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wethecrack2015-07-05 02:41 am
greengiant) wrote in wethecrack2015-07-05 02:41 am
The return of World of Darkness the Lost
Welcome to The Meadous: a small city, somewhere near the ocean, where hardly anyone is what they seem. By day, the city is full of NPCs bustling to and fro like so many little pastel animals, but at night... night is when we enter the true World of Darkness.
And you're a part of it.
So a year and a half ago we had an AU meme involving everyone's characters in We the Lost being player characters from gamelines in the World of Darkness. Given that we've got a bunch of characters who weren't around yet at the time, I figured this would be as good an opportunity as any to resurrect it, only this time using the splats from the New World of Darkness
The options for this AU are as follows:
VAMPIRES:
Whether your Embrace came as an act of violence or seduction, you have been changed by your sire into an immortal creature with a fatal sunlight allergy with strange powers fueled by the blood you so desperately crave as nourishment. Will you be able to carve out a new unlife for yourself among the murky political waters of the Kindred or will you succumb to the ennui of undeath?
WEREWOLVES:
The walls between this world and the world of spirits are thin. When those spirits come into our world and make trouble, that's when werewolves come in. Created when the moon and the primal ur-wolf loved each other very much, these lupine shape-shifters hunt spirits in secret, powered by primal rage.
MAGE:
In the mythic past, the humans of Atlantis built a ladder to reach the heavens and rule the world. It broke, shattering the world into the Fallen World we now live in and the Supernal Realms, which are the true face of reality and which mages visit on the spirit journeys that provide their awakenings, giving them access to the powers of magic.
PROMETHEANS:
Constructed beings created from corpses, the Prometheans travel down the slow and lonely road of their Pilgrimmages to becoming human in truth. It's not easy, however, as the Disquiet they create in the humans they interact with, the wastelands that form around them, and the angry mobs that eventually come after them.
CHANGELINGS:
So the thing about Fairies? They're assholes whose main hobby is kidnapping people and replacing them with shitty replicas called Fetches and only a fraction of the kidnapped ever make it back home. The Changelings, their bodies irrevocably changed by their time in Arcadia, with magic disguising them as normal humans, tend to gravitate toward each other, as the only ones who understand the trauma they've been through.
HUNTERS:
As you might have noticed, there's a lot of monsters hiding out in the shadows of the world of Darkness. What the heck are ordinary humans even supposed to do to protect themselves? That's where Hunters come in. Hunters are ordinary humans who know (or think they know) just what is going on in the World of Darkness and they're going to use that knowledge (and copious amounts of ammo) to protect the rest of humanity.
SIN-EATERS:
Yesterday, you died. Well, maybe not literally, but some time in the past you were dead for a very short period of time and when you made it through and back into the world of the living, you brought a guest along. Good luck; you'll be sharing your second chance at life with your Geist and sometimes you'll have to do them little favors--but since they helped you get back from the dead that's fair, right?
SECOND EDITION AND FANLINES:
But maybe none of that fits you. That's okay. There's a lot of other, less well-tread options. Mummies who rise from the dead for short periods of time and are immensely powerful when they do? Inhuman quasi-mechanical demons who were angels working for the God-Machine until they Fell? The bestial incarnations of primal fears? Or maybe you're a mad scientist or a magical girl! There's a lot of options out here is what we're saying.
Go! Have fun! Talk about your AUs and maybe roleplay a little in the comments. If you're already a World of Darkness creature or used to be, you can talk about what your character would be like in a proper city instead of Zephyr's cozy little village or pick another splat for them to be instead.
(P.S. If you just want to link threads from the last time we did this meme, that's cool too.)
And you're a part of it.
So a year and a half ago we had an AU meme involving everyone's characters in We the Lost being player characters from gamelines in the World of Darkness. Given that we've got a bunch of characters who weren't around yet at the time, I figured this would be as good an opportunity as any to resurrect it, only this time using the splats from the New World of Darkness
The options for this AU are as follows:
Whether your Embrace came as an act of violence or seduction, you have been changed by your sire into an immortal creature with a fatal sunlight allergy with strange powers fueled by the blood you so desperately crave as nourishment. Will you be able to carve out a new unlife for yourself among the murky political waters of the Kindred or will you succumb to the ennui of undeath?
WEREWOLVES:
The walls between this world and the world of spirits are thin. When those spirits come into our world and make trouble, that's when werewolves come in. Created when the moon and the primal ur-wolf loved each other very much, these lupine shape-shifters hunt spirits in secret, powered by primal rage.
