Okay, so I am going to start with simple questions
everyone, we should decide on where the town is, name, state, whatever. and I want everyone to give me one feature of the town.
once everyone is here, I will start asking character specific questions. then we do the homeroom seating chart.
Hello
Well, most i can't say much about, but feature...? any feature? trademark? something the town is known for?
Idea, unless im wrong :P i am not a person for clubs or the sort, but i think Aldrea would be for this kind of character. So maybe one of THE hottest clubs around is in the town?
Suddenly have this picture of the club in Bloodlines Masquerade. Either the Malkavian one or Vixen's
Anyone who wants to take a gander at what i posted in the profile about each of the attributes we had to choose, feel free to give some comments. never done this before :)
Hello
Well, most i can't say much about, but feature...? any feature? trademark? something the town is known for?
Idea, unless im wrong :P i am not a person for clubs or the sort, but i think Aldrea would be for this kind of character. So maybe one of THE hottest clubs around is in the town?
Suddenly have this picture of the club in Bloodlines Masquerade. Either the Malkavian one or Vixen's
Anyone who wants to take a gander at what i posted in the profile about each of the attributes we had to choose, feel free to give some comments. never done this before :)
a club is a good feature. what is it's name? what makes it the hottest placein town? What kind of bands play there? Do they card? Well?
Hmmmm
Club Meltdown
Anyone whos who goes there. Once month they get top bands and Djs to play there. They card. But if you know people and have the right bribes, you can get in.
Sounds okay?
Nenkota's character, still working on him. Will look over yours Aldrea soon.
everyone, we should decide on where the town is, name, state, whatever. and I want everyone to give me one feature of the town.
I expressed some interest in the pacific northwest, but I'm pretty flexible.
For the feature, I would like to have a decently prestigious art gallery. Something to strive for.
I think your character is good Aldrea. Nothing I see wrong with it. Plenty to add later to flush the character out, same with me.
inxpitter's character signing in.
For a feature, Willaim escapes his current troubles through romance novels, something he is ashamed of. He will most likely frequent an old bookstore nearby high school
Pretty flexible on state, location and all that jazz.
Northern Arizona, Upper Peninsula Michigan, West Virginia, Upstate New York, Eastern Maryland, Western Maryland, The Wastelands of Detroit, Florida, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, Rhode Island, Texas, or maybe Anytown USA?
Upstate New York is always classic, gives us more to work with for the kinds of businesses and people we'll find. But honestly, I'm still malleable.
a club named Meltdown would fit really well with how I see Sam going. Infernals don't do stable very well.
PNW would work for me. In contrast to the high-end Meltdown, let's add the Wax House, a run-down punk/grunge house where the bands are rough, the drinks are stolen, and the fights are always going. Sam loves the place! Easy to find lost souls for his boss, adrenaline to make life worth living, never a dull moment.
Should we start giving out strings now? I owe some debts, and so have 3 to toss around, and I think Carrie should definitely get one. Not sure of the other two yet.
I'm up for whenever.
I only have 1 to give
But according to the skin profile.
3 npc in my clique. Strings on them
1 npc i feel threatened by. I give that npc 1 string but i have two on that NPC in return
I'm thinking that it should be a smaller town, but there needs to be a big city far enough away that it's not an every weekend thing, but close enough that it's a potential thread. I'm thinking a smaller big city, not New York. Pacific Northwest with Seattle works.
hmm... my background connections... One doesn't work well (yet), but the other would be good. Anybody interested?
Did anyone watch you die, or watch you come back to
life? If so, you both gain 2 Strings on each other.
Hmm, Sam can avoid death as well, maybe they were on a crazy thrill ride? Elsewise Power let's me use No Rest if needed, so the crash wouldn't have neccesarily been fatal to him.
Says I gets two sympathetic tokens, deciding what they are and whom from, as well as a friend having a string on me.
You know, as the most popular girl in school, I'm sure I owe Aldrea a favor for something. Aldrea should get one string on me.
Edit: Juliet would definitely be a good source of advice, I'm sure I owe her a debt for some advice she gave once.
Edit again: Who thinks they can save me from my addictions?
That could work. Favour for a favour
Heh. Aldrea may actually help you WITH addiction :P
Volsung, I think you're going to enjoy this. I'm planning on drawing on my bargains whenever it helps, regardless of the risk. My darkest self isn't a punishment, it even says I get a reward! All aboard the emotional roller-coaster!
