Buffalo Chronicle

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Vampire: the MasqueradeBuffalo Chronicle

December 2001

We need to start off with all new characters so as to make the game more fair for everyoneinvolved. This will also allow for me to tailor the game more to suit the players characters aswell as giving me more of a reason to put the players together into a group.

The theme of the game will be of death decay and corruption. In every aspect of society youwill see one of these themes. Political figures will be corrupt, the local population will beleaving for greener pastures, those that stay behind will be either the upper class who have astrangle hold over the area or those too poor to afford to leave.

Areas of Note

Central Terminal: Home of theNosferatu. Found in the tunnels beneaththe building. This building is frequented

by transients, homeless and artists lookingfor muse. This building has beenabandoned since 1979. It is currentlyowned by a front company for the clanwith the intention of restoring it to itsoriginal glory.

Kleinhans Music Hall: One of the many places that court is held. This is the home of theBuffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. For obvious reasons this is one of the frequented places for

the Toredor to be found. One of the reasons that it is used for court is because of the design ofthe building, it is recognized asbeing one of acoustic perfectionmeaning that everything said onstage even in a whisper is heardwhereas everything said from theback going forward is silenced.


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Connecticut Street Armory: Home of the73rd Regiment of the US Army NationalGuard, it is also home of all the primogenmeetings as well as any official presentationsfor court. Any time that a Justicar or Archoncomes into town this is where they are

received.

Buffalo Psychiatric Center: Home of the MalkavianPrimogen and his family. This property is avoided byKindred and kine alike. Many buildings on the property areabandoned and some are rumored to be haunted

Club Diablo: Is one of the known haunts for the localBrujah and some of the more extreme Toredors. Indeedone of them owns this location. If you are looking forsome good music, provocative works of art, a shadyconnection, or an easy way to feed this is the place to doit. Just keep in mind that although this place is owned by

a Vampire that does not mean that you do not have toobserve the Masquerade, there are still mortals present.

Bethlehem Steel:

The Buffalo Club: Functions as the Tremere Chantry.

Lake and Rail Elevator:


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Persons of Note

The Rogue: AKA Joe. Known for destroying a Hunter Enclave in L.A.Approximately 6 months ago. Seen by several witnesses afterwords enjoying thesunrise. Know for diablarizing several kindred and suspected for many more. Littleis know about the Rogue other than the path of destruction that follows in his wake.

His age, generation, clan, indeed even his sire is unknown. Rumored to be in Buffalo, Dallasand, Atlanta.

Nikola Willoughby: The Sheriff of Buffalo has a penchantfor cruelty. Very few kindred who sit in her interrogationroom ever survive the ordeal. Those that do are never thesame after.

Allen Bow: Prince of Buffalo, Allen is a man with drive and ambition. He alwaysseems ahead of the curve, maybe a little too far ahead. He has spent centuriesjumping too soon. He has a great eye for seeing the winds of change most of thetimes before anyone else. In the Early 19th century he bet on Tesla's AlternatingCurrent Electricity to be the biggest and he was right but too soon. In the 1929 hesaw the stock market crashing nut second guessed himself and waited too long. Itcost him everything. He has had many opportunities pay off however and it has

earned him a lot of power and success.

Wilhelm Waldburg: Is the princes mentor and a possible rival or ally depending on how thecharacters handle the money situation. If they want to be seen as a ally they need to be sure thatat no point do any of the other kindred find out that Allen got taken. Saving Allen fromembarrassment will earn the Troupe gratitude. If they try to gain leverage by using theinformation, for black mail for example, they will have earned a powerful enemy who has avery long reach. Optimally the Wilhelm should never even know that the characters exist. Ifthey come to him looking for help tracking the money he will give it grudgingly and after it isrecovered he will encourage Allen to start using them as fodder to try and tie up loose ends.Wilhelm will very rarely be in a position to be reached. He is more of the guy who comes to

town for a few hours and gives important instructions or more likely just calls so as to notexpose himself.

Erik Eigermann: The main protagonist, he should seem to be larger than life. The playersshould never really even know that he exists. The politics of the game being more part of thelarger Jyhad. Erik wants to embarrass Wilhelm for slighting him several hundred years ago.Erik is a Justicar and at one point Wilhelm was one of his Archons. Wilhelm left after he hadgotten everything useful out of the position. Erik knows that Allen is part of the secret to


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Wilhelm's success and therefore wants to either take him away or destroy him. In a very realsense he sees it as If I can't have it no one will.

Story

The story starts with the players getting embraced and presented to the Prince. Some time afterthe presentation the prince realizes that someone has stolen $93 million from the city accountsand that that money belonged to him. The PCs are tasked with finding the money and bringingthe group responsible for the theft in to be dealt with.

The money was given to the Prince by Wilhelm his mentor to help stabilize the region. It wasactually invested into a front company that then siphoned cash off the top until it was gone.This was done under the direct orders of his mentor's rival ,Erik Eigermann, a Justicar whoWilhelm had offended. The theft of the money is a precursor to an attack by the Sabbat. Thishas all been done to embarrass Wilhelm and get revenge for the offense given.

The players go to the office of the person who took the money and its been taken over by thelaw firm next door. When they search the office they find that there are several garbage bags ofconstruction waste and 1 desk the bags have an office memo that has been addressed to allmembers of the office from a corporate headquarters office. This is the only list of employeesthat the players will receive. This will help keep them from getting misinformation. If theplayers decide not to search the trash there will be a night-watchman or a janitor that they canquestion. The law firm that has taken over the space is Cellino & Barnes and none of theemployees really seem to know anything about what is going on there. Other than that the place closeddown and it is going to be their new conference room. They can only point the party to the secretary to

the firm.

The players finally get to one of the workers they can interrogate the individual and they will give upthe information right away. If they somehow kill the NPC then they can look on the computer andmaybe a love letter from the con-man to the secretary. I want all roads to lead to the secretary. Theplayers will only end up finding information on the con-man, who is the target anyways. Once again Iwill utilize the wherever they the PCs look they will find something that will lead the players to thetarget. Some ideas are to use the trash idea, looking on the computer, if for some reason they burn the


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house down there will be information in the car and if they do not look in the car there will be a letterfrom him in the mailbox. If all else fails they there will be a UPS or FedEx delivery which the playerscan steal. The package has a note that comes from the con-man.

The players will go to the address as a blizzard starts when they get to the address they will find an oldfactory that has been converted to apartments. They know from the address they found that the con-man's condo is on the top floor. As they pull up they see a person skittering down the fire escape and afew seconds later they see the targets condo explode like it did in Fight Club complete with couch fromIkea landing smoldering in front of the PCs. If they go up to the condo they will find it is smoldering

not actually on fire. I will require 1 Rtschreck roll there will be no issues unless there is a botch.

If they go up to the condo, the players find the burnt body of the con-man as well as a duffelfull of cash (about $50,000).

If they follow the person coming down the fire escape they will find the target running away.Also with a bag with $50,000.

When they try to get the rest of the money the target will not be able to provide it because itwill be gone. The $50k will be all that is left. Basically there are multiple copies of the con-manbecause he has been fleshcrafted to look the same. When the Justicar suggested that Buffalo beused for a training ground for new Sabbat Packs he drew the attention of Face a high powerTzimisce called face. This will end the first chapter and start the invasion of the city by the Sabbat. Which willbe the start of chapter 2. The fall will start with Niagara Falls being taken over.

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