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San Francisco is located on the West Coast of the United States at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula and includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its boundaries. Several picturesque islands—Alcatraz, Treasure Island and the adjacent Yerba Buena Island, and small portions of Alameda Island, Red Rock Island, and Angel Island—are part of the city. Also included are the uninhabited Farallon Islands, 27 miles (43 km) offshore in the Pacific Ocean. The mainland within the city limits roughly forms a "seven-by-seven-mile square", a common local colloquialism referring to the city's shape, though its total area, including water, is nearly 232 square miles (600 km2).
 
San Francisco is located on the West Coast of the United States at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula and includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its boundaries. Several picturesque islands—Alcatraz, Treasure Island and the adjacent Yerba Buena Island, and small portions of Alameda Island, Red Rock Island, and Angel Island—are part of the city. Also included are the uninhabited Farallon Islands, 27 miles (43 km) offshore in the Pacific Ocean. The mainland within the city limits roughly forms a "seven-by-seven-mile square", a common local colloquialism referring to the city's shape, though its total area, including water, is nearly 232 square miles (600 km2).
  
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San Francisco's shoreline has grown beyond its natural limits. Entire neighborhoods such as the Marina, Mission Bay, and Hunters Point, as well as large sections of the Embarcadero, sit on areas of landfill. Treasure Island was constructed from material dredged from the bay as well as material resulting from the excavation of the Yerba Buena Tunnel through Yerba Buena Island during the construction of the Bay Bridge. Such land tends to be unstable during earthquakes. The resulting soil liquefaction causes extensive damage to property built upon it, as was evidenced in the Marina district during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Most of the city's natural watercourses, such as Islais Creek and Mission Creek, have been culverted and built over, although the Public Utilities Commission is studying proposals to daylight or restore some creeks.
 
San Francisco's shoreline has grown beyond its natural limits. Entire neighborhoods such as the Marina, Mission Bay, and Hunters Point, as well as large sections of the Embarcadero, sit on areas of landfill. Treasure Island was constructed from material dredged from the bay as well as material resulting from the excavation of the Yerba Buena Tunnel through Yerba Buena Island during the construction of the Bay Bridge. Such land tends to be unstable during earthquakes. The resulting soil liquefaction causes extensive damage to property built upon it, as was evidenced in the Marina district during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Most of the city's natural watercourses, such as Islais Creek and Mission Creek, have been culverted and built over, although the Public Utilities Commission is studying proposals to daylight or restore some creeks.
  
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The historic center of San Francisco is the northeast quadrant of the city anchored by Market Street and the waterfront. It is here that the Financial District is centered, with Union Square, the principal shopping and hotel district, and the Tenderloin nearby. Cable cars carry riders up steep inclines to the summit of Nob Hill, once the home of the city's business tycoons, and down to the waterfront tourist attractions of Fisherman's Wharf, and Pier 39, where many restaurants feature Dungeness crab from a still-active fishing industry. Also in this quadrant are Russian Hill, a residential neighborhood with the famously crooked Lombard Street; North Beach, the city's Little Italy and the former center of the Beat Generation; and Telegraph Hill, which features Coit Tower. Abutting Russian Hill and North Beach is San Francisco's Chinatown, the oldest Chinatown in North America.[88][89][90][91] The South of Market, which was once San Francisco's industrial core, has seen significant redevelopment following the construction of Oracle Park and an infusion of startup companies. New skyscrapers, live-work lofts, and condominiums dot the area. Further development is taking place just to the south in Mission Bay area, a former railroad yard, which now has a second campus of the University of California, San Francisco and Chase Center, which opened in 2019 as the new home of the Golden State Warriors.
 
  
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West of downtown, across Van Ness Avenue, lies the large Western Addition neighborhood, which became established with a large African American population after World War II. The Western Addition is usually divided into smaller neighborhoods including Hayes Valley, the Fillmore, and Japantown, which was once the largest Japantown in North America but suffered when its Japanese American residents were forcibly removed and interned during World War II. The Western Addition survived the 1906 earthquake with its Victorians largely intact, including the famous "Painted Ladies", standing alongside Alamo Square. To the south, near the geographic center of the city is Haight-Ashbury, famously associated with 1960s hippie culture. The Haight is now home to some expensive boutiques and a few controversial chain stores, although it still retains some bohemian character.  
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Shortly after the Camarilla paid tribute to the Quincunx (what some call “the most expensive rent in San Francisco”), the August Courts announced it needed to “temporarily” relocate the city’ s Kindred to several predetermined and carefully delineated neighborhoods. The Cathayans claim Kindred will receive their old privileges back once the city fully transitions into the New Promise Mandarinate. Happily, the Quincunx allows Kindred to remain in San Francisco during the change. During the process, however, Kindred must feed and move their havens into small and carefully defined sections of the city. The Kuei-jin call these “Munificent Transitioning Sectors.”  They are “munificent” because the Quincunx feels it shows great compassion and restraint toward the barbarian Kin-jin by letting them stay in the New Promise Mandarinate. They are “transitioning sectors” because the Kuei-jin claim Kindred will remain there only for the time it takes to finish transforming the Camarilla city of San Francisco into the New Promise Mandarinate. The Kindred find the Cathayans’ terminology long-winded and ridiculously euphemistic. They and their protective ''Wu'' refer to them as "Revervations."  Only in formal discussions will the Kuei-jin refer to them as "Munificient Transitioning Sectors."  Though Kin-jin who wish to stay in better reservations had better use the long winded term.
  
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North of the Western Addition is Pacific Heights, an affluent neighborhood that features the homes built by wealthy San Franciscans in the wake of the 1906 earthquake. Directly north of Pacific Heights facing the waterfront is the Marina, a neighborhood popular with young professionals that was largely built on reclaimed land from the Bay.
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By all appearances, the Kuei-jin explicitly requested only that the Kindred relocate their havens and conduct the majority of their feeding within the Reservation Sectors — ostensibly to allow the Kuei-jin space and relative privacy while they assume residency as the city’s new masters. Privately, however, many Kindred wonder if the Kuei-jin take their lessons from the rape of Nanking — corralling the enemy to simplify their destruction.
  
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In the south-east quadrant of the city is the Mission District—populated in the 19th century by Californios and working-class immigrants from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Scandinavia. In the 1910s, a wave of Central American immigrants settled in the Mission and, in the 1950s, immigrants from Mexico began to predominate. In recent years, gentrification has changed the demographics of parts of the Mission from Latino, to twenty-something professionals. Noe Valley to the southwest and Bernal Heights to the south are both increasingly popular among young families with children. East of the Mission is the Potrero Hill neighborhood, a mostly residential neighborhood that features sweeping views of downtown San Francisco. West of the Mission, the area historically known as Eureka Valley, now popularly called the Castro, was once a working-class Scandinavian and Irish area. It has become North America's first gay village, and is now the center of gay life in the city. Located near the city's southern border, the Excelsior District is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in San Francisco. The predominantly African American Bayview-Hunters Point in the far southeast corner of the city is one of the poorest neighborhoods and suffers from a high rate of crime, though the area has been the focus of several revitalizing and controversial urban renewal projects.
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The construction of the Twin Peaks Tunnel in 1918 connected southwest neighborhoods to downtown via streetcar, hastening the development of West Portal, and nearby affluent Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood. Further west, stretching all the way to the Pacific Ocean and north to Golden Gate Park lies the vast Sunset District, a large middle class area with a predominantly Asian population.[98] The northwestern quadrant of the city contains the Richmond, also a mostly middle-class neighborhood north of Golden Gate Park, home to immigrants from other parts of Asia as well as many Russian and Ukrainian immigrants. Together, these areas are known as The Avenues. These two districts are each sometimes further divided into two regions: the Outer Richmond and Outer Sunset can refer to the more western portions of their respective district and the Inner Richmond and Inner Sunset can refer to the more eastern portions.
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Many piers remained derelict for years until the demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway reopened the downtown waterfront, allowing for redevelopment. The centerpiece of the port, the Ferry Building, while still receiving commuter ferry traffic, has been restored and redeveloped as a gourmet marketplace.
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The Richmond is in many ways defined by its relation to the parks; bordered by Golden Gate Park on the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Lincoln Park, Land's End, Mountain Lake Park and the Presidio of San Francisco to the north, bisected by the Presidio Greenbelt.
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The Richmond has many influences from the Chinese-American culture. One of its three commercial strips, Clement Street in the inner Richmond segment is sometimes called the second Chinatown due to the high concentration of Chinese establishments.
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* -- [[Chainges]] -- A gay club in the Castro
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* -- [[Dracula's Daughter]] -- A Kindred club that has admitted a number of other supernaturals.
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* -- [[Europa]] -- a gay club in the Castro.
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* -- [[Gold Club]] -- High End Gentlemen's club
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A rich and at times tragic history precedes the current
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=== History of San Francisco Cemeteries ===
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state of affairs in San Francisco, though many of the vampires
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At one time, San Francisco, like most cities, had cemeteries where they buried their deceased residents. As the city was being settled and established in the late 1700s and early 1800s, these burial sites were at Mission Dolores, Telegraph Hill, North Beach, Yerba Buena Cemetery (now the site of the SF Main Library) and the City Cemetery (now the site of the Legion of Honor).
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embroiled in the conflict are unaware of it (and perhaps
 
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doomed to repeat it). What both Kindred and Kuei-jin know
 
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is that history has picked up its pace in the Bay Area as well
 
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as the rest of the world for some time now. It is a pendulum
 
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racing on the downward swing , a prisoner of both gravity and
 
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momentum and subject to forces and paths not of its choosing.
 
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Aware of this, both sides fear there may be no stopping the
 
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Then the boom of the Gold Rush changed San Francisco drastically, and from 1849 onward, there was less and less space to accommodate the rapidly growing population. By 1900, the Board of Supervisors voted to stop all burials within city limits and relocate the existing graves from the San Francisco cemeteries to Lawndale (now [[Colma]]).
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While San Francisco’s history only covers a two-
 
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century span, the history of the Bay area extends back
 
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much farther than that. Native American tribes like the
 
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Ohlone and the Miwok inhabited the region long before
 
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the arrival of the first Europeans or Asians landed on the
 
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shores of North America. These people knew nothing of
 
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t he Curse of Caine or the Fall of the Wan Xian, although
 
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they understood the creatures haunting the world’s dark
 
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and wild places. For the most part, the tribes remained
 
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small, warding off undue attention from their preternatural
 
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predators. They lived in relative peace with the Changing
 
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Folk of the wilds, never dreaming their fellow mortals
 
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Throughout its history, there were probably more than 200,000 graves dug in San Francisco, but the exact number is unknown as most of the records were destroyed in the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. The only remaining San Francisco cemeteries are the National Cemetery in the Presidio and the old cemetery at Mission Dolores (San Francisco de Asis).
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The first European visitors to curse the shores of
 
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California came in 1542, when Portuguese explorer Juan
 
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Rodriguez Cabrillo circumnavigated the tip of South
 
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America and sailed as far north as the Russian River,
 
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mapping the western coast of South and North America
 
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along his route. In 1579, famed English sailor Sir Francis
 
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repairing his ships and setting sail once again. Sebastian
 
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Cermeno, another Portuguese explorer, “discovered”
 
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Punta de los Reyes (King’ s Point) in the 1590s. All the
 
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In 1769, a Spanish soldier named Gaspar de Protola
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sailing to Monterey Bay in the south. Six years later, Juan
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The National Cemetery is for military personnel only. Due to its size, only those who purchased plots already are allowed to be buried there. They also sometimes allow burials of high-profile individuals, but you must receive special permission.
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Carolina. The events in San Francisco were of even less
 
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while the conflicts leading to the Civil War simmered
 
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'''''Disclaimer:''''' The above content taken from and attributed to with respect: "San Francisco Cemeteries: Where to Find and How to Visit these Special Resting Places" -- Author: '''Jill Loeffler''' -- Article Date: May 23, 2022 -- Website: https://www.sftourismtips.com/san-francisco-cemeteries.html
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enforce opinion and policy. Regardless of allegiance,
 
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however, all vampires quickly learned to confine their
 
−
hunting to the new city. The Lupines stalked the wilds
 
−
outside San Francisco as guards encircling a prison. They
 
−
shredded the first vampires to stray into their domain as
 
−
a warning to the rest.
 
  
−
=== A Land of New Promise ===
+
San Francisco is friendly to the Garou in almost direct proportion to its unfriendliness to the Kindred. There are more werewolves here than in just about any other major city in North America, drawn by the relaxed atmosphere and eco-friendly politics. Many live on the Peninsula, occasionally interacting with the fae of the Edge of the Labrys, but there are quite a few Glass Walkers lurking in Silicon Valley as well. The Bone Gnawer population of San Francisco is on the rise as well, as word gets around of the relatively easy pickings.
−
Of course, new arrivals to San Francisco came not
 
−
only from Europe, Mexico and the United States, but also
 
−
from the Middle Kingdom. China’s Opium Wars against
 
−
England and the ongoing encroachment of ''gweilo'' —
 
−
white barbarians — everywhere strained the situation in
 
−
the Far East. To many Chinese, California was Gum San,
 
−
the “Golden Mountain,” a land of promise and opportunity
 
−
away from war and starvation. Around the time of the
 
−
Gold Rush, the first ship laden with some three hundred
 
−
Chinese arrived in San Francisco.
 
  
−
Unfortunately, these immigrants discovered their
+
There are many bay area caerns, and as they are places of power for others as well, the Garou often share them with nunnehi. There is an unspoken mutual aid pact between the two groups, and Queen Aeron of the fae generally considers the two as a unit in reference to matters of policy. Of all the Kithain rulers, Countess Evaine sees more of the werewolves than any other. Certain sept leaders have observed her dealings with the selkies, and hold her as trustworthy.
−
“golden land of promise” was a rough frontier following
+
Regional Garou
−
the Golden Rule: Those with the gold make the rules. The
 
−
Chinese remained a close-knit community even after
 
−
their arrival, laying the foundations for San Francisco’ s
 
−
modern Chinatown. Rather than becoming prospectors
 
−
and miners (though some of them did), many Chinese
 
−
found employment either serving the needs of San
 
−
Francisco’s more fortunate inhabitants or working for the
 
−
powerful railroad companies, who sought cheap labor to
 
−
complete the transcontinental railroad.
 
  
−
Of course, with the Chinese and other Middle
+
* Rufus McLaren
−
Kingdom immigrants came the Wan Kuei, the Ten
+
* Wears-Many-Stories
−
Thousand Demons. It was not that the August Courts had
+
* Andrea MacNilnoc
−
any interest in a frontier city in a barbaric land, but the
 
−
presence of some Kuei-jin was inevitable. A few, disgraced
 
−
in shadow wars or fallen from favor in the August Courts,
 
−
chose self-imposed exile over facing the Eye of Heaven
 
−
and Final Death. Some found the freedom of the frontier
 
−
exhilarating while others suffered in silence, hoping to
 
−
redeem themselves and return to civilization. There were
 
−
also those mortals who crossed the ocean only to die in
 
−
their new land, fight their way free of torture in Yomi and
 
−
take the Second Breath. More experienced Kuei-jin usually
 
−
dealt with the resulting ''chih-mei''.
 
  
−
Regardless of their reasons for coming to the Golden
+
------------
−
Mountain, though, the Wan Kuei who made the ocean
+
<br>
−
crossing quickly discovered they were not alone in San
+
------------
−
Francisco’s nights.
 
  
−
==== The Kanbujian ====
+
== '''City Government''' ==
−
In Chinatown’s early years, the Kuei-jin learned
 
−
that leaving the Middle Kingdom behind did not
 
−
necessarily free a soul from the weight dragging it
 
−
down to Yomi after death. On occasion, a mortal of
 
−
Chinese descent would take the Second Breath
 
−
outside the bounds of civilization and away from the
 
−
watchful eyes of the Kuei-jin ''jina'' and elders. With
 
−
no aid from others of their kind and no knowledge of
 
−
their nature, most of these poor unfortunates
 
−
succumbed to their Demons, becoming ravening
 
−
flesh-eaters that the Kuei-jin were forced to hunt
 
−
down and destroy. On rare occasions, the Kin-jin
 
−
discovered one of these ''chih-mei'' and destroyed it as
 
−
a threat to the Masquerade, unaware of what it really
 
−
was or where it originated.
 
  
−
The Wan Kuei called these poor wretches
+
== '''Crime''' ==
−
''kànbujiàn'' — “unable to see” — because they were
+
In 2011, 50 murders were reported, which is 6.1 per 100,000 people. There were about 134 rapes, 3,142 robberies, and about 2,139 assaults. There were about 4,469 burglaries, 25,100 thefts, and 4,210 motor vehicle thefts. The Tenderloin area has the highest crime rate in San Francisco: 70% of the city's violent crimes, and around one-fourth of the city's murders, occur in this neighborhood. The Tenderloin also sees high rates of drug abuse, gang violence, and prostitution. Another area with high crime rates is the Bayview-Hunters Point area. In the first six months of 2015 there were 25 murders compared to 14 in the first six months of 2014. However, the murder rate is still much lower than in past decades. That rate, though, did rise again by the close of 2016. According to the San Francisco Police Department, there were 59 murders in the city in 2016, an annual total that marked a 13.5% increase in the number of homicides (52) from 2015.
−
blind to Dharma and the path to the Hundred
 
−
Clouds. If found soon enough, they were often able
 
−
to master their P’o nature and join Kuei-jin society;
 
−
if they failed or were not found in time, the Wan
 
−
Kuei “mercifully” gave them Final Death. What the
 
−
Kuei-jin did not know at first — and later refused to
 
−
acknowledge — was that some rare ''kànbujiàn'' mastered
 
−
their Demon nature on their own. Most did so by
 
−
surrendering to the Yama Kings and becoming ''akuma'',  
 
−
but a few struggled to find their own way, even
 
−
discovering some Dharma principles through trial
 
−
and error. Their Way was flawed and fraught with
 
−
peril, but their determination was great.
 
  
−
=== East Meets West ===
+
=== Peace Officers ===
−
The first encounters between Kuei-jin and San
+
The [[San Francisco Police Department]] was founded in 1849.  
−
Francisco’s Kindred were brief and fleeting. The Kindred
 
−
quickly discovered the clannish Chinese immigrants were
 
−
better left alone. While most Europeans and Americans
 
−
had abandoned such “childish” notions as vampires, the
 
−
Chinese still maintained their old ways. The Kindred
 
−
were surprised that Asians knew enough to take precautions
 
−
against creatures of the night. Some of them — paper
 
−
charms, rice scattered across thresholds and the like —
 
−
were laughable. Others, such as prayer beads, charms
 
−
backed by a true and abiding faith or the simple wisdom
 
−
to huddle close to the light in groups, made the Chinese
 
−
more difficult prey.
 
  
−
Of course, most Kindred created excuses not to bother
+
The [[FBI- San Francisco Field Office|FBI]] has a San Francisco office at 450 Golden Gate
−
rather than admit difficulty. “Chinese blood is thin and
 
−
not as satisfying,” some said. “They’re not as vigorous, and
 
−
less lively than other mortals.” “It’s a small loss, since
 
−
there is so much already available.” Still, it vexed some
 
−
Kindred to be denied anything. Some accepted the
 
−
challenge by hunting more “interesting” prey in
 
−
Chinatown... only to vanish and never be seen again.
 
  
−
Rumors circulated among the city’s vampires. They
+
The [[DEA]] has a division field office located at 1301 Clay St, Oakland, CA 94612 (12th Street / Oakland).
−
said the Chinese knew far more than they let on, luring
 
−
Kindred into some kind of trap. Another whisper claimed
 
−
that their numbers included mysterious magi or vampire-
 
−
hunters. Yet others said that they had forged a pact with the
 
−
Lupines, or they were host to a hitherto-unknown clan of
 
−
Cainites . This last fiction was the closest to the truth.
 
  
−
The Wan Kuei needed the Chinese community to
+
The portions of Golden Gate National Recreation Area located within the city, including the Presidio and Ocean Beach, are patrolled by the United States Park Police.
−
build Scarlet Screens in this new and alien land. To
 
−
protect their interests, they destroyed any threat to
 
−
Chinatown. In the process, the Demon People learned
 
−
more about the White Demons dwelling among the
 
−
Western mortals, the ones who came with the ''gweilo'' to
 
−
the Middle Kingdom.
 
  
−
The first thing the Kuei-jin realized was that the
+
The San Francisco Fire Department provides both fire suppression and emergency medical services to the city.
−
Westerners were too numerous; they were too few to risk
 
−
open confrontations. So the Wan Kuei remained in
 
−
Chinatown’ s shadows and kept to their own affairs and
 
−
council. They gave the ''gweilo'' vampires good reason to
 
−
avoid their domain, but did not venture too far outside of
 
−
it either. Those who disobeyed or threatened this version
 
−
of the Kindred’ s Masquerade paid with their unlives.
 
  
−
=== Shadow Plays ===
+
The city operates 22 public "pit stop" toilets.
−
Lawlessness ruled San Francisco’s streets in the years
 
−
immediately following the Gold Rush. The population
 
−
surge overtaxed the city’ s limited law enforcement, and
 
−
bribery helped ensure the law looked the other way for
 
−
almost anything. Along the waterfront rested saloons
 
−
and whorehouses where miners spent their money, with
 
−
roving gangs of criminals more than willing to help
 
−
lighten their pockets.
 
  
−
One of the most notorious gangs was the Sydney
+
=== The Angel Detective Agency ===
−
Ducks, comprised of criminals who had escaped exile in
+
:* '''[[Johnny Angel]]''' -- Gritty Detective
−
Australia and made their way to California. They would
+
:* '''[[Charity Araya]]''' -- Johnny's Secretary
−
waylay passers-by, throwing a bag over their heads and
 
−
relieving them of their money and valuables (often leaving
 
−
the victim dead or merely stunned with a strike from a sap
 
−
or fist). The practice became known as “hooding” and the
 
−
criminals who did it as “hoodlums.” The Australian
 
−
gangsters also operated protection rackets in and along
 
−
the Barbary Coast. The Sydney Ducks set fire to parts of
 
−
the city five times for denying them tribute. It happened
 
−
so often that Chinatown and Barbary Coast residents
 
−
built exclusively with brick and stone rather than wood,
 
−
so their homes and businesses would not burn so easily.
 
