Austria is uneasily located at the heart of Europe, flanked by Italy and Germany on the one side and by Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia on the other. It is a natural bridge between prosperous Brussels and impoverished Tirana, between a towering Germany and a cowering Serbia, between the Balkan and central Europe. In its former incarnation as the Habsburg and capital of the Holy Roman Empire, Vienna ruled all these regions. Today still Vienna itself is still like a medieval bastion. Anachronisms abound, from antique decorations in otherwise ultra-modern buildings to forgotten catacombs beneath bank vaults and subway tunnels. Honest-to-goodness castles and imperial palaces still exist and stand side by side with ancient cathedrals, modern shopping malls and sky scrapping office buildings. The city is more than only a natural hub between East and West Europe. It is also a pivot of Europe's organized crime and espionage. Albanian drug dealers clash with Ukrainian and Moldavian human traffickers and Russian KGB agents turned weapons smugglers, and there they face off with already established west European and Italian crime cartels. We are a World of Darkness Roleplaying game using White Wolves /new/ Storytelling System. We support Mortal (including a crime, civil and law sphere), Second Sight, Vampire: the Requiem, Werewolf: the Forsaken and Mage: the Awakening. Changeling: the Lost is in preparation and will be implented early next year. ^[1]

Vienna is sometimes described as one of the grandest, and at the same time most compact, capital cities in Europe. It certainly is among the oldest. Founded 500 BC, the city originally was a Celtic settlement called 'Vedunia' for river in the woods. In 15 BC, it became a Roman frontier city called Vindobona, guarding the Roman Empire against Germanic tribes to the north. During the Middle Ages, Vienna was home to the Babenberg Dynasty and in 1440 it became residence city of the Habsburgs from where the city eventually grew to becomes the capital of the Holy Roman Empire. Finally after the World Wars Vienna became what it is today, a modern capital city uneasy located between Eastern and Western Europe. We are a World of Darkness Roleplaying game using White Wolves /new/ Storytelling System. We support Mortal, CCL (Crime, Civil and Law) as own sphere, Second Sight, Vampire: the Requiem, Werewolf: the Forsaken and Mage: the Awakening. Come visit at http://www.viennamux.com, see our wikipedia at http://www.haunted-memories.net/wiki or connect to the game at haunted-memories.net, port 3010. ^[2]