SporkoBug

Nocturnal Memoirs: An Urban-Fantasy Mafia Epic

I feel like Webb could possibly be seen as a cryptid within Nocturnia, Harriet would likely be known for her Foster Care system.
She's labelled 'Evil', but that's just her methods ;)

Nocturnal Memoirs: An Urban-Fantasy Mafia Epic

I mean he is a ridiculously handsome ferryman.

Dark Beyond: Voices of the Past

Jay you have NO idea what you got yourself into babe.

Dark Beyond: Voices of the Past

The Real World, Quiet HiveMind Facility

---

Toren would hate him for putting his wants first, but right now Maw Needed to put food into his system, unless Toren was okay with potentially losing his life or losing one of these companions; and he knew that Toren wouldn't like either side of that coin.

It was easiest for him to just get food, then he could clear his head, and then help everyone get out of there. Then they can find Galloes and kill him. Maw would find great pleasure in eating that bastards heart.
Admittedly the famished beast wouldn't mind if they were offered the ability to split from Torens' body, as long as it didn't cause the man any grave or lethal injuries.

Torens body was squishy, sure he could manipulate it if he needed to, but his hide wasn't strong; the clothes slowed him down, and he didn't have his razor sharp claws that cut glass almost like paper.
Maw shook his head as he suddenly zoned in again, everyone was up and about; looking at the map, or the door. Wait, where was-
He paused as he glanced to see Jay finally walk over to the group as the augmented male stare out towards the door. Maw knew the face of someone scheming something, but he wasn't sure what.

Jay carried Axen over on her shoulder as she was spoken to by Nova. "Axen could definitely give us a hand." She said with a nod, looking to Axen, "You up for that buddy?" She asked. Axen watched everyone but kept his eyes on Toren for a moment before ruffling his metal wings, the 'feathers' sounding like little chimes in the wind.
"Medical supplies are a great idea." Jay said with a nod towards Nick before she moved to take Axen off her arm and moved towards the door. There was mild hesitation, she watched Nick disappear through the door before he returned to offer his jacket. "Axe, head up."

Axen nodded at Jay's words, the silent blade whirring to life before he fluttered up into the ceiling, hidden from view unless properly searched for. He walked along quietly, trying to spot where the robot guards were.
Jay could see what Axen saw through her augmentation, but focusing too much on it hurt her head so she kept the link open but made sure to focus on the real world a bit more. "Follow." She spoke mentally to Axen, who gave the okay on her command.

Jay followed after everyone else, waiting until last to go as she had Axen looking after their tail. Maw seemed to be eager to get out of the room, Jay could see. The man was definitely eccentric; she wouldn't call him strange, that would be an insult to herself. She was strange, Toren seemed to be much... more.
She admittedly didn't know too much of what could happen if a human came into contact with CDE, and she never knew Stella or knew about what Stella had done, she just assumed that most of the CDE junk happening to humans was the augmentation; the poor girl had no idea how deep she had gotten from this alone.

Once everyone got into the employee room, Jay moved to take a seat in a chair for a moment as everyone seemed to look around. Toren moved into the room almost immediately, trying to stay as quiet as he could be as he headed straight to the fridge. Maw didn't even notice his lips split away slightly; his mouth growing larger than natural for a human as he started to shove the cheese into his mouth. He barely chewed as he swallowed the food down.
"Hey, we might wanna take some with us." Jay added on quietly, Maw almost snapping his head towards her as he closed his mouth, the slit down the middle of his chin slowly closing up. Jay flinched back at the sight of him, moving her hands to her mouth to stop herself yelling. What the fuck?! What the actual FUCK is this man? That's not normal! She thought to herself, her mind racing as she did so.

Axen stayed in the hallway as others either split up or went into the employee room, he heard the robot move before he hopped along to watch it get close to the door. He narrowed his eyes before he dove down, swooping just in front of the robots vision before fluttering down the hall, hitting his metal claws against the walls as he did so, trying to draw attention away from the direction the humans(And humanoid) was.