  
−
Some Kindred thought it too convenient that the
+
=== Gangs ===
−
depredations of the Sydney Ducks hurt businesses
+
Several street gangs operate in the city, including MS-13, the Sureños and Norteños in the Mission District,. African-American street gangs familiar in other cities, including the Crips, have struggled to establish footholds in San Francisco, while police and prosecutors have been accused of liberally labeling young African-American males as gang members. Criminal gangs with shotcallers in China, including Triad groups such as the [[Wo Hop To]], have been reported active in San Francisco. In 1977, an ongoing rivalry between two Chinese gangs led to a shooting attack at the Golden Dragon restaurant in Chinatown, which left 5 people dead and 11 wounded. None of the victims in this attack were gang members. Five members of the [[Chung Ching Yee|Joe Boys]] gang were arrested and convicted of the crime. In 1990, a gang-related shooting killed one man and wounded six others outside a nightclub near Chinatown. In 1998, six teenagers were shot and wounded at the Chinese Playground; a 16-year-old boy was subsequently arrested.
−
influenced by the Camarilla as well as burning out portions
 
−
of Chinatown. Rumors claimed the gang was under the
 
−
influence of a Sabbat pack or anarchs. Some even believed
 
−
that its roster might have included vampires, though no
 
−
proof of these conjectures ever manifested. The fires,
 
−
however, did convince many local Kindred and Kuei-jin
 
−
to find fireproof havens — a precaution that would prove
 
−
vital a few decades later.
 
  
−
By the mid-1850s, miners had panned or mined out
+
The Yakuza in San Francisco are members of the ''[[Goda-Ika]]'' gang.  They are a mix of Japanese and Korean members. Involved in the sex trade, gun running, and operate various protection rackets in the city. They have an operational truce with the Joe Boys.  Word on the street is that there is strong competition with the Wo Hop To over prostitution in the city.
−
most of California’s surface gold, leaving only the deeper
 
−
underground veins to be tapped. Those wise enough to
 
−
invest their money carefully (including the Ventrue and
 
−
other Camarilla vampires) funded large mining operations
 
−
to dig out the gold that remained beyond the means and
 
−
reach of individual miners. The continually expanding
 
−
waterfront also became the mouth by which to feed the
 
−
hungry factories of the East Coast and Europe. During that
 
−
period, trading companies shipped every product workers
 
−
could dig, drag, chop or tear from the mountains, fields and
 
−
forests. The city became the premier center for commerce
 
−
along the Pacific Ocean, finally drawing the attention of
 
−
the elders and Princes that their childer had left behind
 
−
years before. The unspoken truce between Camarilla, Sabbat
 
−
and anarch vampires in San Francisco was over.
 
  
−
Of course, “peace” was a relative term. Kindred from
+
==== Asian Gangs ====
−
all three factions struggled against each other previously,
+
:* '''[[Wo Hop To]]''' -- Chinese Triad
−
but mostly over territory and mortals. When the
+
:* '''[[Chung Ching Yee|Joe Boys]]''' -- Chinese Street Gang
−
Transcontinental Railway became a reality, the Camarilla
+
:* '''[[Wah Ching]]''' -- Chinese-American Street Gang Born in SF
−
mentality reasserted itself. It was decided that San Francisco
+
===== Lesser Gangs =====
−
should be brought under the Camarilla’s aegis, to that
+
:* '''[[Goda-Ika]]''' -- Frisco Based Yakuza
−
ensure the Sabbat and anarchs would not control the city.
+
:* '''[[Black Steel Centipede]]''' -- Southeast Asian Triad
  
−
=== Public Vigilance ===
+
==== Black Gangs ====
−
As usual, the Camarilla operated behind the scenes,
+
:* '''[[Bloods]]''' --
−
using mortal proxies to carry out their plans. The Sabbat
+
:* '''[[Crips]]''' --
−
Cainites in 1850s San Francisco were wealthy and powerful.
+
===== Minor Gangs =====
−
In very un-sect-like machinations, they influenced mortals
+
:* '''[[Blasphemers]]''' --  
−
— usually criminals — who in turn assumed positions of
+
:* '''[[Six Deuce Gangsters]]''' --
−
power locally during the Gold Rush and held them through
+
:* '''[[Onyx Brethren]]''' -- A New Gang dealing a New Drug
−
graft, corruption and influence peddling. Ballot stuffing
 
−
was practiced openly and an honest man’s vote counted for
 
−
little. The common people , however, grew tired of this
 
−
lawless state of affairs. Their desire to see justice was the
 
−
Camarilla’s weapon against the Sabbat.
 
  
−
On June 9, 1851 in Sydney Cove, a man named John
+
==== Latin Gangs ====
−
Jenkins simply walked into a merchant’s store, picked up
+
:* '''[[Latin Kings]]''' -- Mexican-American Street Gang
−
the safe and walked away. He loaded the safe into a boat
+
----
−
and calmly rowed out into the bay. Several of the
+
<br>
−
merchant’s friends and associates pursued Jenkins and
+
----
−
caught him easily, though he dumped the safe overboard.
+
=== Hackers of San Francisco ===
−
The public outcry was considerable.
+
* [[Delight]] -- Infinite Tock
 +
* [[Frostbite Ru]] -- Frostbite
 +
* [[Jamal Smith]] -- JoJo
 +
* [[Jason-SF| Quon]] --
 +
* [[Leon Arness]] -- Aslan
 +
* [[Wen Doc]] -- Shogun
  
−
Local citizens formed the Committee for Public
+
=== Professional Criminals ===
−
Vigilance, which tried and executed Jenkins on its own
+
:* '''[[Mensur Tahirović]]''' -- Leader of the mercenaries of the Cutting Crew
−
authority. The Committee was very loosely organized at
+
:* '''[[Ryann Walmsley]]''' -- AKA: ''Da Jakkqqal''
−
first, but its presence did give San Francisco’s criminals
 
−
pause, at least for a short while. Jenkins’ boldness and the
 
−
relative ease of his capture sent rumors among the Sabbat
 
−
of a Camarilla plot, but local corruption ran deep. The
 
−
Sabbat knew it would take more than a few outraged
 
−
vigilantes to mobilize San Francisco’s citizens against its
 
−
mortal power base.
 
  
−
It wasn’t long, however, before matters worsened. In
 
−
1855, there were nearly 500 murders in California but only
 
−
6 legal executions. Corrupt politicians maintained a tight
 
−
hold on the government. Municipal spending was through
 
−
the roof — much of it went into graft, bribes and
 
−
embezzlement, lining the pockets of the city’s “civil servants.”
 
  
−
James King was a prominent San Francisco banker
 
−
who had lost his fortune when local financial panic closed
 
−
his bank. Outspoken against local corruption, he used his
 
−
remaining money and the encouragement of his friends to
 
−
found a newspaper voicing his opinions. In October of
 
−
1855, King began publication of the ''Evening Bulletin'', a
 
−
four-page paper. In it, he denounced criminals and political
 
−
figures alike in fearless editorials that had people all over
 
−
the city talking.
 
  
−
When notorious gambler Charles Cora shot and
+
=== Organized Crime ===
−
killed U.S. Marshal Richardson, he was “formally arrested”
+
==== Italian Mafia ====
−
by friends of his who held public office. It was considered
+
:* [[San Francisco Crime Family]]
−
likely that he would walk away a free man. Following the
+
::* [[Francesco Abati]]
−
incident, King ran an editorial saying that that if Cora
+
:::* [[Da Sun]]
−
wasn’t hanged, Sheriff David Scannell should take his
 
−
place on the gallows.
 
  
−
King also took on city supervisor James Casey, revealing
+
----
−
that Casey was a felon who had served time in Sing-Sing
+
<br>
−
Prison in New York. In retribution, Casey shot King outside
+
----
−
the ''Bulletin'' office on Montgomery Street. Witnesses rushed
+
==== Yakuza ====
−
the wounded reporter to a doctor while Casey’s cronies in
+
:* [[Hachiro Matsubaru]] -- The collector for overdue accounts...
−
law-enforcement “took him into custody.”
 
  
−
In response to the shooting, over a thousand people
+
----
−
turned out at the Montgomery Block in a show of support
+
<br>
−
for James King. The crowd later made its way to the Plaza,
+
----
−
where word circulated that the Committee for Public
 
−
Vigilance was reforming. The following morning, members
 
−
of the 1851 Committee met and created a new, more
 
−
organized group. They penned an oath of fealty and
 
−
assigned each member a number by which he would be
 
−
known within the organization, to maintain anonymity.
 
−
A few days later, the Committee consisted of some 3,500
 
−
members. In the meantime, however, James King died
 
−
from his gunshot wound at home.
 
  
−
The Committee for Public Vigilance marched on the
+
==== [[Romanian Mafia In San Francisco]]====
−
jail guarded by hundreds of local militia and law officers
 
−
loyal to James Casey. Using a cannon to batter down the
 
−
door, the Committee took Casey with little protest from his
 
−
protectors. They also took gambler Charles Cora into
 
−
custody. Both men received advocates and stood trial
 
−
before a jury of Committee members, who summarily
 
−
convicted the two men and sentenced them to a public
 
−
hanging. An immense crowd filled Sacramento Street to
 
−
watch the double execution, cementing the Committee for
 
−
Public Vigilance’s power in the minds of San Franciscans.
 
  
−
Meanwhile, the Camarilla encouraged the
+
----
−
Committee’s vigilantes to attack the Sabbat’s mortal
+
<br>
−
proxies in the name of justice. They eliminated many of
+
----
−
the Sabbat’s pawns from positions of power. The so-called
 
−
revolution also hid the nightly movement of Camarilla
 
−
scourges eliminating Sabbat targets and consigning
 
−
vampires to ash. As far as the Camarilla was concerned,
 
−
the strikes were clean and precise. They believed that
 
−
they were the cause of the Sabbat’s fall in San Francisco.
 
−
What they did not realize was the extent of the Sabbat’s
 
−
internal dissent and scattered resources. The Sabbat were
 
−
defeated as much by their own lack of foresight as the
 
−
Camarilla’s attacks.
 
  
−
After the Committee’s cleanup of the city’s political
+
=== Serial Killers ===
−
echelons, legitimate businesses thrived — with the
+
*'''[[The Zodiac Killer]]'''
−
Camarilla riding their coattails. San Francisco formally
 
−
incorporated as a city of some 30,000 people. The City
 
−
by the Bay became reality, and the Inner Circle
 
−
recognized the rule of Prince Jebediah Hawthorne in
 
−
the Domain of San Francisco.
 
  
−
==== '''Emperor Norton''' ====
+
*'''[[The Golden State Killer]]'''
−
''"At the preemptory request of a large majority of
 
−
the citizens of these United States, I Joshua Norton,
 
−
formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now
 
−
for the last nine years and ten months past of San
 
−
Francisco, California, declare and proclaim myself the
 
−
Emperor of These United States."'' — Joshua Norton, September 19, 1859
 
  
−
The first and only Emperor of the United
+
*'''[[The Zebra Killers]]'''
−
States was born in London, England in 1819. He
 
−
arrived in San Francisco by way of South Africa at
 
−
the age of 30, with the sum of $40,000 to his
 
−
name. Within five years, he’d lost that
 
−
considerable fortune by speculating in real estate
 
−
and attempting to corner the local market on rice.
 
−
Living in poverty, Norton wrote a proclamation
 
−
declaring himself Emperor of the United States.
 
−
It was published in a local newspaper, at least in
 
−
part due to the sheer novelty of the idea. He wore
 
−
a uniform that he obtained from a second-hand
 
−
store and walked the streets, administering to the
 
−
daily needs of his “ domain.”
 
  
−
Emperor Norton issued various proclamations
+
*'''[[Richard Ramirez]]'''
−
during his “reign,” including the abolition of the
 
−
Democratic and Republican parties and a decree
 
−
against using “the abominable word ‘Frisco,’ which
 
−
has no linguistic or other warrant.” That alone
 
−
carried a $25.00 fine. He also proposed the idea of
 
−
a “League of Nations,” where the international
 
−
community could settle its disputes (many years
 
−
before the actual League of Nations signed its
 
−
charter in San Francisco). He issued his own
 
−
money, which he traded for legal tender; many
 
−
stores came to accept Norton’ s currency as
 
−
payment. He even mediated public disputes,
 
−
defusing one anti-Chinese demonstration by
 
−
quietly standing and reciting the Lord’s Prayer.
 
−
His example shamed the demonstrators so greatly
 
−
that they returned to their own affairs.
 
  
−
Idle speculation about Emperor Norton
+
*'''[[David Joseph Carpenter]]'''
−
circulated among San Francisco’s Kindred. One
 
−
account said he was the victim (or, perhaps,
 
−
beneficiary) of Malkavian manipulation. Others
 
−
suggested he was a puppet of one faction or another,
 
−
or that he provided a useful spectacle for the mortal
 
−
herd. Some even believed he was fey-touched.
 
−
Whatever the case, vampires considered Norton
 
−
inviolate because of his fame and public standing.
 
−
He was left as a purely mortal phenomenon.
 
  
−
Norton died on January 8, 1880 on California
+
*'''[[The Doodler]]'''
−
Street. He was buried in the Masonic Cemetery, and
 
−
his funeral procession ran two miles long. Between
 
−
10,000 and 30,000 people attended his funeral to
 
−
bid farewell to America’ s first and only Emperor.
 
  
−
=== Paths of Iron ===
+
*'''[[The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Killer]]'''
−
San Francisco continued to grow steadily through the
 
−
next decade, remaining a key center of commerce for
 
−
North America’ s entire West Coast. As gold mining
 
−
dwindled, the discovery of the Comstock Silver Lode in
 
−
Nevada sent a new infusion of wealth into San Francisco’s
 
−
coffers. Many of the city’s most powerful mining magnates
 
−
owned either the Nevada mines or the machines to
 
−
properly drill them, setting up a continuous circle of
 
−
wealth. The newfound prosperity further cemented the
 
−
Camarilla’ s hold over the city, their only real victory of
 
−
any substance in California. It was a bastion of influence
 
−
amid a sea of Sabbat and anarch power.
 
  
−
San Francisco’s only limitation was its isolation from
+
*'''[[San Francisco Slasher]]'''
−
the rest of the United States. Out on the edge of the
 
−
continent’s westernmost frontier, travel to and from the
 
−
City by the Bay required East Coast ships to circumnavigate
 
−
Cape Horn. The building of the Transcontinental Railroad
 
−
in the 1860s rectified that problem by connecting the
 
−
Pacific and Central rail lines.
 
  
−
Chinese immigrant workers did much of the hard
+
*'''[[The Copycats]]'''
−
labor required to extend the Pacific Line through the
 
−
harsh Utah desert. This elicited jealousy from Caucasian
 
−
workers, who grumbled that the Chinamen stole their
 
−
jobs. The government responded by passing “coolie laws”
 
−
that penalized the Chinese workers and made it hard for
 
−
them to earn a living. It was only part of a prejudice
 
−
against Chinese people that simmered and festered beneath
 
−
the surface — occasionally erupting into accusations or
 
−
even violence.
 
  
−
San Francisco’s Chinatown remained a city-within-
+
*'''[[Theudemar Donne]]'''
−
a-city; people mostly kept to themselves, running their
 
−
own schools and businesses and generally catering to the
 
−
area’s inhabitants. In turn, the city government passed
 
−
laws limiting “foreign” ownership of property. It also
 
−
enacted laws taxing foreign (mainly Asian) workers more
 
−
heavily, thus protecting jobs for “good Americans.” The
 
−
situation suited Chinatown’s few Kuei-jin and shen, since
 
−
it kept their havens secure from foreign devils and
 
−
prevented expatriated Chinese from intermingling with
 
−
local Westerners.
 
  
−
==== Black Bart, the Plundering PO8 ====
+
All credit for descriptions of San Francisco's serial killers goes to: [https://serialkillershop.com/blogs/true-crime/san-francisco-serial-killers]
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One of the most notorious criminal figures of late
 
−
19th century San Francisco made his debut in August
 
−
of 1877. The man who later became known as Black
 
−
Bart stopped a Wells-Fargo stagecoach, leveled a
 
−
double-barreled shotgun at the driver and uttered his
 
−
famous command: “Throw down the box.” The driver
 
−
surrendered the wooden strongbox, after which the
 
−
robber allowed him to leave unharmed. The box
 
−
turned up later, empty except for a poem scrawled on
 
−
the back of a waybill:
 
  
−
''“I’ve labored long and hard for bread —"''<br>
+
=== Recent Crimes of Note ===
−
''“For honor and for riches —"''<br>
+
:* '''[[Dead bodies at Chang Park]]
−
''“But on my corns too long you’ve tread,"''<br>  
+
----
−
''“You fine-haired sons of bitches."''<br>
+
<br>
 +
----
  
−
It was signed: “Black Bart, the PO8.”
+
== '''Citizens of the City''' ==
 +
:* '''[[Charlton Jans]]''' --
 +
:* '''[[Ernesto Albani]]''' -- 
 +
:* '''[[Leonard Gunthar]]''' --
 +
:* '''[[Damon Ross]]''' --
  
−
News of the mysterious Black Bart and his “po8try”
+
=== Academics ===
−
spread quickly, though the robber himself remained
+
::* '''[[Natanael Navarro]]''' -- Assistant and Lover of Professor Chadwick {University of California, Berkeley}
−
out of sight for roughly a year afterward. When he
+
:* '''[[Fumi Shinozaki]]''' -- Archeologist & Ancient Asian Linguist
−
finally resurfaced, he robbed another stagecoach,
 
−
followed by several more. He always worked alone,
 
−
apparently traveling on foot through the rough hills
 
−
outside San Francisco. Wells- Fargo and the city
 
−
placed a considerable reward of $800 on his head, but
 
−
Black Bart remained at large.
 
  
−
Authorities didn’t capture Black Bart until 1883,
+
=== City Employees ===
−
when he was wounded in a stagecoach robbery.
+
:* '''[[Eladio Pascual]]''' -- His father saw a Japanese Sub
−
Although he escaped, he left his possessions behind.
 
−
Investigators tracked him through the San Francisco
 
−
laundry that cleaned his clothes, leading them to
 
−
Charles Bolton, AKA “Black Bart.” Bolton confessed
 
−
to the robbery, but the courts sentenced him to only
 
−
six years in prison. He served a little over four.
 
  
−
At his release, reporters mobbed Bolton, looking to
+
=== Foreigners ===
−
interview the infamous Black Bart. When asked if he
+
:* '''[[Yukiko Yamada]]''' -- [[CIRO]] Agent (Japan)
−
planned to rob any more stagecoaches, he replied that
+
:* '''[[Yuuji Ota]]''' -- ''12th Samurai''
−
he would not commit any further crimes. The questions
 
−
continued, until one young reporter asked, ”One final
 
−
question. Do you plan to write any more poetry?”
 
  
−
Bolton smiled and said, “Young man, didn’t you
+
=== Ghosts ===
−
just hear me say I would commit no more crimes?”
+
:* '''[[Justice David Terry]]''' -- Judge who was killed in a duel in 1853
 +
:* '''[[Hewlett Tarr]]''' -- Clerk who was shot while being robbed.
 +
:* '''[[Tina Ó Nualláin]]''' -- Irish/American English Lit major who died of an overdose in the Church
 +
:* '''[[Coby Seymour]]''' -- Dead drug addict and mental health patient
 +
:* '''[[Lamija Borislavav]] --
 +
:* '''[[Gift Scriven]]''' -- ''Ghost bound to Arkady''
 +
:* '''[[Mort Davies]]''' --  ''A Ghost with a Vendetta''
  
−
Charles “Black Bart” Bolton left San Francisco
+
=== [[Hypnovatiz]] ===
−
heading south. He disappeared shortly thereafter and
+
:* '''[[Margarette Elwyn]]''' -- Young Dreamer
−
was never heard from again.
+
:* '''[[Igor Zima]]''' -- 80yr old dreamer
  
−
=== The Dragon Thrashes its Tail ===
+
=== Journalists ===
−
''"Fire has reclaimed to civilization and cleanliness the"''<br>
+
:* '''[[Boris Neuville]]''' -- Investigative Reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle
−
''"Chinese ghetto, and no Chinatown will be permitted in the"''<br>
 
−
''"borders of the city... it seems as though a divine wisdom"''<br>
 
−
''"directed the range of the seismic horror and the range of the fire"''<br>
 
−
''"god. Wisely, the worst was cleared away with the best."''<br>
 
−
''— The Overland Monthly, 1906''<br>
 
  
−
On April 18, 1906 at 5:12 AM , Kuei-jin geomancers
+
=== Physicians ===
−
sensed a shift in the dragon-lines, a stirring of powerful
+
:* '''[[Diana Ninfa Rivero]]''' -- Nicaraguan Botanist
−
forces — the Earth Dragon was restless, and a tremendous
+
:* '''[[Matviy Borisov]]''' -- Ukrainian Neurological Specialist
−
earthquake struck San Francisco in response . The quake
 
−
itself lasted for less than a minute, but it toppled buildings
 
−
and buckled streets. Broken gas mains and fallen lamps
 
−
ignited fires that swept through the city.
 
  
−
The local fire department mobilized almost
+
=== Psychics ===
−
immediately, but the earthquake had ruptured all the
+
:* '''[[Matilda Tigan]]''' -- AKA: ''Tillie''
−
water mains, leaving them to fight the fires with buckets
+
:* '''[[Ji-Woo Choi]]''' -- AKA: ''Chloe''
−
instead of hoses. They retreated, hoping to contain the
+
:* '''[[Teresa Moya]]''' -- 13yr old
−
inferno and allow it to burn itself out. That, unfortunately,
+
:* '''[[Gabi Torres]]''' -- AKA: ''Gabi''
−
did not happen. The fires raged and spread, burning all of
 
−
one day and into the next. They consumed some 28,000
 
−
buildings, including all of Chinatown.
 
  
−
Despite both the Kuei-jin’s and Kindred’s best
+
=== Police ===
−
precautions, the fires caught them all by surprise. A few
+
:* '''[[Antonia Ramaker]]''' -- DEA Assistant Director 
−
vampires perished in the blaze, unable to flee without
 
−
facing sunlight and frenzied by Rötschreck or wave soul.
 
