City Limits is set in Joss Whedon's Slayerverse. Taking place in 2013, its focus is on original characters, rather than those from the television series. City Limits is a spin-off of Birthright, a role-playing game that ran from 2004-2008. City Limits hopes to maintain those high standards of creativity and entertainment quality, while incorporating new characters, a fresh setting, and additional writers. Stretching across Chicago, Illinois, it offers the perfect setting for good writers seeking a quality world where supernaturally-inclined characters can play.
Game Premise A year has passed since a series of ground-breaking media leaks exposed the U.S. government's knowledge of and involvement in the supernatural underworld. After the initial discovery, there was chaos on a global scale, as other government programs were revealed. The human public reacted in anger and fear, resorting to violence, avoidance, and outright denial. As for the supernatural, some relished the opportunity to exist in the open, while others went into hiding to avoid retribution. To control the situation, strict national curfews were enforced at dusk and military units were deployed to keep the peace. In July of 2013, the chaos has settled, though humans and demons still struggle to adjust. Along with knowledge of supernatural creatures came a public understanding that mystical convergences, hellmouths, and even portals to other worlds are real.
One such portal exists in Chicago, Illinois.
It first opened on June 22, 2012 at 10:21pm, in 'Community Area 7', also known as Lincoln Park. The portal opened unto an unknown dimension. The breech lasted only seconds, but the effects were extensive. A mysterious type of energy briefly radiated from the portal, severely mutating some of the residents. As a result, Lincoln Park underwent a mandatory evacuation. All uninjured residents were rescued. The wounded that could be captured were removed to quarantine; it was later determined that the effects were permanent, but not contagious. Military presence remained around Lincoln Park to protect the population from a repeat of the event. At first, only barbed wire and sandbags separated it from the rest of the city. Within a month, a wall was erected around the community perimeter and armed guards were stationed there. All access points to and from Lincoln Park were blocked, except one... An undiscovered freight tunnel, no longer on the city plans.
As for the portal, it remains active. At intervals it opens long enough to expel a person, creature, object, or influential energy from another dimension. The portal doesn't open to one specific universe. It wobbles, opening to a variety of heavens, hells and alternate universes, or even time periods, completely at random. The portal also shifts, never opening in a predictable spot in the city, though it most frequently opens near Lincoln Park. When it opens, there are localized electromagnetic disturbances.
Heroes and villains have begun to relocate to Chicago, either in hopes of subduing the portal's periodic effects, or to exploit the situation to their liking.
*Updates*
As of July 2013, The city of Chicago is no longer under curfew. A law has been passed, which states that any human who dies by vampire bite (or suspected demon attack) is subject to immediate incineration at the nearest morgue.
In August of 2013, the freight tunnel access to Lincoln Park was uncovered by a few characters. Exploration into Lincoln Park revealed that the community is still crawling with mutated victims of the incident, no longer recognizable as human. They are violent and supernaturally strong. Summary of Upcoming Plots
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