Hella_Tellah
Explorer
Let's talk about the Cabal a bit. The Cabal needs a few things: a name, a base of operations, and a statement of intent on the five Great Rights. Let's start with the headquarters.
The game will take place in the greater Boston metropolitan area, so any of the neighborhoods or adjoining towns will work well. I can give you all kinds of information on these places, so just ask away. The neighborhoods marked with a star have well-known mages living in them, so you would probably interact/compete/ally/fight with another Cabal or solitary mage from time to time there. This is not a complete list, but a selection of neighborhoods that I think you'll find most appealing.
The game will take place in the greater Boston metropolitan area, so any of the neighborhoods or adjoining towns will work well. I can give you all kinds of information on these places, so just ask away. The neighborhoods marked with a star have well-known mages living in them, so you would probably interact/compete/ally/fight with another Cabal or solitary mage from time to time there. This is not a complete list, but a selection of neighborhoods that I think you'll find most appealing.
- Allston: loud, youthful and cheap; Boston College and Boston U are here.
- Brighton: quieter neighborhood near Allston, full of grad students.
- Brookline*: sleepy community of professors, also the main Jewish neighborhood.
- The Fens: a bog along the Muddy River, hotbed of illegal activity.
- Mattapan: formerly a Jewish neighborhood and a flashpoint for violence in the 60s, now a quiet residential neighborhood home mainly to Middle-Class Blacks, with some Haitians.
- Dorchester: racially integrated neighborhood of Victorian homes. Good for mages looking for a quiet place to stay.
- Roxbury*: neighborhood most associated with crime, poverty, and urban decay. The "wrong side of town".
- Back Bay*: wealthy neighborhood of brick row houses and upscale boutiques.
- The South End: by far the "hippest" neighborhood in Boston. Home to the more affluent members of the gay community.
- Beacon Hill*: Old money, neither trendy nor hip.
- North End: Little Italy on the waterfront. Home to the historic Copp's Hill Cemetary. A little loud since they put in a highway through the middle of it.
- Downtown*: Skyscrapers and big business. Frequent construction has damaged the once-potent Hallows that exist here.
- Chinatown: Center of sex trade and gang violence, although progress has been made recently. The part of Chinatown known as the Combat Zone is rumored to be a naturally-occuring demesne, as paradoxes are rarer here.
- South Boston: Usually called "Southie". Blue-collar and Irish, with nearly as many churches as bars. Stuck in the '50s.
- Roslindale: Ethnically diverse; hip but a bit rough.
- Cambridge*: Harvard, MIT, Buddhist temples and new age bookstores.
- Somerville: Cheap housing in a suburb favored by college graduates.
- Salem*: A historical hotbed of Awakened (naturally), Salem is the seat of the Consilium. It's also full of new age spiritualists and tourists.
- Danvers*: a village on the edge of Salem, home to an insane asylum and a well-known hunting ground for Tremere liches.
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