Nocturnal Memoirs: An Urban-Fantasy Mafia Epic

@Estylwen
I know they're technically on opposite sides, but if Antonia wishes to help children, Harriet may offer her help.
Harriet's good hearted, she's just been made out to be the bad guy and just went "Sure I'll be bad."

Nocturnal Memoirs: An Urban-Fantasy Mafia Epic

Webb

Full Picture

Webb

Cursed Spider | Physically around 16 | Male | 3’10” | 110lbs

Goal: Survival and Answers to who they were before everything.

Secrets: (Even unknown to him) He’s much older than he looks and is linked to a cult.

Fears:
Finding out he was someone horrible
Being Eaten by something bigger
Being trapped
Fire.

History:
Webb is a strange case, even for those within Nocturnia.
He has no memory of before he woke up one day in the city, people kept away from him so he secluded himself for the most part. Once he figured out he could use his powers to help others, he quickly tried his best to help whoever needed it, but due to his naivety; he’s known for accidentally helping the wrong person.

He quickly learnt that with his specific powers, he needs to eat a lot; and he figured out pretty soon that it has to be meat. He’s never actively eaten a human, but being an obligate carnivore can become very hard to live by, especially without the funds to be able to find food for himself.

Unknown to Webb, his Gyft is linked to a ‘prophecy’ of an old all-but-dead cult of an old Spider God. Said to have been ‘reborn’ within the city and was to bring the glory of the cult back to life. Webb of course, has no idea about this cult or the prophecy; but he has had a couple of run ins with the occasional cult member, where he just simply runs away.

Due to Webbs’ unknown upbringing and him simply just waking up one day, he doesn’t know a lot about the world. He’s quiet and tends to not speak unless he needs to; and when he does, it’s usually done with smaller sentences and smaller words.

__________

Alliance: He believes he’s a hero, but he’s somewhere in the middle.

District: Floater, no real home. Doesn’t do things for wealth, just wants to help where he can.

Faction: (Unknowingly) Cult of the Black Web

Cult of the Black Web is a well-hidden cult, thought to be dead for centuries. They hide within the nooks of Nocturnia, awaiting the rise of their long lost Spider God; Garderra - Said to be the Spider God of Stealth and Poison.

__________

Gyft: Touch of the Black Web / Garderra’s Curse

Subject is cursed with a ‘twisted’ appearance; extra eyes, hidden mandibles that contain a paralysing poison, Multiple limbs, clawed hands and feet with the ability to scale walls as well as a thorax that can produce a strong web that can hold 10 times the weight of the cursed.

Paralysis Poison; Roll 1D20, if lower roll than target; the area affected is small and is mostly just numbed. If higher roll, the area affected can be as much as a limb and causes full Paralysis. The effect lasts roughly for an hour. (used more as a defensive attack rather than offensive)
Super Human strength; the Cursed can lift 10x its own weight with ease.

Limitations and Weaknesses:

- Due to the multiple eyes, the cursed is affected quite harshly by changes in light levels, if put into an area with too much light, can be hindered and almost blinded.
The superhuman strength eats away at a lot of calories within the cursed, as well as the webbing ability, which causes them to have to eat a lot, often at least half their body weight whenever they can.
Sticky hands make it hard to do most normal things, as their ability to stick to things ends up getting them in awkward situations.
Unable to be ‘covert’, appearance is hard to hide unless within a big cloak. Easily Spotted in daylight.

Meat prepped for humans - no effect
Wild caught animal meat(small birds, bugs, fish etc) - able to eat but will have to bring up the non-digestible pieces in 1d4 days time.
Human meat - 'feral' for up to 1d12 hours, is violently sick once back to normal.
Feral just basically means he's like a wild animal and is agitated and unable to be consoled etc.

Harriet

Full image

Harriet Talon

Winged Blade | 27 | Female | 6’3” | 200lbs

Goal: Vengeance for the lost children, running the biggest and best foster system within Nocturnia.

Secrets: Runs a Forest System/Care Service for the lost, thrown away or abused Children of Nocturnia. Is known as ‘Mother bird’ by a lot of the little kids she visits.
Want’s nothing but the best for her adopted child, Calem.

