Character Creation

Going to repost my character stuff a third time here!
As a reminder, I'm looking for the party to know each other. To be cohesive. To know some secrets about each other, though not necessarily everything.

General setting you'll have come from is where suburbia starts to meet rural. Don't worry too much about there where, but the who. Your characters know the folks in town by face, if not always by name.

I'm so stoked by this!! Many thanks for having me on board :)

I'll start thinking about character concepts and will post back soon so that we can all start to think of a cohesive party together.

Is anyone familiar with a TV show called Dead Last?

A basic idea for our group. 18-30 year olds who have formed a band and who are amateur ghost hunters.



Plot
The premise of the series was that the three members of the fictional band named The Problem find, and are unable to rid themselves of, a magical amulet that allows them to see and communicate with ghosts. Each episode featured the trio reluctantly completing the unfinished business of the ghosts that they encounter in order to allow the ghosts move on to the next world. Much of the humor of the series came from The Problem wanting to develop their career instead of helping ghosts, and that the trio almost invariably are viewed as, at best, mentally unbalanced by those who cannot see or hear ghosts.

Sounds very interesting. Just gave a first quick scan of the rules. Will need to read them again and better later.

I do like to consider indeed how our character know each other.

Being in a band or so together would work (although I know not much about music).


Just some random brainstorm thoughts:
1) Band
2) Sports team
3) Co-Workers
4) They play D&D together
5) Family
6) They are in some "I survived something horrible" support group together

lol, hilarious! I'm down for a band and ghost-hunters! You don't need to know a thing about music to be in a band, I promise.

D&D group is also a fun choice for me, but we could just add that into the Band/Ghost-hunter idea, really.

I have updated the Interest thread to reflect that there are 2 slots left. I'm going to give it another day before locking this group in as we're at the 4-6 player range!

Alright yall. I've added everyone that gave interest. It's character time! I'm loving the ideas given so far, which way are folks leaning for a group, what kind of "tropes" are you considering for characters?

Hi guys.

Liking the suggestions already. The thought I had which could be combined with others is a group trying yo get a youtube/twitch/ streamer thing going, either for ghost hunting, a band or just random videos, which has led them to the house.

All right, I'm done with the player's guide.

I dig the "Dead Last" idea, although the "I survived something horrible" support group is also promising. In that latter case maybe we could have lost a common friend some time ago under mysterious circumstances? (and thus combine with the ghost hunter idea). If we go for the band, I'm happy playing either first or second guitar, or even a groupie that is in love / in a relationship with one of the band members, could be fun :D

The band idea seems to stick on with most people.
The trope would indeed depend on the form of group we'd play. I know if we'd be a band I'd play a character which much more cool than in the support group :)

If we'd do the band, I'd go for vocalist or electric violin to add in a less common instrument.

Bassist and background vocals for my character.

Reminder that those ideas aren't exclusive either. A punky band who lost someone awhile ago makes a ton of sense.

Unrelated, are folks okay with this being a public game?

public is fine with me

Zuri the Drummer!
Extra angsty, semi-depressed, ghost-obsessed "spiritualist"... was very close to the person we lost.
Open to further entanglement. Complicated relationships with other band members or their cute relatives.

Rather not be public, but I will bow to the majority.

Cadence Black - Bass/Background vocals

She always wears black, just like her little heart.

I'm alright public, but if some people want private then would lean that way.

Thinking the self-appointed social media manager of the group. Either a relative, close friend or maybe just crushing in a it member, whil she can't actually play or anything she likes to hang out with them, and handke the filming, tech etc side. Though likely refuses the term 'roadie'.

One person not wanting it, especially with this type of a game, is enough for me.

I'm okay with going public, don't really care.

I'll go with Carl Kipps, lead guitar. He's the most recent addition to the band after the former lead disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but it's already becoming quite obvious that he does not have the charisma or confidence of his predecessor.

So, why the House? Why this House?

Are they scoping out a location for a new music video? Ghost-hunting in a reputed haunted locale? Is this the last place anyone saw or heard that our former lead guitarist was supposed to have been?

yes yes and yes! Zuri wants to do a seance and likely has not said, that she definitely wants to summon their former bandmember.

