World of Darkness World of Darkness: Attrition - [OOC] The Rumor Mill (Old)

[Owns-The-Night]

Okay all. This is a thread for posting tidbits, rumors, and factoids about your character that other people might know. These are mainly notes that other players can use when deciding what they know and what to believe. The format for the rumor should be:

[Group aware of the rumor] <Text of the rumor>

So, for example:

[uCLA Students] Lucien is in fact Batman.

There you go: easy peasy.

And now, seeing as I started this, it's my turn first.

[Owns-The-Night]

Declan Perault Rumor Mill

1. [uCLA staff] Declan was in the U.S. Army and saw heavy action in the Middle East. He came unhinged there.

2. [uCLA] Declan made a frat boy wet himself last year, just by staring at him. All the frat boy had done was to flip a cigarette butt onto the grass.

3. [uCLA students] He's been seen going for runs around the campus at night, having been seen out very late and sometimes very early by some students and staff. He's probably a peeper; either that, or he's a serial killer looking for a victim.

4. [uCLA Staff] He drops out of sight at least one weekend a month. Most people think he goes hunting or fishing upstate.

5. [uCLA students] Declan was actually part of a black ops unit in the Middle East. He was captured by Taliban forces, and went crazy after one too many interrogations. He escaped by ripping out his interrogator's throat with his teeth one night. The V.A. put him here at UCLA so he would be close to the hospital if he needed his medication.

6. [uCLA & LAPD] Declan was briefly arrested earlier this year on an assault charge. Upon being interrupted doing business on the campus grounds, a drug dealer flashed a gun at Declan in an attempt to intimidate him. The dealer subsequently spent a lot of time in hospital for multiple everything, and has not been seen near UCLA since.

7. [uCLA] Declan is sometimes seen sketching when he's not working, though attempts to peek at his work are not received well. It's believed that he draws the things he saw as a soldier as part of his therapy.

8. [uCLA] The reason Declan doesn't date is that he has hideous burn scars on his lower body that he doesn't want anyone to see.

9. [L.A. Vampires in the UCLA region] Several vampires have gone missing on UCLA campus and there's whispers about a big wolf that roams there sometimes. It's probably a Lupine that claims the whole damn campus. Best to stay away.

[Sarah Dead-Wolf]

Sarah O'Neally Rumor Mill

1. [Forsaken] Sarah is a wandering kinfolk, and...

(a) is unusually helpful

( has something wrong with her

© wants something from us

(d) wants to become like us

(e) might be important

(f) all of the above

(g) none of the above

2. [Forsaken] Sarah is a goddamned leech, and...

(a) should die for being one

( is still helpful for some reason

© is one of the Wolves of Blood

(d) wants something from us

(e) will be our doom

(f) all of the above

(g) none of the above

3. [Forsaken] Sarah bargained for spirit information about a lost friend/relative/lover/something.

4. [Gangrel] Sarah is some damned fledgling who wandered around the desert from town to town until hitting L.A.

5. [Gangrel] Sarah is waaaaay too damned cozy with those furry lupine bastards.

6. [uCLA] Sarah is dating/fucking/stalking Lucien Hunt.

7. [Amber] "Fucking leech."

8. [invictus] This unbound Gangrel's domain - which includes the Playboy Mansion - is a stunningly bad place to go; she's part of a lupine pack or something like it.

9. [Cliffs-By-The-Sea Pack] Sarah is a spy for the Topanga Pack.

10. [The Might Sonoma Pack] She's welcome in our pack, anytime.

11. [L.A. Forsaken] This leech is driving herself through the tests of Renown; either the Cahalith stories are true, or she's nuts (or probably both).

12. [L.A. Kindred] Whatever the deal is with this Savage, stay the hell out of her domain, including Hef's house. She scared the hell out of Francisca. And that tough S.O.B. Dylan, the one who gave Hatcher such a run for his money? Word has it that Dylan violated her domain and never came back out again.

[William Rose]

Antoine LaSalle Rumor Mill

[uCLA] Antoine as nightmares, and at least once a week they get bad enough to wake him.

[uCLA] Antoine has a genetic abnormality and will keep growing, like Andrew the Giant, until it kills him.

[uCLA] Antoine plays football because he can't dribble worth a damn.

[uCLA Women] Antoine has been seen with many different girls because he's looking for love and not just out for action.

[uCLA Men] During the season Antoine is celibate, it's the sole reason the football team has won so many games since he took over at QB. During the off season the boy is a playa and gets more than enough to average out the year.

