User blog comment:SensibleCenobite/Product Review: World of Darkness: Hong Kong/@comment-27830834-20190402171325/@comment-38456962-20190402200829

You're welcome StrangerThings and I'm glad you're having a grand time, but don't blow yourself out and remember to take a bath :).  Douglas Adams and Archimedes took baths all the time and to great effect.  I think I enjoy Character creation almost more than role playing sometimes.

It's been a while since I took pen and paper seriously while having fun, and I'm hooked again. I'm going to watch Fists of Fury after I post this and I'll get to PTSD, Mutafukaz, and The Raid 2. I'll keep doing book reviews as I flesh this out. I'll stay focused on Kindred of the East of course.

Since Hong Kong will be in a vacuum, that makes things much easier. Right off the bat here are a few plot hooks that came to mind. Plot point one was in the book, but I threw in the Demon possession after the Coterie takes down Ling Chu Let me know what you think.

1).  The Bastet cop Ling Chu gets a hold of Dragon of the Night for Camille T'sen, but of course gets possessed by it.  A kitty with a chopper like that and it's gonna be bad times for sure.  For everyone.  Maybe he could even get possessed by a Demon or something after the Players barley manage to take him down.  Kind of like fighting Cyber Akuma after you beat Onslaught in Marvel vs Capcom.

2).  Lorenco Gil finally produces his "clean drug" to remove certain elements of Gaia.  He thinks that humans unchecked by the World of Darkness would be a much better place.  To distribute his drug and make sure it affects the Garou he combined it with traces of silver particles and will disseminate it using mist, fog, clouds, and chem trails.  What Lorenco Gil doesn't know is that the behavioral modification drug he had developed got stolen by Qian Shi and used against him.  Qian Shi being a skilled chemist and alchemist himself has turned Lorenco's "clean drug" against the very humans that wanted the World of Darkness's destruction.

3). Pearl Paradigms first prototype cyber hand is about to hit the "free market."  The Technocracy has finally gotten the Sleepers to accept more advanced technology over hundreds of years from "scientific breakthroughs" and "empericism".  However, this causes a spark in the fabric of space in time due to a nano miss-calculation.  Instead of a slow awakening like they like it, out comes a huge Cthulhu monster or a pack of them.  Maybe it "causes" the Sixth Age to come about right then and there?  Shadowrun happens during the Sixth Age and it messed up just like they describe it in World of Darkness.  A huge virus called VITAS kills about 20% of the population [think Spanish flu] and then turns a lot of survivors into magic wielding vampires.  Also, goblinization happens turning everyone into dwarves, elves, orks, trolls and so on.  Dragons come alive and fly around the planet [Kowloon would be perfect for this].

This is just the start to let you know what I'm thinking. I'm going to continue to consume information and work on plot points. I don't think I'll need to write up too many characters seeing as there are a metric butt ton. As for keeping things slightly light hearted, how about using funny names that have Hong Kong or Vampire themes? Don't tell the Players, let them figure it out.

Let me be your Tau targeting unit while you take a break. Maybe invite your GF camping or something? I'm trying to do the same thing here in the near future. The city life drives me crazy personally,

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