20V: FOUNDATION
What was your city built on? What lies beneath, ready to rise again?
In the Darkness family of games, foundations are likely to contain secrets. And ritual components. And the bodies of union organisers.
In V5, the Sabbat abandoned several cities and the Camarilla and Anarchs moved in... and some of them might have nests of Sabbat vampires sleeping hidden away until disturbed.
What is your building’s history?
What was Nocturne before it was a nightclub?
A popular choice for the obvious Gothic appeal is former churches. You can buy into one in Bloodlines, and there’s one in Bloodhunt based on a real club in Prague.
We have at least one former church turned club in Edinburgh as well, another turned Fringe information centre, and a student theatre too, all within ten minutes’ walk in the Old Town as a result of various denominations building their own churches in the 19th Century. The club in Glasgow where I took the intro post photo was once a church as well.
The Succubus Club was a heavy rebuild inside an old brick factory, with state-of-the-art lighting, an upstairs VIP gallery, a basement subsection with a labyrinth theme, and a secret crypt for an ancient vampire hidden under it. Not every vampire-run club has to have all of these features.
To lean in a bit less, let’s say the building that now houses Nocturne was built as a club in the 70s, and has gone through various incarnations since. So it’s seen good and bad times going back decades, and might have been haunted even before the vampires moved in...
2.08: That Old Refrain
A DJ plays an oldie by request... and it calls up a ghost who died when the song was new.
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