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Post by EricaOdd on Apr 27, 2018 18:51:29 GMT -8
I redeemed my beers and cast my vote into the void to add an NPC to Monsterhearts. It's up to Mac and/or Adam what to do with her now. Here's the intro that I wrote for her, but how much of this to use and whether or not to even use her at all I understand is up to the GM(s). I post this here knowing that some, all, or none of it may be used.
Lisa-Regina Cassidy Thalheimer (Ghost)
The curtains in the Carefree High auditorium fluttered gently, as if in a breeze, but the cavernous room was empty. No one was moving across the stage... no one visible at least. A door by the stage suddenly banged open by itself, and gently swung closed. Out in the hall, a trash can swiveled and toppled over onto its side. A whitish mist suddenly appeared, like a wisp of smoke, and began to resolve into a human form. As the mist moved past empty classrooms it took shape; a female, slender and tall, with long straight hair, a tank top shirt, and low-rider, wide flare bell-bottom jeans. A pair of round sunglasses rested on her face. She was now standing in front of a poster reminding students to purchase their 1992 yearbooks.
“Whoa, dude... whoever made that poster is trippin’,” she said to herself, cocking her head to the side and trying to figure all this out. She shook her head slowly, a confused look crossing her face. “It’s not 1992... it’s ’68… isn’t it?” Her voice cracked a bit, overcome with fear, sadness, anger; a wash of emotions.
Suddenly the hallway was empty again. The yearbook poster, once firmly attached to the wall with double-sided tape, swirled to the floor. It was torn in two.
Lisa-Regina Cassidy Thalheimer, B. 1952, D. 1968.
Playlist: Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles (their later psychedelic stuff)
Theme Song: Don’t You Want Somebody to Love? (Jefferson Airplane)
(Figure out the joke about her name and win a No-Prize!)
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Post by EricaOdd on Apr 29, 2018 4:16:44 GMT -8
Ok I'll stop being coy about her name. If you're curious, check the spoiler below. Lisa-Regina Cassidy Thalheimer. It sort of sounds like lysergic acid diethylamide. LSD. My Monsterhearts ghost is the Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes... |
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Post by EricaOdd on May 9, 2018 4:07:25 GMT -8
Songs that inspire Lisa-Regina... a video twofer!
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Post by EricaOdd on May 10, 2018 2:14:21 GMT -8
Another obvious choice...
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Post by SirGuido on May 10, 2018 3:39:06 GMT -8
EDIT: Updated to include stats and strings for hoobuk and StrangeLikeThatJust redeemed my beers! Seraphael Vaticano (Raphael to non-angels)
Angel Playbook
Seraphael has spent centuries trying to understand his father's obsession with humanity. He has always wondered why Angels weren't good enough. They were better in every way. He and his brothers and sisters served God faithfully from the day they were created. Yet, he still created humanity and gives them free will. He gave them everything. Seraphael approached his father, questioning him on his love of humans and asked him why. God only replied with a smile and sent Seraphael to live among the humans and learn their true beauty. Seraphael speaks with an Italian accent and is very prideful. He dresses well, but keeps to himself. He prefers to observe so that he may earn his way back into Heaven. Hot:0 Cold:0 Volatile: 1 Trespass: 2 Backstory: The lord loves someone else more than he loves you. Naturally, a rivalry has sprung up. You gain two Strings on them, and they gain one on you.This is Rose. The lord has told me that if I save Rose he will grant me entry back into Heaven. I can't believe he loves this human so much that he wants me to step in on her behalf. (I spoke to @ tappy he gave me permission.) Someone reminds you of heaven. They gain a String on you.Lisa. Her spirit is here instead of in Heaven or Hell. That's weird. I'm used to seeing spirits in Heaven, not here... Moves: Cast From HeavenYou no longer have a dark stat. Instead, you have a scale, moving between Trespass and Forgiveness. It starts at 0. When asked to roll with dark, roll with Trespass instead. Whenever you subjugate yourself to someone else’s will, move the marker toward Forgiveness. Whenever you judge and punish others without the lord’s permission, move the marker toward Trespass. If Trespass or Forgiveness is highlighted, mark experience whenever you roll with that stat or shift the marker in that direction. Better and More DeservingWhen someone else gets the praise that you deserve, gain a String on them. Profane PowersWhen you are at 3 Trespass, you are able to perform miracles: purifying poisoned water, ecstatic flight, returning to life, bi-location, and so on. At the end of any scene in which you performed miracles, reset the Trespass/Forgiveness scale to zero, and gain the Condition drained. Playlist: Heights - How Do You Talk To An Angel, Amy Grant - I Will Remember You, R.E.M. - Losing my Religion, Tom Petty - Free Fallin' Theme Song: Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
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Post by EricaOdd on May 10, 2018 3:54:16 GMT -8
Very cool! I need to find a picture for Lisa...
