Character Creation

May 11, 2023 10:02 pm
This is where we will create your characters for the game. We will start by you listing your top 3 choices for the playbooks you want to play.

List them in order from what you most want to play, to what you'd still play but would rather play the others instead.

We'll go from there once that's done.
May 11, 2023 10:16 pm
I never played this game yet, so it's hard to truely judge interesting playbooks.
Which means I'd automatically fall back the best way to selecting them: those that have a good "feel" to them for a character :)

My top 3 (in about any order really) would be:

1. Chosen
2. Spooky
3. Mundane
Last edited May 11, 2023 10:17 pm
May 11, 2023 10:24 pm
Interesting choices. The Chosen eh? Hm, what would that look like for you?
May 11, 2023 10:49 pm
1. Monstrous
2. Spooky
3. Crooked

I think I'm looking at the right list. I'll double check later but this is my initial bid.
May 11, 2023 10:51 pm
hm, gonna be an interesting group I think.
May 12, 2023 2:11 am
Huh, tough call, all interesting and varied choices, but I've narrowed it down to:

1. The Divine
2. The Expert
3. Crooked/The Professional

TAZ S2 was great!
May 12, 2023 6:08 am
wulfman35781 says:
Interesting choices. The Chosen eh? Hm, what would that look like for you?
For the chosen specifically, I am thinking the a daughter of someone who was a famous monster hunter, but who was killed by a monster. Now everyone is looking at her. You're the daughter, go avenge your father! She is gifted, people look at her, but is it what she really wants? Can she deal with the pressure?
May 12, 2023 9:14 pm
I'm really only interested in playing Expert, but if I had to choose two other...

1) Expert
2) Professional
and maybe 3) The Initiate
May 12, 2023 9:15 pm
Hm, interesting choices. Though the Expert does seem to fit you, from what I know of you.
May 13, 2023 3:40 pm
I believe @rossum is still to make a choice, but we all have been picking a different first choice so far. That's great.

Between Chosen, Monstrous, Divine, Expert and something else we could make an interesting group composition.
May 14, 2023 2:51 pm
I could go:

1. Spell-Slinger
2. Crooked
3. Initiate/Spooky
May 14, 2023 3:01 pm
Okay, playbooks selected we've got...

Ledosero as the Chosen
AutomAtomic as the Monstrous
ctme2000 as the Divine
TextualSubtext as the Expert
and rossum as the Spellslinger.

Interesting choices. The character sheet thread has a mostly blank character sheet. Go ahead and work through it till you get to the introductions. Once there, let me know and we'll do the introductions.
May 14, 2023 6:18 pm
I did some copy-pasting to jet my character over into a template and submitted it.

Short story is Janos is a Old World (Hungarian) earth mage. He's mid-forties but looks more worn. A TBD-monster (maybe a mummy) got his mentor and he's now stateside, looking to find out more.
May 14, 2023 6:37 pm
Looking good so far. Going to go ahead and approve both characters submitted as they are and we'll work through the rest once the others catch up.
May 14, 2023 6:49 pm
I am playing Elise Babano, her civilian alias. Her short story is she was born in the 1600s and became a Baba Yaga style monster when her family was betrayed by her lover/fiancé. A little while ago, someone brought her here to hurt people but she encountered a hunter who made her remember she wasn't always a monster. That might have been another PC or at least someone tied to one, we'll figure that out in the introduction stage. I'll be playing her as a former Boogey Man who isn't sure about her future path anymore.
May 14, 2023 8:12 pm
Cool! I am looking forward to doing Hx and figuring out how we know each other. I am not sure if you can see my character sheet, but I added my questions there.
May 14, 2023 9:41 pm
A girl, barely 18 years old steps into the room. She seems to be a bit of a tomboy. Dark eyes, dark hair. Practically dressed. Her hair in a ponytail, sporty pants and shirt, a reinforced black leather jacket. She holds a long, but thin sword. Her moves are those of a dancer, while she holds the sword in two hands.

