West

The western part of the city is often home to the poorer residents. Here there is a grunginess that permeates the town from the graffiti on the once cleaned brick buildings to the broken and unmaintained architecture. Crime runs high within the western half of town, making it the home of supernatural gangs of illicit activities. Such activities are rarely reported, however, and most residents are distrustful of individual's of authorities, and often let the powerful supernatural beings sort things out amongst themselves. Be careful wandering the Western streets after the sun falls.

What You'll Find Here

Black Market
Cull & Pistol
Noah's Ark
Syn

Black Market

Just like any city - Sacrosanct is not without it's deep, dark underbelly. Hidden in the graffiti-ridden streets of the West, behind closed warehouse doors, lies the Black Market. Forever moving, it's nearly impossible to find without knowing someone who knows someone. Anything you desire can be brought for a hefty price within the Black Market - be it drugs, weapons, or lives.

What You'll Find Here

Edge of the Circle

Cull & Pistol

Hidden within the dark alleyways of the Western Ward, Cull & Pistol is a dim, often smoky bar. With a small variety of bottled and craft beers, Cull & Pistol is a quaint little neighborhood joint. With its no-frills moto, the dingy bar offers little more than liquor, music from an old jukebox, and a few frequently occupied pool tables.

Bartender Raylin Chike

Noah's Ark

Resting upon the harbor, Noah's Ark (known simply as The Ark) is a sleek superyacht known both for its fight rings and recent...renovations, of sorts. Accessible from an entrance hidden in the shadows, The Ark is a veritable Were-playground that specializes in fighting tournaments for all creatures great and small. With both singles and doubles tournaments to compete in, the title of Ark Champion is hotly contested amongst the Were population. If anything illegal is going on in the city it's sure to be happening within the back rooms or behind the ring-side bar. Note: This is a Were only establishment. All other species will be swiftly escorted out.
Home of: Nightshade

Owner Aiden Tetradore

Co-owner Tobias Cain
Bar Manager Mira Ramos
Bartender Henry Tudor
Waitress Carolina Bedford

Syn

Within the turbulent industrial district lies this club. The warehouse doesn't look like much on the outside but it provides a memorable experience from the state of the art lighting, offbeat Victorian-inspired artwork, comfortable black leather lounges, and the infamous 'black light' room. There is a wide variety of alcohol that lines the shelves of both of the magical and ordinary variety. It is a common stomping ground for the supernatural who want to let loose and dance the night away to the music that floods the establishment. Humans are most welcome if they dare.

Owner Risque Voth

Manager Darcy Blackjack
Cats Aiden Tetradore
Cats Harlequin Westward

b i t e the hand that feeds you


Posted on October 13, 2018 by COBAIN
West



Ruby red eyes stare blankly up at the ceiling. Those dark red eyes do not move, nor blink, but simply stare, relentlessly upwards. He is alone, so so alone, but the hell boy does not beg for company, he is distant in his manner and separate in the way he keeps to himself. His life had been nothing before he had been turned and it continues to be nothing now, and surely it will remain nothing one after he has turned to ash in the fires of hell. Cobain does not have a history in his lifeâ€" he has a scream stretched through time. His life is not full of the emotional highs and lows of the living, or even some of the dead. There is only darkness in silence, silence that could drive a mad man. Every day, nothing but the silence inside his mind, inside his body. It is death without being dead, numbness without being entirely numb. Cobain swears in another life, he can feel them walking atop the roof of his grave, stopping around carelessly, recklessly. The monster does not belong here or there, among the living or the dead. He had died, killed at the hands of the man he called father and yet his heart still lays in his chest and he holds air in his lungs. The boy cannot recall how old he is now, but he remembers that his body is still very young in terms of a mortal life.

It is only when the monster thrashes within his chest that the obsidian haired boy finally goes to a vertical sitting position atop his bed. Still, nothing, only that hunger wriggles inside him. It isn't much, but at least it is something besides anger, hatred, or rage. He messes his black tresses before moving off the bed. It felt strange to the onyx haired vampire, this feeling of being stationary. For so long Risque has kept him on the move, and suddenly he returns for another assignment from his mistress and tells him there is business for the vampire to attend to here? The red eyed demon boy wasn't unaccustomed to this life without constant movement, it wasâ€"unsettling. He exhales a silent distaste of the chain that secures him to her. But Cobain needs nothing but himself. Those crimson eyes catch sight of himself in the mirror, obsidian hair messy with bed head even though he hadn't been sleeping. But a quick brush of his land sets the hair back into place.

