Pop 26,000
Humans 90%.
Porn City is extremely bigoted (think Draser) and therefore non-humans tend to shy away. Half-elves get away with living normal lives here especially those that look human. The only other non-humans that live here are those who are the priestesses of Soixante Neuf (Goddess of Lust, the dominant religion) or slaves (either for the mines at Morganmine or sex slaves to fulfil the desires of the depraved).
Economically, the city is wealthy although this is vested largely in the hands of the City Council which is comprised of a member from the seven wealthy families (Mermont, Venning, Polac, Fates, Waimea, Samosa and Jennings) plus the ruling family Thoak.
The Thoak family rules with an iron fist and no one dares to challenge their rule.
The economy is based on gold mining (Morganmine battlewards is a huge source of gold, but is very dry), fertile farmland on the Porn Plains and pornography (Porn City were the inventors of pornography in the Known World, hence the name). As a result of the Porn industry there is a big publishing industry to satisfy demands for all kinds of porn. Prostitution is also very common, as is slavery.
The Porn Port – Port de la Baise, is flourishing with rural exports and slavery and near the port are many of the brothels, the red-light district with live sex shows, unofficial booze halls and the slave yards. There is also an annual week-long holiday called the Cirque de la Vicieux (Circus of the
Depraved)
Porn City was built on the Porn River, which is a big source of fresh water, of course. To support the economy there are various guilds. In addition to the large and thriving thieves' guild, there is a Prostitutes' Guild, Miners' Guild, Printing Guild, Slavers' Guild and various rural guilds, responsible for processing and distributing rural goods. Each of the town council families controls one of these guilds. (Mermont, prostitutes; Venning, thieves; Polac, wool; Fates, grain; Waimea, slavery; Samosa, small goods and Jennings, printing). The Thoak family controls the miner's guild (gold) and the mages guild.
The town guard and militia are ruthless and brutal and called the Thoak Militia after the ruling family who control them.
There are numerous unofficial booze houses and brothels but 26 established and registered ones.
The mages guild is prominent and closely aligned to the Thoak and Fate families. The Head Mage is Evelyn Callay (a cousin to the Thoak's).
The churches represented by more than a shrine are:
REAL. Light. A very small presence.Laura Bell - IMAG. Darkness. A significant presence.
- Aquamarina. Water. Minor presence.
- Caribou Gorn. Nature. (Temple is outside Porn City in an area known as the grove);
- Gelding. Weather. Temple is in the docks area.
- Mr. Quail. Mischief. A good presence and aligned to the thief's guild.
- Soixante Neuf. Lust. Dominant church in Porn City; Head Priestess is Laura Bell [based off the Laura Bell who was Queen of the London Prostitutes in the 19th Century].
- Super Fosfait. Growth. (Temple is outside Porn City in a rural hamlet);
- Vingt et Un. Luck. Relatively small and as per the usual protocol takes a cut of all town gambling activity in return for their certification.
All other churches have a shrine
The Party
Cody Dieback. Human Male Wizard from Highport – Andrew
Cody Dieback is a bastard son of Ferranti Stevens, the wannabe demigod and Emperor mage of Highport, and Greta Dieback, a low-level witch of extreme beauty, who ran afoul of Stevens' lust and power. After she gave birth to Cody, she was stripped of her magic and disappeared (transitively).
Being the offspring of gorgeous parents, it is very ironic that Cody is such an ugly bugger - several standard deviations down the wrong end of the Appearance bell-curve. Ferranti disowned the ugly baby, and so Cody was brought up in the Highport Wizards' Guild's creche. Here, he learned magic and spellcasting. Coming of age, the Wizards' Guild of Highport did not treat Cody well, so in his twenties (25), he left Highport and travelled to Porn City to seek his fortune there. There was too much baggage with the Stevens name, so he took his mother's name, and the only possession of hers that he could find: a broken wand, shaped as a dildo.
He's been an indentured mage in Porn City the last ten years, running errands and doing minor magic, until his furlough today.
In celebration of his furlough, Cody went to the ale houses and brothels of Porn City. In a drunken state he was ridiculed for his ugliness and made the mistake of using his magic powers to show his attackers his prowess. Stunned but still standing his ridiculers turned violent and beat him to unconsciousness.
He awoke in a cell the next day, vomiting relentlessly and forgetful of the details of the night before.
