Sunset
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Statistics
- Total 5.709 sq mi (14.79 km2)
- Land 5.709 sq mi (14.79 km2)
- Population - Total 85,252
Magistrate
--Wei Ning --
Guardian Wu
Jade Spear of Heaven -- Tiānshàng de Yù Máo
Overseer
Gabriel Dayton -- Malkavian overseer
Kindred Residents:
--Stephen Carvell -- (Mac PC)
-- Alban -- Sebastian's Accountant
-- Delight -- Hacker?
-- Shaneia Vossen -- Child of Tristam
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-- Puck Penners -- Art Fag, Child of Vannevar Thomas
[[]] -- Agnes Yoshioka -- Child of Vannevar Thomas
Wall Rating
8
Reservation #4
The Sunset District is the largest neighborhood within the city and county of San Francisco. Golden Gate Park forms the neighborhood's northern border, and the Pacific Ocean (or, more specifically, the long, flat strand of beach known as Ocean Beach) forms its western border. A section of the Sunset District towards its southeastern end is known as the Parkside neighborhood. Prior to the residential and commercial development of the Sunset District, much of the area was covered by sand dunes and was originally referred to by 19th century San Franciscans as the "Outside Lands."
The Sunset District and the neighboring Richmond District (on the north side of Golden Gate Park) are often collectively known as The Avenues, because the majority of both neighborhoods are spanned by numbered north-south avenues. When the city was originally laid out, the avenues were numbered from 1st to 49th, and the east-west streets were lettered A to X. In 1909, to reduce confusion for mail carriers, the east-west streets and 1st Avenue and 49th Avenue were renamed. The east-west streets were named in ascending alphabetical order in a southward direction after prominent 19th-century American politicians, military leaders, or explorers; 19th-century Mexican landowners; and Spanish conquistadors. 1st Avenue was renamed Arguello Boulevard, and 49th Avenue was renamed La Playa Street (Spanish for "the beach").
Today, the first numbered avenue is 2nd Avenue, starting one block west of Arguello Boulevard, and the last is 48th Avenue near Ocean Beach. The avenue numbers increase incrementally, with one exception: what would be 13th Avenue is known as Funston Avenue, named after Frederick Funston, a U.S. Army general known for his exploits during the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, and for directing the U.S. Army response to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The east-west streets in the Sunset appear mostly in alphabetical order. These streets are: Lincoln Way (bordering the south side of Golden Gate Park), Hugo (from Arguello to 7th Avenue only), Irving, Judah, Kirkham, Lawton, Moraga, Noriega, Ortega, Pacheco, Quintara, Rivera, Santiago, Taraval, Ulloa, Vicente, Wawona, Yorba, and Sloat Boulevard. "X" was originally proposed to be Xavier, but was changed to Yorba due to a pronunciation controversy.
The Quincunx uses the Sunset M-T as a warning, relocating Kindred who have drawn the Kuei-jin’s ire in small ways. Punishable actions that might land someone in Sunset includes engaging in visible pro-Camarilla activism, being caught too frequently outside one’s assigned M-T Sector (Castro, SoMa and Pacific Heights), showing insufficient respect for any Kuei-jin, or even referring to the Quincunx as “invaders.”
The Sunset M-T Sector is the smallest of the five. To the north and south lie Lincoln Way and Taraval Street, respectively, while to the west and east lie 41st and 24th Streets. Unlike the higher-class Empties, this M-T does not contain any major tourist, transit, or nightclub districts, making it a more challenging area in which to feed. Just two blocks east of this sector is the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The Kuei-jin patrol the intervening block relentlessly, looking for Kindred trying to prey on the music students. The Kindred assigned here all agree the Cathayans deliberately drew these boundaries to tantalize and tempt Kindred into trouble.
Far from everything and so patently “white-bread” that the Kuei-jin stick out, the Sunset district, more than anything else, is a place of enforced banality. The sector is not large; the middle-class residential neighborhoods do not have a thriving nightlife, forcing the local Kindred to compete for relatively scarce resources.