Seems like we got most basic positions covered.



Now we need a cool name.
Uhm... bandnames...? Skip. That is really outside of things I know about.

Cadence Black

Ideas for band names

MissAnthropy
Knot Today
Graven Image
WTF
Whispers in the Dark
Plus One

Stephanie Hall (work in progress)Typical spoiled rich girl. Only child. Dad is some hotshot in business with a fancy suit, expensive car and big credit card.

She has a bit of a brain and could go to university quite easily. But instead she would rather just be singing and making music. She dreams of a big career in the musical industry.

She lives in a small, but fancy, appartment which dad bought for her, with her cat Lion.
Her neighbours downstairs often complain about the music.

Oh I've got a great bane name!!! EVP "electronic voice phenomenon" ... to tie in the Ghostly stuff

Really dig many of the band names... MissAnthropy, Knot Today, or EVP, any of these would do for me XD Also love the cast so far :3Carl is usually a chill, laid-back guy who just wants to play the guitar but otherwise doesn't display a great deal of ambition. If anyone cares for his opinion he would say that it strikes him as surprising how people can dedicate large portions of their lives in pursuit of some goal, slowly dying towards it but without any enjoyment of the ride (don't fret over it, nobody usually asks his opinion). He has a tendency to have his head on the clouds and talk nonsense.

He was the rhythmic guitar before the "incident". It's not a secret that the two guitarists never really got along (maybe an ego/talent thing?). It's also not a secret that, since his partner's demise, he's currently undergoing a 12-step NA program, which is going great so far (according to him at least).

So... is they all we need? Are we all just 1's as far as character sheets go?

My first post has notes about what I'm looking at for character sheets. Additionally, a connection, and opinion, etc on your other band mates is important and will serve you well.

I have one more thing that you should send me privately, which for some reason is not included in the Player's Guide. A truth, or a lie.

Specifically, something that your character truly believes about the world at large, or the group. As with the connections, something specific and personal is best. The DM's guide suggests the following questions if you need suggestions:
- What's the key to success
- How important are my friends
- What's my ultimate goal
- What's my most important principle or value

Now, we're playing from the real world, rather than a world of big stakes and big heroes, so your characters may not wear this on their sleeve as strongly as say, a fantasy Paladin, but it should be something that they'd express or portray.

Now, you may notice that I said, truth or lie, and then something that your character believes to be true. The key here is that you the player don't have to believe it, but your character does.


Summary
1. I'd like a sheet with the things listed under the cut in my first post! Just a custom sheet is all. If you want something fancy, there's a fillable pdf in that same post.

2. What does your character believe to their core. Tell me privately (there's a way to do private notes in threads or a PM works).

3. Think about your band mates and what your character thinks of them. Discuss with your fellow players what your relationship is like and what things you've done in the past.

All of these can be rough, but these are the boxes I'd like checked before we start. Hoping for a weekend start at the latest if that's doable?

Word!

I'm PMing everyone for individual stuff, but Should we maybe collectively here decide on our Missing Memeber?

Did they use to be the Lead Guitar? Were they also our defacto leader?

I was thinking they would have been 'the heart' of the band maybe? Or maybe that's just what Zuri felt about it?

Also... I might want Zuri to have had a thing for them, but someone else is welcome to have been their actual partner
Either way I am planning to write Zuri as extremely affected by their loss...

Speaking of which, maybe we can decide the circumstances of their disappearance (or death)?

Also here is Zuri Agrinya, so far:

1st generation african-american, whose family immigrated from Tanzania just before her birth.
She is the drummer for our band, and currently carries a nickname from high school 'Z. the Bitch', but those who really know her know she is soft on the inside - defending herself with her spikey exterior.

She wants the songs and the band as a whole to play hard rock fusions with lots of bass thumps. Her musical influences are Heavy-metal, Goth-Punk and Old-school hiphop. She knows how-to thrash and stomp that double-bass pedal. She considers all of you friends, and has been fiercely loyal and motivated to 'making it' as a band. But has not been the same since [Name of former member] disappeared/died, seeming to fall into depression much more often.

