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 * '''1915:''' San Francisco rebuilt itself on a rapid, grand scale by 1915. The earthquake hastened development of western neighborhoods that survived the fire, including Pacific Heights, where many of the city's wealthy rebuilt their homes.59 In turn, the destroyed mansions of Nob Hill became grand hotels.
 * '''1916:''' Ventrue Vannevar Thomas is appointed Prince of San Francisco, beginning a reign that lasted until Jochen Van Nuys displaced him in 1996.
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 * '''1967:''' The Summer of Love attracted a wide range of people of various ages: teenagers and college students drawn by their peers and the allure of joining an alleged cultural utopia; middle-class vacationers; and even partying military personnel from bases within driving distance. The Haight-Ashbury could not accommodate this influx of people, and the neighborhood scene quickly deteriorated, with overcrowding, homelessness, hunger, drug problems, and crime afflicting the neighborhood.
-* '''1965:''' Professor Noah Martin converts his 3-story home on Cedar Lane (Clarion Alley) into a self-cleaning party pad in a feat of magick, providing the city with the space that eventually became its chantry.
+* '''1962:''' Professor Noah Martin converts his 3-story home on Cedar Lane (Clarion Alley) into a self-cleaning party pad in a feat of magick, providing the city with the space that eventually became its chantry.
-* '''1978:''' Nolan Mathis Fournier, Toreador and Keeper of Elysium (at the time) goes missing, permanently.  Many theories arose as to his disappearance, all of them blaming one of his many enemies, none of them quite agreeing on their identity.
+* '''1965:''' Nolan Mathis Fournier, Toreador and Keeper of Elysium (at the time) goes missing, permanently.  Many theories arose as to his disappearance, all of them blaming one of his many enemies, none of them quite agreeing on their identity.
-* '''1980:''' Professor Martin dies gruesomely in his second attempt at converting a space into one of his self-cleaning party pads, requiring the local Mages to come together to destroy a building and make it look like a minor earthquake.
+* '''1972:''' Professor Martin dies gruesomely in his second attempt at converting a space into one of his self-cleaning party pads, requiring the local Mages to come together to destroy a building and make it look like a minor earthquake.
 * '''1982:''' A dramatic increase in the number of homeless people starts in the city, an issue that remains today, despite many attempts to address it.
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 * '''1998:'''The dot-com boom brings a flood of startup companies into the San Francisco economy. Large numbers of entrepreneurs and computer application developers moved into the city, followed by marketing, design, and sales professionals, changing the social landscape as once-poorer neighborhoods became increasingly gentrified.  The War In Heaven blazes, many of the local Tradition Mages travel into Horizon in a futile attempt to help stop the Ascension Warrior. Concordia falls, Horizon burns.
 * '''1999:''' Phone phreaking Virtual Adept [[Alex Foster]] creates the Signal Jammer, a self-replicating Correspondence effect meant to conceal him and his cabal from Technocratic incursions.
 == The 2000s ==

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 ** '''Signal Boost:''' [[Alex Foster]]'s Signal Jammer, propagated by phone and wifi signals which are growing in popularity, has spiraled wildly out of control, steadily growing into the quagmire that persists today.
-* '''2007'''
+* '''2007:'''
 ** '''Seven Once More:''' After several years of political maneuvering, the Vizier Tegyrius is declared the first Justicar of the Assamite clan.  Tegyrius recieves the political “boon” of authority over the Josian Archons as part of his office.  The Josians are a group of Archons that investigate reports of rising Methuselahs and other rumors of Gehenna, along with the practice of diabolism within the Ivory Tower.
 ** '''The New Burning Times:''' The Sabbat’s excesses catch up to it, as an alliance of well-armed, well-educated mortal hunters wipe out the domain of Savannah with a single coordinated assault, and do crippling damage to other domains.  Detroit is so badly weakened by the hunters’ depredations that the Anarch Movement is able to overthrow the Sabbat there, taking the city for themselves.  This new burning time effectively ends the Sabbat’s Grand Enfilade, and the hot war between the Ivory Tower and Sword of Caine goes cold.  Careful sniping, battling for territory via proxy and influence, and guarded diplomacy become the order of the night.

