Heavy Reign is a Vt M campaign that removes around a kindred duo that seek to solve the brutal murder of the Malkavian Primogen
Characters
Players
Sadiki
An Elder from the times of ancient Egypt.
- Benevolent Boss: Her solution to a disgruntled employee’s attempt to burn down the club is to sit them down and figure out what’s wrong
- Beware the Nice Ones: While she is usually very level-headed and avoids conflict, she is certainly not a pushover either. Eden finds this out the hard way
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: She takes pretty good care of the people within her territory, and generally cares a lot more about morals than many other kindred
- Nepharious Pharaoh: Downplayed. Being a vampire, she naturally does some shady things, but is one the tamer side when it comes to vampires.
- Really 700 Years Old: Despite Sadiki’s youthful appearance, she’s one of the oldest vampires in the city
- Straight Man: To Rosemary
- Vampires Own Night Clubs: She owns a pretty prominent strip club/bar
Rosemary
The Reverend Mother of Sebastian’s Church
- Broken Pedestal: At the end, she finally recognizes what a monster Sebastian is when he tries to manipulate her into giving up her life for him
- Cloudcuckoolander: As typical with Malkavians she’s quite eccentric. She has bizarre habits such as talking to walls, stroking other vampire’s ears, and describing people in cryptic metaphors to their faces
- Creepy Good: Despite being a bit unhinged, she’s one of the better vampires out there
- Dead Person Conversation: Even after Sebastian’s death, she keeps speaking to him through her hallucinations, which get increasingly sinister and surreal as the campaign goes on
- I Reject Your Reality: “He isn’t dead.”
- The Ophelia: Rosemary is a beautiful woman, enough to attract the attention as someone as cold and detached as Sebastian, but her strange and erratic behavior is enough to unsettle even her loyal followers
- Religious Vampire: She is a devout catholic, her being one of the few comforts in her afterlife. However, her sire uses it as another way to control her, manipulating Rosemary into believing he himself is god, and having her become the spokesperson of his church
- Undying Loyalty: She is completely loyal to Sebastian even after his death
Camarilla
Government
David
The Tremere Primogen who serves the Prince’s role while he is missing
- Accomplice by Inaction: He allowed Eden to carry out her kidnapping of the prince under his watch. This also how the players kill him, having him tied to the front of the church and left to die in the sun.
- Mean Boss: He’s dismissive and condescending towards his subjects
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: He constantly shows up to intimidate the coterie and interfere with the investigation. As it turns out, he doing this so they don’t figure out his role in the Prince’s disappearance
Father Sebastian
The Malkavian primogen, Rosemary’s sire
- Assimilation Plot: His long term goal. He wished to turn the entire city’s population into kindred, making them a safe haven where kindred don’t need to hide
- Asshole Victim: The common consensus among most of the characters is that he deserved what he got.
- Back for the Finale: He shows up as a ghost in the final session to testify at his own murder trial
- Creepy Souvenir: He has a habit of siring famous murderers so he can show them off at events. Usually he gets bored of them after a while and ditches them
- Dragged Off to Hell: His final fate after Rosemary refuses to give his spirit a vessel
- Entitled Bastard: He just expects Rosemary to just lay down her life and give him her body simply because he’s more important
- Greater-Scope Villain: Despite being dead, Sebastian is ultimately the biggest thorn in the coterie’s side and the instigator for all the story’s conflict
- Monstrous Cannibalism: He is found drained of his blood by another vampire
- Sadist: Most of his evil deeds are motivated purely by his bloodlust
- Sinister Minister: He’s most commonly seen dressed as a priest
- Would Hurt a Child: Angel recounts seeing him beat a pregnant woman to death
Sully
The Brujah primogen
- Even Evil Has Standards: She’s horrified by David gifting a child to a psychotic pedophile
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She’s one of the most level-headed and down to earth compared to a lot of the other Primogens
- Rule-Abiding Rebel: She tries to pass herself off as a rebellious free spirit, but she’s ultimately just another bureaucrat that serves the Camarilla
Vivian
The Nosferatu Primogen, and one of Sadiki’s close friends
- Anti-Villain: While she did try to kill the players, she’s ultimately a good person that was boxed into a corner and forced to lash out
- Big Bad Friend: She was the one orchestrating attempts on the coterie’s lives in order to keep them from finding out her role in Sebastian’s death, despite seemingly being a good friend of Sadiki
- Disc-One Final Boss: She’s the main threat to the players for the first half of the campaign
- Facial Horror: Her face appears horrifically burned and mutilated.
- Killing in Self-Defense: What Sebastian’s murder was, according to her
- Red Herring: It turns out that she only attacked Sebastian in self-defense, and didn’t even kill him like she thought, he survived and was killed later by someone else.
The Artist
The reclusive Toreador Primogen
- Blatant Lies: He’s totally not Van Gogh
- The Eeyore: He’s miserable all the time, mostly because he’s somehow convinced that everyone still hates his art
- Historical Domain Character: He’s some kind of famous painter, but definitely not Vincent Van Gogh
- Insane Troll Logic: The lengths he goes too to explain why his art is bad. Most notably when Sadiki brings up that his work is out in muesums, to which he claims that they’re just put there for people to make fun of
Angel
The Camarilla’s Gangrel Sheriff
- Ax-Crazy: He’s a little too eager to kill in the name of the Camarilla
- Lawful Stupid: He’s blindly loyal to the Camarilla, and will do anything his superiors tell him too with no question
- Rules Lawyer: Deconstructed. As said in his rant, he’s bitter and resentful over the fact that people like him follow the rules and try to make things better the right away, but still get screwed over people by Sebastian, who break them whenever they want, and leave huge messes for everyone else to clean up.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He just wants to keep the Camarilla fair and orderly…by any means possible.
