nWoD Looking for mortals to fight back against the darkness!
"Our world is darkness."
The voice is deep and gravelly. A smoker's voice coming over the radio that might as well be the word of god for all its gravitas.
"We humans like to think of ourselves as the top of the food chain, the apex of mother Earth and evolution but it's all an illusion. We are the sheep with the wool over our eyes. We are the cattle and we don't even see the fence around our pasture. We just walk around grazing and getting fat without seeing the monsters in the shadows waiting to kill us, gut us and feast on us. Mind, body and soul. Sure some of you bad-ass military special forces operatives might be more like bulls and have horns. Maybe you even bring down one of 'em when they come for you but the bottom line is your days are numbered, same as the rest."
The speaker paused and in the background the microphone picked up the sound of the man dragging on a cigarette.
"But there is hope. There is always hope. We are at war and as my man Sun Tzu said: Know thine enemy. Well, we don't know shit now but we are learning. Those of us with eyes opened can see what's going on and there is hope. You see, the monsters that hunt us from the darkness, that slaughter us without our knowledge may be fearsome abominations of nature but their numbers are small. Any of you heard of the Lokta-Volterra equation? Basically to boil it down if these shadowy bastards had any real numbers we wouldn't be having this conversation. They would emerge and take over the world and pen us up proper but they know that if they are revealed, if a light is lit and the monsters revealed then humanity has the fury and the numbers to wipe them from the face of the Earth. "
Another pause, another drag from a cigarette. There is a slight burst of static as if the signal had dropped momentarily but when the speaker returns his voice is strong with passion and a smoldering anger.
"Hope number two is that those bastards have lived so long preying on us from the shadows that they don't know what it's like to be hunted themselves. They cannot fathom prey hunting them back and it is easy to catch them off guard over and over again. Our fellow Hunters look just like everyone else. They work the same jobs, they live the same lives but under that surface facade is a defender of humanity. That janitor or accountant or fast food worker spends every waking moment of their lives training their minds, bodies and souls for war and when we catch one of those bastards off guard...well brothers and sisters believe me the look on their faces is priceless."
Silence falls as the speaker leans back. His chair squeaks and there is the rustle of fabric as he adjusts his position. When he resumes his voice is low but powerful as he leans into the mic for full effect.
"This war won't be easy, my brothers and sisters. The monsters that walk in the darkness have evolved to be the perfect predators of humanity. They walk among us unseen and even when exposed they can demonstrate incredible power and strength. Many of us fall in this fight but it is a war that we must win. For the sake of your wives and husbands, for your mothers and fathers. For your sons and daughters we must take back our world from this darkness. We must be the hunters of our hunters. We must flare up like candles of light against the darkness that surrounds us."
There is a mechanical beep and then the radio turns to static.
This game will focus on ordinary mortals becoming aware of the various monsters and supernatural entities preying secretly on humanity in the nWoD setting. Players will be awakening in a Midwestern college town. There they will have their mortal lives shattered as the revelation that things like ghosts, zombies, psychics and worse secretly live among them.
The game will be primarily use the Hunter: the Vigil system however it will be heavily influenced by Hunter: the Reckoning mythos. The theme will be mortals attempting to do extraordinary things and will focus on horror and despair with brief flashes of triumph. There will be a survival component that comes into play as the players become successful and have to adapt their lives to incorporate this new Hunter identity. There will also be a very heavy sense of exploration and mystery as I will be making heavy modifications to how the monsters of the night work.
