Shattered is the Night

[Mynt]

Okay, one more time, Quaddy. I know this is probably getting annoying. What is the Night about? They're an organization that kills vampires and bad things. Are we supposed to be really patriotic or something?

[Quaddy]

Damn you and your questions. No, not really.

The Night doesn't just kill. Usually, they arrest and put these creatures on trial. Occasionally, they are considered so dangerous, they are executed: this is what someone like Jordan is for. She is basically sent out to execute the worst offenders. But think of the Night as a supernatural version of the FBI mixed a little with the CIA or the NSA (in that they might be spies and security officials, sometimes including assassination and execution). A Vampire is not outside the law just by existing. But if they become a danger, or break the anonymity rules (which even the Night has to adhere to--people know that these creatures exist, but no one needs to know that the man next door is a Werewolf), they are considered a criminal or a danger to society. Same with witches, werewolves, fae creatures, lamia, etc. Follow the law, the Night will leave you alone. Break the law, you'll find a couple of Agents on your doorstep.

And, yes, our characters are meant to believe in their organization and in the good they do. They don't have to support the particulars of governance--I'm pretty sure not ever FBI agent supports Barack Obama, for example--but they believe that they are the good guys. That they are keeping the citizenry of America safe from the things that go bump in the night, and that their skills are absolutely necessary to that safety. They don't believe themselves to be tyrants or peons in a corrupt system, but that supernatural creatures who break the laws governing the supernatural set deserve to be brought to justice.

[Mynt]

Okay, thanks. Is it possible that my character isn't out there on the frontlines. Maybe she's a bit of a wimp, but she has the incredible ability to heal others (not herself)?

[Quaddy]

Of course. There are definitely non-combatants in the organization. There are even liaisons from other organizations, as well. For example, the guy giving out inoculations to everyone is a Naval Corpsman, and there are psychiatrists that are not members of the supernatural set. So someone working in the infirmary as a healer wouldn't be out of the common way at all.

[Mynt]

I'm going to be a healer then. I think I can work with this idea.

After Witch Hunt though.

[Quaddy]

Of course. Finish one thing before you start another.

[Matt]

Yeah what she said. I mean - that's totally what happens every time yeah.

[Quaddy]

Liar.

[Matt]

Need that sarcasm font again eh?

[Quaddy]

Yup. And the amused font.

[Matt]

hahahaha

[Quaddy]

I wonder if they ever will come out with emotifonts? I mean...whomever invents and codes them would be a MILLIONAIRE!

[Matt]

They would be pretty awesome. But then you'd get like 'I'm so sarcastic I'm flying' fonts or something. Or ... Ravi.2 *shudders*

[Quaddy]

We'd have to start with the sarcasm font. A sarcasm font would revolutionize written communications.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

We should just localize and specify a font on this site as sarcasm and we can always use Comic Sans as amused.

[Quaddy]

Oh comic sans...

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Indeed.

[Mynt]

I'm going to work on this one after Capriccio. I sort of have no idea what's happening though. A synopsis this far please?

[Matt]

Everyone has been recalled to HQ for inoculations and such at a furlough. There has been some discussion of characters having beaten a really big kill that annoyed my character and Jordan for different reasons. My guy got told off for missing somebody his needles before and Jordan mused over her sex life.... Ummm basically nothing has happened as were on introductions.

[Quaddy]

What he said. We're still in early, character introduction rounds, basically allowing for our characters to introduce themselves and get to know everyone around them (well the second one is for us, mostly, to make it seem like our characters have a long-standing camaraderie).

[Matt]

All the camaraderie.

[Mynt]

If my character is a healer in the infirmary, would they have a long standing relationship with her? Or would she kind of be a stranger to them? Like they know her name and face but they aren't familiar with her?

[Quaddy]

I imagine that's up to how you would prefer it to be and what kind of interactions you might want to have with the others. Later, when they're dealing with the issue of the Gangers (which episode of Doctor Who is that from, again? The one with the goo, right?), she'll have to get involved with them somehow, of course.

[Mynt]

I don't know. It's your campfire.

[Quaddy]

Yup. And it's up to you how much you want your character to know everyone else. So long as she ends up with the rest of the group when people start being turned into Doppelgangers, she could be recluse that hides in the infirmary at the beginning of the campfire.