New Orleans - Under the Mask
“You can live in any city in America, but New Orleans is the only city that lives in you.” – Chris Rose
New Orleans is celebrated worldwide for its food, music, architecture, and endless festivals. It is a place where strangers arrive to lose themselves in parades of color, to dance until dawn, to taste a culture steeped in history and diverse personality. For many, it is the greatest city in the world.
But New Orleans wears more than one face. Beneath the laughter of Bourbon Street and the gleam of gas lamps lies a different city. A place where shadows stretch too long, where certain doors are best left unopened. This hidden world is filled with legends and tales that are used to scare children or provide entertainment for those that enjoy such things. A place of vampires and witches, of lycanthropes and restless spirits, of demons that stalk the edges of nightmares. Legends of blood queens, swamp beasts, and bone conjurers aren’t just stories to frighten children; they are fragments of truth, carefully disguised as carnival tales.
It can be felt by those willing to look for it, in the humid air, in the alleys behind the wrought-iron balconies, behind the old-fashioned windows, and in the shadows. Books are written about it, stories are told, tours given, and yet most people never look that close, even when it is right in front of them. The inhabitants of this darker world would have it no other way. They rely on being tall tales, and bedtime stories. As long as people don't believe, they are just victims waiting to be used, prey for the hunters, pawns for the puppet masters, food for the monsters.
New Orleans is one of the places where the things that go bump in the night congregate. Where they can blend in and take advantage of a culture that is so willing to embrace them, while denying their existence completely.
New Orleans is a grand city filled with all manner of wonders but beware that which lies under its mask.
New Orleans: Under the Mask is the setting for a play by post RPG run on RPoL. The setting is a fictional version of New Orleans, LA. While many of the places may be similar to the real city, the version of New Orleans in the game world is completely fictional and is not intended to mirror the real version.
Players of the RPG will be able to play as a number of supernatural creatures, or even plain vanilla mortals if they wish.
The setting will also be used as a campaign setting for adventures played in real time. These adventures will focus more on characters that investigate supernatural occurrences instead of being the subject of them. For more information select Investigation Campaign below.This site will be used to collect information on players, NPCs, places, and other information that will help bring the world that lies under the mask of New Orleans to life.
If you are interested in playing, please check out the links below. They will provide information on the setting, as well as the rules the game will be using and some details that will hopefully help you decide if this game would be fun for you.
This site is a living document and will be expanded as we play. I am also working on filling in some additional details as I am waiting on players.