Fears:
Claustrophobic
Calem being harmed in any way
Clowns

History:
Harriet grew up in Nocturnia, unluckily becoming an orphan before she hit the age of 8 years old, and was put in a horrible foster house where she was abused in every way possible by both her ‘loving’ parents.
When her Gyft appeared, she accidentally lashed out and killed both of her abusers, causing her to have to go on the run away from the siblings she loved so much.

She fought against the cops who saw her as a murderer, and wouldn’t believe that she was simply an abused child. She fought against the horrible Foster System within Nocturnia, vowing to make it better for every child; and vowing that any child under her wing, would not be abused.
She was soon seen as a horrible ‘child stealer’, however it was always misconstrued as she took children away from undeserving parents and put them somewhere safer.

Harriet has in the past (And will again) smuggled children out of Nocturnia so they can have better lives than she ever had. She will not let children be mistreated as long as she stays standing.
She knows there are corrupt cops, who often will keep abuse underwraps unless the victim is wealthy; which she will put a stop to. Even if she’s seen as a villain.

__________

Alliance: Mafia Boss

District: Hamlet

Has one Weed Lab.
One orphanage (Funded personally from Harriet)
A good Pharmacy
A large grassy park w/ playground
A Foster Agency (Run by Harriet)

District: Bazaar

Has one LSD Lab
Three different Orphanages
Two good Pharmacies
Two smaller grass parks
One large grassy park with large playground
2 ‘seperate’ foster agencies (Both run by Harriet)

Faction: The Aviary

Not entirely your average Mafia Group, solely made up by Harriet to ensure the kids of her districts were safe. Those affiliated with her will often have a small blue feather (Real for higher up members, fake for lower members) on their person, usually as a clip or part of a hat/headwear.

__________

Gyft: Avian Blessing (Prehistoric Gene)

Growth of Avian Wings and Tail (Dikotaraptor)
Growth of insulating Feathers
Ability of Flight
Sharp thumb claw

Limitations and Weaknesses:

Flight causes Exhaustion and cannot be done for too long
Insulating feathers causes overheating easily unless in colder temperatures.
Inability to be Covert, easy to spot.
Unable to wield most weapons due to Thumb Claw.

Calem

Calem Talon

4 ½ | Male | Talons’ Baby Bird

Description: Calem is Harriets adopted child, she found him at a crime scene when he was around a year old.
He’s cheeky and loving, and is able to calm Harriets’ anger no matter how high it is just by showing up. Loves hugs, adores dinosaurs; very happy his mother is a Dinosaur.

Gyft: N/A

The Doctor

Unknown

Unknown (Presumably over 40 years old) | Male | The Doctor - Head of Cult of the Black Web

Description: No one really knows The Doctors true identity. He is mysterious, conniving, and cruel. Always watching, always plotting.
He wants nothing other than to control all of Nocturnia from his underground operations. He wants nothing but the Cult of the Black Web to be well known across the land. He knows of the one who will bring it all being in Nocturnia, but he has yet to find them.

He has eyes everywhere.
Watching.
Listening.

Gyft: Shadow Manipulation
The Doctor can control the shadows around him into solid objects; most often he uses it for Blades and Daggers, but if and when he needs to, he’s able to manifest them into a set of shadow tendrils from his back.

He can’t do too much with his shadows, striking them drains his energy and control. But he can block most standard attacks to give himself time to get away.
(If Fired at by a lot of bullets, his blockage will be limited and he’ll likely be knocked back or lose control of the shadows)

Nocturnal Memoirs: An Urban-Fantasy Mafia Epic

@SporkoBug Awesome! I love the sheets. The handmade art is a really nice touch. Webb is good to go, he's approved. As well as Calem, just please mark them as an NPC.

You decided not to take Bazaar?

Quick note on Harriet. The super sonic voice seems a bit out of place, and a little too over-powered. You could change it to echo-location if you wanted to keep something with the voice, or forgo it. What do you think?

---

Please welcome Nocturnia's Commissioner, who will be ensuring her detectives are well-armed to tackle the plethora of villainous entities within the city. ;)

Antonia Franchesca

Antonia Franchesca

Police Commissioner | 30 | She/her | 5’7 | 130 lbs

Goal: To restore order to the crime-infested city that is Nocturnia. She also wants to bring honour to her family's name, which has been dirtied by mafia ties for generations.