Alex (Alexis) Bishop is an 18-year-old girl who was chosen by her family’s Sacred Sword by chance in the night that a monster killed her father during an attack at her house. She comes from quite a wealthy family which is said to have it’s roots in Salem. Her father, John, was a very famous and successful monster hunter in town and he had been training up his other daughter, Sam (20), to succeed him. But now it is Alex who wields the family sword.

https://i.imgur.com/Utaahpk.jpg
May 14, 2023 9:47 pm
So the sword chose Alex instead of Sam? What does Sam feel about that?
May 14, 2023 10:00 pm
Yes. Alex defended her family (by taking the sword from her father's corpse and killing the attacker), so the sword chose Alex.
Sam feels like her position has been stolen. And Alex feels like she never wanted it in the first place.
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May 14, 2023 10:11 pm
Juicy family drama right there.
May 14, 2023 10:11 pm
Juicy family drama right there.
May 16, 2023 7:05 pm
This is just an avatar test.
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May 16, 2023 9:33 pm
rossum says:
Juicy family drama right there.
yeah. Gotta love it :)
May 18, 2023 9:19 am
So how is everyone going on with their characters? :)
May 18, 2023 12:37 pm
I'm good. Ready to do History whenever the rest are.
May 18, 2023 6:38 pm
I've got the basis for who I think the character should be. Thinking of going with the exile background, and incorporating a bit of American Gods, where he drives a taxi around town to keep on the down low, earn some scratch, and keep an ear/eye out for the goings-on around town.

Divine moves would be Soothing, Healing, and Smite.

Hope to have the character sheet filled out by tonight.

Curious though, is the Divine an actual angel/demon that lives on Earth, or a human/mortal that's been blessed by a god, akin to a DnD paladin?
May 18, 2023 6:47 pm
ctme2000 says:
Curious though, is the Divine an actual angel/demon that lives on Earth, or a human/mortal that's been blessed by a god, akin to a DnD paladin?
Seems to me it should lean more towards the "actual" but it could be less. If you know Supernatural, all the angels and demons in that show would fit. In my opinion.
May 18, 2023 7:22 pm
The way I read the playbook, you are an angel/demon put on the Earth for a reason. You choose that reason when you pick your mission. Which you stated was that you were exiled and you must do the work of good without alerting your brother and sister angels/demons. So I'd say your character is an angel, who for some unknown reason at the moment was exiled to Earth.
May 19, 2023 4:11 am
Character submitted!

Parker Smith:https://i.imgur.com/9h7e9kV.png
May 19, 2023 5:20 pm
Great, Parker is approved.

I think TextualSubtext is out of town rl and therefore unable to work on their character. We'll shelve him for now and work him in when he's able to be here again.

Go ahead with the introductions and histories now. Introduce your character in here and work through your characters history questions. Let's start with AutomAtomic and then rossum, Ledosero and finally ctme2000.
May 19, 2023 11:15 pm
Sorry everyone, I am on the road to a graduation in another state. I didn't think I'd be driving as much of the trip that I did. Here are my Histories.

@ctme2000, Parker tried to slay Elise, but she conviced them she was on the side of good. What convinced Parker?

@Ledosero, Alex and Elise fought together against a hive of young vampires and prevailed. We make a good if odd team.

@rossum, Elise is romantically obsessed with Janos. Does he know? Do they reciprocate?
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May 22, 2023 1:05 am
AutomAtomic says:
@rossum, Elise is romantically obsessed with Janos. Does he know? Do they reciprocate?
Janos definitely knows. He's a little sharp, and if she's OBSESSED obsessed, then it's gotta be obvious in a thousand different ways, yeah? He can put two and two together. As for reciprocation- He's interested and curious, but reserved and a little guarded when it comes to mixing personal relationships with the biz of monster hunting again after losing his mentor. It's been a while for him since having any kind of meaningful relationship, and he knows they both could live a very long time... which would be bad if things don't work out and they stick together.
OOC:
How does that sound, AutomAtomic? Apologies for my delay also, I somehow missed this notification. PS- congrats on your (or friend/family's) graduation!
Last edited May 22, 2023 1:07 am
May 22, 2023 4:04 am
OOC:
i like it.
May 22, 2023 5:54 am
AutomAtomic says:
Out of Character
@Ledosero, Alex and Elise fought together against a hive of young vampires and prevailed. We make a good if odd team.

I wonder how we got together as a team, for it surely is a weird team. But I like it. We could tracked down the vampires at the same time, independantly and started a chance alliance there at first and then became a team.

