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FITZZ wrote:

Ogryn wrote:Alright, so, does anybody have any ideas how Blood Moon III will start?

Still cooking up some ideas, but as Klimino eluded..it will definitely start with a "Bang".

thats it! my weapon choice will be a Bangstick!

Mordoskul wrote:This is how I picture the Crooked World:

Very little color, the world seems to primarily grey.
The sun never shines, leaving the world bathed in perpetual darkness.
Ghouls not bonded to one of the Kindred act as the street gangs of the Crooked World, fighting one another over territory and the dwindling supply of Corpus.
Prometheans are largely mistreated by their Kindred masters, and toil without thanks or respite. Rumblings of revolt are beginning to come from their ranks, calling for Promethean freedom.
The streets and buildings seem 'off' somehow, the angles appearing to be gnarled and twisted in subtle ways.
Larvae run in packs like wild dogs in the slums.

here's my problem with it, if it's a different reallity......

How do you justify, a world in pepetual darkness? without light humans were never created, thus no vampires, ghouls, prometheans,....
So it has to have a normal day/night circle.....

Here's how i see the world...

Vampires live in sprwaling city's, either self created or by adapting existing city's to their needs.(underground or every window replaced, connections build between buildings...) Their will be less unnatural things and natural things then in the other world. So their would be giant wastelands between neigbouring city's. (Places where free men, still live) These city's would compete with eachother for the supply of corpus even tough they belong together.
(think about it like ancient greece. They were all greeks under a king, but still it was city vs city)

Humans would be captured and placed in "camps", there would still be production of food by promethaeans to feed the humans.
So they could extent the ammount of blood a single person can give. The blood would then be distributed to the Vampirii and consorts...This would be heavily regulated. Only high ranking Vampirii would still have the right to feed of real humans.

Turning people into vampirii, would be outlawed. (Supplies already dwindeling, why created another mouth to feed.)
People would look up to Cain as a savior, as he promises new huntinggrounds and corpus. The street would indeed be filled by
all sorts om unseedy things. But also their would be a lot of newly created vampires, created during the bloody rise of the vampires.
(What would be 20-30 years ago... seeing as pistols, cars,...already exist) These vamps would be Clanless and would desperatly try to find their Embracer and be inducted by a clan.

Some would even stalk the land in search of non captured humans, to try and buy their way in. (I believe corpus would be the currence of this world. Seeing as everyone needs ....) Dhampires would be used as protectors for the Vampires.
Keeping them safe when the day emerges from pesky humanii and rioting Prometheans. And also against assasins from rival clans.
as each Vampire tries to rise in power. (Aquiring power would be a dominant factor in Vampire psychology, afterall what would you do if you lived for thousands of years... you don't want to get bored.)

Much like ancient rome, city's woul hold gladiatoral games.As the clans tries to please the plebs. Giving them the sight of fresh blood spilled, keeping their hunger statisfied, and thankfull to the ruling class. As they buy time, for Cain to keep his promise.

More later, have to go...

I would say that smog, acid rain and pollution are rife, the vampirii would want as little daylight as possible to get through, right?

ineptus astartes wrote:I would say that smog, acid rain and pollution are rife, the vampirii would want as little daylight as possible to get through, right?

Smog, acid rain and pollution don't stop sun light; And i believe even vampirii would be against pollution, not for them.
But for the humans. They need their food alive and healty. An acidic wasteland won't help improve the quality/quantitiy of the livestock..

(And why do i smile everytime i refer to the human race as livestock? )

smog would stop light getting through.

I really see the whole thing as tinged in some sort of hellish yellow or red light.

the landscape like Armaggedon.

ash wastes. storm clouds, big, towering spires and a depraved undercity where the strong prevail (Then are drained)


so just ad vampires to any hive planet and thats more or less the picture.

ineptus astartes wrote:smog would stop light getting through.

We sometimes have smog here, its just mist like...nothing more...Normal mist is even thicker..

Smog is this:

ineptus astartes wrote:

the landscape like Armaggedon.

ash wastes. storm clouds, big, towering spires and a depraved undercity where the strong prevail (Then are drained)

so just ad vampires to any hive planet and thats more or less the picture.

Thats what it somewhat imagined it, but more in the way of a post-apoc setting..

Abbandoned city's, giant empty fields, forests, burned out cars, etc... with a sprawling vampiric city here and there..;

Seems to fit more into a different reallity, than having big ashwastes on our (same) planet.

bah. your smog is nothing compared to nepali smog. nepali smog comes off the baghmati.


and the factories.

