Little Rock by Night

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Region = Central Region
Domain = AR-012-D
Sect Authority = Camarilla
VST = Howell Herrin
VST Email = camanarch.vst.ar012d@gmail.com


“What if they called a war, and nobody came? - the Devil.” -Robert Asprin, Myth Adventures

VSS Boundaries: Everything within the following real-world state-defined boundaries: all of Pulaski, Lonoke, Saline, Grant, and Faulkner Counties, Southern Conway County, Southwestern White County, Eastern Perry County, and Northwestern Jefferson County. This includes the Little Rock Metro Area, consisting of Little Rock, North Little Rock, Conway, Jacksonville, Sherwood, Levy, Maumelle, Cammack Village, Alexander, Bryant, and Benton. Additionally, the cites of Cabot, Pine Bluff, England, Scott, Protho, and all areas within a 50-mile radius of Downtown Little Rock (as measured from base of Simmons Tower). The territories outside of Little Rock will have their “Style of Play” numbers adjusted as PCs interact with those territories. Anything not listed in this section is considered to be outside of the Domain control and under the control of the Regional Storyteller or the National Storyteller depending on the location. If the location is overseas, it is a DPotM. The rest of the state of Arkansas, currently. All other domains in the state have folded.

Little Rock, Arkansas Territory Type: (Camarilla) authority. This section has the majority of the play space in our OOC domain. A current player survey will determine the political layout of the city. Description Population: 400,000 (1 million in the 50-mile metro area). General Knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulaski_County%2C_Arkansas Customs or local courtesies? Depends on the current Baron or Prince. History: Timeline is at the base of this document. Points of Interest: Simmons Tower, Little Rock Central High School, Old State House Museum, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA), Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Ouachita River Prison, Robinson Center, State Capitol Building, Tucker Max Security Prison, Wrightsville Prison


  • The area’s domain


OOC Information Overseeing Storyteller: Howell Herrin, camanarch.vst.ar012D@gmail.com Faith: Little Rock will not be handling any IC issues of Faith. Chronicle Tenets: Temperance - The quality of moderation or self-restraint. (National) Humanity - Do not take life except to protect life. (Focus Group) One more Tenet for the VSS that is to be decided by the domain’s active player base. This tenet MUST be obeyed, even if traveling to another domain’s game. You do not get a “free pass” just because you are not in Little Rock. Convictions: Characters will have to create at least 2, though should at least have 3, Convictions (pg. 53 of LotN) that do NOT run counter to the NSS’s Chronicle tenets (and should probably uphold or support them). Touchstones (See LotN, pg 55): Players should have at least 1 touchstone for each of their character’s convictions. These touchstones should NOT be other player characters, or NPC vampires. By default, touchstone NPCs are storyteller controlled human only NPCs. Touchstones *CAN* be your ghouls, but the act of ghouling a touchstone creates 1 or 2 stains when you do so (this stain can be in your character’s backstory). Should a touchstone be ghouled (or embraced!) by another vampire, they are destroyed and 2 (or 3) stains are immediately incurred upon learning the ghoul’s fate. See page 133 of LotN for touchstones and stain effects. Rapid Mass Combat: (LotN, 90-91) will be enforced. Unless stated outright, it will NOT be lethal combat. NPCs will not engage is lethal mass combat (Sabbat fanatics want prisoners for their blood ritae; FIRSTLIGHT hunters want test subjects; etc.…) but will only respond in kind.

Style Elements (per the NSS)

HUMANITY & MORALITY 5 DRAMA & SCALE 4
ENIGMA & MYSTERY 4 DARKNESS & MACABRE 4
CORRUPTION & DEATH 3 ACTION & ADVENTURE 3
DOMESTIC & MANNERS 3 INTER-PLAYER CONFLICT 3
POLITICS & INTRIGUE 2


Storyteller Notes

Characters from other VSS may not hold political office in this domain (note: this doesn’t mean players from another domain; they are free to have a character on the VSS assuming they can make game once a month).

Game Dates

Regular schedule has not been determined yet.


Proxy Information

Proxies are a full sheet, warm body proxy, and are due by the Saturday prior to scheduled game. Visitors to the domain are always welcome! Email domain staff ahead of time for any information you may need to know or want us to know about.

