- See also: The Succubus Club: Dead Man's Party and Succubus Club (location)
The Succubus Club is a sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade, and builds upon information established in Chicago by Night, including information on hotspots of Chicago nightlife.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- The Passion of Life
- The pain never goes away. Immortality comes with a price, and the full sum must be paid in tears and blood – your own blood, not the blood of victims. This is a horror which cannot be escaped, but can be forgotten, if only briefly. Only in the places of dance and pounding music, where the scent of blood reddens the air, can solace be found. That is why the Kindred gather at the Succubus. That is why they are drawn back. That is why they die there.
- The Passion of Death
- The Succubus Club is a Sourcebook detailing the most notorious nightspots in the Chicago Rack. This book includes not only a complete description of this infamous club, but six complete one-chapter stories, each of them set within its confines. Cainites know of it as a huge and extravagant dance club where mortal vessels are easily obtained, friends and enemies meet and intrigues and plots are hatched. Only a few know of what ancient secrets it contains. The Succubus may well become the central meeting spot for your characters, for so many stories start and end there. It is the nexus of this dark city. It is the place of dreams, the place of nightmares.
Contents[]
Introduction[]
The book opens with information on the club itself, with maps of each floor. The idea behind The Succubus Club is to appeal to all potential audiences among Chicago's denizens, so it strives to be an active and popular destination for the average young club-goer, while also appealing to yuppies trying to blend with the younger, cooler crowd, as well as punks and gangsters. Most importantly, the club is a popular hangout for Blood dolls.
The club is divided into two main areas; the dance floor and the seating area. At the basement level, there is a concert stage with its own, separate dance floor, and also the Labyrinth, a maze of corridors for people to do private things in semi-private (complete with random encounter table). Finally, above the public floors, there is a VIP lounge and catwalk area, with the private offices of the vampire who runs the place located above that.
This section also includes character sheets for the manager, Brennon Thornhill, and some long-term staff members, and ends with a list of Chicago Kindred who might be found at the club. The book neglects to mention Helena in any extensive form.
- Other Bouncers - Human, Stats
- Bartenders - Human, Stats
- Waitresses - Human, Stats
Annabelle's Party[]
Annabelle Triabell throws a party in the VIP area of the Succubus Club, but a series of gaffes orchestrated by one of Lodin's lieutenants (including things like overly graphic strippers, a hunk of machinery presented as a work of art, or a "brilliant new musical composition" which is just a classic Beethoven symphony upside down), Annabelle is left horribly humiliated and the characters are asked to figure out who messed up the party.
- Doberman - Security Dog, Stats
Player of Pawns[]
The player characters are requested by Critias to act as living chess pieces in a game against a visiting Malkavian elder from Russia. They quickly discover, however, that when Dimitri's pieces take one of them, they are captured and put in an airtight vault with humans provided as "food", leaving the players to figure out what to do about them. Critias' "queen" informs the remaining players of how to and is pointed at Dimitri's haven, where they must defeat Dimitri's "queen", The Hag, and rescue their compatriots. This exposes what is intended as a deliberate flaw in Dimitri's worldview – he actually thinks that getting captured for being Critias' pawns will make the characters mad at Critias, but not Dimitri (this is intended to illustrate how out-of-touch an elder vampire can be with modern sensibilities). The characters may then intervene (or not) in a direct confrontation between the two elders. This story only involves the Succubus Club inasmuch as the characters are assumed to go there every night and unknowingly walk past Critias and Dimitri playing an actual game of chess, and the story could be easily transported to another city with a couple of different local vampires playing the role of Critias and his "queen".
- Spirit Thaumaturgy
- Evil Eye
- Spirit Eyes
- Spirit Slave
- Fetishes
- Journey
- Evil Eye
Fundamental Differences[]
- Typical Protestor - Human, Stats
Death's Sweet Sting[]
Child's Play[]
Paper Chase[]
- Street Thug - Human, Stats
Grand Illusion[]
- Teamsters - Human, Stats
Background Information[]
- The ad at the back of the book is for White Wolf Magazine.
- The book is dedicated to Frank Zappa.
- Special, Special Thanks is made to the original members of the Succubus Club: Josh Timbrook, Chris McDonough, Brenda Stiles, John Brandt, Nicole Lindroos, Mark Rein•Hagen, Stewart Wieck, Andrew Greenberg, Lisa Stevens, Ann McDonough, Seth Tepher, Stephan Wieck and Kelly Golden.
- In the copyright and trademarks section, Mage was originally titled as Magus.