As I understand from @wulfman35781 ' post, it is @rossum 's turn, before mine, right?
May 22, 2023 7:11 am
That is correct Ledo, rossum should go next.
May 23, 2023 1:03 am
Here's my Hx:
Quote:
• They act as your conscience when the power goes to your head. Ask them about the last time this happened.
• Blood relation, though you were out of contact for years. Ask them how they reconnected with you.
• Mentor from another life. Ask them what they taught you.
• Your magic-fueled rescue of them introduced them to the supernatural. Tell them what creature was after them.
• An old rivalry has turned into a tight friendship. Tell them what you once fought over.
• You thought they were dead, and now they’re back. What "killed" them?
• They’re an on-again/off-again love interest. Ask them what keeps you apart. Tell them what keeps you together.
• A comrade-in-arms. You’ve faced the biggest threats together.
I am thinking rivalry-to-friendship for the Expert, Maybe back from the dead for the Monstrous, I could see the mentor as the Chosen, and perhaps comrade with the Divine? I am not sure the best way to see everyone's character sheets to verify if this works.

Does any of these speak to anyone in particular? @AutomAtomic, I didn't want to doubletap the love thing with Elise. (I mean, I did, but I didn't want to have a one-note relationship.
May 23, 2023 4:06 am
Yeah...I can work with that. So what did you think killed her?
May 23, 2023 5:59 am
Quote:
I could see the mentor as the Chosen,
Alex could have taught you about her family history and the connection to monsters and magic in the past.
I don't think Alex could have taught actual magic, but she would know about family legends and their magical connections.
With Janos in his midforties, he is over twice Alex's age. But they could discuss witches and magic.


Ignore all of the above and read my post below to see how we could connect these. :)

I shall put up mine tonight after work.
Last edited May 23, 2023 10:03 pm
May 23, 2023 10:02 pm
Ok. Let's bring up some introductions here.


A rival at first, but you came to a working arrangement.
@AutomAtomic I was thinking this could work with Elise.
Alex and Elise might have been competing each other on clearing out those vampires.
Show off who is the best hunter in town! Until we found out that we had to work together to beat them.
We might still try compete in getting kills in, but that is what drives us an makes us an actually good team.


They are destined to be your mentor. Tell them how this was revealed.
@rossum
With your Mentor from another life. on me, I am thinking the following now.
We could be a sort of two-souls educating each other in an endless cycle of birth and rebirth.
In my previous life I was a wise old wizard, a man who educated Janos in magic.
Now he is reborn as a girl in the Bishop family and quite unexpectedly Chosen. Maybe Janos knew that and is now mentoring
Alex. And some time in the future, roles will be reversed again.


@ctme2000
I don't know much about Parker yet, but he seems quite young.
So I am thinking one of these three:
• Your best friend in the world, who you trust totally.
• Romantic entanglement, or fated to be romantically entangled.
• Just friends, from school or work or something. Ask them
what.
May 24, 2023 2:37 pm
Hey y'all, hoping to sit down today or tomorrow and go through the History section with Parker.

@automatomic Yup, was going to use you for this one (• They are an abomination, and should be destroyed. Except you can’t–work out with them why not.)
May 24, 2023 7:28 pm
ctme2000 says:
@automatomic Yup, was going to use you for this one (• They are an abomination, and should be destroyed. Except you can’t–work out with them why not.)
That ties together very well. So, what in your opinion, would get Parker to see this abomination as worthy of not being killed? Perhaps you saw Alex get into a spot of trouble and Elise risked her safety to help her? I'm open to any idea really. That was just the first thing to come to me.
May 25, 2023 5:38 am
AutomAtomic says:
Yeah...I can work with that. So what did you think killed her?
She's a baba yaga creature, right? What is mythologically appropriate? Or should we pick some random monster from myth?
May 26, 2023 6:44 am
AutomAtomic says:


That ties together very well. So, what in your opinion, would get Parker to see this abomination as worthy of not being killed? Perhaps you saw Alex get into a spot of trouble and Elise risked her safety to help her?
It could have been busy at the young vampire den :)
May 29, 2023 9:46 am
It's been a bit quite for a while.
Not sure what the next steps are / are we all waiting for something? :)
May 30, 2023 5:06 pm
I was waiting to discuss with @AutomAtomic about our Hx, and I think whoever is next?

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