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Dark Colony is a sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade. The books provides information on the New England area.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

Few Can Feast on Freedom
Once New England led the fight for freedom. Once it thought it could set its own destiny and determine its own future. Once its leaders were its own, children of its rocky soil. Even the land's vampires once believed this. But no more.
When the Damned Feast on Death
Schemes plotted thousands of miles away, born of the conflicts millennia old, have forever changed the land. Native Kindred are beset by enemies on all sides, and only the strongest carry on the fight of freedom. Only the bravest can hope to survive. The weak and the cowards die one by one in their dens.
Dark Colony includes
  • Information about the entire New England region, including the most important and powerful vampires and their schemes
  • An inside look at some of the international plots affecting Kindred around the world
  • A complete story sending the characters on a mad quest to discover a vampire's terrifying past

Contents[]

Book One: Dark Colony[]

Chapter One: Introduction[]

An introduction to, and summary of, the rest of the book.

  • References
    • Fiction
      • Any H.P. Lovecraft stories, especially "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Shadow over Innsmouth"
      • Any Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, including "Young Goodman Brown," The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter
      • The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
      • Moby Dick, Herman Melville
      • A View to a Kill, Ian Fleming (not the movie)
      • Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
      • Our Town, Thornton Wilder
    • Movies
      • The Trouble with Harry
      • The Lady in White
      • Beetlejuice
      • The Stranger
      • The Haunting of Hill House
      • Lolita
      • Jaws
      • Sweet Liberty
      • Hocus Pocus
      • On Golden Pond

Chapter Two: History[]

The history of New England from the early 1600s through the present.

Chapter Three: The Triad[]

The formation of the Triad, its expulsion from Europe, its exploits in New England, and the regional secrets originating from its involvement in the northeast.

Chapter Four: The Kindred[]

A description of the various Kindred in the New England area, elaborating on the Brujah of New Hampshire and Maine, the Gangrel of Vermont, the Nosferatu of Rhode Island, the Malkavians and Toreadors of Massachusetts, and the Tremere and Ventrue of Connecticut.

Book Two: Identity Crisis[]

A three-chapter story and an epilogue intended to introduce players to Dark Colony.

Chapter One: Strangers in the Night[]

(...)

Chapter Two: Retracing the Past[]

(...)

Chapter Three: The Ghost of Silverbrook Manor[]

(...)

Appendix: Characters[]

  • Redcoats
    • Lieutenant - Vampire, Stats
    • Dogs (Soldiers) - Vampire, Stats
  • Wendigos - Garou, Stats
  • Witches
    • Coven Members - Witches, Stats
    • High Warlock - Witch, Stats
  • Coven Thaumaturgy Rituals
    • The Veils of Kirophet - Level Two
    • Raven Watchers - Level Four
    • Peace of the Dead - Level Four
    • Soul Yoke - Level Four

Background Information[]

  • Word from the White Wolf Game Studio discusses the changes made to the lineup of Storyteller games. Faerie is now Changeling and Ghost is now Wraith. Also the dates have been switched, Wraith will be released in the summer of 1994 and Changeling will be out in the summer of 1995.
  • Authors' Thanks is made to Laird and Juliette who helped in the creation of Zachariah Slane. And thanks to Mike and Allen for helpful advice to two neonates in the biz.

Memorable Quotes[]

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Characters[]

Brujah[]

Gangrel[]

Malkavians[]

Nosferatu[]

Toreador[]

Tremere[]

Ventrue[]

Sabbat[]

Ghouls[]

  • Charles "King" Solomon - Mafioso, Enemy of the Triad
  • Shari - Jude's Ghoul

Garou[]

Other[]

  • Nicolai Nine - Ravnos Elder of Karneval Nine
  • Monique - Vampire, destroyed
  • Sun Tai T'ung - Effie's Sire, Gaki
  • Klaus Van Dorn - Cloven Hoof Coven Member
  • Amanda - Vampire, Redcoat Leader
  • Theo Macomb - Mortal, Owner of Twilight Books
  • Vanessa - Slane's favorite vessel
  • Artemis Persepolis - Order of the Golden Dawn member, Witch
  • Florence - Order of the Golden Dawn member, Witch
  • Geoffrey Thorn - Past, Warlock, Order of the Golden Dawn, hanged to death
  • Nathaniel Grey - Past, Warlock, Order of the Golden Dawn, hanged to death
  • Samuel Bridgewater - Past High Wizard of the Order of the Golden Dawn, died
  • The Nexus Crawler - Spirit, Stats
  • Dave, Mike, Dan, Joey, Paul and Tony - College Students, Died
  • Chip (Yeager) - College Student, Stats
  • Vince (Baker) - College Student, Stats
  • Eugene (Byron Persnimple) - College Student, Stats
  • Eddie (Rojas) - College Student, Stats
  • Winston (Douglas III) - College Student, Stats
  • Jeff (Easton) - College Student, Stats

Terminology[]

Ahroun, Akhempotet's Scroll, Apprentices of the Fifth Circle, Arcanum, Back Bay Pub, Battle of Bloods Brook, Black Spiral Dancers, Boston, Boston Chantry, Bottoms Up (Nightclub), Bridgewater State Asylum, Cambridge, Cape Cod, Chantry, Cloven Hoof Coven, Concord, Connecticut, Coven, Demon-spirit, District Overseers (Web Nosferatu), Dragonfeast, Feng's Rift (Effie's Prediction Discipline), Fey, Gaia, Gaki, Garou, Get of Fenris, Golden Banana (Dance Club), Hartford, Hartford Chantry, Karneval Nine (Traveling Carnival ran by Ravnos), Lair (Warwick's HQ), Lowell, Lupine, Lupus, Mafia, Maine, Manchester, Massachusetts, Nephandi, New England, New Hampshire, New York City, Nexus Crawler, Operation Longbow, Order of the Golden Dawn, Providence, Quebec, Redcoats (Vampiric police force Biltmore uses, "Squad"), The Register of Scrolls, Resistance: Crimson Tide (Sabbat: Skelton's Rangers, Mowgli's Order, The Flayers, The Stand, Fugue), Gemini League (Ventrue), Kindred of Liberty (Brujah); Rhode Island, Rituals: Ritual of Calling (Summon), Manifest Spirit Ritual, Control Spirit Ritual; Salem, Shadow Lords, Silverbrook Manor, Silver Fangs, Spirits, Sprenger Brood (Sabbat Band), Strand Masters (Powerful Web Nosferatu), Thaumaturgy, The Tome of Tomes, Triad, Twilight Books (New Age Store), Twisted Horn Coven, Uktena, Undying (Mysterious Order of Monks), Ür Codex, Veins (Web Nosferatu agents), Verbena, Vermont, Warlock, Web, Wendigo, Werewolf, Winchester, Winchester Chantry, Wingate Initiative, The Witchcraft of Salem by Klaus Van Dorn (Book), Witches, Wyrm, Zurich Accords,

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