Community Profile

This is the LJ community for Society, a text based role-playing game based in a Victorian Alter-England.

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Society was the term used by the upper crust of English society to
describe themselves at one time. The game is set in 18th century England,
with the year 1745 currently as the starting point, with London as the
main neutral ground.

In 1745 the Jacobites (Catholics), lead by Prince Charles, revolted
against England's King George II. Historically, George II repelled the
uprising; in the world of Society, the Jacobites have assassinated George
II and his wife Caroline. However, the assassins themselves were killed
by the royal guard, Bonnie Prince Charlie was thrown back by the Derby
and defeated, and the Jacobite rebellion crushed. Thus, the game begins
in an England which is not only without a royal family on the throne,
but also without a strong leading party with a lust for power for said
empty throne.

This has resulted in those who have even the smallest vestige of noble
blood - be it Baron, Viscount, Marquess, Count or Duke - as well as the
upper crust of rich merchants and bankers manuevering for political power
and supremacy in the backdrop of a pseudo-Victorian world. There are
balls and teas, dances and masquerades, fencing and duels as rivals
conspire, flirt, seduce, manipulate, clash and kill in their quest to be
the next supreme ruler of all England. Will it be.. you?

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