Ok, so today I started my first Urban Shadows game and it went just great. We decided to create a ficcional city for it, and after the character setup we went through the whole process of wondering what might be found across the area, from shopping malls to parks, etc. We tied up the whole thing, pointing out where which of the NPCs related to the PCs can be found and what they are up to, or at least the things the PCs think they are up to.
I’m MCing for my wife and our homemate. She’s playing a teenager aware while he is playing with a cientist (the comic-like jack-of-all-trades kind of cientist) expert, who works for a mining company that is destroying a mountain, which happens to be a sacred place for the fae folk. So right in the setup we have the status quo ripped apart. The company itself is headed by a mysterious sort who knows all about supernatural stuff – so the expert is using a laboratory to research magic stuff for his boss. The girl is living with her immortal uncle, who actually is her ancestor and founder of the city, although it’s all a secret. Only she knows it, found it out in his personal journal, a really big book with information about the supernatural in it.
Really, really excited to keep playing it!