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I'm going to guess Gameday stuff? I just need my move fulfilled and I'm good too.

"Mostly just hung out at the Wax House, helped a couple bands set up some shows. Snuck out for the meteor shower a couple weeks ago, saw some sweet fireballs. Didn't play much baseball, obviously. You?" While chatting, Sam keeps one ear open to the voices swirling about. Adallosit's servants could see deep into one's heart, and for a price they would whisper of truths kept hidden.

Give up another string to activate Uncanny Voices. I learn one of Kate's secret desires, secret fears, or secret strengths.

Hopefully everyone is...

Damn. That's inapropes.

Need to get someone who's vulnerable to sign on with Adallosit, get some more XP ;)

Sam watches Carrie walk Kai off to the nurse and flashes a quick grin as Carrie mouths her promise back. Hey, isn't that Kate? Heard she's been having problems with Eric... Hmm.

Sam sits for a moment on the bleachers by Kate. "Taking it easy for a bit, eh? Guess I'm going to need to sit out a bit after that botched pitch too." Sam leans back and closes his eyes, keeping his bad boy image going.

She's losing her man, turn her eye over here: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (3, 3) + 1 = 7
My luck's finally turning around!
Thanks, Locke. You and Eliza did blow up the thread ;)

Busy couple of days.

Damn, Locke is a bit of a psycho.

Sam has been pitching for a bit, when Kai steps up to the plate. Perfect. With a quick wind up and a careful eye, Sam hurls the ball right towards Kai's face instead of the strike zone. Who's dead meat now? Having caused his second black eye of the day, Sam runs up to Kai. "Holy crap, are you ok man? The ball totally slipped..." Sam glances over to Will with a slightly raised eyebrow.

Lash out with a baseball: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (5, 3) + 1 = 9
I'll give Kai a string on me.
Will, back me up and you can have an XP. Spending one of my strings on Will.

Hmph, baseball. Well, it's something, though not much adrenaline there. We should do rock climbing, better rush. Sam listens to the rules when an idea comes to him. "Hey Coach, can I pitch first?"

True story, my high school had a rock climbing wall for some reason. Even used it fairly often. Now, hitting someone with a baseball 'on accident' would certainly be Lashing Out, right?

If prior experience with PBtA games is a guide, player's have quite a bit of say in their moves and triggers. I'll take that string and you can get one to match. I don't think I'll betray you anytime soon, but...

"Yo, Will!" Sam comes up and claps him on the back. "Sorry I didn't get a chance to say hey back in homeroom, had to deal with some trash. You seen Kai around anywhere?"

So, was that friendly enough for your Futile Hope? Also, wow. Furies are dark, even for this game.

Also, what NPCs are in gym with us?

Gym. Hope my rolls go better now. I can't miss every roll, can I? <knock on wood>

Ending it out of mercy, right?

Sam saunters back into the classroom and slides behind his desk. "Hey Carrie, we should tag some lockers later. It'd be nice to have some company in detention, you know?"

Turn on the delinquent: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 1) + 1 = 3
Why?

Does this at least count as a seperate scene so I can hit my highlight again?

Apologies for the outburst.

Giving a bit more of himself to his Patron, Sam fades back through the wall and pokes his head back in the office. "Hey, Mrs. Wilkinson, can I just put my name down for detention and get back to class? Dean Bishop sounds kinda busy and all."

Manipulate authority: 2d6 + 0 ⇒ (4, 1) + 0 = 5
Oh for f&&*'s sake! I just want to get back to the action. Bloody f@+&ing dice gods, how many shit-eating goats do I need to sacrifice to actually succeed at something!

We'll see what happens ;)

We're not even through the first class and the battle-lines have already been drawn, Eliza versus Carrie and Sam! Now to collect some Strings on Eliza to get some ammo... This is gonna be awesome.

Eliza, Carrie gets to pick what condition(s) you get.

"I'll be right back, Miss Wilkinson. Gotta take a leak." Sam slips out of the office and goes down the hallway until he's next to the Dean's private office wall. "Adallosit, accept my payment and strengthen your Emissary," he whispers, just before going transparent and slipping through the wall into the Dean's closet. Now, who are you?

Using Elsewise Power twice to get Dissipate and Creep. I get a String on Amber and Dean Bishop. Adallosit gets two Strings on me.

Aldrea, highlight Cold in return.

I was just going to wait and see who comes out.

"Crap, guess I'll need to try harder next year." Sam keeps an eye open for a glimpse of the mystery student 'meeting' with the dean. Well now, this could be useful.

This always helps with names.

Really, end of session only? Must have missed that part.

Sam saunters into the office with the air of one accustomed to the place. He nods at the secretary, "Hey, Miss Wilkinson. Here to see Dean Bishop, she around? Popped Louis in the face." He shrugs and slouches against the wall. "Think I beat the record this time, heheh."

No one had named the dean yet, so I took the liberty of doing so. Eliza, that could fit Turn Someone On... Could get a string at the least. I think Manipulate needs a bit of talking, but it's up to Volsung ultimately.

Aldrea, pick my second higlight, if you would. (I'd suggest Hot, hint, hint)

Eliza, back in Dracula, all that sunlight did was prevent him from using his vampire abilities, shapeshifting, super-strength, etc. You could go that way.

Eliza Cunningham wrote:

Hello all. Meetch's character here.

Strings:

• I get one string from everyone, on account of my beauty
• I give two strings to Juliet, who saved my unlife in some way (maybe through a vision and a warning?)

Oh shoot, is Juliet not playing any more? I can do Matthew instead...

