(X) find your safe house
Cooley High School closed in 2010, It had been opened in 1927, the school had been bought by the twilight historical society for a song. It was now it was officially being renovated and turned into a museum that was open on the week ends. Paddy opens the door with a key.
"Welcome to your new home, boyo."
You follow him through the empty school.
"Now here's the hard facts of da matter, sun light will kill you. Silver will kill you, fire will kill you. Other stuff will kill you too its just that it will take longer for it to kill you. You are not invincible boyo."
He leads you down and moves a starecase, its there that you see a 1950s era fallout shelter.
"Back when we controlled the city we made sure that falloutshelters were built in all of the schools."
"Really what else did you do?"
"Kid know how every major city in the us has a subway system?"
You nod your head.
"Thats us, the car companies fought it, the environmentalists fought it, lots of people fought it but we got the subways built and with out delays. Were also the reason why we have a sensible atitude towards nuclear power."
You remember hearing about failed attempts to get rid of power plants.
"Why?"
"Its our planet too, and most of us plan on living to see the future, nuclear power polutes the least. Look yes we drink blood and were monsters, but we also have a longer view of things then the Kine."
He opens a refrigerator and picks up a blood pack and throws one at you.
"So I assume we run the blood banks."
"Of course we bloody do, but we only take the stuff thats out of date, you do other wise and that hurts people and gets people all angry like. Officially its destroyed but."
You both open the blood packs and drink, Paddy sighs.
"Right so anything you want to know?"
"History?"
"Right, so there are 13 clans and who knows how many off shoots and blood lines, but the thing that started things as they are now was the inquisition."
You lean in.
"See vampires had been using the church as a way to eliminate their rivals and dat shit backfired so the ventrue got every one together to try to see down some rules in the city of constanople."
You nod.
"Constanople was special to us a place where all vampires of all clans could live in peace together, the Camerilla was born there, but so was the sabat. Because a bunch of vampires thought it was rediculous that we you know not act like total shits. You see the rules? They were about keeping things on a more even heel trying to live in hiding and shit and the sabat thought that vampires should be vampire overlords. So they threw a hissy fit opened the gates and every vampire inside was murdered by the turks."
Paddy stops.
"That was the line in the sand, every clan was forced to pick a side Salubri split down the middle we got their healers, the Sabat got their fighters. Going to be honest we were losing boyo, they won the entire middle east, russia, india, north africa, and they were pushing us back. Then the kine discovered the new world, that...that saved us. We moved in, we benifited from the colonial era too. But then the sabat went stupid and now we have a second inquisition its not a good time boyo."
"So people are hunting us?"
"Yep but its not so bad here in the americas. The sabat isn't subtle their getting hit hard as for us we are hitting the ground and trying to find a way to fix dis mess."
"And me?"
"The sabat has to go boyo, before they get us all killed."
He hands you a folder.
"We were able to get a photo of one of the flunkies but dats all we got so far."
He gets up and looks at you.
"Good day boyo I've got to get going don't want to get roasted by da sun."
You decide to crash on a couch and open a folder you see a photo of a middle eastern man, you turn around the photo and then watch as the photo bleeds, when the bleeding stops you see directions you wonder what to do next.
(X) Go to the location marked in blood
(X) Look up information about the man in the photo
X) Look around middle eastern resturants opened after night for this guy
(X) Try to find more information about him
(X) Learn more about the world your in
(X) Just go home and fix up your boat a bit
(X) Find out just what your allowed to get
(X) Talk to the prince
(X) write in