On the border between the CBD and the industrial district on its inland side, a concrete-and-glass office-block relic of the 1970s looms, the sun glinting off its pre-safety-glass windows. A gleaming, spotless Government crest has been tacked above the revolving doors into its tired-looking foyer. Where the letters "DFAT" are printed on the inner-city, ultra-modern Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's crest, the letters are here inscribed: "BSPA". No-one who does not know does not particularly care what the letters stand for. To those who do, this is unquestionably one of the most important government departments: the Bureau of Supernatural and Paranormal Affairs.
What is the BSPA?
The BSPA is the government department dedicated to the regulation and, where necessary, control of the supernatural and paranormal beings and elements within the city of that particular office's location.
This department is run much like any other government department, but along with the ordinary administrators, negotiators and other desk-guys there is a large task-force of morally-conscious werewolves, vampires, mages, semidemonic beings, perhaps even some demons, soulless demon-hunters... the usual contingent of overpowered freaks and misfits.
What is the BSPA up against?
Other than the usual freelance trouble-makers, there is an organisation developing of paranormal beings who believe it is their right and destiny to rule over and exploit these pathetic, useless, virus-like humans. The organisation calls itself "the Liberation", and its sole purpose is to bring death, despair and destruction unto the humans of this populous city.
They work out of multiple bases at any one time, and these bases are always being changed and moved. As a result, they are extremely hard to track down.
When and where is it set?
Simply, some reasonably large, very ordinary modern city.
Who can I play as?
We need, of course, both employees of the BSPA and Liberationists... as well as perhaps even some freelance troublemakers, and unaffiliated demon hunters. You can be just about any race you please, except aliens, as long as you can make it make sense. (Eg. you'd need a damn good excuse to put a fully-fledged demon into the BSPA) GM creatures (eg HB's Abe Sapiens) are more than welcome, too.
This roleplay died soon after beginning here the first time around with a wet fizzle, but in spite of this, I still believe it could have been great, and maintain the reason why it was such a sodden failure is because a) I am slack, and b) we did not have any active memebrs on the "good guys" side.
All in favour of a better-organised resurrection, say "aye"!
Plans to make it succeed over the previous incarnation:
- It will be known that the BSPA are pretty damn bad-a** too.
I will give a better-planned-out structure overview for both the BSPA and the Liberationists.
I will make the Liberationists' cause more clear.
I will not release it into the wild until we have collected an appropriate cast of characters.
This will probably be a post-guild-resurrection project, to be undertaken when we are not running at such a low level of operations.
