Kids on Bikes: Something Stranger This Way Comes

Game Master Meetch

Thank you!

Now that I have the full book, I have rules for teens and adults. If you’re into it, I’d like to do a three year time jump. Most kid playbooks have a teen version, but feel free to change to a whole new playbook (kids change a lot over 3 years).

Or if you’re more into staying kids, we can do that.

Are we going to have a fight over Conspiracy Theorist? I think Fatou spent at least one of those years in a 'private institute'.

I'm fine with skipping to teen. After three years of growth, Steve might be able to graduate from bully to brutish jock.

Yeah, or popular kid or laid back slacker or young provider or whatever you want.

Fatou, if you want it, feel free to claim it.

Totally fine with that.

I think Holly will stay a loner weirdo, but maybe for different reasons. Now she's the girl who clicks down the halls in 3 inch stilettos, black lipstick and has a monochrome wardrobe, and isn't fond of white.

in my head, it started with Holly trying to deal with the fact that magic is real, and kinda getting a little "witch"-y, which her parents blame on her hanging out with "that girl who spent a year in the loony bin" and she's kept doing it because it pisses off Mom and Ted.

This being the 80's, this does not make Holly's life easier. the dyed black hair and prominent pentagram necklace in the bible belt invites no shortage of rumors.

I might change Holly's profile image.

If only it were 1990. The Witching Hour came out that year.

I'm good with skipping. I'll check out asap as to how to change.

It’s easy. Just pick any teen playbook. Fatou wanted Conspiracy Theorist, Holly is staying weird loner, Steve wants to be Brutish Jock (I think), but the rest are fair game (or you can stay the funny side kick (teen version)

Plastic Beauty is worth a look. -or Laidback Slacker if you don't like the 'complete high school transformation' angle. There's still a Funny Sidekick too.

The docs were posted earlier: here's a fresh link

Ok, so I'd go for Funny Sidekick, changing Wealthy for Treasure Hunter. And her personality would be the same, kind and chatty.

Ok! Update your character sheets!

Leave to shuffle around some stats, and trade out unassuming (not really what she is anymore) for something, like skilled?

Of course! What stats do you want to shuffle?

I have returned from 20+ tabs of research with what I hope lives up to the spirit of Fatou's new trope.

I'm not fully satisfied with this portrait, but Paizo is a little urpy tonight and drops my session at page 3 of human female.

Otherwise I'm ready to tackle that prompt.

Nice! I’m excited to see what becomes of Fatou in high school

Grit: d20
Brains: d12
Fight: d10
Flight: d8
Brawn: d6
Charm: d4

and trade out Unassuming (the person I described is hardly unassuming) for either Skilled (at something that represents her obsession with the occult/morbidity) or failing that, intuitive (unless Fatou feels I'd be stepping on their toes)

Side note: Paizo has terrible portraits for a non-fantsy game.

Don’t forget that teens get +1 to fight and brawn.

well, the skull isn't pleasant, but it is still better than the hellbeast that preceded it.

Might change fear too... There's a lot of stuff to work with, given 80's therapy... better, I think, than heights. Would that be okay? I know the fears are probably important to the GM.

Given they might have tried to 'correct' her obsession with death, she might have a Pavlovian aversion to bones and remains now.

Either one is good. I can work with either.

is it just me, or are we playing a Stranger Things meets Runaways game this season? or at least, the former with elements of the latter?

I see a lot of Dreamcatcher too.

Dreamcatcher/IT is chapter three, but yeah.

I'm ready to move our sulky quartet forth!

I'm ready too.

I'm going to be posting irregularly for about a week.

Yikes, new Fatou is intense.

I think I can get back in now. Should I join one of the other scenes?

Sure! Prick a scene and jump in.

Sure! Prick a scene and jump in.

will he have to use a magical spinning wheel, or will just any sharp thing do? :P

Scenes are like balloons, or bubbles.

Flute/guitar duets are some of the prettiest music.

No blond hair, just saiyan.

So, would Holly cursing Maggie so she can win over Max be interesting and dramatic PvP, or too far/unfun PvP (assuming the curse even works...)

And if there is a split vote, I could run Monsterhearts with anyone who voted “fun pvp”

I find it interesting.

Could bring Maggie and Fatou closer for purposes of retribution.

Sure it's fun!
(as long as it is in good spirits, right?)
(Right?)
(Please, I've always brought you sweets!)

Oh, ooc I love this. IC, holly is upset, and trying to keep her two goth friends interested, and getting curses dangled in front of her.

I will be posting at a rate of less than once a day for about a week.

Yeah, as of tomorrow, I'll be running GoD at PAX East for the weekend, so I may be silent, or only update very late at night, depending on how wiped I am

Checking in, I'm ok with being on hold.

I'm visiting my brother this coming week. Not sure yet what my availability will be during travel, but I should be able to keep up with updates.

I'm ok with cutting.

What a horrible night to have a curse.

was that a BoI reference

okay with cutting to soc

Having a wife who is a practicing Wiccan, we both shake our heads for the threefold toll Holly will bear for her evocation, but no offense taken.

One of our favorite movies is The Craft, which I assumed was Holly's main influence, given the four-point coven.

did I... break it?

No clue. I'll shuffle along when people are ready.

I grew up on fairy tale books illustrated by Arthur Rackham. When I had the bindings restored and sent the books to my nieces, I got a text from my brother that just said "no" followed by a picture of the open postbox. When I asked him to elaborate, he said he thought he burned those books when we were kids because the pictures gave him nightmares.

Now that the curse is over, I gotta know. That Iambic Pentameter thing, was that something Meetch had you do, or did you just do it.

Either way, kudos, that as really well done

She picked it herself. It was really clever!