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Storyteller and Players

  • Taking the controversial Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition and making one of the most popular web series on the net from it.
  • Jason Carl's Storytelling that manages to incorporate all elements of the World of Darkness (most Storytellers avoid crossovers due to the cheese factor), realism, and mood to make one of the best games that most viewers have ever seen.
  • Everyone's acting in this game is phenomenal and almost all of the characters are played by actors who manage to make them both likable as well as with Hidden Depths. It's impressive, too, for a tabletop roleplaying game to be so engrossing.
  • The vamily did a convention game called The Happiest Place on Earth that was in front of a live audience. It was every bit as entertaining as any other version.

Season 1

  • Victor Dominating a singer into giving "the best performance of her life." Mundane Utility at its finest for a Ventrue producer.
  • X when he managed to make a Breath Weapon out of bunch of lard in a club's kitchen that he combined with fire to make a column of flame that incinerated a Gangrel attacker.
  • Victor blackmailing Isaac Abrams into giving up the Valley to make him Baron of it. It shows, Anarch or not, he's still a Ventrue.
  • Subverted by the attack on The Thin Bloods' lab as they go in expecting to fight it out like a John Woo film and the inhabitants all scatter or fold like a deck of cards.
  • Victor taking a Refuge in Audacity by putting the FBI SAD agent on a cell phone video to his fans. This may have backfired, though as its followed by the club he's in burning down.
  • The team corrupting a agent of the SAD and warping him into their loyal slave with nothing more than Nelli G's presence.
  • Nelli G successfully bonding Gregory and turning him into her slave.

Season 2

  • Jasper pushing the Sheriff out of the parking lot roof and Victor's Badass Boast afterwards.
    Victor: Enjoy the view!
  • Jasper decapitating the Sheriff to protect Annabelle, complete with a Declaration of Protection.
  • Annabelle lecturing Victor and him being unable to refute her arguments. After all this time she spent being berated by him and everyone else, she becomes the reasonable one.
  • When visiting Baron Therese asks Annabelle her opinion on the state of Kindred society, Annabelle is very open that she considers the Anarchs to be barely better than the Camarilla and that she believes the whole system should be scrapped and started over. Therese scornfully calls her a nihilist and Annabelle politely but firmly corrects her: a nihilist believes in nothing. Annabelle, who believes in everything and everyone, is the direct opposite. In spite of herself, Therese concedes the point.
  • The vamily storming the Spanish church in order to rescue Nelli's sister from the powerful Wraith Antonio.
  • The gang killing Chaz after an entire season of the Camarilla rolling over it. It is oh so satisfying to see the Smug Snake put down.
  • Annabelle's Rousing Speech to the Anarchs of LA to rise up and fight Vannevar Thomas.
  • The Storming the Castle of a Second Inquisition base in Los Angeles in order to rescue Chloe would be awesome on its own by its during the daytime by Ib, Gregory, and Chelsea.

Season Three

  • The group has, off-camera, kept the Camarilla on the backfoot for the past month. They have managed to keep them from consolidating their power.
  • The group manages to survive an attack by the Camarilla on Club Maharaja. They manage to wake up during the day, move through flames, retrieve Masquerade-breaking evidence, and then escape both through burning tunnels as well as in an armored limousine.
  • The team is attacked by a powerful Lasombra Elder who they manage to fend off after suffering a Curb-Stomp Battle. It's clear she's what an Elder can truly do with the powers of the Blood when they're motivated.
  • Zelios the Master Builder managed to build a Labyrinth under the palace at Versailles. He's also implied to have built one underneath Griffith Park and many other locations.
  • The rescue of Jasper from the Hollywood sign involves using Griffith Observatory spotlights, a helicopter, a team Baron Abrams men, the vamily, and Eva. They manage to defeat Rodrigo, a Gangrel, and a team of Camarilla ghouls before escaping within seconds of the sun rising. Big Damn Heroes at their finest.
  • The team finally getting their revenge on Rodrigo by having Kasey snipe him while Victor as well as Nelli keep him under bright lights. Eva then blasts Rodrigo with a massive attack of lightning before Jasper holds him, telling him that he respects him but that he had to die.
  • Aurora actually gets one by destroying the Valkyries, showing us she's the most terrifying of the Camarilla's agents.

Season Four

  • Carver starts a bar brawl to sneak past Aurora, only to get slashed in the face and his jacket burned off by Kyoko. It is a much needed moment of catharsis after his many cases of manipulating them.
  • Delilah has an understated one by revealing that she has managed to unite all of the Thin Bloods in Los Angeles underneath her.
  • Eva manages to hit a gargoyle with two lightning bolts in the face and almost hits it with a third. She also displays her magical prowess by creating a healing potion, flying, and otherwise showing she is the most powerful of the vamily.
  • Nelli G is crowned Baron of Hollywood by Isaac Abrams. It proves he trusts her above all of his other lieutenants and that she has earned her place as defacto ruler of Los Angeles' Anarchs.
  • Baron Temple puts Robert Garrick in his place in Snark-to-Snark Combat, openly referring to Prince Vannevar as a madman.
  • Eva and Jasper attempt to take down a gargoyle, only to be suddenly rescued by Katya as well as her Tremere. Together, they manage to destroy the gargoyle and gain access to the Labyrinth again.
  • Nelli's Awesome Moment of Crowning where all of LA recognizes her as Baron(ess) of Hollywood.

Season Five

  • Katya's Heroic Sacrifice to hold Aurora in place so she can be destroyed by the Second Inquisition.
  • Annabelle killing Adrian with an enormous cross hanging on the wall.
  • Jasper crushing a Inquisitor with a mace.
    "God's wrath falls heaviest on the faithful."


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