? Is she gone? I have a String on her...

Thanks. Some other advice I found from the writers regarding conditions is to not dictate someone else's emotional state. Getting terrified from a botched Hold Steady is fine, because the player who made the move has to choose to take the condition, and so got to decide their own emotions. Giving someone else terrified might not be as good, maybe scaredy-cat instead. Conditions reflect how others see you, mostly. Though it never hurts to play to them hard. Louis thinks I'm a psycho, I'll be psycho.

When I first read Monsterhearts, coming from DW as well, I did the same thing. "I give someone a condition, OK. What are they? Oh, you just make it up? That... makes a lot of sense actually." Monsterhearts has a lot of stuff that fits the idea of selfish teen monsters amazingly well. Ever notice there's no move to help someone like other PBtA games? That's no accident.

Conditions are how other characters see you at the moment. If you interact with someone in such a way that their current condition helps you, you get a +1 to your move. Some conditions have other effects determined by moves, like the Queen's sex move that makes people count as part of your gang.

For example, if someone has been given terrified, manipulating them with a threat or lashing out at them would probably be easier.

Strings represent emotional connections with other characters, and can he spent for a bunch of stuff.
You can spend a String on another PC to:
• Add 1 to your roll against them (choose after rolling).
• Subtract 1 from their roll against you (choose after rolling).
• Offer them an experience point to do what you want.
• Force them to hold steady in order to carry out a certain action.
• Add an extra harm to whatever harm you’re dealing them.
• Place a Condition on them.
You can spend a String on an NPC to:
• Add 1 to your roll against them (choose after rolling).
• Add 3 to your manipulate an NPC roll against them (choose after rolling).
• Cause them to falter, hesitate, or freeze up momentarily.
• Add an extra harm to whatever harm you’re dealing them.
• Place a Condition on them.

Something to keep in mind is if you spend a String to make a PC Hold Steady in order to do something, they're going to do it unless they change their mind. They just have to deal with the consequences.

For example, say I go off and decide to kick the crap out of your buddy Al. You have a String on me, and can spend it to offer me an XP to do something else (the carrot) or make me Hold Steady first (the stick), or drop a condition on me. If I have to Hold Steady and my current luck holds, I can still smack Al around but Volsung gets to make my life worse than it already is.

You doing me or Carrie?

Can I get some highlights? Some XP would make me feel better about the dice roller hosing me.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. And my name isn't Samuel." Sam shrugs and walks out of the classroom towards the Dean's office, winking at Carrie as he goes. "Nice jacket."

Turn on the ghoul: 2d6 + 0 ⇒ (3, 2) + 0 = 5
Ok, now the dice roller is just f#&@ing with me.

"You ain't seen flipping out yet, Louie." Sam winds up for a wild haymaker.

Lash out like a psycho: 2d6 + 1 ⇒ (1, 3) + 1 = 5
Oh come on.

Shut this rat down: 2d6 - 1 ⇒ (4, 3) - 1 = 6
Begin the chaos!
Wish I had the +2 bonus bargain right now...

Still need highlights.

And if I'm triggering a move at all, it's Shut Someone Down. There's no manipulating going on here, Louis is being shown where he actually sits in this relationship, and that's down with the worms.

Why yes, I did just argue for rolling my weakest stat :) What could go wrong?

Hey, don't we need Highlights?

Sam's got his hair rather long right now, and he's wearing a red plaid jacket festooned with buckles over his black t-shirt.

Sam walks in to the classroom just in time to hear Louis's comment. "You'd better button your mouth, Louis, or it's going to get real inappropriate for you. Why don't you just mind your own life?"

•

My girlfriend loves Lost Girl, it's alright.

I know, that was mostly joking. Hemlock Grove is basically just Monsterhearts on Netflix. It's pretty good. Really dark. Someone dies just about every episode.

We haven't even started and NPCs are already dropping like flies! How will any of us survive this! This is looking like the beginning of some supernatural teen drama on the CW! Oh wait, that last one's kind of the intended result...

Seriously though, a homeroom class of thirty and we're already down to twenty-eight, I'd hate to be an NPC in this school. Will we get a higher body count per episode than Hemlock Grove?

<-< >-> No reason.

I agree with Carrie, let's get these NPCs down and get going!

Emily Montagnard - She's been dealing Ecstasy lately, it's pretty good too.

Paul Landry - Rich dick, loves his '31 Model A hotrod. Weird old car, paid a fat wad for it too. Open-engine, pin-striped, the works.

Leah Glass - Found her mom's stash of vicodin and fell in deep. Not that her mom's any better, really.

Louis Marsh - I do. Never knows when to shut up, runs to the teachers at the drop of a hat. Snitches get stitches though.

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Let's put Abby next to Sam on the chart.

Carrie, you just volunteered to take the rap for Sam spray-painting a bunch of occult-looking garbage on the lockers! The graffiti doesn't actually mean anything, Sam was just messing around. Besides, once someone shows interest in the fake stuff, he can blow it off as nonsense and offer some authentic occult knowledge. Just call me the magic drug dealer ;)

Will, those fines are probably from defacing some random books. Sam scribbled some 'satanic' crap in the margins, again put the idea of the stuff out there and see who bites.

I feel like I'm setting myself up for so much trouble. Sam's turning into a major delinquent. Though from a few actual plays I've seen with Infernals, they quickly ramp into all sorts of crazy. #lifegoal

Well that's ominous.

I'll take the one next to Carrie.

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!

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.

Why not make the bully Aldrea herself?

Carrie, Aldrea, Juliet, what did you do for me that put me in your debt?