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Zed’s Den of Darkness is the home of Commodore Zed’s live World of Darkness actual plays, featuring character-driven horror, long-form storytelling, and deeply realized settings. From Vampire: The Masquerade chronicles like Capital District: After Dark, to Werewolf: The Apocalypse in Rage Over the Hudson, plus limited series and deep-cut World of Darkness games, each show focuses on consequences, complicated characters, local history, and horror rooted in the world around us. Expect political intrigue, supernatural violence, broken loyalties, difficult choices, and stories where the setting

  1. Sep 4

    Season 2 Session 1 - Capital District : After Dark | They Are Counting Troy First | VTM V5

    Season Two begins with Troy already under pressure. Aoife Gallagher is missing. Priya vanished while searching for her. Baron Patch Jones gathers Troy’s Anarchs at the Foundry and puts a price on real answers, drawing the coterie into a search that leads from uneasy reunions and new alliances to an abandoned riverside warehouse, a stranded Tesla, and evidence that someone has begun targeting people connected to the region’s pharmaceutical interests. Meanwhile, Anya attempts to repair her relationship with Velvet, Shiloh gets his first real taste of Troy politics, Eddie finds his place among the coterie, and Connor starts pulling at a thread that may connect Oliver Davies’ death to something much larger. Capital District: After Dark — Season 2, Episode 1: “They Are Counting Troy First.”A Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition actual play set in New York’s Capital District.

    Season 2 Session 1 - Capital District : After Dark | They Are Counting Troy First | VTM V5

  2. Aug 20

    The Last Door Out | Werewolf: the Apocalypse 5th edition | Rage Over the Hudson

    Rage Over the Hudson — Session 11: The Last Door Out The pack has a stolen truck full of explosives, the Cult of Fenris wants it back, and somebody has the terrible idea of giving it to them. With Val Carter caught between the people she escaped and the Garou offering her another way forward, the pack turns the Cult’s own weapon into a trap. But an abandoned Endron quarry holds scars far older than tonight’s fight—and when the plan finally goes off, survival forces the Garou to decide just how far they’re willing to go against their own kind. Blood is spilled. Lines are crossed. And Val reveals something that may offer the pack a way to break the Cult without destroying everyone trapped inside it. The road to the Season One finale begins here. Rage Over the Hudson is a Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition actual play set in New York’s Capital District, where the Garou confront spiritual corruption, fractured loyalties, and a world already deep into its Apocalypse.

    The Last Door Out | Werewolf: the Apocalypse 5th edition | Rage Over the Hudson

  3. Aug 19

    The Door Beneath The Sand | World of Darkness | Commodore Zed One Shot

    The Door Beneath the Sand | World of Darkness: Mummy One-Shot Egypt, 1915. Far from the war raging across Europe, an archaeological expedition uncovers a sealed doorway buried beneath the desert. The inscriptions are wrong, the warnings are older than they should be, and something beneath the sand has been waiting a very long time to be remembered. When violence forces the expedition underground, the explorers discover that they have not found a tomb. They have found a city where the dead still work, ancient laws are still enforced, and every living soul may already have a place waiting for them. Join Commodore Zed as Storyteller for The Door Beneath the Sand, a historical horror one-shot using the 2004 World of Darkness rules with Mummy as its supernatural inspiration. Featuring: Dragongem as Mina Kirkland Scott, EgyptologistDrew as Thomas Beckman, translator and linguistRhoswenCosplay as Elisaria “Eli” Sterling, photographerNerdatArt as Frances “Frank” Bell, mechanic and driverKeyworkSavior as Percival “Percy” Founder, Oxford-educated expedition fixerAncient history should stay buried. Sometimes it has other plans.

  4. Aug 18

    Interlude Episode 2 - A Special Seminar on Etiquette | Vampire: The Masquerade V5 | Capital District : After Dark

    Capital District: After Dark — A Special Seminar on Etiquette The chaos of Bellwether is over, but the bill has come due. Summoned to Rivers Casino, the Kindred finally sit down with Mary O’Reilly, one of the Capital District’s most quietly dangerous power brokers. Instead of punishment, Mary offers something far more complicated: jobs, protection, stability, and a place under her umbrella. All she wants in return is a little debt. But Mary has also prepared an audition. An ID belonging to the late Karen Cranford has surfaced on a captured Gangrel, reopening one of the coterie’s oldest wounds and forcing Kat, Connor, Anya, Shilo, and Eddie to decide just how far they are willing to go for answers. Along the way, an unexpected connection from Kat’s mortal past comes back into focus, and Eddie learns that Hunger can be every bit as expensive as politics. As the interlude closes and Season Two approaches, the question is no longer whether these five Kindred need one another. It’s what they are willing to owe for the privilege of feeling safe.

