If Ametista's Haven is the official Elysium of Padova, UTOPIA club is Ametista's home - where her dead heart really beats. The Prince is a popular youtuber and model, and she designed Utopia to have the same anime doll style as her – much to the rest of her clan's annoyance: older Roses can't approve of her obsession with visibility and find her concept of “art”, that the club embodies, a farce. This doesn't change the fact that she's the Prince though, so their grumblings have not become explicit complains – yet.
She bought the club as a sort of gift to herself shortly after becoming Prince, and she have completely transformed it from an average club, just like many others, to something that defies any clear definition. UTOPIA is an explosion of colours, music and excess - but not the kind of excess Kindred usually expect. It's like Ametista is trying her best to make everyone forget they're all beasts living in a grim and desperate world by creating a sort of pastel-crazy hallucination: black is banished from both the interior design and the staff outfits, with pink and violet ruling the entire place. Couches, chairs and tables are an absolutely not historically accurate replica of Victorian period furniture, painted with the most outrageously bright colours, while almost a third of the club's space is occupied by an ultra modern stage displaying the best live music equipment money can buy. The fusion between fake antiquity and modern could have been a great idea, but here it simply a monument to the questionable tastes in interior design of the owner.
Every Saturday night, Utopia hosts a live or some artistic performance: new pop sensations, experimental theater, cosplay contests (often with Ametista herself in the role of judge) and much more. Usually artists and performers are human, but every Kindred in the domain can ask the Prince permission to perform – permission usually granted, if the vampire has something in mind that Ametista find interesting. There's only one important rule: no blood or violence. When she's here, Ametista wants to forget being a Kindred and doesn't appreciate when someone threatens to break the spell: nothing reminding Cainites of their true nature is allowed on the stage. Only happy things, sweet things...
Kine seem to love this place and it's one of the most popular alternative club in town, but only a few Kindred really like it: the efforts of the Toreador to deny her own nature is almost palpable, and quite unsettling. Humans only see it as a temple of kitch and pop culture at its excess, but Kindred see it as a sad lie, which only result is making them feel more miserable than usual. Nonetheless, it's a great place to discretely hunt and to make deals without being overheard, so vampires tend to gather there anyway, despite how uncomfortable this place is to many of them. Ironically enough, Toreador and Nosferatu are the two clans that avoid Utopia the most: they have finally found something in common, it seems.
UTOPIA is managed by an apparently eternal pink-haired 20something girl known as SynthPink. She is also the leader of Ametista's fanclub - the AA+ - and a favourite of sort of the Prince.
AA+ membership has many tiers, with the top tier – the legendary Violet Elite – representing Ametista's private Herd. These mortals wear a pin with a violet rose on it, and are obsessed with the Toreador, not realizing what she really is: they follow every stream of their heroine, buy all her merchandise and attend every event at the club. It's not exactly known how one can join the Violet Elite: all the fans know is that they are chosen among the most loyal of her followers. Many regular members of the AA+ would do almost anything to be chosen.
Feeding on Violet Elite without explicit permission from the Prince is strictly forbidden – and severely punished.
Victim types: party teenagers (Sanguine), art critics and hipsters (Melancholy), pop music and pop culture enthusiasts (Sanguine), angry cosplayers who just lost a contest (Choleric), AA+ members (Melancholy, Sanguine).
Systems: Hunting Difficulties at -2 for predatory strategies involving social skills. Hunting Difficulties at +2 for predatory strategies requiring the use of violence. The club is very popular and, thanks to the diversified events it hosts, there's no danger of over-hunting.
AA+ Violet Elite members have all a Dyscrasia, but hunting them without being caught by Prince's security is at +3 Difficulties.
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