The frontier’s debts remain

Oil, land development and port expansion replace mining as sources of rapid wealth.

Old rights of way become service tunnels, easements and forgotten clauses in later property agreements.

Vampire institutions present themselves as older and more legitimate than they really are.

Garou discover that protecting a place now requires understanding zoning, water diversions and corporations. Ratkin find opportunities beneath the expanding city.

Wraiths learn that demolishing a building can scatter a community without releasing its dead.

Gambling rooms become more selective about membership. The city’s respectable investors continue to condemn habits they sometimes indulge in private.