31: New Year’s Eve
Happy Hogmanay!
Two decades past the futuristic Year 2000, and still going. The second edition of Cyberpunk is set here, as Blade Runner is set in 2019. Children Of Men is set in 2021.
But like the solstice, a time for reflection. (Having New Year eleven days after the solstice is a minor worldbuilding detail that most editors would cut.)
Or, you can emphasise the midnight deadline and have an impending apocalypse. In cinemas 21 years ago to go with pre-millennial fear, Arnold Schwarzenegger versus Satan in End Of Days. It’s not exactly a classic, but the cult with members throughout society and the conflict with Church agents are pretty WOD-ish. See also the Eighth Doctor’s big moment, shown in spring 1996 but still about NYE 1999.
Have a good and safe Hogmanay, and I hope to see you next year.
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