The enemy of my enemy…

The setup: This encounter requires the characters to be wronged by a powerful, well-connected vampire, such as a Ventrue, especially in the context of political maneuverings. The hook: One of the characters receives a cryptic note stating that, if they wish to put Morris (the Ventrue who wronged them) in his place, they should show [...]

High Voltage

The ceiling of a large chamber is covered in a grid of shiny, chrome spheres, each suspended from an iron rod. A series of alcoves line the wall. Each of the alcoves has a hole in its ceiling. The chamber smells distinctly of ozone. As soon as one of the characters gets about half way [...]

That was fast

Man, it’s amazing how quickly you can go from a week’s worth of buffer to nothing. I just finished tomorrow’s post, and this time last week I had an entire week done ahead of time! I don’t know what happened, I know I missed a couple days but I didn’t realize I’d missed writing that [...]

The Lazarus Plague

What would you do if one morning you woke up… dead? No one’s quite sure how the Lazarus Plague started, but now that question is on everyone’s minds, because it’s a very real possibility. How the Lazarus Plague works is a mystery. It somehow puts a cease to all the biological activities in your body, [...]

Setting Seeds: Dead Space

There are a limitless number of galaxies out there, but they are still but specks in the vast infinity of the void. If your hyperdrive burns out while you’re traveling from one galaxy to another, you’d better hope you can fix it or you’re as good as dead. Hell, if you’re far enough out, it [...]

Setting Seeds: A Primer on the Nature and Classification of Magical Implements

by Anagorius Magnuff, D.D.Arc., D.D.Art, Artificer of the First Echelon Wizards all around the world use a variety of implements to help them in channeling their magic. While not strictly necessary, it does have a noticeable effect on the capabilities of those who would wield the powers arcane. In particular, novice wizards find it much [...]

Nice guys finish last

One night, while walking through the seedier part of a large city, the players come across a well-dressed man lying in an alley. Out of place and out of his head on drugs, he lays on the ground babbling incoherently. A civic-minded character might recognize the man as Burton McKrendle, the head of the city [...]

Friends & Foes: The Dissonant Chorus

In the beginning, there was harmony, and then chaos broke that harmony and the world was born. So teach the disciples of the Dissonant Chorus, a religion devoted to The Voice of Creation. Those devoted to the Dissonant Chorus come from all walks of life, but it is especially popular amongst the poor, the wretched [...]

Mystery Man

Searching through the rubble, the characters find a journal by someone who signs their name M. The journal details M’s attempts to create and control monstrous creatures. The last entry speaks of the success he’s had recently, and then ends abruptly as if something interrupted him. The following are clues the characters might find to [...]

A spelunkin’ we will go

After investigating the matter, the characters determine that the giant chickens and pigs did indeed have one common denominator which the pigs and cows lacked. They were both given drinking water from the well, while the cows and horses drank from a stream. Checking the well, they find a small chunk of black granite. It [...]