@Sam
I reread the part on strings she needs. It just says someone you find threatening. Infernal character sounds threatening. We can work in that if you'd like?
You can be a great tool. But a loose canon. So keeping my eye on you :P
I'll take it! Sam hits some crazy highs and serious lows, sometimes he just doesn't do what is expected.
Sam can be that cute barbarian pet. Always needs a leash ;)
My strings are as follows:
You have a secret crush on someone. Take a string on them.
Someone has been bullying you. Give them a string on you.
Someone was kind to you once. Give them two strings on you.
I'm thinking the crush is Juliet, the bully is Mathew, and the kind one was Caine. But I'm being mostly random.
Hmm, Sam can avoid death as well, maybe they were on a crazy thrill ride? Elsewise Power let's me use No Rest if needed, so the crash wouldn't have neccesarily been fatal to him.
That works, +2 strings on each of us.
Hmmm... I have an idea for my other background. Carrie and William Had a moment where they found themselves in the Romance Aisle of a bookstore. There was a moment where the both froze. Then they realized each had froze and they picked a book and left.
You get 2 strings on me.
Okay, so here's what I've got.
we're in the Pacific northwest (I've never been, but my cousin who lives there says it's kinda like Noho, so unless anyone wants to do a indepth description, that's the character I'm going with) in a small town about an hour out of a major city (Seattle or portland are the two I know of)
there's a cool club called the meltdown, and another, dingy establishment called the wax house. and a bookstore. Anyone want to add anything else, or shall it just come up in play?
Aldrea:
Were you born a succubus, or did you get afflicted?
What is your gangs MO?
Who is your biggest rival for "Coolest clique"?
Matthew:
what is the worst thing you've ever done to someone with magic?
Has anyone ever caught you with magic-stuff?
Juliet:
What kind of art do you do?
Where do you stand in the school's social hierarchy?
William:
Abusive parents? How so?
Sam:
what kind of things does the tyrant ask of you?
is this your only addiction?
carrie:
How does it feel to feed?
what is the craziest thing you've done, now that you're virtually immortal?
1. Born. Family. Mother Succubus. Father Incubus. So let's say "morals" are not the best part of the family. Or maybe, only mother is. the father has no clue about heritage
2. My MO is to "own" the school(s). Many Bodies.
3. Probably the "Jocks" male clique. She wants to own them too, but they have been... resistant...
1.)During middle school, Matthew was bullied by a group of kids in his class. Feeling angered after one such incident, he made one child see bugs crawling on his body during a bus stop. Said child was run over and barely survived. Matthew after that became rather startled with his power and trained more intensely to control his anger.
2.)In public, Matthew walks around with a small journal that he occasionally doddles on and writes notes in. This actually a notebook of spells and incantations, a tip book of how to work them on the fly. Otherwise, only his mother has seen him use his magics.
carrie:
How does it feel to feed?
what is the craziest thing you've done, now that you're virtually immortal?
1) She tend to slide into numbness. The thrill of crazy actions brings her back to feeling normal.
2) It actually hasn't been long. I expect that it's within the last week or so.
Oh then, I can use npc's for most of the bonds then.
1). William has never been struck by his parents. Instead, the extent of their abuse runs through his psyche, playing him against each other as a token and controlling him with professions of parental love, tears, and reassuring hugs. Both are manipulative to a much higher degree than normal.
PNW in two sentences: There are trees everywhere, and it's basically a rain forest. Seriously, it rains like 9 days out of 10, and if it's not raining it's pretty humid.
Adallosit wants followers, random junkies are acceptable, but some souls are worth more than others. He doesn't eat 'em or stuff, just has them tag stuff and spread the word. Occasional fights with other gangs, that sort of thing.
Addiction implies dislike. When he isn't on the hook to his boss, Sam is filling up on whatever mortal pleasure he feels like. Fighting, drinking, dodging cops, etc. What use is the backing of Hell if you don't use it?
I've never seen the Fury before. Looking at the moves, it seems to be Carrie from, well, Carrie, right?
So William and Sam were both at a party and Sam found William sitting by himself. Grabbing a couple drinks, he hung out with him and kept some of the more unkind partygoers at bay. (Of course, Sam mostly sees an easy target to recruit...)
Oh then, I can use npc's for most of the bonds then.
okay, sounds good, who are these NPC's. just names and brief descriptions will suffice for now.
