Giovanni Chronicles I: The Last Supper is the first installation of the Giovanni Chronicles. Taking place in 1444 CE, it focuses on the end of Cappadocius and the Conspiracy of Isaac.
Summary[]
- From the White Wolf Catalog:
- The first installment in the long-awaited Giovanni Chronicle, The Last Supper takes the characters to the subterranean lair/mansion of Claudius Giovanni, where the food they eat will be the last to ever touch their lips.
- The characters become caught in the war between the clans of the Camarilla and those trying to form the Giovanni. Their actions during the Renaissance will shape the modern World of Darkness — and determine if they will ever see another night.
- Intense roleplaying, as the characters deal with the trauma of becoming vampires while dealing with the horror around them
- Detailed information on how to take the players deep into character
- Numerous opportunities for both live-action and table-top gaming
Chapters[]
Introduction[]
An introduction to the historical setting, the stakes of the various conspirators and a hint to Cappadocius' goals.
Act One: The Art of fine Dining[]
The characters are introduced to the conspiracy. The Act ends with their Embrace.
Act Two: In the Halls of the Dead[]
The characters are taken before the Founders and tasked with infiltrating the Conspiracy
- The Templars - Stats
Act Three: The Choice[]
As the Giovanni's schemes draw to a conclusion, the characters have to decide where their loyalties lie.
Appendix: Beginning the Game[]
Tips for creating medieval characters and how to start the game.
Background Information[]
- There is missing text on Lady Dimitra's and Marchettus the Bold's entries due to a printing error, this errata is printed in Clanbook: Setites.
- Word from Black Dog Game Factory mentions that the book is second in the Black Dog line.
- Authors Thanks is made towards Kim Baker for the Durga Syn-Synovea connection.
- The book has many notes on how to use the story in Live-Action settings.
Memorable Quotes[]
The party was getting under way, stiffly, slowly. The way they drunk was unholy. They hovered round the glass-filled tray ravenously, like birds of prey. White, intense; with mask-like faces frozen in rigid, gray grimaces. They chattered and laughed stony-eyed; impatient; hasty; preoccupied. They drank swiftly, as though they might drop dead before they were perfectly tight.
- Joseph Moncure March, "The Wild Party"
This is my last supper, please come and eat with me. I want all my old friends to dine here by the sea. This is my last supper, how come it's come so soon? Where are the merry makers? Where are the red balloons? Do you think it's ending? Did you think it was good? Then drink and be merry, we still have lots of food...
- Jacques Brel, "My Last Supper"
There's no way to describe how you feel when you're talking to your meal!
Stephen Sondheim, "Hello, Little Girl!"
To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Dinning-out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse.
- Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
The smile that breaks so gently belies a troubled head, like voice that holds the secrets of life you might have led. Eyes with pale indifference in danger and in grace but the glance that knows the death-knell left its shadow on your face. In the deep, enduring darkness as your loyal friends go down touched by the violent crown til their hunter's hunted down.
- Donagh Long, "The Shadow"
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
- George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Abbie Hoffman, attributed
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
- Simone Weil, Waiting on God
Round and round the spirit tumbles, with half a chance it still believes that cities fall but minds don't follow and goodness hides up someone's sleeve... And what will be our secret beacon? With only time to only try to search our hearts for what's been taken, while leaders eye their conquered sky. And stomachs roll while church bells toll the crime. The rose is crushed, the dove flies past, it's time. It's time, time, time, time.
- Ferron, "Phantom Center"
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
- Robert Browning, "Bishop Blougram's Apology"
A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ? I dunno. It as one of those parties, got out of hand, you know."
- Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
- Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
Characters[]
- Cappadocius: Antediluvian with grand aspirations
- Japheth: Childe of Cappadocius who found knowledge his sire could use.
- Lilith: According to Cappadocius, the other half of Jehovah that brings together God.
- Augustus Giovanni: Treacherous childe of the antediluvian
- Marianna: Child of Isaac and a thorn to come for the Giovanni
- The Old Woman: Durga Syn (Synovea): Voice of reason among the Founders
- The Innkeeper: Sigismund: Human
- The Soldier: Paul: Human
- The Monk: Brother Clement: Human
- Roderigo: Ghoul Coachman to Claudius Giovanni, Secret Founder Member, Stats
- Lothar: Ghoul Steward to Claudius Giovanni, Stats
- The Conspiracy of Isaac: Thirteen Cainites with peculiar appetites
- The Founders: The heads of the newly founded Camarilla trying to bring the Cappadocians into their ranks
- The Children of Isaac: The collective player characters
- Antagonist / Extra Character
- Geppen - Innkeeper of the Inn of the Lion, Human
- Megan - Geppen's granddaughter, Human
- Alban - Geppen's widowed son, Human
Terminology[]
Antediluvian, Apotheosis (VTM), Bloody Egg, Book of Nod, Cappadocian, Castle Deverick (Location of Founders Conclave after the raid on Claudius Giovanni's Manse), Children of Isaac, Conspiracy of Isaac, Founders, Goliath Slayers (Sling Weapons with Holy Water doused stones), Inn of the Lion, Irad, la bella casa Giovanni (Claudius Giovanni's manor), Maelstrom, Monastery of St. Timothy, Necromancy, Red Lamb Inn, Soul, Templars,
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