Discord Link
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The role play draws from the World of Darkness lore and setting. Centered in the city of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas. Los Angeles, the City of Angels by day, City of Darkness by night; is torn apart in a struggle for dominion by the Vampire Sects, Werewolf Tribes, Changeling Courts, and all manner of individuals. The only races not allowed are Angels, Demons, along with Antediluvians and Methuselah for Vampires. Basically your character must be less than a millennia old. Otherwise feel free to write up a character of your own imagination. Role Players will take control of an individual or individuals if they are so inclined, along with any support network or NPCs that they wish to have, in their bid to survive the dangerous world of Los Angeles underworld. So you may be a gangster, mafia don, entrepreneur, politician within Los Angeles, or what have you so long as you can fit into the general premise and narrative of the role play.
The role play itself will take place after the events known as Bloody New Years. The event, January 1st of 2017, was an action that led to the ongoing conflict over Los Angeles and the surrounding area between the two main Kindred communities of LA (Camarilla and Anarchs), but soon drew all the other supernatural communities into the fray. Changelings assaulted Werewolves in the suburbs. Vampires murdered vampires in the inner city. Human's, either aligned with a side, independent, or Hunters of the supernatural alike are caught in the whirlwind.
1. I reserve all rights as OP to give rulings and I will stand by them. No exceptions. Nor do I have to give lengthy reasons for doing so. This isn't a democracy.
2. Have fun.
3. Be respectful and if you must criticize then I request that you be polite and constructive.
4. Rules are subject to change.
5. Knowledge for the World of Darkness lore is not required, though a wiki and various Wikipedia entries are available through google, also a DM or TG to me the OP also works.
6. No double posting or advertising for other role plays please.
7. All OOC chatter is to be KEPT in the OOC. If you must leave a footnote for a reader in the IC then I highly recommend spoilering it and labeling it appropriately.
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Los Angeles is in turmoil; the city previously under the domain of the Camarilla, the largest organization of Vampires in the world, and possibly of supernatural creatures in the world; is reeling after the events of Bloody New Years. Leo D'Guiscard, Prince of Los Angeles, ruler of the city and head of the Camarilla in California was slain along with every elder in the city. But it was not just Kindred (Vampire) blood that flowed that day as numerous hits and assassinations occurred in retaliation. Order was lost as the Camarilla fought to hold on to whatever territories that hadn't slipped from its grasps. Gangs, clans, and mafia's fought each other in the streets and alleyways by night.
The Camarilla, the largest of the three Kindred Sects, holds the policy that in order for Vampires to survive they must hide from the rest of humanity. Creating a web of lies and misinformation that humanity now believes: Vampires are not real. This deceit better allows the Kindred to feed on humans and is what has allowed the Camarilla to infiltrate governments, societies, and hold public figures in their pockets. All the better to maintain the Masquerade and not risk exposing themselves to greater humanity. This belief is opposed by the Sabbat Sect.
The Camarilla from the top down is a hierarchical and ordered society. The Eldest class (Elders) is maintained as the ruling class over the younger vampires. This naturally puts the Anarchs, Anarchist Vampires who vehemently oppose what they deem to be an oppressive system, at odds with the Camarilla. Ultimately the cause of much of the struggle currently going on in Los Angeles as the Anarchs in one, seemingly impossible stroke by virtue of their previous disunity, managed to decapitate the heads of the Camarilla in California. The Anarchs have thence taken control of Downtown and Eastern districts of LA (Communities East of Beverly Hills).
While all of this is going on, the other factions: Changelings, Werewolves, and from Asia the Kuei-Jin watch and move in. The old order is dying, and to the South coming from San Diego the Sabbat is spreading from their new strongholds there...
The Current Situation
Currently the Kindred are divided into the Camarilla centering around Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and the communities West of the 405. The Anarchs primarily control the Downtown area from Mid-City West to El Sareno to the East and from Sunland to the North down to South Los Angeles. The Sabbat has moved into Long Beach and Wilmington, seeking to spread along the southern locales there before moving North. The Changelings, Werewolves, and Humans (hunters, independent, or aligned to a side) are caught in the middle of these warring factions.
Threads
IC Concluded
Midsummer Nights
Moratorium on Elder Vampire over 350 years old, Fae, and Dragon Apps (their capacity is currently full)