<div align="center"><em>Sing me a song, you're a singer...<br/>Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of Evil.</em></div><br/>Fate's a funny thing. Anyone could tell you that, from the elders who remembered the second World War to the child barely old enough to speak. And Fate had a store in surprise not just for a small, isolated group, but for the entirety of the Emerald City. Even the ones who ruled Seattle from deep within the shadows weren't expecting this-it seemed that in addition to being fickle, Fate was a romantic too.<br/><br/>But, such notions are far ahead of this point in time. The long days of Summer bowed to Autumn on their way out, as a chill descended over the Puget Sound's shining jewel. October 23rd is where this story starts, early enough in the season that it was warm during the day, but you could see your breath as the long nights descended. With the removal of Daylight Savings Time still two weeks away, night fell at about 6:30 pm, just late enough to remind everyone of why the shadows were feared. Even in the enlightened age of science and technology, old superstitions died hard in the pacific city.<br/><br/>Whether they accepted it or not, mortals were right to fear the night. A secret war waged in the hours between dusk and dawn, a war that could shatter Reality itself if a mortal so much as laid eyes upon it. Vampires, Werewolves, Mages, and more exotic creatures from the wildest fantasies of humanity battled it out-to what end? Some fought to defend humans. Others to control them. Still others fought for they knew nothing else. Motivations varied wildly from one participant to the next, but all fought. They fought both with weapons in the alleys and with social maneuvering on a city wide scale. Seattle's ever changing politics were as much a weapon as the sharpest katana or the strongest rifle.<br/><br/>And to this end, come the Hopeful. They could easily tip the scales...but in what direction? To themselves and the Light? To an established power of the City of Tomorrow? Or would they falter, and give the city to those who would corrupt it beyond all recognition?<br/><br/>Such questions are yet to be answered. For now, nighttime provided a handful of young Nobles a chance to see the darker truths of the shining city. They did not know it yet, but Fate planned to throw them into this invisible conflict. And it was doing so-<em>now.</em><br/><br/><hr/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;">GM Post:</span></div><br/>To all approved participants, I want you to post your character's usual weekday routine so that I can<del>engineer Fate</del>make sure you're exactly where you need to be for the opening scene.