Citizens
Molly
A young Tremere sired by David and put under the party’s care
- Berserk Button: She’s usually a calm and upbeat person, but she becomes very angry when Rosemary calls her mother a monster for having Molly made a vampire in one of her moments of lucidity. The incident clearly still upsets Molly, especially because Rosemary forgot it even happened once she returned to her normal self
- Deadpan Snarker: She always has something to remark upon, no matter the situation
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Molly may be a vampire, but she barely acts any different than when she was alive, seemingly untouched by the corrupting influences of Kindred society
- Perky Goth: She preferred a more gothic style even before she became a kindred
- The Watson: The players end up having to explain a lot about vampire society to her
Bobby
One of Sadiki’s bouncers
- Hostage Situation: Eden takes his beloved pit bull hostage to force him to testify against Sadiki
- Nice Guy: One of the kindest and morally pure kindred in the campaign
Henry
Rosemary’s goal, who is deeply devoted to her church
- Psycho Supporter: Henry is a mess of homicidal urges, desperation for approval, and repressed lust.
- Religious Bruiser: He’s a dedicated churchgoer, as well as powerful enough that he’s used as Rosemary’s enforcer and bodyguard
Lonnie and Kramer
The coterie’s jealous rivals
- Bad People Abuse Animals: They operate a dogfighting ring, and kidnap other’s pets to keep it running. They planned to do this to Bobby’s dog after Eden paid them
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Lonnie is burnt to a crisp in a grease fire, while Kramer has his blood drained
- Evil Duo: They’re rarely seen apart
- Green-Eyed Monster: Their jealousy of Sadiki and Rosemary’s territory drives most of their evil deeds
- Hate Sink: The two constantly torment the coterie by insulting them, destroying their property, and killing their ghouls. They make sure to do everything within the Camarilla’s law so they never face any actual consequences for their actions, all over a petty territory dispute. This adds up to make them some of the most loathsome people in the game
Sabbat
Eden
A high ranking Sabbat kindred with ties to Sebastian
- Big Bad: While she isn’t the killer, Eden is still the main opponent the players face throughout the campaign.
- Body Horror: A necessary part of being a Tzimisce
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Sadiki sucks her blood until she can’t fight back, and than cuts her head off
- Smug Snake: She’s fully confident that the players can’t do anything about her
- Stupid Evil: While she’s still the main villain, Eden is an utter moron that’s just as lost in the murder mystery as everyone else, and spends most of the plot stumbling her way through an evil plot made by someone much smarter than her
Alexander
The Warden of the Sabbat
- Big Bad Wannabe: Alex sees himself as a master manipulator, and is ultimately turns out to be Sebastian’s killer, but he doesn’t pose much of a threat, and is beheaded shortly after his crime is revealed
- The Dog Bites Back: He reason he killed Sebastian was to get back at him for abandoning him
- Historical Domain Character: He turns out to be the real-life vampire, Albert Fish
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Now he’s a real vampire, and part by a society that encourages and rewards his awful deeds
- Serial Killer: He was murdering children long before he even became a kindred
Gertrude
A kindred sired by Sebastian that he later abandoned
- Adaptational Karma: The real Gertrude got off with a light prison sentence. In the campaign, she is turned into a vampire who spends decades slowly starving while she lives in filth after being abandoned by her sire until the Sheriff kills her
- Historical Domain Character: In real life, Gertrude Baniszewski was the culprit in the infamous torture and murder of Sylvia Likens
- Never My Fault: She aggressively refuses to take responsibility for the atrocities she committed in real life
- The Pigpen: She is described as covered in dirt and dried blood
Aurora
Eden’s assistant
- Doomed by Canon: She infamously becomes rokea chow five years down the line during the Knuckleheads campaign
- One-Steve Limit: She shares her name with a character from the Changeling games
Independent Kindred
Brock
A thinblood who is arrested for Sebastian’s murder
- The Scapegoat: He is arrested and almost executed simply for being an easy person to pass off as the killer so the case can be swept under the rug
Gordie
A friend of Sadiki’s
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: A natural consequence of being a child forever
- Jerkass
- Not Growing Up Sucks: He’s been stuck as a kid for hundreds of years, and not happy about it.
Other Characters
This Work Contains Examples Of
- Asshole Victim: Sebastian
- Fantastic Noir
- Hate Sink:
- Marlon “Lonnie” Phelps and Clarence Kramer.
- Historical Domain Character: Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Fish
- Moral Event Horizon
- David crosses it by having an innocent child kidnapped to be given to a sadistic pedophile as a gift
- Obviously Evil: It’s pretty clear that Eden is the villain right away
- Urban Fantasy
- The Woobie:
- Brock. He gets arrested and nearly executed based on flimsy evidence and the Camarilla’s need to find an easy scapegoat so they don’t look weak. It gets even worse for him when his coterie is slaughtered by the Boar’s Tusk werewolves during his imprisonment.
- The Artist. Even though most of his misery his played for laughs, it’s still pretty sad at how even after his posthumous fame, he still believes everyone despises him and his work, so set in his ways that he takes insane leaps of logic to convince himself of his failure
