History Roleplay / BehindTheVeil

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Behind The Veil is forum-based ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' [[PlayByPostGames role-playing game]], created in 2008 and set in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. The Board allows [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampires]], [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Werewolves]], [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Mages]], and [[TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning Hunters]]. Due to the nature of the venue, dice rolls are not used, thus placing less of an emphasis on combat and more on the social aspects of the games.

The origins of the board starts over at another role playing forum, also set in LA. The board encompassed all Old World game lines and had a much broader range of species, but increasing [[ExecutiveMeddling interference]] from the sole admin began to alienate some players. After one particularly bad incident several players pooled their knowledge of the World of Darkness to create a new board, officially unveiling it on the first of August 2008.

Since that time the board has grown, picking up more members while going through periods of inactivity. Despite the odds the board is still running, with a modest number of players [[ActingForTwo controlling multiple characters.]] It can be found [[http://z4.invisionfree.com/Behind_The_Veil here]].

!!This game provides examples of:

* DawsonCasting: Some of the celebrities used to represent characters are much younger or older than the characters they're portraying.

* ItsForABook: Combined with an AuthorsSavingThrow after one player broke the {{Masquerade}}. The scene? A Wererat was harassing some students, got caught by a Mage and decided to bolt, in full half-woman half-rat form, through several walls and the side of a Trailer, leaving plenty of eye-witnesses which was then followed up with the same player writing a news report showing that that a rather clear impression of the wererat in the side of the trailer. The Technocratic Union then came in, kept the story off the airwaves for a few weeks, then prints out a story that it was a marketing stunt gone wrong for a new film called 'Ratmen from Mars' staring Courtney Cox. To pull this off they ended up creating a special effects studio so they could blame them for the disaster, [[FakeMemories "reminding" both Cox and the studios that they had already signed on for such a film]] and faking the paperwork to prove that the film was in fact already greenlit before the event took place.

* TooDumbToLive: The first character killed through the consequence system was a Sabbat Vampire, who thought it would be a great idea to insult and disobey the Archbishop. Repeatedly, to her face after being threatened with a Final death. It did not end well.

Behind The Veil is forum-based OldWorldOfDarkness [[PlayByPostGames role-playing game]], created in 2008 and set in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. The Board allows [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampires]], [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Werewolves]], [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Mages]], and [[TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning Hunters]]. Due to the nature of the venue, dice rolls are not used, thus placing less of an emphasis on combat and more on the social aspects of the games.

* [[ItsForABook It's For A Film:]] Combined with an AuthorsSavingThrow after one player broke the {{Masquerade}}. The scene? A Wererat was harassing some students, got caught by a Mage and decided to bolt, in full half-woman half-rat form, through several walls and the side of a Trailer, leaving plenty of eye-witnesses which was then followed up with the same player writing a news report showing that that a rather clear impression of the wererat in the side of the trailer. The Technocratic Union then came in, kept the story off the airwaves for a few weeks, then prints out a story that it was a marketing stunt gone wrong for a new film called 'Ratmen from Mars' staring Courtney Cox. To pull this off they ended up creating a special effects studio so they could blame them for the disaster, [[FakeMemories "reminding" both Cox and the studios that they had already signed on for such a film]] and faking the paperwork to prove that the film was in fact already greenlit before the event took place.
* KilledOffForReal: One of the rules of the board is that a character, once killed off, can not be brought back under any circumstances, not even as a Wraith.
* LeftHanging: The most notable example would be the rivalry between Kathleen and May Lawrence, which started a few months after the forum's opening in 2008 and continuing on and off until mid-2011.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Long Beach, which houses a Black Spiral Dancer hive. Subverted in that other Garou know the spirals are there.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Due to some players leaving unannounced and never returning, this happens from time to time.

Behind The Veil is forum-based OldWorldOfDarkness [[PlayByPostGames role-playing game]], created in 2008 and set in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. The Board allows [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampires]], [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Werewolves]], [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Mages]], and [[HunterTheReckoning Hunters]]. Due to the nature of the venue, dice rolls are not used, thus placing less of an emphasis on combat and more on the social aspects of the games.

* TooDumbToLive: The first character killed through the consequence system was a Sabbat Vampire, who thought it would be a great idea to insult and disobey the Archbishop. Repeatedly, to her face after being threatened with a Final death. [[CaptainObvious It did not end well.]]

* HumanSacrifice: A current plotline running on the board, kinfolk in Long Beach have been found drained of blood with the names of local Garou carved into their bodies. Two kinfolk found out what they did with all the blood…
* [[ItsForABook It's For A Film:]] Combined with an AuthorsSavingThrow after one player broke the {{Masquerade}}. The scene? A Wererat was harassing some students, got caught by a Mage and decided to bolt, in full half-woman half-rat form, through several walls and the side of a Trailer, leaving plenty of eye-witnesses which was then followed up with the same player writing a news report showing that that a rather clear impression of the wererat in the side of the trailer. The Technocratic Union then came in, kept the story off the airwaves for a few weeks, then prints out a story that it was a marketting stunt gone wrong for a new film called 'Ratmen from Mars' staring Courtney Cox. To pull this off they ended up creating a special effects studio so they could blame them for the disaster, [[FakeMemories "reminding" both Cox and the studios that they had already signed on for such a film]] and faking the paperwork to prove that the film was in fact already greenlit before the event took place.

* LeftHanging: The most notable example would be the rivalry between Kathleen and May Lawrence, which started a few months after the forum's openning in 2008 and continuing on and off until mid-2011.

* TownWithADarkSecret: Long Beach, which houses a Black Spiral Dancer hive. Partially suberverted in that other Garou know the spirals are there.

!!Behind The Veil provides examples of:

* OneSteveLimit: Heavily averted; several names are repeated frequently, and there are two Garou Jons, who are both members of the same sept, are both Bone Gnawers and are both Theurges.

Behind The Veil is forum-based OldWorldOfDarkness [[PlayByPostGames role-playing game]], created in 2008 and set in LosAngeles. The Board allows [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampires]], [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Werewolves]], [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Mages]], and [[HunterTheReckoning Hunters]]. Due to the nature of the venue, dice rolls are not used, thus placing less of an emphasis on combat and more on the social aspects of the games.