by Ozu. Full of 20somethings and vampires that like to feed on them. Several others are common vampire hangouts, but these two are the most favored.

Both are downtown.

The Edgewater

Unluckiest. Casino. Ever.

On the north side of False Creek, just south of BC Place.

Times powned by deviants: 3

Werewolves

Lumberman's Arch

A powerful cairn maintained in the heart of the city, where the wuffs go when they're not busily tearing humans limb from limb. The technos probably haven't busted it yet because they couldn't take the public outcry it'd cause.

One of the more famous monuments in Stanley Park.

Also full of LARPers playing Lycanthrope: The Rapture

Misc Supernatural

China Gate

The gate is a supernatural link between Vancouver and Guangzhou, China.

On Pender, between Taylor and Carrall

It'd be weird if there was no Dragon Wizard stuff in Vancouver or Victoria Chinatown. This could be one of their things.

Riverview Hospital

The Vancouver area mental health facility. At one point it had over 4000 patients.

Probably has some pretty twisted resonance. Not a good place to visit in the umbra.

Probably also home to some changelings. Not that we really know changelings exist.