Okay, let's start by finishing your character sheets. (look, origin, name, stats, moves. If you have questions or are having trouble deciding, ask, and I or someone else will help.) then do kindly post an official introduction to the group, ad we'll move into strings.
Yu sits patiently, observing.
Dotting in.. character sheet mostly done I think.
Hey guys! I believe my character sheet should be good, but please sing out if there's something I missed.
Yeah, I'm here.
So it looks like we're having Yu's Angels...
All-girl school?
no, but it might be 5 to a dorm... or do we wanna do 2 to a dorm, and one of you (or more) has a npc roomie?
Yeah, I'm here.
So it looks like we're having Yu's Angels...
All-girl school?
Yu looks perplexed, but waits for input consensus.
Or perhaps most rooms are 2, but one corner room has 3.
Or perhaps most rooms are 2, but one corner room has 3.
That could work,...
Yeah, I'm here.
So it looks like we're having Yu's Angels...
All-girl school?Yu looks perplexed, but waits for input consensus.
I think there's some confusion as to Yu's gender :p
If we'll be filling out a seating chart with a whole host of NPC classmates,then it might be nice to have some of them as roomies, if only to get them into the thick of things earlier/give us some early targets for assorted mischief.
A single or a triple would work, as would a NPC roomie, or multiple NPC roomies. It’s one thing for one school to house a buncha monsters, but quite another for us all to happen to room together. On the other hand it’d be a quick shorthand to get us all together.
I'm okay with NPC roomies. Are we required to live in the dorms?
And is Yu sure of their own gender?
That actually brings up a good question: To what extent to we all know about each other?
Some of the initial strings will spread some information around either way, but will we otherwise know who the local supernaturals are at the start?
If we'll be filling out a seating chart with a whole host of NPC classmates,then it might be nice to have some of them as roomies, if only to get them into the thick of things earlier/give us some early targets for assorted mischief.
Well, the "Seating chart" equivalent here is going to be the dorm attangments
also, in my first of... likely several questions: Yu, what are you? (I kinda think the answer is an almost Turing-complete AI, but there could be others. (I don't know is great for most answers, but at least a general idea of what they are might be helpful)
Local people will know Carrie as the girl with the crazy mother who lives in the junkyard and takes crazy risks. People who give her crap will reap the crap whirlwind. But she is fiercely loyal to her friends.
BTW, since she can be abrasive, please give me feedback if it ceases to be fun for the players and I'll moderate it.
Lots of people will have heard of Alex's mother... probably not Alex herself though, she's not a local.
Ah, I was just guessing nonbinary, sorry if I spoiled anything for you there.
Well, odd man out is still clearly on the table, but however the gender split breaks down, Kelly won't be lacking for intra-party romance options.
Carrie, in the interest of shaking out the timing on your idea about our past encounter, how long have you been dead?
She's been dead about three weeks. But she's been staying in a lot over those weeks trying to deal with the changes.
Okay. I've been thinking of Kelly as being a relatively new arrival to the area, but that timing should still work out to find your body.
I can reduce it if it works better.
Nah, her getting to town a couple weeks early to get settled into the dorms before the semester itself starts works for me.
But since I was picturing Kelly as coming up on her first wolfiversary, I wanted to just get an order of magnitude on how long since the crash.
I've got a plan. I think Yu does not have a PC roommate.
What are everyone's extracurriculars? I need to pick a shark to latch on to. I know Kelly does sports. Shop class for Carrie? Where would Yu get a chance to see each of you separate from the others?
Shop class works for me :)
So Carrie's the crazy daredevil with a f*@*ed up family;
Kelly's an out of towner jock who's quickly built up a reputation for a violent streak.
How're Mindy and Alexandra generally viewed?
Alex is an upper-class girl who would like to be a bit more of a rebel than she actually is... she sees herself as a liberal, left wing kinda person (into saving the wales, helping those 'less fortunate' etc.) - To some extent this is rebellion against her mum more than anything else though... She might well be seen as a bit of a pretender.
So, someone gets a string on Alex, having caught her rummaging through someone else's stuff... Who that is will depend on who she rooms with I guess.
Makes sense. I'm supposed to pick someone to have been essentially stalking for a couple of weeks, enough to make their scent and mannerisms unmistakable to me.
Anyone think they'd have a particularly arresting scent?
Maybe 'dog toy'.
Is Kelly the one who can see through Yu's lies? She'd get 2 strings.
That would make sense to me. I'm currently picturing Yu's scent as almost aggressively nondescript though, so I'm not sure that would provoke the weeks of stalking...
Carrie would probably smell weirdly not-dead?
I need someone to have saved my unlife (and take two strings on me)
Kelly? Should we do a Werewolf/Vampire buddies trope?
Also I get one string on everyone.
Mindy is generally desired by all the boys, mostly due to her aloof nature. She’s largely disliked by the girls for the same reason. I vote for either co-ed or a setup where there’s an all bots and all Girls school on the same property that shares some classes and facilities.
Extracurriculars: Yearbook, because it keeps her OUT of the pages of the yearbook.