Reports of violence, an unexpected rise in anemia cases and increases in suspected gang activity force the police and health officials to scrutinize the district more closely. This concerns the Camarilla’s leaders, since they hope to weather the current situation and retake San Francisco with no breaches of the Masquerade.
As with both of the more prison-like M-Ts, the hawks of the Quincunx watch the periphery of the Sunset closely, intent on curtailing the freedoms of San Francisco’ s less desirable Kindred. The Quincunx carefully logs every infraction against its regulations, which it then cites as evidence against the Kindred population in general.
Within this Empty, the mood is anxious. Most Kindred assigned here know what brought them to Sunset in the first place. Some do not. In theory, those exhibiting a pattern of behaving in accordance with the Quincunx’ s policies stand a chance of earning reassignment to a better M-T Sector. In reality, it is unlikely anything short of abject collusion with the Kuei-jin would better the situation of any Kindred sent here. Besides, most vampires reassigned from Sunset to SoMa instantly become an object of suspicion by the Camarilla’s more savvy representatives.
Sunset’s Kindred are the most divorced from the city’s proceedings. Some see their assignment to Sunset as further proof that the Kuei-jin are simply evil bastards. Others take their appointment here as a sign that perhaps it’ s time to acknowledge the new status quo and make amends with the city’s new masters before the Quincunx sends them to Bayview. The rest see their relocation here as proof that it’s time to leave San Francisco for a city where the Camarilla holds sway, leaving the Kuei-jin perfectly happy to see them go. It only helps nudge the balance of power a further in their favor.
Malkavians constitute a large portion of Sunset’s vampires, along with the few Nosferatu who did not flee the surface world for San Francisco’s extensive tunnel system. More staunch Camarilla supporters exist here than in any other M-T Sector; most were reassigned to Sunset because of their loyalty. Many of the less politically savvy Ventrue wind up here as well, far from their beloved Financial District.
Important places in Sunset
The western part of the Sunset borders the cold northern California Pacific Ocean coastline, so it tends to get much of the fog San Francisco is famous for. The Sunset can be foggy and chilly for some days during summer. The Sunset's finest weather is usually from August through December, when regional air patterns transition from onshore to offshore weather and the area is free of fog. Sand carried by Pacific Ocean winds can be found on roadways and driveways within the first five to ten blocks east of Ocean Beach.
The Sunset District contains several large park and recreation areas. The San Francisco Zoo is located in the southwestern corner of the neighborhood by Lake Merced, the largest lake within San Francisco. Also within the Lake Merced area are several golf courses: the private Olympic Club and San Francisco Golf Club, and the public TPC Harding Park. Across from Lake Merced is Fort Funston, an old coastal battery, now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Fort Funston notably has some of the last remnants of the sand dune ecosystem that once covered the entire Sunset District.
There is a year-round, Sunday morning farmers' market which is located at 1315 8th Avenue (the parking lot between 8th and 9th Avenues). The market is operated by the Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association and is sponsored by the Inner Sunset Park Neighbors. The Inner Sunset Farmers' Market offers California-grown produce, fish, eggs, and meat, as well as local food vendors and artisans.
Stern Grove, a heavily wooded park and amphitheater located on Sloat Boulevard between 19th and 34th avenues, is known for its annual summer festival.
Three parks lie on the far east border of the district: the northernmost is Grand View Park (also referred to as Turtle Hill) a small, elevated park[13] surrounded by 14th and 15th Avenues, as well as Noriega Street; moving south, next is Golden Gate Heights Park, just east of 14th Avenue north of Quintara; and Hawk Hill Park, also east of 14th Avenue at Santiago. These natural areas belong to a remnant ridge-top system and include some of the last-remaining sand-dune communities in the city.
- Angels & Demons -- Club in upper Sunset
- Cliff House -- Amusement park/Dining
- Twin Peaks Tunnel --Public transit railroad.
- Sutro Baths -- Ruins of a turn of the century bathhouse.
- The Mirage In Sunset -- Club where Crew Bastencian is performing
- Sunset Cantina
Mortals of Sunset