−
Retainers helped some Kindred escape from mansions on
 
−
Nobility Hill, while other vampires sought refuge in the
 
−
earth that had seemingly turned against the city. A
 
−
handful remained underground for several nights, fearful
 
−
of the heat they felt above their heads. The horror of being
 
−
burned to kindling frightened one or two Kindred so
 
−
greatly that they waited too long and sank into Torpor,
 
−
where they lay to this night. Some sires tell their neonate
 
−
progeny that on still nights, you can hear them, scratching
 
−
at the underside of sidewalks and roads.
 
  
−
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finally created a
+
==== SFPD ====
−
firebreak by dynamiting entire city blocks in the western
+
:* '''[[Yu Jiang]]''' -- SFPD Detective & Partner of Hamnet Tindall
−
districts. The blaze lasted for three days, as did the quake’s
+
:* '''[[Hamnet Tindall]]''' -- SFPD Detective & Partner of Yu Jiang
−
aftershocks. When it was all over, reporter Jack London
 
−
wrote in a newspaper dispatch, “the City of San Francisco
 
−
is no more.” The city was devastated, with some 3,000
 
−
people dead, 225,000 injured, vast numbers homeless and
 
−
$400 million in damage (valued in 1906).
 
  
−
San Francisco’s vampire enclaves were in great
+
=== Ravers ===
−
disarray. Worse yet, with the mortal survivors huddled
+
:* '''[[Caelan Barnes]]''' -- White Girl Kidnapped by the [[Onyx Brethren]]
−
together for protection and comfort, hunting and feeding
+
:* '''[[]]''' --
−
became exceedingly difficult. Forced to pick on lone
+
:* '''[[]]''' --
−
stragglers and looters, many vampires turned on one
 
−
another for vitae, sect be damned. The following weeks
 
−
endured nightly destructions, with the strongest
 
−
eliminating the weak . During the inevitable
 
−
reconstruction, however, the Camarilla sent scourges
 
−
into San Francisco to halt the indiscriminate feeding and
 
−
make examples of Kindred who committed diablerie. The
 
−
scourges caught and destroyed three Kindred, including
 
−
one member of the primogen, but any other culprits either
 
−
fled the region or hid their crime expertly.
 
  
−
The surviving Kuei-jin suffered the loss of their havens
+
=== Scientists ===
−
as well, and they would have to struggle against ''gweilo''
+
:* '''[[Jon Vilenger]]''' -- data scientist at [[InterGen International]]
−
opposition (both mortal and Kin-jin) to regain it. Bereft
 
−
of their sanctuaries , they hid among the mortal refugees
 
−
of Chinatown as best they could, taking advantage of the
 
−
deaths caused by the disaster to conceal their own feeding.
 
  
−
Some heralded Chinatown’s destruction as a blessing
+
=== Strangers ===
−
of sorts, and publicly hoped it would not be rebuilt.
+
:* '''[[Urbano Bergamaschi]]''' -- Owner of Musee
 +
:*  Nico Merckx
  
−
Chinese and Western businessmen, however, planned to
+
=== Students ===
−
turn Chinatown into a tourist attraction — a unique part
+
:* '''[[Gaëlle Biondi]]''' -- French Girl and former roommate
−
of San Francisco’s heritage that would draw people from
+
:* '''[[Rino Hathway]]''' -- Twenty Something R.A. from the University of San Francisco
−
around the world. The plan received the quiet support of
+
:* '''[[Matthías Tómasson]]''' -- Graduate Organic Chemistry Student
−
Chinatown’s ''shen'', including Father Li T’ien.
+
:* '''[[Zhen Hou]]''' -- Masters Degree Student in Chemistry
 +
----
 +
<br>
 +
----
  
−
The city could not ignore the potential for prestige
+
== '''Culture of the City''' ==
−
and income. Even Kindred who bothered concerning
+
The '''Culture of San Francisco''' is major and diverse in terms of arts, music, cuisine, festivals, museums, and architecture but also is influenced heavily by Asian culture due to its large Asian population. San Francisco's diversity of cultures along with its eccentricities are so great that they have greatly influenced the country and the world at large over the years. In 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek voted San Francisco as America's Best City.
−
themselves with the “Chinatown problem” believed a
 
−
tourist-town would eliminate the barriers the Asian
 
−
enclave presented before. What they did not know was
 
−
that the Kuei-jin chose to sacrifice their previous security
 
−
for the opportunity to hide in plain sight.
 
  
−
In some ways, the fire and reconstruction following the
+
=== Music ===
−
Great Quake benefited both Cainites and Kuei-jin. With
+
Classical and Opera venues in San Francisco include the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Ballet. They all perform at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center. San Francisco's Ballet and Opera are some of the oldest continuing performing arts companies in the United States. San Francisco is the birthplace and home city of the vocal ensemble Chanticleer. The city is also home to the American Conservatory Theater, also known as A.C.T., which has been routinely staging original productions since its arrival in San Francisco in 1967. Additionally, the New Conservatory Theater Center (NCTC) is known for being an intimate theater that routinely stages original productions by the local, national, and international LGBTQIA+ community. Hundreds of smaller, alternative theaters also attract a significant portion of the audience given their historical role in the San Francisco performing arts culture. The oldest of these are Intersection for the Arts, founded in 1965, and the Magic Theater, founded in 1967. A major player in the promotion of theater in the Bay Area is Theater Bay Area (or TBA). A non profit organization, Theater Bay Area has members from more than 365 Bay Area theater and dance companies, is the publisher of Callboard Magazine, and runs San Francisco's Half-Priced Ticket Booth.
−
decades of influence among the wealthiest and most powerful
 
−
mortals, the vampires subtly directed the reconstruction to
 
−
suit their own needs. The rebuilt mansions on Nob Hill and
 
−
the new Chinatown’s maze-like urban topography took
 
−
shape under the watchful eyes of the city’ s oldest residents,
 
−
with few people the wiser. The destruction of so many
 
−
important papers and public records in the fire facilitated
 
−
the flood of forged identities and birth certificates. In fact,
 
−
a new wave of Chinese citizens known as “paper sons”
 
−
gained their citizenship through such fake documents,
 
−
swelling the local Asian population. Vampires “reset the
 
−
clock” and established new, “legitimate” identities that
 
−
withstood official scrutiny. The earthquake was a setback,
 
−
but it would not keep San Francisco down.
 
  
−
Of cardinal importance to the Kuei-jin was that the
+
The Herbst Theater stages an eclectic mix of music performances, as well as public radio's City Arts & Lectures.
−
earthquake revealed the shifting dragon lines in and
 
−
around San Francisco. The shaking of the Earth Dragon’s
 
−
tail released reservoirs of Chi that the Demon People
 
−
tapped for their own purposes. They ensured that the new
 
−
Chinatown controlled one such Dragon Nest. This life-
 
−
force filled an invigorated San Francisco, thinned the
 
−
Wall between worlds and drew the attention of other ''shen''
 
−
as well, who migrated to the city over the years. The Kin-jin remained largely ignorant of the geomantic implications
 
−
of the quake, as the Kuei-jin hoped. Let the barbarians
 
−
play at their petty struggles... the Demon People controlled
 
−
San Francisco’s true power.
 
  
−
==== ''WHERE THE DEAD OUTNUMBER THE LIVING'' ====
+
The Fillmore is a music venue located in the Western Addition. It is the second incarnation of the historic venue that gained fame in the 1960s under concert promoter Bill Graham, housing the stage where now-famous musicians such as the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin and Jefferson Airplane first performed, fostering the San Francisco Sound. Beach Blanket Babylon is a zany musical revue and a civic institution that has performed to sold-out crowds in North Beach since 1974. Bimbo's 365 Club, in North Beach, is one of the city's oldest entertainment venues and plays host to music shows of all genres.
−
''"Such room to roam in after death!"'' — Joaquin Miller, speaking of the new graveyards in Colma
 
  
−
In 1901, San Francisco passed an ordinance
+
Additionally, San Francisco is home to the 200-member San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, the world's first openly gay chorus, as well as the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, the world's first[citation needed] openly gay musical organization. Two additional gay choruses, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco and Golden Gate Men's Chorus, also perform throughout the year.
−
banning any burials within the city. Land on the
 
−
peninsula was simply too precious to waste on
 
−
cemeteries. In fact, the city fathers encouraged the
 
−
relocation of existing graveyards to outside the city,
 
−
so that land currently allocated for cemeteries would
 
−
be open for development. This need only increased
 
−
following the 1906 earthquake and the city’ s
 
−
reconstruction. Many landowners found it lucrative
 
−
to move bodies to other plots and sell the land at a
 
−
considerable profit (or, sometimes, to leave the
 
−
interred bodies and sell the land anyway).
 
  
−
Between re-interring the previously deceased
+
=== Theater ===
−
and the number of quake-related fatalities, it was a
+
San Francisco has a large number of theaters and live performance venues. Local theater companies have been noted for risk taking and innovation, as documented in the film Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco. The Tony Award-winning non-profit American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is a member of the national League of Resident Theaters, and has been in San Francisco since it moved from Pittsburgh in 1967. Other local winners of the Regional Theater Tony Award include the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Berkeley Rep in nearby Berkeley. The Magic Theater was the home theater of the playwright Sam Shepard during his most productive period, and many of his plays were first staged there. San Francisco-based SHN hosts productions of Broadway shows in its vintage 1920s-era venues in the Theater District: the Curran, Orpheum, and Golden Gate Theaters.  
−
simple matter for a cart laden with caskets to move
 
−
through San Francisco’s streets unnoticed. This
 
−
allowed the city’s Kindred to go about the business
 
−
of rebuilding and relocating with minimum duplicity
 
−
during the years immediately before and after the
 
−
reconstruction. Disturbing the graveyards also stirred
 
−
the occasional ghost, drawing more psychics and
 
−
mediums to the area.
 
  
−
Several new graveyards opened in the small
+
San Francisco has had a thriving improv theater community, with a distinctly different style of improv than much of the rest of the country[citation needed]. Unlike Chicago where one venue will host three 30-45 minute shows in one evening, most San Francisco improv shows are 2 hours long, complete with their own intermission. And while Chicago and New York are full of improv companies who perform formats based on the Harold (with multiple storylines going on at the same time), San Francisco is full of improv shows with single-story formats. Often referred to as play-length improv shows, these improv shows are rooted in the idea that if someone can perform something scripted (like a play, movie, or musical) then it can also be improvised just as well. Some groups that define the improvisation scene in San Francisco are: BATS Improv, The Un-Scripted Theater Company, and The San Francisco Improv Alliance.  
−
town of Colma. In fact, the “town” consists mostly
+
----
−
of cemeteries, with only a few homes and businesses
+
<br>
−
for the cemetery attendants and other support
+
----
−
services. Even tonight, Colma’s deceased far
 
−
outnumber the living, a situation that draws the
 
−
occasional Bone Flower, Giovanni or Samedi.
 
  
−
=== For Their Own Protection ===
+
== '''Current Events''' ==
−
After rebuilding, San Francisco settled into a
+
----
−
seemingly quiet existence for the local Kindred and Kuei-jin. Anarchists found the City by the Bay less appealing
+
<br>
−
than Los Angeles, but this was mostly thanks to the
+
----
−
reconstruction process. Camarilla and Kuei-jin alike
+
== '''Fortifications''' ==
−
helped fund or support the city’ s restoration, thus claiming
+
----
−
territory and businesses from the ground up. The Sabbat
+
<br>
−
and anarchs, however, contributed little. Thus, they
+
----
−
found themselves with no grip on the city whatsoever, be
+
== '''Galleries''' ==
−
it socially, politically or financially.
+
----
 +
<br>
 +
----
 +
 
 +
== '''Gum San''' -- ''The Court of the Golden Mountain'' ==
 +
''"Among the Quincunx there have only ever been five Imperial Courts. One was destroyed centuries ago throwing off the harmony and symmetry of the sacred five courts with only four remaining. That is until the establishment of Gum San - the Court of the Golden Mountain."''
  
−
Conflict between Kindred and Cainite in San
+
''"Now once again there are five Imperial Courts of the Quincunx and many take this as a most promising sign. But Gum San is far removed from the Middle Kingdom and in the shadows some Kuei-jin whisper that Gum San isn't the fifth Court, but the Sixth Court for a Sixth and doomed age."'' -- '''Mandarin Na Ng -- Court Chronicler'''
−
Francisco was tame by comparison to domains like New
+
<br>
−
York or Mexico City. Resultantly, the Camarilla’s reign
+
<br>
−
over the region grew weak and decadent, raising concerns
+
 
−
over Sabbat and anarch activities that local Kindred
+
== '''皇帝 The Emperor''' ==
−
largely dismissed. San Francisco’s inhabitants were
+
''"Few Courts have an Imperial Ancester, such distinctions are reserved for those Courts whose Ancestor established the city. Many would argue that Yijun Xiao has no right to such an August title as Emperor, but this tells us more about the Emperor's future plans than it does about the sordid story of San Francisco's establishment. The Emperor seeks to make of San Francisco the crown jewel of his continent spanning empire and the establishment of an army capable of defeating the Demon-Emperor and ending the curled Sixth Age."'' --
−
confident in their mastery of the night — confidence
+
'''Ming Tsui, Imperial Warlord'''
−
perhaps justified in the years following the quake, but that
+
<br>
−
turned to unsupported arrogance as the years passed.
+
<br>
 +
:* '''[[Yijun Xiao]]''' -- The Imperial Ancestor of San Francisco
 +
----
 +
<br>
 +
----
 +
=== '''普通話 -- The Mandarin Council''' ===
 +
''"Within Gum San the Emperor is all-powerful, but even potentates like Yijun Xiao need sage counsel in order to steer a city safely through the uncharted waters of history, that is where the Mandarin Council enters the picture."''
  
−
The city’s Kuei-jin, on the other hand, saw
+
''"There are five Mandarins, one for each of the sacred directions, their respective expertise on various matters often serves to provide the Emperor with knowledge and skills that might not otherwise be accessible to such a noble Ancestor."''  
−
considerable activity in the first decades of the 20th
 
−
century. Unrest in China sent thousands of rebellion-
 
−
weary refugees across the sea, filling Chinatown’s already
 
−
crowded streets. Occasionally, this deluge of mortals hid
 
−
survivors from shadow wars and conflicts within the
 
−
August Courts, fleeing the Middle Kingdom and seeking
 
−
shelter in the West. These Kuei-jin — taught the formal
 
−
manners and precise discipline of the Quincunx — were
 
−
shocked by the laxity of North America’s ''kànbujiàn''. The
 
−
friction between traditionalists and Chinatown’ s undead
 
−
inhabitants inevitably degenerated; shadow wars spilled
 
−
over into conflicts between the city’s Tongs and associated
 
−
criminals during the 1920s and ‘30s.
 
  
−
In December of 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked
+
''"In addition the Mandarins act like a Medieval privy Council who provide up-to-date intelligence in critical situations and act as agents provocateur in times of need. Their primary loyalty lies with the court Ancestor, but when a venerable elder becomes incapacitated for some reason the council of Mandarins can issue direction in the Emperor's name."''
−
the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, drawing
 
−
the U.S. into World War II. In response, the American
 
−
government displaced over a hundred thousand Japanese
 
−
(two-thirds of them American citizens) from their homes
 
−
to detainment camps in California, Utah and Idaho “for
 
−
their own protection.” Many San Francisco ''gaki'' hid
 
−
initially, while the army spirited their mortal screens and
 
−
protection elsewhere. Eventually, however, the ''gaki''
 
−
realized that they were imprisoned as well. They possessed
 
−
no freedom of movement, since no individuals of Japanese
 
−
descent were supposed to be left behind.
 
  
−
When war workers and low-income families moved
 
−
into the housing vacated by Japanese families, the gaki
 
−
were forced to relocate. One or two ''gaki'' returned to Japan
 
−
through the Yellow Springs, but most sought refuge in
 
−
Chinatown. This latter lot suffered at the hands of their
 
−
Chinese Kuei-jin hosts, who treated the ''gaki'' like slaves in
 
−
retribution for Japan’ s invasion of the Middle Kingdom.
 
−
Eventually, a few ''gaki'' escaped into the countryside, waiting
 
−
for the matter to resolve. When the displaced Japanese
 
−
returned, they found their homes and neighborhood
 
−
occupied. Most resettled elsewhere. Japantown shrank
 
−
from 30 blocks to a mere six.
 
  
−
Kuei-jin of Chinese descent capitalized on the Japanese
+
*'''[[Bo Chong]]''' -- ''Mandarin of the North''
−
deportations to eliminate or subjugate many of the ''gaki'' in
+
*'''[[Ming Tsui]]''' -- ''Mandarin of the South''
−
San Francisco, deliberately ignoring the shadow war rules
+
*'''[[Na Ng]]''' -- ''Mandarin of the Center''
−
and requirements detailed under the Precepts of the War.
+
*'''[[Wei Ning]]''' -- ''Mandarin of the West''
−
What was the point, after all, since the August Courts
+
*'''[[Zan Lim]]''' -- ''Mandarin of the East''
−
were across the sea and thus could not appoint a ''ganshezhe''
+
----
−
(mediator) to oversee the conflict.
+
<br>
 +
----
 +
==== Servants of the Mandarinate  ====
 +
''"For the court to function properly laws and traditions must be enforced. Propriety is like a coin, it's Guardians must therefore exhibit two faces."''  
  
−
San Francisco was a pale reflection of the struggles
+
''"One face is for public appearances and the other for private events of a more clandestine nature."''
−
transpiring in Nanking and Shanghai, but it was traumatic
 
−
nonetheless. The city’s ''gaki'' population never truly recovered
 
−
from the experience. Any Kuei-jin of Japanese extraction
 
−
faces a difficult existence under the watchful eyes of San
 
−
Francisco’s New Promise Mandarinate. Conversely, the
 
−
Kuei-jin’s actions taught the ''gaki'' they could effectively
 
−
play dirty pool in shadow wars, a trick they use to their
 
−
advantage against the tradition-bound Mandarinate.
 
  
−
=== THE GREAT LEAP OUTWARD ===
+
''"Both faces serve to ensure the dispensation of divinely inspired justice, but some acts needed to enforce the public good cannot for various reasons be attributed to the agents of the court even if all present are aware of the unseen influence of the Emperor."''
−
As the 20th century drew to a close, signs and
 
−
portents of an impending storm grew. In San Francisco,
 
−
the status quo changed in ways few people anticipated,
 
−
making the city a pivotal location in coming events.
 
  
−
==== The Dragon Wakes ====
+
''"The Custodians of Social Harmoney are the public face of law and order. Their purpose is to be heroic and inspirational while enforcing the laws and traditions of the Middle Kingdom in Gum San."''
−
In October of 1989, a powerful earthquake struck the
 
−
San Francisco Bay Area incurring billions of dollars in
 
−
damages and resulting in 63 deaths and numerous injuries.
 
−
It thankfully did not spark the same terrible fires of 1906.
 
−
In addition, most of the city’s buildings were constructed
 
−
to resist earthquakes (although some “quake-proof”
 
−
structures failed miserably). The event damaged portions
 
−
of the city, however, including the Marina District and
 
−
sections of the freeway and Bay Bridge.
 
  
−
To the citizens of San Francisco, the earthquake was
+
''"The Nest of Sepents on the other hand serve the public good by eliminating particularly difficult malefactors and inspiring the court and its enemies with the fear of the unknown and the unknowable."''
−
a disaster. To local Kindred it was a nuisance, but also an
 
−
opportunity to hide their activities in the resulting chaos
 
−
and again influence reconstruction. To the Kuei-jin, it
 
−
was something far more. The regional dragon lines shifted
 
−
once more. The city’ s presence and continued growth
 
−
polluted the wells of Chi in the area, sending out poison
 
−
arrows that disturbed the slumbering Earth Dragon. The
 
−
city’s life force waned, and the Kin-jin were bloated
 
−
parasites feeding on its weakening Chi.
 
  
−
In the early 90s, Jochen Van Nuys was a junior
+
''"Thus regardless upon which side the coin of justice falls the court and the citizens of the Middle Kingdom are protected from the enemies of order and tradition."''
−
member of a cabal of East Coast Ventrue, sent to San
+
<br>
−
Francisco as their envoy. What Van Nuys found was a city
+
<br>
−
of great wealth and potential ruled by a weak and ineffectual
+
* '''[[Custodians of Social Harmoney]]''' -- Kuei-jin police
−
Prince, who did little to either keep the anarchs in check or
 
−
even to enforce the Camarilla’s traditions. He also uncovered
 
−
vampires existing in fear of the Prince and his primogen,
 
−
squabbling over feeding territory and committing diablerie
 
−
against each other in a dog-eat-dog struggle to survive. In
 
−
short, he found a city of great potential that was ripe for a
 
−
revolution. He decided to provide it.
 
  
−
By 1996, Van Nuys was ready to act. With allies back
+
* '''[[Nest of Serpents]]''' -- Imperial Assasins
−
east as well as newfound local support, he executed a swift
+
----
−
and masterful coup that deposed Prince Vannevar Thomas
+
<br>
−
and his few remaining supporters. The Inner Circle was
+
----
−
aware and tacitly approved of Van Nuys’ coup, backing
 
−
his claim as the new Prince of San Francisco.
 
  
−
From the very first night he assumed power, Van Nuys
+
=== '''Houses of Pedigree''' ===
−
walked a thin line. He replaced Thomas’ weak and
+
====[[Flame Court]]====
−
ineffective leadership with decisiveness and action, but
+
The Flame Court is one of the original five courts of the Quincunx, based in Hong Kong.
−
not so much as to rankle San Francisco’s anarchs or foster
 
−
resistance against his rule. He guided with a firm but light
 
−
touch, and San Francisco remained an unusually free and
 
−
open city. Ventrue money followed in his wake, and San
 
−
Francisco’s economy strengthened while the Ventrue’s
 
−
coffers grew fatter.
 
