"Is this one of yours?" and Clear as Day
Cast: Bronwyn, Hugo and Violet Meyer [Thinbloods]
Synopsis: A pair of psychotic and evil Thin Bloods begin a rampage across Chicago's Blood Bank system.
Analysis: This one is a pretty blatant homage to Natural Born Killers and they even name check the movie in the description, which I have to give them credit for. At least it has the concept of a husband and wife team of psychopaths that are engaged in incredibly public crime that has become subject to media scrutiny. In this case, the pair of Thin Bloods are openly robbing Blood Mobiles and stealing the contents. This has actually happened a couple of times in real life and gets the same reaction of, "Maybe it was thirst crazed vampires!" joking reaction. I imagine it would not be treated as funny if the robbers murdered the people involved.
This is another fairly straightforward adventure and of the kind I prefer to call "Sabbat Hijinks" adventures. Part of why I think the Sabbat needs to come back is not just because I think plenty of Black Hand fans should have the option to play their favorite characters but because they are a source of very easy adventure fodder. There's a Sabbat serial killer on the loose, a Sabbat pack is raising hell in your area, and an evil cult has begun recruiting the homeless into their Doomsday cult that actually ends up Embracing them as shovelheads. Things that aren't big on moral ambiguity but is just the bad vampires [the PCs] versus the worst vampires [the Sabbat].
The Meyers family aren't Sabbat but they might as well be. I like the fact that they're Duskborn/Thin Bloods because it shows that not all of them are going to be "humans with fangs" that is the traditional depiction of them. Even if their Beast and Hunger are far weaker than most, they still have a Beast and Hunger. The transition to a new life among the undead was also particularly traumatic for them as they apparently fed on their family. For the sake of maximum horror and explaining why they're completely nuts, I would suggest that their family included their own children.
There's no room to negotiate here and the Meyers are the worst sort of people now even if they weren't before. I actually don't think the adventure would be helped much by making them more ambiguous as sometimes you just want to make a point that people go irrevocably wrong. You could maybe have their sire show up and reveal that they was trying to save their lives after feeding on them or something similarly sympathetic. The Meyers would just want to kill him or her but it might add another layer to the story.
More interesting to me is the use of the Circulatory System that I feel like can either be treated as a valuable resource or the most horrifying thing in Kindred society. They provide blood in a delivery system that allows vampires to not necessarily expose themselves or others to danger. Bagged blood is not as lucrative to them as human vessels but it is something every Kindred would want within easy reach, IMHO. All vampires would want to take the edge off if they could even it's a microwavable TV dinner compared to sex/heroin. However, depending on how you treat them, they could very well also be outright human traffickers and modern day slavers.
Which is a great potential enemy in any campaign.
Cast: Bronwyn, Hugo and Violet Meyer [Thinbloods]
Synopsis: A pair of psychotic and evil Thin Bloods begin a rampage across Chicago's Blood Bank system.
Analysis: This one is a pretty blatant homage to Natural Born Killers and they even name check the movie in the description, which I have to give them credit for. At least it has the concept of a husband and wife team of psychopaths that are engaged in incredibly public crime that has become subject to media scrutiny. In this case, the pair of Thin Bloods are openly robbing Blood Mobiles and stealing the contents. This has actually happened a couple of times in real life and gets the same reaction of, "Maybe it was thirst crazed vampires!" joking reaction. I imagine it would not be treated as funny if the robbers murdered the people involved.
This is another fairly straightforward adventure and of the kind I prefer to call "Sabbat Hijinks" adventures. Part of why I think the Sabbat needs to come back is not just because I think plenty of Black Hand fans should have the option to play their favorite characters but because they are a source of very easy adventure fodder. There's a Sabbat serial killer on the loose, a Sabbat pack is raising hell in your area, and an evil cult has begun recruiting the homeless into their Doomsday cult that actually ends up Embracing them as shovelheads. Things that aren't big on moral ambiguity but is just the bad vampires [the PCs] versus the worst vampires [the Sabbat].
The Meyers family aren't Sabbat but they might as well be. I like the fact that they're Duskborn/Thin Bloods because it shows that not all of them are going to be "humans with fangs" that is the traditional depiction of them. Even if their Beast and Hunger are far weaker than most, they still have a Beast and Hunger. The transition to a new life among the undead was also particularly traumatic for them as they apparently fed on their family. For the sake of maximum horror and explaining why they're completely nuts, I would suggest that their family included their own children.
There's no room to negotiate here and the Meyers are the worst sort of people now even if they weren't before. I actually don't think the adventure would be helped much by making them more ambiguous as sometimes you just want to make a point that people go irrevocably wrong. You could maybe have their sire show up and reveal that they was trying to save their lives after feeding on them or something similarly sympathetic. The Meyers would just want to kill him or her but it might add another layer to the story.
More interesting to me is the use of the Circulatory System that I feel like can either be treated as a valuable resource or the most horrifying thing in Kindred society. They provide blood in a delivery system that allows vampires to not necessarily expose themselves or others to danger. Bagged blood is not as lucrative to them as human vessels but it is something every Kindred would want within easy reach, IMHO. All vampires would want to take the edge off if they could even it's a microwavable TV dinner compared to sex/heroin. However, depending on how you treat them, they could very well also be outright human traffickers and modern day slavers.
Which is a great potential enemy in any campaign.
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