Big Easy Voodoo Noir

It's February 2005. Carnival time.

PCs

Whiskey Boudreaux

Played by SpookyVoodooLove

High Concept: New Orleans Paranormal Private Investigator

Trouble: A Black Woman Playing a White Man's Game

Morgan Haas

Played by Sabermane

High Concept: Retired Ritualist

Trouble: A Long Shadow

Robin Day

Played by Nuanarpoc

High Concept: Hard Partying Environmental Student

Trouble: Drawn to Darkness

Officer Theodore Lomont

Played by Insomniac

High Concept: Tarnished Badge of the NOPD

Trouble: Righteous Path is Hard to Walk

Monique Durand

Played by Tyrnis

High Concept: Hexed Fortune Teller

Trouble: Weirdness Magnet

Auguste Clement

Played by MysteryCat

High Concept: Your Guide to the City’s Secret History

Trouble: Too Much Month at the End of the Money

The city of New Orleans

An overview

Yadda

Magic

Magic is subtle. You won't see wizards in robes or pointy hats settling their differences by throwing balls of fire at each other. You will see them performing rituals in the privacy of their homes or consecrated spaces, cursing each other with heart arrhythmia or blood clots in the brain. This subtlety makes it easy to ascribe the results of magic to mere chance, circumstance. The faithful know better.

The people that live in the interstitial spaces--the homeless, the marginal--they're prey for monsters, and no one will believe them. These monsters sometimes wear the faces of men, sometimes their whole skin. Some fight them without knowing, some are all too aware.

What UA would call the Occult Underground is more or less a loose collection of Those Who Have Seen Some Shit, which includes some practicioners of Voodoo, Santería, hill magic, etc. There are also European-style secret societies, alongside (within) organizations like the Freemasons or the Elks, who have tapped into real magic. They've used their knowledge for hundreds of years to make themselves rich, powerful & influential. They know what's best for everyone, just ask them.

Random points of interest

French Quarter

Details

St Louis Cathedral

Jackson Square is where old Lar used to do his art, before the... incident.

Factions and other interested parties

The Krewe of Bacchus

The new money. Still finding their feet when it comes to Carnival's occult roots, but willing to pay for expertise.

Mistick Krewe of Comus

Carnival old money, deep in the roots of it.

Mardi Gras Indians

The shake and jangle of tambourines and call of ancient chants; feathered headdresses, like explosions of saturated color, strutting through a tight crowd.

NPCs

Lar, the street painter (RIP)

Old guy, lotsa gold teeth, used to do speed paintings in front of old St Louis Cat'. There was always somethin' creepy in the picture, if you looked real hard. Beautiful pictures, though.

God rest his soul, wherever it ended up.