While we're doing strings, I want to know some stuff about the campus, and town beyond.. I'm looking for landmarks, shops, whatever. places you guys want scenes set in. one or two from each of you would be nice.
I’d love some sort of teen hangout like the Max or the Peach Pit or the Bronze. Teen dance club/hunting ground.
Maybe someplace seedy for the bad kids? An abandoned hospital walking distance from the school?
Carrie needs somebody who can reminder her of the possibility of love. Any hopeless romantics out there?
My other Background is already established.
As for places, I'm confused. Isn't this set in 2018? I thought that everybody always stayed inside and did everything on their phone nowadays.
I'm imagining that we are a large town/small city - like 50-150k people. The Academy is probably on the edge. If we're in New England, and we're monsters, then It might stand to reason that we're in Maine. In any case, there are several big cities to go to for special events. Portland, Boston, Providence.
Ideas for campus: A clock tower, mysterious steam tunnels.
City: the old abandoned lighthouse. A restaurant known for big slabs of meat - Barbecue? Steakhouse? Brazilian steakhouse?
The places I've already mentioned:
Greystone prison - probably about 30-60 minutes away.
Broklawsky Tow, Wrecking and Parts - outside of town in the less picturesque side.
Broklawsky Auto Sales and Service - A couple towns over.
A long twisty highway with a hairpin turn over a drop-off.
Yu is a bad fit for Carrie's crush, but they might have saved Minder.
As a modern campus, the rooms are built with raised floor plenums for cables and ducts, meaning there are many ways to get from room to room without walking the halls. This includes the tunnels and raised bridges which keep the campus open when it snows. Sometimes small animals get caught in there.
There is a building, visible from the roof of the Advanced Technology Center (where staff keeps the server racks) which looks like it's full of life at night, like an open patio lounge with live music.
Yu, I’m into that. Yu has no blood, so they aren’t prey.
What happened? How did you almost bite the dust (again)? Did Yu pull the blinds? Pull a pencil out of her chest? Save her from an Italian dunker (with garlic)?
Good question. Is this a vampire hunter situation or saving her from some sort of accident? Mindy has been a vampire for almost 100 years, so she should be safe enough from foolish mistakes...
Okay quick string summary time: Due to my general lack of subtlety and easy-to-grab emotional handles, everyone starts with a String on me.
I think I'm gonna go with Mindy having caught her nose, I'm viewing it as a bit of a rival predator thing, so I get two strings on her.
I don't think Kelly's the one to remind anyone of love in her current headspace, and anyways, we've decided that I found you as you were dying, so doubling down doesn't seem necessary anyways.
Assuming I'm still the one who knows that Yu's past is all lies (They just didn't smell right), I've got two strings there.
Alexandra: 0/1
Carrie: 2/3
Mindy: 2/2
Yu: 2/1
As far as locations go, there's the gym with the after hours fight club ("The Sweat Shop"), the locker room at school is a natural place for all kinds of scenes, and I'll second that we need a Bronze equivalent.
I guess Alex could be Carrie’s love-reminder... since she’s only just arrived in town I’ll have to think of a scenario... are we playing from day 1 of school, or have we been around/known each other for a few weeks?
String prompt status:
Close friend currently being mimicked: ??? (+2 strings on them)
Someone who knows it's all a lie: Kelly (+2 strings on Yu)
1 : 2 Kelly
0 : 0 Alex
2 : 0 Mindy
0 : 0 Carrie
Alex works for me. I think arriving a little early would be fine. Maybe seeing her involved with something she's passionate about?
Strings held by me
0 Alexandra
3 Kelly
0 Minder
0 Yu
Strings held by others
1 Alexandra
2 Kelly
1 Minder
0 Yu
So Elsine, are you going to assign roommates or we could roll randomly.
I have decided. Yu has been taking social cues from Alex. That's why their initial stat lines match. (Yu has 2 strings on Alex)
I think it’s more interesting to have a few weeks history
Changed Avatar to something a bit younger looking - involves a hair colour change. Hope that's OK?
Something Carrie saw Alex do that reminded her what love was... All the following have happened... choose one that you think might remind Carrie what love is;
1: Alex rescued a bird with a broken wing which she's secretly looking after in her dorm room.
2: Alex stood up to a clique of rich kids (lead by Vanessa Cartwright - the school b~!*!) who were teasing a scholarship student (maybe Carrie herself?) about his/her lower-class background.
3: Alex argued with the school principle about girls having to wear dresses or skirts and not being allowed to wear trousers.
Strings: Kelly saw Alex going through one of Kelly's friend's (you tell me who) gym locker.
1/1
0/1
0/2
1/0
Locations:
1: There's a swimming hole in the woods where students go to chill out in summer - It's known as a place where more than a few students have hooked up.
2: Coffee shop in town where the coffee isn't all that bad.
3: The remains of an old (colonial era) church that burnt down about a hundred years ago. Students sometimes go there to smoke dope and tell ghost stories. - Apparently its haunted.
Extra-curricular activities:
School paper, Environment club, Feminist club