Vic/Background

This is a work in progress and will be updated from time to time.

Personal Background

• Vic's parents met in the Philippines early 1980s while her father served as a submariner in the US Navy. He was nineteen and she was sixteen. They married a few years later and, with her mother, they moved to the United States when his tour of duty ended.
• Vic and her fraternal twin brother were born in Seattle, WA, on June 1st, 1991.

World Background

This section will focus on the differences between Vic's home dimension and the "real world" of the MUSH.

• San Diego exists roughly where Prospect City existed.
• Samuel Curtis, a businessman with no prior political experience, is elected President of the United States in the 1992 election. (Secretly he was backed by both Pentex and the Technocratic Union, the former financially and the second both financially and politically.)
• In the early 1990s when Adobe developed their ubiquitous file format they named it a DBE (for Adobe but pronounced like "Dobby") rather than PDF.
• 1993, in Chicago, the Camarilla Prince Lodin declares a Blood Hunt on the "Lupines" and, since it goes much worse here than in other worlds and histories, sets off all-out war between the Gaian Garou and the Vampires. Because the Garou don't distinguish Camarilla from Sabbat they target both groups, changing the nature of the conflicts between the vampiric factions as well as that of the Gaians vs the Wyrm. The Technocracy, using their new influence on the US government, cover it up as escalating "gang warfare" that spreads across the country creating a growing sense of fear.
• Over the next six years the Technocracy advanced their Timetable at an accelerated rate leading to technology advancing more than twice as fast as it did in the "real world".
• 1999, the Week of Nightmares occurred in a fundamentally similar way. Due to the Avatar Storm all mage societies are shattered to one degree or another, those focused on technomagic fare slightly better than others.
• The Y2K Bug affected this world the way the IRL news sensationalized the "threat". This is used by the Technocracy to further advance technology. The actions of the Society of Either and the Virtual Adepts to restore themselves mesh with this and further cement the world into a nascent cyberpunk world which, over the next decade leads to ubiquitous computing including cybernetic implants available to the masses - at least those who can afford it.

At the same time, the Technocracy further entangles itself into the government of the United States and, by 2005, is the federal government. This is so true that the surviving "organization" that simply calls itself "The Traditions" takes to calling the Unionists the "Feds".

• Around 2007 the UnAmerican Foods Act was enacted. Among the food outlawed by this were Cuban sandwiches.