S1E3: The Cost of Silence

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, and deliberate erasure.

As containment breaks down, a quarantined Malkavian Kindred deteriorates under the pressure of resonance, emotion, and the Beast. The coterie must decide how to respond in the dark. Violence, restraint, and compassion all carry consequences, and none offer clean resolution.

Beyond the blackout, political forces move quietly. Questions are asked without accusations. Blame is suggested without names. The Masquerade tightens, not to protect the truth, but to keep it quiet.

This episode shifts the focus from incident to city, from threat to pattern. Forgotten tunnels, sealed districts, and redacted records suggest that Saint Ardent has been altered before, and whatever lies beneath it was not disturbed by accident.

And buried things do not stay still forever.

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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Cast Clamps - Isolde Blackthorne DapperZombee - Ernest Wells Shelly Von Miller - Mistress Lux Fjyona - Sister Edith Elm - Enili Everhardt  Ian - David St. Augustine Briana "Tactical Pinup" Joslin - Storyteller

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