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 ** '''Signal Boost:''' [[Alex Foster]]'s Signal Jammer, propagated by phone and wifi signals which are growing in popularity, has spiraled wildly out of control, steadily growing into the quagmire that persists today.
-* '''2007, Seven Once More:''' After several years of political maneuvering, the Vizier Tegyrius is declared the first Justicar of the Assamite clan.  Tegyrius recieves the political “boon” of authority over the Josian Archons as part of his office.  The Josians are a group of Archons that investigate reports of rising Methuselahs and other rumors of Gehenna, along with the practice of diabolism within the Ivory Tower.
+* '''2007'''
 * '''2010:''' The Mandarinate is dissolved after Luna Demian devises a way to break through their wards and a successful assassination campaign is carried out in a rare joint effort between the Sects, some of it intentional, some of it coincidental.

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 ** '''Sejanus Rising:''' So, funny story, remember how Theo Bell killed Marcus Vitel and in the chaos the Sabbat seized control of Washington D.C.? Turns out that even the Killa B couldn’t finish that old fucker off, but what do you expect from a two thousand year-old Sombra?  In 2005, while Sascha Vykos was distracted with other concerns, Vitel, or rather Lucius Sejanus woke up from torpor and declared himself the independent Prince of Washington D.C., beholden to neither the Camarilla nor the Sabbat, and that “his city” stood as a haven to all Cainites who had wearied of the war between the sects. Backed by a motley assortment of cast-offs and odd puzzle pieces from all across everywhere and drawing on the support of the Giovanni and the Followers of Set, Sejanus started an intense brawl with the Sabbat, and ultimately came out on top.  This was a giant shit in Cardinal Polonia’s cornflakes, because it meant that the Sabbat’s East Coast crusade was now officially a gigantic failure, with gallons of Cainite blood spilled, and the Sabbat  actually in a worse position on the East Coast than they were when they started.  Backed into a corner, Polonia saw no way out except to… take credit for 9/11 and start agitating for the Sabbat to turn its attention to the Holy Land.
 ** '''Signal Boost:''' [[Alex Foster]]'s Signal Jammer, propagated by phone and wifi signals which are growing in popularity, has spiraled wildly out of control, steadily growing into the quagmire that persists today.
 * '''2010:''' The Mandarinate is dissolved after Luna Demian devises a way to break through their wards and a successful assassination campaign is carried out in a rare joint effort between the Sects, some of it intentional, some of it coincidental.

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 * '''2003:''' At some point, possibly during the first American invasion of Iraq, the long-forgotten (by most) tomb of the Assamite methuselah ur-Shulgi was disturbed, first by falling bombs and then by Iraqi deserters who were looking for plunder but wound up being the ravenous elders first meal. Ur-Shulgi eventually returned to Alamut where it murdered the sitting Eldest, rallied hardcore loyalists to its banner and alienated others by forbidding all religion save worship of the clans Antediluvian founder. The Vizier Tegyrius and Amr al-Ashrad, anticipating that the increasing tumult in Iraq might bring ur-Shulgi out of torpor, had already initiated a conspiracy within the clan to escape to the relative safety of the Camarilla.
-* '''2005, The Pogrom Begins:''' As rumors of Gehenna spread, the Camarilla seeks unity in its clan identities.  Bigotry against the Caitiff spikes, and the “clanless trash” soon find themselves stripped of domain, hunting rights, and sometimes actively hunted or driven out of safe cities.  Many of the clanless die; others seek asylum in the Anarch Movements or the welcoming arms of the Sabbat.  This culminates in the Inner Circle proclaiming a Greater Status Ban on all Caitiff, limiting their ability to trade in boons or hold influence in the Camarilla to almost nothing.
+* '''2005:'''
+** '''The Pogrom Begins:''' As rumors of Gehenna spread, the Camarilla seeks unity in its clan identities.  Bigotry against the Caitiff spikes, and the “clanless trash” soon find themselves stripped of domain, hunting rights, and sometimes actively hunted or driven out of safe cities.  Many of the clanless die; others seek asylum in the Anarch Movements or the welcoming arms of the Sabbat.  This culminates in the Inner Circle proclaiming a Greater Status Ban on all Caitiff, limiting their ability to trade in boons or hold influence in the Camarilla to almost nothing.
-* '''2005:''' [[Alex Foster]]'s Signal Jammer, propagated by phone and wifi signals which are growing in popularity, has spiraled wildly out of control, steadily growing into the quagmire that persists today.
+** '''Sejanus Rising:''' So, funny story, remember how Theo Bell killed Marcus Vitel and in the chaos the Sabbat seized control of Washington D.C.? Turns out that even the Killa B couldn’t finish that old fucker off, but what do you expect from a two thousand year-old Sombra?  In 2005, while Sascha Vykos was distracted with other concerns, Vitel, or rather Lucius Sejanus woke up from torpor and declared himself the independent Prince of Washington D.C., beholden to neither the Camarilla nor the Sabbat, and that “his city” stood as a haven to all Cainites who had wearied of the war between the sects. Backed by a motley assortment of cast-offs and odd puzzle pieces from all across everywhere and drawing on the support of the Giovanni and the Followers of Set, Sejanus started an intense brawl with the Sabbat, and ultimately came out on top.  This was a giant shit in Cardinal Polonia’s cornflakes, because it meant that the Sabbat’s East Coast crusade was now officially a gigantic failure, with gallons of Cainite blood spilled, and the Sabbat  actually in a worse position on the East Coast than they were when they started.  Backed into a corner, Polonia saw no way out except to… take credit for 9/11 and start agitating for the Sabbat to turn its attention to the Holy Land.
 * '''2010:''' The Mandarinate is dissolved after Luna Demian devises a way to break through their wards and a successful assassination campaign is carried out in a rare joint effort between the Sects, some of it intentional, some of it coincidental.

