This is the background story for a character I played in a live-action role-playing game called Vampire: The Masquerade. Instead of making it up on the fly like I'd seen several others do, I wrote this out on a typewriter to give it an aged appearance. Probably for no other reason than actually using it instead of letting it collect dust. There may be several terms used that won't make accurate sense unless you are familiar with the game, but aside from that, I hope is an overall enjoying read. I am aware of the Stabbing Westward and Dream Theater references, and they were just for content. Remember this was just a story for a game character, not something intended to be published.

A continuation of Julian's story, picking up about three years later, after some personally revealing details come to the surface.

About the same time I was involved with the Vampire game mentioned in the above story, I also played one with a Mage theme. After reading the rulebooks and twisting in my own fascination with ghosts, this story came about. Of a young man who 'Awakens' (game term for becoming magically gifted) and finds his new abilities slowly start to tie himself closely with the spirits of the deceased. Background stories are what your character had been through up until the point when you started playing them, so this one is quite shorter because I summarized quite a bit.