Gainesville by Night

Whether the sun has set beyond the horizon and darkness reigns over the night, or the wakeful eyes of millions of mortals walk the day, Gainesville is not a safe place for Kindred. Since the nights when Wormwood burned a bright red in the sky, taking the mortals for granted was a death sentence in what was once a safe haven for Kindred beyond the massive urban centers of Florida. The Sabbat, having traditionally been active in South Florida, brought focus to the attention of FIRSTLIGHT and the Second Inquisition early on in their campaign against the Undead, before their wide spread machinations became apparent. With precision accuracy and deadly efficiency, Kindred and Cainites alike across South Florida fell to well planned mortal assaults. By the time Vampire Society had time to react, for many it was too late. Survivors began moving North out of lost Domains and Dioceses, only to find FIRSTLIGHT and Inquisition operations already activated across rural Florida. Gainesville was among one of the last Domains in Florida’s peninsula to fall victim to mortal advances, but what Elders had managed to survive found themselves victims of the Beckoning, having abandoned the younger Kindred to mortal fire. A place that had once been sheltered from the ongoing wars with the Sabbat, found themselves under siege, but not to Sabbat fangs and Anarch revolution by night, instead by fire and sunlight brought by mortal hands in daylight. Anarch gangs and Camarilla coteries alike were torn apart by the FIRSTLIGHT and Inquisition blitzkrieg, as the Vampire Courts ran short of leaders and Officers. Flexing connections to the resources of the University of Florida, mortal authorities made use of newly developed surveillance technology to keep an ever present eye out for Kindred machinations, sharing these among mortal cells across the state. The Masquerade became a way of life among Gainesville’s Kindred, for failing to keep it safe meant certain death. In this new world Gainesville hosts a small, but stalwart group of Camarilla vampires, Ancilla and Neonate alike, who attempt to scrape together the remnants of Kindred society. Ever vigilant of the clandestine police state that exists to root out the Undead from the night, the Prince is prepared to accept any Kindred willing to ensure the Masquerade and act with temperance as they walk the night. Tolerant of both members of the Anarch Movement within the Domain, as well as veterans of the Sabbat Wars who managed to embrace their Humanity and turn to the Ivory Tower despite their monstrous past, the Kindred here have a real chance to strike back against FIRSTLIGHT.