TheScarletBlade
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The Original The World Below was a thread I started almost three years ago when I first joined lit a long long time ago. It was widely popular and I had a really good group of writers and it lasted for a long time. So now,three years later, here I am trying to start it up again because I think with a good group of writers,it can be a good story once again. The thread is open to all descriptive writers,I want people who write more than three lines a post. Other than that its open to anyone who wants to join,how ever many that might be. Its fairly open ended and can go all different ways. Other than that,below I have all the information about the story laid out so if your interested,just say so 
"You better wake up sister, because beneath all of the lies and bull shit there is another world, one below this one and in that world you have to learn to pull the trigger" - Blade
The World Below is a thread that the idea is a hybrid of all of the Vampire,Were Wolf and other Super Natural movies and shows all wrapped up into one, taking the best of each different idea and rolling them all up into unique world for the writers taking part in it. The World Below is in reference to the fact that there is the world that we humans know about and live in and in the shadows of the night there is a secret world where a war in raging. The War is the same one that has been raging since the middle ages: Lycanathropes vs Vampires for dominance of the night. The vampires with their intelligence and resources versus the lycanathropes with their near endless numbers and their brutal,animalistic methods. In the middle of everything there are a small chosen few humans who fight to keep the war from spilling out onto the streets and to defend the innocent and ignorant from becoming victims to this creatures of the night,they are known as Hunters. Hunter's not only hunt vampires and lycans,they also hunt the other super natural creatures that go bump in the night: ghosts,demons,witches,liches and any other evil creature that decides to rear its ugly head in the night.
The World Below takes place in one of the major cities in the United States(havn't decided), so now in back alleys and hidden places of the night the war for supremacy is taking place right under everyone's noses. So that is a short summary of what the story is about. Now I want to cover in more detail what different sides are taking place in this fight:
Vampires: The Homunus Nocturnum, or the vampire is a undead creatures that originally ruled the night and most of the world back in the old dark ages before their war with the Lycans that weakened them to the point where they had to slip into the shadows lest they would be overwhelmed by the Humans. Since there are hundreds of different interpretations of what strengths,weakness and all that are I am going to lay them out so we can be clear. Vampires in the world below are going to be the elite chosen few of the night and they act as such,they are noble and resourceful and have lots of money. They have tons of cash to spend on technology and weapons. They are always in human forms that look exactly like they did when they got turned. To be turned to one of the vampires,it requires the vampire doing the turning to give the human they are turning some of their blood,either by letting them drink it or injecting it. After receiving the blood,the humans will die since its completely toxic and 24 hour hours later they will awaken a new as a vampire. There is no cure to vampirism,so once you are turned you are a vampire eternally til the day you get killed again. The vampire "nation" is ruled by twelve great houses of vampires that are comprised of different blood lines that were all forced together into a house,the houses are spread amongst the different countries of the world and are all different and diverse. Each house has a Vampire Lord or the leader of the house that is part of the council of lords that makes decisions for the whole. In the vampire world there are two types of Vampires: New Bloods and Old Bloods. Old Bloods are vampires that have lived for 100 years or more and are considered to be far more powerful than New bloods or newly turned vampires. The strengths of being a vampire on top of the fact that most of the vampires are members of the twelve great vampires houses and each house has amazing wealth and influence, is that vampires have super human strength,speed and agility. Compliment that with high tech weaponry and that is a reason that the vampires once ruled the night. Old Blood Vampires of certain blood lines are also known to have exhibited strange powers such as the Hide Hand: An ability that grants vampires the power to manipulate objects (eg: moving objects, levitating, breaking people's bones, etc.) and Eye raid An ability that grants a vampire to control a person's mind through eye contact. They can search through their memories, induce hypnosis, and control their actions. This ability can work on multiple targets at once. Weaknesses for the vampire race are the most obvious which is Sunlight: Direct skin contact will burn a vampire to ash. Garlic will cause anaphylactic shock, stakes or special bullets made of silver to the head or heart will also kill a vampire. When a vampire is killed they immediately burst into ash.Another Vampire weakness is that they have to feed on human blood. When a vampire bites a human,they experience the ultimate in physical pleasure,its considered to be even better than an orgasm. If a vampire doesn't feed they began to feel the thirst until it consumes them and they lose all reason and sense and go on massive feeding rampage. Since Vampires cannot go out in the day,they once used the lycans as their day time protectors but now they use human's know as Familiars to take care of day to day business. Familiars are vampire wannabes that are told that in return for faithful service they will be turned.
