Some days just don't seem right.
I think I feel, I feel much better at night'
--Shakedown, 'At Night'
Madchester: the city that keeps raving. Home of The Hacienda. Birthplace of Factory Records. Location of the Thunderdome. The night is long and lively. From the dancefloors of The Warehouse Project to the cobbled stretch of Canal Street, Manchester comes alive at night.
In the World of Darkness, the party never dies. Malkavian DJs stir crowds to new reaches of ecstasy on the decks. Blood dolls gather at the goth bars, offering a willing throat to the thirsty. Gangsters and ghouls muscle in for their masters.
Meanwhile, the warehouses of Ancoats make perfect havens for the Damned--if they can first rid the haunted buildings of the maimed spectres that have called the place home since the Industrial Revolution.
The locks and towpaths are like a buffet. Revellers fall in the water to be devoured by what lurks beneath. Young men cruising for affection instead meet the hungry fangs of the Kindred. Young women turning tricks on the industrial estates get in cars with dark windows and never come back.
In the city known as Cottonopolis and Coketown, the polluted canals, once thick with dye from the mills, now run shocking red.
KEY ARTICLES
- A Brief History of Manchester
- House Rules
- Combat
- Social Systems
- Disciplines / Blood Magic
- Havens / Elysium
- Venues / Dramatis Personae
- Public Enemies / The Sabbat / The Anarchs
- Character Creation
ABOUT MANCHESTER
The Gay Village
There's strange energy coming from The Pink Banana fancy dress shop in the Richmond Warehouse on Richmond Street, just behind the city's infamous Canal Street. Rumours of fae presence abound.
Chinatown
Manchester's Chinatown is next to the Gay Village, where Asian Brujah control much of the local businesses. While it is said the Brujah are searching for some ancient Chinese god that has awoken in the city, nobody believes a word of it.
Tatters
Opened by bartender Rodney Haversham as Tapestry, Tatters is a cafe and cyber cafe that, during the 90s, became a hangout for technomancers and curious fae. Over the years, however, the venue changed hands, and now it is a goth bar called Tatters. Rodney Haversham bought the business back at the end of 2012, and so the bar still serves a mean coffee during the daytime, but it's a hangout for ghouls and blood dolls.
Salford
Just across the river from Manchester is the neighbouring city of Salford. Less wealthy, but benefiting from the recent investment that has come from the building of MediaCity UK and the Imperial War Museum. MediaCity UK is the new home for the BBC and ITV outside of London, where most of the BBC's programming is made.