A Hit on All Sixes: Details and Plotting

[rubycitymods]

Event Details:
Stage One: January 20 - 22nd:

The morning of January 20th will dawn like any other - or at least, so it will seem to the once again bewitched citizens of Ruby City. The year is 1921, the first World War has just ended, and everything seems on the rise. For the first three days of the event, nothing could be better, and your characters are encouraged to take advantage of the setting! Dancing, drinking (although Prohibition is in full effect, so do so carefully!), indulging in the arts or simply enjoying life in the busy city - all of it’s encouraged.

Stage Two: January 22nd, evening:

On January 22nd, the speakeasy Black Rabbit (in truth, Hotel Gaia transformed) is having a blowout bash. It's the day before the anniversary of when Prohibition was passed, and what better way to celebrate than with wine, women and song? Located southwest of the city center, the Black Rabbit is the place to be tonight. There's going to be all kinds of revelry, and you'd be a fool to miss it.

The general population aren't the only ones in attendance. At two AM, the police force are going to have a raid. Anyone and everyone in attendance will be arrested, on the general principle they shouldn't have been there anyway, and the commissioner isn't inclined to be kind. Any characters affiliated with the police will be encouraged to use excessive force, and it seems some of their NPC counterparts certainly are. Chaos and panic fill the air, and there's certainly the possibility of your character getting hurt, arrested, or otherwise inconvenienced.

Stage Three: January 23rd - 25th:

And now, the aftermath. Whether locked in prison, terribly injured, having made a getaway or simply guilty over their actions, the city is still reeling from the events of the 22nd. Police raids are no joke, and this one was particularly nasty: very few people escaped the club without any harm. In the wake of the raid, the city is noticeably on edge: the gangs are furious and ready to take revenge, the police are uncertain and covering for it by cracking down hard, and the citizens are caught awfully in the middle. There’s tension in the air, keeping everyone on edge, and it’s likely best if your character just keeps their head down . . .

Role sign-ups: Both the police and the gangs will have role sign-ups! Police slots are limited, but the gang sign-ups are merely there for everyone to coordinate who knows whom and how.

Police: There are five free slots open for police characters! As noted above, police will be in direct conflict with the rest of the citizens of Ruby City, and come the morning of the 23rd, will be forced to confront their actions one way or another.

Gangs: No city is complete without them! There are two rival gangs in Ruby City, commonly known simply by the area of the city they control: East and West. Which is your character a part of? What role do they play there? It's likely both gangs have a hand in supplying the drugs and alcohol for the upcoming event.

Socialites: Young, rich and carefree, most aristocrats and socialites were busy throwing costume parties, freely indulging their every whim, and slumming it downtown as they danced and drank the night away. Everyone knows everyone in this social scene, and it’s likely your families have a history going back ages.

Artists: The Jazz Age was a time for artists of all kinds of flourish. Musicians, dancers, painters, fashion designers . . . all were welcome to try their hand at the new deco style sweeping the nation.

Veterans: World War One is over, but that doesn't mean the aftermath isn't still felt. Those few who made it back are still reeling in shock, stunned by the amount of massacre they witnessed. Whether they throw themselves into the party scene or desperately try to escape it, there's no doubt their actions are fueled by the newfound shell shock.

Other: Of course, people fit into more roles than just these. If you can think of something else your character might be that fits in the setting, go wild!

Technology: New technologies are on the rise, and for the first time, seem affordable and accessible.

Cars: Notably, cars are here for the first time in Ruby City! While your characters won't be able to truly use these cars, they're zipping through the streets. They're hallucinations, and won't remain after this week.

Radio: The radio is all the rage. Each household now has a radio, always cheerfully pumping out tunes.

Movies: A new film is being streamed once a night over at the theater, courtesy of Jean-Pierre Polnareff.

Remember: for the event, Ruby City has been transformed into a proper populated city, teeming with millions. NPCs are there for you to use! In addition, for the duration of this event, we encourage you to fully get in the spirit of the times. Internal narration was a staple of the noir literature of the time, and so we would like to encourage players to use a first-person narration in their tags!

Some helpful links for inspiration:

Culture of the Roaring 20s

Prohibition

1920s Fashion

1920s Music

Comments

anne's dudes....

[digiorno]

lucy!! is a socialite, the oldest daughter of the absurdly wealthy pendleton family. or at least they used to be absurdly wealthy . . . recent mob debts led lucy's father to try to pawn her off to the mafia in an attempt to appease them, and things got, you know, kind of complicated when lucy thought that was a garbage idea and then in A Melee gyro killed her dad. the state of things currently is that lucy is a young socialite who doesn't talk about her recent mysterious loss and who is essentially running the pendleton household all on her own. that debt is still following her family though. yikes.

abigail!! more or less ran away from her home in the midwest to pursue: 1) a life in The Big City; 2) more education, eventually, but in the meantime: 3) a job as a private eye! she has started this business in the last couple of years, and while she has legitimately no credentials she does all right as a result of a willingness to take on the weirdest and most grisly cases. she's a little morbid, but focused as hell and has a pretty good solve rate. also worth noting: in order to get business, her agency is under a man's name. the jacob lecter detective agency...... nice. sometimes she pretends to be "jacob lecter" and sometimes she's just herself. she's complicated like that. she hangs out at the speakeasy a lot! not mingling, just people watching. she's weird.

giorno!! is meridiana's half brother who was fairly recently ousted from well-to-do society for telling their mom to eat shit and stop being an asshole. (she did not listen to him.) he's turned to a Life Of Crime in the west side mob in order to build up a position of power for himself so that someday he can remove meridiana from their bullshit family situation and once again request that their mother EAT SHIT AND STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE.

[berrynice]

anne I just had an idea

do you wanna make lucy and holly nth cousins somehow Because Pendletons?

[digiorno]

holy shit thats such a good idea YES

YOU ARE A GENIUS

sorry your uncle got murdered but also like not cuz he sucked

[berrynice]

eh she's a better role model for baby lucie-loo anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