Dark Streets
The city is all around you, a hungry, embracing darkness, it is an insatiable machine that draws in lives and grinds them to ruin. We dress it up with parks, with developments, with fucking shopping malls, but that doesn't change what it is. Beneath the glitz and glamor, behind the broad defensive walls of the suburbs, beneath the feeble glare of streetlights, the city is a relentless monstrous beast, gorging itself on a cornucopia of flesh and corruption. And that is just the humans.
Beneath the streets dark forces are at play. Covens of vampires move through the night, stalking their next victims. Strange fae courts dance to music no mortal can hear, granting gifts to humans that twist in their hands to destroy their very souls. Dark things from the infernal realm ride behind the eyes of inconspicuous business men and leering insane wizards plunge daggers into the hearts of their sacrificial victims. Worse yet these forces move against each other, grinding mortal and magical alike between their titanic metaphysical mass.
The social contract, once upheld by quaint ideas of honor and hospitality, is fraying. The system strains under its own weight and it is only a matter of time before the whole thing comes down in flaming ruin. Some people try to hold on, others see a chance to swing a wrecking ball but one thing is certain:
A storm is coming.
If you want to survive the storm, you had best get busy...
Hello! My most recent reading has inspired me to once again attempt an urban fantasy game. In this story we will all play various mortal or supernatural creatures trying to survive in an increasingly corrupt and authoritarian hidden world.
The Characters - The characters may be any kind of supernatural creatures, or perhaps clued in mortal of some sort. Whatever you pick you will be responsible for the lore of that faction, that means that if you pick a werewolf you are responsible for coming up with things like rules for transformation, the role they play in the city ect.
The Underdogs - Characters will be the have-nots of the magical community. If you are a werewolf you are at odds with the bigger pack, if you are a vampire you are a young one expected to serve and keep their mouth shut, you are disenfranchised from magical society and almost everyone is bigger and badder than you. The status quo isn't your friend, although if it comes down there is no certainty that what comes after will be any better.
Politics and Plot - While I have a general plot in mind it will depend heavily on the players and the characters they choose to play. I will expect and solicit contributions from the players to make the world work in a logical and dramatically satisfying way.
Small Group - I will only be accepting 3 (possibly 4) players in order to stop everything from grinding to a halt.
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