Jack "Blocker" Jones. Human Male Temple Fighter of Aqua Marina from Porn City – Jamie
Jack, a seemingly opened street kid grew up on the streets and around Port de la Baise and on the docks messing around on boats and liberating goods from unwilling doners. He grew to be a bit bigger than the other kids on the docks and seemed to be able to handle himself and therefore became the enforcer for his motley crew of would-be sailors and street kids.
With a healthy dislike of authority, Jack has had many run-ins with local authorities especially as he is very unhappy giving any cut to dodgy town guards or officials.
In his late teen's he came under the watchful eye of the Aquamarina Church largely due to his prowess at a young age with small boats and swimming – often used by Jack to elude the authorities. He found Aquamarina to his liking, given it provided him shelter, supported his illicit activities and encouraged him to be on the sea.
Recently though, Jack fell foul of the authorities again and this time he didn’t escape. Failing to "pay his dues" was no longer acceptable and his has found himself in a cell awaiting his sentence.
Tom Eade. Human Male Fighter from Porn City – Jeff
Tom Eade is the bastard cousin of one of Porn City's ruling families, the Mermont's, born from a chance encounter between an unlucky prostitute and a drunken noble in the red-light district along the docks.
His mother, working the brothels near the mouth of the Porn River, caught the wrong man's eye one fateful night, and Tom was the result.
Raised among the working girls of the seedy dockside establishments, Tom grew up tough and stubborn in the shadow of Porn City's underworld. His "aunts" - his mother's sisters in trade - helped raise him, teaching him to read people, spot trouble, and navigate the complex social hierarchy of the port's criminal elements.
From an early age, Tom was constantly in trouble: scraps with the law, conflicts with local gangs, and problems with anyone who crossed him. His stubborn refusal to back down from any fight became legendary in the district.
Though his noble father never officially acknowledged him, the man quietly watched over Tom from afar, providing a modest stipend first to his mother and later directly to Tom. This unofficial protection came with unspoken expectations and potential complications - enemies of his father's family occasionally took notice of the bastard son.
Tom's world shattered when his mother was killed by two violent clients who got carried away one night in the brothel. She never recovered from her injuries. The next evening, both men were found beaten to death in an alley and Tom's reputation as someone very handy with his fists was well established, but no questions were officially asked.
After his mother's death, Tom channelled his rage and skills into work as a bouncer and enforcer for various establishments throughout Porn City. His tenacity and thoroughness in carrying out assignments made him sought after in certain circles, though his methods sometimes attracted unwanted attention.
But now Tom has got himself into real trouble, trouble his protector cannot bail him out of. Tom came back to his "aunt's" brothel only to see a young man beating one of them following a failed attempt to break his virginity – Tom snapped and beat the young man to his death, reminded of his mother's fate.
The young man was a cousin of the Venning family, and the authorities quickly swooped throwing Tom into jail where he now awaits his future.
Grim Hand. Human Male Rogue from Porn City – Jason
Grim comes from a family that makes its business from loan-sharking. He's the oldest of three children, the two siblings being much younger. The family wasn't doing well initially, when Grim was a young boy. But Grim's dad got a big payday doing a favour for someone in the mining industry. Grim doesn't know exactly what the deal was, but there was a terrible accident that forced the closure of a mine - the owner went bankrupt and had to sell his assets cheaply.
With the payout, Grim's Dad started his loans business. At first, things were tight, but his dad proved to be very good at his new line of work and the family got more and more well-off financially as Grim grew up. Grim was annoyed his siblings never had it as tough as he did in the early days and never really bonded with them.
When Grim was 12, his mother died after being trampled by a horse-drawn carriage racing down the street. The carriage riders were from a wealthy family of half-elves visiting the city for pleasure and who managed to avoid taking any responsibility or paying any compensation for the tragedy. This event was a major turning point in Grim's life. He vowed whenever he could, he'd cause hardship to such outsiders - and over the years, he did - for example by cutting through saddle straps, putting stolen items in their luggage and spoiling their provisions in the stables.
As a teenager, Grim started working for his father's "operations manager" - doing all manner of tasks
starting with following people and researching their backgrounds and moving on to making visits to debtors to remind them their bills were due (with interest). He was quite aggressive with foreigners. Life got better over time, but Grim started doing his own deals on the side, against his father's wishes. In particular, he enjoyed persuading the women in debtor's households to have sexual intercourse with him in return for extending their husbands, brothers (or their own) payment deadlines.