Lycanthropes: Lycanthrope is a sophisticated way to say were-man. There are Lycanthropes of every type of creature,the most common ones are: Were-Wolf, Were-Bear,Were-Tiger and Were-Rat. Lycan's as they are called for short used to be the day time protectors and servants of the vampires,a long time ago,way back in the dark ages but it just took one intelligent and charismatic leader to decide to fight back against the vampires,to realize that in their animal form,Lycans were strong,faster and a lot more brutal than their Vampire counter parts. So they rebelled and ever since then,there has been a war between the Vampires and Lycans. They have been fighting so long no one really knows why they are fighting other than to just fight. The Lycans roam in tribes usually by what type of lycan they are: were wolves with were wolves ect ect though there are on occasion mixed tribes of outcast lycans that are shunned by all others. The Lycan tribes don't have any sort of unification between them and some are prone to fight each other more than the vampires sometimes. Some people say that is one of the main reasons why Lycans havn't overwhelmed and crushed the vampires.Lycans are the opposite of the vampires in that they are hundreds upon thousands of them because all it takes in a bite from a Lycan and humans become one of them. Because of their brutish nature and that constant hunting from the resourceful and powerful vampires,the Lycans tend to live out in the wild,in caves or down in the sewers or few safe houses,really underground places where they are free to be as wild as they please. Tribes are not known for having money or having means to get high tech weaponry like the vampires so they pride themselves on their animal shape which is the main strength of the Lycans. Lycans can morph into two things: the first is they can turn into the shape of the animal they represent( ex. a wolf) as well as they brutish and massively powerful half animal half man shape. Growing huge and brutish,the raw power of the Lycan's is undeniable. The Lycan's main weakness is that they are vulnerable to silver weapons but highly resistant to other attacks.
Hunters: A very chosen few of human that know about the World below that are trying to defend humanity. Where other humans know about it and try to cover it up or work for the vampires,Hunters are the select brave and noble few humans who go out into the night to fight the evil that goes bump in the night. They are highly misunderstood to other people and tend to be just as secretive as the other branches. Hunters work in sleeper cells,when one goes down another one activates to take its place. The cells range for 2 men to a large organization of hunters that all work together. Using all manners of weaponry and technology,these brave unsung heroes in the dark are some times the only thing that keeps the war from spilling out into the streets,they protect the ignorance and the innocent of the humans who go through life without knowing whats really going on.
Super Natural: Though this is a broad description,what can go in this column is a very broad spectrum of things. Whether its a demon who has finally escaped hell to wreck havoc and manipulate the war or pray on innocent people, or its a vengeful wright that stalks the city looking for any kind of pray that can get its hand on, the super natural covers all manner of folk lore creatures that you could imagine. I want very few of this in the story since its kind of hard to work them in but if you have an idea,just run it by me and I am more than flexible about this kind of thing.

"You better wake up sister, because beneath all of the lies and bull shit there is another world, one below this one and in that world you have to learn to pull the trigger" - Blade
The World Below is a thread that the idea is a hybrid of all of the Vampire,Were Wolf and other Super Natural movies and shows all wrapped up into one, taking the best of each different idea and rolling them all up into unique world for the writers taking part in it. The World Below is in reference to the fact that there is the world that we humans know about and live in and in the shadows of the night there is a secret world where a war in raging. The War is the same one that has been raging since the middle ages: Lycanathropes vs Vampires for dominance of the night. The vampires with their intelligence and resources versus the lycanathropes with their near endless numbers and their brutal,animalistic methods. In the middle of everything there are a small chosen few humans who fight to keep the war from spilling out onto the streets and to defend the innocent and ignorant from becoming victims to this creatures of the night,they are known as Hunters. Hunter's not only hunt vampires and lycans,they also hunt the other super natural creatures that go bump in the night: ghosts,demons,witches,liches and any other evil creature that decides to rear its ugly head in the night.