  
−
==== The Two-Fang Serpent Plan ====
+
===== The Family Five =====
−
The first stirrings of San Francisco’s current woes
+
:* [[File:Zen.jpg|200px]] -- [[Zen]] -- ''[[Flame Court]]'' -- [[Song of the Shadow]]
−
began far from California’ s shores, in the August Courts
 
−
of the Quincunx. In 1997, two of the five regional capitols
 
−
of the August Courts were in foreign hands, with Hong
 
−
Kong controlled by the Kin-jin and Shanghai under the
 
−
''gaki akuma'' of Japan. The “bamboo curtain” of Maoist
 
−
China grew increasingly tattered. Western influences
 
−
reverberated throughout the Middle Kingdom, carrying
 
−
with them the influence of the Kin-jin. Elders and ''jina''
 
−
alike pointed to the impending Sixth Age and demanded
 
−
something be done, while the Running Monkeys lived up
 
−
to their names and strayed even further from tradition.
 
−
The Bamboo Princes, in turn, demanded modernization
 
−
and an abandonment of the ancient ways, practically
 
−
courting the Demon Emperor’s arrival.
 
  
−
Two factions formed within the August Courts, each
+
:* [[File:Zhou Ong.png|200px]] -- [[Zhou Ong]] --''Mistress of the Golden Dragons''
−
advocating their own plan of action. The Righteous
 
−
Foreigner-Vanquishing Crusaders followed Mandarin Hao Wei-Liang, a cunning Resplendent Crane politician. It
 
−
consisted of Resplendent Cranes, Devil-Tiger extremists
 
−
and Thrashing Dragon hotheads. They called for a crusade
 
−
to sweep the foreign devils from the shores of the Middle
 
−
Kingdom and carry the battle to the unrighteous in their
 
−
own lands. They proposed the Ash Plan as a means of
 
−
accomplishing just that, which found support among
 
−
Wan Kuei opportunists and those frustrated with the
 
−
August Courts’ apparent weakness.
 
  
−
The Harmonious Menders of Broken Fences, led by
+
:* [[File:Kuei-jin Ah-Jiang.jpg|200px]] -- [[Ah-Jiang]] -- ''Little River'' - Family Enforcer
−
Bone Flower elder Jiejie Li, proved more moderate. They
 
−
claimed the Middle Kingdom needed to put its own house
 
−
in order before beginning any crusades against the
 
−
unrighteous. Corruption and evidence of the Yama Kings
 
−
were rife in their own domains, yet the Foreigner-
 
−
Vanquishing Crusaders would charge off to other lands,
 
−
leaving their homes to rot from within. This was foolishness,
 
−
the Fence-Menders said. The Crusaders countered by
 
−
accusing their opponents of being cowards unwilling to
 
−
take action while the world slid screaming into Hell.
 
  
−
The Menders of Broken Fences offered a compromise
+
:*[[File:Zhou.jpeg|200px]] -- [[Zhou]] -- Negotiator for Zen
−
they called the Two-Fang Serpent Plan, which dealt with
 
−
both the threats facing the Quincunx at home and abroad.
 
−
The Kuei-jin directed the first “fang” toward securing the
 
−
borders of the August Courts and dealing with dangers
 
−
close at hand, like the occupations of Shanghai and Hong
 
−
Kong. The plan’s second “fang” proposed taking and
 
−
holding a western city to probe the Kin-jin’s strengths and
 
−
abilities while establishing a foothold for a later time.
 
  
−
Shadow wars erupted between the two factions, each
 
−
struggling to win the support of the August Courts.
 
−
Finally, the Elders decided Hao Wei-Liang presented the
 
−
greatest danger to their power and the Quincunx’s
 
−
traditional ways. They chose the moderates’ plan, with
 
−
some slight revisions. The August Courts created the
 
−
Extraordinary Commission on the Rectification of Borders
 
−
and appointed Jiejie Li its Ancestor, with experienced
 
−
Devil Tiger General Chiu Bao as her lieutenant and First
 
−
Oni. The Courts placed Hao Wei-Liang in command of a
 
−
force known as the Glorious Ocean-Crossing Warriors,
 
−
and charged him with capturing and pacifying Los Angeles,
 
−
under the watchful eye of his rivals. The Ancestors would
 
−
see whose approach proved more successful.
 
  
−
In the first days of 1998, scouts for the Ocean-
+
====== <span style="color:#FFD700;"> '''Golden Dragons''' ======
−
Crossing Warriors entered Los Angeles, launching the
+
For the most part, the Golden Dragons are a Chinese Tong, but one beholden to the undead.
−
Kuei-jin’s invasion. Initially things went smoothly. Kuei-jin warriors struck the Kin-jin like a hurricane, sweeping
+
<br>
−
away loners and small, independent gangs of anarchs,
+
<br>
−
while leaving the other Kindred scrambling for information
 
−
and protection. By contrast, the Fence-Menders’ efforts
 
−
in Shanghai and Hong Kong were slow and costly, both in
 
−
terms of resources and the number of Kuei-jin who met
 
−
Final Death. Hao Wei-Liang’s star was rising, to the
 
−
concern of the August Courts’ Ancestors.
 
  
−
In 1999, however, a new star arose and changed
+
===== The Dragonhead =====
−
everything. The red star known as the Eye of the Demon
+
:* [[File:Lo Chow Wang.jpg|200 px]] -- [[Lo Chow Wang]] -- Dragonhead of the Pixiu Cartel
−
Emperor appeared in the heavens; it was believed an
 
−
omen of the impending Sixth Age. Organized resistance
 
−
spread among Los Angeles’ anarchs, sending Running
 
−
Monkeys and war-''wu'' to their Final Deaths in greater
 
−
numbers. The Righteous Crusaders allied themselves with
 
−
the spirits of the Yin World and the Yellow Springs,
 
−
preparing a final, massive assault on Los Angeles from the
 
−
Spirit Realms. In the midst of the attack, however, a storm
 
−
of unprecedented fury struck the Yin World, smashing
 
−
Kuei-jin and spectral forces alike. The Kin-jin pressed
 
−
their advantage until, by summer, both sides were too
 
−
exhausted to continue fighting.
 
  
−
Meanwhile, the Fence-Menders made considerable
+
===== Pixiu Cartel =====
−
progress in Shanghai while maintaining a stalemate in
+
----
−
Hong Kong. Jiejie Li also secured the defection of high-ranking Tremere Oliver Thrace, providing the August
+
<br>
−
Courts with valuable information. Meanwhile, Hao Wei-Liang’ s troops were decimated and demoralized, his
+
----
−
assault a failure in the eyes of his superiors. Ancestor
 
−
Ch’ang of the Blood Court sent Hao an inkstone and
 
−
calligraphic brush as a sign of his judgment. In late 1999,
 
−
the Resplendent Crane Mandarin Hao met the Eye of
 
−
Heaven with honor, leaving the Foreigner-Vanquishing
 
−
Crusaders greatly weakened.
 
  
−
The invasion of Los Angeles sent shock-waves through
+
===== '''Heimin''' =====
−
the Anarch Free State and the Camarilla, which quickly
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moved to secure San Diego and San Francisco. Refugees
 
−
from the fighting in LA sought shelter in Prince Van
 
−
Nuys’ domain. He generously granted it, swelling the
 
−
number of local anarchs. The Camarilla’s western princes
 
−
strengthened their borders, looking to the Inner Circle for
 
−
aid and waiting to see what the Cathayans would do next.
 
  
−
==== THE NEW PROMISE MANDARINATE ====
 
−
With the Final Death of Hao Wei-Liang, the Ancestors
 
−
of the August Courts turned their attentions on Jiejie Li.
 
−
Although the Fence-Menders won a considerable victory,
 
−
Li knew full well she must now succeed where Hao failed,
 
−
or she would follow him into the mouth of Yomi. If she were
 
−
killed, the Ancestors could eliminate two powerful rivals
 
−
and still reclaim Shanghai in the bargain. She didn’ t
 
−
intend to allow them that opportunity.
 
  
−
As Li studied the situation, it became clear that a
+
====== The Master ======
−
direct assault was no longer viable. The ranks of the
+
:* [[File:Zhihao Chai.png|200 px]] -- [[Zhihao Chai]] -- ''Master of the Dark Brotherhood''
−
Glorious Ocean-Crossing Warriors were severely thinned
 
−
and morale was just as depleted. Elements loyal to the
 
−
Foreigner-Vanquishing Crusaders also needed to be
 
−
weeded out and replaced with jina and mandarins loyal to
 
−
Li and the Fence-Menders. Li appointed Monkey Trip
 
−
Wu ancestor of Los Angeles, with Mandarin Fun Toy of
 
−
the Flatbush and Stockton Posse as his seconds-in-command. With that accomplished, she and Chiu Bao
 
−
went to Los Angeles to oversee matters directly.
 
  
−
The new Kuei-jin strategy used a weapon from the
+
======= '''兄弟們''' Xiōngdìmen (The Bretheren) ======
−
arsenal of Western colonialism: divide and conquer. The
 
−
Cathayans approached some of the prominent surviving
 
−
anarch leaders and offered them a deal: their cooperation
 
−
in exchange for aid in wiping out their closest rivals. It
 
−
only took the agreement of a few to break the back of the
 
−
anarch resistance and drive most of the surviving rebels
 
−
out of the city. The Kuei-jin dubbed their alliance the
 
−
“New Promise Mandarinate” and created a power structure
 
−
that included both Wan Kuei and Kin-jin.
 
  
−
Jiejie Li presented this as a victory to the August Courts.
+
----
−
Not only were the Kin-jin under control, but the Kuei-jin
+
<br>
−
could civilize and teach them proper behavior, making them
+
----
−
a useful resource in the coming struggle against the Sixth Age
 
−
rather than chaff thrown to the winds.
 
  
−
To the Kindred of Los Angeles, the Mandarinate
+
==== <span style="color:#FF0100;"> '''House Genji''' ====
−
presented itself not as another process towards
+
[[House Genji]] is one of the [[Clans of the Sun]], the major groups of Japanese kuei-jin (called Gaki in Japanese).  
−
“enlightenment” or an egalitarian society, but as the
 
−
fruition of those pursuits. It promised to upend the
 
−
Camarilla’s ''status quo'' and offer advancement based on
 
−
merit and ability rather than generation or diablerie.
 
−
This strategy worked, leaving The Kuei-jin and their
 
−
allies in control of Los Angeles. The Camarilla knew it
 
−
would be a matter of time before the New Promise
 
−
Mandarinate turned its attention elsewhere along North
 
−
America’s Pacific Coast.
 
  
−
==== AN HONORABLE AGREEMENT ====
+
:*[[File:Kueijin Baron Cho.jpg|150px]] -- [[Cho]] -- '''' -- [[Dance of the Thrashing Dragon]]
−
To forestall the Mandarinate’s expansion, the Inner
+
:*[[File:Akemi (2).jpeg|150px]] -- [[Akemi]] -- Cho's Second
−
Circle appointed Justicar Madame Guil to deal with “the
+
:*[[File:Goru.jpg|150px]]-- [[Goru]] -- Cho's Bodyguard
−
Cathayan problem.” Of course the Camarilla’ s idea of
 
−
confronting the situation was to sue for peace with the
 
−
Cathayan invaders and cede Los Angeles to them. Hopefully
 
−
this would keep them contained while the Camarilla dealt
 
−
with a more pressing threat in the Sabbat. Theoretically,
 
−
the justicar’s presence would also remind the western
 
−
princes where their loyalties lay and help keep other cities
 
−
from defecting to the New Promise Mandarinate.
 
  
−
Madame Guil and her entourage traveled across North
+
:*[[]]-- [[Hiraku Mori]] -- The Last Ronin
−
America from Boston to San Francisco, dealing with
 
−
several minor matters along the way and “marching out
 
−
the flag” to rally the Camarilla’ s western holdings.
 
−
Unfortunately, the local princes realized the Camarilla
 
−
was essentially leaving them to the mercy of not just the
 
−
Sabbat but also the Cathayans.
 
  
−
Once Guil established herself in San Francisco with
+
===== <span style="color:#008000;"> '''Jade Vipers''' =====
−
Jochen Van Nuys unable to do anything save cooperate,
+
The Jade Vipers are a local chapter of the Japanese Yakuza and their relationship with the ''Gaki'' of San Francisco is as complicated as it is potentially profitable or deadly.
−
negotiations with the New Promise Mandarinate began
+
----
−
in earnest. To the Camarilla’ s surprise, the Cathayans
+
<br>
−
eagerly discussed terms and welcomed the offer of a
+
----
−
settlement. Negotiations took place throughout 2000,
 
−
with meetings alternating between Los Angeles and San
 
−
Francisco. Negotiators sent flurries of messages back to
 
−
their superiors in the Camarilla and the Quincunx every
 
−
step of the way, finally resulting in an acceptable agreement
 
−
for both sides. The Kindred saved face by recognizing
 
−
Kuei-jin authority in Asian matters and “approving”
 
−
their recovery of the renegade domain of Los Angeles,
 
−
allowing them to retain it so long as they kept “good and
 
−
reasonable order” in the city. The Camarilla also agreed to
 
−
compensate the Cathayans for the costs they incurred in
 
−
“recovering” Los Angeles from the anarchs.
 
  
−
In short, the Camarilla capitulated, agreed to let the
+
====[[Green Court]]====
−
Cathayans keep what they’ d stolen and offered them a
+
===== The Green Tigers =====
−
bribe in hopes they wouldn’t plunder any more territory.
+
The ''Wu'' of the Green Tigers have been together for about 50 years. Led by Sung-Hoon Park, they were the first Korean ''wu'' to move to America.  Each member made his or her own way to San Francisco and set up his or her own haven, Scarlet Screens and contracts with both Kue-jin and Kin-jin before meeting formally for the first time in this strange land.  They have established a smuggling pipeline to Korea, become the hidden patrons of several local merchant organizations and martial arts schools, and engaged in covert operations to disrupt the New Promise Mandarinate.  
−
The Kuei-jin willingly allowed the Kin-jin to ascribe
 
−
whatever face they wanted on the compromise, since it
 
−
provided the Quincunx with significant gains — and
 
−
even Western barbarians should be allowed to save face.
 
−
The deal was set, but there was something on which
 
−
neither side had counted.
 
  
−
==== THE WHEEL TURNS ====
+
Their position is precarious never the less. They are trying to play the Asians against the Americans, and skilled manipulators are operating on all sides. The Green Tigers enjoyed their greatest success in preventing a ''wu'' from Beijing's Blood court-The Five Fold Devil Club from establishing a foot hold in San Francisco at the airport. This would have guaranteed the Chinese a safe means of bringing reinforcements into the country.
−
Regardless of the Camarilla’s intentions, the western
 
−
princes were not about to accept the Inner Circle’ s
 
−
betrayal to Cathayans. Neither were the surviving anarchs
 
−
driven from Los Angeles by the invaders. In the anarchs,
 
−
the princes found the perfect tool. They would use one
 
−
problem to solve another and, regardless the outcome,
 
−
they would come out ahead. The plan called for the
 
−
anarchs to execute a coup in San Francisco as the
 
−
Camarilla’s delicate negotiations came to a close,
 
−
eliminating both the Eastern and Western envoys. Once
 
−
in control of the city, the anarchs could raise a force to
 
−
move south and re-take Los Angeles with the backing of
 
−
the western princes.
 
  
−
If the anarchs succeeded, they would eliminate or at
+
*'''[[]]''' -- '''[[Sung-Hoon Park]]'''
−
least weaken the Cathayan threat and owe their success to
+
*'''[[]]''' -- '''[[Byeong-Ho Namgung]]'''
−
their former political enemies. If they failed, the anarchs
+
*'''[[File:Kuei-jin Mi-Kyung Kim.jpg|150px]]''' -- '''[[Mi-Kyung Kim]]'''
−
would be eliminated and the Camarilla would be forced
+
*'''[[]]''' -- '''[[Sang Kang]]'''
−
into conflict with the so-called New Promise Mandarinate
+
----
−
instead of suing for peace. Even if the Inner Circle
+
<br>
−
discovered the culprits behind the coup, they would still
+
<br>
−
need support to deal with the Cathayans (as well as the
+
----
−
Sabbat). Any retribution would be minor at best and long
 
−
in coming, even in the worst case scenario.
 
  
−
The details of the meeting between Kindred and
+
=== '''西務局知事 -- Bureau of Western Affairs''' ===
−
Kuei-jin representatives on San Francisco’s Telegraph
+
* '''[[Opalescent Rain]]''' -- The Supreme Court of Truth on Earth
−
Hill are hazy, but what remains clear is that a well-armed
+
----
−
force of anarchs attacked the meeting site. Many vampires
+
<br>
−
met their Final Death that night with many more destroyed
+
----
−
in the following hours. Accusations of betrayal and
+
==== Kindred Reservations ====
−
collaboration with the anarchs flew on both sides, as
+
* '''[[Pacific Heights]]''' -- Reservation #1
−
Prince Van Nuys watched his hopes of becoming the
+
* '''[[SoMa]]''' -- Reservation #2
−
Camarilla’s peacemaker crumble.
+
* '''[[The Castro & Noe Valley]]''' -- Reservation #3
 +
* '''[[Sunset]]''' -- Reservatiin #4
 +
* '''[[Bayview]]''' -- Reservation #5
 +
----
 +
<br>
 +
----
  
−
==== THE TAKING OF SAN FRANCISCO ====
+
==== 治安官 [[Magistrates of the Bureau of Western Affairs]] ====
−
The August Courts graciously accepted the Camarilla’s
+
*'''[[Bo Chong]]''' -- ''Magistrate of [[Pacific Heights]]''
−
tribute, then sent “envoys” and “peacekeepers” to San
+
*'''[[Ming Tsui]]''' -- ''Magistrate of [[SoMa]]''
−
Francisco to ensure the safety of their own kind. In short
+
*'''[[Na Ng]]''' -- ''Magistrate of [[The Castro & Noe Valley]]''
−
order, the city’s Tremere and Toreador primogen met their
+
*'''[[Wei Ning]]''' -- ''Magistrate of [[Sunset]]''
−
Final Deaths at the hands of Kuei-jin assassins. The Wan
+
*'''[[Illustrious Wen]]''' -- ''Magistrate of [[Bayview]]''
−
Kuei swept into San Francisco like a black wind. It seemed
+
*'''[[Zan Lim]]''' -- Mandarin of the [[Custodians of Social Harmoney]]
−
nothing could stand before them. They seized control of the
+
----
−
city’s prime areas, then opened “negotiations” with Prince
+
<br>
−
Van Nuys and his surviving primogen.
+
----
  
−
Although couched in diplomacy, the Kuei-jin made it
+
==== Kindred Overseers of the Bureau of Western Affairs ====
−
clear that the Kindred would be relocated to specific areas
+
*'''[[Sean Sullivan]]''' -- ''Overseer of [[Pacific Heights]]''
−
of San Francisco and allowed to exist under the watchful
+
*'''[[Thalia]]''' -- ''Overseer of [[SoMa]]''
−
eye of the New Promise Mandarinate. Those who showed
+
*'''[[Killian Beckham]]''' -- ''Overseer of [[The Castro & Noe Valley]]''
−
“merit” (i.e., loyalty to the new order) had the potential for
+
*'''[[Gabriel Dayton]]''' -- ''Overseer of [[Sunset]]''
−
advancement, while any threats would meet with swift
+
*'''[[Cord Brashen]]''' -- ''Overseer of [[Bayview]]''
−
retribution. The local Kindred had little choice; most
+
----
−
complied with the invaders’ terms and moved their havens
+
<br>
−
and strongholds to Cathayan-appointed areas.
+
----
  
−
After Van Nuys’ failure to hold the city, the Inner
+
==== Guardian Wu -- Protectors of Reservations ====
−
Circle stated they needed his diplomatic skills to “continue
+
*'''[[Five Odd Honours]]''' -- ''Guardians of [[Pacific Heights]]''
−
negotiations” with the Cathayans. They relieved him of
 
−
his duties as prince, conferring that title on Sara Anne
 
−
Winder, an ambitious and cunning Ventrue tactician
 
−
charged with eventually re-taking the city.
 
  
−
In turn, the New Promise Mandarinate named Van
+
*'''[[The Small Dragons]]''' -- ''Guardians of [[SoMa]]''
−
Nuys Minister of the Office of Western Affairs, making
 
−
him their official representative and mouthpiece for dealing
 
−
with San Francisco’ s Kin-jin population. In their view,
 
−
this places Van Nuys above Winder in the city’s hierarchy,
 
−
even if many within the Camarilla don’t see it that way.
 
−
It also secures the ousted Van Nuys’ loyalty for the New
 
−
Promise Mandarinate.
 
  
−
Having taken the city, of course, the Fence-Menders
+
*'''[[Three Joyous Relations]]''' -- ''Guardians of [[The Castro & Noe Valley]]''
−
now face the challenge of holding both Los Angeles and
 
−
San Francisco while dealing with affairs at home. To
 
−
worsen matters, the Quincunx expects them to expand
 
−
their holdings in North America — against the better
 
−
judgement of Jiejie Li and her advisors. The Two-Fang
 
−
Serpent Plan is something of a victim of its own success,
 
−
leaving the Kuei-jin stretched thin across California’s
 
−
coast. The Kindred have regrouped from their early defeats,
 
−
and the Camarilla now makes the Cathayans a greater
 
−
priority than before. Robbed of the chance to gather
 
−
intelligence while maintaining the element of surprise,
 
−
the New Promise Mandarinate faces the prospect of
 
−
organized resistance and an inevitable Camarilla
 
−
counterattack while they fortify their holdings.
 
  
−
In San Francisco, these two powerful factions dance
+
*'''[[Jade Spear of Heaven]]''' -- ''Guardians of [[Sunset]]''
−
a delicate and dangerous diplomatic tango, each carefully
 
−
hiding its weaknesses while ferreting out the enemy’s
 
−
vulnerabilities and making plans for the future. On the
 
−
city’ s fog-shrouded streets, Kuei-jin and Kindred encounter
 
−
each other almost nightly, sometimes slipping past one
 
−
another in the mist with the barest acknowledgment,
 
−
other times exploding into violence that may eventually
 
−
consume the city. As the pressure grows, each side can’ t
 
−
help but reflect upon the prophecies of the End Times,
 
−
watching the signs manifest all around them and wondering
 
−
if hope still exists.
 