Zuri was already a "spooky chic" but has been spending A LOT more time, since then, studying occult practices and religious rituals about Death and the Afterlife, treating them as if they might help them all find a way to speak to [former band member] again.

Sorry guys, still working on details but was thinking my chara ter would possible be the young sister of our missing guitarist, who dragged her along to the practices etc to try and give her direction and not get into trouble, and she ended up having a knack with the tech, and social media. Sticking around to try and make them proud and not start to fall off the rails again.

Unless anyone else wants a slightly troublesome younger sibling.

Having the kissing leber be the heart/defacto leader works. May make sense the band is struggling to to stock together after their loss.

Ding dong! Mickey Mouse is gone!

I say the narcissistic self-indulging wastoid went on a drug-induced trip and never came out the other side. Literally.

hmmm... I was thinking this was someone we would miss. Could that somehow be just Cadence's opinion maybe?

That is Cadence's opinion. Yes.

They stole her ideas and music and made the whole band about them.

I am thinking this 'Mickey' and Cadence were once childhood friends or maybe they just lived next door to each other. They founded the band together and as soon as the band began to takeoff, 'Mickey' took all the credit.

Cadence Black (aka Cade or Black)

Cade was a child prodigy in music. She never bought into the whole Jesus thing and has, from an early age, been into the more left-hand paths of belief. Its not a fad for her. She is openly gay and what of it?

Might be an idea to sketch out a vague concept for this person, as seems we currently have different things in mind. I'm also leaning on the heart of the group idea, or at least that is how Character (Who I've got Rachel as a name sketched in) sees him, as likely only member of family who gave her time and tried to help her focus her neurodivergent tendencies (Likely adhd at the very least), rather than just treat as a nuisance, bring her to practice and likely encouraging her to follow her interest in getting involved with the tech side (..there may have been some broken gear in the interim :P)

So would need to work on meshing that with someone who would steal credit/ideas, and whatever other things others had in mind. So far it seems they are male, and the lead guitar, who mysteriously disappeared.

A quick query to help with character growth, -> Why is Cadence sticking around in a band with a guy she doesn't like who steals credit/ideas? Possibly attachment to another member?

She's been waiting on the right opportunity to either start another band or get into one.

Addendum:

Carl is a much better guitarist than old whats-their-name ever was. Cade was the one who pushed to get him accepted into the band.

Question: Are you playing Cadence and Carl, both?

@LightOfMidnight - i think all of these ideas can still be used together. This rivalry (or hatred) was probably slowly building in the background for awhile. [Mickey] could have had some depression or chemical imbalance that pushed him to self-medicate, and have many sides with many different people, and none of us would actually truly know him... at least not when he was high.

Heroin or Opioid?

Carl is Rodian I believe.

Sounds good. Yeah sorry if previous message wasn't clear, was trying to say we should come up with something like that and start 'molding ' the guy guy instead of accidentally build 2/3 different versions of him and finding out later when its harder to join them all in.

Self-medication etc works. Already thinking in mind that childhood likely wasn't best, maybe he shielded Rachel from some aspects, being the older one, and this led to depression/taking out on others etc while she only saw the smiling/good brother side.

Hmmm

I think Stephanie used to date [Mickey] in high school. But she broke up with him to pursue other interests.
Still, he was her first romance, and so she'll always care for him in some way. Although they did break up (in a decent way) quite a few years before he vanished.

Oh meant to ask what age/timelines are people looking at. In my head I had band being around for a good few years, however if there are some rocky relationships in it like Cadence and Micky, it may be a newer endeavour?

Just to summarize everything into one potential mold:

- Mickey (short for Michael?)
- Used to be the Lead Guitar? And defacto leader?
- He had depression and self-medicated?

- Zuri had a thing for him
- Rachel is his younger sister, he was protective / shielding her
- Cadence was a childhood friend and sort of a rival? after they formed the band
- Stephanie used to date him

So... in PMs I worked it a little different, reposting my correction (if that's okay)

- Mickey (short for Michael?)
- Used to be the Lead Guitar And defacto leader (because he was charismatic?)
- He had depression and self-medicated

- Went to high school with Cadence, Zuri, and Stephanie (and Carl?)
- Zuri was his best friend (at least before he 'left us')
- Rachel is his younger sister, he was protective / shielding her (now Zuri is)
- Cadence was a childhood friend and sort of a rival? Maybe she was the one that convinced everyone to start the band and actually show up to practices.
- Stephanie used to date him, but they were better as friends.


