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;[[New York City]]
== <span style="color:#800000;"> The Camarilla Toehold ==
<span style="color:#800000;">''The Camarilla's hold on much of North America would
crumble within days if they were barred from Wall Street and
Madison Avenue. The consequences of losing control of the
markets and the media are too terrible to ponder, so the
Camarilla holds onto the heart of Manhattan with a grip as
tight and terrible as rigor mortis. There are over 100
Camarilla vampires crammed into this zone, equally divided
between those who manipulate the boardrooms, those who
patronize the arts and those who are soldiers in a battle that
simply cannot be lost.''

<span style="color:#800000;">''The current "Prince of New York," a seventh-generation
Ventrue known only as [[Michaela]], has temporarily managed 
to halt the rapid turnover of princes. She has also stabilized
the borders of the Camarilla quadrant of the city (though not
a night goes by without the Sabbat testing her defenses), and
she has also received carte blanche from the Ventrue
Justicar to create progeny for the defense of the city. It is not
lost on Michaela's critics how closely this permission imitates
the tactics of the Sabbat, and certain cynics among the
seven clans wonder how hospitable a postbellum New York
is likely to be if it's knee-deep in eighth-generation Ventrue.''

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''The Prince''' ===
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Hellene Panhard]] -- The Princess of the City that Never Sleeps.
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Francis Ellisson]] -- The Princess' blood-sucking Major Domo (ghoul)

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''The Primogen Council''' ===
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Stephen P Maslowe]]''' of the Brujah
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Adelaide Davis]]''' of the Malkavians
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Calebros]]''' of the Nosferatu
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Qadir Al - Asmai]]''' of the Toreador
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Eugenio Estevez]]''' of the Tremere
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Valentine]]''' of the Ventrue

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Officers of New York''' ===
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Carter Vanderweyden]]''' -- The Malkavian Keeper of Elysium
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Jezebelle]]''' -- The Gangrel Sheriff of the Big Apple
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[David Morgan]]''' - The Malkavian Scourge of New York

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Brujah''' ===
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Heavy G]]''' -- Brujah Primogen of New York City.
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Theo Bell]]''' -- The Absentee Archon
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Katherine Wiese]]''' -- Brujah Mercenary
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Torsten Metz]]''' -- Free-wheeling Brujah Entrepreneur
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Marlena]]''' -- The Ambitious Neonate
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Tayshawn Kearns]]''' -- Marlena's Fledgling Slave
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Algar Leach]]''' -- A 1950s southern rebel-without-a-cause turned undead.
* -- [[Patrick Clancy]] -- Irish Catholic Brujah Gangster.

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Gangrel''' ===
<span style="color:#800000;">''Not surprisingly, the Gangrel presence in the city is
miniscule. A few run on Long Island, but there the deadening
sameness of the tract housing drives most of them out within
weeks, screaming with boredom.''

* -- [[Jebadyah Palmetto]] - Jebadyah is the eldest of the three Palmetto Brothers and fought on the side of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
* -- [[Cort Palmetto]]
* -- [[Darrell Palmetto]]
* -- [[Captain John Politz]]

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Malkavian''' ===
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Julius Abrogard]]
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[John Hanneman]] -- Malkavian Historian.
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Dominic Vaughn]] -- Seneschal of New York City.

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Nosferatu''' ===
<span style="color:#800000;">''The secret masters of New York, however, are the Nosferatu.
The Sewer Rats have their talons firmly sunk into the
machinery of the city itself. The day-to-day (and night-tonight)
operations of city government and services, particularly
the all-important sanitation department, are completely under
Nosferatu control.''

<span style="color:#800000;">''Certain Toreador have made jokes about how the Sewer
Rats must control the city, as former mayor Ed Koch is
obviously one of their own. The Nosferatu response is to
smile politely, then to halt garbage pickup in the vicinity of the
offending Poseur's haven for a month. Lunchtime fire hazard
inspections are also a favorite ploy.''

* -- [[SchreckNET]]

* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Gerard Rafin]]''' -- ''Good Old Uncle Smelly''
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Gemini]]'''
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Krid]]'''
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Bran Monahan]]''' -- A former police officer turned ugly undead, he owns Monahan's Bar and aids the sheriff when she needs help.
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[MKMC-D]]''' -- Yet another young Kindred come to New York to make it big.

