Ok, I totally misinterpreted that.
I'm up for it. I'm thinking of going lycanthrope. I debating which animal though. I kinda like the idea of being a lizard, but bear also seems cool. So does porcupine, penguin, monkey, and turtle.

Someone else said they had the same interpretation as you did, so I could be wrong.

Velociwaptaw?

Velociwaptaw.

How much of the story are you actually gonna control, Zpies? I dunno if it'll work so well without a specific creative force behind the baddies and what-not.

I'll be an experiment. We'll see how it goes with minimal story guidance. I guess I'll likely have to step in and play the various bad guys and goonies and such, and occasionally prod us to the various plot goals.

I purposefully went for a very simple goal (save the girl) so that it would be easy for us to stay on target. It may explode like crazy! Who can say!

There are also a lot more players interested than I had predicted, including some new faces. Again, just want to warn that this isn't going to be a hard-edged pre-packaged game, it's more like a joint storytelling venture. I kind of have a shell of an idea in my head and we'll be cooperatively fleshing it out as we go, but I'm not going to hand-hold you. So don't come with expectations of such.

I'll pitch a concept of a human who was the child of a vampire and a werewolf. He has no special powers except, bizarrely enough, he has immunity to both vampirism and lycathropy.  He's crazy prepared enough to match wits with the magic of the world, though so don't count him out. Oh yeah, he's poor too, and possibly homeless.

Mrprrrrppph. I don't know if I like it, because since vampires are dead they can't really do the reproduction thing? Maybe if the father was a very newly made vampire, so all his sperm hadn't died yet...?

Probably his exact origins are a secret, at least to the vampire and lycan communities. They mostly hate each other and might have tried to eliminate the child long ago.


STATICI. OMG YOU'RE ALIVE. Do it. Dragon librarian would be adorable. Mild, yet badass, like Giles!

Ok, I totally misinterpreted that.
I'm up for it. I'm thinking of going lycanthrope. I debating which animal though. I kinda like the idea of being a lizard, but bear also seems cool. So does porcupine, penguin, monkey, and turtle.

If you play a were-penguin I will totally love you forever.

CHARACTER SHEET FORMAT

Name: Your character's name, along with any common nicknames, etc.

Race: Human? Were/shifter? Part-fae? Dragonblood? Witch? Put it here. For lycans, detail the type of thing you transform into, and your membership or not in the local pack. For fae, put which court you fall into (though your character may not have strong ties, all fae will be one or the other). For witches, put your magic specialty. For dragon-bloods, detail what kind of dragon (if known) and how that presents. (If it's too long or detailed you can put it in Appearance.)

Level: This will be 1 for all of you, and will go up every one of these Books or adventures or whatnot we have a reasonable part in. (Like, you don't have to be in every damn scene, but showing up for three posts isn't enough.) I won't be the only person to manage these events, but I'll go ahead and say I have to approve the concept and GM for the individual ones. GMs will get an extra level to appreciate all the extra effort they put into it, applicable at the beginning of their game. (So I will start at 2. Suckers!) Anyways, your Level will just vaguely say how powerful you are. I'd rather not define specific rules on who can do what, but try to pace yourself and gain one new Thing, or overcome one weakness, per adventure. Character growth is interesting!

Appearance: Try to contain this to a short paragraph.

Personality: Make this short as well, you can detail it more in History. This is mainly so people can scan your sheet to predict your reactions if they ever need to write you into a scene when you're not present.

Powers
A Power - Description of power.

Another Power - Description of power.

A Third Power - Description of power.

Weaknesses
A Weakness - Description of weakness.

Another Weakness - Description of weakness.

History
If this section is longer than a couple paragraphs, please spoiler-tag it.

Also, make sure to note if your character was involved in either of the events mentioned in the setting. "Most of us have worked together in the past- most of us met when we were cleaning out a nest of really uppity rogue vampires a few years back, and then just last year we dealt with a demon that some stupid punk kids were worshiping and making sacrifices to."

Make a note of what ties your character to the group.

Approved: (blank)

Z, is there a deadline for submission or something along those lines?

Name: Avalbane "George" Argentil; also shortened to Bane.

Race: Faerie, allied to the seleigh courts, though only vaguely.

Level: 1

Appearance: Avalbane is a small woman, with a waif-like build. Her skin is the sort that tans easily, and she bears small, whimsical tattoos across her arms and cheekbones, though these tattoos, strangely enough, never look the same twice. Her hair is exceptionally long, and a deep shade of brown. It is worn loose and wild, and ends just above the small of her back; it is seldom very flattering, and often seems to get in the way. Her features are bony, and her eyes seem a little too large for her face. They are strikingly purple, which detracts any attention from the curve of her lips, which almost always seem to hold a secretive smile.

Personality: Avalbane is somewhat mad, and more whimsical even than most faeries as a result. She's not terribly easy to predict, and the clockwork mechanisms in her head seem as arbitrary as the flip of a coin. She may decide she dislikes you, for no better  reason than you're wearing an orange earring, and she hates orange. You may or may not actually be wearing an orange earring, and she may or may not hate orange five minutes later. At first glance, one would assume she's simply a nuisance, and holds no grip to reality whatsoever. Still, George, as she often introduces herself, also holds moments of stunning clarity, offering useful insight into a situation that might not fully be understood by others.