  
−
==== An Uneasy Peace ====
+
*'''[[Heaven's Grace]]''' -- ''Guardians of [[Bayview]]''
 
----
 
----
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
----
 
----
  
−
== '''Population''' ==
+
==== Honored Guests ====
−
* -- City (883,305) - 2018
+
*'''[[]]''' -- '''[[Palmira della Passaglia]]''' -- ''Guest of House Genji'' {Formerly of Tokyo}
−
* -- Metro (4,729,484) - 2018
 
−
* -- CSA (9,666,055) - 2018
 
 
----
 
----
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
----
 
----
−
== '''Arenas''' ==
+
 
 +
==== '''Adversaries & Enemies''' ====
 +
===== Camarilla =====
 +
[[]] -- '''[[Leanna Burgess]]''' -- ''Princess of Oakland''
 +
 
 +
[[]] -- '''[[Saturnino Rocco]]''' -- ''Toreador Sheriff''
 +
 
 +
====== East Bay Posse ======
 +
[[]] -- '''[[Reeces Jones]]''' -- ''Deputy of East Bay''
 +
 
 +
[[]] -- '''[[Yavin McGraw]]''' -- Scourge
 +
 
 +
[[]] -- '''[[Bulldog McGraw]]''' -- Scourge
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'''Dark Green 1965 Lincoln Continental'''
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== '''Attractions''' ==
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==== '''Outcasts & Outlaws''' ====
 +
===== Barbarians =====
 +
The Kuei-jin of Gum San know about the ''barbarian'' Gangrel that defy their reservations and laws, but for the moment they remain ignorant of just how significant barbarian activity is to their occupation of San Francisco.
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 +
[[File:Gangrel Esko.jpg|150px]] -- [[Esko]] -- Gangrel Elder<br>
 +
[[File:Gangrel Logan Wakefield.jpg|150px]] -- [[Logan Wakefield]] -- Gangrel wanderer  (Former PC) ''<<Now in Torpor>>''<br>
 +
 
 +
* [[Xavia Winchester]] -- mentor to [[Asuka Itou]]
 
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== '''Bars and Clubs''' ==
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===== [[Daughters of Cacophony San Francisco]] =====
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* -- [[The Way Down]] -- A club known for its mixed supernatural clientèle.
 
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** -- Laura - Waitress at the The Way down
 
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* -- [[Dracula's Daughter]] -- A Kindred club that has admitted a number of other supernaturals.
 
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* -- [[Gold Club]] -- High End Gentlemen's club
 
 
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== '''Cemeteries''' ==
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===== '''Preta''' =====
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*: Star of the Sea Catholic Church <br>
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* [[File:Gaki Moses Chadwick.jpg|150px]] -- '''[[Moses Chadwick]]''' -- 1990s Parapsychologist {''Fledgling''}
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**: Pastor Father Andrew
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*[[File:Gaki Gansuringā.jpg|150px]] -- '''[[Gansuringā]]''' -- <br>
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***: John (Gravedigger and Handyman)
+
 
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***: Jacob (Gravedigger and Handyman)
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*[[File:Preta Okuni za Dāku.jpg|150px]] -- '''[[Okuni za Dāku]]''' -- <br>
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 +
*[[File:Eirian Mishiranu Hito.jpeg|150px]] -- '''[[Mishiranu Hito]]'''-- <br>
 
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== '''City Government''' ==
 
  
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== '''Crime''' ==
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===== [[Leper Colony]] =====
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In 2011, 50 murders were reported, which is 6.1 per 100,000 people. There were about 134 rapes, 3,142 robberies, and about 2,139 assaults. There were about 4,469 burglaries, 25,100 thefts, and 4,210 motor vehicle thefts. The Tenderloin area has the highest crime rate in San Francisco: 70% of the city's violent crimes, and around one-fourth of the city's murders, occur in this neighborhood. The Tenderloin also sees high rates of drug abuse, gang violence, and prostitution. Another area with high crime rates is the Bayview-Hunters Point area. In the first six months of 2015 there were 25 murders compared to 14 in the first six months of 2014. However, the murder rate is still much lower than in past decades. That rate, though, did rise again by the close of 2016. According to the San Francisco Police Department, there were 59 murders in the city in 2016, an annual total that marked a 13.5% increase in the number of homicides (52) from 2015.
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''"The flight of the Dowager and the Praetorian from the mortal Inquisition at the end of the seventeenth century is the stuff of Kindred lore and among Sewer-Rats, a story of high adventure and romance. The tales of their origins and how they came to sojourn together across the Atlantic to the New World and ultimately San Francisco is the very history of the Dowager line of Nosferatu. And depending upon whom you ask it is a fiction of the purplest's of prose."'' -- '''Don Benedict del Torres'''
  
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=== Gangs ===
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[[]] -- [[The Dowager]] -- Matron of the Colony / Former Primogen of Sewer-rats -- ''The White Lady''
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Several street gangs operate in the city, including MS-13, the Sureños and Norteños in the Mission District,. African-American street gangs familiar in other cities, including the Crips, have struggled to establish footholds in San Francisco, while police and prosecutors have been accused of liberally labeling young African-American males as gang members. Criminal gangs with shotcallers in China, including Triad groups such as the Wo Hop To, have been reported active in San Francisco. In 1977, an ongoing rivalry between two Chinese gangs led to a shooting attack at the Golden Dragon restaurant in Chinatown, which left 5 people dead and 11 wounded. None of the victims in this attack were gang members. Five members of the Joe Boys gang were arrested and convicted of the crime. In 1990, a gang-related shooting killed one man and wounded six others outside a nightclub near Chinatown. In 1998, six teenagers were shot and wounded at the Chinese Playground; a 16-year-old boy was subsequently arrested.
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:[[]] -- [[Praetorian]] -- Bodyguard and Eldest Child of the Dowager -- Deceased
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:[[]] -- [[Fyodor Orlov]] -- Original 49er -- Nickname: ''Digger''
 +
::[[]] -- [[Elodie Rennell]] -- Nickname
 +
:::[[]] -- [[Comhghall Clancy]] -- Nickname: ''Hooch''
  
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=== Peace Officers ===
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:[[]] -- [[Yazhu Tang]] -- Nickname: ''Yin''
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The San Francisco Police Department was founded in 1849.
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::[[]] -- [[Neevaeh O'Hara]] -- Nickname: ''Scarlett''
 +
:::[[]] -- [[Lucas Cunningham]] -- Nickname: ''Wolfman''
  
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The portions of Golden Gate National Recreation Area located within the city, including the Presidio and Ocean Beach, are patrolled by the United States Park Police.
+
:[[]] -- [[Salomon Vargas]] -- Nickname: ''Natalio''
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::[[]] -- [[Fishy Graywater]] -- Nosferatu Loner -- Nickname: ''Bonita''
 +
:::[[]] -- [[Naiche Noaah]] -- Nickname: ''Trickster''
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The San Francisco Fire Department provides both fire suppression and emergency medical services to the city.
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===== The Black Market =====
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[[File:Ravnos Waraj Sind.jpg|150px]] -- '''[[Waraj Sind]]''' -- ''Ravnos Fixer''<br>
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[[File:Nosferatu Wen Doc.jpg|150px]] -- [[Wen Doc]] -- ''Nosferatu Hacker''<br>
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[[File:Mad doctor.png|150px]] -- [[Isaac Thompson]] -- Mob Doctor<br>
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[[File:Diego.png|150 px]] -- [[Diego]] -- ''Drug-dealer of Death''<br>
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The city operates 22 public "pit stop" toilets.
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===== The Two Dog Resistance =====
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[[File:Toreador Tristram.jpg|150px]] -- '''[[Tristram]]''' -- Ventrue Heir Apparent & Resistance Leader<br>
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=== The Angel Detective Agency ===
 
 
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===== [[The Mansion of Peace]] -- ''A Sanctuary of Safety in Interesting Times'' =====
  
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== '''Citizens of the City''' ==
 
 
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== '''Current Events''' ==
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 +
===== <span style="color:#FF0000;">Sabbat of San Francisco =====
 +
'''[[Sanguine Reaper Posse]]'''<br>
 +
'''[[Warlords Hunters]]'''<br>
 
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== '''Fortifications''' ==
+
 
 +
==== '''Deceased or Missing''' ====
 +
:* -- [[Vannevar Thomas]] -- Original Ventrue Prince of San Francisco (deceased 1999)
 +
:* -- [[Sara Anne Winder]] -- Ventrue Duke of San Francisco. {missing}
 +
:* -- [[Bashe]]  -- Destroyed by mortal hunters
 
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== '''Galleries''' ==
+
 
 +
== '''Haunted Houses''' ==
 +
=== Winchester Mystery House ===
 +
==== Introduction ====
 +
The Winchester Mystery house has a maze of bizarre features that cause a lot of people to scratch their heads, either out of disbelief or sheer confusion. Without written records about the house, the stories have become obscure. Oftentimes, stories that people pass down through history lapse quickly into the realm of lore. For this reason, the Sarah Winchester story of San Jose’s most mysterious estate is a riddle that nobody will ever solve.
 +
 
 +
==== Why is the Mystery Mansion Full of Enigmas? ====
 +
 
 +
=== The Mayhem Manor ===
 +
 
 +
  Built in 1886, the Wimberlan-Teakle House, at 2007 Franklin Street, functions as a house museum, a popular venue for meetings, lectures, social events,
 +
  as well as the organization’s    home office. Members of the Wimberlan-Teakle family donated the house to SF Heritage in 1973 with most of its contents
 +
  and furnishings intact. The house is open for public tours and  attracts visitors from around the world. It also serves as a classroom for SF Heritage’s
 +
  educational programs such as “Heritage Hikes,” an interpretive tour for 3rd graders begun in 1981.
 +
<br>
 +
''Designed by architect Peter R. Schmidt for William and Bertha Haas, and constructed in 1886, the 11,500 square foot Wimberlan-Teakle House embodies both the ambitious spirit of San'' ''Francisco’s pioneers and its grand Victorian-period architecture.  Surviving the 1906 earthquake and fire, it remained in the family until 1973, when the three adult children of the'' ''recently deceased Judy Wimberlan-Teakle entrusted the House to a new architectural preservation organization, The Foundation for San Francisco's Architectural Heritage.''
 +
<br>
 +
The house has many secrets, and is happy with it's new public facade....
 +
 
 +
=== Haskell House ===
 +
The Haskell House is located at 3 Franklin Street, and it has quite an eerie history. In 1857, U.S. Senator David Broderick was challenged to a duel outside the building by pro-slavery New Mexico Supreme Court Justice David Terry, who killed Broderick immediately. Terry was a very prominent – perhaps the most prominent – pro-slavery advocate of the time, and he was angered by Broderick’s anti-slavery positions. 
 +
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 +
The worst incident to happen at the Haskell House was when a painter working on a window reported being pushed out the window by something invisible.<br>
 +
 
 +
=== The Atherton Mansion ===
 +
The Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, is a historic building in San Francisco, California, United States. The style of the house, a blend of Queen Anne and Stick-Eastlake, has been described as both "eclectic" and "bizarre".
 +
 
 +
The house was built in 1881–1882 in the Queen Anne style with horizontal lines, a clipped gable, and a short tower. The architect is thought to have been John Marquis, but it has also been attributed to the Moore Brothers, who are depicted in other accounts as the initial builders.
 +
 
 +
The mansion was constructed for Dominga de Goñi Atherton (1823–1890) after the death of her husband Faxon Atherton. She was the mother-in-law of novelist Gertrude Atherton, who wrote about the house in her memoirs. Newspaper articles about the house when the housewarming was held in 1882 described it as picturesque, but appearing to be a relic of an earlier time. The reporter also noted that the height of the rooms created a claustrophobic effect on visitors. Possibly in answer to the comments, Dominga hired Charles Lee Tilden to improve the house.
 +
 
 +
After Dominga Atherton's death in 1890, the mansion was sold to Edgar Mills, brother of Darius Ogden Mills of the Bank of California, and in 1900 was renumbered from 1950 to 1990 California St. In 1908 it was purchased by George Chauncey Boardman, a real-estate magnate and president of San Francisco Fire Insurance, whose house had been destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. His widow and other family members lived there until 1923, when it was bought by Charles J. Rousseau, an architect, who subdivided it into 13 apartments. His widow Carrie lived there with fifty cats until her death in 1974. As of 2008 it was still subdivided.
 +
 
 +
The house is reportedly haunted by as many as four ghosts, including Carrie Rousseau, and is featured on ghost tours. The commonly cited story is that the original ghost is George H. B. Atherton, who died at sea in the South Pacific in 1887 and whose body was shipped back to San Francisco in a rum barrel, but the barrel was delivered to the docks, not to the house.
 +
 
 +
'''See:''' [[Atherton House]]
 +
 
 +
=== Curran Theater ===
 +
The Curran Theatre, located at 445 Geary Street between Taylor and Mason Streets in the Theatre District of San Francisco, California opened in February 1922, and was named after its first owner, Homer Curran.
 +
 
 +
Homer Curran operated another theater with his name for several years prior to building this Curran Theatre; however, the original Curran Theatre had various names before and after this time, whereas this Curran Theatre has never had another name. It opened in February 1922 and was initially a Shubert house. Later, it was a showcase for Theatre Guild presentations. Subsequently, it became closely associated with the Civic Light Opera (CLO), which also operated in Los Angeles. The CLO obtained numerous prestigious bookings and produced their own shows, often with stars as the lead roles.
 +
 
 +
For many years, the San Francisco Opera performed its annual "Spring Opera" series at the Curran.
 +
 
 +
In 1977, the Civic Light Opera shifted its operations to the Orpheum Theatre, and by the end of that year, Carole Shorenstein Hays and James M. Nederlander assumed operation of the Curran and launched their Best of Broadway season starting with John Raitt in the national tour of Shenandoah and including the West Coast debut of Annie. Later, Shorenstein changed the name of her organization to SHN. In 2015 Shorenstein left SHN, focusing her attention solely on the Curran. SHN no longer operates the Curran.
 +
 
 +
The theatre closed in September 2015 for renovations. Work included new upholstery for seats, carpeting, mechanical and electrical systems as well as expanded and upgraded lobbies. While work was underway, the theatre presented non-traditional works in a series called Under Construction in which the audience entered and was seated on the stage. The Curran reopened January 25, 2017 with the musical Fun Home.
 +
 
 +
The ceiling above the main lobby was hand-painted to look like wood (steel wool was used to fashion a wood grain effect in the plaster before painting). The main lobby has a marble floor but has long since been covered by carpeting. There are "plugs" built into the lobby floor in which to insert stanchions from which theater ropes were hung to section off the lobby. The loge section was modified prior to Hello, Dolly!'s first booking at the theater. Originally, the loge section was similar to the boxes, with movable chairs in sectioned areas. The box-like loges are still evident by what remains of the metal railings in front of the loge section as well as the decorative plaster when viewed from below. The change was made because it increased the seating capacity by about ten seats in this highly desirable area. The interior main floor lobby no longer exists. Originally, it was changed to a minor degree to accommodate the installation of a sound booth without decreasing the orchestra seating capacity. Eventually, the lobby space was used to install a larger bar area as well as accessible restrooms.
 +
 
 +
The theater has two front curtains: the decorative green fire curtain in front of a gold curtain. When musicals traditionally utilized each theater's front curtains, the first curtain would be raised five minutes prior to the start of the show. There were two coat check rooms: one off to the south of the main floor interior lobby and the other on the balcony (adjacent to the ladies' restroom). There were also two telephone "booths" on the mezzanine lobby—one on each side of the windows. These booths were actually very small rooms with formal doors. The coat check rooms and telephone booths are now used for storage. The theater also had a central vacuum system. This system is still evident by the connection points on the walls, near the floor. The chandelier was built in San Francisco by Phoenix Day. A plaque honoring Arthur Mayer is mounted at the entrance to boxes L-M-N. Mayer watched the theater being built, was hired by Curran as part of the theater's opening-night staff, and continued working at the theater until he was nearly 100 years old.
 +
 
 +
Though the Curran is a beloved landmark, it does have a tragic moment in its past, which some people believe has led to its resident ghost.
 +
 
 +
The origin of this haunting dates back to 1933. On the 28th of November, excited crowds formed out the front of the Curran Theater. They were keen to watch the latest hit, Show Boat. It was here, that a young man made his way to the box office with financial gain in mind, rather than a night of entertainment.
 +
 
 +
This man, 25-year-old electrician Eddie Anderson, came face to face with the box office attendant. Here, he attempted to rob the Curran Theater, pulling a gun on 25-year-old Hewlett Tarr, who was manning the till. In the heat of the moment, a fatal decision was made and Eddie pulled the trigger on his weapon, sending a bullet into Hewlett Tarr and killing the young theater treasurer. Adding tragedy to this event, Tarr was just a fortnight away from marrying his fiance of five years, who he was supposed to meet for dinner after his shift. He sadly never made that date.
 +
 
 +
Tarr’s murderer was executed by hanging soon after. Tarr, now dead, met a very different fate. That fate was to haunt the Curran Theater. Many people have claimed to hear strange, unexplainable noises within the Curran.
 +
 
 +
=== Alcatraz Prison ===
 +
 
 +
According to legend, Alcatraz prison is known to be one of the most haunted spots in the country, if not in the world. Is it really haunted though? For many people that have visited the prison and have experienced supernatural phenomena, it certainly seems to be haunted in a mysterious way.
 +
 
 +
Staying at Alcatraz was no joke and even the spirits of the most insane and notorious criminals were broken there. It is said that the empty cells inside the walls of Alcatraz are still home to the restless ghosts that remain there. Some of the worst criminals in America including Arthur Doc Barker, Machine Gun Kelly, and Al Capone spent many days behind bars in this prison.
 +
 
 +
The prison was built to be a maximum security place where Alcatraz's most dangerous inmates would have minimum privileges. Prisoners breaking the rules would be sent to the strip cell where they would have to remove all of their clothing and spend time in a cell with no lights, no sink, no mattress, and only a hole inside the ground for a toilet. For this reason, it has been said that many Alcatraz ghosts aren't able to move on from Alcatraz to make a new home in the spiritual world.
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== '''Holy Ground''' ==
 
== '''Holy Ground''' ==
 
[[File:SF Church.jpg|1000px]]
 
[[File:SF Church.jpg|1000px]]
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;* [[Old St. Mary's Cathedral]]
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;* [[Mission San Francisco de Asís]]
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;* [[Tin How Temple]]
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=== Religious Groups ===
 +
 +
=== Cults ===
 +
*'''[[The Enlightened Seekers of Valhalla]]''' -- A pagan cult group that brings in the lost and forgotten to show them the truth of the Pagan lifestyle.
 +
 +
* '''[[Followers of Fortune]]''' --
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 +
==== Church of Satan ====
 +
The Church of Satan is a religious organization dedicated to the religion of LaVeyan Satanism as codified in The Satanic Bible. The Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco, California, on Walpurgisnacht, April 30, 1966, by Anton Szandor LaVey, who was the church's High Priest until his death in 1997.[2] In 2001, Peter H. Gilmore was appointed to the position of high priest, and the church's headquarters were moved to Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City.
 +
 +
==== Satanic Splinter Cults ====
 +
Chaotic by inclination if not by definition the lively freethinkers and count-cukturalists who partucipated in the birth of LaVey Satanism were for the most part incapable of establishing a hierarchical and stagnant order. Thus the birth of LaVey's Satanic Church was also the moment of its death and the splintering of the faithful if not the faith.
 +
 +
===== Bardic Brotherhood =====
 +
:* '''[[Yazhu Ma]]''' -- ''Elegant Horse''
 +
:* '''[[Sung-Jin Rhee]]''' -- ''Sunny the Quake''
 +
 +
===== Children of Baphomet =====
 +
:* '''[[Clarette Davison]]''' -- Heiress & High-priestess of the Children of Baphomet
  
 +
===== Followers of the Sign =====
 +
 +
===== Legacy Foundation =====
 +
 +
===== Luciferian League =====
 +
:* '''[[Keith Van Winslow]]''' -- Leader of the Luciferian Society
 +
 +
===== Order of Apep =====
 
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== '''Hospitals''' ==
 
== '''Hospitals''' ==
 
* '''[[Saint Francis Memorial Hospital]]'''
 
* '''[[Saint Francis Memorial Hospital]]'''
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* [[St. Mary's Medical Center (San Francisco)]] -- SMMC is the oldest continuously operating hospital in San Francisco.
 
* [[St. Mary's Medical Center (San Francisco)]] -- SMMC is the oldest continuously operating hospital in San Francisco.
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:* [[Brighter Tomorrow Center of San Francisco]] -- A large mental health facility built in 2000 to house those with serious mental health issues and drug rehabilitation.
 +
* '''San Francisco VA Medical Center''' -- also called the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center or the SFVAMC
 
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== '''Hotels & Hostels''' ==
 
== '''Hotels & Hostels''' ==
 
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== '''Industry''' ==
 +
:* '''[[Nader-SS-LTD]]''' -- Seismic Survey Corp.
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*: '''[[Alcatraz Island]]'''
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*: '''[[Angel Island]]'''
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*: '''[[Farallon Islands Research Station]]'''
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*: '''[[Treasure Island]]'''
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== '''Landmarks''' ==
 
== '''Landmarks''' ==
 
:[[Alcatraz Island]] -- is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States, early military fortifications, and natural features such as rock pools and a seabird colony (mostly western gulls, cormorants, and egrets).  
 