Secrets: It's an uphill struggle dealing with bribed cops, but her counter is that, since her instatement as a Commissioner, she has planted moles in each of the significant mafias and criminal organizations.

Fears: Being overrun by crime in Nocturnia. Being unable to protect her dedicated detectives. Being in a position where she's forced to divulge secrets.

History: It's true. It's her tragic backstory - mafia ties. The Franchesca Crime Family had a black hold on Nocturnia for seventy-five years. When she was born as an only child to her father as the crime boss, she was immediately groomed to inherent the Family from him.

However, when she was old enough to understand right from wrong, she refused the title. Her family's response was to exile her in the hopes she would come to her senses. However, it horribly backfired. Not only was she able to provide for herself, she finished her schooling and entered the police academy with flying colors, graduating from cop to detective incredibly quickly.

Her family began to actively hunt her down out of fear, determined to put her six-feet under. However, she had planned for that dark day years in advanced.

Every single significant member of the Franches Crime Family found cops at their door, and mass arrests were made. As each were summoned to the courts, massive files of evidence were laid out, incriminating each. Needless to say, most of the Franchesca Crime Family ended up residing behind bars for a minimum of twenty years. The rest of the family were put on watch, and the crime family disintegrated.

Destroyed seemingly overnight, the applause and limelight for Antonia's success was raucous. The public opinion for Antonia was incredibly favorable, and she was quickly regarded as a hero.

Her career was filled with even more successes after this, as she used unorthodox methods for catching criminal. These included disguising herself as a thug and getting hired as muscle, hoping to overhear snippets. This also included bribing members to plant listening devices in common mafia dwellings. More evidence was gathered, and other big-time mafia organizations collapsed under her watchful eyes. Some of her secret methods were certainly illegal… but no one cared as long as she got results.

When the previous Commissioner retired, the public demanded- no, begged for Antonia to be instated as the new Commissioner. The administration had no problem with this, and Antonia soon found herself in charge of the detectives she herself used to be.

Her speech as she took the title was heart-felt, as she vowed to put an end to crime in Nocturnia and make the streets safe again, for the innocent men and women, and for the children. She would not rest until every criminal was behind bars where they belonged.

__________

Alliance: Detective

District: Jeweled Bank

Jeweled Bank is at the heart of Nocturnia with its eastward side touching the river. It is known for its illustrious skyscrapers, all relatively new, mixed with its smaller three-story buildings over seventy years old, marked with brick, stone, and old architectural designs.

Jeweled Bank is most well-known for Verdant Park, its 15-acre greenery, one of the largest parks in the downtown area of Nocturnia. In recent years, a central fountain was installed, dedicated to Commissioner Franchesca.

Among the upscale eateries, lively nightclubs and posh taverns where reservations are usually three months out, there resides Nocturnia Prison, the main prison in Nocturnia. It's is a 87-storey building where the first five stories are dedicated to administering the detective and cop force within the city. The stories above that are all highly secured prison cells. So, its obvious that the higher levels are constructed in plain concrete and steel bars, while the lower levels are make of illustrious glass and stone.

The Nocturnia Prison is where Commissioner Franchesca's office resides.

Faction: Nocturnia Police Force

The police force of Nocturnia is like a pyramid. Cops at the bottom, split up by divisions. One detective leads each division of cops. Those detectives consult with one another on an equal plane. And those detectives report to Commissioner Franchesca. As commissioner she prefers not to interfere too much in detective business, but she certainly provides leads when she has them, and rewards the detectives that perform well. And if she weeds out some corrupt cops along the way, all the better.

__________

Gyft: Twisted Mirror

The ability to create portals into the Mirror Realm, a parallel dimension that runs alongside this dimension. These portals need to be first created, and then shattered to be entered. They are formed along the fabrics of reality, and are difficult to spot until cracked.

When Antonia enters the Mirror realm, she is able to create copies of herself up to twenty times. These copies mimic her moves in almost picture-perfect details, acting like reflections. If she raises her hand, they all raise their hand. if she aims and shoots, they all aim and shoot. Her reflections can be shattered with a single solid punch.

