- EarthScorpion
- May 7, 2014
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The supplement actually came out right before Katrina, leaving it in a very awkward position.
More than that, it's actually so awkward that it becomes quite... exceptional. Especially the first sentence. I'll quote the somewhat infamous sidebar from it, in fact, in its full glory. This is from City of the Damned: New Orleans, published 30th of May 2005.
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IN THE WAKE OF THE STORM
Should you take inspiration from the above example and actually include a hurricane in your stories, it’s probably a safe bet that New Orleans—despite the fears of its populace— survives relatively unscathed. After all, you normally won’t want to obliterate your chronicle’s setting, unless you’re looking for a dramatic end to a final chapter.
However, it might make for an interesting and unusual story to have New Orleans badly damaged, almost destroyed, by the storm. Entire sections of the city are not merely flooded but subsumed by the surroundings. Buildings are gone, and city services are hampered, if not shut down completely. Because the city is a disaster area, the governor calls in the National Guard to keep order and serve as de facto police. Crime skyrockets, the economy plummets.
Kindred lines have to be redrawn as well. Vidal no longer has nearly as much power, as the city’s politicians and police are in disarray; but then, his rivals probably cannot take advantage of that fact. Entire Kindred domains vanish, leading to a spike in poaching and conflicts over territory. Many Kindred perish in the aftermath, as their havens collapse around them or flood completely, leaving the vampires to awaken without shelter from the sun when the storm finally passes. Unlike the mortals, who can count on outside aid from the state and federal government—to say nothing of organizations such as the Red Cross—the Kindred are on their own, with no higher authority to turn to.
Sure, the result isn’t going to be a “traditional” Vampire: the Requiem chronicle. You’ll most likely find that you’ll have moved from gothic horror to a much more visceral struggle for survival. The politics and conflicts will certainly continue though, no matter what form they now take, and the result would certainly make a fascinating story.
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