03.2023 | WELCOME BACK! Hello friends old and new! I'm so excited to welcome you all back to SITW! I've made some changes to the plot and added the ability to play supernatural charcaters! So come and check it out! I can't wait to jump back into this little town with all of you!
A strange history surrounds the town, it is a place where mysterious and supernatural things have been known to happen. The reputation of the town reguarly draws in visitors and newcomers alike. While some residents avidly believe in the supernatural, others are far more skeptical. What do you believe?
Post by Lorelle Irving on May 26, 2024 10:45:38 GMT
TIMELINE OF PLACES
BEFORE TURN 1750 - 1800: New England - taking care of her siblings ↳ 1775: New England - getting intimate with her future sire + getting turned (months later)
AFTER TURN 1800 - 1850: Venice 1850 - 1900: Florence 1920s: New York - enjoying the flapper era in more ways than one ±1970 - now: Sweetwater, Colorado
Post by Lorelle Irving on May 26, 2024 10:58:11 GMT
RELIGION
NEW ENGLAND - CONGREGATIONALISM (PURITANISM) Between 1680 and 1760 Anglicanism and Congregationalism, an offshoot of the English Puritan movement, established themselves as the main organized denominations in the majority of the colonies. Most New Englanders went to a Congregationalist meetinghouse for church services. The meetinghouse, which served secular functions as well as religious, was a small wood building located in the center of town. People sat on hard wooden benches for most of the day, which was how long the church services usually lasted. These meeting houses became bigger and much less crude as the population grew after the 1660s. The New England colonists—with the exception of Rhode Island—were predominantly Puritans, who, by and large, led strict religious lives. The clergy was highly educated and devoted to the study and teaching of both Scripture and the natural sciences. The Puritan leadership and gentry, especially in Massachusetts and Connecticut, integrated their version of Protestantism into their political structure. Government in these colonies contained elements of theocracy, asserting that leaders and officials derived that authority from divine guidance and that civil authority ought to be used to enforce religious conformity. Their laws assumed that citizens who strayed away from conventional religious customs were a threat to civil order and should be punished for their nonconformity. (source)
LORELLE'S FAITH
Lorelle was raised by Congregationalist parents and didn't question this. After the start of the war, she prayed less and was a bit more hesitant, but she never deserted her beliefs. The town she lived in was heavily religious, and she joined them in the local meetinghouse for ceremonies and mass.
{Spoiler}O God, may Your Spirit speak in me that I may speak to You. O Lord Jesus, great high priest, You have opened a new and living way by which a fallen creature can approach You with acceptance.
Help me to contemplate the dignity of Your Person, the perfectness of Your sacrifice, the effectiveness of Your intercession.
O what blessedness accompanies devotion, when under all the trials that weary me, the cares that corrode me, the fears that disturb me, the infirmities that oppress me, I can come to You in my need and feel peace beyond understanding!
The grace that restores is necessary to preserve, lead, guard, supply, help me. And here Your saints encourage my hope; they were once poor and are now rich, bound and are now free, tried and now are victorious.
Every new duty calls for more grace than I now possess, but not more than is found in You, the divine treasury in whom all fullness dwells. To You I repair for grace upon grace, until every void made by sin be replenished and I am filled with all Your fullness.
May my desires be enlarged and my hopes emboldened, that I may honour You by my entire dependency and the greatness of my expectation.
Be with me, and prepare me for all the smiles of prosperity, the frowns of adversity, the losses of substance, the death of friends, the days of darkness, the changes of life, and the last great change of all. May I find Your grace sufficient for all my needs.
LORELLE'S FAITH AFTER BECOMING A VAMPIRE After her turn, Lorelle abandoned her beliefs. She felt like God didn't care about vampires. It took her a while to get comfortable with her her new form, because she felt like she belonged to the devil now. Because of this, Lorelle didn't really keep up with the changed that happened within the Congregational church. She wasn't interested enough anymore to try and understand new factions and churches. She knows there is a Protestant church in Sweetwater, but ever since her arrival about 50 years ago, she has only visited twice.