Overall Domain Timeline

18th-19th centuries

  • 1722 – French explorer Jean-Baptiste Benard de la Harpe lands near a small rock formation on the south bank of the Arkansas River, which he reputedly names la Petite Roche (the little rock). La Harpe builds a trading post near the little rock. The Quapaw Indians reside nearby.[1]
  • 1812 – William Lewis, a fur trapper, builds a temporary seasonal home near the little rock.[1]
  • 1814 Colonel Edmund Hogan, builds 1st home and ferry at the little rock where the road from Missouri crossed the Arkansas River [2][3][4][5]
  • 1815 Colonel Edmund Hogan is signer of Grand Jury of the county of Arkansas, Territory of Missouri, requesting a company of regular troops be stationed in said county, April, 1816 [6]
  • 1816–1818 Colonel Edmund Hogan represented Arkansas County in the 3rd Territorial General Assembly of Missouri in 1816 and 1818
  • 1818 Colonel Edmund Hogan appointed first justice of Peace of Pulaski county [7]
  • 1820
    * Jan 1820 Colonel Edmund Hogan sold his ferry and settlement on the Arkansas River at Little Rock to William Russell (The ferry was later owned by first territorial secretary Robert Crittenden) [4][8]
    * Little Rock is surveyed.[1]
    * Robert Crittenden, born 1797, and Chester Ashley, born 1791, enter into an agreement for a "Partnership in the Practice of Law" which lays the groundwork for the Rose Law Firm, the oldest law firm west of the Mississippi River.
  • 1821
    * March 21, 1821 Colonel. Edmund Hogan appointed as Brigadier General of the Arkansas Militia, by U.S. President Monroe.[8]
    * Matthew Cunningham arrives in Little Rock. He is the first physician in the city.[verification needed]
    * Little Rock becomes the capital of the Arkansas Territory formed in 1819; and seat of Pulaski County.[9]
    * Arkansas Gazette in publication.
    * Little Rock briefly renamed "Arkopolis."[10]

* 1824 - Matasuntha’s War begins, fighting European Lupines [Gangrel]

  • 1825 – Little Rock Tavern in business (approximate date).[11]
  • 1830 – Advocate (Whig) newspaper begins publication.[12]
  • 1831 – Little Rock is incorporated as a city.
    * Dr. Matthew Cunningham is elected the first mayor of Little Rock. His descendants reside in the city as of 2014.
  • 1833 – Arkansas State House (now Old State House Museum) is built. Completed in 1842, it serves as the State capitol until 1911.[13]
  • 1836
    * Jesse Brown becomes mayor.[14]
    * Arkansas becomes the 25th State, and Little Rock became the official capital city.
    * Pulaski County Lyceum active (approximate date).[15]
  • 1837 – Antiquarian and Natural History Society and Bar Association founded.[15]
  • 1838 – Steam ferry begins operating.[1]
  • 1839 – Little Rock Theatre opens.[16]
  • 1840 – The Tornado newspaper begins publication.[17]

* 1840: First Anarch Railroad routes and safehouses are established [Anarch]

  • 1841 – Little Rock Arsenal (now MacArthur Museum of Military History) is completed. It serves as a storehouse for U.S. ordnance.[18]
  • 1843
    * Mount Holly Cemetery established.
    * William Woodruff's Circulating Library in business.[19]
  • 1845 – Catholic church built.[1]
  • 1850 – Population: 2,167.[1]
  • 1858 – Mechanics' Institute established.[20]
  • 1859 – St. Johns military college opens.[21]
  • 1860 – Population: 3,727.[1]
  • 1861
    * U.S. Captain James Totten surrenders Little Rock Arsenal to Governor Henry M. Rector.[22]
    * Arkansas joins the Confederacy.
  • 1863
    * Union forces occupy Little Rock.
    * Daily Pantograph newspaper begins publication.[17]
  • 1864 – 17-year-old David Owen Dodd is hanged on January 6 for being a Confederate spy.
  • 1866 – Little Rock Police Department formed.
  • 1867 – Mercantile Library founded.[19]
  • 1868
    * Arkansas constitutional convention held.[23]
    * Little Rock National Cemetery established.
  • 1870 – Population: 12,000 (approximate).[1]
  • 1873
    * Baring Cross Bridge constructed.[1]
    * Arkansas Press Association headquartered in Little Rock.[24]
  • 1874
    * The Brooks-Baxter War takes place in Little Rock.
    * Union Station built.[clarification needed]
  • 1876
    * Horsecar trams begins operating.
    * Anthony House (hotel) burns down.
  • 1877 – Walden Seminary founded.
  • 1879 – Telephone begins operating per Western Union Telegraph Company.[25]
  • 1880 – General Douglas MacArthur born on January 26 in The Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal. The building is now the home of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, and the surrounding area is called MacArthur Park.
  • 1881 – Little Rock United States Post Office and Courthouse built.
  • 1882 – Cathedral of St. Andrew built.[1]
  • 1883
    * Mosaic Templars of America founded.[citation needed]
    * Little Rock Electric Light Company begins operating.[26]
  • 1884
    * Waterworks system[1] and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral built.
    * Minister's Institute founded.
  • 1885 – Walnut Grove Methodist Church built.
  • 1887 – Little Rock Electric Street Railway Company chartered.[25]
  • 1888 – Electric street lighting installed.[1]
  • 1890
    * Argenta becomes part of city (until 1917).[1]
    * Population: 25,874.[1]
  • 1891 – Electric streetcars begin operating.[citation needed]
  • 1892 – Fire Department established.[25]
  • 1897 – Arkansas Federation of Women’s Clubs organized during a meeting in Little Rock.[1]
  • 1900 – Population: 38,307.[27]

