Vampire the Masquerade: Bound by Blood (5.5e)

About the adventure

There is a world hidden from humanity that survives in the space between superstition and disbelief. This shadowed world of secrets exists alongside the mortal world and has for tens of thousands of years. The denizens of this dark world prey upon humanity while desperately clinging to what was once mortal inside themselves. It is a World of Darkness in which the monsters that go bump in the night are all too real, and you can become one of these supernatural creatures. You can become a Kindred, or, as they are more commonly known in folklore … vampires. One Last Goodbye takes place in and around the small village of Knock Glad, in the northernmost part of Irish Britannia. It is late autumn, roughly 700 CE. The rains have grown cold, snow has started to dust the highlands, and the days are growing shorter with each dusk. It is the Dark Ages, a time when humans feared predators more than they do in modern times. Without fear of camera phones or security systems to surveil them, Kindred can move and hunt with greater ease, but humanity’s stronger superstitions leave little room for mistakes that break the Masquerade. One Kindred’s lack of control, succumbing to the Beast just once, can bring hunters, inquisitors, werewolves, and mages rooting around for monsters to slay. The characters are a coterie of Kindred who have known each other long enough to seek havens together when travelling and have protected one another on many occasions. Their current journey has brought them to Knock Glad after receiving terrible news. The last living descendant of one of the characters, a young woman in her late 20’s named Aislynn, has died. The people of Knock Glad are holding a four-day-long wake for Aislynn, and the coterie feels it is necessary to accompany their friend to the event. As one of the character’s Touchstones, having a chance to give a proper farewell can be the difference between moving on or falling into a psychological spiral that leads to the Beast... This one-shot uses the D&D 5.5e rules for Vampire the Masquerade (Dark Ages). Your characters will begin at 4th level and are able to choose from the clans given in this supplement: Brujah, Gangrel, Nosferatu, Toreador, and Ventrue. The species of the characters would all be human.