:[[Alcatraz Island]] -- is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States, early military fortifications, and natural features such as rock pools and a seabird colony (mostly western gulls, cormorants, and egrets).  
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== '''Maps''' ==  
 
== '''Maps''' ==  
 
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== '''Mass Media''' ==
 
== '''Mass Media''' ==
 
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== '''Missives''' ==
 
== '''Missives''' ==
 
* [[Letter from Everett Young to Lorraine]]
 
* [[Letter from Everett Young to Lorraine]]
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== '''Monuments''' ==
 
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== '''Museums''' ==
 
== '''Museums''' ==
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The Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) contains 20th Century and contemporary pieces. It moved to its building in South of Market in 1995 and attracts 600,000 visitors annually.[2] The California Palace of the Legion of Honor contains primarily European works. The De Young Museum and the Asian Art Museum have significant anthropological and non-European holdings.
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The Palace of Fine Arts, a remnant of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, used to house the Exploratorium, a popular science museum dedicated to teaching through hands-on interaction, which moved to a new location on the Embarcadero in 2013. The California Academy of Sciences is a natural history museum and hosts the Morrison Planetarium and Steinhart Aquarium. The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world. From 1958 until 2003 the collection was housed in a wing of at the original de Young in Golden Gate Park. When the de Young closed while constructing a new building, the Asian Art Museum moved to the former San Francisco City Library building, which was renovated for the purpose under the direction of Italian architect Gae Aulenti who had previously overseen the conversion of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
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The San Francisco Zoo cares for a total of about 250 animal species, 39 of which have been deemed endangered or threatened.
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Other museums include the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Museum of Craft & Folk Art, the Cartoon Art Museum, and the Mexican Museum. Some "offbeat" museums and galleries dealing in unconventional topics include the Antique Vibrator Museum, the Musée Mécanique (dedicated to penny arcade machines), the Museum of Ophthalmology, Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum, the Stamp Francisco/Stamp Art Gallery (rubber stamps not postal stamps), the Tattoo Art Museum (old tattoo machines and instruments), the UFO, Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster Museum, and the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf.
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The Haas-Lilienthal House (2007 Franklin Street) is the only intact private Victorian-era home in San Francisco that is open to the public year-round and available for private functions.
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* [[Asian Art Museum of San Francisco]]
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* [[California Palace of the Legion of Honor]]
  
 
* [[Palace of Fine Arts]]
 
* [[Palace of Fine Arts]]
  
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== '''Newspapers''' ==
 
== '''Newspapers''' ==
 
* -- '''''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''''' -- It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco. {Est. 1865}
 
* -- '''''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''''' -- It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco. {Est. 1865}
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* -- '''''[[San Francisco Examiner]]''''' -- Daily newspaper serving San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. The newspaper was founded in 1863 as the Democratic Press.
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* --'''''[[The Underground Paper]]''''' -- This is a small city paper.  A sometime cross between the San Francisco Chronicle and the Weekly World News.
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*-- '''[[Daily Beast Gazette]]''' -- A sleazy little tabloid
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* -- ''''''El Tecolote'''''' -- Bilingual (Spanish and English) newspaper serving Bay Area.
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* -- ''''''El Reportero'''''' -- Entirely Spanish
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* -- ''''''J Weekly'''''' -- Jewish news weekly.
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* -- ''''''Kstati'''''' -- Weekly Russian-language newspaper published in the San Francisco Bay Area
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* -- ''''''San Francisco Bay View'''''' -- African-American newspaper.
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* -- ''''''Nichi Bei Weekly'''''' -- Japanese American news source.
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* -- ''''''India Post'''''' -- Indian community news source.
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* -- ''''''Pakistan Times USA'''''' -- Pakistani community news source.
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* -- ''''''*'''''' --
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* -- ''''''*'''''' --
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== '''Parks''' ==
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* [[Golden Gate Park]]
 
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== '''Private Residences''' ==
 
== '''Private Residences''' ==
 
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9 Willing sacrifices to the gods of jade
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8 Nightwatchmen who search for their master
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7 Giants from east in search of the Sunset
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6 Barbarbarians to hold back the shadows
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5 Betrayers who seek thrones of gold
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4 Subterrainan Talismans to open the way
 +
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3 Fools to save kingdom
 +
 +
2 Mortal lovers Yin and Yang to find the truth
 +
 +
1 Herald to to open the gates of hell
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== '''Restaurants''' ==
 
== '''Restaurants''' ==
 +
:* [[8 Immortals Restaurant]]
 +
:* [[Gum Tan Tea House]]
 +
:* [[Lan Ho's Frozen Yogurt]]
 +
:* [[Middle Kingdom]] -- Asian Cuisine in China Town
 
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== '''Ruins''' ==
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 +
== '''Ruins''' ==  
 +
=== Abandoned Buildings ===
 +
:* '''[[Star of the Sea Church]]''' -- A de-consecrated Catholic church that has become a unofficial homeless shelter.
 +
:* '''[[16th Street Station in Oakland]]''' --
 +
:* '''[[Hanger #4]]''' -- ''Abandoned''
 +
 
 +
=== Abandoned Sites ===
 +
:* '''[[Fort Miley]]''' -- 19th Century Military Installation build on a Large Forgotten Cemetery
 
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== '''Schools''' ==
 
== '''Schools''' ==
 +
*'''[[San Francisco State University]]''' -- San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different bachelor's degrees, 94 master's degrees, and 5 doctoral degrees along with 26 teaching credentials among six academic colleges.
 +
*'''[[University of California, San Francisco]]
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== '''Services''' ==
 +
* '''[[Blue Jackal Dry Cleaners]]''' -- All Night Laundry (Tenderloin)
 
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== '''Shopping''' ==
 
== '''Shopping''' ==
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* -- '''[[Doc's Comics & Collectables]]''' -- Owned by Dr. Diego "Doc" Soto, a PhD in both Criminal Justice and Civil War History, author of books on Alcatraz, comic book store owner, writer, and artist.
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:* '''[[Cable Car Clothiers]]''' -- A
 +
:* '''[[Doc's Comics & Collectables]]'''  
 +
:* '''[[The Ossuary]]'''
 +
-- Owned by Diego de Soto, a PhD in San Francisco History, author of books on local landmarks, comic book store owner, writer, and artist.
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:* '''[[Graven Goods]]''' -- A shop that sells only items belonging to dead people. (The Castro)
 
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== '''Telecommunications''' ==
+
 
 +
== '''Strange Objects''' ==
 +
=== Arcane Curiosities ===
 +
:* '''[[Apple Macintosh Portable M5120 Vintage Mac Laptop 1990]]''' -- ''Laptop of Ghostly Communications''
 +
:* '''[[Chalice of Nicolas Flamel]]''' --
 +
:* '''[[Olifant of the Undying]]''' --
 +
:* '''[[Maneki-neko]]''' -- ''Lucky Jade Cats''
 +
 
 +
=== [[Infernal Trouvaille]] ===
 +
:* '''[[Camera of Anuschka Claasen]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Candlestick of Carmelo Constantine]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Fountain Pen of Kliment Vasilev]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Guitar of Johnny Eldritch]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Jewel Box of Jost Schnell]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Lighter of  Gore Durand]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Looking Glass of Sylwia Valentin]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Metronome of Sabrina Serafin]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Signet Ring of Ronan Desroches]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Ormolu Mantle Clock of Wenzeslaus Knopp]]''' 
 +
:* '''[[Skeleton Key of Envious Yale]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Sister Danuska's Book Of Hours]]'''
 +
:* '''[[Surgical Kit of Zhaklina Marinov]]''' 
 
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== '''Theaters''' ==
+
 
 +
== '''Telecommunications''' ==
 
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== '''Transportation''' ==
+
 
 +
== '''Theaters''' ==
 
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== <span style="color:#4B0082;"> '''Mages''' ==
+
== '''Tourism''' ==
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* -- [[Penny Dreadful]] -- Born as Penelope Anne Drizkowski, is a mage and signature character of the Hollow Ones.
+
=== October ===
 +
==== Fear Industries ====
 +
* -- '''Warehouse of Blood''' -- Largest commercial haunted house in San Francisco
 +
 
 +
==== Ghost Walk ====
 +
* -- '''Houses of the Dead''' -- A walking tour of San Francisco's purportedly ghost-ridden old Victorians.
 +
 
 +
==== Murder Bus ====
 +
* -- While not the murder capital of Califorian, that dubious honor goes to Santa Clarita, San Francisco’s history of serial killings makes for morbid tourism and this bus takes riders to the scenes of the Bay City's most horrendous murders and a stop at Alcatraz Island just to top things off.
 +
 
 +
==== Octoberfest ====
 +
* -- '''SF Nightcrawl''' -- After-evening flashmob bar-crawl of some of San Francisco's most infamous drinking establishments.
 +
 
 +
==== Paranornal Parties ====
 +
* -- In addition to haunted houses San Francisco has a number of paranormal locations some of which include sites of ritual sacrifice, mass murder, demonic possession, alien abduction and monster sightings. Who wouldn't want to set up a bachelor party, a rave (almost impossible and very expensive), an adult get-together (orgy), college kegger, or teen birthday party at such infamous locations? For a price Paranormal Parties takes you to the location of your choice, sets up security, caters, and provides transportation to and from mysterious locations to ensure the the most daring party of your life.
 
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== <span style="color:#FF0000;">'''Vampires of the City''' ==
 
  
−
===Court of San Francisco===
+
== '''Transportation''' ==
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:*[[File:Brujah Sebastian Toc.jpg|150px]] -- [[Sebastian Toc]] -- '''Brujah Prince'''
 
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:*[[File:Kueijin Baron Cho.jpg|150px]] -- [[Cho]] -- '''Seneschal''' Dance of the Thrashing Dragon
 
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'''Primogen of San Francisco'''
+
==='''Cable Cars'''===
  
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:* [[File:Thalia.jpg|100px]] -- [[Thalia]]
+
The passenger cable car was invented by Scotsman Andrew Hallidie of San Francisco. The first operating line was on Clay Street and began service in 1873. Based on similar systems used in mines, Hallidie hoped to improve on the horse-drawn omnibuses then laboring up and down the city's steep hills.
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:* [[File:Toreador Tristram.jpg|100px]] -- [[Tristram]]
 
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:* [[File:Zen.jpg|100px]] -- [[Zen]] -- Bone Flowers
 
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 +
Cable cars are powered by a moving cable that passes under the streets. The car is equipped with a "grip" which, reaching down through a slot in the street, clamps to the moving cable, drawing the car along. Cable cars cruise at a speed of ten miles per hour... no more, no less.
  
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Hallidie's design was quickly copied and soon cable car systems were found all over the world, from Providence, Rhode Island, to Melbourne, Australia. Within a few years, however, the electric-powered trolley was invented. Requiring less maintenance, and generally safer, they quickly replaced cable car systems in most cities, save those with the steepest hills. San Francisco's various cable car systems once stretched over most of the city, but by the 1950s, the last two remaining lines were scheduled for removal. Only a last-minute citizen's movement saved the cable cars and they are now designated a National Historic Monument (just a mobile one). Expensive and far less safe than most forms of public transportation, they are a symbol of the city.
−
=== <span style="color:#FF0000;"> '''Brujah''' ===
+
Other Mass Transit
−
:*[[File:Tyra.jpeg|100px]] --[[Angelica White]] -- (PC)
 
−
:* [[File:Brujah Amira.jpg|100px]] -- [[Amira]] - Brujah Bodyguard to Thalia
 
−
:* [[File:Cord Brashen.jpg|100px]] -- [[Cord Brashen]]  -- Sebastian's Muscle
 
  
 +
At the hub of the bay area, downtown San Francisco is well-served. Electric and diesel buses run regular routes to all parts of the cit. Electric trolleys, usually referred to as the Muni, travel underground along Market Street, emerging a few miles away to disperse along different routes. The Muni lines share the underground with the BART system, which runs one level deeper. From central San Francisco one can catch frequent BART trains south to Daly City, or travel under the bay all the way to Richmond, Concord, or Fremont.
 
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=== <span style="color:#1BEACB;"> '''Gangrel''' ===
+
==='''Airports'''===
−
:*[[File:Gangrel Esko.jpg|100px]] -- [[Esko]] -- Gangrel Elder
 
−
:*[[File:Gangrel Logan Wakefield.jpg|100px]] -- [[Logan Wakefield]] -- Gangrel wanderer  (Former PC) ''<<Now in Torpor>>''
 
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:*[[File:Gangrel Liborio Tosetti.jpg|100px]] -- [[Liborio Tosetti]] (PC) [''Morgan'']
 
−
:*[[File:Nan.jpg|100px]] -- [[Nannette]] Logan's Child
 
  
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+
:* -- [[San Francisco International Airport]]
 +
:* -- [[San Jose International Airport]]
 +
 
 +
==== ''The Langoliers'' ====
 +
:* '''[[Alaska Airlines 261]]''' --
 +
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+
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 +
 
 +
==='''Bay Area Rapid Transit'''===
 +
 
 +
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. BART serves 50 stations along six routes on 131 miles (211 kilometers) of rapid transit lines, including a 10-mile (16 km) spur line in eastern Contra Costa County which uses diesel multiple-unit trains and a 3.2-mile (5.1 km) automated guideway transit line to the Oakland International Airport. With an average of 136,200 weekday passengers as of the second quarter of 2022 and 26,026,800 annual passengers in 2021, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system in the United States and is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District which formed in 1957. The initial system opened in stages from 1972 to 1974. The system was extended most recently on June 13, 2020, when Milpitas and Berryessa/North San José stations opened as part of the Silicon Valley BART extension in partnership with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
 +
 
 +
BART serves large portions of its three member counties – San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa – as well as smaller portions of San Mateo County and Santa Clara counties. The system has 50 stations: 22 in Alameda County, 12 in Contra Costa County, 8 in San Francisco, 6 in San Mateo County, and 2 in Santa Clara County. BART operates five named heavy rail services plus one separate automated guideway line. All of the heavy rail services run through Oakland, and all but the Richmond–Berryessa line run through the Transbay Tube to San Francisco. All five services run every day until 9 pm; only three services operate evenings after 9 pm, as well as on some Sundays due to maintenance work. All stations are served during all service hours.[10] The eastern segment of the Antioch–SFO+Millbrae line (between Antioch and the transfer platform east of Pittsburg/Bay Point) uses different rolling stock and is separated from the rest of the line.
 +
 
 +
Unlike most other rapid transit systems, BART lines historically were not primarily referred by color names (although the colors used on maps have been constant since 1980) or other shorthand designations. The services are mainly identified on maps, schedules, and station signage by the names of their termini. However, the new fleet displays line colors more prominently, and BART has begun to use color names in press releases and GTFS data.
  
−
=== <span style="color:#EA7C1B;"> '''Malkavian''' ===
+
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−
:* [[File:Tzimisce Stephen Carvell.jpg|100px]] --[[Stephen Carvell]] -- (Mac PC)
 
−
:* [[File:Alp1.jpg|100px]] -- [[Alban]] -- Sebastian's Accountant
 
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+
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=== <span style="color:#EA7C1B;"> '''Nosferatu''' ===
+
 
−
:*[[File:Alpin.jpg|100px]] -- [[Alpin]]
+
==='''Golden Gate Bridge'''===
 +
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula—to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. It also carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and is designated as part of U.S. Bicycle Route 95. Being declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers,[7] the bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco and California. It was initially designed by engineer Joseph Strauss in 1917. The bridge was named for the Golden Gate strait, the channel that it spans.
 +
 
 +
The Frommer's travel guide describes the Golden Gate Bridge as "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world." At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, with a main span of 4,200 feet (1,280 m) and a total height of 746 feet (227 m).
  
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 +
=='''[[San Francisco Fae| Walkers of the Hedge]]'''==
 +
 +
* [[Edge of the Labrys]]
 +
* [[Society of Telemachus]]
 +
 +
== '''Warehouses''' ==
 +
:* '''[[Warehouse of the Garden Gnomes]]''' --
 
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=== <span style="color:#7FFF00;"> '''Ravnos''' ===
 
−
:*[[File:Ravnos Waraj Sind.jpg|100px]] -- '''[[Waraj Sind]]''' -- ''Ravnos Fixer'' [Bruce PC]
 
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−
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−
=== <span style="color:#EA1BB2;"> '''Toreador''' ===
+
== '''City of Emptiness''' -- ''Storytelling San Francisco'' ==
−
:* [[File:Toreador Lorraine 2.jpg|100px]] -- [[Lorraine]] - Owner of The Way Down club
+
 
−
:* [[File:Toreador Quon 2.jpg|100px]] --  [[Jason-SF|Quon Corbyn]] - Teen Hacker
+
=== The Theme of the City ===
−
:* [[File:Katia.jpg|100px]] -- [[Katia]] --  Sebastian's Second
+
Prophesy. Both divinely inspired and that of the self-fulfilling vatiety.
−
:* [[File:Toreador Bashe.jpg|100px]] -- [[Bashe]] -- Toreador
+
 
 +
=== This City's Mood ===
 +
The mood of the city is one of  hollow pursuits and empty crusades taken up to fill the void of meaningless modernity.
 
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<br>
 
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−
=== <span style="color:#008000;"> Jade Dragons ===
+
== '''Stories of San Francisco''' ==
 +
=== [[Sanjūrossaikuru]] 三十六サイクル ===
  
−
:*[[File:Akemi (2).jpeg|100px]] -- [[Akemi]] -- Cho's Second
+
==== ダースクラウン Dāsukuraun ====
−
:*[[File:Goru.jpg|100px]]-- [[Goru]] -- Cho's Bodyguard
+
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''呪われた女王''' - (Cursed Queen)
−
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+
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
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+
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
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+
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
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+
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
 +
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 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
 +
 
 +
==== 十数本の剣 Jūsūhon no ken ====
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
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:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
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 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">''' ''' - ()
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''狂気の''' - (The Madmen)
  
−
=== <span style="color:#FFD700;"> Golden Dragons===
+
==== 十数人のスタッフ Jū sū-ri no sutaffu ====
−
:* [[File:Zhou.jpeg|100px]] -- [[Zhou]] -- Negotiator for Zen
+
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''サムライ''' - (Samurai)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''ヤクザ''' - (Yakuza)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''探偵''' - (Detective)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''ジャーナリスト''' - (Journalist)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''外人''' - (Foreigner)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''科学者''' - (Scientist)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''セージ''' - (Sage)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''ビジネスマン''' - (Businessman)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''傭兵''' - (Mercenary)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''船員''' - (Sailor)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''商人''' - (Merchant)
 +
:<span style="color:#800000;">'''医者''' - (Physician)
 
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−
=='''On Tour''' ==
+
=== Past Stories ===
−
*: [[File:Toreador Everett Young.jpg|100px]] -- '''[[Everett Young]]''' -- Anarch Musician {''On Tour''}
+
:* '''[[The Case of the Strange Cats: 11/22/2019 - 10/03/2020]]'''
−
*:: [[File:Daughters of Cacophony Justine McDavid work attire.jpg|100px]] -- '''[[Justine McDavid]]''' -- New Child of Everett Young {''On Tour''}
+
:* '''[[Ravenous]]''' -- The Underground Rave scene turns Dark and Deadly
−
:*[[File:Annabel Nolan.jpg|100px]] --[[Annabel Nolan]] -- (Former PC)
 
  
−
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+
=== Session Recaps ===
−
<br>
+
:* '''[[Session Recap: 2022-05-28]]'''
−
<br>
+
:* '''[[Session Recap: 2022-07-16]]'''
−
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:* '''[[Session Recap: 2024-01-20]]''' --
  
−
== '''Deceased or Missing''' ==
+
=== '''San Francisco Short Fiction''' ===
−
:* -- [[Sara Anne Winder]] -- Ventrue Duke of San Francisco. {missing}
+
:* '''[[The Container]]''' --
−
:* -- [[Vannevar Thomas]] -- Former Ventrue prince of the city, {deceased}
 
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== '''The Baronies''': ''Undead Territories'' ==
 
−
[[File:San Francisco Baronies of the Undead.jpg]]
 
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<br>
 
  
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==== Places of Interest ====
+
=== '''Cat Stories''' ===
−
*'''[[San Francisco State University]]''' -- San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different bachelor's degrees, 94 master's degrees, and 5 doctoral degrees along with 26 teaching credentials among six academic colleges.
+
:* '''[[Hard Luck for Wen Tso]]'''
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== '''Coteries of San Francisco''' ==
 
−
:* '''[[The New Crew]]''' -- An unofficial gang of neonates and fledglings that has recently sprung up.
 
 
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https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/metropolis/photos/metropolis-san-francisco-then-and-now
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_San_Francisco
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https://www.killerurbex.com/abandoned-places-in-san-francisco/#2
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/synthetic-drugs-fentanyl/
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==== Cult Info ====
 +
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism
 +
 +
https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/church-of-satan-vs-satanic-temple
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== '''Character Sheets''' ==
 +
=== Fair Folk ===
 +
* '''[[Fey Character Sheet - Modern]]'''
 +
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=== Ghosts ===
 +
* '''[[Wraith Character Sheet - Modern]]'''
 +
* '''[[Wraith Character Sheet - Ancient]]'''
 +
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=== Kindred of the East ===
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* '''[[Kuei-jin Character Sheet - Modern]]'''
 +
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=== Kindred ===
 +
* '''[[Vampire Character Sheet - Modern]]'''
 +
* '''[[Vampire Character Sheet - Ancilla]]'''
 +
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=== Mortals ===
 +
* '''[[Mortal Character Sheet - Modern]]'''
 +
* '''[[Ghoul Character Sheet - Modern]]'''
 +
 +
=== Tribes of the Moon ===
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* '''[[Werewolf Character Sheet - Modern]]'''
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=== Wizards & Witches ===
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* '''[[Mage Character Sheet - Modern]]'''
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 +
<br>
  
 
== '''Errata''' ==
 
== '''Errata''' ==
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'''[[V5 - Character Sheet]]'''
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https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade_lexicon
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Main Page -=SF=- North America


Contents

Quote

"San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality." -- Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship

"May you live in interesting times." — Chinese curse

Appearance

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"No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living." -- William Saroyan, Armenian-American novelist

City Device

Seal of San Francisco.svg.png

Climate

San Francisco has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) characteristic of California's coast, with moist mild winters and dry summers. San Francisco's weather is strongly influenced by the cool currents of the Pacific Ocean on the west side of the city, and the water of San Francisco Bay to the north and east. This moderates temperature swings and produces a remarkably mild year-round climate with little seasonal temperature variation.


Fog is a regular feature of San Francisco summers. Among major U.S. cities, San Francisco has the coolest daily mean, maximum, and minimum temperatures for June, July, and August. During the summer, rising hot air in California's interior valleys creates a low pressure area that draws winds from the North Pacific High through the Golden Gate, which creates the city's characteristic cool winds and fog. The fog is less pronounced in eastern neighborhoods and during the late summer and early fall. As a result, the year's warmest month, on average, is September, and on average, October is warmer than July, especially in daytime.

Because of its sharp topography and maritime influences, San Francisco exhibits a multitude of distinct microclimates. The high hills in the geographic center of the city are responsible for a 20% variance in annual rainfall between different parts of the city. They also protect neighborhoods directly to their east from the foggy and sometimes very cold and windy conditions experienced in the Sunset District; for those who live on the eastern side of the city, San Francisco is sunnier, with an average of 260 clear days, and only 105 cloudy days per year.