(all others feel free to add to adjust!)

Like this. Since there was some antagonism wrt our old leader from both Cade and Carl, I guess they might have held some alliance in the old times, maybe they were even plotting a band mutiny together? Although of course whats-their-name erasure of the map in such a timely manner made the conspiracy unnecessary. The main source of resentment on Carls's part is that he always downplayed his musical talent, probably not so much because of feeling threatened by him but rather to piss off Cade, as Carl was one of "her guys" (although Carl, being a little insecure, doesn't fully understand this).

Nowadays Carl is struggling to fill the shoes of the old guitarist. He doesn't really think he has it in him, and the abrupt way in which he has seized control makes him a bit uncomfortable.

Updating the summary after some PMs with @Orobu:

- Mickey (short for Michael?)
- Used to be the Lead Guitar And defacto leader (because he was charismatic?)
- He had depression and self-medicated

- Went to high school with Cadence, Zuri, Stephanie, and Carl (for a time, he's a dropout).
- Zuri was his best friend (at least before he 'left us')
- Rachel is his younger sister, he was protective / shielding her (now Zuri is)
- Cadence was a childhood friend and sort of a rival? Maybe she was the one that convinced everyone to start the band and actually show up to practices.
- Stephanie used to date him, but they were better as friends.
- Carl and Michael didn't really get along either. Carl was the better guitarist but feels inadequate about filling in the leader's shoes. Despite his relaxed and "don't care" manner he is a bit insecure and reckons he doesn't have the charisma of the old leader.

So continual spitballing :

So Cade is a musical prodigy and was the writer of the songs mostly? Mickey was 'the Heart' but was the person who knew everyone and got us the gigs... and now Rae is trying to do that while Carl takes the spotlight and Cade tries to salvage what she can so she can get out of this failing band? Zuri wants to salvage the band but isn't jiving as well with Carl, and probably is reacting a bit poorly to Cade and her current 'attitude' as Zuri sees it, but mostly just sad that Mickey is gone and feeling the pressure to protect Rae from the worst of it.

Always a blessing to see this much chatter after I get done with my in person game.

Alright, even though I still need to flesh out some of the relationships, I have submitted Carl's sheet. I've also answered the private question there, just let me know if there's anything wrong :)

I see sheets for Carl and Zuri.

I'm not sure what qualifies here? just any characteristic or more like a core stat?

The best example is the fantasy character one again. Armor gives a bonus to resist damage, it'd get a +1. So something that you are essentially a full rank better than the others at

Putting stuff in notes so I can manage better than PMing and Melody can read along :)

I'm really not sure why everyone is hiding their posts. Aren't we supposed to be working out relationships and connections?

Hmmm, maybe you are right about that. It began by getting PMs and the instruction from Melody to PM a deep belief. That kinda put me in to join the secret mode :)

Maybe going fully open is a good idea.

Okay.... should we try maybe redoing our headcanon list of things?

Band that is on the rocks after the death of their lead guitarist, also being the guy who was really good at getting us gigs. Cade was always very musically talented and pushed all of us while in high school to practice. Zuri was a sheltered girl when they met but being in the band pulled her out of her shell. Stephanie was dating Mickey and got convinced to get her dad to buy her a guitar and he taught her how to play. We eventually managed a short local career of gigs and small shows. Mickey let the small amount of success go to his head and got into coke and pills, and start messing up at shows. Zuri was bestfriends with Mickey since school and during this time tried to help him get out of his spiral. She knew privately he was struggling with issues and self-medicating, causing a cycle of self-deprecation and some sort of narcissistic abuse involving Cadence, who was not handling his drug use well, knowing it was getting in the band's way of success. She was right about that. When Mickey died, Cade contacted Carl, who we all knew from highschool? Now they is a schism in the band. Cade wants to push forward and is angry at Mickey, Zuri is trying to Protect Raechel from the whole, thing, and there are some secrets and drama and sprinkled throughout, plenty for the House to feed on.

