Further to my Vampire: The Masquerade play-by-post offer, when I asked about setting preferences the first player vote was for a fictional city, specifically a shadow of its former self, so...
The city of St. Charles sits on the wide Charles River, surrounded by misty hills and deep pine forests. Once financed by lumber, mining and manufacturing, the city has suffered in recent years, although some of the old warehouses now see use as spaces for tech companies and startups, event spaces, and in some cases squats.
Home to almost five million people and around fifty vampires, it sits close enough to Anarch domains that the Camarilla court watches the Rack and blood banks closely. The Princes of cities to the east pledge their support, but this has never been tested.
The Ventrue Prince, Michael Dean, was an importer before his Embrace, and took the throne forty years ago after his sire died fighting a rival.
Dean is supported by a Primogen containing a Ventrue Sheriff and Rack Host, Malkavian Seneschal, Toreador Keeper and Herald, Tremere Oracle and Nosferatu Eye, as well as other agents including couriers and a branch of the blood-supplying Circulatory System.
The Prince has recently moved to make the city more hospitable to neonates, encouraging loyalty to the Camarilla. He is also said to have agents in the Anarch domain of Lawrence two nights’ drive away. But the Lawrence Anarchs are also said to have agents in St. Charles...
And St. Charles is also the last stop before the domain of Spencer City a night’s drive to the north, recently abandoned and now an open frontier. So you have somewhere to run if this all breaks down...
(There’s a real St. Charles in Illinois. It’s pretty small.)
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