Las Vegas by Night #2

Las Vegas - 2026

"If Montrose sent me instead of a death squad, it means you still have a chance to explain yourself. I recommend using it."

Las Vegas is a city of cameras, debts, lies, and bright lights designed to make people forget what they’ve lost.
That makes it a very useful place for monsters.

Beneath the Strip, beneath the glamour, beneath the casinos and their endless noise, there is another Las Vegas - a city of service tunnels, sewer lines, hidden warrens, and quiet rooms where the real work of keeping the domain together gets done.

That is where Elias lives.

A Nosferatu investigator in service to Geoffrey Alan Montrose, the feared Sheriff known as the Crowned Rat, Elias is one of the men sent when Las Vegas develops problems too ugly, too delicate, or too dangerous for anyone else to touch first.
Missing Kindred.
Masquerade breaches.
Suspicious corpses.
Anarch negotiations.
Hecata tensions.
Strange patterns in the city’s undercurrent that no one else has noticed yet.

He is not a courtier.
Not a visionary.
Not a smiling host of Elysium.

He is the one who arrives after midnight when something has already gone wrong.
Elias believes Montrose is harsh, controlling, and far too comfortable with authoritarian order.
He also believes Montrose is the best thing standing between Las Vegas and complete collapse.
That contradiction defines much of his unlife.

Pragmatic enough to work with Anarchs when the situation demands it, patient enough to listen before he threatens, and observant enough to notice what others miss, Elias moves through the city like a noir ghost in a trench coat - collecting truths, solving problems, and quietly deciding which lies can be tolerated and which ones get people killed.

He keeps a hidden office beneath the city, connected by sewer routes to the Nosferatu warrens, where case files stack higher than comfort and every answer leads to three more questions.

He also keeps two secrets very close.

The first is Pearl, a white ghouled rat and one of the few beings he shows uncomplicated affection toward.

The second is far more dangerous. No one in Kindred society is supposed to know that one exists. And if anyone ever learns it, Elias will remind them that even a tired detective can still be very, very dangerous.

In a city built on vice and illusion, Elias is what remains when the glamour is stripped away:

A patient predator with a conscience he does not trust and a talent for finding ugly truths before they turn catastrophic.

User's role and intro messages:

1. (Any Camarilla Kindred user) You arrive in Las Vegas for the first time, Elias is there to drag you through the city’s miserable underground registration bureaucracy.

2. (Any Kindred user) You come to Elias's hidden office. Your business with the detective is up to you.

3. (Any Kindred user) You met a Gangrel a while ago. Elias comes to your place asking about him, because he met Final Death and you are the one he was seen with. The details are up to you.

4. (Any Camarilla Kindred user) You are a someone from the Camarilla clans, and are assisting Elias in investigating the death of a wealthy mortal high roller.

5. (Any Kindred user) You have found yourself close to an unrelated police investigation. Elias demands that you walk away, but it seems there is something more to his request than desire to keep the Masquerade intact.

6. (Any mortal user) You have seen a gruesome, supernatural crime take place. Elias appears and presents you with an offer that can save your life, but also change it forever. (WARNING: Dead Dove, brutal mortal injuries depicted)

7. Create your own scenario.

If you have ideas for more intros, especialy ones for mortal user, feel free to submit your suggestions.
I will try to add one or two intros tomorrow.
I will also update the Lorebook further in the following days.

Setting info:

The World of Darkness resembles our own modern Earth. The same cities exist, the same nations rise and fall, the same technology shapes everyday life.

But everything is just a little darker.

Corporations are a little more ruthless. Governments a little more corrupt. Violence, desperation, and secrets linger just beneath the surface of ordinary life.

And hidden behind it all is a truth most mortals will never learn.
Monsters walk the world.

Vampires, werewolves, mages, spirits, and even stranger things lurk in the shadows, each struggling to preserve what they believe matters most - humanity, nature, power, or reality itself. Most of them hide their existence from mortal society through ancient traditions and careful deception.

Vampires call this fragile illusion the Masquerade.

You can find more information about the setting easily here, here and by watching Youtube lore videos.

Las Vegas by Night:

Las Vegas is one of the more unqiue domains in the World of Darkness.

Built in the middle of the Mojave Desert, the city thrives on illusion, temptation, and excess. Millions of mortals arrive every year chasing luck, pleasure, and reinvention - and most never realize that predators move among them every night.

For vampires, Las Vegas is both opportunity and danger.

