Disclaimer: The idea was someone else's, but I have been allowed to borrow it and make it mine.

On another Earth, there exists a set of islands in the Pacific Northwest, the archipelago-nation of Beaux Rêve (Sweet Dream), where the supernatural and mundane jockey for influence in this alternate 2024.

The Capital, Beaux Rêve City, is famous for its extreme and bizarre one-school policy. A space the size of a whole city district has been carved out to make space for a massive educational complex, ranging from nurseries to university faculties. Children from all over the city are made to mix regardless of their economic circumstances or housing situations, which leads to several issues with bullying, high workloads for teachers, and massive classes. The city's economy has shifted to accommodate this, and years of strain are making themselves felt through a recession. Everybody knows somebody who works at the school and rumors spread like wildfire about life in that massive warren.

This schooling system and the surrounding district are commonly known as "The Complex" or "Beaux Rêve Educational", and it is one of the largest social experiments of our times.

Now, for the supernatural side of the nation as it stands in the Chronicles of Darkness.

Princesses and Princes, aka Magical Girls and Boys, are the dominant supernatural force in Beaux Rêve, if one does not count Hunters, who serve as their oversight. Thanks to the reality-altering plague known as the Contagion, Princesses, and Hunters have been given a boost to their power level allowing them to match Mages, who are nevertheless doing well in the nation; better than Vampires, Werewolves, and Changelings. But looming over them all is the dark alliance between the ruling political party of the nation, the Autocrats, Task Force: NAVARRE, the official Hunter group of the Beaux Rêve Government, and various disillusioned Princesses and Princess who have resorted to immoral means to achieve 'the greater good.

Things are tense to the breaking point, and because you live in the Chronicles of Darkness, you have a stake in it, especially if you have blossomed into a Princess or Prince or awakened as a Mage. If you don't have the strength to lift yourself and others, the burden of this place just one whit better will drag you down with it, along with all you've ever loved...

Preview: Haphazard Info and Exposition

All right, what is Princess the Hopeful and why should we care?

Princess the Hopeful (Tv. Tropes page here) is a homebrew tabletop game, a custom splat based on the Chronicles of Darkness (New World of Darkness 2e) setting and system created by White Wolf Publishing, now owned by Paradox Interactive. The homebrew focuses on Magical Girls and Boys (or Magical Women and Men) who are driven to be 'Good People in a Grimdark Universe', fighting for a legitimate cause that does not give them a guarantee of victory. They fight because a cause is genuinely right, even if they're slated to lose, and that's where the horror of the game line comes in.

Thanks to the reality-warping plague called the Contagion (which exists in Canon), there are significant differences between this world and 'Vanilla' Chronicles of Darkness, namely that Princesses are as powerful as Mages in this RP (to make sure people don't ignore this ruling, I will be managing everything related to Mages as well as Princesses). Also, Beasts don't exist here for reasons anyone who knows about them can understand. Same for Geniuses (the other super-popular homebrew for CofD) due to their existence contradicting Mages' plus Genius 2e having made some bad lore decisions, or so I've heard.

Every other CofD 'race/template/splat' does exist here, though.

But what do we do? Are we part of one single party?

Yes, you're part of one single group of 6 folk (8 counting GMPCs), whose goal is to prevent the city from going to crap due to partisan infighting between the two fictional political parties of Beaux Rêve City (the rest of the archipelago will be explored in due time).

Beaux Rêve City is the size of Wellington, and has a slightly smaller population. The island it stands on, Beaux Rêve Island, is as big as Hawaii (the island), with the surrounding environment being similar to Olympic National Park, only developed with farms and sawmills and factories, although large parts remain pristine.

There is also a volcano, Mt. D' Albret, named after Jeanne d' Albret, a notable figure among the Calvinists in the French Wars of Religion. Said Volcano has a large deposit of red diamonds, the rarest kind of diamond on earth IRL, which in turn makes Beaux Rêve (the nation) extremely rich and important.

The other islands of the archipelago are roughly estimated to be as big as the other islands of the Hawaiian Archipelago; this is to reduce the GM's workload. Also, Beaux Rêve Island is 1609.25 km/621.34 miles away from Graham Island in Canada; a moderately wide stretch of ocean away.

Also, the age of majority and criminal responsibility in Beaux Rêve is 16, including the right to bear arms or join the military. This is as grim as it sounds. That said, the age of consent is counted differently and is still 18, for reasons you all should already know.

Anyway, if you want to play someone, not a Princess (aka any other template in the Chronicles of Darkness except Beast), consult the White Wolf Wiki.

At the very least you have my attention, I'm a Mage enthusiast and have an Orphan I'd be willing to throw into this depending on how it shapes up.

In the mean time I have a Fan splat to read up on, as that too sounds interesting rather interesting.

@Shifter_Master, Fair warning, we use Mage the Awakening, not Mage the Ascension; I don't like the Technocracy as a concept (really now, the people who gave us indoor plumbing, mass literacy, and computers are the villains?).

Edit: Not that the Technocracy are good guys either; just... immensely flawed.

Are you seeking more players.. I played wod for all the nineties and until 2006

I might put in an application.

@Varshanka, Yes, but we're using Chronicles of Darkness/New World of Darkness 2e, which came out in the 2010s. Are you all right with that?

@Kensai, Will be glad to have you!

gonna have to say no for now. can't find any pdf to get for free. and he information i'm finding makes it look like a bad mashup of world of Darkness and the Matrix.

But I wish you luck

@Varshanka, that's fine; thanks anyway!

@Shifter_Master@Kensai:

The OOC Has Started!