Sound okay? changes?

We also seem to have neglected talking about any sort of GHost hunter quality to this.

I like this version better. Perhaps Carl and Cade were taking music lessons from the same teacher or at the same music center while they were in high school and this is how she knew how talented Carl was. Or....There were two high schools in our borderline suburban townish and the school lines ran down the middle of the street where Cade and Mickey lived. They were neighbors but went to different high schools and Carl went to the same school Cade did. The town was small enough that almost everyone knew each other or at least has seen or heard of each other, but they didn't all necessarily go through their entire school life together.

@MelodyMeradin,

I'm not sure what you were saying in the thread above about a +1 to a thing or skill that each of us have that gives us an edge in an area over the base 1 we all get. Could you go into that a bit to help me understand?

Ah, yes. So this is in reference to "Modified ratings"

In this case, what's something that you're better than everyone else at, and what's something that you're worse at

Yes MM! I'm thinking

+1 Brawl, +1 Occult lore, -1 Persuasion

If we're getting two boosts, as suggested above, Cade would have...

+1 Music, +1 Agility, -1 Religion

Feel free to put on your sheets!

er... to add that to your sheets. I'm not sure how you'd wear a character sheet

I think we need a vote on Age and the Band name... the rest can sort of come out in RP?

Oh and are we still ghost hunters or just a Band now?

Age: Mid to late twenties?

Band Name: ?

Ghost hunters. Hmmm. I think we are scouting the House because it is reputed to be haunted. Are we serious ghost hunters or is that a part of our band's mystique image?

It sounds like just our vibe, and maybe Zuri and Rae have some secret seance plan? Like Zuri found this place and convinced everyone, including getting Steph to foot some of the bill to help drag everyone out there?


Ages: 25-26 sounds great, Rae are you still 22? Just enough that you were in highschool right before we graduated?

Band: I still like Electronic Voice Phenomena, what is everyone else's favorite?

I always kinda pictured them a bit younger. Like college / university age, 22-ish

I'm okay with adjusting ages. Rae's the youngest. I was just thinking she would be 21-22, so she didn't get left out when they played gigs at 21 and up clubs.

EVP is fine by me. It not my first choice, but its okay.

Whatcha say Rae?
We can get probably just get her into places from the backdoor regardless.

Oh yeah you Americans and 21 drinking age. I'm happy her being 18/19. She will absolutely just sneak in.

Hey, I liked the version of the two high schools in town and C & C going to the other one.

Regarding the name, I'm ok with EVP, although MissAnthropy would come first if I had to vote.

I pictured Carl as 23 years old, btw.

GM, regarding modified ratings I think I'll go with the following. If they are too broad or specific I can adjust.

Survival +1
Country boy has been getting lost in the woods since a kid.

Thief +1
Hell, not everyone is rich as Stephanie, can't really wait until the world finally recognizes their musical talent. He knows a thing or two about deactivating house alarms and burglary in general.

Absent-minded -1
His relaxed nature combined with the effects of long-term abuse of magical mushrooms (among other substances...) has made him a bit absent-minded and introspective at times.

Survival may need to be narrowed a bit.

Yeah. Drawing from personal experience here. When I was growing up, both of my neighbors (1 across the street and 1 next door) all went to different schools.
Me too.

As for the skills:

I originally put
Persuasive at +1 and Stealth at -1
Guess I am still missing a +1. That could be appraising.
Steph knows the expensive brands and how to recognize art from junk



As for band names, I am fine with any.

I like it, I say go for it

seeing 2 for MissAnthropy, and no other doubles, so that's our name!

Alright, I'm second guessing, over analyzing, heavily editing writing up the first post now. Just to confirm, what's the "group collective" version of why yall are looking into the house? (I know 1 - a few of you have your own thoughts)

Realised need to throw up a sheet still sorry.
Skillwise not sure how broad/creative we cold go with skills but was thinkig

+ McGuyverying - Because sometimes the parts you need aren't around so you strap some bits together and hope it works. (If not happy will likely go with something that shows she knows how to build things)
+Tchenology/Electronics - Sometimes you do have the parts and need to know how they go together.