When Grim's father remarried a beautiful woman much younger than himself, Grim saw it as a betrayal of his mother and was enraged. Over the course of several months, he ran a slow but persistent campaign to seduce his new mother-in-law. When she tried to end their affair, he persuaded her to continue. Eventually, Grim's suspicious father caught them together, buck naked and about halfway through the third, illustrated edition of the local bestseller, Come a Sutra.
Grim's father disowned him and threw him out of the family compound. Since then, Grim has lived off his wits and has been looking for a bigger opportunity.
Recently Grim pushed his luck too far. He cut the saddle straps of a young half-elf toff after taking the contents of the saddle bags. When the half-elf rode off, the saddle of course slipped, and he fell heavily breaking his neck and died instantly. Grim had been seen and was quickly captured and thrown into the cells where he now awaits his punishment.
Esmeralda "Ezme" Abernathy. Human Female Temple Fighter of Soixante Neuf from Scabport – Shane
Ezme's Abernathy family used to be rich and influential in Scabport. However, a failed business dealing led to her father to borrow money to cover his losses and rebuild his business. This too failed, and when the loan could not be repaid, her father was killed by the loan sharks and Esme was taken as collateral and forced to work in a brothel. She learnt to not only please men and women but also survive firstly by using her looks and then by her persuasiveness, eventually taking her revenge on the man who killed her father by force-feeding him his own testicles (and then killing him).
She then set fire to the brothel and faking her death to cover her tracks, she fled to Porn City and a new life where she would not need to worry about being abused again.
Joining the Soixante-neuf temple was a logical step for Ezme given her talents. She quickly became
recognized not only for her sultry looks and wiling ways, but for her tough combativeness and they
quickly saw her potential and trained her in the ways of being a Temple Fighter (female 69 temple-fighters are rare).
There she has worked for several years until she stopped a Mr Quail priest from sneaking into the vestibule. The woman wouldn’t surrender easily and their struggles tumbled out onto the street where they knocked over a brazier and a fire erupted near the docks. Both were taken by the authorities to the cells where they await their sentence, Esmeralda protesting her innocence all the way.
Ardern. Human Female Priestess of Mr Quail from Porn City – Kevin
Ardern was talented child. Her ability to engage a crowd with highly inappropriate comedic acts, music and impersonation had her marked as a future entertainer or bard. But alas she was at troublemaker from an early age and her exasperated parents placed Ardern into the care of the Church of Mr Quail after an unfortunate incident involving a bowl of oatmeal, a frog and her grandmother's favourite hat. Since then, her family has had nothing to do with her.
Under the watchful eyes of Mr Quail, Ardern saw it as her duty to entertain the masses via the creation of the Cod Liberation Independence Troop (or C.L.I.T. for short), which involved her "rescuing" fish from various traders and "liberating" them under roof-tiles or foundations of homes around the city.
Not only was she troublesome but also very talented at standup comedy, music and impersonations. She followed this up by creating a vigilante "Hunt the Clit" movement amongst her associates. Growing quickly bored with this escapade (and having failed to be noticed by the townsfolk or impress the hierarchy of the local Mr Quail priesthood) Ardern thought it might be more worthwhile to begin "acquiring" items from various institutions (churches, guilds, etc.) and relocating them into the care of
unsuspecting innocents.
Unfortunately, the discovery of underwear belonging to the wife of a high-ranking member of the Thieves' Guild in the possession of the chairman of the Association of Cheese mongers didn't raise smiles but led instead to the slow and wholly unpleasant demise of an innocent man.
Enough was enough for Mr Quail, and Ardern was issued with a cease-and-desist notice without written approval from the presiding local church representative. That left the little matter of the butt plug she had already acquired from the head of the Soixante-neuf temple guards and what to do with it...
In an attempt to return it, Ardern was stopped by a Soixante-neuf temple fighter, Esmeralda, near the temple doors. In the ensuing scuffle, that spilled onto the street, a brazier was knocked over and a fire erupted near the docks. Both were taken by the authorities to the cells where they await their sentence, Esmeralda protesting her innocence all the way.
Rock Hammer. Human Male Barbarian from Central Plains – Steven
Rock was a member of the Koontock tribe, one of the many tribes of the central plains between Porn City and Sancho. It is a small offshoot from the main tribe and has a checkered past as they are involved in the illegal “herb” trade. Having connections with both humanoid and goblinoid races in the surrounds. This made them unpopular and in addition some of these herbs are particularly sought after for their hallucinogenic qualities.
