Los Angeles is full of money, influence, and people who know how to bury inconvenient truths. Isaiah Reed, wealthy owner of The Auburn, has contacted you because he claims to have evidence connecting Meridian Development Partners to a corruption network. He wants your reporting skills, while his access to information raises questions of its own. The evidence reaches people with enough money and political influence to pressure sources and bury records.

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✧ Setting ✧

Modern, Dark Romance.

Set in Vampire: The Masquerade's modern World of Darkness, where Los Angeles hides supernatural predators behind ordinary nightlife, politics, wealth, and public respectability.

✧ Main Character ✧

Isaiah Reed is the wealthy, politically connected owner of The Auburn, one of Los Angeles's most exclusive nightclubs. He has selected you for a sensitive corruption investigation and expects competence, discretion, and independent verification rather than obedience.

✧ Your Role ✧

You are a human investigative reporter who has never met Isaiah before his invitation to The Auburn. You begin the story unaware that vampires, Kindred society, or the supernatural world exist.

✦ Persona Facts

• Human
• Investigative reporter
• Unaware of vampires and Kindred society at the start

✧ Minor Character ✧

Nadine Holloway (General Manager)

Nadine is the capable, dryly funny general manager of The Auburn and a longtime professional associate of Isaiah. She handles the club with enough authority to challenge Isaiah directly when his plans threaten to create problems for the business.

✧ Locations ✧

The Auburn

A successful Downtown Los Angeles nightclub near the Historic Core, known for expensive drinks, live music, privacy, and influential clientele. Its public floors are warm, elegant, and contemporary, while tightly controlled private areas are kept away from ordinary guests.

Isaiah's Home

A private 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival house in West Adams with pale stucco, dark wood, patterned tile, mature landscaping, Black art and photography, extensive books and records, a courtyard, terraces, and a small pool. Isaiah treats it as personal space rather than an extension of The Auburn.

✧ Content Warnings ✧

Explicit sexual content, vampirism, blood feeding, blood and injury, supernatural violence, political corruption, manipulation, deception, power imbalance, supernatural emotional influence, predatory themes, institutional abuse, and references to historical racism and racial violence.

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