Stories by @vamporilla

Vampire: The Dark Ages - Constantinople by Night (Video Game)

The greatest city of the medieval world, domed Constantinople is a lodestone for the vampires of the Dark Ages. Immerse yourself in intrigues ancient and contemporary as you traverse the labyrinthine streets and torchlit bazaars of Byzantium's wondrous capital. But beware: yours is not the only hunger in the East that demands to be sated.

Changeling: The Dreaming - Immortal Eyes: The Toybox (Video Game)

To Mortal Eyes... It is just another cheap antique. But to faerie eyes, the trunk sitting in the corner of The Toybox Coffee Shop radiates an unmistakable Glamour that marks it as a magical treasure. It is the key to a powerful plan, which could destroy changeling society...forever. To Mortal Eyes... They were an unlikely group of companions: a waitress, a con-man, a street performer, a tramp and two children. Their only common ground was the sanctuary of The Toybox Coffee Shop, a haven where they could drop their mortal guise. But together, these changelings in disguise would form a band of heroes sworn to stop Malacar, former wizard of a faerie duke's kingdom, from obtaining the magical talisman and using it to wreak his vengeance.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Beckett's Jyhad Diary (Netflix Animated Series)

It's ever been a loaded word among vampires. Jyhad is in force everywhere from lofty, perfumed Elysium to cloying, smoke-filled blood feasts. Jyhad's the eternal game played by elders, Methuselahs, and worse — it's the agenda of beings so utterly beyond humanity, one such as yourself could scarcely understand its movements. Luckily for you, you've picked up a copy of my diary. With my help you may just take a step on the first rung of understanding. Information worth having is information you must earn through blood, and oh, how I've bled for what's contained within these pages. — Beckett

Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York (with Voice Acting)

Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York is an indie video game based on Vampire: The Masquerade, developed by Draw Distance in cooperation with Paradox Interactive. The game is the second title in Draw Distance's "New York Trilogy", following Coteries of New York. Set in the summer of 2019 and the spring of 2020, the events of the game take place both before and after Coteries, although it is not necessary to have played it first. It is followed by Reckoning of New York. You’re a nobody. An outcast in your own vampiric sect. A political prisoner of no particular value. An immigrant who never found her roots in a city of immigrants. A chainsmoker whose favorite pastime is staring blankly at the streets through the windows of a fast food joint at 4AM. The sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach tells you that you’re doomed, and distorted voices from the shadows seem to agree. The curse of your clan makes interacting with everyday technology difficult. Dissociation is your natural state. But when New York’s Anarch leader meets a gruesome end, out of all the bloodsuckers in the metropolis, you’re the one picked to investigate. Make no mistake: this is obviously a trap, yet another move in the horrible game of Jyhad, the eternal struggle for power between warring vampire generations. But you’re Lasombra, and if there’s one thing you know, it’s this: if the Ventrue Prince and her followers underestimate you, they’re going to deeply regret it.

France by Night

The events taking place in France have repercussions in a large part of Europe. The kingdom is the birthplace of Gothic cathedrals, the Grand Court and the Courts of Love. European trade is largely centered around the fairs of Champagne, whose provinois'denarius prevails throughout Europe. The ability to influence France and its powerful is essential for the politically minded Cainites of Europe. And even those who try to turn away from it are caught in its web, at the mercy of insatiable predators. The reconquests of Philippe II Auguste on the Plantagenêt territories give back to the royal domain a splendor that it had not known for centuries. The King of France is once again a powerful monarch and the young and pious Louis IX exercises his authority with the same severity as his grandfather, crushing the revolts of ambitious lords guided in the shadows by immortal creatures with long teeth. The massacres of Cainites during the Albigensian Crusade represent a most serious warning for the Damned who would think of themselves as safe, isolated in their shelters, protected by their ghouls and puppets of flesh. The Inquisition is growing at a frightening speed and the convents of the begging orders are taking over the cities, bringing danger as close as possible.

Rage Across Australia

The land down under breeds them tough and hardy - none moreso than the Garou. But the harsh outback blisters even their thick skins - and scours their souls. The Garou committed a great wrong here long ago, and the repercussions still haunt them. The Garou must make amends for their past lest they forever remain strangers to the Dreamtime, the spirit world of Australia. But time is running out; the Wyrm is on the march. From the high towers of Pentex to the parched outback deserts, its minions squirm forth to spread decay and ruin. The corruption of a continent is at hand...

FAI✝H: The Unholy Trinity (with Voice Acting)

On September 21, 1986, two priests failed to perform an exorcism on a seventeen-year-old girl. One year later, Father John Ward, one of the two priests, returns to the scene of the exorcism to finish what he started. Unfortunately, John is about to get more than he bargained for.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York (with Voice Acting)

Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York is an indie video game based on Vampire: The Masquerade, developed by Draw Distance in cooperation with Paradox Interactive. The game is the first title in Draw Distance's "New York Trilogy", its events set in late 2019. It is followed by Shadows of New York and Reckoning of New York. Coteries of New York presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions: Camarilla and Anarchs among the iconic buildings and night lights of Big Apple. It's a single-player narrative experience, set in a rich, fully licensed, globally recognized universe of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York presents the conflict between two vampiric factions: the traditionalist Camarilla and the fiercely independent Anarchs among the iconic landmarks and night lights of The Big Apple. It's a unique, atmospheric, single-player narrative experience, set in a rich, fully licensed, globally recognized universe of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition.

