Big Easy Voodoo Noir
It's February 2005. Carnival time.
Contents
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 Scientist
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.
