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One Luv,
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Benny S.

It's simply amazing that we've been doing these videos for a year now. Over the past year we've completed two volumes of videos. Sit back and enjoy my favorite ten moments from the past year.



Keep en eye open for the start of Vol. 3. We have a ton of videos from the Big Apple Con in NY, a new series called Variant Edition, and favorites like SUPERSTARS.


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This Friday, on University of Central Florida Campus, behind the Student Union...

Dark Embrace presents Vampire: The Requiem

Enter a world where you take part in shadowy manipulations and political chess moves, all hidden from the mortal realm by a veil of secrecy.

What we do is not easily defined. However, we gather together, to collectively tell a story, through each of us portraying a character of our own creation. Imagine if a soap opera or movie had no script, and all of the actors made their own characters. The characters are created according to specific guidelines, and all fit within a specific modern setting with hints of the supernatural. One person, the Storyteller, is like a combination of a Director, and portrays all the 'extras' that the player's characters encounter. There is also a set of game mechanics, that can be used to determine success or failure on tasks taken by the characters.

The setting is current day, with supernatural themes. Humanity is largely ignorant of the creatures that stalk the night, as a policy of secrecy, known as the Masquerade, is strictly enforced. Vampires, werewolves, ghosts, wizards, and other various creatures remain hidden in the darkness.

The characters we portray are vampires, whom are all enmeshed in a political body that covers the entirety of Orange and Osceola Counties. Byzantine political maneuvers that would rival Machiavelli are abound, as are social aspects which might be reminiscent in various soap operas.

Even though we portray vampires, we don't actually drink blood, nor do we actually believe that we are vampires. Most of us are normal people, with jobs, going to school, and some of us happen to have children. We look forward to our gatherings, as a form of escapism, that we can put aside the stresses from a 9 to 5 job, forget about the mortgage, and portray a character that has their own set of problems and personality quirks, for a few hours at a tim