Now that you've had a week to plan, this is the official role call post for the AU. Please reply to whatever header your character is included in with a summary of their role in Portland, with your character's name in the post subject. You can just copy and paste summaries used in the plotting post if you like, though for the same of mod plotting I would ask that you name and bold any of the following in your descriptions:
Organizations: If your character is in a group or organization of any kind, please bold it! This will be important for the dispensing of IC clues and NPC attention.
NPC Connections: If your character has a powerful NPC of any kind that they are connection to, please list and bold them. The mods will be writing some of these NPCs into the metaplot, and we can't do that if we don't know they exist!
Meetup Points: If your character runs or is affiliated with anything that could be considered a supernatural hangout, it would be useful to make them easy to find, for the sakes of people who want to know what kind of places will be available in Portland for their characters to hang out.
Confirming your concepts in this post is not mandatory, but I would super appreciate anyone who does. If you do not reply to this post, your character will not be tied into the metaplot. Additionally, I will give everyone who does reply a +2 AC point bonus to their next activity check, per character they reply with.
A five-year-old cat cafe located in downtown Portland that is really dedicated to its theme. It's popular among university students, tourists, and couples. Part of the place's allure is the popular rumor that some of the cats are weres, faeries, or royalty cursed into cat form.
The place has both permanent cats and a rotating list up for fostering or adoption; glamour shots with the cats' names are pinned on a bulletin board in the back. There's both an area for eating and mingling with the cats, and an area behind a glass partition so people can watch the cats being played with (or the people playing with them, if you're that kind of creep) and where orders are taken and drinks prepared. The staff are mostly human with a tolerance for weird shit happening and not asking questions, which is good because half of the cat population just disappears at night (stepping home to their owner via enchanted catflap) while the others are kept in kennels at the back or picked up by the shelter they're on loan from.
The cafe's owner is commonly rumored to be a cat shapeshifter or faerie, but it's actually just a quirky witch named Magdalena who specializes in transfiguration magic and really likes cats. She particularly loves gossip and rumors, and will happily trade them with patrons -- though she naturally makes no guarantees as to the accuracy or quality of the information she shares. What does she look like, an information broker?
Since Magdalena's about as fickle as a cat herself, she doesn't hold any loyalty to any particular faction. While she's happy to cause low-level mischief, she does place a great deal of work into making her establishment a neutral venue. This means no fighting or harassment of other patrons will be tolerated on the premises ... unless, of course, one desires to spend an indefinite amount of time on all fours. The cafe is warded with a charm to to transform any individual attempting to cast hostile magic or attack someone else on the premises into a cat, though 1. it's only reliably effective against normal humans (meaning anyone else might just get stuck with cat ears and tails), 2. effects only last a day. Also, you'll automatically be banned from the premises for the rest of your life, so have fun with that.
Edited (updating to reflect details on plurk, if people wanna use em) 2017-06-04 22:28 (UTC)
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livinglot2017-05-24 01:43 pm
Lambert | Toe Beans Cat Cafe
The place has both permanent cats and a rotating list up for fostering or adoption; glamour shots with the cats' names are pinned on a bulletin board in the back. There's both an area for eating and mingling with the cats, and an area behind a glass partition so people can watch the cats being played with (or the people playing with them, if you're that kind of creep) and where orders are taken and drinks prepared. The staff are mostly human with a tolerance for weird shit happening and not asking questions, which is good because half of the cat population just disappears at night (stepping home to their owner via enchanted catflap) while the others are kept in kennels at the back or picked up by the shelter they're on loan from.
The cafe's owner is commonly rumored to be a cat shapeshifter or faerie, but it's actually just a quirky witch named Magdalena who specializes in transfiguration magic and really likes cats. She particularly loves gossip and rumors, and will happily trade them with patrons -- though she naturally makes no guarantees as to the accuracy or quality of the information she shares. What does she look like, an information broker?
Since Magdalena's about as fickle as a cat herself, she doesn't hold any loyalty to any particular faction. While she's happy to cause low-level mischief, she does place a great deal of work into making her establishment a neutral venue. This means no fighting or harassment of other patrons will be tolerated on the premises ... unless, of course, one desires to spend an indefinite amount of time on all fours. The cafe is warded with a charm to to transform any individual attempting to cast hostile magic or attack someone else on the premises into a cat, though 1. it's only reliably effective against normal humans (meaning anyone else might just get stuck with cat ears and tails), 2. effects only last a day. Also, you'll automatically be banned from the premises for the rest of your life, so have fun with that.