My country can beat yours in levels of pollution!

ineptus astartes wrote:bah. your smog is nothing compared to nepali smog. nepali smog comes off the baghmati.


and the factories.

My country can beat yours in levels of pollution!

Congratulations.

But we'll see what Fitzz says... I'm starting to like the 'armageddon' idea...

I would imagine that vampire magik ( and not so much smog) keeps the world in a state of twilight/ nighttime...

FITZZ wrote: I would imagine that vampire magik ( and not so much smog) keeps the world in a state of twilight/ nighttime...

Magik, powerfull enough to blot out the sun.

But wouldn't that be bad for the Vampirii? Seeing as you need light to grow food.
And that food is used to keep your human livestock alive. So that you don't run out of bodies within a month?

i think only the cities have the 'Nostramo effect' and there are plains that are tended to by promeatheans to cultivate food for he humanii.

ineptus astartes wrote:i think only the cities have the 'Nostramo effect' and there are plains that are tended to by promeatheans to cultivate food for he humanii

"Nostramo effect".... I like that.

sillyboy wrote:

FITZZ wrote: I would imagine that vampire magik ( and not so much smog) keeps the world in a state of twilight/ nighttime...

Magik, powerfull enough to blot out the sun.

But wouldn't that be bad for the Vampirii? Seeing as you need light to grow food.
And that food is used to keep your human livestock alive. So that you don't run out of bodies within a month?

Greenhouses...canabilism ...vitiamin rich injections...plenty of ways the Vamps could keep their human cattle alive and supplying blood.

FITZZ wrote:

sillyboy wrote:

FITZZ wrote: I would imagine that vampire magik ( and not so much smog) keeps the world in a state of twilight/ nighttime...

Magik, powerfull enough to blot out the sun.

But wouldn't that be bad for the Vampirii? Seeing as you need light to grow food.
And that food is used to keep your human livestock alive. So that you don't run out of bodies within a month?

Greenhouses...canabilism ...vitiamin rich injections...plenty of ways the Vamps could keep their human cattle alive and supplying blood.

I bow down to the evil mind of Fitzz.

And what are your toughts on my description of the vampire society above?
Still want to add some things. ( I want to get a clear view of the world, so i don't rp wrong things )
And could be handy for other who want to pay a visit. (So alone )

FITZZ wrote:

sillyboy wrote:

FITZZ wrote: I would imagine that vampire magik ( and not so much smog) keeps the world in a state of twilight/ nighttime...

Magik, powerfull enough to blot out the sun.

But wouldn't that be bad for the Vampirii? Seeing as you need light to grow food.
And that food is used to keep your human livestock alive. So that you don't run out of bodies within a month?

Greenhouses...canabilism ...vitiamin rich injections...plenty of ways the Vamps could keep their human cattle alive and supplying blood.

what a wonderful world.

sillyboy wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

sillyboy wrote:

FITZZ wrote: I would imagine that vampire magik ( and not so much smog) keeps the world in a state of twilight/ nighttime...

Magik, powerfull enough to blot out the sun.

But wouldn't that be bad for the Vampirii? Seeing as you need light to grow food.
And that food is used to keep your human livestock alive. So that you don't run out of bodies within a month?

Greenhouses...canabilism ...vitiamin rich injections...plenty of ways the Vamps could keep their human cattle alive and supplying blood.

I bow down to the evil mind of Fitzz.

And what are your toughts on my description of the vampire society above?
Still want to add some things. ( I want to get a clear view of the world, so i don't rp wrong things )
And could be handy for other who want to pay a visit. (So alone )

I'd like to see a mesh of your concepts and Mordo's...I think they complement each other.

I see the Kindred employing a strict caste system, which I see as something like this.

Food- Humanii
Slaves- Prometheans, ghouls, lupines
Commoners- Ghouls, 'young' Kindred and turncoat lupines
Useful Servants- Bound ghouls, dhampyres, some Prometheans
Low Nobility
High Nobility
The Sires
Cain and his Court

Certain areas of the Crooked World would be especially so, having elements not unlike those of the Crooked House, where the Crooked World bleeds into other fell realms. Strange and horrid fey can be lurking in these areas, in fact, the Marl Pit has become a permanent fixture of the Crooked landscape.

You think there would be some sort of combined ghoul/human/lupine resistance?

