#for the return of my group's vtms sessions

[spacemothwithasword]

girl i'm finally done

she's a bloody mess

[crabs-in-a-trench-coat]

Fair or unfair

Session 1 of the new VTM group and they're all new players, one of them took a 5 in wealthy and rather than give them 30k or something I said bills would be payed costing them nothing out of pocket, and they could get a small/decent favor for free every session (big favors would take 1 point away from wealthy)

The minute I told them there was a psychic in town he visited her and asked the following

1. Give me a list of powerful humans in the city with compatible personalities I can use

2. Give me a good lead on my friends murder

3. How do I return to being human

I gave them answers to each but took their wealth from a 5 to 4 as payment

Player was upset but considering that fucking laundry list of important information I thought it was actually more than fair

[hamingo]

could you tell me about your vtm campaign :3

Yes absolutely I can!!! :3

Under a cut cause this is gonna get long, I have so many feelings lol

So I guess basics first?

The campaign is a Giovanni-focused one, because the Giovanni are my favourite clan of all time and I wanted my first game to be something that I'm passionate and know a lot about! I named it "Family Matters" because I think I'm really funny, naming a game about the vampire mafia "Family Matters".

I have five players, which seems like a lot for a first time story-teller, but only three of them consistently... do things. The other two are mostly just here to hang out with us, so their characters typically are comic relief who join in during very important scenes. It works for us, though. (We've got the two serious characters, Cordell Wilford and Akari Matsumoto, one who's serious sometimes but is a total dope, Wolfgang Cullen (because he had to make a vampire with the surname Cullen) and then our comic relief team, Paul Allen (yes that one) and Soup).

These five vampires are the hired help of Miss Mercer, who without getting too much into it is several steps down from the actual E Division, and deals with shit that they don't think is important enough to deal with themselves. Mercer has a wide range of contacts that she'll call up for different jobs, throw into random groups together, and send them off to deal with super natural discrepancies that the actual Camarilla higher ups don't want to bother themselves with.

So anyways, Mercer calls in these five to deal with a sudden uptick in ghost activity in Venice, which normally she would never pay attention to because that's Giovanni territory, but the Giovanni don't seem to be doing anything and humans are dying and starting to become suspicious and the Camarilla can't have that. She only wants them to essentially poke their heads in, see what's up, hunt some ghosts if they can, and then come back and report to her without engaging the Giovanni and alerting them to Camarilla presence in the city.

Obviously this does not happen because this is a ttrpg, and on session fucking 2 they're tracking down Giovanni. Because of course they are.

However. This lets me introduce my next major NPC's!! The gang essentially shakes down Anthonio, everyone's favourite ghoul, to get the locations of his bosses (is there a word for a vampire who has a ghoul?? There must be..) the twins! Eleanora and Rosario Giovanni are so evil and fucked up <3 I love them <3 <3

From there, the party has met Magdalene De Rossi, the twins' sire, Enzio Giovanni, Magdalene's sire, and they're still trying to work their way up the Giovanni chain of power, eventually hoping to meet Augustus himself, I think. Which won't happen, because this campaign takes place in 2016, and if anyone knows their Giovanni lore, well... (The reason there's so many ghosties wreaking havoc on the city is because they were Augustus' little servants and now that he's, uhhh, "missing", they're off on their own and fucking pissed.)

Aside from all of that, each member of the party has their own ambitions regarding Venice, the main two being Cordell wanting to become an ally of The Family and live in Venice, and Akari (who's hooked up with and grown attached to Anthonio) wanting to get her favourite little boy toy away from the twins and out of Italy because she doesn't like how he's treated here.

We've got a few overlapping story lines, with Akari and co. working with Rosario to find a new body for his ghost fiancee in return for him weaning Anthonio off of his blood and onto Akari's, and also the gang betrayed Miss Mercer so she's being delivered to Venice next session, and they're still hunting ghosts on top of it all.

I have a whole thing planned out where the ghosts have started targeting the Giovanni family themselves, but my players haven't picked up on it yet... idk how much more obvious I'm gonna have to be but that's the next major plot point so we'll see how it goes lol.

Anyways this got rambly but yeah! A basic rundown of my VtM campaign!

It's a lot but also it's so fun. I'm always looking forward to Saturdays, me and my friends always have a good time together :)

[spacemothwithasword]

going to bake a cake tomorrow for the return of my groups vtm's sessions! and im too excited and nervous that i can't fall asleep aaaaaaaa