#decay.

(CREDIT: lovely psd by @pilipalea, modified by me; alfred is played by @adventuresdooccur)

wip #4: five strangers awaken as vampires at the start of the end of the world.

DR. ALFRED ELLIOT WALKER.                          Civil War veteran.                          Dedicated medical doctor.                          Righteous, pious, God-fearing man.                          True Believer.                          Lunatic. Malkavian.

He believes in the goodness of the world. He does, he does. He believes in people worthy of salvation. He does, he does.

Awake and confused, Alfred stumbles through life learning, growing. The gaps in his memory bother him, certainly. They would bother anyone, certainly. But he gathers more glimpses of his future than of his past. Fate is crafting a path for the good doctor. Will he follow it?

He wants to be saved.

NEON DECAY IN SIN CITY

INTRODUCTION

enter five players, eyes closed shut. they hear, but they don’t listen. they look, but they don’t see. a malkavian, ventrue, nosferatu, toreador, and a tremere left to their own devices.

SETTING

enter a city, run by a camarilla prince on his throne. enter vice and sin. enter las vegas. a tourist destination for kindred and kine alike, managed by a decadent toreador who believes wholeheartedly in the ivory tower, held up by the loyal primogeniture of the other six traditional clans, loved the tzimisce and lasombra antitribu the beloved prince seduced away from the nearby sabbat presence. haven, home, this city is a refuge amid a firestorm as gehenna looms on the horizon.

THE PLAYERS. THE KINDRED.

alfred was just a man fighting the on the wrong side of a war. nothing hurts anymore if he doesn’t think about it, but when he does he’s reminded there’s nothing you can do about death. you, dear alfred, are a lunatic. 

lily is just a girl, selfless and brave, harboring a secret that could divide her coterie, making a choice that could cost them all. what danger does such a sweet soul face in the land of kindred? oh, lily, you get to be a blueblood.

patsy is ready to live the best life -- well, afterlife -- that she can, given the circumstances of her clan’s curse. does her past reflect her future, or is she ready to finally be free? is it hard, patsy, to be a sewer rat?

renee was stolen out of her club kid life on the last day of 1999. she’s trying to find answers, trying to find someone who can answer her: why, why, why me? and will you live up to your name, renee, of degenerate?

scarlett has found herself closer to the grand schemes and intricate plots of vampire elders than she ever wished to be. her enigmatic sire has ensured that she keeps secrets from even herself. and they say, scarlett, that there’s nothing like a warlock.

(credit: psd by @pilipalea with my edits; scarlett is played by my friend traci)

wip #4: five strangers awaken as vampires at the start of the end of the world.

SCARLETT ROSE ANDERSON                  New twentieth-century woman.                  Titanic survivor.                  Devoted sister, daughter, fiancee.                  Intelligent, driven, prone to overthinking.                  Userper. Tremere.

Scarlett feasts on knowledge and, like, that’s what a woman is, isn’t it? A hungry thing kept hungry for decoration? It’s difficult, sometimes, not being decorative any longer. Is there a place for her outside that?

But she is a star-filled creature of love and longing for more. It’s hard to be outside that. It could ruin her, or it could make her amazing.

She wants to be understood.

(CREDIT: psd by @pilipalea​ with my modifications; Patsy is played by my friend Lauren!)

wip #4: five strangers awaken as vampires at the start of the end of the world.

PATRICIA “PATSY” POWELL:                          1950s Housewife.                          Jaded woman.                          Failed starlet.                          Strong-willed advocate for the underdog.                          Sewer Rat. Nosferatu.

Patsy is not a hummingbird woman, not lying, not in love, not sick, not anything like that, anymore. The Second Great War was full of opportunity but its end pushed her back into the home. Children, kitchen, all that.

All Patsy’s ever known how to want is the next step up the ladder, stardom, freedom, whatever comes next.

She wants to be adored.

works in progress:

the weaver princess;

when sabina is chosen to participate in a contest to win the hand of the second-born son of the king, she decides to try and win despite her parents' wishes that marry for love one day. the contest is a showcase of magical abilities, and nobody is better at magic than sabina.

madeline

madeline has always been a fan of crime dramas so when a series of murders start to occur close to her home, of course she's going to be interested. she enlists the help of her friends and all too quickly it becomes clear that something inhuman is doing the killing. by that point, it's too late to back out.

kappa andromedae

cecilia, rafael, and dominika are training to be police officers, for a special unit whose mission is to take down hacked androids, rogue robots, and other machine-based crime. during their first assignment, they end up in over their head as their unit discovers a factory for eerily human-looking androids, each identical to one another. these should not exist, should not be possible, yet here they are.

rise and fall

somewhere in virginia, nestled between upper class neighborhoods and towns sits milton college, a school known for its elitism and classism. its halls and libraries are home to countless tomes about hidden secrets and historical intrigue, and in the right hands those secrets might reveal themselves. when presley, antoni, cameron, bianca, and isolde develop an unhealthy obsession with the austro-hungarian empire, things start to slowly fall apart. secrets are let out, addicitions get stronger, and lives are irrevocably changed.

mise en abyme

innapor city has always been known for intellect, scandal, and magic. lireyle and alis are just trying to figure out their place in this world and navigate the strict rules of innaporan culture, from courtship to duty. ilya struggles with his past as a young soldier and his future as a mercenary, a hired gun, and a thief. wren has to decide if freedom is more important than a country’s future. when danger comes, the four are united in their want to save their city. is there more powerful magic at play? and how far would they go to save themselves... and each other?

neon decay in sin city

a podcast run by our storyteller @maabonwrites. five vampires walk into an alley... wait, no, that’s not quite right, is it? how does the joke go? let me try again -- five vampires wake up. they’re confused. they’re hungry. 

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