1900s-1940s

  • 1908 – Gazette Building constructed.
  • 1910 – Public library[28] and Royal Theater open.[29]
  • 1911 – The current State Capitol building is completed. It is the second building constructed to house the state government, after the Old State House.
  • 1915
    * Little Rock Motor Club active (approximate date).[30]
    * Arkansas State Capitol built.
  • 1916 – Pulaski Heights, one of Little Rock's earliest[clarification needed] western suburbs, is annexed by the city, enabling westward expansion.
  • 1917
    * Little Rock Public Library negro branch opens.[31]
    * Little Rock Daily News begins publication.[12]
  • 1921 – Mopac Station rebuilt.
  • 1924 – Albert Pike Memorial Temple, and Federal Reserve Bank built.[1]
  • 1926
    * KLRA radio begins broadcasting.[32]
    * Little Rock Zoo founded.[33]
    * Donaghey Building constructed.[1]
  • 1927
    * Little Rock race riot, May 4, murder suspect John Carter was lynched and his body burned; a white mob of 5,000 rioted in the black business section, destroying many buildings[34]
    * Little Rock Junior College and The Arkansas Museum of Natural History and Antiquities established.
    * Little Rock Senior High School built.
    * KGHI radio begins broadcasting.[32]
  • 1929
    * Dunbar Junior and Senior High School and Junior College established.
    * Albert Pike Residence Hotel opens.
  • 1930 – KARK radio begins broadcasting.[32]
  • 1932 – Travelers Field (ballpark) opens.[35]
  • 1937
    * Urban League[36] and the Museum of Fine Arts founded.[37]
    * Arkansas Library Commission headquartered in Little Rock.
  • 1940 – Population: 88,039.[27]
  • 1941 – Historic Arkansas Museum opens.[38]
  • 1947 – City Beautification Forum organized.[39]
  • 1948 – War Memorial Stadium (Arkansas) opens.

1950s-1990s

  • 1950
    * Arkansas Governor's Mansion built.
    * Little Rock goes over 100,000 in population within the city and the metropolitan area has 196,000 people.
  • 1951
    * Pratt C. Remmel becomes mayor.
    * Pulaski County Historical Society established.[40]
  • 1953
    * KATV (television) begins broadcasting.[41]
    * Pulaski County Historical Review begins publication.[42]
  • 1954 – KARK-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[41]
  • 1955
    * KTHV (television) begins broadcasting.[41]
    * Little Rock Air Force Base activated near city.[43]
  • 1956 – Community Theatre of Little Rock founded.
  • 1957 – The Little Rock Nine incident.
  • 1958 – All three public high schools in Little Rock are closed for one year by Governor Faubus in an attempt to subvert federal efforts to desegregate Alabama public schools.
  • 1960 – Arkansas Arts Center founded.
  • 1964 – Dillard's headquartered in Little Rock.[43]
  • 1967 – University Mall in business.
  • 1968 – Construction booms downtown, Worthen Bank Building at 375 feet (114 m) and Union National Bank at 330 feet (100 m) are under construction and replace The Tower Building as the city's tallest buildings. Union National Bank subsequently merged into Worthen, which eventually would become part of Bank of America.[when?]
  • 1971
    * Children's Theater founded.[37]
    * Heifer International headquartered in city.[43]
  • 1974 – First National Bank building is under construction and becomes the city's tallest building at 454 feet (138 m) and 30 stories. The building currently is Arkansas headquarters for Regions Bank.
  • 1975 – Central Arkansas Library System headquartered in city.[46]
  • 1976 – Arkansas Repertory Theatre founded.
  • 1979
    * Webster Hubbell becomes mayor.
    * Arkansas State Library and Arkansas Census State Data Center headquartered in Little Rock.[2]
  • 1980 – Population: 158,461.[27]
  • 1983
    * KLRT-TV begins broadcasting.
    * Sister city agreement established with Kaohsiung, Taiwan.[47]
  • 1985
    * Decorative Arts Museum opens.[37]
    * Pavilion in the Park (shopping center) in business.
  • 1986 – The Capitol Tower is completed, and at 40 stories and 547 feet (167 m) tall, is the tallest building in Arkansas. The skyscraper's name changed to the TCBY Tower later, and became the Metropolitan Tower as of October 2004. The Stephens Building is also completed, and is 25 stories and 365 feet (111 m) tall when finished. It was named the First South building, and then the Rogers building.[when?]
  • 1987 – Lottie Shackelford becomes mayor.
  • 1990 – Population: 175,795.[27]
  • 1991
    * KLVV radio begins broadcasting.
    * Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in publication.
  • 1992
    * Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992 headquartered in city.
    * November 3: Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States. He delivers an election night acceptance speech from the front steps of the historic Old State House in downtown Little Rock. He is the first person from the State of Arkansas to be elected President. He was elected to a second term in 1996.
    * Sister city agreement established with Hanam, South Korea.[47]
  • 1994 – Sister city agreement established with Changchun, People's Republic of China.[47]
  • 1995 – Jim Dailey becomes mayor.[48]
  • 1997
    * Butler Center for Arkansas Studies headquartered in Little Rock.
    * 40th anniversary of the Crisis at Central High is marked by the opening of a new National Park Service visitor center.
  • 1999
    * June 1: Airplane crash.[citation needed]
    * Acxiom Corporation headquartered in city.[43]
    * July - Week of Nightmares and Red Star
  • 2000
    * Little Rock population: 610,518 (core metropolitan area), 785,024 (primary metropolitan area) in 2000 census.

