October Rebellion
Darkness has fallen across the city. Exactly what and how, remains a mystery. There are monsters wandering the streets, everything from Demons to Dragons to outright monsters. The city's been overrun. Worse than that, there's no sign of any major law enforcement or emergency services. There are just a handful of cops in the entire city now. Nowhere near enough to restore order. Some fire fighters are trying desperately to keep fires under control, but even that, seems impossible. The Lab is completely inaccessible. 95% of their staff have disappeared. Those who remain have put the facility in lock down. Not even the monsters have the numbers to break in. Allies and heroes are shot at as quickly as the villains. They will be no help today.
Across the city, the vampires are at war, Christopher's Rebellion has come to light. The New Wolves are in the fight against Angelo while Astrid and Archy lead the charge against them. It's a bloody mess.
In all of this, someone has to fight through the chaos and restore order. Find whatever caused this and bring it to an end. If they fail, the eternal night will never end.
Plot points/Scenes
The story will progress from the characters waking in their homes, expecting to see the sunrise, but finding themselves only in total darkness. The long night has come.
Upon venturing out into this new world, the chaos will quickly become apparent. There is at best, a chance to run, a chance to hide. The villains are too numerous to fight them all. The heroes will have to find allies, find out what's going on, and somehow, save the world.
Themes
The heroes will face a constant uphill battle, not just in fighting, but in information and disinformation. No faction in this war will admit the truth. Or maybe they truly don't know it. The fog of war is in effect. Someone out there knows what sparked this entire thing. The trick will be finding the truth in all this chaos.
The vampire factions blame the other sides. The wolves blame the vampires for creating the new wolves and stirring this entire thing. They don't have time to drop what they're doing and help elsewhere in the city. The invading wolves must be put down.
In all of this chaos, a theme of new and old will emerge. The old ways and traditions, the ways of the wolves and the vampires, their purpose in this world, and the way they manage themselves, must change if they are to survive into the future. Tough and painful decisions will have to be made.
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Goals
By the story's resolution, the heroes will have destroyed or countered whatever created the darkness and shepherded in a new era for the Vampires. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, remains to be seen. The new leader of the vampires may not be ideal, or even friendly to the aims of the heroes. WIthout the heroes, there could be an eternal stalemate, that must be broken.
Hooks
Lee has met both Angelo and Christopher, neither of them exude confidence as great leaders. Angelo has presented himself as a vampire of the old ways. He is the status quo mixed in with a fair bit of incompetence. Christopher is very much a new kind of vampire leader, he's more open to embracing humans as his allies and innovating changes to the family, but his involvement in the artificial wolves casts doubt on his true intentions towards humanity. Neither faction has been friendly to the heroes.
The Angelo of 24 years from now was more helpful, his attitude stripped away. He was helpful, forceful at times, but a far greater ally than the Angel of the present. 24 years is the blink of an eye to a vampire, but it brought him more change than the preceeding centuries of his life.
Meanwhile, Artemis has been tampering in the wolves. She has stated that the wolves cannot survive as they are. She has meddled in Christopher's Army, but to what end?
Stakes
If the heroes fail, a new, darker leader could come to control factions at the heart of the city's super natural underground. Even if they succeed, the day may end as a complete and total draw. There may be no winners here.
Moral Quandaries
The heroes' biggest moral obstacle, may be having to kill a potential ally. The wolves, the vampires, they're deadlocked. It may not be possible to negotiate an amicable peace. No fighting or posturing or manipulation is guaranteed to make any side back down.
There will be chaos everywhere, the heroes will have to ignore screams for help if they want to have any hope of getting a foothold and pulling through. Hell reigns everywhere this eternal night, and they cannot immediately change that.
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