VAU: Blood Bank

Demo: 9/6/23

Your parents are the biggest Vampire mobsters in Ves Arcanus and are the heads of the notorious Florentia Family. On your 25th birthday, your parents gift you with an important role in the family: running Blood Bank, their nightclub and base of operations. Unfortunately, a few years ago your first love, a burlesque dancer at Blood Bank, was murdered. The culprit was never found …supposedly. With your new position within the Ves Arcanus Underground, maybe you can finally find answers and serve justice or revenge.

In the city of Ves Arcanus, you’ll encounter Supernaturals of several different species and work alongside the most powerful families in organized crime: the Arcanus Six. The Six includes the Florentia Family, the Lombardi Family, the Seth Family, the De Mevius Family, the Sundale Family, and the Vatura Family.

Demo Features:

Play as male, female, nonbinary, or transgender; gay, straight, or bisexual.

Navigate organized crime within the Ves Arcanus Underground, and maintain the Florentia’s infamous reputation or run it into the ground.

Work to solve the “cold case” murder of your first love and choose to be judge, jury, or executioner.

Run a popular Vampire nightclub and keep the cops, and your rivals, from sniffing around.

Play as a Vampire in a city inhabited by Faeries, Selkies, Witches, Demons, and humans.

Romance or befriend one of the six gender-selectable RO’s and choose to hook up* with seven of the many side characters

Content Warnings (18+): drug and alcohol use, violence, blood, strong language, optional explicit sexual content, death/murder

I know it’s been a long time since you’ve heard anything from me, but I have been checking my asks every now and then and very slowly working on chapter 2.

I’ve had a lot of life changes going on over the last year and a half. Finally finishing my degree, making a big move, getting into and out of a big relationship, and experiencing changes with my ADHD as I go through all of these transitions. It has been a long time coming with definitely more downs than ups.

Just checking in to see if you're doing well.

All the best to whatever you're doing.

hi there!

thanks for checking in! all is well i've just been settling in after my move earlier this year; getting new jobs, going to classes, etc.

the next page just shows:

Three, sometimes four days a week, you spend time on

and there aren't any choices to choose from

hello hello! it's a little late in the month, but april has been going so fast so here we are lol.

i just moved to another state a few weeks ago and it affected my health a bit so writing has been going slower than planned but it is going. as i mentioned before, i'm doing some rewrites and fixes in chapter 1 before i dive back in on chapter 2 so this will be a pretty hefty update.

Thank you for the update. I'm glad to know that the project is being worked on. Wishing you all the best for your endeavours. And I'm really looking forward to the future updates.

hey anon! hope you're also well.

thanks so much for the well wishes! i can say now that i finally have time to start writing again with some regularity and will soon be back to giving updates about actual writing process. i'm really excited to get back into writing chapter 2 and go through all my edits planned for chapter 1 with fresh eyes.

first off a late happy new year! i hope everyone has had a good start to their year. apologies for the late update, i work full time in education and i’m a full time film student so a lot is happening right now.

that said, chapter 2 hasn’t had much progress so far and unfortunately until march i don’t want to make any promises for when the full chapter will release and i don’t want to release it in parts.

until then, i’m going to focus my very limited free time on making the code changes and rewrites in chapter 1 that i’d planned to add with the new chapter. i know it’s not much but i want to make sure i continue working on the story even if it’s something small.

on a more personal note: the classes i’m taking have actually been giving me a lot of inspiration for things i can add to the story that i think will make it even better.

because i want to make it a fun little surprise i’m only going to answer the first part of this question.

L: kind of? at first sight, L is very open emotionally and makes it known that they’re interested, but aside from that it’s not very obvious

Ale: nope, ale won’t outwardly show their interest until they’re sure you feel the same. they have too many eyes on them to advertise every crush

Charlie: 100%. charlie won’t admit it verbally, but they blush and get flustered if their crush flirts/shows any interest in them

Dion: dion likes to follow the courting traditions they grew up with on dreki eyin, so they’ll usually present their crush with a gift to show their affection

S: they like to be pursued, so instead of saying how they feel, they’ll wait for their crush to speak up. they may drop very discreet hints and hope their crush picks up on it

El: definitely not. they won’t even acknowledge that they have a crush, let alone show any sign of it

i don’t normally add Albright but

L: is terrible at fixing relationships because they’ve never felt the need to before. they don’t avoid it, but they never let things get serious enough to need fixing

Ale: is amazing at fixing relationships, but they prefer not to let things fall apart to the point they need fixing

Charlie: is surprisingly good at fixing relationships; they will always want to talk things out and come to a resolution

S: doesn’t avoid it, but they’re so stubborn they have a hard time fixing things on their end

Dion: tends to be avoidant. they aren’t a fan of confrontation, but it’s something they’re working on

hey everyone! sorry i've been silent this month, i recently started a full time job and have been working to reintegrate writing into my schedule. as i do that i'll be answering asks starting with some i got at the beginning of the month, so feel free to send more in.

since i've been working there's nothing to really update y'all on story-wise, but i have a couple weeks off starting next week where i'll spend as much time as i can writing chapter 2.

L: usually big spoon, but sometimes they enjoy being little spoon

Ale: big spoon; they might be little spoon with some persuasion

Charlie: little spoon, though they’d never admit to it

S: doesn’t like to spoon and would rather lay on top of you

Dion: they’re happy to be either and will ask what you prefer

my birthday was yesterday, so i thought i'd share the ro's birthdays.

L: june 2

Ale: may 12

Charlie: december 29

S: april 17

Dion: february 28

i think i’ve mentioned this before but there’s no dialogue after that choice; have a look through your stats though.

someone requested i do fluff shorts since it's autumn, so here's the first one of the month. it takes place after ale gets home from a work trip. enjoy!