The All Night Society

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”
– Ellen Glasgow

There’s an irony in immortality. When you’re set to live forever, you become even more afraid of the things that can kill you. For Kindred, that means being forever-paranoid about the four things most likely to do you in: sunlight, fire, hunger, and other vampires. This is why Kindred tend to be creatures with strict routines. The better you know your surroundings and the creatures that populate them, the easier it is to keep yourself safe. They need an awfully good reason to switch up the scenery.

None of our characters were Embraced in the city they now call home — so how did they get here? Ivy LaRoux (1:17) and Joshua Crozier (19:35) are refugees of a sort, each fleeing their former homes under threat of Final Death. Schmendrick (34:00) and Rebecca Mitchell (47:33) arrive by choice — hunters, instead of the hunted.

Welcome to The All Night Society. A Vampire: the Masquerade Camarilla chronicle.

CAST:
Ivy LaRoux - Vee Locke (@veeisforvampire)
Joshua Crozier - Andrew McGuffin
Rebecca Mitchell - Abigail Alek
Storyteller - Aaron Hammonds (@aaroninwords)

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“That is will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
– Emily Dickinson

It’s hard to say Emily was wrong; immortality comes with burdens aplenty and none live so free as the mortals ignorant to the monsters that live by night. Never forget: the Kindred are cursed. They feed on the living, burn in the sun, and wrestle for eternity with an alien predator that lives in their soul. Only the most bizarre and twisted of individuals goes looking for the Embrace — unless they have an imperfect understanding of what being a vampire means.

What makes someone choose to live beyond death, then? Ivy LaRoux (1:14) sees an eternity’s worth of knowledge and recognition. Joshua Crozier (20:22) has no choice at all. Schmendrick (34:38) is forced to decide under duress, and Rebecca Mitchell (51:12) can only choose after wrestling with cultural contradictions.

Welcome to The All Night Society, a Vampire: the Masquerade Camarilla chronicle.

Note: This episode was republished following a technical mistake in the original release.

CAST:
Ivy LaRoux - Vee Locke (@veeisforvampire)
Joshua Crozier - Andrew McGuffin
Rebecca Mitchell - Abigail Alek
Storyteller - Aaron Hammonds (@aaroninwords)

QUEEN'S COURT GAMES:
Web - https://queenscourt.games/theallnightsociety
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/queenscourtgames
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/QueensCourtGames
Twitter - https://twitter.com/queenscourtrpg
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/queenscourtgames

“Every thing must have a beginning, and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Ms. Shelley was talking about a different kind of monster when she put that phrase to paper, but any Kindred with an ounce of self-awareness will tell you the same. Immortality doesn’t change who you are; it boils down your mortal neurosis. You want to know who a vampire really is? Figure out who they were before, then add a few decades’ worth of wallowing in those flaws.

In this prelude episode, we introduce our vampires: Ivy LaRoux (1:05), the perfection-obsessed Tremere consumed by her quest for praise; Joshua Crozier (12:22), the rage-blind Banu Haqim disguising bloodlust under the cloak of “justice;” Schmendrick (27:23), the crowd-shy Nosferatu who sacrificed her humanity to the Digital Age; and Rebecca Mitchell, the Gangrel frozen in time, unwilling to bend to the new millennium.

Welcome to The All Night Society, a Vampire: the Masquerade Camarilla chronicle.

CAST:
Ivy LaRoux - Vee Locke (@veeisforvampire)
Joshua Crozier - Andrew McGuffin
Rebecca Mitchell - Abigail Alek
Storyteller - Aaron Hammonds (@aaroninwords)

QUEEN'S COURT GAMES:
Web - https://queenscourt.games/theallnightsociety
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/queenscourtgames
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/QueensCourtGames
Twitter - https://twitter.com/queenscourtrpg
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/queenscourtgames