Modern City Roleplay

A modern city in text: districts and venues, jobs and factions as roles, city news, crime plots and apartments.

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17 roles
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CITY LIMITS

welcome
Welcome to the city. Read #city-rules, submit a character in #resident-applications, then wait in #ooc-chat.
city-rules
Posting format, no godmodding, no metagaming, consent before conflict, and how a game master resolves a scene.
announcements
City-wide plots, new districts, schedule changes and staff openings.
resident-applications
Submit your character profile here. A storyteller reviews it and grants Resident.
pick-your-job
Approved residents pick a job or faction here. It opens that faction's headquarters.

OUT OF CHARACTER

ooc-chat
Players as players. Nothing in character.
plot-planning
Arrange scenes, agree outcomes and ask a game master to run a plot.
character-profiles
One thread per approved character. Tag the job. Keep the first post current.
character-art
Art and faceclaims for your character. Credit the artist.
questions
Ask about the city, the rules or the roles.
lfrp
Looking for a scene. Say which district and what kind.

CITY RECORDS

city-map
The city, its districts and how long it takes to cross it. Pinned at the top.
districts-guide
What each district is known for and who runs it.
jobs-and-factions
Every job and faction: what it does, who leads it, what it wants.
laws-and-ordinances
What is a crime in this city and what the police can do about it.
city-history
From the founding to the current mayor. Canon only.

CITY NEWS

city-news
The city's paper, written by the Press and the game masters. In character.
police-scanner
Radio traffic the whole city can hear. Only the police post here.
classifieds60s slowmode
In-character ads: jobs, rooms for rent, lost and found. One ad per message.

DOWNTOWN

central-plaza
The square in the middle of everything. Protests, festivals and chance meetings.
city-hall-lobby
Permits, petitions and the mayor's staff. City Hall works upstairs.
grand-hotel-lobby
The expensive hotel. Deals are made in the lounge.
night-market
Open after dark. Food stalls, street music and things sold quietly.
metro-station
Platforms and the trains between districts. Scenes in transit.
police-headquarters
The front desk and interview rooms. The briefing room is elsewhere.
courthouse-steps
Trials, verdicts and the press waiting outside.

THE DISTRICTS

harborside-docks
Warehouses, cranes and cargo the paperwork does not mention.
old-town-diner
Open all night. Where every district's characters end up eventually.
riverside-park
Joggers, benches and the quiet end of the river.
university-campus
Lecture halls, the quad and the student union. Students' home turf.
general-hospital
The emergency room and the wards. Hospital Staff run the scenes here.
industrial-yards
Factories, rail sidings and the places nobody goes after dark.
the-underpass
Under the highway. Graffiti, skaters and the city's other economy.
shopping-mall
Three floors of shops and a food court. Business Owners' territory.
suburb-streets
Lawns, driveways and neighbours who notice everything.

APARTMENTS

skyline-towers
Penthouses and glass. One thread per resident.
harbor-lofts
Converted warehouses by the docks. One thread per resident.
maple-street-houses
Family homes in the suburbs. One thread per household.
campus-housing
Student flats and shared kitchens. One thread per flat.
roadside-motel
Weekly rates, thin walls. For characters passing through or lying low.

FACTION HQS

precinct-briefing-roomHidden from @everyone
City Police only. Cases, suspects and the next operation.
mayors-officeHidden from @everyone
City Hall only. Policy, favours and the budget.
syndicate-back-roomHidden from @everyone
The Syndicate only. Plans the police must never read.
hospital-break-roomHidden from @everyone
Hospital Staff only. Patients, shifts and what the chart does not say.
newsroomHidden from @everyone
Press only. Stories in progress and sources to protect.
chamber-of-commerceHidden from @everyone
Business Owners only. Rents, rivals and who is paying whom for protection.

PLOTS AND EVENTS

plot-board
Plots posted by game masters: premise, date, which factions are involved.
event-signups
Reply to a plot with your character's name and side.
city-events
In character. Festivals, elections, galas and disasters run by a game master.

