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.
Though in Portland most just know him as RENZO, a demon with a fairly lucrative business sense, preferring to deal in cash money over souls. Renzo isn't the oldest demon or even the oldest supernatural type around, but he has been around the block for some time now, picking up artifacts and treasure and, eventually, investments as he went between Earth and Hell. That's left him in a fairly comfortable spot and he's in nooooo rush to get back to Hell, if ever.
He's the standard kind of demon with an affinity for fire — hellfire, in this case — as well as mind control and super strength when he needs to take problems into his own hands. On top of that, he's cleared to make deals for souls, though he isn't the one who keeps them. While he prefers settling things without murder, he also has a reputation of having his goons — lesser demons and a handful of warlocks — take people out to the middle of nowhere and just "vanish" them. Never anyone too important, though. That's just too much trouble!
Appearance-wise, he's got black hair instead of pink (that was dye before, anyway), horns, the devil tail with the spade at the end, claws, sharp teeth, slit pupils with red and black eyes. He isn't any particular funky color, though his hands, feet, and end of his tail start out black and taper off, giving his limbs a generally charred look. He also has a few tattoo-like markings in red, though typically only the ones on his face are visible [ a very rough sketch right here ]
Post-Severing, he's put his investments into the supernatural nightclub CROSSROADS [ more details here ], where he can be found more often than not, usually more active at night due to the nature of the business. It's incredibly shady and a meeting spot for illicit groups just as often as perfectly innocent ones. How he keeps it open no doubt involves bribery and leaning heavily on his knack for altering and controlling minds. That said, it's also the main stomping and meeting grounds for one of Portland's actual demon lords, who Renzo is still stuck serving, and that would be Malachi.
MALACHI is yet another fire-affinity demon (considering how most of his minions are also that, it makes the most sense), just bigger and much badder. Very traditional red devil sort, broad, heavyset, cigar-chomping, with a very Godfather-like air around him. If Renzo's the slick salesman of demons, Malachi is definitely the mob boss of them. He has a lot more minions besides Renzo to boss around and his main goal is to collect souls, souls, souls, hoping to force a gateway to Hell back open with them at some point. He is also the Psionic's old boss and he would like nothing more than to stomp that little coward out of existence, so, yeah, try to avoid him, Psi.
Renzo will also be starting out with FULL MEMORIES, which means he's getting dropped into this life suddenly and will only know enough to fake it like a pro after going through Actual Demon Renzo's apartment for clues.
In addition to that, YAMANTAKA is still around and also has full memories. Only here, he isn't a demon. Here, he's trapped in the form of a ghostly black bull who is intent on haunting Shima until he does the right thing and tries to fix this. He will be harassing his former master often and may speak to other people, depending on whether they can see him and if they ever think to summon him or track him down to ask questions.
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RENZO SHIMA
He's the standard kind of demon with an affinity for fire — hellfire, in this case — as well as mind control and super strength when he needs to take problems into his own hands. On top of that, he's cleared to make deals for souls, though he isn't the one who keeps them. While he prefers settling things without murder, he also has a reputation of having his goons — lesser demons and a handful of warlocks — take people out to the middle of nowhere and just "vanish" them. Never anyone too important, though. That's just too much trouble!
Appearance-wise, he's got black hair instead of pink (that was dye before, anyway), horns, the devil tail with the spade at the end, claws, sharp teeth, slit pupils with red and black eyes. He isn't any particular funky color, though his hands, feet, and end of his tail start out black and taper off, giving his limbs a generally charred look. He also has a few tattoo-like markings in red, though typically only the ones on his face are visible [ a very rough sketch right here ]
Post-Severing, he's put his investments into the supernatural nightclub CROSSROADS [ more details here ], where he can be found more often than not, usually more active at night due to the nature of the business. It's incredibly shady and a meeting spot for illicit groups just as often as perfectly innocent ones. How he keeps it open no doubt involves bribery and leaning heavily on his knack for altering and controlling minds. That said, it's also the main stomping and meeting grounds for one of Portland's actual demon lords, who Renzo is still stuck serving, and that would be Malachi.
MALACHI is yet another fire-affinity demon (considering how most of his minions are also that, it makes the most sense), just bigger and much badder. Very traditional red devil sort, broad, heavyset, cigar-chomping, with a very Godfather-like air around him. If Renzo's the slick salesman of demons, Malachi is definitely the mob boss of them. He has a lot more minions besides Renzo to boss around and his main goal is to collect souls, souls, souls, hoping to force a gateway to Hell back open with them at some point. He is also the Psionic's old boss and he would like nothing more than to stomp that little coward out of existence, so, yeah, try to avoid him, Psi.
Renzo will also be starting out with FULL MEMORIES, which means he's getting dropped into this life suddenly and will only know enough to fake it like a pro after going through Actual Demon Renzo's apartment for clues.
In addition to that, YAMANTAKA is still around and also has full memories. Only here, he isn't a demon. Here, he's trapped in the form of a ghostly black bull who is intent on haunting Shima until he does the right thing and tries to fix this. He will be harassing his former master often and may speak to other people, depending on whether they can see him and if they ever think to summon him or track him down to ask questions.