- Reading people/Just People - Machines are easy, people are not and kniw what they mean and if/when they are joking or being cryptic is hard.

I'm fine with these. Kinda glossed over the fact that I didn't have a sheet to approve for you, not because I'd done it, but because it wasn't there, whoops.

The reason to be there is that we want to shoot a Music Video and some B-roll. It it's okay with everyone else, Zuri found this place for the whole spooky look. I found it through a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend etc.

Zuri would be purposefully searching for a haunted house.

Yeah, I'm in for the music video idea :D

Love the idea!

Thread up! I'll largely be attempting to update posts around this time each day, though if we're clearly waiting on someone I'll try to give up to a day of grace. Trying to give a balance between keeping things moving and knowing everyone has lives. (Even if mine is often ffxiv)

Realistically, what should we have for equipment?

Whatever you would normally carry on you and whatever you were planning to have for this shoot

I'm gonna create a more dedicated OOC thread, one sec

What kind of group concept do we have?

The initial group was a young 20 something aspiring rock band.

I would like to continue going forward with my character from that. She's a bass player.

Whether we are her subsequent band or an alternate friend group is fine by me.

Here's Cadence currently:


Cadence Black

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Doom 0

Overall Rating 1

Modified Ratings +1 Music, +1 Agility, -1 Religion

Special Abilities

General Traits

Boons/Banes in Effect

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Equipment

Bass (Black Fender Meteora), Case, Gear Bag (strap, picks, cables, etc.), duffel bag, performance ensemble, make up kit, Maglight, can of mace, Zippo lighter, switchblade, extendable truncheon, pest repellent, mosquito repellent bracelets, small cooler, chilled drinks, snacks, keys (apartment, locker, car), sm. purse w/strap (IDs, credit card, cash, cell phone, toiletries, tooth brush, hair brush), jewelry

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?


Connections
1

2

3

4

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Truth or Lie
There is no god. Never was. Never will be.

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Cadence Black was born a musical prodigy. Her dad was an abusive monster and she figured out early in life that there could not be a god. She is very serious about her music and demands perfection of herself. Her interests, outside of music of course, are studies of left-hand paths such as the Temple of Set, horror movies, and swimming. She has been openly a lesbian since her sophomore year in high school.

In the last years of high school and into college years, Cade became one of the founding members of a local rock band named MissAnthropy. The band began to fall apart due to its leader singer, Mickey's, drug abuse and following his death from this abuse, the band struggled and then collapsed due a schism with the surviving members and their hangers-ons.

Determined and ambitious, Cade had begun to seriously consider leaving even before things got to a head and now seeks out others of like mind.

I could go with either idea really. A new band or a friend group where some may be musicians or just enjoy music.

Hi all - I'm new, and since I'm joining late, it seems realistic to say I'm not a member of the band. My current idea is a photog who perhaps helped the band with some shoots in the past? Maybe I'm someone's cousin who was out of town during some of the initial events.

@Elithmord You're good. We're actually just spinning up again. Whether that first run was a weird dream of Cade's or just nothing at all, yall are going to get the intro.

If I don't see any more joiners in the next day or so, I'll run this with 4. Going to give it a few and then bump it one last time.

Alright! So, yall've met Cade and the recruitment thread has closed. Who are you, how do you know her?

I'm Delia Whitlow, local shutterbug currently failing at being a journalist. Maybe I'm Cade's cousin who used to do the band's album covers and photoshoots (maybe branched out to other local indie groups because it's a thing I do now).

The original band had an erstwhile photographer and videographer, but the band never got enough popularity or fame to get a contract. So, they never had albums.

If Delia is Cade's cousin, that makes sense. Cade would be looking to upgrade, put together a better new band and get signed.

Hmm, what did you guys have as far as security? Someone to keep the fans & stalkers away. He could be a friend or family member.

We didn't really have anyone in that role. Four of the PCs were band members and the fifth was our photo/video person.

No worries, I'll work on that idea then. Would your character have hired mine or would it be easier to have someone else?

A roadie/security person sounds good to me. She could have hired them.

