Jun 30, 2024 11:14 pm
Currently closed for applications, if you're really interested feel free to post anyway and I'll see if there's space down the line.
The Pitch
I had this silly little idea for a game and it won't leave my head - so here we are:
Inevitable Coffee is a coffee shop that travels the multiverse, appearing where it’s needed and then moving on when its task is completed. It ‘collects’ staff along the way, usually stray folks or outcasts with nowhere better to go but good hearts who help other folks out with their problems. Sometimes the staff leave after a time, having found a place for themselves, other staff have been around years or even decades – though time doesn’t flow quite as it should in the Inevitable.
The Inevitable doesn’t really seem to have a pattern in what’s important, or how long it sticks around. It may appear for one time to offer a safe space for a couple to meet when their families don’t approve, another to help catch a murderer, and yet another to give refuge in a city suffering wreck and ruin in a once-in-a-lifetime storm. But wherever it goes, folks need help, and the Inevitable is just around the corner.
The Specifics
Cypher System – 3-5 players. Expected posting 2-3/week.
Standard Cypher character creation rules, feel free to use whichever sources you like (there’s a character builder at https://www.montecookgames.com/cypher-tools/) – I am not granting an additional racial descriptor, so if you want to play a Catfolk or something, that’s your only descriptor – though you can describe your appearance however you wish, if you want to use (if you think your catfolk is better with the ‘Graceful’ Descriptor than the ‘Catfolk’ one that’s fine).
Largely urban fantasy, but will delve into other genres – and will try to match to the characters to some degree. I’d like to lean it in the side of cosy rather than dark and/or gritty, but we’ll see how it goes..
Do bear in mind that some settings travelled to may be historical (i.e. you might travel to Victorian England, ancient Greece or 1980s New York, I’m willing to take a loose approach to hiding your appearance. Though equally you might travel to the City of Crows where humans stand out. So don’t worry about it too much.
I’d also like to know what your role is in the Inevitable, barista, cleaner, cook, mysterious figure who hangs out in the corner.
LGBT+ positive (I’m bi & trans, so it kind of has to be!), my original concept was as a place that specifically appears as a refuge for LGBT+ folks, and I’d like to keep some of that but not be exclusive. Happy to accommodate safety tools if anyone has any lines/veils or if anything at all makes you too uncomfortable let me know (or just make a post/DM with X in it if you're not comfortable bringing up reasons) and we’ll end the scene and move on.
The game will be somewhat episodic, you solve whatever issue the Inevitable appeared for and then shift to the next setting, so if necessary we can re-recruit between episodes (or everyone can tell me it's terrible and they'd just rather call it a day). Similarly, if you think your character is done with their arc or want to play something else you can change character between episodes.
Your Host
I'm Spinny/Spinningdice/Abbey (she/her), I'm 41, bi & trans and have been playing RPGs since my pre-teens. I've run Cypher a fair bit irl but I've not run a serious pbp before. I have been the default DM for most of my gaming life. So I'm not inexperienced.
I'm also British and operating on GMT/BST, and usually check in 6:00pm - 10:00pm in my time, though might be able to pop on and take a look at other times.
The Pitch
I had this silly little idea for a game and it won't leave my head - so here we are:
Inevitable Coffee is a coffee shop that travels the multiverse, appearing where it’s needed and then moving on when its task is completed. It ‘collects’ staff along the way, usually stray folks or outcasts with nowhere better to go but good hearts who help other folks out with their problems. Sometimes the staff leave after a time, having found a place for themselves, other staff have been around years or even decades – though time doesn’t flow quite as it should in the Inevitable.
The Inevitable doesn’t really seem to have a pattern in what’s important, or how long it sticks around. It may appear for one time to offer a safe space for a couple to meet when their families don’t approve, another to help catch a murderer, and yet another to give refuge in a city suffering wreck and ruin in a once-in-a-lifetime storm. But wherever it goes, folks need help, and the Inevitable is just around the corner.
The Specifics
Cypher System – 3-5 players. Expected posting 2-3/week.
Standard Cypher character creation rules, feel free to use whichever sources you like (there’s a character builder at https://www.montecookgames.com/cypher-tools/) – I am not granting an additional racial descriptor, so if you want to play a Catfolk or something, that’s your only descriptor – though you can describe your appearance however you wish, if you want to use (if you think your catfolk is better with the ‘Graceful’ Descriptor than the ‘Catfolk’ one that’s fine).
Largely urban fantasy, but will delve into other genres – and will try to match to the characters to some degree. I’d like to lean it in the side of cosy rather than dark and/or gritty, but we’ll see how it goes..
Do bear in mind that some settings travelled to may be historical (i.e. you might travel to Victorian England, ancient Greece or 1980s New York, I’m willing to take a loose approach to hiding your appearance. Though equally you might travel to the City of Crows where humans stand out. So don’t worry about it too much.
I’d also like to know what your role is in the Inevitable, barista, cleaner, cook, mysterious figure who hangs out in the corner.
LGBT+ positive (I’m bi & trans, so it kind of has to be!), my original concept was as a place that specifically appears as a refuge for LGBT+ folks, and I’d like to keep some of that but not be exclusive. Happy to accommodate safety tools if anyone has any lines/veils or if anything at all makes you too uncomfortable let me know (or just make a post/DM with X in it if you're not comfortable bringing up reasons) and we’ll end the scene and move on.
The game will be somewhat episodic, you solve whatever issue the Inevitable appeared for and then shift to the next setting, so if necessary we can re-recruit between episodes (or everyone can tell me it's terrible and they'd just rather call it a day). Similarly, if you think your character is done with their arc or want to play something else you can change character between episodes.
Your Host
I'm Spinny/Spinningdice/Abbey (she/her), I'm 41, bi & trans and have been playing RPGs since my pre-teens. I've run Cypher a fair bit irl but I've not run a serious pbp before. I have been the default DM for most of my gaming life. So I'm not inexperienced.
I'm also British and operating on GMT/BST, and usually check in 6:00pm - 10:00pm in my time, though might be able to pop on and take a look at other times.
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