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World of Darkness: 1970s |
Events[]
- Popular show What's The Word? airs, starring Frankie Sammy. Two years after the show is cancelled, Sammy is found bludgeoned to death in Hollywood's Luckee Star Motel.[1]
- Aeschylus, a.k.a. Pink Tom and his twin sister Antigone are born from an affair between Bladetooth and Arn Guth Stormbright. [2]
- Kleon Winston of the Glass Walkers is born.[3]
- Sekhmet of the Silent Striders is born. [4]
- Robert Kinsolver of the Uktena is born. [5]
- Taka-kané, a Wendigo, has led Pure Heart Sept since at least this decade.[6]
- Wungala Rose joins the Jindabyne Council.[7]
- Hot Eye joins the migrant farm workers' struggle for rights, where he meets Able Heart and Celeste Snowtop.
- Twenty years after her death, there are still grown men weeping at the grave of Hollywood star Ginger Swan.[1]
- The Serpents of the Light fall under the sway of the Sabbat.[9][10]
- The Royal Palace Theatre in Gary, Indiana is closed down.[11]
- According Dr. Reid, Progenitors only started allowing non-Progenitors into positions of prominence in the fields of biology and chemistry sometime in this decade.[12]
- The Cult of Ecstasy's influence breaks free among the Masses.[13]
- Mark Hallward Gillan serves as a mercenary in several African conflicts in this decade.[14]
- Allegedly, a Virtual Adept Master who works for Bell Labs merges with the global telecommunications network, and calls himself "Demonseed Elite."[15]
- Pike's Place Market is almost destroyed until the community comes to its aid to save it.[16]
- Colombian drug cartels first become a power in the underworld when they eliminate their Cuban rivals.[17]
- Law enforcement officials believe the Organizatsiya, or Russian Mafia, first come to America mid-decade.[18]
- The world seems to be in a "UFO heyday," with interest in extraterrestrials at a peak.[19]
- Dr. Jermyn Talbot lobbies the Arcanum for a regulation requiring all Journeymen to know Latin. He is unsuccessful.[20]
- Writers like Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick and Anthony Burgess lay the groundwork for the cyberpunk revolution.[21]
- The membership of the Ancient Order of the Aeon Rites continues to grow.[22]
- The Asatru Futhark is founded.[23]
- A band called Strange Therapy, fronted by a man named Strange, arises which fuses the best of glam and punk.[24][25]
- The "ancient Sumerian revival" takes place within the Order of Hermes, an examination of their own shamanistic roots.[26]
- Many research firms can compete directly with Pharmacopoeist fronts.[27]
- A "new physics" — quantum physics — starts to make its way through the Sleeper scientific community. The Sons of Ether are to blame.[28]
- China's Xia dynasty is thought to be a myth until discoveries this decade find evidence of a Bronze Age culture in many cities.[29]
- The Hagalaz begin to make a comeback, but in their desire for new blood, they open themselves up to neo-Nazis and other misanthropes.[31]
- Dr. Diana Holmes returns to duty as a plastic surgeon.[33]
- During the decade's energy crisis, George Carreau leaves college to rake in six-digit commissions on oil futures.[34]
- Cocaine is the drug of choice among hookers, dealers, players and partygoers.[35]
- Throughout this period, few if any Virtual Adepts, Sons of Ether or Technocrats can tell who's responsible for inspiring each sci-fi novel.[36]
- Punk mages begin trickling into the Social Reconstructionist faction, turning it from hopeful awareness to nihilistic depression. They gradually become known as the Cyberpunks.[37]
- Demonseed Elite, whatever it is, isn't up to much more than scratching little girls at this point.[38]
Early 1970s[]
- The Copernicus Research Center cuts the ribbon on Halley Academy.[39]
- A Virtual Adept named Trekkie creates the Electrical/Electronic Signal Inhibiting Pulse Generator.[40]
- The Technocracy works overtime trying to shut down the Cult of Ecstasy, and develop the PKD Paranoia Amplifier.[41]
- By this time, the average Virtual Adept could project into the Digital Web and find something more than blackspace, glowing lines and strings of code.[42]