Memorable Quotes[]
"An Intelligence + Occult roll with a difficulty of 6 will lead the viewer to believe that it was probably a Kindred with the Protean Discipline or a Lupine (though the latter is very unlikely since Lupines rarely come this far into Chicago" - Death's Sweet Sting, Pg. 90
Characters[]
- Hecabe - Animal Ghoul: Scorpion, follows Prias' orders
- Brennon Thornhill
- "Portia"
- Prias
- John Toynbee - Human, helps operate the Succubus Club
- Rex Jameson - Human, Succubus Club Bouncer
- Kyle Ryper & Sandra Oshe - Succubus Club Bouncers, Ghouls
- Maria
- William Killigrew - Blood Doll
- Annabelle Triabell
- Sophia Ayes
- Bret Stryker
- Tamoszius
- Kathy Glens
- Garwood Marshall - Vampire
- Raymond Falcon
- Bobby Weatherbottom
- Lodin
- Capone
- Critias
- Nicolai
- DuSable
- Helena
- Khalid
- Balthazar
- Sharon Payne
- Drummond
- Ballard
- Lawrence Ballard
- Menele
- Edward Neally
- Tyler
- Joshua Tarnopolski
- Jurgis Rudkus - Vampire
- Nathaniel Bordruff
- Modius
- Damien
- Danov
- Janet Majors - Human Sculptor
- Randy - Human, Dies
- Dimitri - Malkavian elder
- Rama - Vampire, diblerized by Dimitri
- Paulov Rasporavitch - Dimitri's Knight, Caitiff
- Barbara (Barb), "Dracula's Daughter" (C.B. Radio) - Ghoul
- Rolf - Caitiff, Sire is Paulov
- Darva Felispa - Caitiff, Sire is Rolf
- Jordan McConnell - Ghoul
- Kelvin Smythe - Human Chess Champion
- Deborah Stanford - Human Lawyer, Kidnapped by Paulov
- Killikillarven - Malkavian, can create and use fetishes through Spirit Thaumaturgy
- The Hag - Spirit of Darkness from Scotland
- Pervis Ramsley - Human, Succubus Club Protestor
- Rev. Terrence Coleman - Priest, Human, can detect the supernatural
- Lamar Travis - Human, Succubus Club Protestor
- Kevin Jackson
- Jason Kendrick - Chicago Cop, Human
- Gengis
- Sir Henry Johnson - Toreador
- Saul Osiecki - Vampire Hunter who created a virus (Mononucleosis) that can infect vampires
- Mr. Kenneth Goldberg - Member of the Kabbalah Denudata Society
- Arthur Gonzales - Gangrel, infected by Mononucleosis
- Scottie Cartwright - Journalist, Human
- Dr. John Phillips - Human, virologist
- Russ Smellings - Human
- Giuseppe - Human, Owner of Settebello
- Dix - Human, One of Herdon's regular customers
- Dennis Herdon - Human, art and antiques dealer
- Marsha Loudette - Human, Rental Agent
- Edge - Toreador, sire is Ted Zyncan
- Stephanie Bayliss - Toreador, Edge's Childe
- Warren Sayles - Society of Leopold, Vampire Hunter
- Alberto Tomba - Society of Leopold, Vampire Hunter
- Alvito - Society of Leopold
- Horace Turnbull - Malkavian
- Erichtho - Tremere, Ehrich's Sire
- Maldavis
- Tommy Hinds - Ventrue
- Dave & Doug - Humans, thugs
- James "Big Jim" Slade - Human, Head Biker of the Outlaws Biker Gang
- Maxwell Dent (Walter Dent) - Human, owner of the Ye Olde Magic Shoppe Store
- Lowell Carlson - Human, Reporter
- Ehrich Weiss - Tremere
- Jackson Orloff - Mage, wants to kill his mentor: Gibson
- Gibson - Mage
- Allicia Frazer - Human
- Gordon Keaton - Caitiff Anarch
- Fischbaker and Horn - Keaton's Thugs
Terminology[]
The Apocrypha (Ancient Text), Baby Chorus, Blood Dolls, The Blue Velvet (Club Competitor), The Cave (Bar), Chicago, Fetish, Gary, Indiana, Ghosts, Kabbalah Denudata Society, Monoucleosis - Vampirilla Strain (Virus), Outlaws (Biker Gang), Prometheus Productions (Film Production Company), Settebello (Restaurant), "Sleep of Reason" (Music Band), Spirit, Spirit Thaumaturgy, Succubus Club (location), True Faith, Urban Sophisticats (Wealthy Patrons), Ye Olde Magic Shoppe, Zulu (Music Specialty Shop),
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