Quinzio La Franchi

**Quinzio La Franchi** is an Adriatic Strix who travels around Florence moving towns every couple of years. For a Strix he is relatively young, only 98 years.

## The Arc

**NOTE!** Warn the players that this adventure is very sexual.

### I - Call to Adventure

**DM:** "The bartender comes over and gives you a drink, a Bloody Mary. He says:"

**Bartender :** "The man over there bought you this."

**DM:** "He gestures to a man across the room, he smiles at you and lifts his drink slightly. Before setting it down and taking a hit of his cigarette."

**DM:** "The man from earlier approaches you."

**Quinzio:** "How are you doing stranger? What brings you to Capanne?"

**DM:** "You notice across the bar a man glaring at you, a look of judgment and contempt in his eyes." (Yazik Karaca)

**Quinzio:** "Looks like the bar is closing soon, how about we go back to my place?"

OST: To The Flat

### II - Refusal

**DM:** "When you enter the flat it is elegant, only one floor but it was build on a cliff, it looks over the entire city. Everything is decorated in a strange way, art deco, like nothing you've ever seen. He takes your hand and you fall on the bed. Cut to a few minutes later, as he kisses you he bites down, hard. Focuses on your neck. A few minutes later he's on top of you and he smiles. He reaches down to his leg, you didn't notice before but he has a thigh holster. He takes a knife and puts it to his chest, he cuts himself deep, deeper than you could think you could go. Despite the depth only a small amount of blood comes out. He grabs you and leans in to kiss you, he bites your tongue and a familiar metallic taste fills it. He presses your head against his wound. The blood gets on your face, the iron fills your lungs and flows down your throat. The camera pans behind an object and everything goes black"

**DM:** "Cut to the camera looking down at both of you on the bed from the ceiling. Both of you are covered in blood. Quinzio smokes a cigarette."

**Quinzio:** "Get some rest, you'll be hungry tomorrow."

### III - Supernatural Aid

**DM:** "You wake up, all the blood is gone, the bed is white. Quinzio is gone."

**Maid:** "Good morning. Quinzio requested I grab this for you."

She pulls out a decanter of black red liquid, as well as crystal glasses, she pours you a cup and hands it to you.

**Maid:** "To keep up your strength."

Quinzio is sleeping in his private chamber.

**Maid:** "Well you might want to get used to working the night shift."

### IV - Crossing The Threshold

OST: Seduction

**DM:** "You see a woman/man across the street. You have a strange sudden attraction to them, you can hear their heart beat. As you look at them they turn, almost out of involuntary instinct than will, they look at you with empty eyes and smile."

**Prostitute:** "You know you're really quite handsome. I'm not usually so forward but--something about you."

**DM:** "It's hard to pay attention to them, their words blur out of focus, all you can think about is their neck. You see their blood pumping through. You reach up and grab them by the wrist subconsciously."

The player will gain the Bullet-proof ability.

### V - Belly of the Whale

OST: Out of Control

**DM:** "The camera cuts to Quinzino's flat. Looking at the ground, at the base of the bed, it's covered in blood. It pans up, revealing more and more of a body strapped to the wall. Completely nude. Rivers of blood runs down the leg, as the camera gets higher the tendrils all slowly coalesce. They meet at a giant charred gash in the torso. Their entrails spill out met with burnt blood and when the camera meets the head you see it is Quinzino. His eyes are glassy, his head limp. On his chest is a note fixed with a silver knife:"

**Note:** "Your boyfriend is a monster, and so it seems dear, are you."

**Maid:** "They're coming after you now. But I know where he lives. I hope you will avenge him, not for your sake, for mine."

The Maid was Quinzino's Mother.

### VI - The Road of Trials ("The Temptress")

OST: Assassin 1

**DM:** "A woman approaches you, she is dressed in formal dress wear, not something that is usually seen on the streets, and certainly not here in Capanne."
**Assassin 1:** "Got a light?"

**Assassin 1:** "Tell me, does your heart bleed? Or do you lack one completely?"

She tries to stab the player with a silver knife. She also has a gun with silver bullets.

### VII - The Road of Trials ("Revenge")

OST: Revenge

**DM:** "You find the house with the same address, the lights are on."
Yazik is hiding in his home. He will try and jump the player, if he cannot, he will run.

### VIII - The Road of Trials ("Hunger")

OST: Sex Drive

**DM:** "You're hungry. A compulsion overcomes you, no it's not hunger, its a thirst."
If the player does not feed they will deteriorate. If they do, they gain the Dominate ability.

### IX - Meeting with the Goddess

OST: Giovanni and Vittoria

**DM:** "A man appears in front of you, you did not see him a moment before. He's lighting a cigarette."
**Giovanni Aberetti:** "Hey there hot-shot, I heard about all the bad shit going down. Thought we'd pop on by. Gotta protect our own right?"

**Giovanni Aberetti:** "Giovanni--and no not like the fucking bar. This is my lovely friend Vittoria."

**Vittoria:** "Charmed I'm sure. Like Giovanni was saying we heard about Quinzino yesterday. A real shame, but more importantly a real threat."

**Giovanni Aberetti:** "We don't really like these fey-slaying pricks, they lump us in with faeries and honestly nothing could be more insulting."

**Vittoria:** "The point is, we're here to help you out, what do you know?"

...

**Giovanni Aberetti:** "Alright, lets go smoke this skin wagon."

They need to go back to his old place so Vittoria can get a reading. Once she does:

OST: Dark Light

**Vittoria:** "He's in the Proles."

**Giovanni Aberetti:** "Oh god there's shit in the streets there Vittoria. I just bought these shoes."

### X - Atonement with the Father

**DM:** "You see him in the window of a shitty hotel. He's cleaning a gun."

OST: Quinzino's Vengance

Boss Fight!

### XIII - The Return

[1]OST: Pain

If they win, The vampires return to capital but extend an invitation:

**Giovanni Aberetti:** "Listen, you're good with a gun, and you're really cute. If you ever want an opportunity somewhere bigger, call us."

Giovanni gives him a business card of the Church of the Waning Sun.

They get all the Vampire buffs.