Welcome to Project: Tallow, the United States Civilian version of TASKFORCE: Valkyrie. You are one of the selected members of the population who have had the veil ripped from your eyes and can now see into the shadows of The World of Darkness. You know Vampires stalk your streets, Werewolves hunt in the forests and fields, Evil Fairies steal away children from their cradles, Witches really do call down evils upon those whom they hate, and the dead really do rise from their graves to haunt the living.
What your first encounter was varies, perhaps one night you and your girlfriends had one too many at a particularly shady bar and on the way home one of the guys followed you. You thought it was just some creep trying to pick up on you. That was until he grabbed your friend and ripped her throat out with its fangs. After the screaming and running was all said and done, you remember what really happened that night even if your friends claim it was just a mugging gone bad. You never went to the police, instead you went to a gun shop and a priest. Now you spend your nights frequenting the same bars with a high caliber pistol, a big knife and a wooden stake. Searching for others like the thing that killed your friend.
Or perhaps you’ve been searching for ghost your whole life. You’ve got a website and a few thousand followers. But it all changed when you and your crew went into THAT house. You thought it was another bust; until the door locked itself, the walls started bleeding and the old brick fireplace grew teeth. You don’t know how the hell you made it out. Let alone caught it all on tape. The next night you made sure that the house mysteriously burned to the ground. Now you have a 100,000 followers and a new crew as the old ones didn’t make it out. You know where to go looking. Everyone on the website thinks its fake, but you know its all too real.
Or perhaps you were a member of a force recon unit stationed in the middle east. You were told the town was empty, it was gonna be an easy ride through, but it wasn’t. The thing was wrapped up like a mummy and it just wouldn’t go down. Your platoon hit it with everything they had and it still managed to kill half of them, flip over a truck and make a run for it. Your commanders think it was an insurgent raid. You and the rest of your platoon covered it up. They don’t talk about it, some of them believe the story. You however put in for the weird assignments, go poking your nose into the dark corners. Searching for other things that don’t add up.
However you came to be one of the enlightened few, you’ve taken it upon yourself to protect the world from the monsters. Your candle has been lit and your Vigil begins. Through blade, guns, fire or knowledge you will protect those around you who are blissfully unaware of the things that go bump in the night.
Hunter the Vigil- For those of you new to the World of Darkness: DON’T FREAK OUT. This is all easier than it sounds. The World of Darkness is more or less similar to the world you and I live in (Who knows maybe we do live in the world of darkness and we’re blissfully unaware). The difference is here there be monsters. And your character is going to be someone who hunts them.
If you are keen on finding out more about the World of Darkness as it is a publish role playing game with dice and all that fun stuff please feel free to PM me I’ll see about pointing you in the right direction if you want to find copies of the books to read.
IF YOU JUST WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME- you don’t need any of the books as we won’t be rolling dice or using the official character sheets. I’m just using some of the setting.
IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE WORLD OF DARKNESS- most of the information I’m giving out should sound pretty straight forward. If you are an old world of darkness person. Great. I love ya. This is New World of Darkness, just so you’re aware.
Now that, that is out of the way time to talk turkey. Your characters should be already familiar with the fact that there are infact monsters out there. Maybe they’ve only encountered a specific type, or maybe they are a grizzled old veteran. Whatever the case may be you will need to make sure that they can be recruited to work as part of Project Tallow.
If you are interested in playing this the OOC is [here](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/75302/posts/ic)