The World Below takes place in one of the major cities in the United States(havn't decided), so now in back alleys and hidden places of the night the war for supremacy is taking place right under everyone's noses. So that is a short summary of what the story is about. Now I want to cover in more detail what different sides are taking place in this fight:
Vampires: The Homunus Nocturnum, or the vampire is a undead creatures that originally ruled the night and most of the world back in the old dark ages before their war with the Lycans that weakened them to the point where they had to slip into the shadows lest they would be overwhelmed by the Humans. Since there are hundreds of different interpretations of what strengths,weakness and all that are I am going to lay them out so we can be clear. Vampires in the world below are going to be the elite chosen few of the night and they act as such,they are noble and resourceful and have lots of money. They have tons of cash to spend on technology and weapons. They are always in human forms that look exactly like they did when they got turned. To be turned to one of the vampires,it requires the vampire doing the turning to give the human they are turning some of their blood,either by letting them drink it or injecting it. After receiving the blood,the humans will die since its completely toxic and 24 hour hours later they will awaken a new as a vampire. There is no cure to vampirism,so once you are turned you are a vampire eternally til the day you get killed again. The vampire "nation" is ruled by twelve great houses of vampires that are comprised of different blood lines that were all forced together into a house,the houses are spread amongst the different countries of the world and are all different and diverse. Each house has a Vampire Lord or the leader of the house that is part of the council of lords that makes decisions for the whole. In the vampire world there are two types of Vampires: New Bloods and Old Bloods. Old Bloods are vampires that have lived for 100 years or more and are considered to be far more powerful than New bloods or newly turned vampires. The strengths of being a vampire on top of the fact that most of the vampires are members of the twelve great vampires houses and each house has amazing wealth and influence, is that vampires have super human strength,speed and agility. Compliment that with high tech weaponry and that is a reason that the vampires once ruled the night. Old Blood Vampires of certain blood lines are also known to have exhibited strange powers such as the Hide Hand: An ability that grants vampires the power to manipulate objects (eg: moving objects, levitating, breaking people's bones, etc.) and Eye raid An ability that grants a vampire to control a person's mind through eye contact. They can search through their memories, induce hypnosis, and control their actions. This ability can work on multiple targets at once. Weaknesses for the vampire race are the most obvious which is Sunlight: Direct skin contact will burn a vampire to ash. Garlic will cause anaphylactic shock, stakes or special bullets made of silver to the head or heart will also kill a vampire. When a vampire is killed they immediately burst into ash.Another Vampire weakness is that they have to feed on human blood. When a vampire bites a human,they experience the ultimate in physical pleasure,its considered to be even better than an orgasm. If a vampire doesn't feed they began to feel the thirst until it consumes them and they lose all reason and sense and go on massive feeding rampage. Since Vampires cannot go out in the day,they once used the lycans as their day time protectors but now they use human's know as Familiars to take care of day to day business. Familiars are vampire wannabes that are told that in return for faithful service they will be turned.
Lycanthropes: Lycanthrope is a sophisticated way to say were-man. There are Lycanthropes of every type of creature,the most common ones are: Were-Wolf, Were-Bear,Were-Tiger and Were-Rat. Lycan's as they are called for short used to be the day time protectors and servants of the vampires,a long time ago,way back in the dark ages but it just took one intelligent and charismatic leader to decide to fight back against the vampires,to realize that in their animal form,Lycans were strong,faster and a lot more brutal than their Vampire counter parts. So they rebelled and ever since then,there has been a war between the Vampires and Lycans. They have been fighting so long no one really knows why they are fighting other than to just fight. The Lycans roam in tribes usually by what type of lycan they are: were wolves with were wolves ect ect though there are on occasion mixed tribes of outcast lycans that are shunned by all others. The Lycan tribes don't have any sort of unification between them and some are prone to fight each other more than the vampires sometimes. Some people say that is one of the main reasons why Lycans havn't overwhelmed and crushed the vampires.Lycans are the opposite of the vampires in that they are hundreds upon thousands of them because all it takes in a bite from a Lycan and humans become one of them. Because of their brutish nature and that constant hunting from the resourceful and powerful vampires,the Lycans tend to live out in the wild,in caves or down in the sewers or few safe houses,really underground places where they are free to be as wild as they please. Tribes are not known for having money or having means to get high tech weaponry like the vampires so they pride themselves on their animal shape which is the main strength of the Lycans. Lycans can morph into two things: the first is they can turn into the shape of the animal they represent( ex. a wolf) as well as they brutish and massively powerful half animal half man shape. Growing huge and brutish,the raw power of the Lycan's is undeniable. The Lycan's main weakness is that they are vulnerable to silver weapons but highly resistant to other attacks.
Hunters: A very chosen few of human that know about the World below that are trying to defend humanity. Where other humans know about it and try to cover it up or work for the vampires,Hunters are the select brave and noble few humans who go out into the night to fight the evil that goes bump in the night. They are highly misunderstood to other people and tend to be just as secretive as the other branches. Hunters work in sleeper cells,when one goes down another one activates to take its place. The cells range for 2 men to a large organization of hunters that all work together. Using all manners of weaponry and technology,these brave unsung heroes in the dark are some times the only thing that keeps the war from spilling out into the streets,they protect the ignorance and the innocent of the humans who go through life without knowing whats really going on.
Super Natural: Though this is a broad description,what can go in this column is a very broad spectrum of things. Whether its a demon who has finally escaped hell to wreck havoc and manipulate the war or pray on innocent people, or its a vengeful wright that stalks the city looking for any kind of pray that can get its hand on, the super natural covers all manner of folk lore creatures that you could imagine. I want very few of this in the story since its kind of hard to work them in but if you have an idea,just run it by me and I am more than flexible about this kind of thing.