Children of the Lost Eden

Date: Friday, May 25th, 2012

Location: Matt & Kit Kat’s ~ 6477 Alderton Rd, Rego Park Queens

Check-in: 7pm

Game on: 8pm.

Game ends: Midnight.

Site Fee: $2.

Notes: There are felines in residence. The VST and our hosts strongly suggest you medicate at least a half hour PRIOR to your arrival if dander allergies are problematic for you. We will have allergy meds on site for those who forget, however.

Parking: Street parking is available, and not terribly hard to get.

Walking/Mass Transit:

Local Stop (R,M) to 63rd Dr

http://g.co/maps/fra44

Walk South down 63rd Dr. Turn Left on Alderton St. Continue to house

Express Stop (E,F,R,M) to Forest Hills – 71st Ave http://g.co/maps/zw4gw

Use map or take cab ($6-7) from in front of the Vitamin Shoppe on Queens Blvd.

Vampire: The Masquerade (Sabbat) {Concrete Jungle}
Date: Friday, May 18th, 2012
Location: Paul’s house.
Check-in:  7:00pm (please do not arrive before 6:30pm)
Game on: 8:00pm
Game ends: Midnight.
Site Fee: $2
Address:   530 3rd St in Brooklyn, NY.
Nearest Train: Location is central to the 2/3 B/Q F/G trains. Street parking is terrible, so car pool if you have to or take the subway if you can.

Changeling the Lost
Friday, May 4th
between 8:00PM and 12AM
Check-In at 7:00PM
Tada! Theatre Company
15 West 28th Street 3rd Floor
(between 5th Ave & 6th Ave)
New York, Unit ed States, 10001

Pregame meet-up and Check In at 6:30PM
Cafe 28
245 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Mage the Awakening
Saturday, May 5th
between 12PM and 3PM
Check-in at 11:30AM
Altered Stages
150 W 28th St,
Room 303
(between 6th Ave & 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10001

Vampire the Masquerade (Cam/Anarch)
Saturday, May 5th
between 3:30PM and 7PM
Check-in at 3PM
Altered Stages
150 W 28th St, Room 303
(between 6th Ave & 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10001

Vampire the Requiem
Saturday, May 5th
between 8PM and 12AM
Check-In at 7:00PM
Altered Stages
150 W 28th St, Room 303
(between 6th Ave & 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10001

Site fees: $10 – first game of the weekend +$5 – each additional game

Cash at the door or PayPal ahead of time. Send PayPal payments to adc.sites.and.finance@nyccamarilla.org. Please include your name, Cam/MES #,and games attending when making your payment.

You can even use PayPal at game from your smart phone (iPhone, Android, Blackberry). Just download the app and pay when you get there.

Date: Friday, April 27th, 2012

Location: Matt & Kit Kat’s ~ 6477 Alderton Rd, Rego Park Queens

Check-in: 7pm Game on: 8pm. Game ends: Midnight.

Site Fee: $2.

Notes: There are felines in residence. The VST and our hosts strongly suggest you medicate at least a half hour PRIOR to your arrival if dander allergies are problematic for you. We will have allergy meds on site for those who forget, however.

Parking: Street parking is available, and not terribly hard to get.

Walking/Mass Transit:

Local Stop (R,M) to 63rd Dr

http://g.co/maps/fra44

Walk South down 63rd Dr. Turn Left on Alderton St. Continue to house

Express Stop (E,F,R,M) to Forest Hills – 71st Ave http://g.co/maps/zw4gw

Use map or take cab ($6-7) from in front of the Vitamin Shoppe on Queens Blvd.

Daniel Gelpi
aDC Sites and Finance
US2009054014

Sorry for the delay. ICON had me a little distracted last week. Now that it has successfully happened and behind us we can focus on our April game. One big thing to not though is that I will not be at any of the games this weekend. Matthew and I will be up at PAX East so all site fees and OOC check-in will be handled by Matt Blank. PayPal payments can still be made at the usual address and records of them will be forwarded to Matt. So have fun and lets all hope the good weather sticks around this weekend.

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Hi all,

The following fictional article posted in the Village Voice may be of
note to people in the NWoD venues.

If you have IC questions about it, please email me
(NeutralMatt@gmail.com)

Begin IC:

Attached to the following article are two photos; the first photo is
of a strikingly pale woman “feeding” off of a man dressed in flannel
shirt, tight jeans, wearing black glasses and a horrified look. The
woman herself has very sharp features, and is sporting a lovely red
leather mini dress with white crosses around the hem.

The second photo is of a chiseled, younger man dressed in a white
suit: the sleeves of the suit jacket have been cut short, revealing a
black dress shirt with large cuff square cuff links that have a photo
of St. Gemma on them, and the pants have a cargo-pant pocket on the
side.  He is standing behind a woman, staring at the camera with his
mouth open and “fangs” extended, two holes in the women’s neck with
tiny drips of blood coming out of them.  One arm is wrapped around his
“victim”, a woman with dirty blond hair, while the other is pulling
off her cardigan suggestively, revealing the “We are the 99%!” t-shirt
beneath.  The woman has her eyes closed and her face is in a peaceful
repose of what could be either ecstasy or death.