FAI✝H: The Unholy Trinity (Live-Action Miniseries)

On September 21, 1986, two priests failed to perform an exorcism on a seventeen-year-old girl. One year later, Father John Ward, one of the two priests, returns to the scene of the exorcism to finish what he started. Unfortunately, John is about to get more than he bargained for.

Immortal Eyes: Court of all Kings

Ireland — the heart of Celtic myth and legend. Here is a land divided by petty kings, a land of ancient mysteries and of powerful magic. And most sought after of all is Silver's Gate, the last gate to Arcadia — rumored to be hidden somewhere along the island's rocky shores. The Immortal Eyes trilogy has spanned the globe, from San Francisco, to Hawai'i, and now finally to Ireland. Court of all Kings is the final installment in the Immortal Eyes trilogy.

Mage: The Ascension - The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas (Video Game)

The Ascension War sputtered to an end, thanks to human apathy. The Council of Nine Traditions now sits on a cusp, as certain mages try once more to re-ignite hope in themselves and others — not just hope, but a striving for something, anything. Others want things to stay the same, to maintain the current, feeble status quo. This conflict threatens to destroy all truces — not just the cease-fire between the Technocracy and the Traditions, but the long-standing bonds between the Traditions themselves. Nowhere is this simmering conflict more evident than in Las Vegas, city of neon and illusion. Like the Tarot card that symbolizes the city, Las Vegas' mages flirt with the Devil but yearn for the Star. In the lavish casinos, on the decadent Strip, and in the silent deserts, mages gamble their souls for a piece of the dream.

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1990's Film)

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction. The story is set against the backdrop of World War III, where a sentient supercomputer named AM, born from the merging of the world's major defense computers, eradicates humanity except for five individuals. These survivors—Benny, Gorrister, Nimdok, Ted, and Ellen—are kept alive by AM to endure endless torture as a form of revenge against its creators. The story unfolds through the eyes of Ted, the narrator, detailing their perpetual misery and quest for canned food in AM's vast, underground complex, only to face further despair.

Your Turn To Die (Anime Adaptation) (Japanese Voices)

A group of unwilling participants are forced to play a "game" where they must complete many challenges and solve various puzzles if they want to live.

The Thief of Bagdad (2024 Remake)

The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from One Thousand and One Nights, it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad. In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2020 Remake)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. The quintessential work of early German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders. The film features a dark, twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms, oblique, curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles, and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets.

Metropolis (2027 Remake)

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studio for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). Metropolis is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction film, being among the first feature-length ones of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–26 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, or the equivalent of about €21 million. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city master, and Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city and bring the workers together with Joh Fredersen, the city master. The film's message is encompassed in the final inter-title: "The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart".

Iberia by Night

This is a land of warring faiths and burning wills. Once the Moors ruled the peninsula, but now the Christian kingdoms push them ever further south. Great schools die and glorious kingdoms rise. Behind it all, in the deepest of shadows, we Cainites lurk. Blood calls to blood, and vengeance will be ours. Iberia by Night is a complete sourcebook for medieval Spain, including both Christian and Moorish kingdoms. The history, cities and people are all covered in detail, as is the bloody Reconquista reshaping the land. Details on the vampiric princes and sultans of the land, the shadowy Amici Noctis manipulating Clan Lasombra and the other forces in the Iberian night give you enough material for many stories indeed.

Battle Royale (American Version) (2024)

Battle Royale (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru) is a Japanese dystopian horror novel by journalist Koushun Takami. The story tells of junior high school students who are forced to fight each other to the death in a program run by a fictional, fascist, totalitarian Japanese government known as the Republic of Greater East Asia. In this American version, the students are high school seniors and are portrayed by young adults between the ages of 18 and 23 (except Shogo since he's supposed to be older).

Wayside School (2024 Live-Action Series)

Wayside School is a series of short story cycle children's books written by Louis Sachar. Titles in the series include Sideways Stories from Wayside School (1978), Wayside School Is Falling Down (1989), Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger (1995), and Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom (2020). The books tell of a school where the contractor misread the blueprints and mistakenly built it sideways. As such the school was constructed as a 30-story skyscraper. The 19th floor was omitted from the plans. The books focus on Mrs. Jewls' class on the 30th floor.

The Wee Free Men (2021)

There's trouble on the Aching farm – a monster in the river, a headless horseman in the driveway and nightmares spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching's little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Fairies (although Tiffany doesn't think this is entirely a bad thing). Tiffany's got to get him back. To help her, she has a weapon (a frying pan), her granny's magic book (well, Diseases of the Sheep, actually) and— 'Crivens! Whut aboot us, ye daftie!' —oh yes. She's also got the Nac Mac Feegle, the Wee Free Men, the fightin', thievin', tiny blue-skinned pictsies who were thrown out of Fairyland for being Drunk and Disorderly... A wise, witty and wonderfully inventive adventure set on the Discworld.