Ha! Yes, all organized crime stuff gets a lot more worrying once ghouls are on the table. Are the other gangs in your game supernatural-influenced at all?

Not as far as we know...(I wouldn't be the least surprised though) But as of the latest session it is the two mexican gangs and the russian maffia that has divided up most of the city. They were the most violent and ruthless ones.  We have had most problems so far with various witches stirring up a LOT of trouble, and then trying to avoid the attention of the authorities (both mortal and supernatural. Let's just say that the FBI would be quite interested in having a "chat" with at least two of the characters in the group). 

The homepage for the campaign with chronicles etc are located here if you are interested. You get different views depending on wether or not you click on the menu-items or hover over them and expand that way. 4 different chronicles but 2 are in Swedish, the other 2 in English. Some locations haven't seen any play yet though.

/Ulfgeir

I think the one I have used the most on my character so far is "Pay attention!" to justify that she takes extra time setting things up.

/Ulfgeir

In the campaign I play in we have the following...

For some of the characters:

"What could possibly go wrong?" - A changeling who is the Heir to the Prince of Summer
"Hero or?" - A werewolf
"What did I say now?" - A very inexperienced and mentally unstable djinn without a clue about the world.
"Sucker for a lost cause" - a clued in mortal who is a crusader for various things.
"There is more between Heaven and Earth..." - My character, a focused practioner who specializes in divination.

For some locations.

"Oh, there is another floor here" - The Boston Museum
"Guilty until proven innocent" - The FBI

/Ulfgeir

A few ideas here...

Shakespearean London
England and the mainland Europe for a WWII-setting
Victorian England (with full focus on the social things)
Viking-era Scandinavia (possibly also the conquest of the Rus as well as the stuff in Miklagård (Constantinople))

/Ulfgeir

And here btw is a cool link that indicates lots of weird stuff regarding time...

Believed false thinga about time Found it at Slashdot.com when I was surfing at work earlier today... Some I will have to look up to verify.

/Ulfgeir

Here in Sweden you would get the 24-hour clock in writing (like on signs and notifications), but interchangeably using 12-hour-clock or 24-hour clock in speech (never using the equivalent of AM or PM). The useage of 24 hour clock in speech would be restricted mainly to full half hours. eg  16:30. For say 16:25 it would be said "five in half five" bu for 16:20 it would be "twenty past four"..

And btw, if you are setting your story in Europe, make certain you read upon the date-formats.  And yes there are differenes between the way you would write dates  in headers and freeform text. And for some stupid reason the best-before date on food is written in the form DD-MM-YY or sometimes even just DD-MM. Did I mention that there is nothing indicating this order on food-products themselves which is really really stupid. E.g. 10/05/11 could theoretically mean that it was 11th of May 2010, or 10th of May 2011 or 5ft of October 2011 or other strange combinations...

As a side note: The US system of writing things are probably the WORST way of doing it when it comes to sorting data on a computer. For written dates you want it in the YYYY-MM-DD form for sorting.

/Ulfgeir

Another idea would be to take a look at an epsiode of the Manga "Ah! My Goddess" Where they had a car-race. The kikcer was that the ngine was powered by 5 very small trolls that pushed/pulled the valves around. And they really didn't like it when the opposition tried putting something in the gastank.

/Ulfgeir

Don't let the rules get in the way of you and your group having fun.

/Ulfgeir