I'm not sure but for some reason when I think of this world, I get the feeling like its a mix of the "Daybreakers " world and something like Gereon from the Gaunt's Ghost series...Everything is off, there's mutated vegetation and its usually gloomy and smoky. The humans and servants are monitored by arbites like foot patrols and have to carry around some sort of identification (perhaps in their bodies?) as a way of the overlords keeping track of where people are going and whatnot...

You would think at that point that all the hunters/lower supernaturals would be able to put aside their differences and work together for some sort of organized resistance...no matter how outnumbered it is...-shrugs-

@mordo

i'm going to add some stuff to my earlier post and sent it to you.(adding some fluuf to get the dark veil )
Then you can add/ change stuff. To get our lovely twisted world.

And i agree with the caste system.

A combination of ghouls, Prometheans, werewolves, and human slaves could cause a spot of trouble for the Kindred, a revolt the Iscariots would no doubt support and fund.

sillyboy wrote:@mordo

i'm going to add some stuff to my earlier post and sent it to you.(adding some fluuf to get the dark veil )
Then you can add/ change stuff. To get our lovely twisted world.

And i agree with the caste system.

Cool, can't wait to see what we can come up with!

agreed with the caste system too...

Hmmm...resistance by a combined force of humans and supernaturals...funded and supplied by higher up vampires...

Ideas...they are coming to me...

WARORK93 wrote:You think there would be some sort of combined ghoul/human/lupine resistance?

I'm not sure but for some reason when I think of this world, I get the feeling like its a mix of the "Daybreakers " world and something like Gereon from the Gaunt's Ghost series...Everything is off, there's mutated vegetation and its usually gloomy and smoky. The humans and servants are monitored by arbites like foot patrols and have to carry around some sort of identification (perhaps in their bodies?) as a way of the overlords keeping track of where people are going and whatnot...

You would think at that point that all the hunters/lower supernaturals would be able to put aside their differences and work together for some sort of organized resistance...no matter how outnumbered it is...-shrugs-

I definatly see small pockets of resistance...much as Mordo pointed out, though I don't know that Humans/Lupines/Ghouls etc would " work together" ..( more likely not)...
It is also very possiable that elements from our world may try to aid this resistance ( or at least try to help them escape).

WARORK93 wrote:agreed with the caste system too...

Hmmm...resistance by a combined force of humans and supernaturals...funded and supplied by higher up vampires...

Ideas...they are coming to me...

The Iscariots know that they must crush Cain and his Court in one hammerblow, or be eradicated if they fail. All loyalist Sires must be executed to prevent an endless civl war, as well as banishing their servants. I think the intro to BMIII could be a group of Iscariots scheming in secret against their ruler.

alright, for PCs, I am caught between three, chowder's guys, Nrajah, or one of the Kings Men (got confirmation form DS)

probably gonna jump on the WW bandwagon.

Mordoskul wrote:

WARORK93 wrote:agreed with the caste system too...

Hmmm...resistance by a combined force of humans and supernaturals...funded and supplied by higher up vampires...

Ideas...they are coming to me...

The Iscariots know that they must crush Cain and his Court in one hammerblow, or be eradicated if they fail. All loyalist Sires must be executed to prevent an endless civl war, as well as banishing their servants. I think the intro to BMIII could be a group of Iscariots scheming in secret against their ruler.

Could make a good part for the opening Intro...but it will be much more inclusive concerning the Human and Werewolf elements as well...this RP is going to focus on a great many going ons...and while the internal war between Vamps is part of it, there will be a whole plethora of things happening that go beyond it...the opening will encompass all ( or most) of it...

FITZZ wrote:Could make a good part for the opening Intro...but it will be much more inclusive concerning the Human and Werewolf elements as well...this RP is going to focus on a great many going ons...and while the internal war between Vamps is part of it, there will be a whole plethora of things happening that go beyond it...the opening will encompass all ( or most) of it...

So I guess this one is going to be quite larger in scope than the last one? I suppose that means it may be anywhere upwards to over two hundred pages long...that would be cool...

FITZZ wrote:It is also very possible that elements from our world may try to aid this resistance ( or at least try to help them escape).

That's actually more or less what I had in mind...you would think that the humans and wolves from this world would try to help their counterparts after they learned about them...

I had some thought that a combine resistance might work but I suppose that there's just too much bad blood in between them all to fit that in...

Well, the Humans would be likely to assist other humans in the crooked world ( Humans from our world that is)...
But since the majority of wolves that still live in the crooked world are conspirators and traitors to their own kind...I can't see the wolves in our world giving two Gaks about them...

... And yes...the scope of this RP is going to be huge in comparison to the previous two...it will definatly be a "grand finally".