>>37809>If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask. I'll probably post the teaser to the chronicle tomorrow.[I'm a little late, but I figure that's better than nothing. Have some music to set the mood.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USTD0CaTccM Valley by NightNearly two million souls inhabit the San Fernando Valley; they all have their own little lives blissfully unaware of the wider world. Sami Kazem gets up at 8:00 in the morning, eats a bowl of cereal, throws on his jacket, and drives to his job in Mission Hills; along the way, he passes a derelict Masonic Lodge with a dying lawn that leers at him from its otherwise empty lot. It's 10:00 in the morning, and Jasmine Ortega is texting her friends while walking to her next class; rumor has it the Succubus Club set up shop somewhere in Van Nuys, and her best friend's cousin scored a bunch of molly, she only needs to call out from work tonight. Detective Javier Medina clocks into his shift at 4:00 in the evening; he pissed off a few too many of his superiors and can look forward to working the beat on Reseda Boulevard. He tries, dear God does he try.
That's the life of the mortal inhabitants of the Valley. The sun shields them, temporarily, from the world you know. But when the moon rises, your kindred awake from torpor: in penthouse apartments and dilapidated industrial parks, in suburban abodes and undisturbed mausoleums, in clubs, offices, and vans.
You. The Vampires of the Anarch Free States.
It's 10:00 in the Evening, and on his way home Sami decides to pull up to the Masonic Lodge's lot and poke around, for curiosity's sake; his car is found wrecked on the 405 and his death is ruled a suicide. It's midnight and Jasmine's friends see her leaving the club with a charming stranger; she's reported missing three days later. It's 2:00 in the morning, and Javier answers a domestic disturbance call only to find a petty dealer and his mother slaughtered in their homes; it's chalked up to a gang hit, but what kind of person could tear a man's head clean off?
This is your world. A world of inhuman appetites and human depravity. A world of secret wars and ancient blood feuds. A World of Darkness.
You are one of the Undead. Vampires, Strigoi, Nosferatu, Cainites. Your people go by many names. Tonight, in this cursed year of Our Lord, 2023, you and others have been summoned by the Baron of Los Angeles, Armando "Nines" Rodriguez, to meet him in Hollywood. Whether a Vampire for a few months or a few decades, everyone knows to answer the Baron when summoned. Tonight, he'll make a proclamation that will alter the course of the San Fernando Valley, and millions of lives in the process. As you walk through the throngs of kine, you have no idea what awaits you. All you have is a promise witnessed by the stars themselves: it'll be
your choice, and no others, that will decide your fate.