Bayview

Neighborhoods of San Francisco

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Kindred Residents:

Wall Rating: 9

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When Kindred mention the Bayview M-T, it is with the same trepidation mortals speak of life sentences in MaxSec prisons. Those vampires who earn the true antipathy of the Kuei-jin receive relocation to the Bayview Sector — what Kindred call “the emptiest of the Empties.” A step away from execution, this area comprises the Hunters Point and Bayview neighborhoods. It’ s the last stop for Western vampires in San Francisco. If a vampire assigned to Bayview falls further out of Kuei-jin favor, the Mandarinate sends him to Final Death, as visibly as possible . This serves to remind rebels that San Francisco remains under Quincunx control, and they rule it as leniently or as harshly as they see fit.

Many of those assigned to Bayview are high generation neonates who simply lack the status or resources to either leave San Francisco or earn reassignment to a better Empty. Many Brujah wind up in Bayview because their short tempers and gruff mannerisms epitomize the Kuei- jin’s stereotypes of “ barbaric Kin-jin.”

Once a run-down sector of San Francisco, Bayview and Hunter’s Point were “improved” when the city tore down public housing and low-income neighborhoods to build a sprawling genetic research industrial park. By day, an army of underpaid lab techs and the scientists commanding them swarm the area. By night, however, the entire complex clears out; the compound’ s grounds are as sterile as its laboratories. For this reason, a vampire is lucky if she catches a lab drone working late because the other options for feeding — the occasional (strangely anemic) security guard, delivery driver, or imprudent cab driver — are sparse. Without the Herd Background, those Kindred assigned to Hunters Point go hungry more nights than not, and many risk venturing beyond the M-T for feeding purposes.

It is worse than that, however. For years, the navy maintained a base on Hunter’s Point. The slow pollution and corruption of the Dragon Nest located here tainted the region both physically and spiritually, creating the beginnings of what the Cathayans call a “broken mirror,” like a sore on the surface of the spirit world. Kuei-jin who venture beyond the Wall (a difficult proposition, given its local rating is never any lower than 8, and often 10 during the day) find that the Yomi World stretches its pull out over the spirit world. Worse still, the spiritual corruption manifests in the park’s genetic research. Suffice it to say that vampires are not the most disturbing residents of the Bayview M-T Sector. Not all those unfortunate Kindred who disappear from here fall victim to the Kuei-jin....

Yosemite Avenue, 3rd Street and Amador Street hem in Bayview District on three sides, while the bay’s shoreline to the east closes the box. This M-T is near both 3Com Park (formerly known as Candlestick Park) and Bayview park, but the Kuei-jin deliberately chose to exclude those areas, making feeding that much more difficult as a punitive gesture. The Mandarinate has Tongs and some Kuei-jin patrolling the intervening streets looking for Kindred feeding out of their assigned territory.

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