EDIT FROM THE YEAR 2021: Google screwed up all the links but they should(?) be fixed now!
TL;DR: An actual play of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines as a Requiem Chronicle. Complete as of 08/05/2018. Thanks for reading!
Bright Lights, Dead City
Hello, L.A. You’re up way past your bedtime, aren’t you?
You know this story. Right?
Boy meets...
Yeah, you know it. Boy meets girl, girl kills boy, boy rises from the bitter grave-dirt wanting more than just girls. It’s never as simple as that, though, is it? Spilt blood is messy. Gets mixed.
Gets thin.
Welcome to L.A.
The nights in Los Angeles are as thin as they come. The Blood runs thin and it’s only getting thinner. Too much lost down the gutter, and all over who got to be shit-king of the psychopaths. Brother against brother, clan against clan. All that good stuff. Ten years past and it still feels like the city’s gonna boil over. Any minute now…
The Revolution is biding its time. It’s a temporary setback. Opportunity in adversity. Another brick in the wall. The half-hearted Carthian mantras ring out in the bars they pretend to down whiskey in. One day the Ivory Tower will extend itself just a foot too far, and then the Carthians will show them all why they’re called Firebrands. Then it’ll be the bad old days, when every Kindred was her own master, and L.A. bowed to no self-titled monarch with a ten dollar name.
But not now. Never now.
The Invictus claim all of which their tentacles can suck life from. They can certainly afford it. The cops, the gangs...even the garbage men. So sure, they “won”, if you can call that victory. The Carthians got to keep most of their stupid pseudo-Soviet enclaves, and every Lick with a lick of sense knows the Ventrue’s little compromise candidate is a stepping stone for bigger fish. To know Sebastian LaCroix is to hate him, and that’s a kind way of putting it.
The Sanctified didn’t weather it. All that blood swept them away. The only thing left is a family of corpse fuckers on the edge of town, praying over their departed brethren and communing with the dead as if they aren’t the same damn thing.
The Ordo Dracul are very content indeed. Blood spilled is blood to analyze. Blood to taste. Let the Invictus and Carthians play politics and miss all the forests for all the trees. The Ordo know it’s on fire.
Don’t speak of the Mother’s Army. Kill them when you find them. Don’t let them take you alive.
And then there’s Chinatown. Even the Shadows can’t see the threads. Someone’s cutting them. Someone’s pulling them out.
The Usual Suspects
Zach likes to break things. On the ice he’d break noses, and he notched his stick for every fool who checked him, like some boys whittle bedposts. Back in Winnipeg that was enough, but it’s not in L.A., and it’s certainly not for the Kindred. Now, he breaks legs for the Dragons. In exchange they’ve promised to show him how to channel that aggression into something so much grander.
Alastair has a name only a Serpent could love. Once upon a time, Al's family did what it had to. He didn’t like that, so he ran. He didn’t run far enough, of course. He never could. He was too good at collecting dirt and spreading it, and becoming a vampire was the natural next step. The Firebrands aren’t good at subtlety, and that’s why they need him. Some say he’s got the luck of the Devil himself.
Obligatory Explanation
Welcome to my first AP! I’m co-STing this with a good buddy, Trotsky's Ghost, who will pop up occasionally to troll us.
Some of you know this plot pretty well. Some of you don’t.
For those of you who haven’t played Bloodlines: Huge spoilers ahead!
For those of you who have: Don’t take anything for granted. If you have questions about things that relate back to VTMB, private message me, or use the Spoiler Tags, if you want it to be public.
This game will be very roughly every other week, Friday or Saturday. I try to have a write-up for my players before game day, so that will roughly correspond with my updates.
For now, I’m leaving some things about the setting ambiguous. There will be hints as we go along (as well as explicit truths), but we don’t want to give too much away, and we’d rather readers experience the reveals along with the players.
The Story So Far...
Chapter 1, "An opening"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...9wM4UcZqFRFWvw
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...HlZjhVzWhUXLmg
Part 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...GtvBBor56YbRtA
Part 4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...6ymutAs_pRQXLQ
Chapter 2, "The first move"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...r_JijENei8UlAA
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...d-KabZc1VFWzTg
Part 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...kdVEYPW1Tg0HiQ
Part 4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...sBvSSDNpNoq6Ew
Chapter 3, "A sacrifice"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...zA0caTXPR3iYzw
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...GMluzIOUjuqGdA
Chapter 4, "A gambit"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...UOw5H-2fXoVbFw
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...IKLTP-gRhW7unw
Chapter 5, "The queen"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E..._5uflGCxBgUM9Q
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...UjAn9vllqbkmCQ
Part 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...qWBE3MnzR6_4Ug
Chapter 6, "The campaign"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...r5crqjNxst6Z7w
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...wxTaFvzqQv2xMw
Part 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M1M...ew?usp=sharing
Chapter 7, "The endgame"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NXx...ew?usp=sharing
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gIC...ew?usp=sharing
Finale: Don't Open It
Biographies: From A to Zed
Al (Character Sheet)
Zach (Character Sheet)
A Ghoulish Conversation
Zach vs. Romero: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...oUlm7pL9LBxCjA
Me, as Romero
[REDACTED], as Zach
TL;DR: An actual play of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines as a Requiem Chronicle. Complete as of 08/05/2018. Thanks for reading!
