Dark Eras: The Bowery Dogs

Dark Eras: The Bowery Dogs is a setting for Werewolf: The Forsaken in New York City in the 1970s.

Summary

Ford to City: Drop Dead
—New York Daily News, October 30, 1975
New York City in the 1970s. Crime. Drugs. Gang violence. Vast economic disparity. And werewolves. It’s a lean, ugly time to be alive, and the lone wolf doesn’t stand a chance out there. In the end, all you really have is family.

Contents

Theme and Mood: When All You Got's A Little...

The 1970s

New York City

Gangs

Drugs

Atmosphere: A TV Culture

What Has Come Before

Ancient History

Labor Movements

Civil Unrest

Vietnam

Stonewall

What is to Come

Game Evolution

The Privileged

The Downtrodden

Territories

Burning Down

  • New Tilts:
    • Urban Collapse
    • Riot (Environmental)

Rebuilding

The World Beneath

Courts

  • The Court of a Fair Wage (The Kuspu Dinu)
    • Soldiers - Spirits
    • Locks - Spirits
  • The Court of Indulgence (Ikkusunu)
    • Greeds, Consumptions, Hubaa - Spirits
    • Prides, Privileges, Shaddim - Spirits
    • Wraths, Burns, Hihim - Spirits
    • Sloths, Lethargies, Shiddu - Spirits
    • Gluttonies, Overdoses, Shabu - Spirits
    • Envies, Emptinesses, Enro - Spirits
    • Lusts, Wetnesses, Titu - Spirits

Unique Manifestations

  • Scoopers - Spirits
  • Melting Pots - Spirits

Running The Game

The Punk Generation

Drugs

Betrayal

Events

Storyteller Characters

Inspirations

  • Across 110th Street (dir. Barry Shear, 1972)
  • City Boy (Book), Edmund White
  • The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin, 1971)
  • Serpico (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1973)
  • Shaft (dir. Gordon Parks, 1971)
  • Soylent Green (dir. Richard Flesicher, 1973)
  • Summer of Sam (dir. Spike Lee, 1999)
  • Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  • The Warriors (dir. Walter Hill, 1979)

Background

This setting was originally published in Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras.

Characters

Mortals

  • Officer Thompson - Detective
  • McNabb - Cop
  • Doubting Thomas
  • Hard Donny
  • Pastor "Little Bobby" Washington - Living Locus
  • Snuggy Roscoe, "Thomas Worthington"
  • Stephanie Dimera - Detective

Uratha

  • Brown - Private Investigator
  • Hannah - Rahu
  • Tonya Lawson - Ghost Wolf Elodoth

Other Supernatural Beings

Terminology

First Tongue: Hisil, Azlu, Beshilu, idigam, magath, Kuruth; Spirit-Claimed, Spirit-Ridden, Spirit-Urged, Pure Tribes, Spirit, Forsaken, Wolf-Blooded, Oath of the Moon, First Change, Uratha, Locus, Ghost Wolves, Elodoth

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