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 Matthias.

The room reacts immediately. Odette and Sable recognize the name, tying it to the Knights of St. George and operations from decades ago. What should be impossible begins to take shape. Matthias was active over fifty years ago and already old then, yet now his name is connected to whatever is moving beneath St. Ardent. As the coterie shares what they know, a dangerous theory begins to form. The hunters are not just capturing spirits, they are experimenting on them, reshaping them, trying to recreate something more powerful.

With multiple paths before them, the coterie weighs their options. The Nosferatu offer to search SchreckNet, while Odette opens the Tremere library with a warning that without proper understanding, they risk mishandling something far beyond them. In the end, they choose to start with the dead, leaving Odette to gather what she can from the archives.

At Greenwood Cemetery, Nicholas calls forth the spirit bound to the wooden horse. What answers is unstable, shifting between forms, a small figure layered over something older. Through broken responses, the truth emerges. The spirit was killed by Matthias. Not just a victim, but his sister, forced into this state, reshaped, and left in fear that he will find her again.

A second spirit is summoned, a Watcher. Unlike the first, it is deeply damaged and barely responsive, fixated on Ernest and offering little beyond fragments, a name, and an unsettling presence. The pattern is no longer theory. These spirits are not just bound. They are broken, altered, and used.

With Odette searching the Tremere archives, the coterie knows answers are coming. The only question is whether they will be ready for what those answers reveal.

St. Ardent by Night is a long-form Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition actual play series focused on political horror, personal consequences, and character-driven storytelling set in a modern Midwestern city.

What to Expect: Gothic horror Political intrigue and court dynamics Character-driven roleplay Moral dilemmas and escalating consequences Long-form narrative storytelling

System: Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (V5), World of Darkness

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Cast: Clamps as Isolde Blackthorne DapperZombee as Ernest Wells Shelly Von Miller as Mistress Lux Elm as Enili Everhardt Ian as David St. Augustine NoxAeternus as Nicholas Fontaine

Storyteller: Briana “Tactical Pinup” Joslin

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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, truths surface quickly. Spirits are not merely bound; they are being reshaped. Conditioned. Forced into something else. And whatever is behind it is growing stronger.

But the night takes a more personal turn when Nicholas’s sire, Irina, arrives.

What follows is not a reunion, but a reckoning.

Control, loyalty, and autonomy collide as Irina attempts to pull Nicholas back under her protection, tearing into the coterie and exposing every weakness she can find. The confrontation leaves fractures that cannot easily be repaired, and removes a powerful ally the group may desperately need.

Even Elysium offers no refuge.

At The Velvet Note, the Keeper makes one thing painfully clear: the coterie is being watched, and they are not held in high regard. They are not players in the game, they are pieces, and pieces can be sacrificed.

Still, in the quiet moments that follow, something softer emerges. In the warmth of Nicholas’s home, through shared blood and unexpected kindness, the coterie begins to feel something rare in St. Ardent:

Safety.

It does not last.

As the night comes to a close, Ellie and Isolde are pulled into a shared vision, one that reveals a truth far more disturbing than anything they’ve uncovered so far.

Something is being taken.

Something is being broken.

And something, somewhere in the dark, is learning how to survive it.

System: Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (V5) Setting: World of Darkness

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Cast: Clamps – Isolde Blackthorne DapperZombee – Ernest Wells Shelly Von Miller – Mistress Lux Elm – Enili Everhardt Ian – David St. Augustine NoxAeternus – Nicholas Fontaine

Credits and Legal Notice: St. Ardent by Night is an unofficial fan production based on Vampire: The Masquerade. Vampire: The Masquerade, World of Darkness, and related properties are owned by Paradox Interactive. No official affiliation or endorsement is implied.

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 records and secured items, the truth becomes clearer. This is not random supernatural chaos. It is controlled experimentation. Vitae is being used to teach something how to hunt.

With what they recover, the coterie retreats to Greenwood Cemetery, where the veil is thin enough to test their findings. There, Nicholas attempts to peer beyond the veil and uncover what is bound to the objects they’ve taken. But the dead are not silent.

Something is watching.

When a spirit latches onto Ernest, drawn by his contact with one of the fetters, the coterie realizes they have crossed a line. They are no longer just investigating the threat beneath St. Ardent. They are now part of it.

What to Expect: gothic horror, occult investigation, character-focused roleplay, moral dilemmas, escalating consequences, and long-form narrative storytelling.

System: Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition (V5), World of Darkness.

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Cast: Clamps – Isolde Blackthorne DapperZombee – Ernest Wells Shelly Von Miller – Mistress Lux Elm – Enili Everhardt Ian – David St. Augustine NoxAeternus – Nicholas Fontaine Briana “Tactical Pinup” Joslin – Storyteller

Credits and Legal Notice: St. Ardent by Night is an unofficial fan production based on Vampire: The Masquerade. Vampire: The Masquerade, World of Darkness, and related properties are owned by Paradox Interactive. No official affiliation or endorsement is implied.