7 thoughts on “Does anyone have some threats and storms they have made?”

  5. It’s been some time and I redo it from memory.

    The Demons associated with Some_Demonlord want a stable portal to enter the world. They have made a deal D’s Motor Bike Werwolf Gang to get them screenings on the necessary sacrifices. They require a special type of blood, so the wolves start taking blood samples from the supernatural population. The demons provide the D’s gang with manpower and blackmail material to take down The Civilised Ones, i.e. shapeshifters who are allied with the mortal autorities.

    The mages on The Council(TM) try to oppose them along the way. They attempt to free an Angel to to stop the demon. In order to do so, they need some kind of key and the right person to turn it, an Oracle. Also the door can only be opened “When the Mist rises”. Of course – as it turns out -, this is really capital-M Mist as in Faerie Mist, but the local Farie Queen doesn’t like the Council’s ruling faction.

    Now, everyone starts trading favors with the PCs. The demons need blackmail material on the mortal authorities to give it to the wolves. The wolves start abducting people. The demons tell some crazed immortal, that hunting Oracles is the way to go. La Madame, who is the most famous Oracle in town and has her own TV show that is used as a dead letter box by the city’s supernaturals, would “like to go on vacation” and have one of the PCs step in. (It doesn’t have to be an oracle. Enough when some the factions think it is.) The Council hires a Dragon to get the Key who makes a Lair in town, much to the disgust of some spectres who liked to haunt there. After some trading, the Council asks to smuggle a trinket into the Farie Queen’s ball, to get some of those Mists.

  7. Here’s my examples for Washington, DC. They’re meant to run contemporaneously or nearly so. The threats are “sketchy” because so much of what happens next is based on PC input.

    Threat 1:

    An upstart group of wizards wishes to overthrow the ruling faction. As part of their long plan, they murder one of the ruling group’s young acolytes (to the mortal world, a young lawyer or congressional staffer) and leave the body in Rock Creek Park, framing the band of homeless werewolves that call the park their territory as “a dangerous wolf infestation” and try to get the City Council to send professional hunters (who might also be Hunters) to take care of the supposed animal threat. This will drive out the Rock Creek Park werewolves and leave the territory open.

    Threat 2:

    It has been years since the war between demon and vampire (intertwined and covered up by the 1980’s “crack epidemic”) that drove most of the vamps to the west bank of the Anacostia River. Now an ancient fae lord who was forced to move his earthly seat to Prince George’s County due to the chaos of that war wishes to return to “his lands” in Wards 7 and 8. He expects his wishes will be respected but is prepared to begin a new war with demonkind and anyone else who would deny him (such as the other fae who have toeholds in the area in his absence).

    Threat 3:

    For years a strip club in NE has been a haven for vice and violence, and now that the neighborhood is nearly gentrified, the new neighbors are gathering to challenge the renewal of its liquor license and eventually get it shut down. If nothing happens, they will.

    However, this club is where the District’s less-well-off vampires gather for easy access to blood, etc. Closing it will disperse hungry, desperate, angry vampires across the city.

    As A Storm:

    I allied the fae lord with the upstart magi for some direct plot cross-over, but I feel this storm works best if the effects and consequences bleed across with each other, that as things become irrevocable in one threat, the options to resolve the others without pushing the city closer to chaos are reduced or transformed.

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