VOICE

City Hangout
Session Room 1
Session Room 2
Radio Show
AFK

STORYTELLER ROOM

st-chat
Storytellers, game masters and moderators. Nothing in character.
plot-secrets
Where each plot is going and which faction is about to be betrayed.
npc-control
Who runs the mayor, the police chief, the Syndicate boss and the hospital director this month.
application-reviews
Character profiles under review. One thread per applicant.
mod-logsHidden from @everyone
Vetox Logs: edits, deletions, joins and moderation actions.
Storyteller Voice

Roles

StorytellerAdministrator
Game MasterModerator
ModeratorModerator
Established Resident
Resident
Visitor
City Police
City Hall
The Syndicate
Hospital Staff
Press
Business Owners
Students
Event Ping
Plot Ping
Muted

Overview

A city is districts, and the districts are categories. Downtown has Central Plaza, the City Hall Lobby, the Grand Hotel Lobby, the Night Market, the Metro Station, Police Headquarters and the Courthouse Steps; the Districts have Harborside Docks, the Old Town Diner, Riverside Park, the University Campus, General Hospital, the Industrial Yards, the Underpass, the Shopping Mall and Suburb Streets; Apartments has five places to live, from Skyline Towers to a Roadside Motel, so a character has a home scene of their own. Jobs and factions are roles: City Police, City Hall, the Syndicate, Hospital Staff, Press, Business Owners and Students. Six of them have a headquarters in Faction HQs that only that role and the game masters can see, so the precinct briefing room and the Syndicate's back room are the two sides of every crime plot. City News is the read-only #city-news written by the Press and game masters, a #police-scanner only the police post to, and #classifieds for in-character ads. City Records is the read-only lore: map, districts guide, jobs and factions, laws, history. Out of Character has chat, plot planning, a #character-profiles forum tagged by job and #lfrp; Plots and Events has a read-only #plot-board, signups and a city events channel. Visitors see OOC only until a storyteller approves their character. Voice has a hangout, two session rooms and a Radio Show stage.

When to use it

Your city roleplay has one downtown channel where a police raid, a first date and a hospital scene are all happening at once, and the crime faction plans in DMs that nobody can moderate. This layout gives the city districts, venues and apartments, gives every job and faction a role and the important ones a hidden headquarters, puts the police scanner and the newspaper where the whole city can read them, and keeps visitors outside the city until their character is approved.

What makes it different

Twenty-one in-character locations across Downtown, the Districts and five Apartments.
Seven jobs and factions as roles, six with a hidden headquarters visible only to that role and the game masters.
#city-news is written by the Press, #police-scanner by the police, and both are read by everyone.
City Records is a read-only library for the map, laws and history.
Visitors are kept outside the city's channels until their character profile is approved.

Recommended Vetox setup

Applications
An application panel in #resident-applications for the character profile, reviewed in #application-reviews with the Resident role granted on approval.
Self-Roles
A Self-Roles panel in #pick-your-job for the seven job and faction roles, so taking a job unlocks its headquarters without a moderator.
Reminders
A Reminder in #plot-board before each scheduled plot, so the players signed up in #event-signups are online when the game master starts.
Logs
Logs into #mod-logs in the Storyteller Room, so a deleted post in #syndicate-back-room can be recovered if a plot dispute needs it.
Starboard
A Starboard fed from the district channels, so the city's best scenes are collected where new residents can read them.

Questions

How do police and crime plots work without the police reading everything?

The police plan in #precinct-briefing-room and the Syndicate in #syndicate-back-room; each is visible only to its role and the game masters. The confrontation happens in a public location channel, and the #police-scanner tells the city what the police want it to know.

Does every character need a job?

No. A resident with no job role sees every public district and apartment. Job roles add a headquarters and a place in the city's institutions; Students and Business Owners are jobs too, with their own HQ channels where it makes sense.

Where does a character live?

Pick an apartment channel: Skyline Towers, Harbor Lofts, Maple Street Houses, Campus Housing or the Roadside Motel. Home scenes run there in threads named for the character.

Common mistakes

Letting the crime faction plan in public channels, which means the police faction reads every plot before it happens.
Making one channel per shop and cafe, which spreads a small cast across thirty empty rooms.

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