I am thinking my character met Cade in college. They have similar interests in music and other areas as well. They are into the occult, monster movies, and FX.

After Cadence left her old band, they started hanging out more and my character joined her in starting the new band.

Please see this space for character sheet info. In addition, I request something that your character believes 100% to be true about the world or their companions, whether or not we the players agree.

My character is Ash, male. He is singer and guitarist for Cade's new band.

New folks, do we think we can get character sheets done by the end of the weekend? I hate to be pushy but I wanna Plaaaay.

I will try to get Ash finished up this weekend. Work has me exhausted and inspiration is not coming to me right now with the mental fatigue, but I do have a couple nights off now.

Last thing from me for now. Don't forget connections. Not just how you know this person, but how you feel about them, what you've done together and to each other in the past, etc.

Ash Wednesday

I have submitted Ash. He not completely finalized yet.

What is the name of the new band?
What happened to the rest of Cade's original crew?

Ash is a rebellious son of good Catholic parents. His family is fairly well off. He's never had a problem finding dates. He generally a hedonist and bad influence, but a good friend to those he calls friend.

He finds Cade intriguing, even though she seems completely immune to his usual sexual magnetism. Rather than it being frustrating, he has drawn closer and become a good friend to her.

Band Name - I'm open (Rainbow in the Dark?)

Fate of Cade's old crew - Maybe they all died in a horrible crash, when Mickey got stoned and ran the van off the old bridge? Cade's first encounter with the House could have been a portent or nightmare?

I think this one is very a you call, but certainly the dark options are in theme

Lol! HaHaHa!

Rainbow in the Dark works for me. Homage to Ronnie James Diio, magic, and the LBGTQ+ community too.

Are we going to the house to shoot a video like the first time around or do we have another reason? Mainly, I ask to determine what equipment to take in. I like the idea that at some point there could be a gratuitous guitar scene, but carrying stuff around throughout for no reason would get to be a drudge.

BTW, I like the bit in the description of the possibility of stepping into other worlds. A foray into What Lies Below would be really cool.

What Lies Below

Qralloq teased a campaign of this and then dumped the whole game after we gaked his Janky villain before he wanted it to happen.

I have amended Cade's backgound:

Cadence Black was born a musical prodigy. Her dad was an abusive monster and she figured out early in life that there could not be a god. She is very serious about her music and demands perfection of herself. Her interests, outside of music of course, are studies of left-hand paths such as the Temple of Set, horror movies, and swimming. She has been openly a lesbian since her sophomore year in high school.

In the last years of high school and into college years, Cade became one of the founding members of a local rock band named MissAnthropy. The band began to fall apart due to its leader singer, Mickey's, drug abuse. One night, after practice, the group was supposed to sneak into an old house in the area and film a video. Which some hoped would boost their career and popularity. Mickey insisted on driving, with his younger sister navigating. Cade tried to get Mickey to let her drive, because he was noticeably very impaired. when he refused, she instead decided to walk the couple blocks to get her own car and drive there herself. The others never made it to the site, as Mickey ran the van off the old bridge and all inside died.

Almost immediately, Cade began to have reoccurring nightmares about she, and those who died in the crash, entering the old house.

Its nearly a year to the day now. She has moved on and formed a new band, Rainbow in the Dark, with a college friend of several years named Ash.

Alright, I see Equinox's sheet. @Squadfather44,@Elithmord how are yall doing? Questions concerns?

@MelodyMeradin,

Are Ash's abilities alright? I wasn't sure those were acceptable.

I think his equipment list works. I didn't list a vehicle. Though, I suppose at least one of us has one.

I still haven't put up much of a background for him. I kinda wanted to play that loose until I had more of an idea of the other characters and their possible connections.

Everything as written works for me.

Okay cool!

Hearing nothing from the other two, how do we want to proceed? I honestly will just go, we can weave the other folks in fairly easily later if they show, and if not, have a small narrative game.

I'm fine with a two or three character game. We do need a drummer [hint, hint]

I'll give us one more day and then we're starting one way or another.

Sorry for the short intro post, but I wanted to leave circumstances lightly open.

Nice! I'll get a post up when I can get to my computer in the morning.