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Toreador''' ===
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Elizabeth Rotari]]'''
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Yvette]]''' -- The Reluctant Pariah
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Adrian Cruz]]''' -- Comic-book Illustrator Extraordinaire 

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Tremere''' ===
<span style="color:#800000;">''The Tremere chantry, located on the grounds of Barnard
College (Columbia University is too obvious a locale, City
College doesn't have the space, New York University is coopted
by the Toreador and Yeshiva University has a
disproportionate number of students and professors with
True Faith), is located perilously close to several Sabbat
strong points, as well as the small but potent Setite presence
just across Morningstar Park in Harlem. In New York the
Tremere have taken a much more active stance in defending
the city than is their normal wont; even Vienna recognizes
the value of the Big Apple and sends reinforcements
regularly. Tremere are a particularly favored target of
Polonia's shock troops, and the city's Tzimisce are all too
eager to "discourse" at tremendous length with their Warlock
rivals. Accordingly, the turnover rate at the chantry is
appalling. At the moment, the head of the chantry is one
Aisling Sturbridge, who was field-promoted when the
previous chantry head was ambushed, staked and fed pieceby-
piece to the fish of Sheepshead Bay.''

* -- [[Aisling Sturbridge]] -- The High Regent of the Chantry of the Five Boroughs
* -- [[Lord Ephraim Wainwright]] -- The Regent of the Kenilworth Chantry
* -- [[Masika St.John]] -- The Cam-Net Innovator and apprentice to Master Estevez
* -- [[Verbruch]] -- Eugenio Estevez personal bodyguard

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Ventrue''' ===
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Michaela]]''' -- Former Prince of New York City {deceased}
** -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Helene Panhardt]]''' -- Childe of Michaela
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Darius Sinclair]]''' -- American Ambassador to the European Camarilla 
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Nigel Blake]]''' -- Ventrue Information Broker
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Ferne Tanner]]''' -- Gallery Owner & Childe of Nigel Blake
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Terrence Rigby]]''' -- Terry is a southern gentleman entrepreneur. 
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Nicholas Vick]]''' -- A blue-collar Ventrue who runs a notorious underground poker game out of Brooklyn.

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Bloodlines''' ===
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Otieno ]]''' -- Shaman of the Laibon

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''The Midnighters''' -- Neonate Street Racing Freaks ===
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Nicolas Chang]]''' -- Toreador Race Car Driver
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Dino Cerutti]]''' -- Lasombra antitribu Mechanic
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Vince Cerutti]]''' -- Lasombra antitribu Race Car Driver

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''The Anarchs of Staten Island''' ===
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Douglas Callihan]] -- Ventrue Anarch Boss.

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''The Assamites of Queens''' ===
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Sun Yang]] -- The ''Wise Frog'' of Clan Assamite.

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''The Necromancers of New York City''' ===
<span style="color:#800000;">''The Giovarmi have been a part of New York since the 19th
century. Arriving with the first massive wave of Italian
immigrants, the Necromancers have quietly and methodically
built their influence over the entire East Coast from the quaint
houses and ornate churches of Little Italy. With their direct
control of both the Gambino crime family and the Teamsters'
Union, the Giovanni have influence disproportionate to their
numbers. There are never more than six members of the
family in residence in New York at any one time, and the clan
makes a concerted effort to keep its collective head down
lest either the Camarilla or the Sabbat take time out from
their bloody war to lower the proverbial boom. The situation
as it stands is perfectly to the Giovarmi's liking: The Sabbat
takes great care not to offend them, while the Camarilla pays
handsomely to ship various Kindred in on Giovanni-controlled
freighters (and many of these Kindred, when they awaken,
find themselves ravenously hungry). The only fly in the
ointment is the ever-growing Setite presence, as there have
been numerous clashes with the Snakes over the city's
burgeoning drug trade.''

* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Donatello Giovanni]] -- Head of Giovanni Operations in New York {[[Astoria - Queens]]}
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Gaetano Giovanni]] -- {[[Astoria - Queens]]}
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Adamo Putanesca]] -- {[[Little Italy - Manhattan]]}
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Carlito Pisanob]] -- {[[Spanish Harlem - Manhattan]]}
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Leocadia Consuelo Hidalgo]] -- The last Giovanni-Hidalgo. -- {[[Spanish Harlem - Manhattan]]}
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Mordecai Rothstein]] -- {[[]]}
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Tu Li Weng]] -- Giovanni Crime-Lord of China Town. {[[Flushing - Queens]]}
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Jessica Milliner]] -- {[[]]}
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Bez Dunsirn]] -- Undead Soccer Hooligan

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Serpents of the City that Never Sleeps''' ===
''One cannot walk through Morningside Park without hearing the crunch of crack vials underfoot, without seeing discarded needles pointing every which way or without noticing thin
streaks of powder that mar practically every square foot of
pavement. Names of those long dead are carved into the
trees; someone has taken to memorializing the victims of
drug violence on a particularly large oak at the south end of
the park. A new name is added to that tree so often that it is
beginning to die itself, its trunk marred too often to allow it to
heal. This is Setite territory, and they like it like that. Fronted
by the Jamaican posses and establishing a ring around
Harlem, the Snakes are busily engaged in strengthening their
presence. The constant influx of Haitian refugees to the city
provides the Setites with both cover and an ever-increasing
power base, and both Sabbat and Camarilla consistently take
time from their busy schedules to attempt to prune the Setite
presence. Those efforts have grown less successful of late,
and the Setites have started laying claim to certain portions
of Brooklyn (noticeably Bedford-Stuyvesant) and the Bronx
as well.''
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Elie Sansaricq]]''' (A-lee San-sar-rique) -- High-Priest of New York
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Theirn Faucheux]]''' -- Setite Errand-boy
* -- <span style="color:#800000;">'''[[Steven Clarke]]''' -- Setite Rebel of New York