Life was full of disappointments, that much is true, the crimson eyed boy preferred to run errands for his mistress rather than just sit here and wait. At least when she sent him on said missions it meant less time spent within her clutches, with her so very...near. But, alas, Cobain lacks any sort of free will when it comes to her.

The pale boy stifles a growl in his throat before beginning to look through his tiny closet to find some clothes he may not actually hate wearing. Cobain has only ever had what could fit in a duffle bag, therefore his options for clothes were typically limited, he preferred to collect items as he went, though of course Risque wouldn't want one of her 'pets' embarrassing her by showing up to murder someone in nothing but the best. So despite the title of a roaming vagabond, Cobain hardly seemed to look the part. The pale vampire decides on a suitable attire, something that wouldn't draw any unneeded attention, but also something that would keep Risque from sending him upstairs to change like he was some disobedient, angsty teenager. Which he was, for the most part, though Cobain was far from disobedient, his mistress certainly made sure of that. An expensive watch ends the outfit as one hand runs through obsidian locks to ensure they looked presentable. But now, it was time to eat. The hell hound was hungry and there was only one thing that could satiate him: blood.

Though, the thought of transversing through Syn was as daunting as ever, the pale boy hated those who congregated there, in their masses, but he knew there would be blood, for the hostess knew how to serve. Dark red eyes peer out into the hallway as he then moves towards where the party of Syn tended to happen, whatever food supply there was for the congregation of vampires, no doubt it would be in the thick of things. just how Cobain hated it. That crimson gaze is kept forward, direct, like a spear hitting its target rather than the beauty of flourishing sword. Determined not to interact with anyoneâ€"that is until...

The pale servant boy can smell it. He can feel his lips curl back from his sharp as knives fangs. He knew that scent upon the air, Cobain never forgets a smell, a voice, a face, it was what Risque had trained him for. Cant have a headhunter if they couldn't properly hunt. The pale, slender vampire turns to the direction where the scent was coming from. A name floats on his lips: "Tetradore." Cobain's tone is like ice, distant, lips curling slightly in distaste. The pale boy moves in the direction, knowing the were's sense were most likely just as keen as his own.

Perhaps, if circumstances had been different, and the obsidian haired boy hadn't been forced to follow every whim and answer to every call of his mistress, maybe the two males crushed under the weight of Risque's abuse would have found something akin to an alliance with one another, though friendship would have been stretching it a bit too far. Tetradore was still a were and Cobain still a vampire. He moves through the bodies, wanting nothing more than to bite into one of them, taste the metallic tang of blood on his tongue, but these were Rsique's customers, and Cobain wouldn't dare. Well, he would but he cant.

Red wine eyes spot him then, slumped over in the corner by the bar. Cobain moves towards him with quiet movements, slipping in and around the crowds easily, like a marble on glass. He looked different than the last time ruby red eyes laid upon him, he had grown, while Cobain has remained relatively unchanged, his eyes having grown duller, his lack of caring about anything in particular all but fallen down into the deepest and darkest depths. Still, he moves to panther all the same, his face unfamiliar, but his scent digging into Cobain's deeper memories. "Tetradore," he says, voice empty, void, like a black hole within the confines of outer space. Rubies for eyes continue to look upon the were as he sits beside him. The bartender approaches, only to move away as Cobain raises his hand towards her. He had never cared for alcohol, perhaps it stems from his childhood, when he father would consume such large quantities at the tavern only to come home, the stench of the foul liquid on his breath, to beat his son mercilessly. Regardless, he narrows his eyes upon the were, "She still has you," he says, whether it is simply stating a fact or taunting the poor man is unclear. He can nearly hear the blood pumping through Tetradore's veins, but Cobain knew he was not to lay a hand (nor fang for that matter) upon the panther unless Risque presented him with a direct order to do so. "But what surprises me mostâ€"you're still alive."
COBAIN DALCA
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