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Deep Midnight: A Vampire Quest

Deep Midnight: A Vampire Quest
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In a Dystopian America where mortal and supernatural worlds approach neither the final resolution of apocalypse or the coming of salvation, you are a vampire trying to survive in the seams of it's dark and twisted reality.
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    • MidnightMantra

    MidnightMantra

    August 15th, 2022

    The United States of America, has been ruled by the right wing New America Party since the late 1980s, when it managed to resolve the Necrotic Pandemic of 1987 through draconian and unconstitutional methods. It has become over the years something of a neoliberal center-right party that maintains a spectacle of democracy by rotating liberal and conservative politicians every few election cycles.

    Everything has gone to shit during the thirty plus years under it's rule. The middle class has deteriorated leaving only a precarious few in the service of the super corporations and the government. Entertainment and pop culture is vacuous and decadent, dominated by lurid reality television and infantile distractions. There are resistance groups operating throughout the country that are woefully outgunned.

    Vampires have seen it all though, a civilization falling apart is nothing new to the eldest of their kind though they have never known a collapse that involved nuclear and chemical weapons. Still, they persist in their feudal networks, maintaining "the veil" that has kept mortals unaware of their existence for thousands of years.

    The oldest vampires however have been dying by large numbers in recent years for reasons nobody can figure out. They simply wander off into the sunlight or jump into fires without much warning seemingly hypnotized by a force unseen. With the older vampires dying, there has developed significant gaps in political leadership and so warfare between vampire families and factions have increased dramatically.

    It's in this world of growing crisis and ubiquitous decay that your vampire was given the dark gift, a relatively young vampire unliving in the city of:

    [] New Orleans, Louisiana: important in the cultural histories of both mortals and vampires alike, it was once home to a cabal of idealistic vampires who believed that vampires, werewolves, and humans could coexist peacefully and although this dream has long been dead, the city is known for it's affinity toward the supernatural and how much more intermingled mortals and the supernatural are than in other places.

    [] New York City, New York: the dark metropolis, a jungle of concrete, densely populated where even the most noticeable vampire could go unnoticed for the most part anyway, some of the most powerful vampires in the world have their domains here where they manipulate the financial sector to become immensely rich, for the weaker vampires there are only scraps and the only way to survive is to serve one of the few princes of the city

    [] Los Angeles, California: like the mortals of the 19th Century, vampires also moved west to find opportunity, seeking to grab opportunity which they could not find under the dominance of the ancient princes of the east coast, invariably the vampires who settled in Los Angeles were greatly affected by radical ideas of the 1950s and 60s countercultures, even before that era there was a general feeling of frivolity and decadence amongst the vampires of Los Angeles who became closely connected with Hollywood and it's legacy

    [] Pontiac City, Michigan: a fictional replacement of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the quintessential middle American city, far from the hubs of power and culture, it is an economically and culturally dying city but there are still pockets of interest here, it also has no prince and has been a free city since the 1980s, for an ambitious vampire looking for the path of least resistance, this would be a good place to be

    [] The Road: you are a drifter, sleeping under the dirt, stalking truck stops, roadside hotels, and small towns, there might not be many vampires around but in a small town one mysterious death could spark a hunting party.

    The Wordsmiths - #atticus-quests
     
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    • Hello! After lurking and reading through various Quests, I decided to start my own set in a horror setting based around vampires, so welcome and may god help you...well probably not you since you're a vampire but um eh have fun!

    Voting is open now. I have a newbie question, how do I set a thread timer for voting? I've seen them on other threads.
     
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    [X] The Road: you are a drifter, sleeping under the dirt, stalking truck stops, roadside hotels, and small towns, there might not be many vampires around but in a small town one mysterious death could spark a hunting party.

    Time to hit the dirt filled trail.
     
    Question. Will there be personality options? Like if we, the playable character, like being a vampire or not.

    Cause I see a dramatic tale of why we hit the dirt stained path being played in my head and it is glorious.
     
    GamingandReading said:
    Question. Will there be personality options? Like if we, the playable character, like being a vampire or not.

    Cause I see a dramatic tale of why we hit the dirt stained path being played in my head and it is glorious.
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    That would be interesting and yes the next vote will actually flesh out our vampire's background and personality.

    I can imagine our vampire getting picked up by a family of wild nihilistic vampires roaming flyover America.
     
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    [x] Pontiac City, Michigan: a fictional replacement of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the quintessential middle American city, far from the hubs of power and culture, it is an economically and culturally dying city but there are still pockets of interest here, it also has no prince and has been a free city since the 1980s, for an ambitious vampire looking for the path of least resistance, this would be a good place to be
     
    [X] New Orleans, Louisiana: important in the cultural histories of both mortals and vampires alike, it was once home to a cabal of idealistic vampires who believed that vampires, werewolves, and humans could coexist peacefully and although this dream has long been dead, the city is known for it's affinity toward the supernatural and how much more intermingled mortals and the supernatural are than in other places.
     
    [X] New York City, New York: the dark metropolis, a jungle of concrete, densely populated where even the most noticeable vampire could go unnoticed for the most part anyway, some of the most powerful vampires in the world have their domains here where they manipulate the financial sector to become immensely rich, for the weaker vampires there are only scraps and the only way to survive is to serve one of the few princes of the city
     
    [] New Orleans, Louisiana: important in the cultural histories of both mortals and vampires alike, it was once home to a cabal of idealistic vampires who believed that vampires, werewolves, and humans could coexist peacefully and although this dream has long been dead, the city is known for it's affinity toward the supernatural and how much more intermingled mortals and the supernatural are than in other places.
     
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    • Scheduled vote count started by Triangle-Orbit on Jul 28, 2022 at 8:23 PM, finished with 19 posts and 12 votes.
    • [X] Pontiac City, Michigan
      [X] The Road
      [X] The Road: you are a drifter, sleeping under the dirt, stalking truck stops, roadside hotels, and small towns, there might not be many vampires around but in a small town one mysterious death could spark a hunting party.
      [X] New York City, New York
      [x] Pontiac City, Michigan: a fictional replacement of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the quintessential middle American city, far from the hubs of power and culture, it is an economically and culturally dying city but there are still pockets of interest here, it also has no prince and has been a free city since the 1980s, for an ambitious vampire looking for the path of least resistance, this would be a good place to be
      [X] New Orleans, Louisiana: important in the cultural histories of both mortals and vampires alike, it was once home to a cabal of idealistic vampires who believed that vampires, werewolves, and humans could coexist peacefully and although this dream has long been dead, the city is known for it's affinity toward the supernatural and how much more intermingled mortals and the supernatural are than in other places.
      [X] New York City, New York: the dark metropolis, a jungle of concrete, densely populated where even the most noticeable vampire could go unnoticed for the most part anyway, some of the most powerful vampires in the world have their domains here where they manipulate the financial sector to become immensely rich, for the weaker vampires there are only scraps and the only way to survive is to serve one of the few princes of the city
      [X] New Orleans, Louisiana
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