Southern Cross Requiem

The Court of Roxby Downs

Ruling Council

• Prince: Prince Rex Giles (NPC)

Priscus Council

• Daeva:
• Gangrel:
• Ventrue:
• Mekhet:
• Nosferatu:
• Priscus Harpy: none

Court Positions

• Seneschal:
• Prince's Harpy:
• Sheriff:
• Archons:
• Master of Elysium: Tatiana Miasnivena (Unsanctioned PC)
• Herald:

Elysium

The Elysium of Roxby Downs is the Clyde K. Mitchell Memorial Greenhouse. This was one of the first civil structures built and is suppringly large for a desert city.

Laws of Elysium

Blatantly adapted from Brisbane's Wiki

1. Elysium is neutral territoy for all kindred, regardless of clan, covenant, faith or standing.
1.1 Hindering a kindred's entry or exit, or forcing their entry or exit, is considered an attack on that kindred.
2. Violence of any kind against another kindred is expressly forbidden and is considered a Sin against the City, punishable by the Master of Elysium or the Prince.
3. The location of Elysium is to be protected. Endangering the Masquerade or draing undue attention in, at, on the way to or from Elysium is a Sin against the City.
4. The carrying of weapons is permitted but:
4.1 the laws of the kine must not be seen to be broken, as doing so draws undue attention to Elysium.
4.2 if the Laws of Elysium are breached with a weapon brought to the location, the breach will be deemed as premeditated.
5. The use of Discipline, Ritual or Devotion without the express consent of the target is considered an attack on that kindred.
5.1 and this extends to powers and abilities implied but not explicitely listed in the Laws of Elysium
6. The Master of Elysium has the final word on what is acceptable at Elysium

The Kindred of Roxby Downs

Active Kindred

Character	Covenant	Clan/Bloodline	House	Position	City Status	Player
Sactioned Character	-	-	-	-	-

NPC Kindred

Character	Covenant	Clan/Bloodline	House
Prince Rex Giles	-	-	-

Unsactioned Kindred (Please keep PCs here while creating historical links etc)

Character	Covenant	Clan/Bloodline	House	Position	City Status	Player
Your PC	-	-	-	-	-	-

Deceased Kindred

Character	Covenant	Clan/Bloodline	House	Position	City Status	Player
Your PC	-	-	-	-	-	-

The History of Roxby Downs

1983-1988: Elder Invictus Earl Giles helps push for the construction of a new city to aid in his mining interests. On the official founding he declares himself Prince of Roxby Downs.
1999: Zachary Ingle walks out of the desert north of the city. Claims to have foreseen the cities construction and built a temple to the dark mother in a series of caves beneath the desert in preparation.
1990: Martin Cruz arrives in city at the request of Prince Giles. Begins construction of a large church.
1990: Prince Giles turns Tim Harvey to aid in the improvement of Prince Giles’ holdings.
1992: Bishop Cruz burns down the partially constructed church, declaring it unworthy. Begins construction on a new church.
1993: Alana Green arives in city. Sets up a night schools. Tries to push for workers rights in face of their use by the Invictus.
1994: A series of ritualistic killings of sex workers leads Kindred of the city to hunt and destroy an unidentified supernatural killer. The Kindred were forced to withdraw without being as thorough as they would like to protect the Masquerade.
1994: While hunting an unknown supernatural killer the Kindred of Roxby Downs encounter a group of monster hunting kine known as The Axehead Society. Having now met vampires the Smith Society begins to hunt them.
1994: Bishop Cruz’s church is complete. Our Lady of Virture is lavish and contained much artwork. Attached to the building is a small art gallery. Both buildings are out sync with the rest of the town, however due to the number of industrial accidents the church is always busy.
1995: The Axehead Society is destroyed en mass after being lured into a trap by Prince Giles.
1997: A series of protests start. The union representatives sat down for a meeting with the mine owners and their 'representative'. By the end of the meeting the union reps had conseded on all but the most tokenistic points. A week later Alana Green's night school burned down. From this point Alana works as a probono laywer.
1998: Petra Ziegler arrives, seeking isolation for her research.
2002: The Woomera Three go missing somewhere north of Woomera. A large manhunt is started to find the three French Girls or their campervan but they are never found.
2004: With the increasing size of the mine and airport if built to cater for FiFo staff.
2009: Train line connecting to Adelaide/ Darwin line completed.
2014: 27 miners die in the worst accident so far. It is found that the foreman was using meth and a crackdown on drugs in the city takes place. Many doors are kicked down but little product found. The Mayor claims that the results show the manufacturers were scared away. In doesn’t take long for things to return to normal.
2015: A swarm of lights in the sky relatively near the city brings UFO watchers. After a few months they leave having seen no more.