The only way to get out of the Mirror Realm is to cause instability to Antonia. This can be through physical harm or psychological abuse. Once Antonia is unstable, she can no longer maintain the Mirror Realm, and it shatters, returning everyone to reality.

Within Mirror Realm, if you understand it well, you can position yourself in the right place where you can see instances of reality running beside it. Antonia has used this to spy on occasion. However, this does create a ‘window' that the person being spied on can smash if they manage to detect the near-invisible portal, thus exposing Antonia.

Limitations and Weaknesses:

Antonia can only create portals up to twenty feet away from her. These portals can be approximately twelve by twelve feet, but no larger. If they remain unshattered, they cannot teleport anyone within. If someone is disconnected to their attack, like a bullet fired from a gun, the bullet will be teleported into the Mirror Realm, not the attacker. If the attacker punches the mirror portal, then it will teleport them.

Antonia can only have one portal active at a time, smashed or not. However, she is able to bend these portals.

A mirror within the Mirror Realm creates an infinity mirror. If Antonia sees this mirror, she will become transfixed and frozen.

@Estylwen

I thought Harriet would have both the districts, as Webb is sorta like a drifter, if that's okay?
I'll forgo the sonic voice in that case!

Nocturnal Memoirs: An Urban-Fantasy Mafia Epic

<Snipped quote by SporkoBug>

>everyone else has amazing abilities

Bro, Matthias’s ‘power’ is that people can snort his head. Spider boy probably has the best physical powers of the cast so far.

@ERode

Yeah but that power is more 'original' than my Essentially Spidersona xD
He's just a guy! I wanted to make him tiny because he's based off a jumping spider. If I could art better I would have made him like a peacock spider but I am not that good at art xD

Matty's power is cool though!

Nocturnal Memoirs: An Urban-Fantasy Mafia Epic

OKAY I DID IT

Webb

Full Picture

Webb

Cursed Spider | Physically around 16 | Male | 3’10” | 110lbs

Goal: Survival and Answers to who they were before everything.

Secrets: (Even unknown to him) He’s much older than he looks and is linked to a cult.

Fears:
Finding out he was someone horrible
Being Eaten by something bigger
Being trapped

History:
Webb is a strange case, even for those within Nocturnia.
He has no memory of before he woke up one day in the city, people kept away from him so he secluded himself for the most part. Once he figured out he could use his powers to help others, he quickly tried his best to help whoever needed it, but due to his naivety; he’s known for accidentally helping the wrong person.

He quickly learnt that with his specific powers, he needs to eat a lot; and he figured out pretty soon that it has to be meat. He’s never actively eaten a human, but being an obligate carnivore can become very hard to live by, especially without the funds to be able to find food for himself.

Unknown to Webb, his Gyft is linked to a ‘prophecy’ of an old all-but-dead cult of an old Spider God. Said to have been ‘reborn’ within the city and was to bring the glory of the cult back to life. Webb of course, has no idea about this cult or the prophecy; but he has had a couple of run ins with the occasional cult member, where he just simply runs away.

Due to Webbs’ unknown upbringing and him simply just waking up one day, he doesn’t know a lot about the world. He’s quiet and tends to not speak unless he needs to; and when he does, it’s usually done with smaller sentences and smaller words.

__________

Alliance: He believes he’s a hero, but he’s somewhere in the middle.

District: Floater, no real home. Doesn’t do things for wealth, just wants to help where he can.

Faction: (Unknowingly) Cult of the Black Web

Cult of the Black Web is a well-hidden cult, thought to be dead for centuries. They hide within the nooks of Nocturnia, awaiting the rise of their long lost Spider God; Garderra - Said to be the Spider God of Stealth and Poison.

__________

Gyft: Touch of the Black Web / Garderra’s Curse

Subject is cursed with a ‘twisted’ appearance; extra eyes, hidden mandibles that contain a paralysing poison, Multiple limbs, clawed hands and feet with the ability to scale walls as well as a thorax that can produce a strong web that can hold 10 times the weight of the cursed.