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	* '''2003:''' At some point, possibly during the first American invasion of Iraq, the long-forgotten (by most) tomb of the Assamite methuselah ur-Shulgi was disturbed, first by falling bombs and then by Iraqi deserters who were looking for plunder but wound up being the ravenous elders first meal. Ur-Shulgi eventually returned to Alamut where it murdered the sitting Eldest, rallied hardcore loyalists to its banner and alienated others by forbidding all religion save worship of the clans Antediluvian founder. The Vizier Tegyrius and Amr al-Ashrad, anticipating that the increasing tumult in Iraq might bring ur-Shulgi out of torpor, had already initiated a conspiracy within the clan to escape to the relative safety of the Camarilla.		* '''2003:''' At some point, possibly during the first American invasion of Iraq, the long-forgotten (by most) tomb of the Assamite methuselah ur-Shulgi was disturbed, first by falling bombs and then by Iraqi deserters who were looking for plunder but wound up being the ravenous elders first meal. Ur-Shulgi eventually returned to Alamut where it murdered the sitting Eldest, rallied hardcore loyalists to its banner and alienated others by forbidding all religion save worship of the clans Antediluvian founder. The Vizier Tegyrius and Amr al-Ashrad, anticipating that the increasing tumult in Iraq might bring ur-Shulgi out of torpor, had already initiated a conspiracy within the clan to escape to the relative safety of the Camarilla.
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		+	* '''2005, The Pogrom Begins:''' As rumors of Gehenna spread, the Camarilla seeks unity in its clan identities. Bigotry against the Caitiff spikes, and the “clanless trash” soon find themselves stripped of domain, hunting rights, and sometimes actively hunted or driven out of safe cities. Many of the clanless die; others seek asylum in the Anarch Movements or the welcoming arms of the Sabbat. This culminates in the Inner Circle proclaiming a Greater Status Ban on all Caitiff, limiting their ability to trade in boons or hold influence in the Camarilla to almost nothing.

	* '''2005:''' [[Alex Foster]]'s Signal Jammer, propagated by phone and wifi signals which are growing in popularity, has spiraled wildly out of control, steadily growing into the quagmire that persists today.		* '''2005:''' [[Alex Foster]]'s Signal Jammer, propagated by phone and wifi signals which are growing in popularity, has spiraled wildly out of control, steadily growing into the quagmire that persists today.

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 | Primogen DeSantis's questionably named salon, often declared Elysium
 | Camarilla, Anarchs
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 | [[Under The Bridge Skatepark]]

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 = Businesses =
 * [[Lucky Boar Studios]] is a production company which has recently been involved in the supernatural.
 * '''Dubois-Durand''' sells jewelry across a wide range of price points via website, catalogs, and digital marketplaces. The retailer operates a flagship store in San Francisco and two stores under the Andre Mercier banner in Sausalito and San Rafael.

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