u/Lampdarker

Between Garou tearing through Pentex facilities with all the subtlety of grizzly bears.

Black Spiral Dancers doing similar feats.

Pentex doing everything bad multinational corporations usually do except with literal divine aid and way more bloodlust.

The Sabbat having entire holidays and religious commands geared towards mass murdering and torturing mortals.

The Camarilla secretly controlling basically every United States institution where you get to carry a gun or baton or fire a missile/pilot a drone.

Specters and whatnot being mainly serial killers and bigots and warmongerers.

Nephandi and even less evil Mages being willing to use large amounts of blood and vital organs as fuel.

Technocrats sending out Men in Black (if not literal Terminators) to do their bidding even if it means burning down a witchcraft bookstore with everyone in it.

It's safe to say that their world has a much higher rate of violent death per capita in much of the world than ours even if it's being actively covered up by the mainstream media and other factors like Delirium or Disciplines and also might disproprtionately be inflicted on homeless people.

As the ST you could choose to decide how much actual murdering happens outside of the locations the PCs are focused on.

But I think it's interesting to question about "butterfly effects" their timeline has compared to ours, even excluding the Week of Nightmares or the Sixth Maelstrom and whatever.

In the real world 1980s-1990s many people have a rose tinted view of it being the end of the Cold War. Not that there weren't a bunch of truly truly violent stuff being ignored by mainstream media both inside and outside the West but not quite on what the World of Darkness must be experiencing on a day to day basis.

Even if we assume the factions are all excellent at "cleaning up after themselves" they can't exactly clean up all the parents whose children abruptly stopped calling them and were never found nor can they clean up the fact that eating at McDonalds turns you into an asshole.

Aside from a vague "everything sucks so bad" how do you portray it in your chronicles?

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u/Lampdarker — 17 days ago