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Campaign INTRO: (Note: This is a modern setting, but not THIS modern setting... some things are different...)
All the living races live either in cities or in rural areas and their day to day, for the most part, consist of mundane labor or other activity. It pleases the Undead secret overlords to 'play with their food', gaining delight from the fear & misery of the living. This is only part of the reason why the Vampire nation a thousand years ago changed the history books and made practice, use, or mention of magic a punishable by death offense for 3 generations of Man. Several centuries later all of the stories of magic and Vampires, while pervasive still, are laregely believed to be only myth.
The Vampire Covens hunt their prey very carefully, getting the requisite invitation for all of them to enter somehow, then jamming phone, internet, & communications for those within. They typically wait until 5 minutes to dawn (the Undead 'witching hour') to feast. They then spend the day inside (with all of the drapes/blinds closed) removing all trace of the previous night's feast within the home waiting for the sun to set again.
In initiative order, once everyone finishes making their PCs,...
You wake hearing commotion from the other room, then screams, then fighting. Your bedroom door opens, and down the hall you see a couple dozen Undead monsters in the other room and can hear more checking the rest of the house as a Vampire stands before you. You for the first time see & believe that Vampires are real, and first hand discover that the lore of their super Human(oid) speed & strength are true.
Fight or flight instincts kick in and you choose fight, but you handily lose, about to loose conciousness when suddenly your assailant poofs into a cloud of dust, and standing before you holding a wooden stake where the Vampire's heart used to be, is a hooded figure of what you think is a tall adult male Deva. Since Devas are well known to be part of the criminal underworld, you've all seen images of them on tv, but have never met one in person.
Before you pass out, he quickly wisks you away, stealthily passed a perimeter of Vampires outside the house, to a subtle vantage point where you safely watch the old life you knew gone in a night. Sometimes hurriedly, sometimes leasurely, you travel with the Deva Giles, across the continent, saving school age youth from the same fate.
Along your travels he trains you and the other youth (PCs) that Vampires are real, magic is real (though can show you none), and that you all are 'Zodiac Slayers', prophesised champions of the end times battle. His race, Devas, have been prosecuted by the Undead for generations for remembering the secrets of the Myocyne prophesies, and pledging to find and help prepare these chosen Slayers.
The beater transportation you all travel in tells you that Giles is not a wealthy man and that a millenia on the run from the law is not a particularly profitable occupation. This is of note because looking around you see that each of you in the car escaped with 1 change of clothes, wallet (w/1d4*$50) and 2 hand carry size items that you were able to grab from your room on your way out. Not much to both start a new life and learn to fight Vampires.
Once Giles picked up the last Slayer, he speeds you all to a fairly new coastal casino. He doesn't go near but drives past into the woods about a mile past. By the time you arrive it is getting dark. He gives each of you a wooden stake and $100 to eat, drink, gamble, relax before your training begins...
All the living races live either in cities or in rural areas and their day to day, for the most part, consist of mundane labor or other activity. It pleases the Undead secret overlords to 'play with their food', gaining delight from the fear & misery of the living. This is only part of the reason why the Vampire nation a thousand years ago changed the history books and made practice, use, or mention of magic a punishable by death offense for 3 generations of Man. Several centuries later all of the stories of magic and Vampires, while pervasive still, are laregely believed to be only myth.
The Vampire Covens hunt their prey very carefully, getting the requisite invitation for all of them to enter somehow, then jamming phone, internet, & communications for those within. They typically wait until 5 minutes to dawn (the Undead 'witching hour') to feast. They then spend the day inside (with all of the drapes/blinds closed) removing all trace of the previous night's feast within the home waiting for the sun to set again.
In initiative order, once everyone finishes making their PCs,...
You wake hearing commotion from the other room, then screams, then fighting. Your bedroom door opens, and down the hall you see a couple dozen Undead monsters in the other room and can hear more checking the rest of the house as a Vampire stands before you. You for the first time see & believe that Vampires are real, and first hand discover that the lore of their super Human(oid) speed & strength are true.
Fight or flight instincts kick in and you choose fight, but you handily lose, about to loose conciousness when suddenly your assailant poofs into a cloud of dust, and standing before you holding a wooden stake where the Vampire's heart used to be, is a hooded figure of what you think is a tall adult male Deva. Since Devas are well known to be part of the criminal underworld, you've all seen images of them on tv, but have never met one in person.
Before you pass out, he quickly wisks you away, stealthily passed a perimeter of Vampires outside the house, to a subtle vantage point where you safely watch the old life you knew gone in a night. Sometimes hurriedly, sometimes leasurely, you travel with the Deva Giles, across the continent, saving school age youth from the same fate.
Along your travels he trains you and the other youth (PCs) that Vampires are real, magic is real (though can show you none), and that you all are 'Zodiac Slayers', prophesised champions of the end times battle. His race, Devas, have been prosecuted by the Undead for generations for remembering the secrets of the Myocyne prophesies, and pledging to find and help prepare these chosen Slayers.
The beater transportation you all travel in tells you that Giles is not a wealthy man and that a millenia on the run from the law is not a particularly profitable occupation. This is of note because looking around you see that each of you in the car escaped with 1 change of clothes, wallet (w/1d4*$50) and 2 hand carry size items that you were able to grab from your room on your way out. Not much to both start a new life and learn to fight Vampires.
Once Giles picked up the last Slayer, he speeds you all to a fairly new coastal casino. He doesn't go near but drives past into the woods about a mile past. By the time you arrive it is getting dark. He gives each of you a wooden stake and $100 to eat, drink, gamble, relax before your training begins...
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