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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadow64" data-source="post: 2199422" data-attributes="member: 6868">Darn - someone already mentioned the whole "I know where you got your shoes" con, that's what I was going to mention.  On the same vein look up stuff about other cons and grifts and throw a few of those at your players.  Not to put down the Big Easy, I love the place, but there are lots of shady people there.Other people have mentioned the cemetaries, so I will too. They are everywhere.  I used to live in Gretna, which was across the Miss from NO. In some of the older neighborhoods there was a small cemetarie on the corner of the blocks.  It was a little weird to be drving around the town and see house, house, cemetarie, house, house.  As cool as the larger cemetaries are in New Orleans I'd look for cemetaries a little out from it in places like Gretna, Metarie, etc.  They are smaller and I know as a player I probably wouldn't expect to find something in them.There are two cemetaries I remember thinking would work well in a game. One was a cemetarie that was near an on/offramp for a bridge that crossed the Miss out in St. John Parish.  Right on the side of the road in a corn field was a small cemetarie.  Lots of rickety wooden crosses and unmarked graves, but nothing that said who the graveyard belong too.  It was just there.The second was also in St. John Parish, on the west bank, don't remember exactly where.  But it was an old catholic church (i think) that was really beat down.  It also had a large graveyard with a whole bunch of crumbling tombstones and mausoleums that I always thought would be perfect entrances for a little dungeaon crawl.As for weather, I recall it either being really hot, or just this side of cold.  Also, about 85% of the time it would pour down rain right about 3 or 4pm.  Depending on where you were at the streets could semi-flood and you'd have a soup of water, garbage and sometime beer, urine, etc.  It staaaaank.Right around Jackson Square and Cafe Du Mond there are a few fountains tucked away behind the main buildings.  They have small bronze statues on/near them.  They make for interesting little nooks where meetings could take place.Some more color:Lingere Wendsdays:  Some restaurants have Lingere Wendsday where scantily clad women walk around the restaurant and try to get you to either a) buy what they are wearing or b) enter into a raffle for a prize.  Might be a great way to fluster some players when they are in a meeting with some hougan.Drive Thru Daquiri Stands:  Remember Lousiana has an open container law.  So you can drive up to a place that hands you an alcoholic bevarage IN YOUR CAR.  They ussually leave the straw covered, but most oft-times not.  Give the players a scare when a cabby or buddy who is driving them around stops and gets a daquiri filled with Everclear!The cochroaches:  They are everywhere.  I remember getting followed by a few of them one the way home from my office more then a few times.  Is it a normal cochroach or is it some pet familar swarm following you and keeping tabs on you?Random Craziness:  Everytime I went drinking with my buddies to the quarter we always saw one thing to remember.  Here are some:  A disheveled woman walks down the street, her hair is a mess, her face and clothes are covered in dirt.  She carries a limp dog in her arms (don't know if it was dead or not).  Behind her a tall, thin man limps along with only a single flip-flop on.  As we passed him he yells/drawls: "I'm gonna kill you b<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />ch".  Never found out what that was about.Also saw a guy who hit a HORSE with his TRUCK.  The truck was all sorts of messed up, the horse was fine.  The guy who was drving the buggy the horse was pulling was two seconds away from beating the truck-driver down for hitting his horse.  This was on a very busy sidestreet and had drawn quite a crowd.  Never knew what happend because a buddy of mine named Brandon was trying to get away from a transexual he had just hit on.  Ah...the memories of a good run through the quarter....So there is my two cents.  Have fun.</blockquote>

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