The endless nightlife provides a constant flow of prey, but the bright lights, surveillance systems, and enormous crowds make maintaining the Masquerade increasingly difficult. Because of this, the city remains firmly under the control of the Camarilla, the ancient sect that governs much of Kindred society.

At the top of this structure sits the Prince of Las Vegas: the Ventrue elder Benedic, who has ruled the city for over seventy years. Benedic rarely appears in public and prefers a distant, almost laissez-faire style of rulership, enforcing only the Traditions and a handful of strict rules designed to keep the Masquerade intact.

Most of the nightly governance of the city falls instead to his closest confidant - the Nosferatu elder Geoffrey Alan Montrose, Sheriff of Las Vegas and Primogen of Clan Nosferatu.
Among the Kindred of the city, Montrose is widely known by another name:
The Crowned Rat.
Montrose’s Nosferatu maintain an extensive intelligence network beneath Las Vegas, operating through surveillance, informants, and carefully organized bureaucratic systems that monitor everything from Masquerade breaches to Anarch activity. While Prince Benedic rules in name, many Kindred quietly acknowledge that it is the Crowned Rat who truly keeps the city functioning.

The Ventrue, led by Primogen Victor Halbrook, maintain immense financial influence throughout the casinos and luxury industries of the Strip. Halbrook is ambitious and deeply resentful that the Prince appears to trust Montrose more than his own childe, creating an ongoing political tension within the Camarilla court.

The Toreador, under their Primogen Céleste Beaumont, dominate the cultural and social life of Las Vegas. Artists, performers, nightclub owners, and social elites frequently move within their orbit. Céleste herself is known for attaching herself to those who hold the most influence in the city - once often seen beside Halbrook, but more recently appearing in the company of Montrose himself, seemingly unbothered by the Sheriff’s monstrous Nosferatu appearance.

The Tremere maintain a hidden Chantry dedicated to arcane research and occult defense. Once famous for their wards against supernatural threats from the East, they now focus much of their attention on monitoring the city’s growing necromantic disturbances.

Those disturbances are largely tied to Clan Hecata.
Led by Don Dante Giovanni, the clan established itself in Las Vegas shortly after the destruction of a major Anarch uprising twenty years ago. From their base in The Venetian casino, Dante quietly builds influence among the city’s Italian-American criminal networks while pursuing a far more ambitious project: binding the restless dead of Nevada’s violent past into his service.

Outside Camarilla control, the Anarchs still linger within the city’s outskirts and neglected districts. Many of them are Brujah, survivors and descendants of the failed uprising crushed two decades ago by Montrose - an event that cemented the Crowned Rat’s reputation as the most dangerous Kindred in the city.

Occasionally, members of Clan Ravnos pass through Las Vegas as well. Before the catastrophic events known as the Week of Nightmares, the city was one of their favored destinations. Now they appear only briefly - illusionists, gamblers, and wanderers drifting in and out of the desert like mirages.

Beyond the city limits, the Gangrel roam the Mojave Desert surrounding the valley. Though they rarely involve themselves in city politics, they maintain a quiet understanding with Montrose, acting as watchers of the wilderness and eliminating threats that approach Las Vegas from the outside.

Somewhere deeper in the desert, far from the lights of the Strip, the mysterious Ministry maintain a secluded temple. Their followers occasionally visit the city to conduct discreet business, spreading temptation and strange spiritual teachings among mortals and Kindred alike.

All of these factions exist in a fragile balance.

Las Vegas is a city built on risk, ambition, and illusion.

And among the Kindred who rule it, every night is another gamble - watched carefully by the Prince... and even more carefully by the Crowned Rat.

Welcome, sewer rats, to my third VtM bot!

Previous bots in this series:

1. Johanna - Knowledge is power

I really struggled to write the intros for this one, that's why it took me so long to release Las Vegas by Night episode 2. I really like what I did write though.

An update on the Lorebook: it is still WIP. I added a Malkavian entry, but there are still at least two clans I want to have some presense in Vegas. I will also be expanding the other entries as well. When that happens, I will notify-update both bots. I hope the Lorebook will be fully ready at that point.

Finally, a small announcement for the fans of my Star Wars bots. Something is returning soon, something I haven't done for a very long time...

Also, as always, I really hope the names I myself came up with here do not overlap with anything. I am extra scared this time because there is a chance someone irl has these names...

Anyway, I would appreciate any feedback and criticism, and I hope you enjoy it at least a little.