Local fashion designer Oustren VanGould’s newest collection, “Wall
Street After Dark” was unveiled last night to mixed reviews. The line
features models wearing VanGould’s latest fashions dressed as vampires
feeding off of Occupy Wall Street protestors.  The displays are
somewhere between macabre and faux-Hollywood to the point where
VanGould’s rather pedestrian effort seems wasted. Unsure whether this
was a publicity stunt based on the recent Twilight movies or an overt
political statement regarding the “99%” movement, we sat down with
VanGould to talk about greed, luxury, and why he doesn’t apologize for
either…

An interview with VanGould:
Village Voice: The fashion industry and designers such as yourself
have faced a lot of criticism for creating goods designed to appeal
exclusively to the wealthy.  What’s the value in pursuing haute
fashion as a design ethos?

Oustren VanGould: You know, it’s simply not true to say that my
designs appeal exclusively to the wealthy.  My designs appeal to those
who value luxury.  The devil is in the details: the same design
produced by a small team of workers without concern for mass
production is going to have more pieces, more details, more luxury
than if you interpreted the design to be produced as cheaply as
possible as fast as possible with appeal to the largest number of
potential consumers.   There isn’t anyone out there who doesn’t want
luxury; it simply happens that there are many out there who can’t
afford it.

VV: What about criticisms that your production methods exploit slave
and child labor in third-world countries?

OVG: Listen, anyone who wants to criticize that haute fashion as some
reserved only for the “very rich” has never considered what the price
tag would be if we made the same goods in America, and without boring
you with numbers, I’ll simply say that if I moved my production work
here, not even the 1% could afford my garments.

VV: Your new collection is very controversial – what were your
inspirations?

OVG: You know, in many ways I’m sympathetic to the Occupy Movement,
because as an artist I have to respect passion.  But America isn’t my
home and I wasn’t born here, so I look on it with a bit of an
outsider’s perspective, and that was really the inspiration.  The
clothes themselves are all about outsiders co-opting symbols into
inappropriate contexts.  Crosses on mini dresses that you’d never wear
to church, cargo pants as part of 3 piece suit, corsets as part of
swimwear.
Meanwhile, it comes back to luxury.  Vampires, before Twilight made
them all glittering teenagers, were associated with dark passions,
with sensuality, with timelessness, with beauty.  It’s a very
beautiful collection with dark colors, lots of leather, silk, fur; all
things that feel good against the body. Textures which you want to
touch, and at the same time very classic shapes and lines that will
never go out of style.  I could have been boring and put my models in
castles or Bram Stoker’s London, but I wanted to push outside the
comfort zone.

VV: So it’s not the clothes themselves, but the context which matters?

OVW: Yes, absolutely.  If I make one beautiful bespoke suit for myself
and wear it to a party, I’m an artist who has made something with his
own hands, and that’s worthy of admiration.  But if I make a dozen,
sell them for $5,000 a piece, and someone else wears it to a party;
suddenly I’m exploiting the poor and denying health insurance to the
unemployed and I should be ashamed of myself – talk about out of
context!
I wanted to put luxury right up against its critics and ask the
uncomfortable question, who is really the vampire here?  We’re all
feeding off each other, creators, consumers, protestors,
marketers….there’s no doubt that Wall Street and its ilk are feeding
off the 99%.  And I’m feeding off the 1%.  I wanted to acknowledge
that, but in a way which isn’t apologetic, because I’m certainly not
sorry for it.

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Matt Blank, US2007039568
aDST Legacy

Together We’ll Cross the River

“Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a
demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.” – Dominique de
Villepin

As conflict begins to escalate, the few Mages of the Concilium have
seen their allies and options dwindle. They will need to know what
choices remain, and if they can live with those choices.

Theme song for game (from Kevin Andrees);

Game goes from 12-3:00. Game will start at 12 sharp, and game will go
into soft roleplay by 2:45, and end by 3:00 to allow for cleanup and
round table.

If you would like to pre-register for game (and get +1 mana), please
send me the following information by 3/2;

Your name
Your character’s name
Cam number
Pre-cast spells
Any bonuses to have to mana

Thank you,
Matt Blank, US2007039568T

Please note the locations for our March 3rd games. Awakening and Masquerade (Cam/Anarch) will be at Theaterlab (137 W 14th St) and Requiem will be at Primary Stages (307 W 38th St). Also Matt Blank, Awakening VST, will be collecting site fees for Awakening and Masquerade. (continue reading…)

Please note the temporary location changes for February games. Lost will be at its usual Tada! location. Awakening and Masquerade will be at the other Altered Stages location (212 West 29th St).

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Requiem will be at Primary Stages. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hope every one had happy holidays. Just one change to January’s gaming schedule. All games will be held at Altered Stages (150 West 28th St, Room 303). So if you know someone who isn’t on the mailing list or doesn’t check it that often, then let them know. Also, get them on the list.

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