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City of Mist 2024
Welcome. This homepage and the pages linked to it are maintained by professork in support of his 2024 City of Mist games.
Organization
The online City of Mist game will start as one-shots (which typically take 2 sessions.)
The one-shots are open to anybody and beginners are welcome. I will be recruiting for the campaign game based on what I see in these “auditions.” When we have a full body of players for the campaign, it will take over and the one shots will be discontinued. In the event that a seat opens up again in the campaign group, I will be reopening the one-shots until that(those) seat(s) are filled.
Game Philosophy
This is important. It gives you some idea of what to expect from me, as well as what I am looking for in campaign players. Please read this page.
Game Setting
The game is set in The City of Mist. Everyone just calls it “the city”. It has no other name that anybody knows. The city is a mid-sized city by US standards (think Milwaukee or Chicago) and has an over-all midwestern feel in society and architecture.
The city tends to be visually dreary and washed out with deep and ever-present shadows. The sort of cityscape that can make an individual feel like a meaningless cog in a giant machine. A deep fog hangs over it constantly adding a cold chill that can be felt to the bone.
The city goes on, grinding up and spitting out whoever gets too much in its way. Gods of politics and Titans of industry vie amongst themselves for power and control. The little people are as fuel for their machines to burn up, or lubricant for its gears. Somehow, they manage to eke out their existence under the heavy ever ringing hammers of industry.
But where there are humans, there are stories. And where there are stories, there is hope. Special people embody these stories. They display unusual powers and abilities and bring hope where otherwise there would be none. They are the answering force to the city's forces of destruction and despair. To those that know of them, they are known as Rifts, and they know one of the city's deepest secrets. The mist is more than just a physical phenomenon.
