So, in order to facilitate the creation of all kinds of fun big plots, I'm making this thread so we can better build up Valesport as a place with a history and a map and so on.
What I have so far, which is not necessarily set in stone:
So: thoughts? Ideas? Better ideas than mine? Things you would like to more specifically work in? I am also willing to add a list of gangs to the setting notes, with links to any writeups that anyone may want to do.
What I have so far, which is not necessarily set in stone:
- Valesport is based on Boston, but with a massive river separating it into two halves. Architecture involves a lot of brownstones where it doesn't involve skyscrapers.
- It is one of the oldest cities in the United States, so there's a lot of old things lurking around.
- The guy currently calling himself Jean and running Tsundoku was one of the first people to make a home in Valesport, to the extent that the rest of that residential district ended up building itself around his house (which sort of ruined his view but he's had some time to get over it).
- Like attracts like, and in this case weird magical biz attracts more of the same; Jean and the ones who followed established the precedent of the mundane authorities allowing the supernatural communities to basically police themselves.
- One of the oldest covens in the city made the mistake early on of trying to use Jean as a magical reagent. It did not end well for anyone. There is now a rule that witches stay out of Old Town if they can help it, and other gangs/organizations tend to follow suit. Old Town thus constitutes neutral territory, not that this stops whippersnappers from trying to test it once in a while.
- Each new wave of immigrants tends to bring with it something strange from their own country, including variants of vampires or fae previously unknown. New gangs also crop up, but the oldest will likely always be the strongest. I'm thinking the newest are Vietnamese, not for any particular sociocultural reason it just gives our characters a reason to eat a lot of pho and I want to live vicariously through them
- Let's just say it's basically Supernatural rules in that it is totally reasonable for a mundane normal person to remain oblivious to all the werewolves and vampires and whatever else, but it is also totally reasonable for them to have figured out what's what
So: thoughts? Ideas? Better ideas than mine? Things you would like to more specifically work in? I am also willing to add a list of gangs to the setting notes, with links to any writeups that anyone may want to do.
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