Campaign:PhoenixCycle
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They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
-Carl Sandburg
The Second City, Chicago. If the country can be said to have a heart, Chicago is that beating muscle. It's seen fire, blood, violence, and corruption and each time it's risen like a phoenix from the ashes. Though now it wears the gaudy new plumage of the modern metropolis, Chicago lives, breathes and bleeds history. But those who fail to learn from history - what's known, what's waiting to be discovered, or even their own - are doomed to repeat it.
Setting
History
Sometime just before the new millennium, the Freehold of Chicago - some 140 members strong - simply vanished to a man. There were no warnings, there was no fallout. But there have been no Lost in the city for almost a decade, out of simple, pragmatic fear. The city was left to the mortals and whatever might be stalking its shadows.
Until about a year ago, when a Fairest named Caius Long became determined to carve out another Freehold, a place where the fae of Chicago could once more gather and be safe. He found other like-minded Changelings to run the seasonal courts, and founded "The College." It's a small, but steadily growing Freehold as new members show up almost every month, either fresh from the hedge, or wandering in from all over the country. The Second City has become a place of second chances, and many fae are eager to join, history be damned.
The College
The headquarters for the Freehold is located at The University of Chicago, and thanks to a few key ensorcelled mortals on the board, the local Lost have access to a small block of brownstone apartments to live in, should they choose, and a guaranteed source of steady, if meager, employment at the school.
Notable Locations
- The Regenstein Library
- The University of Chicago Medical Center
- The Rockefeller Chapel
- The Oriental Institute
Player Characters
- Astra - Leonide
- Viral - Mary
- RAWK_LAWBSTAR - Elise Garratt
- Daeren - Logan
- recon - Florence
NPCs
- March, The Mad Hare - King of Spring
- "I could tell you my adventures beginning from this morning, but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
- Tisa, Alec, and Meg - Triumvirate Queens of Summer
- The Good Doctor - King of Autumn
- Caius Long - King of Winter
- Tom Thousand - Twitchy Centipede Beast
- Elmer - Bullish, but friendly Broadback
- Baskerville - Congenial, doomsaying Omen Dog
- Mssr. Scabgut - squat, obese, rather cultured Hob.
- Mssr. Spindleshanks - tall, many-legged, rather cultured Hob.
- The Gray Tabby - AKA 'Knight.'
- Gabriel - Owlish Librarian, Antiquarian/Riddleseeker found in the Regenstein.
- "When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing. What is it?"
- Chimere, Gargoyle-esque Ogre
- Baroque Stained Glass Fairest
- Law, Leonide's Boyfriend
- Mack, wannabe ensorcelled goon.
- Countess Duchamp, mysterious Changeling stalker
- Unnamed bookselling fae, still under his Master's control
- Kalylia - Miquaia
- Gatekeeper - Jim Cohn
