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Hello there, greetings to all of you who came up right now! So, basically, I tried running this roleplay a while ago, but due to the enormous quantity of people that it required, I wasn't able to run it properly. I'll try it once again within this website and hopefully, this will work out. It's a grandious Dungeon Punk (Steampunk but with magic technology and a more medieval look to it) roleplay with a whole mythos within it. So, without further ado, I welcome you all to my concept, welcome to...

Virtue and Sin

The Plot

The world is ruled by two natural laws, Chaos and Order. Chaos is the wild, the disruptive, the one that shakes the world every now and then and allows it to change, while Order is the stable, the just, correct, the utopic model to follow and the very culmination of Laws which maintains the Status Quo of the world until Chaos does the work to shake it up and change it. Chaos changes Order, Order stabilizes Chaos, this is known as the Dualistic Rule. 

There are many spirits and ethereal beings with fundamental works into this world to keep these two running, many which are unknown to mankind, others that are right in front of them, yet they fail to recognize them. 

Billions of years ago, however, there was something which threatened to keep the world at stasis, a third force named Void, which would reap the lives of countless spirits of Chaos and Order without discrimination, eradicating life and everything on the world, to turn it hollow, its agents were known as Voidlings, beings who were never meant to be, abandoned concepts, children who were never born, and many many others. In order to stop them, both the forces of Chaos and Order united themselves to create 14 courageous spirits to keep the balance running, the 7 spirits of chaos were known as the Seven Deadly Sins and the 7 spirits of order were known as the Seven Heavenly Virtues, powerful beings which when together were able to bring an end to the Voidlings and keep the Void at bay, and by doing that, the Void began hibernating, sealed in the darkest corners of the world.

Nowadays, signals of the return of the Void had been spotted, many creatures fitting the description of Voidlings have been sighted. On that note, the 14 guardians of balance have returned, reincarnating into human children which would grow up and become the guardians they were meant to be.

The Setting

The world around us nowadays is a mixture of modern and medieval fantasy,  a medieval world with kingdoms, royal families which fight for power, making use use of modern technology in a steampunk-esque style powered by magic. 

In this world, magic exists, however, it cannot be used by humans, however there are magical gems which can be used to power and craft magical items. The only ones able to use, to a certain extent, magical abilities are the 14 guardians, in form of special abilities each one of them holds with them. 

Be it a Virtue or a Sin, each and every guardian is the very representation of a concept, Sins are the reincarnation of spirits of chaos and Virtues of spirits of order. Each one of their aspects is not only in their name, but also tend to be a big aspect of their personality, being the main focus and culmination of their beings. Each Sin or Virtue gains a magic ability fitting of their aspects and they are also represented by a certain animal. (Think of Seven Deadly Sins if you've ever watched it.) 

The initial setting of the game is the Kingdom of Reever, the largest kingdom known to man, in its capital, the city of Bartla, one of the most advanced and influential cities in the world.

Additional Comments

Those are the basics about the idea as a whole. There is some more to it that I've still gotta add, but, well, this is just an interest check. Hope to hear from you people soon, take care!

Well before we start anything, I'd just like to greet all of you! HELLO THERE! I'm a weirdo who's lately very interested in the lore and universe of Vampire the Masquerade, a tabletop roleplaying game about Vampires taking a very political approach on them, along with a vast mythology and background story integrated with it. It's just to fascinating and it's also such great roleplay material that I can't help but want to roleplay it. I'll just ask for you to know the game in order to roleplay with me. Now, let us begin with...

DA RULES

1- Age Restriction: Just for the sake of personal preferences, I'd rather roleplay with people being 18 years old or older, mostly because of the mature themes which might be inserted into the story as well because of mutual maturity. (Even if I'm way too immature for a 20 year old but...SHH)

2- Post Length and Literacy: Nothing too strict here, just be able to type in a way I can understand and without text talk and we'll be fine. For the post length, if you type a whole paragraph with some average degree of description, it's already fine by me. (Of course, I'll delight myself even more if you're even better than that!) As for my own post length, I'd say I'm in high casual and low advanced levels, so some posts will be longer, others will be shorter. If I commit any typos, excuse me, I'm Brazilian and English is not my native language.

3- Patience: Be able to bear with me, I'm an university student, meaning some days I might just give you one post, others I might post multiple times. But don't worry, at the end of the day, I'll get your post done, friendo. As for your end: As long as you don't take a whole week without explaining that you'll need to absence yourself from the website, it's all good.

Follow these rules and don't be rude to me and we'll get along just fine! Now without further ado, I present you...

THE PLOT

Welcome to the Afterlife

You've just woken up, alone, your mind is blank. You don't quite recall how you've got yourself in the situation you are right now, there you are, in front of a fallen body with marks onto their necks, your mouth tastes blood, you know that it's the same blood of the corpse. What happened? How did it happened? You have no idea, but that blood sure does taste delicious, perhaps it's the best feeling you've ever experienced. Speaking of feeling, you feel nothing, you're not scared, not afraid, all you feel is your instinct, now working better than ever. It tells you that you must run, run away from there, as fast as you can before the sun rises.

The time passes, you learn more and more about yourself, about how you are a vampire but you have no one to teach you the ways of the creatures of the night. From day to day you are alone, and trying to get the gist of things, until you meet another vampire, more grown, more experienced than you. They take you under their wings and begin teaching you about the society you now live in, about your dormant powers which grow stronger everyday and little by little begin turning you into a proper member of the Kindred. This is your new life, your afterlife. 

Well this is the basic plot I have in mind, but if it does not suit your taste, we can always discuss something else, I'd love to do so.

As of now, the following will be the base character I'll be using. I can play characters of either gender, but I'd rather having female parters and lately I've been more into FxF kind of relationships. But if it's not your kind of thing, I can always change to male. 

