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Chicago...Home of a population of over three million people.
Chicago...A city of lights.
Chicago...The City of Wind.
The city...the tall buildings...the remaining stockyards...a place where no sane person leaves home without protection...it is not only corrupt but thoroughly honest and unapologetic in its corruption.
Chicago, home of the vampires who thirst for acceptance as well as blood.
Chicago, home of the lycans who struggle against the beasts within...
Chicago, home of the magical fey whose powers know no bounds...
Chicago, home of the witches and supernatural beings who crave power.
The setting is present day Chicago, Illinois. It is a city that has recently been rocked by a purging of the supernatural community. None of the powers that be are sure exactly what transpired. Unsure of what caused the recent troubles they are sure of one thing... Chicago is once again habitable to their kind. As such the city is in the middle of a land grab the likes of which hasn't been seen since the westward expansion. The first casualties appear to be the local Streak as the other clans have their hands at the throats of those who lust for power. Everyone wants their fair share and the city is in uproar as the dust begins to settle...
Your Character and You (6 sub-boards) Now that you read through the previous important drivel(Yeah we know you didn't actually read any of it) this is where all the tidbits about your character goes.
Questions, Suggestions, and Hopefully Answers (1 sub-board) Got a mental itch about the boards that needs scratching here is the place to let fly. Whether its a way to make things better or shedding some light on an issue this is the place.
History Those who don't know theirs are doomed to repeat it...
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Parks (4 sub-boards) When Chicago incorporated in 1837 it chose the motto "Urbs in Horto" a Latin phrase which translates into English as "City in a Garden", and today the Chicago Park District consists of 552 parks with over 7,300 acres (30 km²) of municipal parkland as well as 33 beaches, nine museums, two world-class conservatories, 16 historic lagoons and 10 bird and wildlife gardens. Lincoln Park, the largest of these parks has over 20 million visitors each year, making it second only to Central Park in New York City.[21] Nine lakefront harbors located within a number of parks along the lakefront render the Chicago Park District the nation's largest municipal harbor system. In addition to ongoing beautification and renewal projects for existing parks, a number of new parks have been added in recent years such as Ping Tom Memorial Park, DuSable Park and most notably Millennium Park. The wealth of greenspace afforded by Chicago's parks is further augmented by the Cook County Forest Preserves, a network of open spaces containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes, that are set aside as natural areas which lie along the city's periphery which are also home to both the Chicago Botanic Garden and Brookfield Zoo.
Westside (1 sub-board) The West Side holds the Garfield Park Conservatory, one of the largest collections of tropical plants of any U.S. city. Cultural attractions include Humboldt Park's Puerto Rican Day festival, and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen.
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Northside (1 sub-board) The North Side is the most densely populated residential section of the city and features the River North neighborhood. Chicagos Northside features the nation's largest concentration of contemporary art galleries outside of Manhattan.
Southside (3 sub-boards) The South Side is home to two of the city's largest parades, the annual Bud Billiken Day parade and the South Side Irish Parade. It is home to two of Chicago's largest public parks. Jackson Park, which hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, is currently the site of the Museum of Science and Industry. Washington Park, which is connected to Jackson Park by the Midway Plaisance, is currently being considered as the primary site of the Olympic Stadium for the 2016 Summer Olympics if Chicago wins the bid
Downtown (4 sub-boards) The heart of the Chicagoland area. It houses the powers that be. From the congress expressway to Wacker drive this is where the hustle and bustle happens.
Presidential Towers boast great variety and diversity. It is ine of their many strengths. Unbeknownst to Waterton Residential the buildings owners they boast more than even they knew.
The Towers are home to Takanashita. He resides on the Forty-ninth floor in the only one bedroom above the twentieth floor.
Tak's one bedroom apartment is filled with old relics, and antiques. The bedroom is used as a library to study modern society, and psychology.
Like any dragon his horde is there hidden in secret compartments throughout the area.
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Police 1st District Central Located at 1718 South State this is the central police station for the Chicagoland Area. It is the hub of various interdepartmental Bureaus such as: Bureau of Administrative Services Bureau of Investigative Services Bureau of Patrol Bureau of Professional Standards Bureau of Strategic Deployment(SWAT) not to mention it is also the home of Chicagos RPIT. Unlike the other Bureaus which have officers placed at the various district houses RPIT is the only department that actually works out of First District Central.