Bright Lights, Dead City
Hello, L.A. You’re up way past your bedtime, aren’t you?
You know this story. Right?
Boy meets...
Yeah, you know it. Boy meets girl, girl kills boy, boy rises from the bitter grave-dirt wanting more than just girls. It’s never as simple as that, though, is it? Spilt blood is messy. Gets mixed.
Gets thin.
Welcome to L.A.
The nights in Los Angeles are as thin as they come. The Blood runs thin and it’s only getting thinner. Too much lost down the gutter, and all over who got to be shit-king of the psychopaths. Brother against brother, clan against clan. All that good stuff. Ten years past and it still feels like the city’s gonna boil over. Any minute now…
The Revolution is biding its time. It’s a temporary setback. Opportunity in adversity. Another brick in the wall. The half-hearted Carthian mantras ring out in the bars they pretend to down whiskey in. One day the Ivory Tower will extend itself just a foot too far, and then the Carthians will show them all why they’re called Firebrands. Then it’ll be the bad old days, when every Kindred was her own master, and L.A. bowed to no self-titled monarch with a ten dollar name.
But not now. Never now.
The Invictus claim all of which their tentacles can suck life from. They can certainly afford it. The cops, the gangs...even the garbage men. So sure, they “won”, if you can call that victory. The Carthians got to keep most of their stupid pseudo-Soviet enclaves, and every Lick with a lick of sense knows the Ventrue’s little compromise candidate is a stepping stone for bigger fish. To know Sebastian LaCroix is to hate him, and that’s a kind way of putting it.
The Sanctified didn’t weather it. All that blood swept them away. The only thing left is a family of corpse fuckers on the edge of town, praying over their departed brethren and communing with the dead as if they aren’t the same damn thing.
The Ordo Dracul are very content indeed. Blood spilled is blood to analyze. Blood to taste. Let the Invictus and Carthians play politics and miss all the forests for all the trees. The Ordo know it’s on fire.
Don’t speak of the Mother’s Army. Kill them when you find them. Don’t let them take you alive.
And then there’s Chinatown. Even the Shadows can’t see the threads. Someone’s cutting them. Someone’s pulling them out.
The Usual Suspects
Zach likes to break things. On the ice he’d break noses, and he notched his stick for every fool who checked him, like some boys whittle bedposts. Back in Winnipeg that was enough, but it’s not in L.A., and it’s certainly not for the Kindred. Now, he breaks legs for the Dragons. In exchange they’ve promised to show him how to channel that aggression into something so much grander.
Alastair has a name only a Serpent could love. Once upon a time, Al's family did what it had to. He didn’t like that, so he ran. He didn’t run far enough, of course. He never could. He was too good at collecting dirt and spreading it, and becoming a vampire was the natural next step. The Firebrands aren’t good at subtlety, and that’s why they need him. Some say he’s got the luck of the Devil himself.
Obligatory Explanation
Welcome to my first AP! I’m co-STing this with a good buddy, Trotsky's Ghost, who will pop up occasionally to troll us.
Some of you know this plot pretty well. Some of you don’t.
For those of you who haven’t played Bloodlines: Huge spoilers ahead!
For those of you who have: Don’t take anything for granted. If you have questions about things that relate back to VTMB, private message me, or use the Spoiler Tags, if you want it to be public.
This game will be very roughly every other week, Friday or Saturday. I try to have a write-up for my players before game day, so that will roughly correspond with my updates.
For now, I’m leaving some things about the setting ambiguous. There will be hints as we go along (as well as explicit truths), but we don’t want to give too much away, and we’d rather readers experience the reveals along with the players.
The Story So Far...
Chapter 1, "An opening"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...9wM4UcZqFRFWvw
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...HlZjhVzWhUXLmg
Part 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...GtvBBor56YbRtA
Part 4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...6ymutAs_pRQXLQ
Chapter 2, "The first move"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...r_JijENei8UlAA
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...d-KabZc1VFWzTg
Part 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...kdVEYPW1Tg0HiQ
Part 4: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...sBvSSDNpNoq6Ew
Chapter 3, "A sacrifice"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...zA0caTXPR3iYzw
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...GMluzIOUjuqGdA
Chapter 4, "A gambit"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...UOw5H-2fXoVbFw
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...IKLTP-gRhW7unw
Chapter 5, "The queen"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E..._5uflGCxBgUM9Q
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...UjAn9vllqbkmCQ
Part 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...qWBE3MnzR6_4Ug
Chapter 6, "The campaign"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...r5crqjNxst6Z7w
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...wxTaFvzqQv2xMw
Part 3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M1M...ew?usp=sharing
Chapter 7, "The endgame"
Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NXx...ew?usp=sharing
Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gIC...ew?usp=sharing
Finale: Don't Open It
Biographies: From A to Zed
Al (Character Sheet)
Zach (Character Sheet)
A Ghoulish Conversation
Zach vs. Romero: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_E...oUlm7pL9LBxCjA
Me, as Romero
[REDACTED], as Zach
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