Please don’t ask or advertise for RP with story hooks if what you’re looking for is an RP bootycall. If I show up for your story stuff and show interest in your story stuff, please respect my time and let the RP be about the story stuff. Want TS? That’s great, that’s cool, just don’t pretend you’re after something else.
Cajun Nights, ~2003-2006:
Metro, for 3.7 seconds:
Fallen Leaves, ~2004-2006ish?:
Darkness Falling:
City of Hope, briefly:
The Reach, 2011-2013 I think:
Oath Circle, sometime after that:
From the Ashes:
Arx 1.0, 2018-2024:
Keys
Firefly: Still Flyin’
CURRENTLY
City of Glass
And probably a smattering of other stuff I’m forgetting. Until a couple years ago I was very slow with chargen and entirely committed to playing one character at a time, but I’ve loosened up and written dozens of new characters privately. If you’ve played with me somewhere and wanna reconnect, give me a shout. 
Okaaaaay. Hi, player of Apollo here!
Apollo’s original secret was that he stole stuff without intending to and absolutely hated it. Good lil Oathlander boy picking pockets? Lawd, the shame.
I spent the first couple years spinning wheels on this without a lot of traction, but late 2021 or early 2022, he had a vision as his hands got away from him: darkness, terrible pain in his hand, and someone talking about imprinting something on the soul. So he did what any determined lil shit would do and asked his wife to cut open his hand and look see if there was something there. WILD: there was. Not just on his soul, but on flesh and bone under his skin without any scar. Some kinda Avarice-lookin thing. A well-timed crit on a Mana roll during the exploratory surgery and he had a vivid memory of what happened:
In a past life, he stole something from Mortorius the Arisen, a lich who had somehow defeated death. Mortorius responded to the theft by removing all his flesh while he was still alive, taking his face, and presumably the mark he left was in there, too, unless that was a different past life. (Who knows.) I had a real moment of wtf, is splatterpunk!Arx a thing? but whatever. He had a dream afterward about what happened after he died: the ghosts were like shit son, you’re fucked up because you’re not supposed to carry your wounds and your agony into the afterlife but guess what. So like. He’d be in search of some Solutions for Healing the Soul, now that the bigger fish are fried, if anybody feels like a little RP or chat to let me know what that entails.
Later, because Apollo really and truly tried to empathize with everything and everyone, he got a lesson in autopsies from Lianne, just to feel what it’s like to be on the other end of a scalpel. Lianne wasn’t real confident that it was gonna yield any answers, but was happy to teach him. It did yield answers, which was a little victory for Apollo: though he had not yet crossed the threshold there, it felt like a step toward magic to learn someone’s motivations from long, long ago. Mortorius wasn’t trying to create some Future Herald of Avarice or anything (which was one of my favored theories for awhile). He just wanted to see if he could implant a compulsion. Just a tinkering scientist… with a wholeass disregard for pain, suffering, human life, etc.
So Apollo’s whole secret wasn’t really about how special he was. Kinda how special he wasn’t. Mortorius’ historical victims were generally described as ‘murders and disappearances in the Lowers’. No names.
Mortorius appeared again in his Crossing, which was cool (probably a vision/hallucination of, not the real deal, but … appropriate). He tied a lot of Apollo’s successes back to that mark (sure, why not: why wouldn’t someone like that see Apollo and his change in station as avariciously ambitious). That scene was lovely, tying up a lot of the history with a bow - and he Crossed when he cut out the stitches and the mark Mortorius had left, free of his stealing compulsion for the last few weeks of the game.
And then, very late game, someone logged in who I’d been tipped off years ago might have some kinda related secret, and we got to RP meaningfully about it right up to the end. It wound up being great story.
And I’m just gonna imagine Apollo and his new buddy-in-trauma sort out how to go murder someone who’s defeated death before. Pretty sure they’d have help aplenty.
I’m a big fan of the splats y’all chose. They feel like you can actually tell some cohesive stories with them. Vampire, to me, always felt like a game at a distance from anything out in the world, insular and mostly disinterested. Not necessarily how it got played, but it felt thematically jarring next to Mage and Changeling.