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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 9:01 pm
Current Date: February 25th, 2020 [Prelude]
Despite the horrors of the 20th century, it was a time for optimism among the human race. Tragedies and crisis bore progress in technology, in economics, and even in human rights. Human society entered the year 2000 with optimism that the post-Cold War era could yield the promised End of History - the triumph of liberal democracy, equality, and prosperity for all.
But this optimism was an aberration - the wistful byproduct of a time of plenty. For most of history, most humans looked to survive until tomorrow, not at what a distant future could hold. And nobody understands the bitter taste of dashed hopes and the drudgery of surviving night-by-night like the Kindred who walk among the living. As with humans, much has changed among Caine's childer - but in so many ways, nothing has. The Sabbat is no more, yet war still rages between the Camarilla - now against the Anarch Movement. The Anarchs have freed more Kindred than ever from the Tower's grasp, but are still plagued by the same hesitation, cooperation, and mistrust that undermined the Free State. The Masquerade has begun to fall, yet Kindred still skulk in the shadows and try to stay out of sight. Does Kindred nature forbid vampires from escaping their circumstances, shadows of the humans who fight to survive? Or is it possible to change fate? To look to a better future once more - a future the immortal Cainites may yet unlive to see.
These are the questions that weigh on the Kindred who stalk the night of New Orleans in 2070 as they stalk the night of the bloated, decadent megalopolis. Are they doomed to give ground as the Movement always has? To succumb to infighting and squabbling? Or can they seize the future that humanity couldn't?
Despite the horrors of the 20th century, it was a time for optimism among the human race. Tragedies and crisis bore progress in technology, in economics, and even in human rights. Human society entered the year 2000 with optimism that the post-Cold War era could yield the promised End of History - the triumph of liberal democracy, equality, and prosperity for all.
But this optimism was an aberration - the wistful byproduct of a time of plenty. For most of history, most humans looked to survive until tomorrow, not at what a distant future could hold. And nobody understands the bitter taste of dashed hopes and the drudgery of surviving night-by-night like the Kindred who walk among the living. As with humans, much has changed among Caine's childer - but in so many ways, nothing has. The Sabbat is no more, yet war still rages between the Camarilla - now against the Anarch Movement. The Anarchs have freed more Kindred than ever from the Tower's grasp, but are still plagued by the same hesitation, cooperation, and mistrust that undermined the Free State. The Masquerade has begun to fall, yet Kindred still skulk in the shadows and try to stay out of sight. Does Kindred nature forbid vampires from escaping their circumstances, shadows of the humans who fight to survive? Or is it possible to change fate? To look to a better future once more - a future the immortal Cainites may yet unlive to see.
These are the questions that weigh on the Kindred who stalk the night of New Orleans in 2070 as they stalk the night of the bloated, decadent megalopolis. Are they doomed to give ground as the Movement always has? To succumb to infighting and squabbling? Or can they seize the future that humanity couldn't?