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Prologue: A Gathering of Beasts
Introduction
Chapter One: A World of Darkness
Chapter Two: Clans and Sects
Chapter Three: Character and Traits
Chapter Four: Disciplines
Chapter Five: Rules
Chapter Six: Systems and Drama
Chapter Seven: A History of the Kindred
Chapter Eight: Storytelling
Chapter Nine: Antagonists
Appendix
Epilogue: Under the Horns of Blood
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Prologue: A Gathering of Beasts
Bela Lugosi's dead, and so am I. But what's left of Bela is rotting in a pine coffin somewhere, while I have the opportunity to
sit here on the balcony, enjoy my drink and look at you. Correct me if I'm being presumptuous, but I suspect that I have the
better end of the deal.
I can tell by looking at you that you're prehending. Of course you're not these are cynical, rational times, and you're
not going to believe that I'm a dead man just because I say so. A century ago it would have been different well, it was quite
different the last time I had this little talk with someone but this is the age of facts. And the facts are that corpses don't move,
don't walk, don't talk. I'm terribly sorry, my dear, but I have a surprise for you: This corpse does.
So sit down. Please, I insist that you make fortable. Pour yourself something to drink, preferably from the
bottle on the left the stuff on the right is an acquired taste. It's going to be a long evening, and you're going to need a stiff
drink or two, I suspect. After all, in the next few hours I'm going to explain to you in excruciating detail why everything you
think you know about life and death is wrong. In other words, you don't know a blessed thing about the way the world r