Paralysis Poison; Roll 1D20, if lower roll than target; the area affected is small and is mostly just numbed. If higher roll, the area affected can be as much as a limb and causes full Paralysis. The effect lasts roughly for an hour. (used more as a defensive attack rather than offensive)
Super Human strength; the Cursed can lift 10x its own weight with ease.

Limitations and Weaknesses:

- Due to the multiple eyes, the cursed is affected quite harshly by changes in light levels, if put into an area with too much light, can be hindered and almost blinded.
The superhuman strength eats away at a lot of calories within the cursed, as well as the webbing ability, which causes them to have to eat a lot, often at least half their body weight whenever they can.
Sticky hands make it hard to do most normal things, as their ability to stick to things ends up getting them in awkward situations.
Unable to be ‘covert’, appearance is hard to hide unless within a big cloak. Easily Spotted in daylight.

Harriet

Full image

Harriet Talon

Winged Blade | 27 | Female | 6’3” | 200lbs

Goal: Vengeance for the lost children, running the biggest and best foster system within Nocturnia.

Secrets: Runs a Forest System/Care Service for the lost, thrown away or abused Children of Nocturnia. Is known as ‘Mother bird’ by a lot of the little kids she visits.
Want’s nothing but the best for her adopted child, Calem.

Fears:
Claustrophobic
Calem being harmed in any way
Clowns

History:
Harriet grew up in Nocturnia, unluckily becoming an orphan before she hit the age of 8 years old, and was put in a horrible foster house where she was abused in every way possible by both her ‘loving’ parents.
When her Gyft appeared, she accidentally lashed out and killed both of her abusers, causing her to have to go on the run away from the siblings she loved so much.

She fought against the cops who saw her as a murderer, and wouldn’t believe that she was simply an abused child. She fought against the horrible Foster System within Nocturnia, vowing to make it better for every child; and vowing that any child under her wing, would not be abused.
She was soon seen as a horrible ‘child stealer’, however it was always misconstrued as she took children away from undeserving parents and put them somewhere safer.

Harriet has in the past (And will again) smuggled children out of Nocturnia so they can have better lives than she ever had. She will not let children be mistreated as long as she stays standing.
She knows there are corrupt cops, who often will keep abuse underwraps unless the victim is wealthy; which she will put a stop to. Even if she’s seen as a villain.

__________

Alliance: Mafia Boss

District: Hamlet

Has one Weed Lab.
One orphanage (Funded personally from Harriet)
A good Pharmacy
A large grassy park w/ playground
A Foster Agency (Run by Harriet)

District: Bazaar

Has one LSD Lab
Three different Orphanages
Two good Pharmacies
Two smaller grass parks
One large grassy park with large playground
2 ‘seperate’ foster agencies (Both run by Harriet)

Faction: The Aviary

Not entirely your average Mafia Group, solely made up by Harriet to ensure the kids of her districts were safe. Those affiliated with her will often have a small blue feather (Real for higher up members, fake for lower members) on their person, usually as a clip or part of a hat/headwear.

__________

Gyft: Avian Blessing (Prehistoric Gene)

Growth of Avian Wings and Tail (Dikotaraptor)
Growth of insulating Feathers
Ability of Flight
Super Sonic Voice
Sharp thumb claw

Limitations and Weaknesses:

Flight causes Exhaustion and cannot be done for too long
Insulating feathers causes overheating easily unless in colder temperatures
Overuse of Super Sonic Voice causes throat pain and loss of voice depending on severity.
Inability to be Covert, easy to spot.
Unable to wield most weapons due to Thumb Claw.

Calem

Calem Talon

4 ½ | Male | Talons’ Baby Bird

Description: Calem is Harriets adopted child, she found him at a crime scene when he was around a year old.
He’s cheeky and loving, and is able to calm Harriets’ anger no matter how high it is just by showing up. Loves hugs, adores dinosaurs; very happy his mother is a Dinosaur.

Gyft: N/A

Nocturnal Memoirs: An Urban-Fantasy Mafia Epic

I love how you guys are giving your characters amazing abilities and for my little hero boy I'm like "He's a spooder :)"