New York by night - Stella Marks’ adventures in the darkness
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New York by night is an immersive storytelling project that blends investigative journalism with Vampire: The Masquerade TTRPG actual play. Follow Stella Marks as she uncovers the hidden world beneath New York City through articles, interviews and cinematic storytelling. Your support helps bring this dark universe to life with original writing, artwork and immersive content.
*This is a fictional story about a fictional character, based on an active tabletop role-playing game in the universe of Word of Darkness, Vampire: The Masquerade. Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The content of this page (e.g. pictures) made with AI, the text is protected by copyright, as it is the writer's own intellectual product.*
*This is a fictional story about a fictional character, based on an active tabletop role-playing game in the universe of Word of Darkness, Vampire: The Masquerade. Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. The content of this page (e.g. pictures) made with AI, the text is protected by copyright, as it is the writer's own intellectual product.*
Observer
5 EUR Monthly
I support
See the world.
You already know Stella's story. Now you can see the world around her.
Observer includes everything available to Readers, along with the visual references created to give the people and places of New York by Night – Stella Marks’ Adventures in the Darkness a face.
See Stella as she changes throughout the story. Meet the people who cross her path. Step inside the apartments, clubs, offices and other places she enters while moving through New York's hidden world.
These images are designed as visual references for the written story. They show you what characters and locations look like without replacing the story itself or illustrating individual moments from it.
When Stella meets someone new, you may finally put a face to the name.
When she walks into an unfamiliar place, you may see the room she sees.
And as her world grows, so will the visual archive surrounding it.
Included:
- Character portraits
- Locations and environments from the story
- Visual references for important places
- New character and location images as the story expands
The complete written story can be read in Substack for free. Your membership supports the time and creative work behind the visual side of the project.
See the people. See the places. See Stella's world.
You already know Stella's story. Now you can see the world around her.
Observer includes everything available to Readers, along with the visual references created to give the people and places of New York by Night – Stella Marks’ Adventures in the Darkness a face.
See Stella as she changes throughout the story. Meet the people who cross her path. Step inside the apartments, clubs, offices and other places she enters while moving through New York's hidden world.
These images are designed as visual references for the written story. They show you what characters and locations look like without replacing the story itself or illustrating individual moments from it.
When Stella meets someone new, you may finally put a face to the name.
When she walks into an unfamiliar place, you may see the room she sees.
And as her world grows, so will the visual archive surrounding it.
Included:
- Character portraits
- Locations and environments from the story
- Visual references for important places
- New character and location images as the story expands
The complete written story can be read in Substack for free. Your membership supports the time and creative work behind the visual side of the project.
See the people. See the places. See Stella's world.
Investigator
9 EUR Monthly
I support
Witness the story.
Some moments deserve more than words.
Investigator takes you beyond the visual references of the Observer tier and into the actual events of *New York by Night – Stella Marks’ Adventures in the Darkness.*
See the moments Stella experiences as they happen.
A conversation that changes everything. A figure disappearing into the darkness. A strange encounter beneath the streets of New York. The moment Stella realizes that what she has seen cannot be explained away.
Investigator members receive **cinematic illustrations of selected scenes directly from the story**, created to capture the atmosphere, tension and emotion of Stella's journey.
These aren't simply portraits or pictures of locations. They depict specific moments you've already encountered in the written story — giving you another way to experience them.
Not every paragraph will become an image. Instead, selected moments from each chapter will be chosen because they deserve to be seen.
Included:
- Everything available to Observer members
- Cinematic illustrations of scenes from the story
- Selected key moments from new chapters
- Atmospheric, character-driven and action scenes
- New scene artwork as Stella's story continues
The complete written story freely available. Your membership supports the creation of the visual world surrounding it.
You can read what happened.
Now you can witness it.
Some moments deserve more than words.
Investigator takes you beyond the visual references of the Observer tier and into the actual events of *New York by Night – Stella Marks’ Adventures in the Darkness.*
See the moments Stella experiences as they happen.
A conversation that changes everything. A figure disappearing into the darkness. A strange encounter beneath the streets of New York. The moment Stella realizes that what she has seen cannot be explained away.
Investigator members receive **cinematic illustrations of selected scenes directly from the story**, created to capture the atmosphere, tension and emotion of Stella's journey.
These aren't simply portraits or pictures of locations. They depict specific moments you've already encountered in the written story — giving you another way to experience them.
Not every paragraph will become an image. Instead, selected moments from each chapter will be chosen because they deserve to be seen.
Included:
- Everything available to Observer members
- Cinematic illustrations of scenes from the story
- Selected key moments from new chapters
- Atmospheric, character-driven and action scenes
- New scene artwork as Stella's story continues
The complete written story freely available. Your membership supports the creation of the visual world surrounding it.
You can read what happened.
Now you can witness it.
Insider
14 EUR Monthly
I support
Access Stella’s files.
You’ve seen the people. You’ve witnessed the moments.
Now see the things Stella sees.
Insider gives you access to Stella’s Case Files — a growing collection of documents, messages, photographs and other materials that exist inside the story itself.
These aren’t behind-the-scenes notes about how the story was created. They are the things Stella receives, discovers, writes down, photographs or keeps while investigating the increasingly strange world around her.
A business card handed to her after a conversation.
A message from an unknown number.
A handwritten note in her apartment.
An FBI document she manages to see.
A newspaper article connected to an investigation.
A photograph that suddenly matters much more than it did before.
If Stella can hold it, read it, receive it or find it, you may find it here.
Included:
- Everything available to Observer and Investigator members
- Stella’s notes and investigation materials
- Text messages, emails and correspondence
- Letters, invitations and business cards
- Newspaper clippings and documents
- Evidence photographs and other story artifacts
- Access to the growing Stella’s Case Files archive
Not every chapter will produce a new file. New materials will appear whenever Stella encounters something worth keeping.
The complete written story remains freely available, and no essential part of the narrative is hidden here.
Anything important revealed by these materials will also exist in the written story.
Insider simply lets you experience those discoveries the way Stella does.
You’ve read the story.
You’ve seen the world.
You’ve witnessed the moments.
Now open the files.
You’ve seen the people. You’ve witnessed the moments.
Now see the things Stella sees.
Insider gives you access to Stella’s Case Files — a growing collection of documents, messages, photographs and other materials that exist inside the story itself.
These aren’t behind-the-scenes notes about how the story was created. They are the things Stella receives, discovers, writes down, photographs or keeps while investigating the increasingly strange world around her.
A business card handed to her after a conversation.
A message from an unknown number.
A handwritten note in her apartment.
An FBI document she manages to see.
A newspaper article connected to an investigation.
A photograph that suddenly matters much more than it did before.
If Stella can hold it, read it, receive it or find it, you may find it here.
Included:
- Everything available to Observer and Investigator members
- Stella’s notes and investigation materials
- Text messages, emails and correspondence
- Letters, invitations and business cards
- Newspaper clippings and documents
- Evidence photographs and other story artifacts
- Access to the growing Stella’s Case Files archive
Not every chapter will produce a new file. New materials will appear whenever Stella encounters something worth keeping.
The complete written story remains freely available, and no essential part of the narrative is hidden here.
Anything important revealed by these materials will also exist in the written story.
Insider simply lets you experience those discoveries the way Stella does.
You’ve read the story.
You’ve seen the world.
You’ve witnessed the moments.
Now open the files.