Powers
I Wanna Be A Princess Today- Avalbane can change her appearance in subtle- or not so subtle- ways. The effectiveness of this ability depends on how closely the observer looks, and what her surroundings are. It would be far easier for her to blend in with a crowd of businessmen, than for her to appear as a businessman in the center of a forest in a gathering of faerie folk.

I Don't Like This Place- George can also decide she doesn't want to be somewhere anymore, and disappear. Well, more specifically, she becomes intangible- her body vanishes, and she reforms later, and elsewhere, usually somewhere she considers VERY safe- like a closet in a strangers house. She is not aware of what happens in her absence.

Gotcha!- Bane can conjure food and drink of varying quality. However, these provisions have any number of very unpleasant side effects- such as making a person spontaneously shed glitter for three hours, or every word they say to seem backwards. It is difficult to tell whether or not she can control what food makes what side effects; she's usually too busy giggling to give a straight answer.

Weaknesses
Batshit Crazy - Fairly self explanatory. To be more specific, Avalbane sometimes doesn't even realize she's in the real world. She is very stuck on the idea that everything around her is a play. In times of great need, she has been known to grow absolutely mute, and just watch allies get harmed or slaughtered without lifting a finger- because she was 'watching the play', and it would 'rude to interfere'. She's unpredictable, and sometimes a liability. She has no impulse control, and tends to be easy to manipulate.

Allergic To Reality - Avalbane cannot abide the touch of iron or steel. They weaken her powers depending on the duration of contact, and make her physically sick. She has a hard time being around deeply practical, humorless people as well- she gets migraines when in such company, though she's never stuck around long enough to see if the symptoms get worse.

History

Avalbane was always a bit of a weird one, but she wasn't always crazy. She grew up in the Seleigh courts, matching wits against faeries and playing silly tricks on humans. Never one to be as easily offended as the rest of her kin, she spent a great deal of time studying humans, and trying to comprehend their baffling ways. Her tricks grew more elaborate, and she became more of a liability...

She was discovered by some unsavory characters, fortunately the type that were already aware of the supernatural. They captured her, and imprisoned her in a steel cage; the student of human nature became the studied, and she became powerless. The metal leeched more and more of her magic and creativity, more of her soul, and what made her essentially herself... to keep from becoming normal and losing what was important, she told herself endless stories of magic. These stories became less sensible and more mad as the days passed, and soon, she lost herself in an entirely imaginary world.

Three days later, she was freed, but by the time she recovered from the incident, Avalbane was Bat-Shit Crazy, and her ties to reality were tenuous, at best. She no longer is quite so daring as she once was in terms of revealing her identity or giving herself away. Her previous associations with this group were probably touch-and-go, but she proved a steady ally when it was direly needed, acting as a spy, and providing distraction by causing one of the demon worshipers to sweat snails.

Her current association with this group is probably more along the lines of, 'whatcha doin'? Can I come?'

Approved: Z-STAMP!

(Note to Z: She's silly, but I promise I won't ruin the atmosphere of the game with constant silliness. Let me know if you need any changes, this is my first time doing this... are my powers too powerful? *worry* They're pretty limited by her crazy...)

Abroul-Nek

Race: Faerie (former Unseleigh), batform Sprite. Active messenger and spy for the Seleigh court.

Level: 1

Appearance: A nasty, imp-like sprite, with a bat's fur and leathery wings. About one and a half feet tall, though he tends to always be crouching or folding himself up as small as possible. He has beady red eyes with no pupils, and long, pointy little teeth, with equally long and sharp claws on his long, spindly little arms and squat legs. He speaks in a raspy voice

Personality: Sly, clever, and calculating. Hard to pin down: a lot of the time he demonstrates a bit of a nasty streak, but has on occasion demonstrated a silver tongue, and it's never clear when he's genuinely demonstrating genuine affection or concern for his comrades, or simply playing social politics. He's almost never actually rude or insulting, especially to his comrades.

Powers

Nananananah BAT SPRITE - Nek can fly, and though his sight and hearing are about as good as a humans, he does have in common with his bat kin the ability to "see" and navigate by sonar. He can also hang onto things with his feet and sleep upside down, which has limited utility, but looks really cool.

Faerie Magic (1) - Nek is competent with faerie charms and mind-magic.

Spy - Nek is an spy and a ne'er-do-well.  He has contacts in the Boston underworld, both human and supernatural, although many of them have at least loose ties to the Unseleigh court, and will no longer deal with him now that he's effectively "defected", and some are actively hostile. He knows a lot about the more prominant players in Boston's supernatural underbelly, and if he doesn't know something, he probably knows someone who does. He's sneaky and stealthy and knows how to get around undetected.

Weaknesses
Only Little - Being small has it's advantages, but it also means that you can potentially get your shit ruined by anything that's larger (and consequently stronger) then you are, and unfortunately for Nek, "larger" is a definition that includes most people.

Enemies Abound! - Nek had quite a few enemies even before he saw fit to betray his often malicious and vengeful people, and not even a lot of his new friends completely trust him.

History



Approved: Z-STAMPED!

Wish I had more time to devote to something like this. I'd love to run a horribly misunderstood Red Cap.

"Hrr... Not blood. Pomegranate. Dyes better. Draws less attention.... Smells better."