Back Roads & City Lights is a modern-fantasy role-play set in Seattle and the wider Puget Sound: rain, neon, and dark pines. On the surface, it’s cafés, offices, and late-night diners. Beneath that, it’s Veil Accords, old pacts, and things with claws and teeth that never left. Vampires, werewolves, witches, hunters, and humans share the same buses, bars, apartments, and alleyways, all trying not to let the truth slip into the headlines.

We focus on character-driven, freeform storytelling: slice-of-life, slow-burn drama, investigations, and the messy politics of keeping the secret in a city wired with cameras and social media. Play an exhausted agent catching cases that don’t make sense, a bartender whose regulars include both wolves and cops, an occultist in a Capitol Hill walk-up, a hunter starting to doubt the cause, or a human who stumbles into the dark.

Back Roads & City Lights is a collaborative sandbox for players who enjoy long-term arcs, found family, and consequences that matter. Plots can be intimate or sprawling: a single rainy night in an alley, an investigation into the foothills, or the slow unraveling of someone who realizes the world is nothing like they thought.

- An 18+ Semi-Lit to Novela Modern Fantasy Role-Play
- Welcoming and Knowledgeable Admin and Mods
- Deep World Lore thats always expanding and evolving
- Multiple locations within the Puget Sound Area to play within

Note: Server is still WIP, so channels and sections may still be blank as we work towards it's completion.

The setting:
- Urban/modern fantasy, a secluded-ish area of modern small-town Scandinavia. Folklore heavy, roughly 10:1 mundane:supernatural population. Charming and thoughtfully built by many hands. Ever evolving.
- Lots of creative freedom. More about that in our rules.

Our expectations:
- SFW/non-sex server with many adult themes otherwise.
- Age: 21+ for maturity and the ability to nuance both IC and OOC.
- ISO tightknit COMMUNITY of members who are here for the right reasons and interact well with others:
- - Not low-key lurking for romance or waiting for the hot characters. Be honest with yourself about this.
- - Excited to step out and interact - not wait for others to come to you.
- - Are not possessive of other players or engage in clique, cultish, or high school table dynamics.
- - Responding appropriately to partner posts. Yes-and, and no-but.
- - No Main Characters™. We help feed into each others' plots and take turns in the spotlight.

The server:
- ISO literate writers and thoughtfully-created characters.
- Newbies welcome. Pretentious behavior not.
- Always looking for new people to get involved with AND pull into our plots. We take turns doing the cool stuff and are actively looking for ways to push each other into the spotlight for their moments!

☀️𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝙴𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚛𝚔𝚘𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚊!🌙

✨Arkoudia is a universe that lies on the roots of the Yggdrasil ruled by the goddesses of sun and moon. It's well known for its variety of environments ranging from urban to rural life. Although things seem sunshine and rainbows, evil and crime still lurks throughout the land. How will you shape Arkoudia's destiny?

🧙‍♂️ Full creative control
👥 Fun one-shots and events
🌈 A small yet vibrant and friendly community
📜 Actual fair combat rules
🗺️ Various RP locations
🍼 Low barrier RP which includes a PVP arena and sandbox.
🤔 Always open to suggestions!

Our expectations:
- SFW/non-sex server with many adult themes.
- Age: 25-ish for maturity and the ability to nuance both IC and OOC.
- ISO tightknit COMMUNITY of members who are here for the right reasons and interact well with others:
- - Not low-key lurking for romance or waiting for the hot characters. Be honest with yourself about this.
- - Excited to step out and interact - not wait for others to come to you.
- - Are not possessive of other players or engage in cliquing, culting, or high school table dynamics.
- - Responding appropriately to partner posts. Yes-and, and no-but.
- - No Main Characters™. We help feed into each others' plots and take turns in the spotlight.

The server:
- Experimental live RP / 'chatroom' style server.
- ISO literate writers and thoughtfully-created characters.
- Newbies welcome. Pretentious behavior not.

The setting:
- Urban/modern fantasy, a secluded area of modern small-town Scandinavia.
- Lots of creative freedom. More about that in our rules.

"For the Glory of Mankind, we must stamp out the ill guided use of magic."

|Restricted usage of magic reported: Initiating Witch Hunt.|

Magic, a treasured gift present in about 35% of the world’s population. The innate ability to manipulate mana given at birth to produce a vast array of results, from trivializing tasks to manipulating the world itself. Mages were raised to hone their abilities, special care given to those with particularly potent magic, an academy created for the sole purpose of guiding mages in their craft. Magic was a heavily integrated part of the world, and despite only a third of the population having it, was a common occurrence in every facet of life.

That was the case until 8 years ago, when a powerful mage named Rose Arundell took the lives of tens of thousands, including her own, in front of the entire world.

The world plunged into fear and uncertainty. After so long with magic as a mainstay, people wondered if such a powerful, dangerous thing was worth its trouble. Animosity spurred between mages and non-mages alike, many fearing for their safety as a spike in magic related crime occurred following the tragedy. World powers collectively found a burning need to act, and thus the Inquisition was born. An establishment whose sole purpose was to apprehend evil mages.

Our story takes place in Gellan, the city Rose Arundell herself once called home. The Inquisition is strong here, but many Mages stand tall in their own claimed district of the city.

We feature:

- Fully original lore

- A contentious setting and creative freedom, allowing you to choose which side your characters will stand on and how they'll influence the narrative

- Opportunity for your characters to play significant roles and be major players in the story, where we aim to reward your effort in writing

- Open roles for those looking for that last spark to bring their character together

There's no better time to join than now. Don't delay!