This adventure should be fairly easy to migrate to another city. Outlined below is some background deatil on Melbourne, for people who are not natives.
\section{Travel to Melbourne.} Well, it could be said that all roads lead to Melbourne, but that would be a lie ;-). Actually, Melbourne is the second largest city in Australia, and has quite a few roads going in and out of it.
Oh, and there are airports too. Yes, Australia even has the secret of flight! Our main airport is Tullamarine, which is an Aboriginal word that means something, (although I don't know what it is ;-). It is in the outer suburbs, and is about a forty minute drive from the centre of the city.
There is also the trains - all domestic and interstate trains go through Spencer Street Station, and there is also a major bus terminal there.
Port Melbourne berths ships, although most tend to be from the ferry from Melbourne to Tasmania.
\section{Getting Round in Melbourne.} Melbourne has star shaped rail network radiating out from the CBD. Their are trams crossing the rail links and covering most major places. Busses cover the rest and the outer suburbs.
Most people seem to travel by car. Their are taxi's, although finding one when you actually want one is usually hard, because all the mages use them for correspondence.
\section{Weather.} Not much rainfall, really, it just seems that way. Hot to scorching (25-40 celcius) in summer and cold in winter (teens). \section{People.} Australians tend to be quite relaxed and \subsection{Stereotype: City people} City folk are quite unremarkable. Quite boring really. City folk think that country folk are simple. City people have little understanding of 'the land'. \subsection{Stereotype: Country people} Country people stereotyped big, tough and round. They understate everything, for example the farmer who walks into hospital and says "I cut my hand on the farm." When the doctors finally get round to looking at him, he pulls the hand from a towel.
Country people are slow speaking and very conservative. They distrust "city folk". \subsection{Tall Poppies} {\em Its the old australian adage, "You're over achieving, stop it"} -- {\bf Bryan Rendell }
The tall poppy sindrome is where people who achive fame and sucess (except sports stars) are usually rubbished and "cut down" after they suceed. \section{Whats not in the streets.} Kangaroos! \section{Maps} \section{References} \section{Mortal Society} This is the WoD view of mortal society. Any similarity to people living or dead is quite convienent, but I am too stupid to do it deliberatly, it must be a mistake. \section{Mood} \section{Government} The state government has resently changed from Labor party, a socialist, big spending, big government to the Liberal party, a conservative, business oriented, small goverenment. Here ends reality although some of the elements below are slight exagurations of reality.
The state was living well beyond its means, with a large social welfare program and inneficient government. A government that meddled in business without any understanding, frequently wasting millions of dollars of taxpayers money and damaging the states businesses in a time of world recession. The mood, then, at the end of this government was one of financial disaster and impending disaster.
Then the election swept the Liberal party into power. The new government started selling off public assets to business in a massive privatisation program, slashing the social welfare programs and sacking public servants in an attempt to get spending down. The mood turned from one of disaster to one of an uncaring corperate government.
After shedding massive numbers of public servants in an attempt to get spending under control, unemployment in the state has rocketed. This combined with slashed social welfare caused massive hardship on those unlucky to have no job. Under the corperate thrust of the governments programs, medium and big business florashed. As the gap between those with money and without widened, crime increased. Unwilling to sepend more on the police, the crime problem became entrenched and corruption at all levels started to florish. \subsection{State Government} The change of government has caused some problems for the Ventrue who have the most influence here. Although the change was obvious, and they planned for it, it still destroyed much of their influence. \subsection{Local Government} The local government has little influence on life. It is mainly for planning permits, local services such as rubbish collection and the like. In the planning department, it can, and often is, overruled by the State Government. \section{The Law} \subsection{Police} As the police budget stays constant and inflation and rising crime take their toll, the police force fights more and more of a losing battle. Corruption has started to be a big problem as crime gets more and more organised.
Police ranks: Constable, Senior Constable, Sergent, Senior Sergent, Inspector, Chief Inspector, Superintendandant, Chief Superintendandant, Commissiner, Assistant Commissiner and finally Chief Commissioner \section{Media} Melbourne has 3 commercial TV stations, two goverenment TV station, half a public TV station, a number of radio stations, and two major newspapers. \subsection{Papers} \begin{itemize} \item [The Age] Serious news paper, more interested in political stories. Venture beware, they have some control over this paper, but keep their distance incase links are noticed. \item [Herald-Sun] Popular paper, most interested in sports. \item [Truth] Not one of the major news papers for a reason. They will also be interested in vampire stories, although the phrase "sex romp" will most likely appear. Malkavian influence. Tacky with politically incorrect page 3. \end{itemize} \subsection{Television} No cable TV or pay TV yet. \subsubsection{Channels} \begin{description} \item [Chanel 9] The leading station. Traditional programming. \item [Chanel 7] A close second. Really attempting to push its ratings. Weak Leading Edge Toreadore influence. \item [Chanel 10] Third by a long way. Tends to be a bit pathetic at times. \item [Chanel 2] National goverenment station, with local studios. Traditional. Vent\-rue control over some programming, Toreadore over other bits. \item [Chanel 28] Multicultural programming, lots of overseas content. Toreadore control. \item [Chanel 31] Not really a TV station. Just starting up community TV type thing. \end{description} \subsubsection{Programs of Note} \begin{description} \item [RealLife] Ch 7. A TV program thats tabloid TV at its worst. These are the boys and girls most likely to chase vampire and werewolf stories. \item [Tonight Live] Ch 7. A tacky clone of David Lettermans tonight show, except it is desperate for ratings. If its odd, its on. \item [Hinch] Ch 10. Almost a real current affairs show, except its a bit too "foot in the door". Probably the most serious danger to supernaturals as they will actually do some homework on the case. \item [A Current Affair] Ch 9. Attempt at a serious current affairs program. Has gone down hill since main presenter left. What she is working on, is unknown. \end{description}