fhplotterywheel | Noir Weekend!

We all know and love Soap Opera Weekend, so we thought we would riff on that idea, but with a twist!

Yes, on the weekend of July 12-13th, Fandom Island (and those hanging around on Ingvar, if the stolp bug menace hasn't vacated the dorms by then) will be experiencing its very first Noir Weekend!

What does Noir Weekend consist of? If you opt in to playing along, you'll get to poke at copious noir tropes, black and white/period icons, shenanigans with private dicks and speakeasies (as dirty as you want to interpret that) and plenty of dangerous dames, skirts, birds, and molls. Prohibition is going strong, which means that the bars can only legally be serving soft drinks and sarsaparilla, though there may be rumors of secret rooms where something a little harder can be bought--for a price. Monologuing runs rampant. And if there aren't antics involving tommyguns before the end of the weekend, someone is doing something wrong somewhere. But no worries, any and all damage caused will revert back to normal again on Monday morning!

Picture this! (all characters mentioned being used w/out permission just for illustrative and brainstorming purposes) Please listen to this while reading to get into the mood:

Fandom Island. A seedier hive of scum and villainy you won't find this side of NYC. The air is always hazy with fog and cigarette smoke and the streets run with rainwater, illegal booze, and sometimes even blood. At the aptly-named Devil's Nest, a man known to associates and enemies alike only as 'the Viking' runs girls, games, and gin. When it comes to having dirty hands, no one's are much dirtier than his boy, Lips, who does brisk business in records and "violin cases," if you know what we mean. Most of the cops are on the take and the ones that ain't have a hard time keeping their backs free of lead. Not that they ain't got problems of their own. The Baltimore Bay Butcher's killed seven ~~NPC~~ people and counting and even though times are tough, Satriale's shop has always got plenty of pork. Every heart's got a secret, every business has got a backdoor, and every one has to pay the piper in the end.

This is...Fandom Noir.

It'll be structured very much the same way Soap Opera Weekend is, with OCD neatly tucked into this very post for you to all noodle about your characters' backstories, and what's becoming of the bits of the island you all know and love.

Brainstorming and question threads are all neatly posted within for your convenience!

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Have a background that needs a hitman but no hitman chosen yet? Or are you a hitman who's been killing for years but needs a boss to report to or a body to lug? Are you a private dick (probably not dirty, but who knows with Noir) looking for some clients? If you're in need, you can ping in here and see if there's anyone else with the skills or resources you need to complete your Noir weekend experience.

It would be an absolute violation of the ever-increasing-angst principle of character development for Eliot not to be a gun toting hitman for this. Preferably with the most despicable boss he can find.

So if anyone wants to get offed (the more the merrier!), or have an NPC'd loved one get offed (past or present), or have a particularly vicious and violent hitman on your books, let me know.

Hannibal could be hiring... :D

That somehow just seems so fitting.

*cough*nosy reporter*cough*

Lady Dokkaebi is looking for some badass ladies to fill out the ranks of her all-girl gangster squad!

Likes: Long walks on the beach, hiding bodies in the ocean, dealing opium, leading private dicks around by their...noses, deception, keeping her turf hers, and reading books.

Dislikes: People sticking their noses where they don't belong, people trying to take over her territory, non-violent means of settling issues, police, things that interfere with her opium shipments.

You should be: awesome, identifying as a girl, willing to fight and kill at her command, trustworthy, lethal.

Also looking for people willing to be antagonists to her and her girls!

Ooo, yesssss, sign Raven up!

My one lone lady is otherwise occupied, but I have one orphan street kid (and his pair of scruffy mutts) who could function as a lookout, if there was any need for one?

Jalian is in! (and I don't feel like switching accounts, so there.)

And the recruiting pitch up above worked. Jessica is in, but BE WARNED... she's looking to take you down from the inside. Or, as I originally typed, from the isnide. She'll do both, that's how down you will be taken.

Unless the life is too appealing.

And Lady Dokkaebi will actually be using the weekend to get back at a PI who is making trouble for her. If Jessica does decide she can't hack the life, she 'll have a chance to blow her cover to try to save him!

Oh hey look at that I have a character arc already. NICE.

See? Lady Dokkaebi has nothing but her girls' best interests at heart!

If Jess decides that the gang life is the best life, the girls'll blind Nick to teach him a lesson. If she decides that she can't be party to this, the plan will be to kill him, but she stops them--and he's blinded in the process?

Work for you?

But I don't want to be blinded!

At this point I think Jess will resist and poor, poor Nikolai will be blinded anyway. Such a shame!

Anyone need a Private Eye, Dinah's in the book.

Anyone need something stolen? ... yeah, Kenzi's still in that line of business, despite hard time up at Bedford Hills.

If Kenzi is interested, Lady Dokkaebi is always recruiting!

Sweetheart, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Just don't think about stealing any of the dope, sweetheart, and we'll all get along juuust fine.

Emma Frost, information broker and hedonist extraordinaire, is currently looking for informants!

You can work anywhere, be anyone, do anything, but at the end of the day, you gotta give Emma some good dirt if you want some green. Or if you prefer other methods of payment, well, that's negotiable.

Hannibal doesn't trade in information per se, but he does happen to be very interested in dirt and in knowing as much as he can. He would be happy to part with such knowledge for a price.

(Also, Gershwin (Cecil) is an Intrepid Reporter, so probably would love to find out things Emma knows. But he's broke, so she can feel free to blow him off. :)

Would that price happen to be fine company, fine wine, and an exchange of information (and possibly money, as crass as that is) over dinner? :)

Poor Gershwin cannot afford Emma. In any capacity. But he's welcome to follow her around like a puppy into the seedier heart of Fandom.

You know, I think it would!

Not sure about Gershwin, but maybe!

Noir Weekend!

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