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.

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.

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

Changeling the Lost
Friday, April 6th
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, April 7th
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, April 7th
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, April 7th
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.

Police are investigating an apparent homicide after a man was found dead Friday night in a Manhattan apartment.

Officers were called to a building on West 22nd Street in Chelsea shortly before 8 p.m. and found a 57-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive.
Sources say the man’s hands were tied to a bed, his hands, feet, and mouth were bound with duct tape, and there was a towel over his face. However there were no signs of trauma.
Sources also say the man was originally discovered by a female friend.
The medical examiner is working to determine the cause of death.

Sangavida Enterprises Cuts Ribbon on R&D Lab

Sangavida Enterprises, a rapidly growing research and development firm, cut the ribbon today on a new laboratory in Smith Haven NY. Sangavida bought out the site of the former Smith Haven Laboratory earlier this year when new investors had supplied a influx of money to the formerly floundering group.

“This new facility, coupled with the impressive and energetic minds of our researchers, will bring new discoverers and innovations to the marker over the next few years. I’m really excited for the future of our company and for the industry as whole.” said Michel Gentry, Sangavida’s head of media relations, from their corporate offices in midtown manhattan.

Worker Pulled From East Harlem Trench Collapse

City officials on Friday issued a stop worker order at an East Harlem construction site following the rescue of a worker, who first responders say became trapped after the trench he was working in collapsed.

It happened around 11 a.m. near a commercial building under construction located at 122nd Street between Park and Lexington Avenues.

Rescuers say they used a Con Edison vacuum truck to suck up dirt as they dug around the man and rigged a pulley on the building’s wall to remove him safely.

“He was screaming ‘help’ and then when I saw that I was feeling bad because we don’t have nothing to help,” said Ricardo Santos, a nearby building superintendent.

Rescue officials say they believe the building’s foundation was being prepped for waterproofing when the collapse happened.

An investigation is ongoing.

West Village Crime Rate Returning To Previous Levels

A new report put out this week by the New York Police Department is showing a return to previous crime levels in the West Village area. The crime levels, which had dropped to a all time low in the last few months, are now returning back to their pre-drop levels.

“We have not been able to track down either what caused the original drop of crime or what has caused the crime levels to rise back up, but we are continuing our investigation to find the cause of both.” said Mario Santino, the sergeant who compiled the report.

Members of the community greeted the news poorly. One Maria Smith said “This place had just started to get nice… and now its going down the drain again. Makes you think of moving out of the city.”

New York Area Hospitals Rank Low On Patient Safety, Report Finds

Some hospitals in the city are not getting a clean bill of health in a scathing new report about patient safety.

Consumer Reports ranked more than a thousand of the nation’s 4,000 hospitals based on the number of hospital-acquired infections, re-admissions within 30 days and the quality of discharge and medication instructions.

Thirty of the 50 lowest rated hospitals were in the New York City metropolitan area.

Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx was rated the worst in the country for patient safety.

Other local hospitals rated poorly are Forest Hills Hospital in Queens, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, Kings County Hospital Center and Jamaica Hospital.

“We think it’s important for New Yorkers to make it clear to hospitals in a variety of ways that this should be a higher priority. There are some great hospitals and doctors in New York City, but we think there needs to be safer hospitals in New York City,” said Consumer Reports Health rating Center Director John Santa.

New Fashion Trend Sparking Controversy

A recent Village Voice article, highlighting a new fashion trend, is causing some controversy in the fashion world. The new style, one that pairs occupy wall street issues with vampiric tastes, is finding both attackers and defenders in the fashion world.

“The new style, it is too soon after the the whole Twilight screen… fashion is supposed to look forwards, not back.” said Helen Tapps, a fashion designed and store owning in Midtown.

“Personally I think its bold and provocative, really challenging what society will accept.” said Peter Engler, fashion critic for “La dame élégante”, a local style magazine.

A few others are worried about how this new trend might influence the young teens of the city.

A women who desired to remain anonymous is quoted as saying “I don’t want my little girl thinking vampires are sexy… when she gets older she might just go out trying to get bit or something.”

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.

<–end IC

Matt Blank, US2007039568
aDST Legacy

“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

Changeling the Lost
Friday, March 2nd
between 8:00PM and 12AM
Check-In at 7:15PM
Tada! Theater Company
15 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor
(between 5th Ave & 6th Ave)
New York, United States, 10001

Mage the Awakening
Saturday, March 3rd
between 12PM and 3PM
Check-in at 11:30AM @ Chelsea Bagel and Cafe (139 W 14th St)
Theaterlab
137 West 14th St, Studio A
(between 6th Ave & 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10011

Vampire the Masquerade (Cam/Anarch)
Saturday, March 3rd
between 3:30PM and 7PM
Check-in at 3PM
Theaterlab
137 West 14th St, Studio A & D
(between 6th Ave & 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10011

Vampire the Requiem
Saturday, March 3rd
between 8PM and 12AM
Check-In at 7:15PM
Primary Stages
307 West 38th St #1510
(between 8th and 9th Ave)
New York, NY 10018

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 #, 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.

“We get some rules to follow
That and this
These and those
No one knows”

Game premise:
The New York Concilium
The walls are closing in.
How will the Concilium stand against the forces arrayed against them?
Will they stand together or will they fall apart?

Theme song for game (as chosen by MattyJ because of his prize from
last month):

This means you are likely to get jumped by a Deer. Be forewarned.

If you would like to check in ahead of time, please email me at
“NeutralMatt@gmail.com” the
following information;
Your name
Character’s name
Cam Number
Pre-cast spells
Merits relevant to mana

Thank you,
Matt Blank