Descusion on my NWoD "Mortals"/ Hunter prologue campaign.
Jan 28, 2014 5:41:25 GMT -8
Post by Bakomusha on Jan 28, 2014 5:41:25 GMT -8
So I have recently started GMing a Game of NWoD that is a retelling of one of my most successful games I have ever run, hands down. The set up is that the game is the futrue hunters first run in with "that which bumps in the night" back when they where just "mortals" The players are residents of the town of Ichor Falls, West Virginia, who are part of a club who investigates urban legends and "creepypasta" stories particularly from the internet. Being the WoD Those Urban Legends and Creepypasta turn out to be fact or based on fact, FAR MORE then in RL. The game starts with the club deciding to next investagate the 'Candle Cove" creepypasta, mostly because the events happened very near by.
In the original game I was able to get two of the 3 players creep out enought on sevral ocasions for them to ask me to call the game for the night! In that game the whole plot is reveled to be a plea for help by the ghost of a child. In that version of the game the Skintaker was a demon who would eat the souls of departed children who died from tragic accidents, and his flesh cape was a representation of those kids. In the end the players where able to defeat the demon, who was lurking in an old television studio turned used car lot repair garage. In doing so a Hunter group took notice and recuited them and we ened the game with them being drivin in hanfcuffs to that group. ( we had to end the game there since one of my player was then deployed to Afghanistan as a Dust-off medic.)
In the new game due to the nature of the players they've already driven the story away from that angle. This time around the players are students at Ichor Falls University. In the prevous game the players where locals in this game they are not, giving them rather different view on the whole thing. In the first session they got in contact with a man who had a film reel of an episode his late father had kept in storage. Apparently it was found, along with a variety of old TV reels and tapes from the mids 1960s till the early 80s, in an old water damaged box hidden in the rafters while the late father was on a job renovating an old TV studio turning into a garage. ( we joke that the rest of the tapes are the lost episodes of Dr. Who, and a copy of The Day the Clown Cried.)
After viewing the footage and seeing it was real the players return to the club to fish up funds to by it. All the while stange events happening to them while they wait for the club meeting after semester finals, such as; one players car being broken into with a brick with a picture of the little girl from the show tied to it, another player seeing shadows shaped like the skintaker at night while alone in her dorm. Apon returning to the man to buy the reel they find him and his wife dead (later found to be from shock) with the faces cleanly and expertly removed. After being arrested, and then being released (due to one playing being a journalist major always recording club related things) they return home to there dorms/apartments to fidn the reel they had bought (that should be in police evidence locker) and a reel called "Candle Cove pitch". After viewing the picth they call the TV station thats logo is in both reels and track down the program director for that time. The kind old man tells them that one day in early 1971 a man came into the station right out of a coal mine, wearing overall and soot and all, and pitched to him an idea for a kids show. While the Program Director loved the idea he informed the man that the station didnt have the money to produce anything by the local news and syndicated shows, but told him he should go to a bigger station and pitch it too them, the Director even promising to vouch for him and set up a meeting. The miner never got the chance as he died in a mine collapse soon after. we ended the session soon after.
I run things by ear and by the seat of my pants, so the only thing I have set in stone is TV studio turned garage int the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. I am looking for feedback and ideas if you Jackers have any for me. If your wondering the PCs are; an 18 year old female Anthropology major, a 24 year old undergrad journalist/blogger, and a 22 year old English major and wanna be poet.
Heres the Candle Cove creepypasta: www.creepypasta.com/candle-cove/ and where i got Ichor Falls from: www.amazon.com/Ichor-Falls-Visitors-stories-community/dp/0979722292 tho I haven't read the book, i did find the website, that's now down, for it a while ago. AND YES I know RPPR did the same-ish thing but I swear to Gygax I ran this game a solid half a year before they did!
In the original game I was able to get two of the 3 players creep out enought on sevral ocasions for them to ask me to call the game for the night! In that game the whole plot is reveled to be a plea for help by the ghost of a child. In that version of the game the Skintaker was a demon who would eat the souls of departed children who died from tragic accidents, and his flesh cape was a representation of those kids. In the end the players where able to defeat the demon, who was lurking in an old television studio turned used car lot repair garage. In doing so a Hunter group took notice and recuited them and we ened the game with them being drivin in hanfcuffs to that group. ( we had to end the game there since one of my player was then deployed to Afghanistan as a Dust-off medic.)
In the new game due to the nature of the players they've already driven the story away from that angle. This time around the players are students at Ichor Falls University. In the prevous game the players where locals in this game they are not, giving them rather different view on the whole thing. In the first session they got in contact with a man who had a film reel of an episode his late father had kept in storage. Apparently it was found, along with a variety of old TV reels and tapes from the mids 1960s till the early 80s, in an old water damaged box hidden in the rafters while the late father was on a job renovating an old TV studio turning into a garage. ( we joke that the rest of the tapes are the lost episodes of Dr. Who, and a copy of The Day the Clown Cried.)
After viewing the footage and seeing it was real the players return to the club to fish up funds to by it. All the while stange events happening to them while they wait for the club meeting after semester finals, such as; one players car being broken into with a brick with a picture of the little girl from the show tied to it, another player seeing shadows shaped like the skintaker at night while alone in her dorm. Apon returning to the man to buy the reel they find him and his wife dead (later found to be from shock) with the faces cleanly and expertly removed. After being arrested, and then being released (due to one playing being a journalist major always recording club related things) they return home to there dorms/apartments to fidn the reel they had bought (that should be in police evidence locker) and a reel called "Candle Cove pitch". After viewing the picth they call the TV station thats logo is in both reels and track down the program director for that time. The kind old man tells them that one day in early 1971 a man came into the station right out of a coal mine, wearing overall and soot and all, and pitched to him an idea for a kids show. While the Program Director loved the idea he informed the man that the station didnt have the money to produce anything by the local news and syndicated shows, but told him he should go to a bigger station and pitch it too them, the Director even promising to vouch for him and set up a meeting. The miner never got the chance as he died in a mine collapse soon after. we ended the session soon after.
I run things by ear and by the seat of my pants, so the only thing I have set in stone is TV studio turned garage int the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. I am looking for feedback and ideas if you Jackers have any for me. If your wondering the PCs are; an 18 year old female Anthropology major, a 24 year old undergrad journalist/blogger, and a 22 year old English major and wanna be poet.
Heres the Candle Cove creepypasta: www.creepypasta.com/candle-cove/ and where i got Ichor Falls from: www.amazon.com/Ichor-Falls-Visitors-stories-community/dp/0979722292 tho I haven't read the book, i did find the website, that's now down, for it a while ago. AND YES I know RPPR did the same-ish thing but I swear to Gygax I ran this game a solid half a year before they did!