...the Sewer/Waste Management employees are better armed than most South American Guerillas and are trained in more forms of unarmed combat than a Navy Seal.
...any make-up artists or CGI programmers hired to create a life like werewolf for a movie are eventually found three weeks later curled up in a fetal position and completely insane.
...hitmen are instructed to immediatley run in the opposite direction if the sound produced by a bullet impacting a targets skull is "Clang".
...due to massive use of Dominate, Prescence, mental Gifts, Mind and Entropy magicks, Puppetry/Mnemosynis/Intimation/Corruption Arcanos, and the Sovereign/Chicanary Cantrips, the only sentence the President can say is "Dammit, I don't need to wear no stinkin' pants!!!"
...you drop a Snickers bar by a sewer grate, and a pale hand covered in warts, a furry hand with claws, and a tentacle all make a grab for it at the same time.
...you visit the local cemetary, and find a large sign by the gate asking residents to check in with the mortician before leaving.
...you and your friends are using a Ouiji Board when five guys dressed in Hoplite armor burst into your room, stomp the board until it's completely destroyed, yell something at you in Greek, and all run into your bathroom and disappear.
...you have a near death experience, and instead of a bright light with your dead relatives surrounding you, you recall two guys wearing masks and chains pulling you back and forth while shouting something about "calling dibs" at each other.
...your birthday party is interrupted when six men dressed in black rush into your home, pistol whip the magician your mother hired, and drag him away while shouting "This didn't happen!" at you and your friends.
...your on your way to a Sci-fi convention dressed as a vulcan when a gang of real ugly guys wearing red caps start chasing after you with metal pipes and screaming something about "the fucking Nobles!"
...the blood banks have ATM's.
...the movie Dracula vs the Wolfman has been banned, due to the outbreaks of intense violence and numerous murders following any showing.
...children's safety gear for Halloween includes a flashlight, light reflectors, and a Colt .45.
...it's common practice for the clerks at toy stores primarily stocked by Avalon Incorporated (a subsidiary of Pentex) to wear radiation suits and heavy gloves when unpacking the new shipment.
....when every other car that turns the corner is a new sports car with some bad-ass behind the wheel.
....when a city block is destroyed because a 'gas main' blew.
....when that same city block is completely repaired the next week.
...when Stephen King and other Horror Fiction authors have nothing on the "real" world.
.....When the no resource revolutionaries with no fixed address have cell phones and email.
....when you can find a gun shop open 24/7
...when conversations don't begin with 'How was your day?' but 'How many people did you kill today?'
... when half the population disappears during the day
....when every black leather coat is sold out.
...when you regularly hear sirens off in the distance every five minutes.
...when you can learn a lot about life by just talking to a street prostitute.
...weather forecast goes along these lines - "Cloudy. Chance of rain. Pretty much the same for the rest of the week."
...Walking to and from work is an exercise in hoping you get there safely.
...The tabloids are more believable than regular newspapers.
...There are several really cool nightclubs where goths hang out.
...you at least once woke somewhere not knowing how you got there. You feel slightly drained and you neck hurts...
..when the head of the art gallery looks at you funny and keeps calling you "mortal".
...when the obituaries take up more room in the paper than the stock reports.
...when your town has the following: cemetary, occult shop, gothic looking art museum, more cemetaries, gun shops, knife shops, sword shops, cemetaries, and 4 blood banks. For a population of 3,500 and falling.
....when everyone on the street has a poorly concealed shotgun underneath their long trenchcoat.
..when pigeons try to crap on church statues and they get their heads ripped off. (Gargoyles, if you didn't get that one)
...when you see 40-50 rats running down the street in a tight pack towards the same direction, and it doesn't bother you the least bit.
...when you go to see John Carpenter's Vampires, and the whole movie you keep hearing people saying, "what a moron, i can do that ten times better than he can!"
...Kids in Third World Countries are working as fast as they can to dye clothes black.
...A body with half the blood gone, and no wounds, comes rolling into the morgue and nobody is suprised.
...You see an ad in a local tabloid for Dr. Vladamir's scalpel-less cosmetic surgery.
...when every one of us who has ever accessed this web site is murdered in our sleep for "knowing too much