OOC: I'm going to try to start up a little thread here guys. I'm putting this in the threshold cause I want to try for a slightly more realistic background and setting. I want to see some good RPing here, and everyone that thinks they can join is invited to try it out.

Sitting on the coast of Maine was a small city called Blacktides. Along this city there are many different fishing harbors and they are the main backbone of this city. The population here has only two different economical standings. Poor and rich. There is little imbetween. The poor are the ones that end up doing the work down at the docks and the many industrial buildings in the city. The rich sit up in the corporate towers and watch over the city like chess players. The city is their playing field, and each person within it is their pawns.

The people within the city are rather unaware of any supernatural beings. The Technocratics that are the players behind the world take care of any other ideas besides that of the normal population. Demons, angels, vampires, shapechangers, and mages are all game for the Technocrats to hunt in the streets under a cloak of secrecy. The supernatural forces are very limited in this city with power and infulence. Any large stronghold that they create gets wipped out quickly by the Technocrats. The only way that they have managed to hang on for the many years is to go underground or into hiding. False ID's, fake names, and changing living arrangments ever week is an all to common thing that all supernatural beings have to do if they expect to live.

The city itself is cloaked in a thick smog that makes it appear to be twilight or night at most times. The sun only manages to break through on rare days where kids go out and play happily. The town has moderate summers and very cold winters. When the docks are shut down for the winter many people have to go and find jobs somewhere else, or live homeless intill the snow and cold dissapears. The city is a medium sized one with a population of 78 thousand. The nice parts of town normally keep hired guards to keep out the unwanted folks. And the rest of the city is almost all a giant slum, filled with run down buildings, apartments, gangs, and giant industrial complexes. The city has a small suburbish area where the tiny amount of middle class people live and work. Near there is a few large chain stores like Wal-Mart and others like it.

The season is fall and it is a cold one. The town is starting to shut down for the winter, the docks becoming abandoned and the workers finding other jobs. But this fall something dark has happened. The unfrozen waters of the ocean near here have become a dark black color, oozing with something that no one has been able to identify. The very old among the population say that its a bad omen saying of a winter of change and tribulation. Most people just laugh at this and figure that its some sort of oil spill or other enviromental problem that will soon be cleaned up. Fish caught from this water are horribly deformed, and people that have drunk it have soon been found bloated and dead. The mysteries surrounding this town are massive and so deep that it might take a lifetime to discover it all. But one thing is for shure, this winter, something might just change after all.