Chapter 1: Yellow Fever

(Originally played on 2018-04-26)

Victor Geisel, Vice President of Koga Conglomerate (and second-in-command to President/CEO Koga Shuko, the Prince of Silver Lake), invited Janet Blakely, Farah Eldridge, Karen Glaub, and three other neonates to his office after sunset. He explained that several members of Mu Alpha Gamma (the “Magsmen") had been suspected of joining loosely-knit anarch gangs, a pattern which is not uncommon among the Brujah. Aside from suspicious behavior, a number of Brujah had been found with yellow-handled switchblades hidden on their persons - knives used as anarch symbols for the last thirty-five years.

The most pressing issue was an attack on Geisel's godson, Zechariah “Zeke" Adams. Zeke was walking through Silver Park when a mugger confronted him, demanding his money and class ring. When Zeke wouldn't surrender it, the mugger stabbed him in the heart with a knife, stole the items, and fled. Zeke's paralyzed form was brought to the morgue; once the blade was removed, he took it and fled as soon as he was unobserved. The knife in question was a yellow-handled switchblade.

Both Geisel and Zeke believed the mugger to be an anarch, due to the damning circumstantial evidence. Geisel suggested the neonates check the park itself, as well as pay a visit to Dani “Chud" Chudnovsky, an information broker of the Nosferatu bloodline who lives in the steam tunnels underneath Silver Lake University; to aid in the latter, he gave them a poppet made of hair as a goodwill token for Chud.