San Francisco, Ca

The “Gateway City” of the West Coast, San Francisco is a center of culture and commerce, and the urban hub of nearby Silicon Valley in the southern Bay Area. While lacking the kind of superhuman activity that Emerald City has become famous for on the Left Coast, San Francisco has a few “super” features of its own that make it a Gateway City in more ways than most people know.
First, the city not only lies close to a geological fault line (the San Andreas Fault) but to a metaphysical “fault line” as well. The San Francisco Bay Area, particularly the peninsula, is a natural nexus of geomantic and “earth energies,” ley lines, and mystic forces. At least part of the city’s famous fog banks is not just water vapor, but a blurring and overlapping of dimensions. People sometimes “slip” from world to world in San Francisco, accounting for mysterious disappearances and incidents.
For some time, secretive residents of the city’s Chinatown have known the most about the forces at work there. Dr. Sin and Emerald City’s Golden Dragon Society , amongst others, worked in the shadows to take opportunities presented by the alignment of mystical energies. Guardians against the powers of dark magic walked the nighttime streets of San Francisco, combating werewolves and much worse.
Matters came to a head in a recent alignment of worlds, opening certain passages in the Dimension of Doors, a realm connecting all other mystical dimensions. During this conjunction, the Door Wardens named Kyle Vance the Gatekeeper, guardian of the nexus between worlds.

Characters in Location

• Marie