The Local Newspaper: The Blue Tongue

Places of Note

Her Sanguine Blessing - A series of caves north of the mine. In it flows a small fountain of blood. It is the main Crone temple in the area.
Our Lady of Virtue - A large modern church. Inside are many icons of the Virgin Mary.
Mitchell House - The mayors estate. It serves as the only fancy function centre. Kindred in the know will be aware that under Mitchell house is Prince Giles and Tim Harvey's Haven.

DRAFT

ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION

1: Venue Name, Number:

Yellow Cake, Red Dessert: #????

2: Domain Name, Number:

Southern Cross: #?????

VST:

Brett Symons 2015050005(email to be added)

VS:

Vanessa Lamb 2015020001 (email to be added)

DST:

Brad Jackson 2015010009 (email to be added)

3: Game Location, Time and Fees:

Game Location: Game on Discord. (Dedicated server to be set up)
Game on Discord. 1 set time live game per month. Provisional time - Sunday Night.
Game Fees: N/A

4: Mailing lists, websites and other online resources used:

Southern Cross currently has no dedicated website although most of our information can be found on the wiki at http://wiki.beyondthesunset.org.au/
Information about our games can also be found on our facebook group page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1710440142557058/
The forums can be located at http://btsrequiem.boards.net/
For out of character mailing lists, please go to ooc.southerncross@lists.beyondthesunset.org.au
The game venue can be found on Discord (Details to be added).
The official addenda should be referred to for in-game content at http://wiki.shadowplayinternational.org/index.php/Global_Addenda_and_Settings_Documents, please refer to New World of Darkness 1st Edition, Vampire the Requiem 1e for the appropriate content and their approval levels.

1: Genre:

New World of Darkness: Vampire the Requiem V1.0

2: Setting:

Roxby Downs
The City:
Roxby Downs is far larger in this world than the real one. Connecting from the city of Roxby Downs to the Olympic Dam airport and village. It is very new, not even 20 years old, and well organized. All the civil structures are made for the city to grow into and can be seen above the suburbs. The city was made under special charter will all the public services run by private interests. The mine is its own entity and not owned by a larger mining company. At the mine there are accidents and deaths. This is the world of darkness, OHS is something that barely gets lip service. Drugs aren’t detected for and there are stories of amphetamines being given to crews to push them harder.
Men’s housing makes up entire suburbs near the airport and mine, they are bordered by bars and sleaze. The police are in the pockets of the mining companies and let the miners get away with a lot. In the night a populous entertains itself with alcohol, the rest of the worker and shadowy deeds. Women are less common than men and prostitution is common place.
It is a city where life is worth less than a mining machine, where who you know and who you can pay is more important than what you can do, where things howl in the desert and stir deep in the mine. It is a city built to service the hunger and greed of immortal monsters.
The Economy:
The Red Economy: Roxby Downs is a young town filled with young strong people. Many people fly in for work and expect to return home dead tired. The local population as a blood source is heavy boosted by the FiFo workers, without them the Kindred might start to have feeding problems. The rack is the pleasure district at the north of town, where being blind drunk is accepted and the men’s quarters are just a stumble through dark alleyways away.
The Visible Economy: Uranium, Gold, Copper and Silver bring in big dollars. Beyond that over charging on anything the miners need is accepted is the done thing. In the end though, it is all dependant on the mine. The mine is an entity onto itself and not part of a larger cooperation. The money goes to the Kindred Prince and his allies through holding companies.
The Hidden Economy: Drugs are made in outlying homes for miners who need a pick me up or something to relax at the end of the day. Tooling shops can make anything no questions asked. In the country guns aren’t impossible to get. Special orders of things take time and require allies.

