Dark designs, midnight trysts.

Alyse's Venice seethes with shadows and not-quite-forgotten demons ready to rise from the crumbling mortar of the great city's ruin. And the Venetian's themselves? There is no more need of masks. There is no one left to spy them slipping through collapsed hall on their way to satiate their darker desires.

The Venice we know today lost its masks once, too. Carnivale was outlawed in the 1700s. In 1979, Venice decided use the ancient festival as a locus for its...