18V: WRITE
The Masquerade is a fragile thing in the Vampire games, in part to make it important. Other games in the Darkness family have equivalents which are much easier to sustain. So vampires have to be careful what they do and what people can tell about them.
I’ve noted before that for me the best scene in the first published Vampire: The Masquerade adventure has the PCs trying to force information out of a reporter and stop him breaking the Masquerade without letting him work out what’s really going on. They have to cover up the existence of bloodsucking monsters, including themselves. It’s a great “we’re really not the good guys, are we?” moment.
And while it would be terribly gauche to expose other vampires, you can still target their cover stories to cause problems.
Kindred in the public eye have a few more issues, and the safety of being known only gets them so far. And reputations can be made and broken with ease, especially when someone with an agenda can influence them.
2.06: You Suck
A show at Nocturne gets a terrible review from the local alternative culture weekly. Is this a rival vampire toying with the coterie, or did the critic just think the show was that bad? Since one of the band is Kindred they’d very much like to know, and possibly seek disproportionate revenge.
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