    Interlude Episode 2 - A Special Seminar on Etiquette | Vampire: The Masquerade V5 | Capital District : After Dark

  5. Aug 15

    Interlude Episode 1 - The Fair Closes Hungry | Vampire: The Masquerade 5th ed | Capital District : After Dar

    Capital District: After Dark — The Fair Closes Hungry, Part One Three weeks after the blood-soaked end of Season One, the survivors of the coterie are trying to find something resembling normal. Anya has traded ballet for punk rock, Connor is still searching for answers about Oliver’s death, and Kat is doing her best to keep everyone from making things worse. Then a job sends them north. On the final night of the Bellwether Community Fair in Mechanicville, a mysterious drifter named Shilo Sawyer follows a vision toward strangers he has never met, while courier Eddie “O.C.” O’Callaghan discovers that his latest delivery for Mary O’Reilly may be considerably more complicated than advertised. Under the Ferris wheel and midway lights, strangers collide, Hunger gets the better of good intentions, and a simple investigation spirals spectacularly out of control. The fair is closing. Getting out is another matter. Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition actual play set in New York’s Capital District.

    Interlude Episode 1 - The Fair Closes Hungry | Vampire: The Masquerade 5th ed | Capital District : After Dar

  6. Aug 2

    What We Save From The Fire | Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition | Rage Over the Hudson

    The Cult of Fenris is preparing to destroy one of the largest data centers in New York—and everyone inside it. With less than a day to act, the pack must decide what matters most: stopping the attack, saving the workers, protecting a frightened defector, or turning the Cult’s own weapons against them. Their plan takes them from a battered Taco Bell parking lot to a stolen minivan, a suspicious arms dealer, and a lonely road outside Mechanicville. But even the best plan can collapse the moment the shooting starts. Rage Over the Hudson is a Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition actual-play chronicle set in New York’s Capital District.

    What We Save From The Fire | Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition | Rage Over the Hudson

  7. Aug 2

    The Tribes Ask | Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition | Rage Over The Hudson

    Stonegate survived—and the Garou Nation is beginning to fracture under the weight of that failure. Called separately before their tribes, the members of the pack must answer difficult questions about loyalty, leadership, and whether mixed packs still have a place in the war for Gaia. While the Black Furies hunt the corruption beneath their own arguments, the Glass Walkers build a digital trap, the Children of Gaia protect Stonegate’s survivors, and the Silent Striders consider a new hunt that could unite the sept—or lead it into another war. When a teenage defector brings warning of an imminent Cult of Fenris attack, the pack races into Albany to stop an abduction before it becomes the opening move in something much larger. Rage Over the Hudson is a Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition actual-play chronicle set in New York’s Capital District.

    The Tribes Ask | Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition | Rage Over The Hudson

  8. Jul 27

    Session 12 - No One Leaves before The Encore | Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition | Capital District : After Dark

    Season One reaches its final curtain at Albany’s Palace Theatre. A charity gala, Black Static Revival’s farewell concert, a private Kindred wedding, and a protest demanding answers all collide beneath one roof. With cameras rolling, old debts coming due, and the Beast close to the surface, the coterie must decide what they are willing to expose, protect, or destroy before the encore. Capital District: After Dark is a Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition actual-play chronicle set in New York’s Capital District. Content warning: Mature themes, violence, blood, addiction, coercion, and emotional abuse

    Session 12 - No One Leaves before The Encore | Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition | Capital District : After Dark
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Zed’s Den of Darkness is the home of Commodore Zed’s live World of Darkness actual plays, featuring character-driven horror, long-form storytelling, and deeply realized settings. From Vampire: The Masquerade chronicles like Capital District: After Dark, to Werewolf: The Apocalypse in Rage Over the Hudson, plus limited series and deep-cut World of Darkness games, each show focuses on consequences, complicated characters, local history, and horror rooted in the world around us. Expect political intrigue, supernatural violence, broken loyalties, difficult choices, and stories where the setting

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