Gold Laws

Hello and welcome to The Hasloch Conundrum, a CoD2e multi-splat server. Only 18+ people allowed.
If you want to know what's going on in the setting, look up #setting.
If you want to know how to play, look up #flow-of-the-game.
If you want to know how to create a character, look up #character-creation-guide.
If you want to know the layout of the City, look up #the-city.
If you want to know the current political climate in the City, look up #the-current-powers.
If you still have questions after looking at those, look up #questions-and-ideas and ask away.
If you want to make friends, look up either #general or #off-topic.

Have a fun!

The following books are approved in their entirety:

• All core splat books, including base Cofd
• Beast Player's Guide  (Beast)
  
• Book of Lasting Death (Mummy)
  
• Kith & Kin (Changeling), with exceptions/clarifications here.
  
  Other material needs to be submitted for approval from their books in #questions-and-ideas, with page numbers and book sources. After they're approved, add them to the splat thread in #tools-lexicon-and-approved-materials.
  
  Everyone starts with a non-exploding 1d10+15 bonus XP. You can roll it in #dice-roller and link the results under your sheet or just roll directly in your character creation thread. Your character also starts with 1 language for free, their native tongue. You must write in your sheet what that language is. You can buy more with the Language merit. You must share a language with someone else to communicate correctly through speech. Using an online speech translator is an instant action for a few words at a time.
  
  Any Attribute/Skill/Merit higher than 3 must be justified in the background of the character (i.e. Strength 4 means the character was a competitive caber tosser at some point in their lives). On the same note, Attributes at 1 should also be justified (i.e. Manipulation 1 means the character either doesn't speak much at all or is painfully terrible at speaking).
  
  You can have as many characters as you want, as long as you manage to post at least 1/week for all of them.
  
  Aside from the usual sheet, we also ask that you create 2 NPCs (one of them is whoever invited you into the City, and you meet them immediately upon your arrival). A few lines of physical and mental description + backstory will suffice. They can be whatever supernatural creature you want, or just a human. The NPC that invited you into the City is not a permanent ally, but you can use them in the first few scenes to help you acclimate somewhat safely. We also ask you to describe in a similar way a Place of Interest and a Wonder (it can be an object, a phenomenon, anything that doesn't count as either an NPC or a Place). You may not start with them, but you may encounter them eventually during Scenes. You can see what other people created for reference in #ideas-bin.
  
  So, to summarize, you must create:
  - 2 NPCs (one of them is the person that invited you to the City)
  - 1 Wonder
  - 1 Place of Interest
  
  When you're ready, download/duplicate the correct splat sheet from this link:
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m7Z-noUQBROhi01sfxUdkGYxjDg6aKo0kIwqEEps31o/edit?usp=sharing
  
  Then fill it, post the name of your character and open a Thread with a link to your sheet in #new-characters. Remember to give public access to your sheet when you get the link. When you're done and ready to be approved, tag @Approver.
  
  When the sheet has been approved, post your character's name and create a Thread in #new-arrivals; describe how and why your character was lured in the City. You can describe up to your meeting with the person that invited you to the City. A @Storyteller will then move the scene along.
  
  If you want to start with a buff you can have on yourself with your current powers before the first scene, ask as much in the character creation thread and it'll be evaluated.
  
  

These posts outline what the city is, why you're here, what you are while you're here, and what you can do with that.

The Hasloch Conundrum is a Chronicle of Darkness 2nd edition multisplat sandbox Chronicle. All core manuals are allowed. Only 18+ players allowed.

These include: Mage, Vampire, Werewolf, Changeling, Demon, Deviant, Promethean, Mummy, Beast, Sin-Eater, Hunter, Mortal/+.

What most characters will probably want to do out of the gate is "find a way out of the City". They will find that this is impossible and it's not something that can be "brute forced", no matter how powerful your splat makes you. This is going to be the central narrative and dramatic pillar of the chronicle.

You're expected to reply to threads you're in at least once a week. If you can't make it, you may inform an ST that you're going on hiatus for a certain amount of time or until a certain date. Characters on hiatus that are in active scenes with other player characters will swiftly leave the scene by ST fiat, if logically possible, and denied most Beats.

The City does not exist in our reality. This is a plot point, as every character that was lured in it thought that they were going to a different metropolis across the world. The City shifts and churns, changing how it looks and feels depending on alien whims. You might walk in the streets of downtown London and a few minutes later be bathing in the neon lights of Tokyo. The people walking the streets seem unaware of this, and will tell you you are currently in the metropolis the City has shifted into at that moment. They also speak their native language, so be wary if you can only speak English and you suddenly find yourself in Beijing. The language merit can be a life saver here.

Modern day, the chronicle starts March 22nd 2022 (or the fourth week of March, which in our calendar would read as such: 3/W4/22), shortly after the equinox. COVID exists and can be mentioned (though it's not a centerpiece), but it's regarded as already been cured and something wholly in the past.

Weeks flow naturally with IRL time. The Hasloch calendar will overtake the real-life calendar December 2024.

This is, at the end of the day, a horror chronicle. Bad things will happen to your character, their loved ones, their pets, their convictions, their dreams, their identity, almost anything is on the table.
Sometimes the details will be gruesome, but we try to avoid cheap shock value.

Sex scenes are fade to black in main scene threads; they can be brought to #nsfw-scenes if you want to go in-depth.

Rape is avoided as a threat/plot point unless the players themselves are the ones wanting it in their story. NPCs don't enjoy such protection against players intent on abusing them, but actions always have consequences.
Bigoted/extremist characters are allowed, bigoted/extremist players are not. You may create a KKK member, a violent anarchist or a religious terrorist and we'll roll with it. We assume you know what you're inviting upon yourself when creating such a character. If you say bigoted things in chat, even if you say "I was in character", you're going to be banned.

Child characters are allowed, but only to players that have been here for a long while and proved themselves trustworthy enough to handle this added challenge to roleplay. All requests will be evaluated on a case by case basis. Don't waste your time arguing if you were not allowed to create one while someone else was.
Sex scenes of any kind with or around these characters/npcs are obviously and strictly forbidden. If you try to be sneaky about this in any way, shape or form, we will unmake/retcon the scene and you will be banned swiftly and with no recourse.
With that out of the way, most other form of abuse and harm are fair game. If you make a child character, we expect you to heighten the horror and drama of the scene.