Transportation (3 sub-boards) Chicago is a major transportation hub in the United States. It is an important component in global distribution, as it is the third largest inter-modal port in the world after Hong Kong and Singapore. As such here are the many ways people get to and from here and there publically.
Museum Campus (4 sub-boards) In 1998, the city officially opened the Museum Campus, a 10-acre (4-ha) lakefront park surrounding three of the city's main museums: the Adler Planetarium, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Shedd Aquarium. The Museum Campus joins the southern section of Grant Park which includes the renowned Art Institute of Chicago.
Universities, Colleges and Trade Schools Since the 1890s, Chicago has been a world center in higher education and research. Three universities in or immediately adjoining the city, Northwestern University, DePaul University, and the University of Chicago, are among the top echelon of doctorate-granting research universities. The city also boasts some of the best City sponsored colleges and trade schools.
Suburbia (1 sub-board) "The Burbs" first appeared as a term for the suburbs of Chicago. Since the word has entered the common parlance Chicago has mastered the definition of the word. Chicago is surrounded on all sides exceptthat which touches the lake by Suburbs. Each has its own Municipality but relys on Chicago and the State for the bulk of its needs.
The Under City Chicago unlike other cities is blessed/cursed with an extensive interconnected tunnel system. It is the remains from an overly imndustrious era. It is a great conglomeration of air ducts,sewer tunnels, subway routes, freight passageways and the like allcrossing cutting and doubling gack on themselves. During the prohibition era bootleggers used portions of the tunnels to transport booze. Now no one knows what lies where and even city workers don't wander from the few well lit pasasageways to map the maze of tunnels.
Powhaton Unlike in other cities where the Vampires parade their undead status before the populace using said staus to line their coffers, The Vampires in Chicago have gone with a by and large quiet mystique. Everyone knows that to meet a real Vampire there is but one place...The Powhatan. The Powhatan Apartments is a 22-story luxury apartment building overlooking Lake Michigan and adjacent to Burnham Park in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. This housing cooperative is the most expensive residential high-rise on Chicago's South Side per tenant. Tenants are literally dying to get in. The building also hosts the only 24-hour armed security. The gaurds earn nearly twice what the local starting police officers make as their jobs depend on eternal vigilance and a sometimes unfair element of risk. Since it and many of the neighboring high-rise apartment buildings are named for Native American tribes (such as the Algonquin, The Chippewa and the Narragansett), the area has been given the tongue-in-cheek name "Indian Village".
Excalibur (1 sub-board) Excalibur nightclub in Chicago was first opened in 1989. The building was constructed in 1892 and designed by Henry Ives Cobb in the Romanesque Revival style; the gothic pair of large and imposing winged gargoyles at the entrance are a more recent addition to lend to the expected ambiance.
The club was originally opened as a vampire themed nightclub in January 1989. The previous owner died during the purge. causing the club to close. The New Master of Chicago spent $11 million renovating the building, it is the largest non-hotel entertainment facility in Chicago. The club is operated as a place that the public can safely meet and rub elbows with vampires. It is tehe local vampire sonly exception to their habit of invisibility. While not all of the staff are undead those that aren't hide their mortality with movie quality makeup and effects. The illusion is so thorough that on April 24, 2001, a waitress at the club, was tipped $10,000 by a customer to turn him into one of the children of the night. The waitress who was and is completely human returned the tip two days later with an apology. The building itself has been the site of several television shows on the subject. It is also the site of its own weekly theater show about the paranormal, Supernatural Chicago.
The northern portion of the building has its own entrance and is operated as a fetish club called Vision.
Charnley-Persky House The Charnley-Persky House is located in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, in the 1300 block of North Astor Street. The plain brick facade with simple ornamentation is quite different than other houses on the Gold Coast, but the interior is distinguished by rich ornamentation. Its interior gilt is not the only secret this house conceals. Inside its vaulted ceiling domicile lies the home of the local Skulk. The skulk were the only supernatural denizens to survive the purge, but they aren't talking...
The Seelie (1 sub-board) The Per of Immortalis Sol solis, home of the Seelie Fae court. This is the residence of unabashed honest lies and dishonest truths.
