Fisher Body Plant

Fisher Body Plant #21 once was a bustling, strapping place where car bodies were produced and shipped off to other factories for assembly into a final product. Today, the only bodies it produces are the exsanguinated corpses of vampire victims.

Body plant number 21 was built in 1919 on Piquette Street in Detroit. The six-story building was commissioned by businessman Albert Fisher. It features reinforced concrete construction and windowed walls to allow in natural light.

The plant originally produced car bodies for Buick and Cadillac. However a series of violent strikes broke out at General Motors and Fisher Body plants across the country in the late 1930’s, bringing work to a halt. Like other automotive companies, Fisher retooled during the Second World War for military production, manufacturing components for planes, anti-aircraft guns, tanks, other materials. According to a local urban legend, bombs were produced here and their remnants can still be found, still ready to detonate.

Despite its dangers, locals come to Fisher Body Plant to scavenge for supplies. Copper strippers claim that the copper wiring in the walls gets replaced from time to time and urban explorers swear that they've recovered WWII-era gear in well preserved, unused condition from the area.

After the war, the plant went back to producing cars, as well as large bodied vehicles for civilian purposes such as buses, ambulances, and limousines. But by the late 1970s, the city of Detroit had begun a sharp decline in economic stability. In November of 1982, General Motors announced it was closing Fisher Body Plant #21. The last day of production was April Fool’s Day, 1984.

The vacant plant found new life when the Carter Color Coat Company purchased it in 1990 for use in industrial painting; this however was short-lived, as Carter Color filed for bankruptcy in 1993 and subsequently abandoned the plant. Workers at the company reported hearing frightening sounds coming from the vents and basements. They claimed to frequently experienced moments of lost time while on the job. The plant has remained abandoned since and ownership of the site reverted to the city of Detroit in 2000.

The unfortunate workers of the Carter Color Coat Company had no idea that in the time that the Fisher Body Plant had been abandoned, it had become the active headquarters of Belial's Brood. It's thought that the many workers who suddenly stopped clocking in may have never left the building.

The main building is mostly abandoned during the daylight hours. Usually, it's only sparsely patrolled by vagrant ghouls adopted by Belial's Brood. These ghouls are armed and dangerous. They are unhinged and fanatically loyal to their covenant. Many of them fueled by the promise that one day they will be Embraced.

At night, the revenant victims of Belial's Brood wake up and roam the grounds, looking for blood to quench their unending thirst. The vampires of Belial's brood themselves *enthrall*, *charm*, or *dominate* these revenants and torment them with the hope that one day they can be made whole. Even at night, the Brood makes themselves sparse on the main floor. They only emerge in large numbers for special events. They spend the majority of their time down in the sewer-connected basements beneath the main building, only coming out to hunt, play, and perform their dark blood rituals.

The building is protected by vampiric magic which protects the vampires within from the sunlight outside, allowing them to roam the grounds during the daytime if they can manage to stay awake. Every once in a while, Belial's Brood vampires will go hunting during daytime hours, when mortals are more likely to be caught scavenging the area.

Despite its rotten looking state, its outermost walls are reinforced by blood magic, making them near inpenetrable. The doors and pathways which lead to the quarters of Belial's Brood are hidden out of the way and obscured with master level *obfuscate* techniques.

The below ground levels of the plant are cut off from Supernal magic, functioning as an Ansho.

Leylines associated with violence, death, fear, and hatred run through Fisher Body Plant.

Roll Modifiers: Stealth (+2), Social rolls to avoid confrontation (-1), rolls to resist fear (-1), rolls to resist anger (-1), hunting for vitae (+1), Investigation rolls made to gather information (-3), Investigation rolls made to find a useful random item (+3).