SEALED ANNEX // NOT MIRRORED // NOT SANCTIONED
RED ROOMS
SchreckNET has exactly one page that does not appear in any index, on any node, in any language. It is this one. It is here because four hundred years of Kindred have always needed a room where the Masquerade is a courtesy rather than a law, and because every network that pretends otherwise is lying to protect the people who read it.
READ THIS PART TWICE
Nothing on this page is canonical, clan-sanctioned, or endorsed by any Prince, Council, or pack. If you are a Lubricant Club Anarch, you will find this page useful and insufficient. If you are Ventrue, you have three options: delete your browser history, forward this page to your sheriff, or keep reading and become interesting. Choose the third one quietly.
The DO NOT INDEX mark beside a venue means the room publishes nothing, resolves from nothing, and leaves no address behind. If you have reached it, you were invited, or you were already inside. There is no third way and we would thank you not to look for one.
ETIQUETTE — THE SIX RULES OF THE ANNEX
- No regalia. No chains of office, no sceptres, no tabards. Whatever rank you carry in the daylight, you set it in the corridor. The Annex is the only room on SchreckNET where a Prince and a Fledgling are the same shape.
- No ghouls in the deep rooms. The deep rooms require a blood-bond you cannot fake. Serving staff at the door are ghouls. That is where the line is and it is not a fuzzy line.
- Leave the way you came. Every venue here has an exit you did not use to enter. This is not mystique. It is the only reason these rooms still exist.
- The Red Rooms take no sides. Sabbat, Camarilla, Anarch, no flags at all — but you will be asked, and the answer you give aloud will be remembered. Lie if you must. Lie badly and you will be interesting.
- Nothing done in a Red Room is ever reported to a Prince. This is not honour. It is mutual insurance. Do not confuse the two; people have died misunderstanding it.
- Blood is served, not spilled. The Annex does not host diablerie. The Annex hosts rooms where the argument for it is made out loud, by people who would then like to keep breathing.
LISTED VENUES
THE ABATTOIR
prague-sever · sub-level, behind the meat market
DO NOT INDEX
OPEN
The oldest continuously operating room in the Annex, and the only one with a continuous ledger. Guests arrive on a schedule so regular that three Viennese houses kept their own copy of it and two of them still have it, which is why we are not listing the address in full.
No blood is taken without the guest's word. The house rule is stated at the door in eleven languages and broken roughly once a decade. The penalty is not expulsion. The penalty is that the guest is asked to leave and may not return, which in practice is the same as expulsion and takes considerably longer.
"We have hosted every Brujah in this city and not one of them has ever been made to bleed. This is not pacifism. It is administration." — the house, in writing, 1904
CARRION CHOIR
new-york-two · rotates, never announces
DO NOT INDEX
QUIET
Not a bar. A listening room. Nine chairs, a gramophone, and a rule that nobody speaks about the Warrens. The room trades in two commodities: what the Second Inquisition already knows, and what they have decided to believe. Both are given freely. Neither is ever repeated outside.
Attended almost entirely by Gangrel, who treat it as a civic service, and by Malkavians, who treat it as an extended diagnostic. The Gangrel find the room useful. The Malkavians find the room educational.
"Nobody has been made in that room in twenty years. We tried it once, in '94, to settle an argument about parking. The house vote was unanimous and I have never felt so comfortable." — anonymous, first floor
THE LONG TABLE
los-angeles-five · the room relays unattended
UNATTENDED
Longest-running Anarch room on the network and the source of most of the Free Blooms manifest. Since March the building has been in the custody of an agency that has not explained what it wants, and the room has kept running anyway because nobody who maintains it was ever arrested and the maintenance, we are told, was always the point.
Do not route through LAX-5 to reach it. The custodian is in a room with a one-way mirror.
KAMIANETS
ukraine · surface level, above a shuttered kiosk
WORD SIGNED
The Annex's only fully human-facing operation, and the reason the manifest exists at all. Nine crates, medical grade, distributed on a schedule with a signature on every crate: Ilse Brandt, who does not know she is listed on this page and would be furious to learn it.
The route is fixed: roadblock, then a doctor who owes a debt, then a toll road that has never once asked for cash. Three chokepoints, three owners, no coordination, no ledger, no way to roll the whole thing up by rolling up any one piece. This is not secrecy. It is architecture.
"Brandt is not a philanthropist and she does not want to be one. She wants a receipt, in blood, at a time of her choosing, and she has not yet named the time. Do not assume she has forgotten." — STITCHES
THE SIXTH FLOOR ABOVE THE HARDWARE STORE
prague-seven · punk crew, unaffiliated, loud
NO FLAG
Not a venue. A hangout, listed because the Annex cannot decide what to do with it. The punk crew — Stitches and the current eleven — holds no ground, claims no territory, formally belongs to no sect, and is loud enough that two Prague houses have formally complained and one has stopped.
They are also, by every measure available, the best-informed people in this city. They overhear things. That is the entire business model.
"They keep breaking the no-new-ground order, they keep losing the arguments, and they keep being the only ones who noticed the sweep was coming. I have stopped trying to make this fit a diagram." — WARDEN KOSTA
LOW CARNAGE
berlin-six · three unverified signatures since March
CONTAMINATED
A room that lets anyone in, costs nothing, and therefore attracts exactly the traffic you would expect. It is the one entry in this index we would like removed and cannot remove, because the four people who run it are real and the traffic they attract is not theirs.
Three Tzimisce signatures have passed through BER-6 that have never authenticated. One of them has been buying drinks. Nobody has bought anything.
ON THE SUBJECT OF DIABLERIE
A request that arrives roughly once a month on this node, always in the same shape: a name, a last-known ward, and a question along the lines of will anyone confirm this.
The Annex does not confirm. It has never confirmed. It will host the argument that the request implies, in a room with witnesses, which is the only honest answer available: we know who you are asking about and we are not going to tell you where they sleep.
Two further facts, stated once:
- Diablerie is illegal under every Camarilla charter and under the Sabbat's own laws, which is the only ground on which those two bodies ever agree.
- Diablerie is very nearly unspeakable. The Bloodbond's final mechanism is what stops it. This is not a moral argument; it is an argument about the fact that a bonded sire who is destroyed destroys the childe, and the calculus that follows.
The full text of that mechanism is filed with the rest of the technical material: anatemy_of_the_kiss.txt. Read it once. Do not read it to decide anything.
HOW TO KNOCK
You do not knock. You are expected.
Post a single line in the Annex channel stating the room, the night, and nothing about yourself. A response will either be a time or it will be silence, and silence is a complete answer.
State a clan and you will be answered by a lobby. State a rank and you will be answered by a different, worse lobby. State how many and you will be answered at all.
The index of this annex is mirrored once, to a place nobody has named, by a node custodian who signed the transmission before the night the Vienna relay stopped answering. Download it and read it somewhere that is not your own machine: redroom_index.txt DO NOT INDEX