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Post by EricaOdd on May 10, 2018 5:06:34 GMT -8
Just a little thing I dreamed up on the long commute to work. As always, the GMs are of course free to use as much or as little of this as they like. This is just stuff I'd be doing if I were a player in this.
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The students filed into the halls to start the new year. Lisa watched from her usual vantage point -- a spot on top of a trophy case in the main hallway right next to an air conditioning vent. Over the years she'd learned little tricks to conceal her presence from those who still had a pulse. You can't be wary of an unusual cold spot in the hallway when there's a vent right above it.
"Man, these students dress so weird!" she thought to herself as she sat cross-legged atop the case, her chin resting in one hand. She knew it had been a long time since the day she... well... the day she found herself in her new existence. She didn't like thinking about what it really meant. To say it would be to accept it, and she feared, deep within the well of her being, that accepting it would be the real end of it all. It was to terrifying to think about.
Suddenly one of the students entering the main doors caught her attention. An attractive Asian girl with her book bag slung over one shoulder. She'd seen the girl before. Was it yesterday? Months? A year? Ten years? Time passed strangely for Lisa, and she couldn't always remember or even bring herself to be aware of how long ago something happened. This girl had been in this school before, but she was different now. There was a confidence to her aura that Lisa didn't remember her having before. It was a confidence uncommon to the living. Lisa smiled, watching her intently as she entered the school.
"Stay away from that one," came a raspy voice below her. She glanced down over the edge of the case. Bummer, man... it was the Abbot. He was another one of the spirits that haunted Carefree High. He was an old ghost, and had been here since the time when the school was still a Spanish mission. Lisa didn't know his real name, and she wasn't entirely sure if even he remembered what it was either. "Abbot" was a title that was so important to him in life that it became his sole identity in the afterlife. She didn't like him, and the feeling was mutual. There was nothing they could agree on; religion, politics, society... they'd butted spectral heads more than once over each of those topics. He was a powerful presence, though, and the other spirits had no choice but to toe the line or avoid him. Lisa usually chose the latter. She cocked her head to the side again. Yeah... right... the Abbot was still talking. Probably another sermon. "Senorita Thalheimer, listen to me. Stay away from that one. The railway superintendents frown on the townsfolk fraternizing with their workers."
Lisa laughed, leaning back against the wall. She stopped suddenly when she noticed one of the students glance up at the trophy case as he walked by. Crap! Did he hear her? After he had passed she peered down to the Abbot again. "Dude, like, it's not 1868, it's 1968." No... wait... that's not right either... damn it! Why was it so hard to remember that? It wasn't 1968, and hadn't been for a long time.
"Regardless, keep away from her. She is trouble."
She noticed that the Abbot was clutching his crucifix and staring at the girl as she stalked by on her way to Mrs. Jenkins' classroom.
That's when she saw it. The other presence. It followed close behind the girl, a black shadow without form. Wisps of darkness curled away from it like mist. A deep dread overcame Lisa and she pulled her knees up to her chin almost reflexively. She didn't want that thing to see her, but she knew that it was probably already aware of her. Those things always knew. She'd seen things like that before. Sometimes dark entities would come to the school to tempt the spirits there. They'd trick them into doing terrible things and then drag them off to a horrible eternal fate that they otherwise wouldn't have deserved. The Abbot always chased them off, though. He was a strict one, but even in death his faith was strong. Lisa was thankful for his presence in those times.
Lisa watched as they two beings went by, and wondered... was it pushing the girl forward like a warden following his prisoner, or was the girl leading it along like an animal on a leash? Lisa had to know more, and leaned forward to speak to the Abbot again.