"No name, no clan, no sire. But also no mercy, no boundaries and no will to stop now."

Alice Hawkins

24 (100)

Caitiff

	A survivor, a fighter, someone who had been working her way to the top ever since she was embraced. But this is not where the story started... 

	It began a long time ago, to be more precise, about 114 years ago, back in 1904, years of the election of President Roosevelt, years of prosperity and back there, even if it was only 10 years away, the idea of WWI wasn't even close. Women were mostly delegated to do house chores, cooking, nursing or at the very best of options, being teachers and nothing more. Something the female heavily denied, despite being only 14 at the time. She denied learning a lot of "girl things" such as sewing, cooking or any kind of stuff of that sort, and would constanltly steal her brother's clothes to wear, she swore, she fighted boys of her age and won, she spent a long time in the library to study things such as political sciences and other things. She was getting ready to pave her own way in life. She wanted to be a pioneer, a studious independent woman. However, her father had different plans for her. While still uncommon, arranged marriages were still a thing and her father had found the girl a rich husband who would make their life much better. Of course, she didn't really respond well.

	Young Alice ran away from home, disguised as a boy and began living by doing odd jobs here and there. She found apprenticeship in a butcher shop, learning how to slice meat properly, how to identify the right kinds of regions of the cows, chickens and pigs. And boy did she do it well, so well in fact, the owner pretty much gave her a place to stay. She could now sleep in the basement of his home and she was never happier living with that man. Eventually Stanley, the butcher, found out about the girl's true gender, but paid little to no mind to it seeing her talent. However as she grew bigger as times continued, that basement grew smaller. She felt that she would eventually have to leave her comfortable little world and she began studying. Life was busy as butcher, but she had the nights free and that's when she would begin reading the enormous ammounts of book she bought with her salary. Little by little she would grow smarter and smarter.

	Finally, in 1908, when she was 18 years old, the girl decided to leave the butcher shop and Stanley behind. Thanking her for her hard work, the man gave her 2000 dollars and a "thank you". She knew where she had to go, New York city where she would go and try to become anything relevant, maybe try to enroll to a college and become a scholar, or maybe become a journalist. There were some actresses on the rise too, maybe she could do that? She was not yet sure, but now she had a goal. 

	Once arriving in New York, the girl spent a long time working in a Library while also trying to write her own novels and searched for a better job, however, all of her novels were refused and no one really wanted to employ the librarian, and specially no colleges would want her joining without completing High School. Alice found herself disappointed, frustrated and hopeless for the next years all the way until she completed 24 years old. 

	The end of World War 1 brought the United States to an explosion of possibilities, and so many places were now employing new people, in particular, a certain independent Newspaper called "The Vision". The girl's skills with words were unparalled with and so they took her in. And the months she spent in there never could have been better. Alice became in little to no time the one with the best articles and also the one hwo began pushing the paper forwards, people were now actually reading it. However, that's when the problem begun.

	By the end of the year, the girl saw an odd man seemingly feeding on another person. She managed to take a picture and run and so published an article named "Beings of the night among us?" relating her experience, and that called this man's attention. Into the night, she was attacked by him, a vampire whose name she can't recall until today. While she didn't really know and never got to learn, his name was Andrew Trois, an influent man in the Camarilla who had a peculiar way of execution for mortals who enraged him. He would simply embrace them, vanish afterwards and let the dark society of the World of Darkness swallow them whole and kill them shortly and Alice was no different.

	She soon woke up, now feeling different, all pale, with no one around and an insane thirst for blood, feeding on the closest mortal she could find. It didn't take her long to realize, she was a vampire. Now what? She didn't know what could be done, what were the norms, what were the laws and what she could even do. What she could do was called trial and error. She was abandoned by her sire to die, she learned that early on as she met people, talked to them, learned from them and was betrayed by many of them. If that was the case, if she was in this new state of existance, she wouldn't give in. She would become relevant in this new society. 

	Alice began learning all she could, the disciplines came naturally from her own conception of what vampires could do. First, accute senses, with it, came the Auspex, her most developed and powerful discipline, second, the ability to manipulate human minds, and with it, came Dominate, and finally, enough strength to fight, and so she learned on her own, the discipline of Potence. Soon after she learned that she was what vampires called a Caitiff, a clanless vampire and the scum of the Camarilla society. She would need to prove herself, to show her what she could do. 

	And so she did.

	Took her some good 30 years, but in 1934, she finally made it. Alice Hawkins was now strong enough to fight, wise enough to manipulate, lie and decieve, as well to know all of the inner politics of that system. All by herself, she raised to a point of gaining some small influence. After learning to use her feminine charms across those 30 years, she seducted several important men from the area of Long Island and turned them into ghouls, controling and manipulating them to do her bidding. over the area of Long Island And that's where the problem began...

	Elders don't really enjoy Caitiff gaining power, so they began hunting and attacking her over and over, be it physically or by sabotaging her places of influence. Alice's brains managed to do the trick to get out of problems but she knew that it was a matter of time until they managed to get her for good. So she did the smartest thing she could and put herself into the state of torpor, into a chained coffin in the sewers with the help of some Nosferatus allied to her, deciding to wake up later on when the balance was shaken and those who were after her had forgotten about her entirely. 

	Many years later, in 2017, the female awoke, some curious Malkavians playing in the sewers found her and thought it would be hilarious to wake up an old vampire sleeping. The chains were broken and she was fed, standing tall and looking around, she spoke with those Malkavians and befriended them. They taught her all that they could about the world nowadays, and little by little, she's been searching for a new opportunity to rise. In 2018, with the political power once more shaken with an imminent thread of the Sabbat, Alice saw her chance coming.

	Well, I hope to hear from you people soon! If interested, just DM me or post here, take care!

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