Tonight, you become one of the Kindred, the beautiful and the damned who hide behind our ordinary world. Driven by a hunger like fire, you will struggle to maintain your humanity while immersed in a vicious society of monsters.
The sharks you swim with deadly. The Kindred are the smart, sexy vampires of pop culture, but cruelty is in the nature of kindred and Hartford is one of the most dangerous cities they hold. Why come here if doing so can be a detriment to immortality?
It makes you feel alive.
Dark Colony: Hartford is an OWBN Camarilla Vampire Larp set in Hartford, CT. The longest running continous OWBN game in New England. DC:H is a continuation of the vampire chronicles Court of Storms and Hartford by Night (started in 1998). Set to the World of Darkness theme for Gothic Punk Personal Horror. We play every fourth Friday of the month, and aim to give you dark tales of horror, set to the back drop of a classic world of darkness.
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Dark Colony Vampire House Rules
Dark Colony Universal House Rules
Dark Colony Crafts & Demolitions House Rules
We play on the 1st Saturday of each month.
Site information: Avon Public Library - 281 Country Club Road Avon, CT 06001
Staff Contact: darkcolony@googlegroups.com
April 16th, 2018
Hey all! For now on, please use the following form to submit Influence actions in Dark Colony: Hartford.
This includes Growth actions. Do not assume that posting in your journal that you're Growing your Influences means that it happens automatically, and do not raise your Influences on your character sheet without ST approval first.
Any questions, please contact staff at darkcolony@googlegroups.com. Thank you!
March 19th, 2018
So with the new rules we're trying out and some new stories being introduced, we'd like to get started with a quick player meeting to touch bases with everyone and get everyone on the same page. We'll try to make it brief enough to get everyone playing and having a good time.
Lex
NEEPregens has left the chronicle.
NEEPregens has joined the chronicle!
March 9th, 2018
Hey guys, I was having a talk about helping some new players out and it got me going about player activity. I'm going to be introducong some new rules about how we play the game.
1 - Scenes that involve three or less pcs with an st are going to be capped at fifteen minutes.
2 - Being locationally challenged without an st is disallowed. Do not leave the play area without an st. Please don't hang out in the ooc area. It's hurting game.
3 - If you are waiting on a ticket please remain IC in the play area untip tagged. My staff has been instructed to skip you if you are ooc.
Requests to pc leadership
1 - Please establish feeding territories.
2 - Please open and close game with a main room interaction.
3 - Try to push things like status when possible.
Lastly, we are experiencing a very high percentage of non cam pcs. At this time new non-cam pcs are disallowed. We also encourage non-cam pcs to also please make a greater effort to participate in main room rp.
I know ot will have some growing pains but please guys, I believe it will encourage better rp.
Thanks,
Lex
March 7th, 2018
Melly Mel has joined the chronicle!
March 4th, 2018
((Official announcements coming here soon from Harpy Kingsley!))
Whitney Bruno has joined the chronicle!
March 1st, 2018
Effective immediately, Influences are no longer allowed to be used during our live-action games. They are limited exclusively to Downtime actions between games. The 4 hours that the Kindred of Hartford gather once a month are meant to be used for holding Court and being social with one another, not for getting on the phone and calling up their mortal pawns to direct them through complex maneuvers in the infrastructure of the city. Influence actions take too long to see any immediate benefit from them and thus will be used only during Downtime. The Puppet Chronicle “Dark Colony: Gilded Cage” will become active once again as I step up to handle all Influence actions for the Hartford game. The Dark Colony Influence Guide (found here: Influence Guide) will still be used, though expect minor updates to it soon. The Edge will also be updated soon and be implemented once again in the coming months. Influence actions must be emailed to staff at darkcolony@googlegroups.com with the word INFLUENCE and your PC’s name written in the subject line. Influence actions refresh once a month after our live-action game on the 4th Friday of the month. I’m going to start asking for more detailed descriptions of everyone’s Influences so that I can interact with them in a more meaningful and story-driven way. “Spending Influence” has been an abstract and passive process for many players and ST’s alike in this game for too long in my opinion. I would like to reinforce the Camarilla genre of our game by making Influence something to engage in rather than just “spend” like cash to make problems go away. There is also a new system I am putting into place, also effective immediately, to keep track of the strength or weakness of the Masquerade in the City of Hartford and its surrounding region. Please refer to this document here for more information: Masquerade Rating System I will eventually have a Google Forms thing for you all to fill out to make using your Influence a little easier. And I’ll also have a form to fill out to get those descriptions of your Influences from everyone, which will probably mean a lot more human NPCs being named and developed. Fun times! But for now, just send everything to the staff email. Thank you!