I've never seen the Fury before. Looking at the moves, it seems to be Carrie from, well, Carrie, right?
I think you might be onto something
Carrie, Aldrea, Juliet, what did you do for me that put me in your debt?
For my strings, one person will believe my like, visions. Likely because I showed them something before it came true. It was likely something frightening. If someone's interested in that, let's hash it out. Everyone else gets one string on me because they don't believe me / think I'm kind of nuts.
Did anyone watch you die, or watch you come back to
life? If so, you both gain 2 Strings on each other.
If no one has grabbed one of those, I could have seen one or the other in a vision and drawn it, because that sounds like an awesomely horrific thing.
Edit: Juliet would definitely be a good source of advice, I'm sure I owe her a debt for some advice she gave once.
Hmmm. Let me think on that one. I think I'm generally supposed to not be believed / listened to.
You have a secret crush on someone. Take a string on them.
I'm thinking the crush is Juliet,
I can dig it!
Juliet:
What kind of art do you do?
Where do you stand in the school's social hierarchy?
Probably not very high, or at least not any more.
What I'm thinking is that my artistic talent was always kind of "just okay". It was comfortable. The "You're drawing it but you're not feeling it" kind of thing. I'd do landscapes of whatever the scenery is like - forests or mountains or the ocean. Typical kind of like, touristy shit. Sometimes portraits of people.
When I started going into more like, trances for my art, it began to cover more past/future things and became much more vivid. Now that I've seen my inner potential, I'm able to draw more abstract things, but obviously the cost is that people think I'm kind of off my rocker.
I think I'm kind of being more distant in general, kind of becoming consumed by my artwork and the visions I'm having that I don't truly understand.
My art itself will be mostly paintings, sometimes simple sketches. But generally something more fluid and stroke-based. The biggest influence I (as a player) am looking at will be the polish artist Bekinski, who once said "I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams". There's a decent batch of examples here.
Alright, here are my strings:
String 1- Principle of [insert name] High School for some reason I haven't come up with. Reason to come.
String 2- Jake Cunningham, Lead Guitarist for Fly Knuckle Punch Reason to come.
String on Me- No clue as of yet.
@ Sam
Nah, that sounds perfect for William. You get two strings on me.
@ DM Volsung
For the bully, I'm not sure entirely. Something that comes to mind is an npc from Aldrea's clique. Motive may be he accidently embarrassed her in public or something.
@ Juliet
Thanks! sounds good to me.
Why not make the bully Aldrea herself?
That's a good idea.
Matthew, technically they aren't strings, but physical items that you took from them, right?
And why not give your starting string to Will? Furies don't seem to start with strings on others.
I do get one string on someone I have a secret crush on, namely Juliet.
Ill figure out something. Will can have a string on me. Didn't see at first they were Sympathetic Tokens, however I don't know what they do.
Still need to work on my "gang"... :P
Sympathetic tokens have the same effect as strings, they're just personal items you can use to cast hexes through. The Hex Casting move needs you to be able to see the target or to have a sympathetic token from them. Basically you can get strings on people by stealing their stuff!
If no one has grabbed one of those, I could have seen one or the other in a vision and drawn it, because that sounds like an awesomely horrific thing.Did anyone watch you die, or watch you come back to
life? If so, you both gain 2 Strings on each other.
I had talked a little with Sam, but I think this is more dramatic. As the movie says, "Every living person dies alone." Dying alone and having been seen works better.
Carrie, Aldrea, Juliet, what did you do for me that put me in your debt?
How about this? You had done something bad at school and they didn't know who had done it. They were doing the whole, "We're going to keep everybody here until that person comes forward." She was bored and came forward and took the punishment. The question is: what did you do?
Alright, think I figured out.
Token 1- Principle's Initialed Pen: A black ink pen with the initials for [Insert Principle's Name]. Custom made.
Token 2- Brown hair cut from guitarist of Matthew's band.
If you want to work with having a String on me Will, I'm free for input on it.
Great, this is going well.
so, I made a simple homeroom seating chart, everyone should put their name where they are sitting, and I will fill in the rest, and then ask some questions about your classmates before we begin. sound good?
It good.
Great, this is going well.
so, I made a simple homeroom seating chart, everyone should put their name where they are sitting, and I will fill in the rest, and then ask some questions about your classmates before we begin. sound good?
I assume that the top is the front of the room?