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Welcome to my very ill advised attempt to run an Urban Fantasy game. You should be thinking along the lines of the Dresden files, Supernatural, Vampire the Masquerade, with a touch of The Wire and True Detective. This is a Noir Rp, if you ask yourself if you need to be more Noir, then you obviously haven't gone noir enough!

This will be a story about survival against the odds and against powers

Alot of the detail will be workshoped in the RP but the characters will all be members of the extended magical community in a major US city Detroit Michigan. Magical influences are always clandestine, preferring to pull the strings from the shadows. The cops may be working for vampires, but they probably dont know it. This dosen't mean you have to be a magical creature, you can be a mundane who through skill or training or bad luck is pulled into the underworld and knows the real score. If you are a magical creature you are probably low powered and you are on the outs with your own faction for some reason or another. You also have a way of blending in with the normals, it could be a glamour, it could be a baseball hat.

Some ideas: Wizard, Vampire, Werewolf, Fae, Hunter, Oracle, ect.

I will be accepting four players total. Period. End of story.

You will be expected to provide significant input to the plot and the setting. You will also be expected to have friends, allies and enemies who will be caught in the crossfire. Lone super hero orphans who sprang from the ground fully formed and ready to fight evil need not apply.

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Character Submission

Please post character pitches in the OOC section. Once they are approved they will be moved to the Characters section.

Name:
Character Concept:
Trouble:
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Example:

Not a real character

Name: Alexandria Flores
Character Concept: Drug dealing wizard
Trouble: My pockets are stuffed with my fathers blood stained money
Scene: A short scene which lets me know who your character is.

Characters will be accepted based on merit, not first come first serve.
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Writing Philosophy

Players will be responsible for a considerable amount of the world, starting with the immediate lore regarding your character. How do vampires work? That is up to the vampire player to decide. What are wizard politics like? Ask the wizard pc.

Always feel free to push the plot forward or to add depth and color the city. If you push too far, I will ask you to rewrite a portion of your post.

Some basic tenents to keep in mind:

Yes and - This is an improv technique, never shut down something another player sets up in the narrative. This dosen't apply universally but it is a pretty good starting point.

Dramatic Tension and Spotlight - If a scene is built up, a dramatic stand off, a battle with a demon ect, don't unilaterally end the scene, give everyone a chance to contribute and write into the scene. If you think you have the ending in mind, feel free to check with me and we will work on it.

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At last! :)

*Excitement intensifies*



Summary: A police woman, turned vampire, turned vampire mobster, turned independent contractor in desperate need of friends.
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This sounds very interesting.
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Getting a Dresden feel from this- me likey.
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Dresden, Vampire the Masquerade, Iron Druid and others like that are big influences!
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It's looking to be fun! There isn't enough Urban Fantasy on the Guild.
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Hmmm... I can't resist to try and apply for this. Anyone opposing that idea? :)
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@FetzenGo ahead and apply!
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Vampire the Masquerade


There isn't enough of this on the Guild...
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BTW @Penny, is the mythos behind each supernatural creature fairly open source? Like, I'd be down for playing a Werewolf, but closer to World of Darkness standards. (i.e. being born as one, shifting into different forms, etc)
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Mythos elements are completely open to the PCs though there might be minor tweaks if I feel that things need to be bought into line.
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i was having the hardest time thinking up a character until i was looking at my bookshelf and "The Amulet of Samarkand" stood out to me which hit me with inspiration, so ill shamelessly rip off concepts from that haha

Name: Jason Thorvald - Goes by Thaum
Character Concept: Magic user specialized in summoning rituals, very little evocation/explosive magic mostly used as punishments towards his servants. The servants are functionally enslaved and most (if not all) would kill him or allow him to die given the chance. Using Infernal creatures of evil or powerful Djinn he makes ends meet as an information broker. Though he tries to fight for the greater good when its possible.

Trouble: His magic is viewed as Evil and those who hunt warlocks have tried to kill him before, most magical creatures instinctively know what he is and loathe his existence, some do act violently.

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@Rawk@Fetzen Glad t'see you boys round these parts.
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Hi everyone - hope I’m not too late to apply for this. I’ve added a character concept below for consideration :).

Name: Kayla-Elle
Character Concept: Blind Oracle with the limited ability of foresight
Trouble: There are certain less savoury individuals hunting me. They would use my abilities for their own nefarious needs.



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Name: Othen
Character Concept: Gargoyle (doesn't turn to stone at day, only becomes a lot weaker)
Trouble: Banned from his community for the most part due to own misbehavior.
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Ill be making final decisions about the cast in the next 24 hours or so so if anyone else is going to submit a character now is the time.
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