[uCLA Student] Antoine studies so hard because he knows its only a matter of time before his condition makes him unable to play football any longer.

[Astra D.]

Morgan Westbrook Rumor Mill

[uCLA] Morgan slept with over 300 men last semester- students and faculty. In fact, that's the only way she managed to keep her scholarship.

[uCLA] Morgan killed three of her friends over Spring Break, and then crashed the car to make it look like an accident.

[uCLA] Morgan wears clothes that make her look like a stripper because she is one. It's the only way to explain her weird hours.

[uCLA] Morgan recently beat some girl bloody after catching her going down on her boyfriend. Rumor has it, she forced the girl's head down until she puked, then dragged her out in the hall and kicked her until she stopped trying to fight back.

[uCLA] Morgan is secretly a vampire. No one is actually that pale, and it explains the weird hours she keeps. She must use SPF 100 or something, since they're not supposed to be able to go out in the sun.

[uCLA] Three of Morgan's friends were with her over Spring Break when they had a car accident. Morgan was the only one to survive until paramedics got there, and she still cries whenever someone asks about it.

[uCLA] Morgan and her friends only play in a band because rock stars get the best drugs. (But they're pretty good, anyway.)

[uCLA] Morgan is part of a creepy, nonspecific cult that will eventually require its entire membership to kill itself.

[uCLA Staff] Dean Hammond, Morgan's Chemistry professor, has Polaroids of her moving around campus tacked up on the wall in his office.

[Club Scene] Morgan's band (Polemic Misanthropy) is in dire straits right now. Their lead singer, Trent, completely sucks these days. He's like that Nine Inch Nails guy, if Lestat exploded all over him, and hadn't used his voice in 20 years.

[Club Scene] Polemic Misanthropy's lead singer got the band kicked out of The Labyrinth last semester when he slapped one of the female employees.

[Lucien Hunt]

Lucien Hunt Rumor Mill

[L.A. Area] The rather provocative photos of Lucien taken for his Calvin Klein promotion have led most people to speculate that his package is in fact Photoshopped.

[L.A. Area] That Calvin Klein thing was really bad press for the Hunts rather untarnished media image. Mortimer Hunt is furious with his son and sent him to UCLA as punishment.

[uCLA] Lucien's Housekeeper is a hot Columbian woman. It's worth walking by the house just to catch a glimpse of her.

[uCLA] The Hunts were responsible for arranging the Fraternity to be kicked out of the house so Lucien could buy it.

[uCLA] He's got a bodyguard. Some guy from Jersey who carries a gun at all times.

[uCLA - Ladies] "He's really sweet, ya know? It's like he knows what you're thinking and is just... always able to connect with your thoughts and feelings. He's just so... wow. Ya' know?"

[uCLA - Gentlemen] "Who cares? Why doesn't Daddy just buy him a degree?"

[uCLA- Staff] Lucien is incredibly bright, talented and focused. He'll either burn out before the year is done, or burn out next year. Either way the boy isn't going to make it and will call on Daddy for help.

[Declan Perault] Lucien Hunt is in fact Batman.

[Carson Jones]

Carson Jones Rumor Mill

[uCLA] He's an corn-fed, knuckle-dragging hick, who only got here because he's the reincarnation of Forrest Gump.

[uCLA] His middle name is supposedly Forrest.

[uCLA] He and his family cannibalized 31 people over the span of 6 years, in his family's fields.

[uCLA-Students] "Those redneck guys are just so creepy, y'know? They all look like they're retarded or something, and they never get out and party or anything! Also, I heard they have sex with pigs."

UCLA-Track Team] "He's the fastest guy on the team, and he's huge! There's no way that anyone can be as large as him and still run the 100m in 10.5 seconds. He must be like Superman or something. There's no way we're gonna lose the regional meet this year with him on our side."

[z021]

Oneca Bahaar Rumor Mill

[L.A. Area] The Bahaar family sent Oneca to UCLA so they could keep an eye on her. She's been in and out of trouble ever since high school.

[L.A. Area] There was fire when the Bahaar girls were little; the younger one got hurt and both of them have been odd since then. Some people believe one or the other of them started the fire.

[uCLA] Oneca'll be a super-senior until she gets pregnant or her parents finally stop paying for things.

[uCLA students] Oneca strips because her parents cut her off and she needs drug money.

[uCLA students] Oneca is a leader of some kind of cult and does black magic.