"Abbot... can she be sav--" Her voice caught in her throat. She saw something in the Abbot that she'd never seen before in the decades she'd been at Carefree. Fear. He was afraid. He was grasping his crucifix and muttering prayers. He'd always chased these things away before, but this time it really was different.
Lisa glanced back up at the eerie pair as they entered the classroom door, then back down at the Abbot.
He was gone.
She took his cue and darted back to her place of comfort in the school auditorium.
This bad trip just got worse...
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Post by akavidar on May 10, 2018 20:49:30 GMT -8
Robert's first day of school was a complete disaster. First Rose, who he had planned to ask to go with him to the party, walks up to that insufferable bastard Oliver, and asks HIM to take her to the party. I mean, Oliver?!?
Then he finds out he has gym in first period, not his favorite class, and the damn shower drain was plugged, so no showers. Always fun to be sweaty and smelly for the rest of the day. Lunch, the less said about that slop the better.
Rose's hot friend, Lila didn't come to school, so Rose was distracted all day. Couldn't get more than 4 words out of her.
I don't even know why I want to go to this stupid party, now, but one simply MUST be seen at these things.
Oh good, Oliver is here, but where is Rose? Did she stand him up? That would be priceless!
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Post by jedidroid on May 13, 2018 20:11:29 GMT -8
Is it poor form for me to make a non playbook NPC that would just fill in on of the teaching positions? Or should I add to the population of the enrolled students? I am only thinking of making window dressing for Mac to plop down where she needs it, so it doesn’t need the full player options, right?
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Post by StrangeLikeThat on May 13, 2018 20:29:37 GMT -8
Is it poor form for me to make a non playbook NPC that would just fill in on of the teaching positions? Or should I add to the population of the enrolled students? I am only thinking of making window dressing for Mac to plop down where she needs it, so it doesn’t need the full player options, right? I would LOVE someone (you) to redeem an NPC to make a teacher. |
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Post by jedidroid on May 13, 2018 23:06:44 GMT -8
Is it poor form for me to make a non playbook NPC that would just fill in on of the teaching positions? Or should I add to the population of the enrolled students? I am only thinking of making window dressing for Mac to plop down where she needs it, so it doesn’t need the full player options, right? I would LOVE someone (you) to redeem an NPC to make a teacher.  Done! Meet Mr Dean Watson (I’ve cast James Nicholas Callis, I thought it fitting) in his early forty’s. He’s a science teacher, Physics and Chemistry, and also assists both the A/V club and The photography students, teaching film development in the dark room. Equal parts driven by the joy of teaching and morose over the mechanical movement of students through doors that some call education, he strives to engage minds and negate the distractions that puberty brings. i don’t know if that’s too much, or not enough. Let me know if you want more, Mac. |
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Post by SirGuido on May 14, 2018 8:11:28 GMT -8
I would LOVE someone (you) to redeem an NPC to make a teacher. Done! Meet Mr Dean Watson (I’ve cast James Nicholas Callis, I thought it fitting) in his early forty’s. He’s a science teacher, Physics and Chemistry, and also assists both the A/V club and The photography students, teaching film development in the dark room. Equal parts driven by the joy of teaching and morose over the mechanical movement of students through doors that some call education, he strives to engage minds and negate the distractions that puberty brings. i don’t know if that’s too much, or not enough. Let me know if you want more, Mac. Didja pay your beers? |
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Post by jedidroid on May 14, 2018 11:36:25 GMT -8
I did indeed.
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Post by kurtpotts on May 14, 2018 12:05:18 GMT -8
I would LOVE someone (you) to redeem an NPC to make a teacher. Done! Meet Mr Dean Watson (I’ve cast James Nicholas Callis, I thought it fitting) in his early forty’s. He’s a science teacher, Physics and Chemistry, and also assists both the A/V club and The photography students, teaching film development in the dark room. Equal parts driven by the joy of teaching and morose over the mechanical movement of students through doors that some call education, he strives to engage minds and negate the distractions that puberty brings. i don’t know if that’s too much, or not enough. Let me know if you want more, Mac. How's he gonna react when she walks into a parent teacher conference?  |
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Post by akavidar on May 14, 2018 13:02:56 GMT -8
 The Sixes were nice, but I'm an Eight man myself. |
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