1985 (WOD)

Events

• The 38th official meeting of the Camarilla's Inner Circle.^[1]
• Acacia is born.^[2]
• Wim van Eck reveals that unprotected computers release electromagnetic pulses based on the work being done on the computer in question.^[3]
• Brazil's military government is overthrown and replaced with a civilian one. Foreign companies are allowed in to develop the country. ^[4]
• Enshagkushanna is accidentally reawakened by descendants of his former cultists who have traveled to the Ganges Valley.^[5]
• The summer issue of Paradigma contains an entry from Professor Larson regarding the dangers of the Marauders.^[6]
• Brother Benedetto Leone, Abbot of the Celestial Temple of the Sun in Vatican City, dies. He is replaced by Sister Mary Martha Carpenter.^[7]
• Cultist of Ecstasy Jan "Bourbon" Treelinck improves an Effect while on a high-speed chase through Amsterdam, either chasing or being chased by Men in Black. The Effect, dubbed Joyride, controls traffic lights.^[8]
• H. Warchief's Walking Hawk: A Cry to Arms is published by Tear Trail Press.^[9]
• Dr. Jermyn Talbot steps down as the Dean of the College of Linguistics for the second time.^[10]
• Dr. Sandeep D'Souza transfers from the New York Chapter House to the Calcutta Chapter House. He also becomes Dean of the College of Oriental Studies.^[11]
• Rev. Montague Winters becomes Instructor of Church History at Westminster Theological College.^[11]
• Dante attacks Null-B.^[12]
• The 44th meeting of the Technocratic Union's Inner Circle, advancing the Time Table.^[13][14]
• The Challenger disaster. Following the destruction of the shuttle, Void Engineer Dr. Catherine Nichols defects to the Traditions.^[15]
• Jude Bankole Kuti receives a scholarship to study theology at All Saints College, Oxford.^[16]
• Aline Levesque is one of the only members of the Nine Fires still alive.^[17] Alan Milewski joins the choir at this point.^[18]
• Amanda Peel completes a double PhD in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and an MA in Physics.^[19]
• A sax player drifts off to sleep, hearing the "notes" of everything in the room. He's awoken when the sound changes as a band member starts rummaging through his bag.^[20]
• Melvin Dawson is born.^[21]
• Claudette Malfet is embraced by Breton.^[22]
  • Claudette diablerizes and kills her sire Breton.^[22]
• The Ventrue Julian Luna eliminates a nest of Brujah in Manzanita Springs, under his sire's orders.^[23]

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