Goblin Market In the deepest most forgotten corner of the underground, just on the border of two worlds, in a place that should be dark and silent colorful light glistens and the sound of many people echoes all around you. There you stand at the edge of the goblin market faeire lights shine above the booths where the fae come to sell their most unique wares. Walking by them you can see the unspeakably beautiful garments of spun gossamer and dream stuff, and smell the forbidden savor of the rarest of goblin fruits.
In the goblin market everything you could ever wish for is for sale if you know where to look and you can pay the price. You can buy a baby's first smile, a blade of poisonous fae glassteal, the services of brownie house keepers, and of course information. Be it material, ethereal, or otherwise if you can find it you can by it.
What does your heart most crave, and can you survive the price to have it?
That's the artistic way of describing it mechanically the market appears in the Chicago underground, on the border between the mortal realm and arcadia, so that anyone in know the can find it and attend. Within the market various types of fae seelie and unseelie sell what they have gathered for this event, and anything can be bought here if it can be found. The market itself is actually huge appearing in part in multiple locations all over the world so it is much bigger inside than outside. Mages and certain attuned psychics can locate the market with a simple spell, and some concentration respectively. The fae automatically know when and where one pops up in their location. Lycans can sniff it out if they happen to pass within a few miles of it, to them it smells like a blending of carnival and garbage dump. Vampires can really only locate it if they someone else who knows where it is, as the magic that brings the market to this world for some reason doesn't really lend itself to a vampires nature.
Peace and good business are brutally enforced here by huge unseelie trolls and sleek and glittering seelie knights who patrol through the market constantly keeping an eye out for trouble. By ancient faerie law, and mutual accords anyone found who is causing trouble will be expelled, even the kings and queens themselves (though much more gently than others would be). Trouble within the market however is a very fluid term, but it basically comes down to anything that interferes with the smooth operation of good business is not allowed. In the shadowed alleys between booths, theft murder and worse are traded out like any other commodity.
The merchants in the market are not all goblins in fact most of them are not, the goblins arrange this and manage it but to find one selling means he is either a master craftsman or an utter failure as a goblin. The other sellers can be any other type of fae, in all their strange alien variety, and occasionally other types of supernatural can be found as seller here. However merchants are a cagey bunch having traveled in this market an amount of time they can no longer count, as time doesn’t mean the same thing in the market as out. as a result while most of the merchants know exactly what the others are selling they are extremely reluctant to give directions to customer that takes them away from their own booth. The peacekeepers and enforcers have a geas on them to prevent bribery and also prevents them from doing anything but carrying out their assigned duty. All together finding exactly what you are looking for is more a matter of luck than anything else.
The Fireside Fireside Bowl (or the Fireside) is a Pard run bowling alley and music venue established in the 1940s, located at 2648 W Fullerton Ave in Chicago, Illinois. The title is passed down to each new Nimir-Ra and Raj as they come into their own. The building was originally an ice factory. During the purge, two of the ice factory's workers bought the building, and converted it into a bowling alley. Much work was put into the Fireside to make it a proper bowling venue; the building was cleaned up, including the bathrooms, which had almost been completely non-functioning. The Fireside also hosts rock shows (while still functioning as bowling alley), hosting shows almost every night of the week. The Fireside Bowl has begun to decline in popularity but somehow stays in the black. The Fireside Bowl is located in Logan Square.
Some notable bands that have played concerts at the Fireside include: AFI, Alkaline Trio, Allister, At the Drive-In, The Ataris, The Blood Brothers, Brand New, Cursive, Death Cab for Cutie, The Dismemberment Plan, The Donnas, The Faint, Fall Out Boy, Finch, Jimmy Eat World, The Lawrence Arms, Less Than Jake, Murder By Death, My Chemical Romance, Rise Against, Slapstick, Smoking Popes, Thrice, Thursday, Xiu Xiu and many more. The entrance fee is always $5 with a severe age restriction. The stage and audience areas are restricted by a large orange plastic fence that prevents anyone from walking on the bowling lanes. Regardless of its appearance, the Fireside Bowl is a very sought-after venue for bands because of the intimacy experienced between bands and fans while playing.
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