City of Mist: Dangerous Days

January 1st, 2028. A day of fickle resolutions, stale on the tongue like UP-chuckAffectionate nickname for Universal Protein.. Here is the sprawling metropolis that you think you know. Is this your city? Or has your city long departed, leaving only this haunted husk to call home?

The time blinks 4:30AM—a little half past too late, yet early enough to be deceived by the clocks wasting away on the drugged, drinking, runaway mind. You can hear the manic chitter of clubgoers spilling half-conscious into the streets of Meatpacking, just a few blocks over. Whatever your reasons for being awake at this hour, these insomniac streets will be your refuge or your ruin. They coil like veins around the body of the city, singing you to wakefulness, a clanking, polytonal chorus of wailing ambulances, keening vactrains, rumbling seismic hums, and looping digital advertisements, pierced by a scream in the night.

Who are you? What are you? And why are you where you are in this moment?

City of Mist is a roleplaying game in a modern city where legends are real. Myths and legends—gods and monsters—are reborn inside ordinary people. In your day-to-day life, you might be anyone: a young doctor struggling to save lives in the ER, an underpaid schoolteacher herding difficult students, a desperate housewife languishing in her nuclear household, a barista serving tepid coffees and smiles. But you're not just that. You are more. An angel in disguise. A trickster god who's as likely to help as harm. A gentle soul who transforms into a monster. The unwilling bearer of a fabled weapon of glory. You, and people like you, are Rifts: living out a modern version of the legends that have awakened within you, while still carrying on with your ordinary lives.

It's a good thing you can do the impossible, because when the Mythos within calls, you'll have to answer the impossible demands of the legend inside you... one way or another.

System: City of Mist, Powered by the Apocalypse. PbtA is my jam and I've wanted to run City of Mist for years. Let's have fun with this, eh? All levels of experience welcome.

Theme: Modern-day neo-noir with an urban fantasy twist. Borrows from Cyberpunk/gloompunk/'weird' fiction. Some aesthetic inspirations include Blade Runner, Akira, Gotham, Metropolis. Technologically, less 80s retrofuturism and more modern science: This is a modern city with all the technological and cultural trappings of the world we live in today.

Seeking: Up to 5 players who dig the setting and enjoy story/character-driven roleplay. Bonus if you like worldbuilding. I'm here to develop my writing and have fun, and hope you are too!

Playstyle: Players will be given a lot of freedom to influence the narrative within the continuity that we establish together. I have no pre-existing expectations about how cases should unravel. There will be a 'Session 0' where we craft the setting together—places, factions, and characters of interest—and I'll seed the first chapter with plot hooks connected to the setting we've created to build to a larger arc.

Expectations: An invisible struggle lies at the heart of this game. Your characters will discover what that struggle means to them. As they peel back the layers of the skin of the world, so too will they discover themselves.

I would like players to make at least two posts per week to maintain momentum, with flexibility around the holidays. This is not a hard rule. With all that's going on, people are free to take time off as they need.

Recruitment Process: Head to the 'Casting' forum and create a topic with your character concept, using the instructions in the Character Creation thread. Answer some questions about the setting, and sketch out some ideas for your character's Personality, Appearance, and Background. All this is subject to change during Session 0 when we flesh out the story together, so keep in mind that nothing need be set in stone.

I'll be picking 4-5 characters. Recruitment will end Feb 5, and selection will take place up to a week after.

The deadline for new interest is February 5th. You may express interest by this date to be considered, after which I'll close the ad and give people a week or so to finish their concepts if they need it.