21st century and beyond:

  • 2001 – Friendship city agreement established with Newcastle upon Tyne, England.[49]
  • 2003
    * First Little Rock Marathon is held. Counting the relays, 1,615 runners participate in the 42.195-kilometre (26.219 mi) race, making it one of the top 25 races in the nation for 2003.
    * Little Rock resident Wesley Kanne Clark, a retired four-star general in the U.S. Army and former Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), announces his intention to run in the presidential primary election for the Democratic Party nomination.
  • 2004
    * William J. Clinton Presidential Center opens with a host of dignitaries and celebrities, such as Governor Mike Huckabee, President George W. Bush, and former presidents George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter.
    * Arkansas Literary Festival begins.[50]
    * River Rail Streetcar begins operating.
  • 2005 – Jack Stephens Center (arena) opens.
  • 2006
    * The international charitable organization Heifer International dedicates a $17.5 million world headquarters in downtown Little Rock. The organization announces plans to further develop the 33-acre (130,000 m2) location into the Heifer International Center campus.
    * The Pulaski County Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge, nicknamed the Big Dam Bridge, opens to the public. It extends 3,463 feet (1,056 m) across the Arkansas River, and is the world’s longest bridge specifically built for pedestrians/bicycles.[51]
    * A five-year construction boom of mixed-use, high-rise buildings in downtown's historic River Market district began with over 60 stories of residential and retail property and 240 additional hotel rooms developed. Many residential projects were completed during this period such as the Capital Commerce Center (2002), First Security Center (2004), 300 Third Tower (2006), and River Market Tower (2009).
  • 2007
    * Dickey-Stephens Park, home to the Arkansas Travelers minor league baseball team, opens. The ballpark has a capacity of 7,000, and is situated on the Arkansas River in North Little Rock, Arkansas, opposite downtown Little Rock.
    * January: Mark Stodola becomes mayor.[52]
  • 2008
    * Mosaic Templars Cultural Center opens.
    * Wilson History and Research Center of military headgear founded.
    * Fall of Venice/Giovanni
  • 2010 – Little Rock population: 193,524 (city), 699,757 (core metropolitan area), 877,091 (primary metropolitan area) in 2010 census.
    * The Rise of the Second Inquisition (NSS document)
         * Around 20XX, the mortal hunter organizations started to become more aware of the supernatural world. Too quickly for kindred to keep up, they developed with uncanny                
         organization, newfound tactics and cutting-edge technology. In two short years a full-scale Second Inquisition had descended on the vampire population. 
         * Individual hunter organizations banded together under one moniker: FIRSTLIGHT. This new coordination allowed entire cities of kindred to be wiped out in a matter of days.           
         Once the elders started disappearing in 2011, even the formerly unassailable strongholds fell with relative ease. 
    * Though each Sect deals with this continuing threat in their own way, they can easily agree on the serious danger this new Inquisition poses to vampiric society as a whole.
  • 2011 – Little Rock's record high temperature of 114 degrees Fahrenheit is recorded by the National Weather Service in August.
    * The Beckoning and the Whispers (NSS Document)
    * With the exodus of the Elders, the remaining vampires in Little Rock pulled together under the guidance of an 8th Gen Vampire. The suburbs and surrounding towns were abandoned so everyone could have a safer unlife.
  • 2014 – Little Rock's primary metropolitan population is 902,443.
  • 2024 – End of December: the Little Rock Court goes radio silent.
  • 2025 – Players arrive in Little Rock to begin sleuthing in one of the coldest winters on record.
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