The Flood: Character Creation

I don’t know if it’s more convenient to do things on a separate thread. A fresh start! I’ll make it anyway!

Flood characters! You can take two extra advancements to account for your experience in the first two modules!

1: Choose your type.
Hacker, Jock, Lone Wolf, Motorhead, Party Animal, Raver, Rocker, Seeker, Snob, Street Kid.

2: Decide your age, from 14-19.
I expect we will give a gap of at least five years, to get you all up in ages a bit. We can squint if things get to funky!

3: Distribute 14 points between your four attributes. 1-5 points each.
I think we can add an extra 2 points here to account for earlier levels!

4: Distribute 10 points to skills. You may take up to level three in the three skills for your Type. For everything else, 1 is the starting maximum.

5: Pick an iconic item.

6: Pick a problem, drive and shame.

7: Define your relationship to the others in the group.

8: Descibe your relationship with one or two NPCs.

9: Choose an anchor.

I submitted my character now. I put the two extra points into skills (going beyond the 1 max limitation with those raises).

I'm a Seeker now

Hmmm. Anyone else thinking Lone Wolf? Most of the others don't seem to fit Em super-well, though I could probably work with Hacker...

Georgie is going to become a Party Animal -- I can't unsee that.

I'm not sure about Andy yet. If people have suggestions....

Some kids, despite everything, manage to stay the course and don’t change too much. If you’re not opposed to Jock again.

I find your lack of imagination disturbing... But it's a solid idea which I might as well follow myself. Gotsa get that book. xD

Haha ... but here's the thing about that. It's soooo Andy. And he's really good at soccer...why change him, right?

What is our age gap going to be so we all age the same number of years? 5 years or more? As far as relationships go, Andy stayed home and played soccer for his college so he might have retained friendships of those that stayed in the area.

7 years, I believe

Mikey left town and would be returning just now

Ok, thanks. Andy stayed home because the whole incident freaked him out and he swore he'd never leave again. He would be getting ready to start college then at 17 and got a soccer scholarship.

Here he is. 17, school hero with the associated trappings. He just needs relationships from anyone that stayed home or in the vicinity.
Radiohead Fake Plastic Trees for fav song which displaced the Miami Vice theme song.

7 years later -- from the start of the last game? I had Em age a year from adventure 1 to 2. I think she went from 11 to 12. Sound right? So she's 18 now, or 19? We'll all be out of school, yeah? Attending colleges, working jobs?

Considered Lone Wolf, looked at Raver... but Em's a Hacker now.

Probably closer to the age of ep2. We might still be in school at 18/19. Might depend on whether that's relevant for the adventure

Raver Em would be great as well 😄

Closer to the age of Ep2? Aroo?

In the US, you are definitely done with high school by the time you're 19 unless you've been held back.What's everyone else going with?

And yeah, it was either lose herself in the exploding world of the Internet (BBSes, Gopher, MUDs and USENET!), or lose herself in drugs. I think I'll have had her stick around so she doesn't steal any of Mikey's coming back to town thunder.

Feel free to steal thunder if you want 😄 Maybe we even moved to a similar area and stayed in contact a bit more away from the others.

I might have gotten held back. Whatever works best for the plot.
Here, I'd say most people have finished school by the time they're 19 but not all. But maybe my perspective is skewed becaus I graduated with a bunch of people who were into their 20s even.

Mmmm… I’ve been reading up on an adventure or two and they don’t really require the school to work. So whatever suits you all!