If you want to have big conversations about baseball, the Chicago White Sox are under investigation for game rigging in 1920. And, as far as I know, most baseball fans prefer to follow the game through score boxes and stats. Attending games is hardly mandatory.

Though if he's French, football/soccer might make more sense?

Might be boxing makes more sense? Professional team sports just weren't that common yet. The French Football Federation started only in 1919. Boxing was pretty common all over, popular, brutal, and easy to follow.

Unless anyone has any strong feelings about figuring out how to get to Lucre, I'm going to open up the next scene.

I would like to know, HOW we are getting there in one car....

I like your suggestions.  Perhaps Job initially took an interest in sports as a way to reinforce his masquerade, but then became a fanatic.  Now he follows baseball, hockey and boxing...any other sports fans out there?

You're not, just checked with Albert and he also owns a car. Just a lot less fancy that Matthias'.

Alright.  Just checking.  I thought about bying a vechecular of sorts as well.....

Oof, I'm exhausted. I'll be back with you all momentarily.

In reply to Fey Deveraux (msg # 46):

Rest up! Take care of yourself, this week is a rough one.

For expedience and clarity, Job is a detective. He covers up Kindred activity with the police. The Caterer sent him to Lucre to offer his services to whoever might need them this month.

Everyone besides Lucious would know that Job's work as a detective takes precedence over staff meetings because he's upholding the Masquerade, so he can't always make the actual meetings.

Just so everyone has access to the same information I've based some of Lucre's foundations on, there's a significant disparity between what most modern people think of as being permitted during the 20s and what actually went on.  Initially I had intended to make my club a very Gatsby-esque fancy speakseasy.  Lots of women in flapper dresses and tuxedoed guests and all the things that immediately come to mind with the roaring twenties, but while doing research on what speakeasies were like I stumbled upon mention of the "pansy craze" and after looking into things a bit discovered a really interesting turn-about.
Our characters exist in a period when LGBT entertainers are some of the most popular nightlife attractions available.  Drag Balls, female impersonators, and cross-dressed singers are going to be a hot ticket for the next decade or so, only really falling out of favor when prohibition ends and the legal push to move liquor sales to 'upstanding vendors' removes patrons from the less than legal bars where LGBT nightlife could openly flourish.  For a few more years Gene Malin is headlining performances in New York, flouncing across the stage on Broadway, and getting drag parts in films.  Gladys Bentley will be dressed in menswear and openly flirting with her female patrons in Harlem Blues clubs for another decade and they're just some of the ones that make it into the news.  That doesn't even begin to touch on 'the black and tan' clubs and how the mindset on racial diversity and popularity of jazz and blues is starting to affect views on what constitutes normal for the average American.
It's a very interesting time, and unfortunately most of the progress made during that era will be lost in the moral panic that starts to take hold around 1936 in regards to 'sex fiends,' but for at least a couple years we get to enjoy a much more permissive atmosphere.  All of which ties together to let me add that if Fey wants to come sing some night in the most glamorous tux Matthias can afford for her I can almost guarantee great returns for all parties.  ^-^

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Spoiler for references for the scholastically curious: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
The Pansy Craze:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/201...-of-lgbtq-nightlife/
Normalization of homosexuality in 1920s Chicago:
https://www.chicagomag.com/Chi...er-2005/The-Gay-30S/
Drag balls and female impersonator popularity:
http://outhistory.org/exhibits...le/part-2/drag-balls
http://www.loftgaycenter.org/s...ime_at_the_speakeasy
Prevalence of LGBT events in the 20s:
https://www.history.com/news/g...twenties-prohibition
Scholastic essay on the topic:
https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/history

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It was an interesting time, and there are quite a few people who view it as a time of 'decadence' beacause there were no hard times in the Roaring 20's.  Or you know, so the stories go.  Was also mostly in the cities, while very little changed out in the country.

Hell, im Roman.  Sex is a part of my culture probably more then any other.  So, no complaints here.  BUT, being the good Catholic Death Dealer, I find it surprising :P

Get in fuckers, we're going feeding! (if any of you feel like playing the mouse... lol)

Since you asked so nicely, sign me up! ^-^

Request a thread and we can figure out who exactly you're trying to eat in PMs.

I'm going to be quiet for the next week and a bit. Black Friday is coming and thus I must sacrifice sanity and sleep for success.

Well, more quiet.

In the meantime, give some thought to where you want to go after Lucre.

Oooof, that sucks! Good luck, stay safe!

Hopefully sufficient sleep was gotten to survive and recover from Black Friday. I managed to "win" NaNoWriMo and not completely blow off my students, so I have more bandwidth to spare than I did a few weeks ago.

Janet doesn't have any immediate plans before "going to work," though she might pop in on some of her Irish friends.

I'm back! Spending the weekend getting things in this game going. Thanks for your patience folks.

In reply to The Storyteller (msg # 56):

Welcome back.  I'm ready to rumble.  Let's get this show on the road!  Cheers.

The night beckons and we answer, let the hunt race on!

Happy new year you undead folks!

Making a new years post to see if we still undead, or if we took the great sleep.

In reply to Lucious Antony (msg # 59):

I am ready to proceed whenever everyone else is.

Still about and ready whenever the time arrives.

Deader then me up in here...

In reply to Lucious Antony (msg # 62):

Quiet as the grave, as it were?