The Vampires of San Francisco

Since the end of the year is coming up fast and I need to get back to the mainline writeup, I’m going to step up the pace of editing and publishing the Scout posts. The following scene is short and is largely the same as the main scene it parallels from 12/10/15 but there are some subtleties to Scout’s POV I wanted to convey. Content warning is minimal.

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The following scene represents an experiment. After the events of Fort Funston, during actual gameplay, I indicated that Scout tried to get some blood on her way home, we briefly rolled for it, then the game moved on. However, while delving deeper into Scout’s narrative for this project, I realized that this scene represented a unique opportunity to branch out narratively and explore some more of her character. So just as with The Church Scene, none of this was RPed, but is important nonetheless.

Content warnings definitely apply again, though from a novel perspective.

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Happy Halloween! I figured I’d celebrate the second-best holiday of the year with an extra early post. The following scene shows Scout’s perspective on the battle with the Settites in the Fort Funston tunnels that occurred on 12/3/15.

This scene is mostly action and abuse themes are minimal, but still present.

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The following scene parallels and completes a secret scene from 11/19/2015. Scout content warnings still apply. 

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Been lagging a bit so a double-post this weekend. The following segment provides extra insight into Scout’s point-of-view on two scenes initially published on 11/12/15. Scout content warnings still apply.

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The following section parallels the events of 10/30/15 and 11/05/15, with a few non-game scenes thrown in for character development. Scout content warnings still apply.

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So, I must apologize. I’ve been putting this particular update off for awhile, avoiding even re-reading it for edits. I’ve known it’s been coming, of course, but still it takes a huge amount of will to actually push this one out to the world.

You know how I keep hounding on the fact that Scout’s story contains themes of abuse? This scene is why.

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The following scene parallels the events of 10/15/15, after Scout and Rabenholz have rejoined Anstis and continued their hunt for the Abomination.

Content warnings for Scout’s storyline still apply. 

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The next two episodes in the main-line chapter–9/17/15 and 10/1/15–actually don’t have a Scout-centered version because they were primarily action scenes without a lot of extra subtext to add. You can go back to refresh your memory if you’d like, but basically Scout escapes Ruland, Rabenholz and Anstis agree to help him, and in the process of which the Abomination is discovered and Flagg shows up to be an asshole all over the place. Eventually there’s the Mad Max-ish car chase through the woods which ends with a giant octopus crashing a big-rig into the trees. As you do.

This scene rejoins the timeline and parallels 10/8/15 as Scout and Rabenholz wake up in the Eureka hospital morgue and have to go back to the police department to cover their tracks.

This one is somewhat lighter in tone but be aware that moments of it still deal with themes of abuse.

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The following sequence parallels the main-line events of 8/25/15, the start of Rabenholz, Anstis’s, and Scout’s trip to Humboldt County.

Be aware that Scout’s storyline often takes on darker tones than the main storyline and deals with themes of abuse.

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