Vampire The Masquerade

About the adventure

New Orleans has always been a city that remembers—its ghosts linger in the wrought-iron bones of the French Quarter, in the slow rot of the bayou, and in the blood of those who refuse to die. A decade ago, the War of Weeping Cypress tore through the hidden world like a festering wound, pitting Kindred, witches, and stranger things against one another in a shadow conflict that left scars no one speaks of openly. In its aftermath, Prince Marcus rose, casting down the tyrant Magnus Boucher and promising stability where there had only been cruelty. But power taken in blood is never clean, and even now Marcus’ court trembles under the weight of unspoken debts, buried alliances, and the quiet suspicion that the war never truly ended—it merely changed shape. Then came Hurricane Katrina, and the city drowned. Havens were lost, elders vanished, and entire bloodlines were swallowed by flood and fire. In the chaos, something shifted beneath New Orleans. The old boundaries—between mortal and monster, between factions, between the living and the dead—grew thin. Now, years later, the city has rebuilt its face, but not its soul. Kindred whisper of domains that feel wrong, of feeding that leaves a bitter aftertaste, of shadows that seem to watch back. And through it all, mortals have begun to disappear in alarming numbers—vanishing from forgotten neighborhoods, from police records, from memory itself. The official explanation is crime, or transience, or neglect. But the Kindred know better: something is hunting, and it is not bound by the old rules. As tensions rise within Prince Marcus’ fragile reign, every faction seeks someone to blame—or someone to sacrifice. The disappearances threaten the Masquerade, yet investigating them risks uncovering truths buried since the war, truths that could shatter the uneasy peace. Are these vanishings the work of a resurgent enemy from the War of Weeping Cypress? A consequence of Katrina’s unnatural aftermath? Or something older still, awakened by the city’s suffering? The players will find themselves pulled into a tightening web of political maneuvering, ancient grudges, and creeping horror, where every answer deepens the mystery—and every step forward risks drawing the attention of whatever is feeding on New Orleans from the dark. As Neonates, you are drawn into the strange nights of New Orleans in 2011. Years after Katrina and the War of Weeping Cypress. Will you side with those that want stability or will you forge your own path of blood through the night.