Penny

Dark Streets - Urban Fantasy Noir

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.

Dark Streets - Urban Fantasy Noir

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:
Scene:

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.

Dark Streets - Urban Fantasy Noir

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 dosen'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 monsotorous beast, gorging itself on a cornucopia of flesh and corruption. And that is just the humans.

Beneath the streets dark forces are at play. Coven's of vampires move through the night, stalking their next victims. Strange fae courts dance to music no mortal can hear, granting gifts to mortals 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.

A storm is coming.

If you want to survive the storm, you had best get busy...

Dark Streets - Urban Fantasy Noir

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.

Miss Hobbs' Paranormal Detective Agency

Oh I love this so much *gets to work*

Grim Galaxy: Shots and Chances

Sven clanked up the access way as Neil began flipping switches in the cockpit, the cyborg was cleaning a bloody dagger with an oily rag he had evidently picked up amongst the detritus of the shipping yard. His eye tracked from the smoking pistol in her hand to the dead guard who lay on the concrete, blood slowly spreading from the neat hole in his sternum.

"Not bad for being half dead," Sven said grudgingly. Sayeeda smiled, her olive skin uncharacteristically pale and baring her white teeth.

"I like to think I could make that shot even dead," she said through clenched teeth. Sven grunted and continued on his way. From somewhere outside the ship the 20mm cannon that Saxon wore sputtered a short, ugly sounding burst and was answered by a hail of return fire and a half dozen clangs against the hull as stray small arms fire struck the half derelict freighter.

"Time to go," Sayeeda said or at least tried to say. The lizard man came stomping up the ramp before slapping a control to close the hydraulic ramp. The cannon in his left arm still smoked though clearly the burst had jammed the weapon he had spent the past half hour trying to unjam it. Kink in the loading tube, Junebug thought as the engines roared to life.

"I should kill you both now," Saxon hissed looking at the gun in Sayeeda's lap. He rightly guessed she didn't have the strength to raise it. Sayeeda laughed a mocking laughed that flecked her lips with blood.

"Please," she sneered, "You going to fly us up out through whatever anti-air they have, passed whatever merc ships they managed to scramble and then deal with a Terran warship?" Saxon's nostrils flared but he stomped passed her towards the cockpit, tali flicking back and forth. The hull plating kicked up as the engines roared to life and the freighter began to lift. It obviously was too small to bother with grav plating which meant the ride up to orbit promised to be punishing.

Dark Streets

I'm going to keep character submission simple

Name:
Character Concept:
Trouble:
Scene:

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.

Dark Streets

Yes any culture is welcome

Dark Streets

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 dosen'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 monsotorous beast, gorging itself on a cornucopia of flesh and corruption. And that is just the humans.

Beneath the streets dark forces are at play. Coven's of vampires move through the night, stalking their next victims. Strange fae courts dance to music no mortal can hear, granting gifts to mortals 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.

A storm is coming.

If you want to survive the storm, you had best get busy...

______________________________________________________________

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. 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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