[uCLA faculty] Onece is smart enough for college, but completely unmotivated and rather self-destructive. Her sister is just the opposite and will hopefully straighten her out.

[uCLA - Ladies] She's a bitch and a slut.

[uCLA - Gentlemen] She's fun and kind of crazy. She'll do just about anything, but only on her terms.

[z-Amber Wren]

Amber Wren Rumor Mill

[uCLA students] Amber hates cheerleaders.

[uCLA students] Amber is a slut who's so desperate, she'll sleep with Crazy Perault.

[uCLA students] She might be a whore, but she's not crazy; she's just a redneck from up in the Appalachian Mountains.

[uCLA cheerleaders] Stay away from her. She threatened to put Anita through a wall, or maybe she did push her through? Anyway, she's crazy! And a whore.

[West Hollywood Street Gangs] She had a nervous breakdown when her daughter was taken away, and now she's dangerous because of how nuts she is.

[West Hollywood Street Gangs] She bit some white guys's dick off when he asked her for a blowjob.

[Local Uratha] Amber Wren comes from an Eastern Storm Lord line which is known for it's strict military-like demeanour. She appears to have no contract with that family, and they haven't come looking for her. She has a kid in Protective Services, which isn't a promising sign.

[Local Uratha] She's being hunted by vampires. No one's sure why, though it might have to do with her family.

More to come...

[Vienne Carreau]

Vienne Carreau Rumor Mill

1.[uCLA Staff] Vienne got her BA in Sociology here three years ago and disappeared just after graduating. Police made an investigation involving UCLA campus and the airport (for a flight she never took, but was supposed to make for Seattle), but no further information was given to UCLA as to whether or not she was ever found.

2.[uCLA Staff] Vienne was spotted working very late at the W Hotel near campus. Even if it is true and her disappearance was actually due to her running away from her family/new job, it seems unlikely she would apply a Sociology degree to run a hotel's late night desk. If it's true, it's gotta be drugs.

3.[uCLA Students] A French student in red is often seen carousing in the area and/or the LA social scene through the night. She seems to flirt with anything that moves, including me; but never gives a name.

4.[West Hollywood Social Elite] One of the favored faces of the Café D'etoile on Santa Monica vanished a year after the café's owner, Angela Santiago disappeared. Angela was a former B-movie actress and beloved social butterfly on the LA-Hollywood scene. People are beginning to wonder if she was murdered. Vienne might know something, because she seemed to have fled after sticking around a year. Could she have done it?

5.[Raphael Caravejo] Vienne is the object of my undying love. I do everything for her while she is ...away during the day. She might prey on men, but she is just using them. She needs me. I need her. She is usually not awake when I am, but no matter. I wake sometimes in the night and keep her company through part of her shift.

6.[W Hotel staff] Raph goes into coniptions whenever someone says something bad about Vienne. He obsesses about her rapturously if she's ever brought up in conversation.

7.[W Hotel staff] Vienne has Raph wrapped around her little finger, but she's been seen around with customers after her shift when Raph's asleep upstairs. She charges by the hour.

8.[W Hotel management] Raph's father is going to transfer him to another hotel if he doesn't let up on that unhealthy fixation over the late night clerk.

[Titus]

[uCLA] Titus collects an assortment of old books in various languages; Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, etc. He's a Kabbalist.

[uCLA Students] Or a Satanist.

[uCLA Students] Maybe BOTH!!

[uCLA] Titus read the DaVinci Code one too many times and is hunting the descendents of Jesus.

[uCLA Students] Titus is a stiff, twitchy, slavedriving asshole who worships some academian prick named John Gardner.

[uCLA Students] Titus is gay and regularly hits on male students

[uCLA Staff] Conversely, or perhaps in addition to the above, Titus had an affair with a Freshman girl a few years back and got her pregnant. She dropped out because of it and now he's paying child support.

[uCLA] Titus Lindholm is not Titus Lindholm's real name; he changed it to avoid anti-Semitism. His real name is David, Jake, Matthew,Elijah, Hepzibah, or Zacharias, and Miller,Silverstein, Goldstein, Leibowitz, or Lebowski. Or something like that.

[uCLA] Titus likes the Beatles.

[uCLA] English is, ironically, Titus' second language.

[Consilum] Titus has clung to his old religion with insane fervor, and has developed a strangely skewed worldview because of it, unable to fully accept facets of Mage existence.

[Vienne Carreau]

[beta Chat] Antoine is in fact Undercover Brother and Amber is White She-Devil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFPTpD6Bu6E (note the fight at the end )