3: Themes & Mood:

Ancient Evil: This is an old land. There are monsters out here from before the arrival of the first people. More from the time of the first people of this country. The Kindred and other creatures that arrived with the mine and its people aren’t welcome by the ancient land.
New Greed: A lot of money flows in and out of this town. Lots of cashed up tradies hoping to pay off their first house by 21, yet they seem to always piss their money up against the wall. A few pockets, kine and Kindred, are truly filled. For ambitious arrivals there is money waiting to be grabbed, even if it is from other’s hands.
Corruption: The city is totally privatised, the private security, the local government and all the amenities. Money gets favours and priority. The law is for the convenience of the mining corporation, the few police on the payroll, the law infrequent, heavy handed and backed up by the larger force of private security from the mines.
A Frontier Town: Roxby Downs is new and a long, long way from civilisation. Power hasn’t become settled in the town even after decades and interests clash. Outside the city limits people vanish in the night….
Isolation: Roxby Downs is a long way from the coast and a long way from the capitals. Travel in and out has its risks.
Personal Horror: Bad things happen. Kindred are exceptional individuals and so exceptionally bad things happen to them. Sometimes the best one can do is take the least worst option and try to keep the last vestiges of humanity.

4: Preferred character types, and restrictions:

All approved character types welcome with the following points.
Roxby Downs is a very new city at only 20 years old, most Kindred will have come from elsewhere with only neonates being turned locally.
Characters with personal plot arcs are preferred.
Unbalanced or ‘pointy’ characters will not be accepted.
Players are reminded that all Kindred were turned for a reason and that characters who are novelties or untrue to the genre may not be approved. Players should have a good reason as to why they were made immortal.
Once-off or throw-away characters will not be accepted. Players are encouraged to make long-lasting characters and play this character consistently until death.

5: Location of Venue history information: (History not part of the VSS and subject to change)

See History

6: Transport In/ Out Information

The airport is under the control of the mines and only made for light aircraft. Trains are for bulk freight with trucks being needed for most consumer goods due to the radioactive materials, and subsequent security, on the trains. The roads are long and dangerous with recent car jackings.

1: Experience Awards

1.1. Creation All primary characters receive their MC x 10 + 30 in experience points as per the universal addenda.
In addition, characters may also receive experience points at creation for the following, at the discretion of the VST:
8XP for completion and submission of the relevant Character Development Document
3XP for a Narrative Character Backstory.
3XP for a detailed wiki page including a picture.
Up to 5XP for character ties, at 1XP per character tie. Players are required to communicate with VST regarding the nature and suitability of these ties.
These XP bonuses are considered Creation XP, and are not subject to the Incremental Maximum.

1.2. Monthly Experience
3 - Downtime Submissions (2x per month) - See Template
1 – Participating in meaningful RTRs/ Forum interactions. (Up to 3 per month at STs discretion). For this ‘meaningful’ means developing the story, plots or characters. ST must receive a key points summary of the RTR.
3- Game participation.
1-3 - ST Discretion (Exceptional roleplay, improving the Domain OOC, Wiki updates)
The Venue is using the recommended accelerated XP rules for low XP characters. If character has less than 25% chronicle cap XP they get x2 the XP amount. If character has less than 50% chronicle cap XP they get x1.5 the XP amount (rounded down per XP reward).
As the Venue is new the following extra XP can be awarded. 20xp per game for the first four months of the Venue (total of four XP rewards). This xp is non-transferable.

2: Custom Rules

Dramatic Successes and Failures exist at ST discretion.
Cinematic Damage:
Damage caps will not apply when a PC damages an NPC. Players may, with mutual agreement, remove the damage cap from NPCs to their PC or PvP. This is done so that ‘pointy’ characters are not needed.
Travel Dangers:
The city is isolated, Kindred who travel without due care and/ or frequently should expect problems.
Blood Feeding
TBA - Currently working out how it will be calculated

3: Downtime Handling Procedure

There will be two downtimes a month. Due dates to be supplied when game day is finalized.
Please use the following template
insert template file - 1 action per resolve, training action, mundane status, allies, contacts, retainers.

4: Crossover limitations:

Minimal to no crossover.

1: Information for New Folks:

New characters should use the standard rules set for character creation, following the approved Global and Australian Addendas. For transferring characters, please forward characters to the DST and VST for clarification and integration into the local domain and venue. Please include copies of downtimes if possible to give storytellers as much to work with as possible. If you have further questions, feel free to consult the Local Storyteller.
For the new member guide, please follow this link http://wiki.beyondthesunset.org.au/index.php?title=New_Member_Guide

2: Information for External Folks:

This venue encourages active players from other domains to have a secondary character within it. However, players are not encouraged to have a secondary character on this VSS just to play in their normal location with an additional character.
When proxying an existing character over from another domain, character sheets for characters outside of Southern Cross VSS should be sent through the relevant story teller channels at least one week before a game. Character sheets for a character outside Australia should be sent through the relevant story teller channels at least one week before game in case any conversion need to be made.