- Malachai Ben-Yeshua bani Bonisagus disappears from the Order of Hermes.[43]
- Bernhardt Mueller stops working with Immanuel Velikovsky over a difference of scientific opinion.[44]
Mid-1970s[]
- A glam boy named Harold fronts a band called The Blessed. Harold eventually Awakens and founds Blessed House.[45]
- Winston Stephens is working for the infamous Irish mobster "Whitey" Bulger.[46]
Late 1970s[]
- Wungala Rose is instrumental in setting up community run health centers in Australia at this time.[7]
- Black Tooth, a Simba Bastet from Zululand, South Africa, puts together a pride of Simba, successfully lashing out at all European interlopers, supernatural and mundane. Most African Bastet support him. The Ajaba do not, and fight him.[47]
- Freakfeet Fomori created by Harold Hines for Panacea, a Magadon Pharmaceuticals subsidiary. [48]
- Euthanatos Butch Correlli designs Corelli's Badass Jackhammer.[50]
- Agents of the Taiping Tianguo admit to "assisting" North Vietnamese forces in the War, immediately followed by the assertion that they did so on the orders of the Syndicate.[51]
- Angela Hernandez attends the University of Chicago, completing a double-major in Sociology and Computer Science.[52]
- The first rider of the Hollow Railroad appears on the scene, a British goth by the name of Telegram Sam.[53]
- Ernesto C. Amanguale, "Ace," begins to make a name for himself on the SoCal hot-rod circuit.[54]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across the World Vol. 3, p. 46
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across the World Vol. 3, p. 48
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across the World Vol. 3, p. 55
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across the World Vol. 3, p. 61
- ↑ Valkenberg Foundation, p.16-17
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 WTA: Rage Across Australia, p. 59-60
- ↑ WTA: Book of the City, p. 85
- ↑ VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition (Grand Masquerade), p. 432
- ↑ VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition, p. 432
- ↑ MTAs: Book of Chantries, p. 168
- ↑ MTAs: Technocracy: Progenitors, p. 13
- ↑ MTAs: Technocracy: Iteration X, p. 35
- ↑ MTAs: Mage: The Ascension Second Edition, p. 276
- ↑ MTAs: Destiny's Price, p. 44
- ↑ MTAs: Destiny's Price, p. 46
- ↑ MTAs: Halls of the Arcanum, p. 33
- ↑ MTAs: Halls of the Arcanum, p. 81
- ↑ MTAs: Book of Mirrors: The Mage Storytellers Guide, p. 137
- ↑ MTAs: World of Darkness: Sorcerer, p. 22
- ↑ MTAs: World of Darkness: Sorcerer, p. 46
- ↑ MTAs: The Orphans Survival Guide, p. 67
- ↑ MTAs: The Orphans Survival Guide, p. 68
- ↑ MTAs: The Spirit Ways, p. 51
- ↑ MTAs: Guide to the Technocracy, p. 73
- ↑ MTAs: The Bitter Road, p. 58
- ↑ MTAs: Dragons of the East, p. 10
- ↑ MTAs: Dragons of the East, p. 80
- ↑ MTAs: Guide to the Traditions, p. 104
- ↑ MTAs: The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas, p. 47
- ↑ MTAs: The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas, p. 61
- ↑ MTAs: The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas, p. 62
- ↑ MTAs: The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas, p. 101
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts, p. 26
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts, p. 46
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts, p. 84
- ↑ MTAs: Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds, p. 116
- ↑ MTAs: Technomancer's Toybox, p. 14
- ↑ MTAs: Technomancer's Toybox, p. 53
- ↑ MTAs: Digital Web 2.0, p. 44
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Order of Hermes, p. 77
- ↑ MTAs: Ascension (book), p. 130
- ↑ MTAs: The Orphans Survival Guide, p. 50
- ↑ MTAs: The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas, p. 64
- ↑ WTA: A World of Rage
- ↑ WTA:Freak Legion: A Players Guide to Fomori, p. 57
- ↑ MTAs: Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds, p. 34
- ↑ MTAs: Technomancer's Toybox, p. 77
- ↑ MTAs: Dragons of the East, p. 104
- ↑ MTAs: Convention Book: Iteration X, p. 71
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Hollow Ones, p. 52
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Sons of Ether, p. 68
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