Temperatures reach or exceed 80 °F (27 °C) on an average of only 21 and 23 days a year at downtown and San Francisco International Airport (SFO), respectively.[96] The dry period of May to October is mild to warm, with the normal monthly mean temperature peaking in September at 62.7 °F (17.1 °C). The rainy period of November to April is slightly cooler, with the normal monthly mean temperature reaching its lowest in January at 51.3 °F (10.7 °C). On average, there are 73 rainy days a year, and annual precipitation averages 23.65 inches (601 mm). Variation in precipitation from year to year is high. Above average rain years are often associated with warm El Niño conditions in the Pacific while dry years often occur in cold water La Niña periods. In 2013 (a "La Niña" year), a record low 5.59 in (142 mm) of rainfall was recorded at downtown San Francisco, where records have been kept since 1849. Snowfall in the city is very rare, with only 10 measurable accumulations recorded since 1852, most recently in 1976 when up to 5 inches (130 mm) fell on Twin Peaks.

Demonym

Economy


Geography

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Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco",
which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of High Misdemeanour, and
shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars. -- Emperor Norton

San Francisco is located on the West Coast of the United States at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula and includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its boundaries. Several picturesque islands—Alcatraz, Treasure Island and the adjacent Yerba Buena Island, and small portions of Alameda Island, Red Rock Island, and Angel Island—are part of the city. Also included are the uninhabited Farallon Islands, 27 miles (43 km) offshore in the Pacific Ocean. The mainland within the city limits roughly forms a "seven-by-seven-mile square", a common local colloquialism referring to the city's shape, though its total area, including water, is nearly 232 square miles (600 km2).

There are more than 50 hills within the city limits. Some neighborhoods are named after the hill on which they are situated, including Nob Hill, Potrero Hill, and Russian Hill. Near the geographic center of the city, southwest of the downtown area, are a series of less densely populated hills. Twin Peaks, a pair of hills forming one of the city's highest points, forms an overlook spot. San Francisco's tallest hill, Mount Davidson, is 928 feet (283 m) high and is capped with a 103-foot (31 m) tall cross built in 1934. Dominating this area is Sutro Tower, a large red and white radio and television transmission tower.

The nearby San Andreas and Hayward Faults are responsible for much earthquake activity, although neither physically passes through the city itself. The San Andreas Fault caused the earthquakes in 1906 and 1989. Minor earthquakes occur on a regular basis. The threat of major earthquakes plays a large role in the city's infrastructure development. The city constructed an auxiliary water supply system and has repeatedly upgraded its building codes, requiring retrofits for older buildings and higher engineering standards for new construction. However, there are still thousands of smaller buildings that remain vulnerable to quake damage. USGS has released the California earthquake forecast which models earthquake occurrence in California.

San Francisco's shoreline has grown beyond its natural limits. Entire neighborhoods such as the Marina, Mission Bay, and Hunters Point, as well as large sections of the Embarcadero, sit on areas of landfill. Treasure Island was constructed from material dredged from the bay as well as material resulting from the excavation of the Yerba Buena Tunnel through Yerba Buena Island during the construction of the Bay Bridge. Such land tends to be unstable during earthquakes. The resulting soil liquefaction causes extensive damage to property built upon it, as was evidenced in the Marina district during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Most of the city's natural watercourses, such as Islais Creek and Mission Creek, have been culverted and built over, although the Public Utilities Commission is studying proposals to daylight or restore some creeks.

The Munificent Transitioning Sectors

Shortly after the Camarilla paid tribute to the Quincunx (what some call “the most expensive rent in San Francisco”), the August Courts announced it needed to “temporarily” relocate the city’ s Kindred to several predetermined and carefully delineated neighborhoods. The Cathayans claim Kindred will receive their old privileges back once the city fully transitions into the New Promise Mandarinate. Happily, the Quincunx allows Kindred to remain in San Francisco during the change. During the process, however, Kindred must feed and move their havens into small and carefully defined sections of the city. The Kuei-jin call these “Munificent Transitioning Sectors.” They are “munificent” because the Quincunx feels it shows great compassion and restraint toward the barbarian Kin-jin by letting them stay in the New Promise Mandarinate. They are “transitioning sectors” because the Kuei-jin claim Kindred will remain there only for the time it takes to finish transforming the Camarilla city of San Francisco into the New Promise Mandarinate. The Kindred find the Cathayans’ terminology long-winded and ridiculously euphemistic. They and their protective Wu refer to them as "Revervations." Only in formal discussions will the Kuei-jin refer to them as "Munificient Transitioning Sectors." Though Kin-jin who wish to stay in better reservations had better use the long winded term.

By all appearances, the Kuei-jin explicitly requested only that the Kindred relocate their havens and conduct the majority of their feeding within the Reservation Sectors — ostensibly to allow the Kuei-jin space and relative privacy while they assume residency as the city’s new masters. Privately, however, many Kindred wonder if the Kuei-jin take their lessons from the rape of Nanking — corralling the enemy to simplify their destruction.

Neighborhoods of San Francisco

Districts (Outlying Areas) of San Francisco

Sca-Nif-So-Carn


History of San Francisco

Headlines

Seismic Survey Team still missing after Two Weeks. -- The Underground Paper - pg.3 - middle of page.

Recent Events


Population

  • -- City (883,305) - 2018
  • -- Metro (4,729,484) - 2018
  • -- CSA (9,666,055) - 2018


Arenas


Attractions


Bars and Clubs


Cemeteries

History of San Francisco Cemeteries

At one time, San Francisco, like most cities, had cemeteries where they buried their deceased residents. As the city was being settled and established in the late 1700s and early 1800s, these burial sites were at Mission Dolores, Telegraph Hill, North Beach, Yerba Buena Cemetery (now the site of the SF Main Library) and the City Cemetery (now the site of the Legion of Honor).

Then the boom of the Gold Rush changed San Francisco drastically, and from 1849 onward, there was less and less space to accommodate the rapidly growing population. By 1900, the Board of Supervisors voted to stop all burials within city limits and relocate the existing graves from the San Francisco cemeteries to Lawndale (now Colma).

Throughout its history, there were probably more than 200,000 graves dug in San Francisco, but the exact number is unknown as most of the records were destroyed in the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. The only remaining San Francisco cemeteries are the National Cemetery in the Presidio and the old cemetery at Mission Dolores (San Francisco de Asis).

Two Within the City Limits

National Cemetery

The National Cemetery is for military personnel only. Due to its size, only those who purchased plots already are allowed to be buried there. They also sometimes allow burials of high-profile individuals, but you must receive special permission.

With over 30,000 grave sites, this is the larger of the two remaining San Francisco cemeteries. The first person was buried at this site by the military in 1854.

In 1884, it became one of the first official national cemeteries on the west coast.

It is located in the Presidio, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and Angel Island.

Mission San Francisco de Asis

The second of the two San Francisco cemeteries is at the Mission San Francisco de Asis. Commonly known as Mission Dolores, this historic landmark is the oldest building in San Francisco and also the oldest intact mission in California, containing a chapel, basilica, and museum in addition to the cemetery.

The cemetery at the Mission San Francisco de Asis does not allow any new burials. Most of those buried here were active players in the Spanish rule of California and the mission system from the mid- to late- 1800s.

Other Burial Locations in SF

Though burials in the ground are no longer allowed, the deceased's ashes may still be preserved at one of the columbariums in the city. Here is some information about the two most popular.

San Francisco Columbarium

Located in the Richmond District, the San Francisco Columbarium was once the centerpiece of the Old Fellows Cemetery, which was removed in the 1900s and replaced with residential streets.

Its impressive neoclassical architecture is topped with a copper dome, and its interior features mosaic tile floors, stained-glass windows, and a large rotunda.

It houses ashes from the late 1800s to the present day.

Grace Cathedral

Grace Cathedral, the country's third largest Episcopal Cathedral located in SF's Nob Hill neighborhood, also houses a columbarium where families can honor their loved ones with a memorial plaque or a niche for their ashes.

This Gothic style building is known for its labyrinths, stained-glass windows, carillon, and medieval touches.

Disclaimer: The above content taken from and attributed to with respect: "San Francisco Cemeteries: Where to Find and How to Visit these Special Resting Places" -- Author: Jill Loeffler -- Article Date: May 23, 2022 -- Website: https://www.sftourismtips.com/san-francisco-cemeteries.html


Changing Breeds

San Francisco is friendly to the Garou in almost direct proportion to its unfriendliness to the Kindred. There are more werewolves here than in just about any other major city in North America, drawn by the relaxed atmosphere and eco-friendly politics. Many live on the Peninsula, occasionally interacting with the fae of the Edge of the Labrys, but there are quite a few Glass Walkers lurking in Silicon Valley as well. The Bone Gnawer population of San Francisco is on the rise as well, as word gets around of the relatively easy pickings.

There are many bay area caerns, and as they are places of power for others as well, the Garou often share them with nunnehi. There is an unspoken mutual aid pact between the two groups, and Queen Aeron of the fae generally considers the two as a unit in reference to matters of policy. Of all the Kithain rulers, Countess Evaine sees more of the werewolves than any other. Certain sept leaders have observed her dealings with the selkies, and hold her as trustworthy. Regional Garou

  • Rufus McLaren
  • Wears-Many-Stories
  • Andrea MacNilnoc


City Government

Crime

In 2011, 50 murders were reported, which is 6.1 per 100,000 people. There were about 134 rapes, 3,142 robberies, and about 2,139 assaults. There were about 4,469 burglaries, 25,100 thefts, and 4,210 motor vehicle thefts. The Tenderloin area has the highest crime rate in San Francisco: 70% of the city's violent crimes, and around one-fourth of the city's murders, occur in this neighborhood. The Tenderloin also sees high rates of drug abuse, gang violence, and prostitution. Another area with high crime rates is the Bayview-Hunters Point area. In the first six months of 2015 there were 25 murders compared to 14 in the first six months of 2014. However, the murder rate is still much lower than in past decades. That rate, though, did rise again by the close of 2016. According to the San Francisco Police Department, there were 59 murders in the city in 2016, an annual total that marked a 13.5% increase in the number of homicides (52) from 2015.

Peace Officers

The San Francisco Police Department was founded in 1849.

The FBI has a San Francisco office at 450 Golden Gate

The DEA has a division field office located at 1301 Clay St, Oakland, CA 94612 (12th Street / Oakland).

The portions of Golden Gate National Recreation Area located within the city, including the Presidio and Ocean Beach, are patrolled by the United States Park Police.

The San Francisco Fire Department provides both fire suppression and emergency medical services to the city.

The city operates 22 public "pit stop" toilets.

The Angel Detective Agency

Gangs

Several street gangs operate in the city, including MS-13, the Sureños and Norteños in the Mission District,. African-American street gangs familiar in other cities, including the Crips, have struggled to establish footholds in San Francisco, while police and prosecutors have been accused of liberally labeling young African-American males as gang members. Criminal gangs with shotcallers in China, including Triad groups such as the Wo Hop To, have been reported active in San Francisco. In 1977, an ongoing rivalry between two Chinese gangs led to a shooting attack at the Golden Dragon restaurant in Chinatown, which left 5 people dead and 11 wounded. None of the victims in this attack were gang members. Five members of the Joe Boys gang were arrested and convicted of the crime. In 1990, a gang-related shooting killed one man and wounded six others outside a nightclub near Chinatown. In 1998, six teenagers were shot and wounded at the Chinese Playground; a 16-year-old boy was subsequently arrested.

The Yakuza in San Francisco are members of the Goda-Ika gang. They are a mix of Japanese and Korean members. Involved in the sex trade, gun running, and operate various protection rackets in the city. They have an operational truce with the Joe Boys. Word on the street is that there is strong competition with the Wo Hop To over prostitution in the city.

Asian Gangs

Lesser Gangs

Black Gangs

Minor Gangs

Latin Gangs


Hackers of San Francisco

Professional Criminals


Organized Crime

Italian Mafia


Yakuza


Romanian Mafia In San Francisco


Serial Killers

All credit for descriptions of San Francisco's serial killers goes to: [1]

Recent Crimes of Note


Citizens of the City

Academics

  • Natanael Navarro -- Assistant and Lover of Professor Chadwick {University of California, Berkeley}

City Employees

Foreigners

Ghosts

Hypnovatiz

Journalists

  • Boris Neuville -- Investigative Reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle

Physicians

Psychics

Police

SFPD

Ravers

Scientists

Strangers

Students


Culture of the City

The Culture of San Francisco is major and diverse in terms of arts, music, cuisine, festivals, museums, and architecture but also is influenced heavily by Asian culture due to its large Asian population. San Francisco's diversity of cultures along with its eccentricities are so great that they have greatly influenced the country and the world at large over the years. In 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek voted San Francisco as America's Best City.

Music

Classical and Opera venues in San Francisco include the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Ballet. They all perform at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center. San Francisco's Ballet and Opera are some of the oldest continuing performing arts companies in the United States. San Francisco is the birthplace and home city of the vocal ensemble Chanticleer. The city is also home to the American Conservatory Theater, also known as A.C.T., which has been routinely staging original productions since its arrival in San Francisco in 1967. Additionally, the New Conservatory Theater Center (NCTC) is known for being an intimate theater that routinely stages original productions by the local, national, and international LGBTQIA+ community. Hundreds of smaller, alternative theaters also attract a significant portion of the audience given their historical role in the San Francisco performing arts culture. The oldest of these are Intersection for the Arts, founded in 1965, and the Magic Theater, founded in 1967. A major player in the promotion of theater in the Bay Area is Theater Bay Area (or TBA). A non profit organization, Theater Bay Area has members from more than 365 Bay Area theater and dance companies, is the publisher of Callboard Magazine, and runs San Francisco's Half-Priced Ticket Booth.

The Herbst Theater stages an eclectic mix of music performances, as well as public radio's City Arts & Lectures.

The Fillmore is a music venue located in the Western Addition. It is the second incarnation of the historic venue that gained fame in the 1960s under concert promoter Bill Graham, housing the stage where now-famous musicians such as the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin and Jefferson Airplane first performed, fostering the San Francisco Sound. Beach Blanket Babylon is a zany musical revue and a civic institution that has performed to sold-out crowds in North Beach since 1974. Bimbo's 365 Club, in North Beach, is one of the city's oldest entertainment venues and plays host to music shows of all genres.

Additionally, San Francisco is home to the 200-member San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, the world's first openly gay chorus, as well as the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, the world's first[citation needed] openly gay musical organization. Two additional gay choruses, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco and Golden Gate Men's Chorus, also perform throughout the year.

Theater

San Francisco has a large number of theaters and live performance venues. Local theater companies have been noted for risk taking and innovation, as documented in the film Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco. The Tony Award-winning non-profit American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is a member of the national League of Resident Theaters, and has been in San Francisco since it moved from Pittsburgh in 1967. Other local winners of the Regional Theater Tony Award include the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Berkeley Rep in nearby Berkeley. The Magic Theater was the home theater of the playwright Sam Shepard during his most productive period, and many of his plays were first staged there. San Francisco-based SHN hosts productions of Broadway shows in its vintage 1920s-era venues in the Theater District: the Curran, Orpheum, and Golden Gate Theaters.

San Francisco has had a thriving improv theater community, with a distinctly different style of improv than much of the rest of the country[citation needed]. Unlike Chicago where one venue will host three 30-45 minute shows in one evening, most San Francisco improv shows are 2 hours long, complete with their own intermission. And while Chicago and New York are full of improv companies who perform formats based on the Harold (with multiple storylines going on at the same time), San Francisco is full of improv shows with single-story formats. Often referred to as play-length improv shows, these improv shows are rooted in the idea that if someone can perform something scripted (like a play, movie, or musical) then it can also be improvised just as well. Some groups that define the improvisation scene in San Francisco are: BATS Improv, The Un-Scripted Theater Company, and The San Francisco Improv Alliance.


Current Events


Fortifications


Galleries


Gum San -- The Court of the Golden Mountain

"Among the Quincunx there have only ever been five Imperial Courts. One was destroyed centuries ago throwing off the harmony and symmetry of the sacred five courts with only four remaining. That is until the establishment of Gum San - the Court of the Golden Mountain."

"Now once again there are five Imperial Courts of the Quincunx and many take this as a most promising sign. But Gum San is far removed from the Middle Kingdom and in the shadows some Kuei-jin whisper that Gum San isn't the fifth Court, but the Sixth Court for a Sixth and doomed age." -- Mandarin Na Ng -- Court Chronicler

皇帝 The Emperor

"Few Courts have an Imperial Ancester, such distinctions are reserved for those Courts whose Ancestor established the city. Many would argue that Yijun Xiao has no right to such an August title as Emperor, but this tells us more about the Emperor's future plans than it does about the sordid story of San Francisco's establishment. The Emperor seeks to make of San Francisco the crown jewel of his continent spanning empire and the establishment of an army capable of defeating the Demon-Emperor and ending the curled Sixth Age." -- Ming Tsui, Imperial Warlord

  • Yijun Xiao -- The Imperial Ancestor of San Francisco


普通話 -- The Mandarin Council

"Within Gum San the Emperor is all-powerful, but even potentates like Yijun Xiao need sage counsel in order to steer a city safely through the uncharted waters of history, that is where the Mandarin Council enters the picture."

"There are five Mandarins, one for each of the sacred directions, their respective expertise on various matters often serves to provide the Emperor with knowledge and skills that might not otherwise be accessible to such a noble Ancestor."

"In addition the Mandarins act like a Medieval privy Council who provide up-to-date intelligence in critical situations and act as agents provocateur in times of need. Their primary loyalty lies with the court Ancestor, but when a venerable elder becomes incapacitated for some reason the council of Mandarins can issue direction in the Emperor's name."



Servants of the Mandarinate

"For the court to function properly laws and traditions must be enforced. Propriety is like a coin, it's Guardians must therefore exhibit two faces."

"One face is for public appearances and the other for private events of a more clandestine nature."

"Both faces serve to ensure the dispensation of divinely inspired justice, but some acts needed to enforce the public good cannot for various reasons be attributed to the agents of the court even if all present are aware of the unseen influence of the Emperor."

"The Custodians of Social Harmoney are the public face of law and order. Their purpose is to be heroic and inspirational while enforcing the laws and traditions of the Middle Kingdom in Gum San."

"The Nest of Sepents on the other hand serve the public good by eliminating particularly difficult malefactors and inspiring the court and its enemies with the fear of the unknown and the unknowable."

"Thus regardless upon which side the coin of justice falls the court and the citizens of the Middle Kingdom are protected from the enemies of order and tradition."


Houses of Pedigree

Flame Court

The Flame Court is one of the original five courts of the Quincunx, based in Hong Kong.

The Family Five
  • Zhou Ong.png -- Zhou Ong --Mistress of the Golden Dragons
  • Kuei-jin Ah-Jiang.jpg -- Ah-Jiang -- Little River - Family Enforcer
  • Zhou.jpeg -- Zhou -- Negotiator for Zen


Golden Dragons

For the most part, the Golden Dragons are a Chinese Tong, but one beholden to the undead.

The Dragonhead
Pixiu Cartel


Heimin

https://www.joyvspicer.com/joy-blog/2022/1/31/six-chinese-mythical-creatures


The Master
= 兄弟們 Xiōngdìmen (The Bretheren)


House Genji

House Genji is one of the Clans of the Sun, the major groups of Japanese kuei-jin (called Gaki in Japanese).

Jade Vipers

The Jade Vipers are a local chapter of the Japanese Yakuza and their relationship with the Gaki of San Francisco is as complicated as it is potentially profitable or deadly.


Green Court

The Green Tigers

The Wu of the Green Tigers have been together for about 50 years. Led by Sung-Hoon Park, they were the first Korean wu to move to America. Each member made his or her own way to San Francisco and set up his or her own haven, Scarlet Screens and contracts with both Kue-jin and Kin-jin before meeting formally for the first time in this strange land. They have established a smuggling pipeline to Korea, become the hidden patrons of several local merchant organizations and martial arts schools, and engaged in covert operations to disrupt the New Promise Mandarinate.

Their position is precarious never the less. They are trying to play the Asians against the Americans, and skilled manipulators are operating on all sides. The Green Tigers enjoyed their greatest success in preventing a wu from Beijing's Blood court-The Five Fold Devil Club from establishing a foot hold in San Francisco at the airport. This would have guaranteed the Chinese a safe means of bringing reinforcements into the country.



西務局知事 -- Bureau of Western Affairs


Kindred Reservations


治安官 Magistrates of the Bureau of Western Affairs


Kindred Overseers of the Bureau of Western Affairs


Guardian Wu -- Protectors of Reservations


Honored Guests


Adversaries & Enemies

Camarilla

[[]] -- Leanna Burgess -- Princess of Oakland

[[]] -- Saturnino Rocco -- Toreador Sheriff

East Bay Posse

[[]] -- Reeces Jones -- Deputy of East Bay

[[]] -- Yavin McGraw -- Scourge

[[]] -- Bulldog McGraw -- Scourge

Dark Green 1965 Lincoln Continental


Outcasts & Outlaws

Barbarians

The Kuei-jin of Gum San know about the barbarian Gangrel that defy their reservations and laws, but for the moment they remain ignorant of just how significant barbarian activity is to their occupation of San Francisco.