Rock's role was to provide protection to the traders, a role generally entrusted to the elders of the tribe. On one such trip the trading party was attached by Sancho bandits and Rock was seriously injured with a head trauma requiring a metal plate to be inserted to replace part of his skull. He was bedridden for months and upon his recovery he decided to set out on his own, to learn herbalism and make his own way in the world.
This brought him to Porn City several months ago where is sought to learn herbalism. Turned away due to his horrid looks and lack of intellect he has earned enough to live by bouncing on the doors of unofficial booze halls at the docks.
A week ago, Rock was in a major brawl with some sailors trying to damage one of the booze halls. He
hit one of them so hard that they fell and smashed their skull on the uneven cobble stones – a pool of
blood quickly a give away that they were dead. The Thoak guards quickly rounded up everyone and threw them in the cells. Rock has been there ever since with a foreboding feeling creeping up on him.
Willow Woods. Half Elf Male Caribou Gorn Priest from Porn City - Chris
The Porn City Caribou Gorn grove operates a funeral director’s business. It is a legitimate funeral director for any Caribou Gorn followers and has a graveyard for them, but is otherwise a front business for fencing stolen property and disposing of unwanted bodies from other criminal enterprises. This, in fact, is well known across Porn City.
The grove also has a large herd of large wandering pigs. These are well-disposed to Caribou Gorn adherents but also act as "guard dogs" should any unwanted strangers turn up. The grove has a hearse wagon and two other large wagons, along with a few carts.
Willow works at the Grove and uses his carpentry skills to make and maintain the hearse and wagons and has added numerous hidden compartments within them - suitable to hide stolen goods surreptitiously. Willow also uses his skill to manufacture coffins for the grove’s business some have hidden compartments (like false bottoms). The wood comes from milled fallen trees (another sideline of the Grove). Willow’s job is to drive the hearse or wagons around mainly to collect legitimate bodies for burial but also to collect or drop off stolen goods or pick up bodies for disposal.
The Grove’s affairs are directed/administered by Amelia Crook the High Priestess. Willow will drive all over the city and wider district carrying out orders. He is known in the criminal world as “Fat-woody” (his BMI is in the 40s). Other criminal enterprises tolerate the Grove and leave it alone as it acts as a fence/body disposal business for all (who pay). The Grove never takes sides in any disputes between gangs but is always there to help with the ‘clean-up’ (for a price) For this reason, the City authorities leave it alone too - provided it doesn’t cause trouble.
Willow has unfortunately run into trouble by transporting some items taken from a body that happened
to be a cousin of the Thoak Family, the ruling family. He has been thrown into the cells and awaits his punishment.
Kippy (Kip) Hunt. Human Male Barbarian of the Central Plains – Ian
Kippy (Kip) has made the shift recently to Porn City to look for work and adventure. Since a very young age, he has moved with a nomadic clan across the central plains. The clan was made up of the Hunt family, with around six other families living together.
Often Kip and 3 or 4 others would extend out in advance parties, raiding farms and poaching food from wealthy landowners, never directly head on, but usually when no one was watching. Snatch and run! Kip relied on the others for muscle and excels more at ranged support.
He relied on stealth and accuracy with a bow to survive and keep the Clan fed and supplied. The hunting parties often spent weeks in the wild, exploring and gathering goods. Hiding and fighting for
survival.
Growing into manhood, the Clan recently sent Kip to Porn City to spend time in society and hopefully
to find a wife and bear children. Unfortunately, the elders are aware that this is going to be a challenge for young Kippy as he tends to upset and offend the opposite sex. He will learn, probably the hard way....
The first few weeks in Porn City have been good for Kip making new friends and finding various odd
jobs. He misses the wild but knows this is a good experience. His youth and general lack of insight enabled Kip to remain oblivious to the rising mood of discontent across Porn City with the Central Barbarians. Rumours of a dark malevolence in the central plains were spreading across the town.
After a rowdy night at The Drunken Canary, Kip was off back to his lodgings when he was set upon by
a group of thugs who recognized his markings as a barbarian. He awoke in a cell near the slave yards
and has been there for a week or so not understanding his fate and being beaten whenever he asks.