=== <span style="color:#800000;">'''The Sword of Caine at Liberty''' ===
==== <span style="color:#800000;"> Sabbat Fun & Games New York Style ====
''The Verrazano Narrows Bridge is one of the longest
suspension bridges in the world. Indeed, it stretches for such
a distance that the curvature of the earth's surface had to be
taken into account in the blueprints for its construction. It is a
truly awe-inspiring accomplishment, and a spectacle to
behold at night.''

''It's also the site of a Sabbat game unique to New York known
as "Dumpster Diving." The game takes two forms: In the first
one, a Sabbat Lick climbs onto the railing of the bridge and
loudly threatens suicide. This causes traffic snarls and brings
a horde of police a-running, thus lightening the law
enforcement cordon on the rest of the city. Inevitably the Lick
(having practiced the maneuver) throws himself off the bride,
only to swim to shore after a little while has passed.
Meanwhile, up on the bridge, the police are being relentlessly
grilled by news crews, making them less-than-cheerful public
servants, and traffic, is hopelessly snarled. All in all, it's not a
bad night's work.''

''The second way to play the game requires a bit more of a
team effort. A Camarilla vampire (or Setite, or Caitiff) is
kidnapped and hauled onto the bridge. The victim is then
thrown off the bridge, as is one Sabbat vampire. Whoever
survives the fall and makes it to shore in one piece is the
winner. The only caveat is that one of the two must be
destroyed before the other is allowed out of the water, and
the banks of the Narrows are lined with Licks to make sure
that there are none of those annoying ties.''

''Other popular games include deMentos, where vampires hop
into cars stopped at traffic lights, feed upon the drivers and
then hop out (leaving a piece of candy behind as well as a
bloodless corpse); and Viva La Turista, which involves
hijacking taxicabs for the sole purpose of picking up tourists
and depositing them in inhospitable neighborhoods, then
watching the fun.''

==== <span style="color:#800000;"> '''Archbishop At Large''' ====
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Francisco Domingo De Polonia]]

==== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Love's Easy Tears''' ====
''Packs like Love's Easy Tears embody the modem Sabbat. With its young members and whole-hearted acceptance of Sabbat dogma, it might seem surprising that the Black Hand has lost so much ground recently, or that its successful crusades have fallen apart after the fact. Looking deeper into the issue, however, reveals the truth: Often, packs of the Sabbat are unready or untested. Their fervor is artificial -- they act in the  Sabbat's  interests because they are told to, or because they are threatened, or because they believe in the ideology and think it's the correct thing to do. Rarely do the packs of the Sabbat entirely want to carry on the crusade, but they always do for another reason.''

''This isn't to say the Sabbat isn't thrilled to have the chance to do what it's doing. Quite the opposite; the fact that they have any fervor at all puts them in some cases above and beyond the jaded elders of the Camar1lla who rise each night not to see what the new night has to offer but only because they always have. Propelled  by inertia and ennui, the Kindred of the Camarilla conduct the affairs of their unlives out of greed, paranoia or spite. Not facing the new night would mean losing some asset or another to the selfish plots of one of the young coteries. With the Sabbat it's not so simple or mundane -- it's a religious issue, or one of utter philosophical hatred for the Ivory Tower.''

''Motivation cannot make up for inexperience, though, and Love's Easy Tears embodies this problem as well. As a prominent pack during the Sabbat's dominance of New York, Love's Easy Tears was on the tongue of every savvy Sabbat elder and aspiring ductus in the city. Even though the pack's own ductus had been a Cainite for only two decades and its members had relatively uninspired introductions to the world of the Damned, they excelled at their tasks. Perhaps it was because they saw the opportunities that becoming Cainites provided. Perhaps it was because the Sabbat filled a place missing in their mortal lives. Perhaps becoming undead simply gave the members of the pack a new sense of purpose. Whatever their individual motivations, the Cainites of Love's Easy Tears threw themselves into the Sabbat cause with reckless abandon, and their enthusiasm yielded results.''

* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Hester Reed]] -- Ductus
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Rurik Rakoczy]] --
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Rashid Stockton]] --

==== <span style="color:#800000;">'''Number-One Heart-Throb''' ====
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Kandy Kaine]] -- Ductus
* <span style="color:#800000;"> -- [[Jonathan Gursel]] --