Humans of Madison
🕯️ Mortals & Hunters of Madison
The Sleeper City That Watches, Sleeps, and Sometimes Strikes Back
🧍 Overview
Most of Madison’s 1985 population are Sleepers—ordinary humans unaware of the true nature of reality. Yet beneath the surface lies a tapestry of urban folklore, conspiracies, political power plays, and the quiet rise of awakened mortal resistance.
While the Traditions, Kindred, Garou, and Fae manipulate the city’s unseen structures, several mortals have begun to glimpse the truth. Some are pawns. Some are threats. And a few are hunters in the making—willing or otherwise.
🏛️ City Power & Political Figures
🧔 Mayor James Calloway
Age: 54
Role: Mayor of Madison
- Charismatic but paranoid.
- Secretly aided by Technocracy operatives, especially the NWO.
- Received anonymous threats referencing “the darkness under the Capitol.”
“If I don’t know about it, it isn’t happening. And if it is happening, it isn’t my problem.”Characters Draft
⚖️ Judge Harold Whitmore
Age: 60
Role: Circuit Court Judge
- Bribed by Pentex, manipulated by the Tremere.
- Suppressed investigations into disappearances near Peace Park.
“The law is about interpretation. And I interpret the law to serve the greater good… my good.”
🕵️ Law Enforcement & Investigators
🕵️♀️ Detective Sandra Beckett
Age: 42
Role: Homicide Division
- Investigates ritual killings and crimes that defy logic.
- Aware something is wrong but lacks full understanding.
- Has crossed paths with Lacy Z. Rivere and Jan None.
“When the facts don’t fit, someone’s playing a different game.”
📰 Media & Information Control
📺 Rick Samuels
Age: 49
Role: Lead Anchor, Channel 27 WMTV
- Influenced by the NWO to control narratives.
- Recently received a leaked Capitol security tape showing something inhuman.
“The people deserve the truth. The truth they can handle.”
🗞️ Angela Yates
Age: 33
Role: Investigative Journalist, The Isthmus
- Tracking ritual murders and missing persons since 1980.
- Knows enough to be dangerous.
- In direct contact with Nosferatu agents and Hollow Ones.
“I don’t do conspiracy theories. I do evidence.”
📻 Marcus Delgado
Age: 28
Role: Radio Host, WMMM 105.5 “The Midnight Hour”
- Late-night host obsessed with conspiracies, aliens, and strange signals.
- Unwittingly broadcasts fragments from New Eden and dreams seeded by Malkavians.
“If you’re awake, maybe something else is listening too…”
💼 Business, Wealth & Shadow Economics
💰 Walter Pembroke
Age: 61
Role: CEO of Pembroke Investments
- Secret Pentex asset, involved in real estate around leyline sites.
- Plans to gentrify Peace Park, disrupting its spiritual function.
“Madison’s changing. I intend to own every inch of its future.”
🎭 Lisa Hargrove
Age: 39
Role: Owner of Velvet Shadow Nightclub
- Works with Gangrel Kindred Jessica Woodfield to maintain neutral Elysium territory.
- Serves as a mortal intermediary for Kindred and mortal elites.
🏹 Mortal Hunters & Resistance
Though not part of the Imbued (yet), Madison has the seeds of a hunter movement. These individuals operate in the margins, driven by obsession, trauma, or divine inspiration.
🔎 Angela Yates (see above)
- Leads an informal network of whistleblowers and missing persons advocates.
- May later Awaken as a Visionary-type Imbued.
👣 Tasha Morrell
Role: Paranormal investigator and Vietnam vet
- Former intelligence officer turned conspiracy theorist.
- Keeps files on Capitol anomalies, glyph appearances, and missing persons.
- Tracks echoes of the Nameless in dreams and static.
- Unknown to her, her daughter is a Dreamer.
☠️ Civilian Victims and Supernatural Puppets
- Twelve mortals were ritually murdered in the Capitol building on Feb 9, 1985—their bodies arranged to match Capitol Node ley lines.
- Local citizens report:
- Dreams of static
- Disappearing people
- Voices from mirrors or radios
- Reversed reflections at bus stops
The Nameless, operating through Nephandi agents, Kindred pawns, and corrupted infrastructure, uses the belief and fear of mortals to weaken reality and widen its breachMadtown World of Darkne….
⚖️ Summary
| Group | Role | Connection |
|---|---|---|
| City Government | Willing pawns of Technocracy and Pentex | Policy manipulation, site access, suppression of investigations |
| Media & Police | Mixed | Some serve Control; others suspect the truth |
| Business Elite | Mostly compromised | Real estate, spiritual desecration, financial control |
| Independent Mortals | Emerging resistance | Evidence collection, public awareness, possible future Imbuing |
🧠 Themes
- Ignorance Is Safety. Awareness Is Death. The more mortals learn, the more they’re pulled into the spiral of erasure.
- The City as a Lie Madison is built on an enchantment—but its stories are being rewritten.