Dramatis Personae

Janet Blakely
Bloodline: Brujah
Sire: Maxwell Mason

You can feel the pulse of the pavement racing like a runaway horse

The subways are steaming and the skin of the street is gleaming with sweat

I've seen you sitting on the steps outside

And you were looking so restless and reckless and lost

I think it's time for you to come inside

I'll be waiting here with something that you'll never forget

Come on, come on and there'll be no turning back

You were only killing time and it'll kill you right back

Come on, come on, it's time to burn up the fuse

You got nothing to do and even less to lose

Janet was an athletic, outgoing student at Silver Lake University. Upon moving into her new dormitory, a member of the Mu Alpha Gamma fraternity tried to bully her into handing over a copy of her room key. When she didn't cooperate, Steven “Sharper" Mason personally broke in to express his displeasure. Janet fled, outrunning her pursuers until she reached safety in the form of campus police.

The next evening, Max Mason - president of Mu Alpha Gamma, and Sharper's older brother - visited her to express his regret, and to offer Janet a tryout for the varsity track team. Though she refused, Max was very insistent and opened her carotid artery, draining the life from her. When she awoke, she was being dug out of a fresh grave, and after great difficulty Max was able to explain her new existence to her. “You'll never grow old, and you'll never die... But you have to feed."

[Physical 4, Social 3, Mental 1, Psychic 2]
[Disciplines: Celerity (Basic), Potence (Advanced)]

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Farah Eldridge

Bloodline: Tremere

Sire: Angeline Eldridge

Maybe it's nothing and I'm under the weather

Maybe it's just one of those bugs going round

Maybe I'm under a spell and it's magic

Maybe there's a witch doctor with an office in town

Oh is this a blessing or is it a curse?

Does it get any better? Can it get any worse?

Will it go on forever or is it over tonight?

Does it come with the darkness? Does it bring out the light?

Is it richer than diamonds or just a little cheaper than spit?

I don't know what it is but it just won't quit

Farah was called to the bedside of her long-ailing mother, who had something important to tell her. Angeline had been afflicted for all Farah's life with an illness that made her deathly allergic to sunlight, but on this occasion her mother revealed that the need for darkness was a side effect of the great secret of their bloodline: the potential for immortality. Though Angeline knew that her life must end soon, she offered to extend this gift to her adopted daughter, in the hope that it would allow her to survive the coming years - which she warned would bring Gehenna, the end of the world as Farah knew it.

Accepting this gift, along with a book of flayed human skin that revealed the rituals to create a familiar spirit, Farah's mortal blood was drained from her, and replaced with the last drops of her mother's immortal blood. Over the next few weeks, Farah was trained to use her new powers by a mysterious man dressed in the robes of a Shinto priest, and created a snake-like familiar creature from her own blood. Her old life was gone, but a new one had begun... and might endure forever, should she act with care and patience.

[Physical 1, Social 2, Mental 3, Psychic 4]
[Disciplines: Dominate (Basic), Thaumaturgy (Advanced)]

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Sergio de la Garza

Bloodline: Ventrue

Sire: Victor Geisel

You don't have a lot, but it's all that you've got

And you can turn it into more than it seems

Just give it a shot,

Fantasize every movement

And imagine every inch of your dream

No one said it had to be real

But it's gotta be something you've been wanting to feel now

It ain't right, it ain't fair

Castles fall in the sand and we fade in the air

And the good boys go to heaven,

But the bad boys go everywhere

Sergio, a young pre-law student at SLU, had been steadily climbing the corporate ladder at Koga Conglomerate, working his way up to Vice President Victor Geisel's executive assistant in less than a year. One night, he was called in to a meeting with Geisel to discuss additional duties to which he would be described - along with privileges commensurate with those duties. Interspersed with Geisel's musings on the nature of power was a reflection on how a corporation could outlive any single worker or executive... usually.

Though the VP discussed “immunity" with him, it quickly became clear that this was not merely immunity to political firings or blackballing, but immunity to aging and death - and with it, the power to kill those who would stand in Sergio's way, in a very literal sense. The young social climber saw the allure of these promises, and soon was being inducted into the "armies of the night". Power greater than any mortal was now his, and the occasional distasteful chore was a small price to pay.

[Physical 2, Social 4, Mental 3, Psychic 3]
[Disciplines: Dominate (Basic), Presence (Basic)]

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Karen Glaub
Bloodline: Gangrel
Sire: James Piedra

Oh baby I'm a hunter in the dark of the forest

I've been stalking you and tracking you down

Cruising up and down the main drag all night long

We could be standing at the top of the world

Instead of sinking further down in the mud

You and me ‘round about midnight

Someone got to draw first blood

Karen met a charming young man at the bar, who fended off the drunken advances of another patron. When she accepted James' offer of a movie date, his barely restrained intensity and distant politeness seemed oddly fascinating. Afterwards, he plunged his sharp fangs into her neck, and she had a feverish dream of running through the woods as a wolf.

Upon awaking, she found herself in a cabin in the woods, naked and covered with the blood of a fresh kill. James explained to her the life she would now have to lead. No longer was she content to work and to be fed dry scraps like the tame beasts of the field. Now, she must hunt.

[Physical 5, Social 1, Mental 3, Psychic 4]
[Disciplines: Animalism (Basic), Fortitude (Basic)]

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Rebecca Montaigne
Bloodline: Toreador
Sire: Mira Lemaire

It doesn't matter where they're going, or wherever they've been
'Cause they got one thing in common it's true
They'll never let a night like tonight go to waste
And let me tell you something, neither will you

We gotta be fast, we were born out of time
Born out of time and alone
And we'll never be as young as we are right now
Running away and running for home

Rebecca was born on international waters in 1950 to her mother, a South Korean refugee. Unfortunately, they were separated when they arrived in Canada, and she was eventually adopted by a wealthy family in Quebec. She fled her abusive family when she was 18, and her kindness and naivety attracted the attention of a manipulative Toreador, who lured her into a false relationship in 1973 and Embraced her.

She has since fled to the United States and lives as a drifter, coping with her undeath with activism, copious wild partying, feeding, and sex. She has pursued skateboarding as a hobby since 1989.

[Physical 3, Social 4, Mental 2, Psychic 1]
[Disciplines: Celerity (Advanced), Presence (Basic)]

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