+ Requiem by Night +

Welcome to our Chronicle.  Requiem by Night is an original chronicle set place in the Alternate-Earth of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter universe (aka the Anita-verse).  Unlike most other sims, our theme is set in a Dark Metropolis in the year 2025.  For all intents and purposes, the world, though following a modern-timeline, is not the same world you know in fashion or theme.  Our chronicle aims to tell stories revolving around the world as the human race comes to terms with the existence of Supernatural beings.  This means that all major events of the Anita-Verse is considered history to our purposes, and those events will not be major plot points in our scenarios. 

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What is Bridgeport, CN?

Bridgeport is a coastal town in New England, United States.  It is known as the "Dark Metropolis" ue to its large population of Supernatural beings, and the preternatural Night that engulfs the city and surrounding areas.  Bridgeport is unique among other similar cities in the fact that it is the only City that actively maintains a Code Legal, which regulates the laws surrounding the presence of the supernatural community.  Supernatural Race Elders, maintain their order among their kind, but the nearby island Resort of Purgatory, is recognized as a place where Superanturals may roam freely from the constraints of Human Law. 

The monsters that were once thought of as fairy tales are real. 

The world as a whole, came to know that vampires, Lycanthropes and others were real in the 1970s.  Since then, the world has been slowly adjusting to the idea of coexistence with creatures other than human.  Laws have been erected throughout the human world to regulate the presence and predatory natures of these creatures that feed from humans.  (To be continued)

Are you afraid of the Dark?

Bridgeport City and the Island of Purgatory, are magically bound to perpetual night. (To be Continued)

The Dark Metropolis Theme.

The Metropolis is a visceral, urban maze cloaked in perpetual night—a nightmarish, surreal paradise for the Damned.  In the gritty underbelly of the Metropolis, the general rule is to trust no one. Everyone harbors a secret, and she who survives and thrives the dog-eat-dog streets of the Metropolis looks out for nobody but herself. Time itself may be fluid and dream-like. Events may take place out-of-order, or the storyline may include occasional flashbacks or flash-forwards that veer from the typical chronological sequence.

Cinematic Influences of the Theme.

Although film noir’s classic period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s, its influence stretches across decades, as well as other genres, and can still be seen in films today. Look to the following movies as influences:

Classic Film Noir:  Film Noir during the 1940s and 50s was heavily influenced by the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction. Most took place in an urban setting, featuring archetypal characters of the genre: private eyes, femme fatales, corrupt lawmen, or jealous husbands.  ​Some classic Noir films include: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), Murder, My Sweet (1944), The Killers (1946), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Strangers on a Train (1951), and Kiss Me Deadly (1955).
 

Neo-Noir:  The genre continued past its classic era, and there are a number of films today that maintain the Noir tradition. While similar plots, themes and character archetypes persist, these attributes of the Noir became more flexible or exaggerated as the genre evolved throughout the decades. Some Neo-Noir films include: Blue Velvet (1986), Naked Lunch (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Se7en (1995), Fargo (1996), Crash (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), Fight Club (1999), Memento (2000), Mulholland Drive (2001), Insomnia (2002), The Machinist (2004), and Brick (2005).

 

Cross-genre Film Noir:   Noir may also be blended with other genres. A primarily Noir chronicle may also include elements of science fiction, comedy, pulp, or dark comic adventure. Some Cross-genre films include: Soylent Green (1973), Blade Runner (1982), Alien³ (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Ghost in the Shell (1995), Twelve Monkeys (1995), The Big Lebowski (1998), Gattaca (1997), Dark City (1998), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Minority Report (2002), Sin City (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008).​

A Glossary of Hardbroiled Slang.

To add some authenticity to a chronicle set in the Dark Metropolis, consider having your characters use popular slang of the 1940s:

• ​All Wet — Describes an erroneous idea or individual, as in, “he’s all wet.”
  Broad — Woman, dame
  Bump Off — To murder, to kill.
  Cat’s Meow — Something splendid or stylish; the best or greatest, wonderful
  Darb — An excellent person or thing (as in “the Darb”—a person with money who can be relied on to pay the check)
  Fall Guy — Victim of a frame
  Frame — To give false evidence, to set up someone
  Hard Boiled — A tough, strong guy
  Heebie-Jeebies — The jitters
  Jalopy — An old car
  Joint — A club, usually selling alcohol
  Keen — Attractive or appealing
  Moll — A gangster’s girl
  Pinch — To arrest.
  Sheba — A woman with sex appeal
  Sheik — A man with sex appeal 

 

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