MAGE:
In the mythic past, the humans of Atlantis built a ladder to reach the heavens and rule the world. It broke, shattering the world into the Fallen World we now live in and the Supernal Realms, which are the true face of reality and which mages visit on the spirit journeys that provide their awakenings, giving them access to the powers of magic.
PROMETHEANS:
Constructed beings created from corpses, the Prometheans travel down the slow and lonely road of their Pilgrimmages to becoming human in truth. It's not easy, however, as the Disquiet they create in the humans they interact with, the wastelands that form around them, and the angry mobs that eventually come after them.
CHANGELINGS:
So the thing about Fairies? They're assholes whose main hobby is kidnapping people and replacing them with shitty replicas called Fetches and only a fraction of the kidnapped ever make it back home. The Changelings, their bodies irrevocably changed by their time in Arcadia, with magic disguising them as normal humans, tend to gravitate toward each other, as the only ones who understand the trauma they've been through.
HUNTERS:
As you might have noticed, there's a lot of monsters hiding out in the shadows of the world of Darkness. What the heck are ordinary humans even supposed to do to protect themselves? That's where Hunters come in. Hunters are ordinary humans who know (or think they know) just what is going on in the World of Darkness and they're going to use that knowledge (and copious amounts of ammo) to protect the rest of humanity.
SIN-EATERS:
Yesterday, you died. Well, maybe not literally, but some time in the past you were dead for a very short period of time and when you made it through and back into the world of the living, you brought a guest along. Good luck; you'll be sharing your second chance at life with your Geist and sometimes you'll have to do them little favors--but since they helped you get back from the dead that's fair, right?
SECOND EDITION AND FANLINES:
But maybe none of that fits you. That's okay. There's a lot of other, less well-tread options. Mummies who rise from the dead for short periods of time and are immensely powerful when they do? Inhuman quasi-mechanical demons who were angels working for the God-Machine until they Fell? The bestial incarnations of primal fears? Or maybe you're a mad scientist or a magical girl! There's a lot of options out here is what we're saying.
Go! Have fun! Talk about your AUs and maybe roleplay a little in the comments. If you're already a World of Darkness creature or used to be, you can talk about what your character would be like in a proper city instead of Zephyr's cozy little village or pick another splat for them to be instead.
(P.S. If you just want to link threads from the last time we did this meme, that's cool too.)
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He doesn't have many memories of the human life he was stolen from, save for a few strong ones of being protective of a younger sister. He's not sure, but he thinks he may have been dragged to Faerie in trying to stop them from taking her. (He'd be rather on point with that guess.) He's identified his Fetch as a goofy, irresponsible takoyaki seller who runs a food cart, and he wants nothing more than to kill this creature and take his life back. The only thing stopping him is that the Fetch is so goofy and agreeable that he thinks he'd be identified as the fraud...and he wonders if the people who once cared about him might now prefer the Fetch's company. Besides, the Fetch knows more about being a human than he does at this point. He has no way of knowing that the little sister he left behind has known right from the start that this, for whatever reason, is not really her brother.
Though he swears he's not much of a joiner, he kept finding himself pulled into the Summer Court's business. He ended up joining the court and has risen quickly in its ranks thanks to the Court's ritual focus on competition and Hajime's own prowess where physical competitions are concerned. Being overly combative and too competitive for his own good serve him well here, and it's not much of a mystery to anyone why Hajime kept falling back into Court business no matter how hard he tried to avoid getting involved in anything. Fate has its reasons for pulling him back into the courtly life. He keeps getting told that he cannot fight fate and win, but he doesn't believe that. His lightning elemental friend liked to insist that fate could be fought, and Hajime always did like a good fight.
He likes to go by the alias of Chalice; in some of the circles where the Summer Court needs to show a little muscle, he knows using one's real name isn't safe. He has ID cards and things naming him as one Ryo Mikami, since his Fetch is currently using his real name.
He's gone out and had a few adventures in the Hedge here and there, and his most recent journey ended in his accidentally having some giant hobgoblin insect-thing follow him home like a little lost puppy. He has tried to discourage the hobgoblin, but so far, nothing has worked.
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That and I'm pretty she told Mako/Lin she was even cuter as a monster girl.no subject
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So now she's got a pale green guy with white hair resisting the urge to offer her a giant bug, because while he doesn't need or want this, letting just anyone run around with a weird rogue hobgoblin is probably not a good idea.
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Also, now it's following him around whining for Twinkies.