Gangrel Esko.jpg -- Esko -- Gangrel Elder
Gangrel Logan Wakefield.jpg -- Logan Wakefield -- Gangrel wanderer (Former PC) <<Now in Torpor>>


Daughters of Cacophony San Francisco


Preta


Leper Colony

"The flight of the Dowager and the Praetorian from the mortal Inquisition at the end of the seventeenth century is the stuff of Kindred lore and among Sewer-Rats, a story of high adventure and romance. The tales of their origins and how they came to sojourn together across the Atlantic to the New World and ultimately San Francisco is the very history of the Dowager line of Nosferatu. And depending upon whom you ask it is a fiction of the purplest's of prose." -- Don Benedict del Torres

[[]] -- The Dowager -- Matron of the Colony / Former Primogen of Sewer-rats -- The White Lady

[[]] -- Praetorian -- Bodyguard and Eldest Child of the Dowager -- Deceased

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[[]] -- Fyodor Orlov -- Original 49er -- Nickname: Digger
[[]] -- Elodie Rennell -- Nickname
[[]] -- Comhghall Clancy -- Nickname: Hooch
[[]] -- Yazhu Tang -- Nickname: Yin
[[]] -- Neevaeh O'Hara -- Nickname: Scarlett
[[]] -- Lucas Cunningham -- Nickname: Wolfman
[[]] -- Salomon Vargas -- Nickname: Natalio
[[]] -- Fishy Graywater -- Nosferatu Loner -- Nickname: Bonita
[[]] -- Naiche Noaah -- Nickname: Trickster


The Black Market

Ravnos Waraj Sind.jpg -- Waraj Sind -- Ravnos Fixer
Nosferatu Wen Doc.jpg -- Wen Doc -- Nosferatu Hacker
Mad doctor.png -- Isaac Thompson -- Mob Doctor
Diego.png -- Diego -- Drug-dealer of Death


The Two Dog Resistance

Toreador Tristram.jpg -- Tristram -- Ventrue Heir Apparent & Resistance Leader


The Mansion of Peace -- A Sanctuary of Safety in Interesting Times


Sabbat of San Francisco

Sanguine Reaper Posse
Warlords Hunters


Deceased or Missing

  • -- Vannevar Thomas -- Original Ventrue Prince of San Francisco (deceased 1999)
  • -- Sara Anne Winder -- Ventrue Duke of San Francisco. {missing}
  • -- Bashe -- Destroyed by mortal hunters



Haunted Houses

Winchester Mystery House

Introduction

The Winchester Mystery house has a maze of bizarre features that cause a lot of people to scratch their heads, either out of disbelief or sheer confusion. Without written records about the house, the stories have become obscure. Oftentimes, stories that people pass down through history lapse quickly into the realm of lore. For this reason, the Sarah Winchester story of San Jose’s most mysterious estate is a riddle that nobody will ever solve.

Why is the Mystery Mansion Full of Enigmas?

The Mayhem Manor

 Built in 1886, the Wimberlan-Teakle House, at 2007 Franklin Street, functions as a house museum, a popular venue for meetings, lectures, social events, 
 as well as the organization’s     home office. Members of the Wimberlan-Teakle family donated the house to SF Heritage in 1973 with most of its contents 
 and furnishings intact. The house is open for public tours and   attracts visitors from around the world. It also serves as a classroom for SF Heritage’s 
 educational programs such as “Heritage Hikes,” an interpretive tour for 3rd graders begun in 1981.


Designed by architect Peter R. Schmidt for William and Bertha Haas, and constructed in 1886, the 11,500 square foot Wimberlan-Teakle House embodies both the ambitious spirit of San Francisco’s pioneers and its grand Victorian-period architecture. Surviving the 1906 earthquake and fire, it remained in the family until 1973, when the three adult children of the recently deceased Judy Wimberlan-Teakle entrusted the House to a new architectural preservation organization, The Foundation for San Francisco's Architectural Heritage.
The house has many secrets, and is happy with it's new public facade....

Haskell House

The Haskell House is located at 3 Franklin Street, and it has quite an eerie history. In 1857, U.S. Senator David Broderick was challenged to a duel outside the building by pro-slavery New Mexico Supreme Court Justice David Terry, who killed Broderick immediately. Terry was a very prominent – perhaps the most prominent – pro-slavery advocate of the time, and he was angered by Broderick’s anti-slavery positions.
The worst incident to happen at the Haskell House was when a painter working on a window reported being pushed out the window by something invisible.

The Atherton Mansion

The Atherton House, also known as the Faxon Atherton Mansion, is a historic building in San Francisco, California, United States. The style of the house, a blend of Queen Anne and Stick-Eastlake, has been described as both "eclectic" and "bizarre".

The house was built in 1881–1882 in the Queen Anne style with horizontal lines, a clipped gable, and a short tower. The architect is thought to have been John Marquis, but it has also been attributed to the Moore Brothers, who are depicted in other accounts as the initial builders.

The mansion was constructed for Dominga de Goñi Atherton (1823–1890) after the death of her husband Faxon Atherton. She was the mother-in-law of novelist Gertrude Atherton, who wrote about the house in her memoirs. Newspaper articles about the house when the housewarming was held in 1882 described it as picturesque, but appearing to be a relic of an earlier time. The reporter also noted that the height of the rooms created a claustrophobic effect on visitors. Possibly in answer to the comments, Dominga hired Charles Lee Tilden to improve the house.

After Dominga Atherton's death in 1890, the mansion was sold to Edgar Mills, brother of Darius Ogden Mills of the Bank of California, and in 1900 was renumbered from 1950 to 1990 California St. In 1908 it was purchased by George Chauncey Boardman, a real-estate magnate and president of San Francisco Fire Insurance, whose house had been destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. His widow and other family members lived there until 1923, when it was bought by Charles J. Rousseau, an architect, who subdivided it into 13 apartments. His widow Carrie lived there with fifty cats until her death in 1974. As of 2008 it was still subdivided.

The house is reportedly haunted by as many as four ghosts, including Carrie Rousseau, and is featured on ghost tours. The commonly cited story is that the original ghost is George H. B. Atherton, who died at sea in the South Pacific in 1887 and whose body was shipped back to San Francisco in a rum barrel, but the barrel was delivered to the docks, not to the house.

See: Atherton House

Curran Theater

The Curran Theatre, located at 445 Geary Street between Taylor and Mason Streets in the Theatre District of San Francisco, California opened in February 1922, and was named after its first owner, Homer Curran.

Homer Curran operated another theater with his name for several years prior to building this Curran Theatre; however, the original Curran Theatre had various names before and after this time, whereas this Curran Theatre has never had another name. It opened in February 1922 and was initially a Shubert house. Later, it was a showcase for Theatre Guild presentations. Subsequently, it became closely associated with the Civic Light Opera (CLO), which also operated in Los Angeles. The CLO obtained numerous prestigious bookings and produced their own shows, often with stars as the lead roles.

For many years, the San Francisco Opera performed its annual "Spring Opera" series at the Curran.

In 1977, the Civic Light Opera shifted its operations to the Orpheum Theatre, and by the end of that year, Carole Shorenstein Hays and James M. Nederlander assumed operation of the Curran and launched their Best of Broadway season starting with John Raitt in the national tour of Shenandoah and including the West Coast debut of Annie. Later, Shorenstein changed the name of her organization to SHN. In 2015 Shorenstein left SHN, focusing her attention solely on the Curran. SHN no longer operates the Curran.

The theatre closed in September 2015 for renovations. Work included new upholstery for seats, carpeting, mechanical and electrical systems as well as expanded and upgraded lobbies. While work was underway, the theatre presented non-traditional works in a series called Under Construction in which the audience entered and was seated on the stage. The Curran reopened January 25, 2017 with the musical Fun Home.

The ceiling above the main lobby was hand-painted to look like wood (steel wool was used to fashion a wood grain effect in the plaster before painting). The main lobby has a marble floor but has long since been covered by carpeting. There are "plugs" built into the lobby floor in which to insert stanchions from which theater ropes were hung to section off the lobby. The loge section was modified prior to Hello, Dolly!'s first booking at the theater. Originally, the loge section was similar to the boxes, with movable chairs in sectioned areas. The box-like loges are still evident by what remains of the metal railings in front of the loge section as well as the decorative plaster when viewed from below. The change was made because it increased the seating capacity by about ten seats in this highly desirable area. The interior main floor lobby no longer exists. Originally, it was changed to a minor degree to accommodate the installation of a sound booth without decreasing the orchestra seating capacity. Eventually, the lobby space was used to install a larger bar area as well as accessible restrooms.

The theater has two front curtains: the decorative green fire curtain in front of a gold curtain. When musicals traditionally utilized each theater's front curtains, the first curtain would be raised five minutes prior to the start of the show. There were two coat check rooms: one off to the south of the main floor interior lobby and the other on the balcony (adjacent to the ladies' restroom). There were also two telephone "booths" on the mezzanine lobby—one on each side of the windows. These booths were actually very small rooms with formal doors. The coat check rooms and telephone booths are now used for storage. The theater also had a central vacuum system. This system is still evident by the connection points on the walls, near the floor. The chandelier was built in San Francisco by Phoenix Day. A plaque honoring Arthur Mayer is mounted at the entrance to boxes L-M-N. Mayer watched the theater being built, was hired by Curran as part of the theater's opening-night staff, and continued working at the theater until he was nearly 100 years old.

Though the Curran is a beloved landmark, it does have a tragic moment in its past, which some people believe has led to its resident ghost.

The origin of this haunting dates back to 1933. On the 28th of November, excited crowds formed out the front of the Curran Theater. They were keen to watch the latest hit, Show Boat. It was here, that a young man made his way to the box office with financial gain in mind, rather than a night of entertainment.

This man, 25-year-old electrician Eddie Anderson, came face to face with the box office attendant. Here, he attempted to rob the Curran Theater, pulling a gun on 25-year-old Hewlett Tarr, who was manning the till. In the heat of the moment, a fatal decision was made and Eddie pulled the trigger on his weapon, sending a bullet into Hewlett Tarr and killing the young theater treasurer. Adding tragedy to this event, Tarr was just a fortnight away from marrying his fiance of five years, who he was supposed to meet for dinner after his shift. He sadly never made that date.

Tarr’s murderer was executed by hanging soon after. Tarr, now dead, met a very different fate. That fate was to haunt the Curran Theater. Many people have claimed to hear strange, unexplainable noises within the Curran.

Alcatraz Prison

According to legend, Alcatraz prison is known to be one of the most haunted spots in the country, if not in the world. Is it really haunted though? For many people that have visited the prison and have experienced supernatural phenomena, it certainly seems to be haunted in a mysterious way.

Staying at Alcatraz was no joke and even the spirits of the most insane and notorious criminals were broken there. It is said that the empty cells inside the walls of Alcatraz are still home to the restless ghosts that remain there. Some of the worst criminals in America including Arthur Doc Barker, Machine Gun Kelly, and Al Capone spent many days behind bars in this prison.

The prison was built to be a maximum security place where Alcatraz's most dangerous inmates would have minimum privileges. Prisoners breaking the rules would be sent to the strip cell where they would have to remove all of their clothing and spend time in a cell with no lights, no sink, no mattress, and only a hole inside the ground for a toilet. For this reason, it has been said that many Alcatraz ghosts aren't able to move on from Alcatraz to make a new home in the spiritual world.


Holy Ground

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Religious Groups

Cults

Church of Satan

The Church of Satan is a religious organization dedicated to the religion of LaVeyan Satanism as codified in The Satanic Bible. The Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco, California, on Walpurgisnacht, April 30, 1966, by Anton Szandor LaVey, who was the church's High Priest until his death in 1997.[2] In 2001, Peter H. Gilmore was appointed to the position of high priest, and the church's headquarters were moved to Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City.

Satanic Splinter Cults

Chaotic by inclination if not by definition the lively freethinkers and count-cukturalists who partucipated in the birth of LaVey Satanism were for the most part incapable of establishing a hierarchical and stagnant order. Thus the birth of LaVey's Satanic Church was also the moment of its death and the splintering of the faithful if not the faith.

Bardic Brotherhood
Children of Baphomet
Followers of the Sign
Legacy Foundation
Luciferian League
Order of Apep


Hospitals

  • San Francisco VA Medical Center -- also called the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center or the SFVAMC


Hotels & Hostels


Industry


Islands

Landmarks

Alcatraz Island -- is home to the abandoned prison, the site of the oldest operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States, early military fortifications, and natural features such as rock pools and a seabird colony (mostly western gulls, cormorants, and egrets).
Three Brother's Storage -- Owns several storage units inside office buildings in financial district


Legal Aid


Mages of San Francisco


Maps


Mass Media


Missives


Monuments


Museums

The Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) contains 20th Century and contemporary pieces. It moved to its building in South of Market in 1995 and attracts 600,000 visitors annually.[2] The California Palace of the Legion of Honor contains primarily European works. The De Young Museum and the Asian Art Museum have significant anthropological and non-European holdings.

The Palace of Fine Arts, a remnant of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, used to house the Exploratorium, a popular science museum dedicated to teaching through hands-on interaction, which moved to a new location on the Embarcadero in 2013. The California Academy of Sciences is a natural history museum and hosts the Morrison Planetarium and Steinhart Aquarium. The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world. From 1958 until 2003 the collection was housed in a wing of at the original de Young in Golden Gate Park. When the de Young closed while constructing a new building, the Asian Art Museum moved to the former San Francisco City Library building, which was renovated for the purpose under the direction of Italian architect Gae Aulenti who had previously overseen the conversion of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

The San Francisco Zoo cares for a total of about 250 animal species, 39 of which have been deemed endangered or threatened.

Other museums include the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Museum of Craft & Folk Art, the Cartoon Art Museum, and the Mexican Museum. Some "offbeat" museums and galleries dealing in unconventional topics include the Antique Vibrator Museum, the Musée Mécanique (dedicated to penny arcade machines), the Museum of Ophthalmology, Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum, the Stamp Francisco/Stamp Art Gallery (rubber stamps not postal stamps), the Tattoo Art Museum (old tattoo machines and instruments), the UFO, Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster Museum, and the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf.

The Haas-Lilienthal House (2007 Franklin Street) is the only intact private Victorian-era home in San Francisco that is open to the public year-round and available for private functions.



Newspapers

  • -- San Francisco Chronicle -- It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco. {Est. 1865}
  • -- San Francisco Examiner -- Daily newspaper serving San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. The newspaper was founded in 1863 as the Democratic Press.
  • --The Underground Paper -- This is a small city paper. A sometime cross between the San Francisco Chronicle and the Weekly World News.
  • -- Daily Beast Gazette -- A sleazy little tabloid
  • -- 'El Tecolote' -- Bilingual (Spanish and English) newspaper serving Bay Area.
  • -- 'El Reportero' -- Entirely Spanish
  • -- 'J Weekly' -- Jewish news weekly.
  • -- 'Kstati' -- Weekly Russian-language newspaper published in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • -- 'San Francisco Bay View' -- African-American newspaper.
  • -- 'Nichi Bei Weekly' -- Japanese American news source.
  • -- 'India Post' -- Indian community news source.
  • -- 'Pakistan Times USA' -- Pakistani community news source.
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https://www.w3newspapers.com/usa/california/sanfrancisco/


Parks


Private Residences


Prophesies

9 Willing sacrifices to the gods of jade

8 Nightwatchmen who search for their master

7 Giants from east in search of the Sunset

6 Barbarbarians to hold back the shadows

5 Betrayers who seek thrones of gold

4 Subterrainan Talismans to open the way

3 Fools to save kingdom

2 Mortal lovers Yin and Yang to find the truth

1 Herald to to open the gates of hell


Restaurants


Ruins

Abandoned Buildings

Abandoned Sites

  • Fort Miley -- 19th Century Military Installation build on a Large Forgotten Cemetery


Schools

  • San Francisco State University -- San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different bachelor's degrees, 94 master's degrees, and 5 doctoral degrees along with 26 teaching credentials among six academic colleges.
  • University of California, San Francisco


Services


Shopping

-- Owned by Diego de Soto, a PhD in San Francisco History, author of books on local landmarks, comic book store owner, writer, and artist.

  • Graven Goods -- A shop that sells only items belonging to dead people. (The Castro)


Strange Objects

Arcane Curiosities

Infernal Trouvaille


Telecommunications


Theaters


Tourism

October

Fear Industries

  • -- Warehouse of Blood -- Largest commercial haunted house in San Francisco

Ghost Walk

  • -- Houses of the Dead -- A walking tour of San Francisco's purportedly ghost-ridden old Victorians.

Murder Bus

  • -- While not the murder capital of Califorian, that dubious honor goes to Santa Clarita, San Francisco’s history of serial killings makes for morbid tourism and this bus takes riders to the scenes of the Bay City's most horrendous murders and a stop at Alcatraz Island just to top things off.

Octoberfest

  • -- SF Nightcrawl -- After-evening flashmob bar-crawl of some of San Francisco's most infamous drinking establishments.

Paranornal Parties

  • -- In addition to haunted houses San Francisco has a number of paranormal locations some of which include sites of ritual sacrifice, mass murder, demonic possession, alien abduction and monster sightings. Who wouldn't want to set up a bachelor party, a rave (almost impossible and very expensive), an adult get-together (orgy), college kegger, or teen birthday party at such infamous locations? For a price Paranormal Parties takes you to the location of your choice, sets up security, caters, and provides transportation to and from mysterious locations to ensure the the most daring party of your life.


Transportation

Cable Cars

The passenger cable car was invented by Scotsman Andrew Hallidie of San Francisco. The first operating line was on Clay Street and began service in 1873. Based on similar systems used in mines, Hallidie hoped to improve on the horse-drawn omnibuses then laboring up and down the city's steep hills.

Cable cars are powered by a moving cable that passes under the streets. The car is equipped with a "grip" which, reaching down through a slot in the street, clamps to the moving cable, drawing the car along. Cable cars cruise at a speed of ten miles per hour... no more, no less.

Hallidie's design was quickly copied and soon cable car systems were found all over the world, from Providence, Rhode Island, to Melbourne, Australia. Within a few years, however, the electric-powered trolley was invented. Requiring less maintenance, and generally safer, they quickly replaced cable car systems in most cities, save those with the steepest hills. San Francisco's various cable car systems once stretched over most of the city, but by the 1950s, the last two remaining lines were scheduled for removal. Only a last-minute citizen's movement saved the cable cars and they are now designated a National Historic Monument (just a mobile one). Expensive and far less safe than most forms of public transportation, they are a symbol of the city. Other Mass Transit

At the hub of the bay area, downtown San Francisco is well-served. Electric and diesel buses run regular routes to all parts of the cit. Electric trolleys, usually referred to as the Muni, travel underground along Market Street, emerging a few miles away to disperse along different routes. The Muni lines share the underground with the BART system, which runs one level deeper. From central San Francisco one can catch frequent BART trains south to Daly City, or travel under the bay all the way to Richmond, Concord, or Fremont.


Airports

The Langoliers



Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. BART serves 50 stations along six routes on 131 miles (211 kilometers) of rapid transit lines, including a 10-mile (16 km) spur line in eastern Contra Costa County which uses diesel multiple-unit trains and a 3.2-mile (5.1 km) automated guideway transit line to the Oakland International Airport. With an average of 136,200 weekday passengers as of the second quarter of 2022 and 26,026,800 annual passengers in 2021, BART is the fifth-busiest heavy rail rapid transit system in the United States and is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District which formed in 1957. The initial system opened in stages from 1972 to 1974. The system was extended most recently on June 13, 2020, when Milpitas and Berryessa/North San José stations opened as part of the Silicon Valley BART extension in partnership with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority

BART serves large portions of its three member counties – San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa – as well as smaller portions of San Mateo County and Santa Clara counties. The system has 50 stations: 22 in Alameda County, 12 in Contra Costa County, 8 in San Francisco, 6 in San Mateo County, and 2 in Santa Clara County. BART operates five named heavy rail services plus one separate automated guideway line. All of the heavy rail services run through Oakland, and all but the Richmond–Berryessa line run through the Transbay Tube to San Francisco. All five services run every day until 9 pm; only three services operate evenings after 9 pm, as well as on some Sundays due to maintenance work. All stations are served during all service hours.[10] The eastern segment of the Antioch–SFO+Millbrae line (between Antioch and the transfer platform east of Pittsburg/Bay Point) uses different rolling stock and is separated from the rest of the line.

Unlike most other rapid transit systems, BART lines historically were not primarily referred by color names (although the colors used on maps have been constant since 1980) or other shorthand designations. The services are mainly identified on maps, schedules, and station signage by the names of their termini. However, the new fleet displays line colors more prominently, and BART has begun to use color names in press releases and GTFS data.



Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula—to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. It also carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and is designated as part of U.S. Bicycle Route 95. Being declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers,[7] the bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco and California. It was initially designed by engineer Joseph Strauss in 1917. The bridge was named for the Golden Gate strait, the channel that it spans.

The Frommer's travel guide describes the Golden Gate Bridge as "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world." At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, with a main span of 4,200 feet (1,280 m) and a total height of 746 feet (227 m).



Walkers of the Hedge

Warehouses


City of Emptiness -- Storytelling San Francisco

The Theme of the City

Prophesy. Both divinely inspired and that of the self-fulfilling vatiety.

This City's Mood

The mood of the city is one of hollow pursuits and empty crusades taken up to fill the void of meaningless modernity.


Stories of San Francisco

Sanjūrossaikuru 三十六サイクル

ダースクラウン Dāsukuraun

呪われた女王 - (Cursed Queen)
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十数本の剣 Jūsūhon no ken

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狂気の - (The Madmen)

十数人のスタッフ Jū sū-ri no sutaffu

サムライ - (Samurai)
ヤクザ - (Yakuza)
探偵 - (Detective)
ジャーナリスト - (Journalist)
外人 - (Foreigner)
科学者 - (Scientist)
セージ - (Sage)
ビジネスマン - (Businessman)
傭兵 - (Mercenary)
船員 - (Sailor)
商人 - (Merchant)
医者 - (Physician)


Past Stories

Session Recaps

San Francisco Short Fiction

Cat Stories



Websites

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https://environment.ambient-mixer.com/

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https://tabletopaudio.com/

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https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/julyaugust-2012/the-power-broker/ {How politics really work in San Francisco}

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_(TV_series)

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https://www-sfgate-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.sfgate.com/bayarea/amp/Slow-Streets-San-Francisco-closed-map-SFMTA-15286136.php?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Fbayarea%2Farticle%2FSlow-Streets-San-Francisco-closed-map-SFMTA-15286136.php

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http://www.foundsf.org/

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https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/northern-california/san-francisco/abandoned-san-francisco/ {Abandoned San Francisco}

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https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/author/sgarr/ {Visitor's guide to San Francisco}

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https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/metropolis/photos/metropolis-san-francisco-then-and-now

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_San_Francisco

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https://www.killerurbex.com/abandoned-places-in-san-francisco/#2

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Cult Info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/church-of-satan-vs-satanic-temple


Character Sheets

Fair Folk

Ghosts

Kindred of the East

Kindred

Mortals

Tribes of the Moon

Wizards & Witches



Errata

https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade_lexicon



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