St. Ardent By Night Podcast

A Vampire: The Masquerade V5 Actual Play set in the World of Darkness. St. Ardent by Night S1E14 | What We Keep

The vision does not come from nowhere.

In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, the coterie’s brief reprieve at Elysium is shattered when Isolde and Ellie are struck by a shared vision, something shifting between forms, something not truly a child, forced smaller, hidden, changed. A name surfaces between them: Brother Matt...

A Vampire: The Masquerade V5 Actual Play

The night fractures in more ways than one.

After a successful infiltration of the St. Ardent Science Museum, the coterie returns with stolen fetters, fractured spirits, and the growing certainty that something beneath the city is not just feeding, but learning. What was meant to be a clean extraction begins to unravel as the weight of what they’ve uncovered settles in.

At Greenwood Cemetery,...

A Vampire: The Masquerade V5 Actual Play

In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, the coterie puts their plan into motion and breaks into the St. Ardent Science Museum in search of answers tied to the Red Wing bloodline. What begins as a calculated infiltration quickly reveals something far more dangerous. The artifacts within are not inert. They are connected to something that has been studied, fed, and refined.

As they dig through...

A Vampire: The Masquerade V5 Actual Play

In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, the coterie delivers the rescued Nosferatu Primogen to the Seneschal and attempts to make sense of the chaos beneath the city. What begins as a debrief quickly unravels into something far more dangerous. The sewers are shifting, the dead are restless, and the threat below St. Ardent is no longer contained.

As tensions rise, the coterie uncovers signs o...

A Vampire: The Masquerade V5 Actual Play

In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, the coterie descends deeper into the sewers beneath St. Ardent, chasing whispers of hunters, spirits, and the truth behind the city's failing Tremere wards. Behind a sealed door, they discover a grim scene and a new ally, Nicholas Fontaine of Clan Hecata, whose mastery over the dead reveals a terrible truth: the hunters have captured Nosferatu Primogen...

A Vampire: The Masquerade V5 Actual Play

In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, the coterie is summoned to an emergency court by Prince Adrian Voss following the revelation that St. Ardent’s Tremere wards are failing. With the Nosferatu Primogen Roarke missing and the Camarilla’s information network in chaos, the Prince sends the coterie into the city’s labyrinthine sewers to find him.

Below the streets, the tunnels are changing. ...

A Vampire: The Masquerade V5 Actual Play In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, the city itself answers the coterie’s discoveries. An earthquake tears through St. Ardent, shaking the Camarilla tower and sending smoke rising across the skyline. The wards beneath the city are failing, and what was once whispered as theory now feels dangerously real. With Nosferatu Primogen Roarke missing and the sewers already being scoured, the c...

In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, the coterie descends into the Tremere Library beneath St. Ephriam’s College just as a citywide alert signals that the systems protecting St. Ardent are failing. Panic spreads when Stephen, an elderly Tremere, reveals he is the last Kindred maintaining the wards that shield the city. As Ernest and Enili investigate the sealed office of former Primogen Michael Alric, they uncover lethal wards d...

In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, a citywide warning ripples through Kindred channels, setting nerves on edge before night even fully falls. Summoned to account for their recent actions, the coterie faces sharp rebuke and reluctant praise from the court, only to be given a new directive that pulls them back into the shadows beneath the Cathedral District. What begins as a quiet investigation quickly spirals into open danger a...

Cornered in the basement of the Church of St. George, the coterie is forced to split as hunters argue above. Some escape through a hidden tunnel concealed behind a bookcase, while Enili, Mistress Lux, and David remain behind, stalking the shadows to ambush a lone hunter. He wields a massive longsword radiating blue white light, a weapon that presses down on the Kindred with the weight of their unholiness.

The confrontation spirals ...

In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, a Vampire the Masquerade Fifth Edition actual play, the coterie follows a trail of broken wards and holy symbolism straight into dangerous territory.

A ward has been shattered not by ritual, but by force. Sandstone broken by hand. The culprits point to the Knights of St. George, and, worse, to hunters tied to St. Leopold.

High above the city, in the bluffs, stands the Church of St. George. Go...

The lights go out in Saint Ardent, and the city does not explain itself.

In this episode of St. Ardent by Night, the coterie finds themselves trapped inside the Glass Quarter Lab as power fails, emergency systems collapse, and the low-frequency hum beneath the city becomes impossible to ignore. What began as an investigation into strange river sediment turns inward, revealing a horror rooted not in monsters, but in history, silence...

A chance encounter in a dim bar pulls the coterie deeper into St. Ardent’s unrest. Questions about the river surface alongside dangerous new obligations, and what should have been a routine investigation turns wrong in unsettling ways. Old concrete bears fresh scars, instincts overwhelm restraint, and by the time the group seeks shelter among familiar shadows, the city answers back. When the lights fail, the night is far from over....

About the Chronicle St. Ardent by Night is a Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition actual-play set in a storm-lashed gothic-modern city where a newly formed coterie investigates supernatural mysteries, political tensions, and the secrets that threaten the Masquerade. Each episode pulls the cast deeper into the hidden history of St. Ardent and the forces rising beneath it.

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