Dead Letter Society
My friend and I decided to play this game where we are 2 vampires living in Montreal in 2025.
I will try to document here mostly because I feel very frustrated with the journal rpg community where buying games and sharing games that people should buy are the norm, but almost never the playthrough. I am very grateful that the author of this game has a sample play through but that’s it. I can’t find another.
"The Dead Letter Society is a secret communication network that enables the exchange of ideas between its members. It may exist as a physical ‘dead letter’ office that processes letters, a means of secure electronic communication, or an ever-changing arrangement of dead drops. Whichever form fits your world, its true purpose, operators, and long-term goals are unknown to new initiates."
You start by creating deciding the world you live in, what’s a vampire, what is the vampire society, what is humanity, then you create your vampire. Decide the fee you wish to play. We got the story so far variation just so we had a backstory for our vampire.
Our Game
Vampire Society Traits as questions
My vampire
Here’s my vampire Elodie's Application Form.
A little bit about her
The story so far
You get to use 1-3 chronic points, which means you draw minor arcana tarot cards and answer the prompts. I draw the King of wands and declared an ambition which what I used as my main ambition.
Then I draw an 8 of wands, then I declared a principle and I invented 2 more characters.
TW: Family Death to Covid-19
Letter 1: from Elodie
Dear society member, I have a project I need help from an experienced vampire. I hope we can exchange more than information. My name is Elodie and I am trying to create a map of cultural sanctuaries. I'd love to gather as much story/lore from each location. I'd like to learn how a location became a sanctuary and what makes it cultural. I recently acquired a lifetime pass to a vampire collection museum and that inspired me to find other public collections. I already visited all museums, galleries and studios in Montreal but I wasn't aware of those secret locations. The worst was finding out more people thought I knew about it already. I feel I'm missing a lot by being too cautious. I will try to venture more. What about you, my fellow vampire? What is it that you seek? How do you deal with the constant fear of being discovered (those phones...argh!)? Do you collect anything? Can't wait to hear back from you. Elodie. Current location hints: Montreal city underground (RESO) McCord Stewart Museum I have a gift for you. Please send the information below to be added to the library system. I have a connection in the libraries. With this you can visit the libraries after dark and will be able to disarm their security system for 30 minutes (no cameras, no lights). Information needed: Alias, An address in Quebec a 4 number password. Do you have a feeling that you're missing out the secrets of the vampire society because of your lack of communication? I spent the past 60 years reading as much as I could but forgot to connect as much. They surveil us. We must work together to prevail. Our shadow unlife doesn't need to be boring. Letter 2: from D.
Dear Elodie, Your letter is a curious echo of my own unlife. For centuries I have collected objects, and with them, remnants of the stories you seek. My own gallery is less a collection than an argument against oblivion: fragments of who I was, or who I wish to remember being. It is proof against the erosion of time. Yet there are silences even my collection cannot answer. You ask what I seek. I will tell you this much: I am searching for the roots of my mortal life, threads of Irish nobility and politics from a time when my name still had breath upon it. There are whispers in family histories, but too many pages are lost to dust, or to the indifference of archivists. However, it is not only them who have failed me, Elodie. I myself have let slip whole chapters of my life, through the fog of my own turning. What remains are fragments: the name of a noble line, the glimmer of sun on Irish soil, a fraternal face I can no longer place. The rest is lost. If your connection within the libraries truly grants access to rare tomes, perhaps even to the annals of Irish nobility, then it may help me trace the roots of a life I can scarcely remember. That is why your project holds intrigue. I have seen too many kindred devour history rather than preserve it. The thought of sanctuaries, of cultural strongholds that resist forgetting, draws me. Yet I hesitate at your offer. The shadows have teeth, and some are sharper than mine. A name, an address, a cipher: these are small coins with large shadows. Before I decide, tell me: why do you trust me, sight unseen? And why should I? As for the places you mention: You mention Montréal’s underground. Younger kindred call it sanctuary, a hidden artery of the city. Many a time I have walked its passages, though I find its lights and cameras less forgiving than shadows. And the McCord Stewart Museum: I have slipped through its galleries incognito. What is shown is veneer; the real treasures slumber in locked storage, forgotten even by their keepers. That is often the way of it: what is most vital is least seen. One phrase of yours lingers with me: a ‘lifetime pass to a vampire collection museum.’ What precisely did you mean? Was it a human curation draped in myth, or something our kind has sanctioned in plain sight? If such a place exists, it is… unprecedented. I am curious what you saw, and what you believed you were meant to see. If your connection can unlock the truths I seek, then perhaps we might aid one another. For in truth, I have guarded my own knowledge too closely, and perhaps the Society paired us for precisely this reason. As a token, I will share this: in Montréal there is a sanctuary known as La Cage Dorée. To the human eye, it is nothing but a decadent lounge, yet its velvet and jazz conceal more than indulgence: beneath the surface, it is neutral ground, where knowledge is traded as delicately as blood. If you mark it on your map, mark it lightly. Some doors can be drawn but rarely opened. I await your reply with interest. — D. 
