A Galaxy of Darkness

[Grey]

Straight-up 2nd ed, but I'll check my notes.

 

[Crocodile]

I know almost nothing about Weres or Sin Eaters.


What about Mummies? lol

 

[SephirothSage]

Oh /screw/ Mummy..

 

[Crocodile]

I love Mummy personally, the concept amuses me... and I like having a cult at my disposal. Just an amusing spanning saga of life, death and resurrection.

 

[SephirothSage]

I love the concept- but the mechanics white wolf made for it are...


Iffy.


That- and as a splat, it doesn't play so well with other splats balance wise, either- as you start at your peak of strength, and everyone else starts at their weakest..

 

[Grey]

Balance is a myth. Mummy is awesome.

 

[Cirno]

*amused* So how much knowledge will each character have of the others' supernaturalness, initially? Or are we jumping to a point where we're comfortable with all the strangeness and then we give flashbacks for backstory or references to noodle incidents?

 

[Grey]

More or less the latter. Supernaturals are still generally less common than mortals, so there's plenty of rumour and misinformation. But supernaturals cope with long-haul spaceflight better than mundane humans, usually.

 

[Crocodile]

Weird question, do Sin-Eaters age?

 

[Grey]

So I recall, but slower, and old age is the only permanent death they suffer.


But there's a Conspiracy-tier Krewe Merit that grants true immortality.

 

[Crocodile]

Is that something I can get? I kind of like the idea of a Flying Dutchman navigator. His geist driving him to forever travel and guide others.

 

[Grey]

I'd allow it, with some tweaks. Let me see the rest of the character first.

 

[Crocodile]

I'll get you one, I'm working through Geist and trying to get a better taste of the background before I can form the idea better.

 

[Truth]

I would like to join this rp if you would not mind. If you allow so i will get to creating the charactor for this rp as quick as possible.

 

[Grey]

I would like to join this rp if you would not mind. If you allow so i will get to creating the charactor for this rp as quick as possible.

Do you have or need the necessary books?

 

[Cirno]

Welcome Truth!

 

[Truth]

I did not know there were books. Could you direct my way towards the names of these books?

 

[Grey]

You'll want The World of Darkness, The God-Machine Chronicle, and after that it depends on what kind of supernatural - or not - you'd like to play. Reading the linked setting thread in the first post will probably help you to pick a direction.


You can PM me if you need anything else.

 

[SephirothSage]

This reminds me, actually.


What Edition of nWoD are we using? I only have the original Requiem book, not the Blood and Smoke stuff.

 

[Grey]

You'll need 2nd Ed.


You should PM me.

 

[Cirno]

Liiive. *attempts revival with character sheet*

• Introduction
• Virtue, Vice, and Breaking Points
• Attributes and Skills
• Derived Stats
• Merits
• Supernatural Traits

• Current (New) Ident: Eleanor Ridley; Nory
  
  
  Fae Name: Calypso Cassatt; Cassie
  
  
  True Name: Ione Kay Attaway
  
  
  Concept: supernatural psychologist, compassionate and composed
  
  
  Aspirations:
  
  
  Enhance my new identity with resources
  
  
  Banish my nightmares without resorting to an all-nighter
  
  
  Accept something without pledge or promise of something in return
  
  
  Write a thesis on psychological treatment for different supernaturals (long-term)
  
  
  Appearance (Mask):
  
  
  She's a stocky thing with deep brown skin and curly black hair. Her voice is what distinguishes her as female. It's difficult to pin down her age from a glance (unless one believes her current ident: 29). Her usual mood is cheerful. She's learned that ones external expressions can become their internalized feelings, so when someone perfunctorily asks how she's doing, she can smile and genuinely say she's good.
  
  
  History:
  
  
  After several years on the Other Side, she felt indebted to the motley that got her through the Hedge. Though some have since drifted to different courts and different sectors, they've done their best to keep in touch. She herself joined the Scythe Compact, warding people away from the more dangerous parts of space by spreading rumors and signal buoys. Was relatively successful until out on the edge, where you can only speak of the things you've seen so many times before someone sets down their glass and looks back with eyes that have seen more.
  
  
  After that, she took up training through a court-sponsored psychology programme. She stayed in one place for a few years of experience before bidding for a spot on a research-oriented vessel.
  
  
  She hasn't sought out her Fetch. Not enough to go on in her memories, raised on various freighters and outposts. She can't trust she's remembered people's features correctly anyway. She forged herself a new True Name to go with her new lease on life.
  
  
  Personality:
  
  
  She's found a strange peace out in the Black. Faced with the Void, she gives mystifying advice concerning some phenomena, yet exhibits scientific curiosity and wonder for others. She's able to say, "I don't know," with joy and interest in something new ahead.
  
  
  She does her best to consider the mental well-being of the people she works with before sating her own curiosity. This show of compassion is partly because it's harder for her to judge whether she herself is ready to face the strangeness of the truth. Regarding physical needs such as food and water, she can be quite forgetful.
  
  
  Possessions:
  
  
  worn clothes in textured greys and russet brown
  
  
  makeup kit
  
  
  Scythe Compact emblem? silver ear cuff
  
  
  components for signal buoys
  
  
  an electronic tablet with <Cortex> access
  
  
  a physical copy of an illustrated anatomy book for children, with drawings of her identities tucked inside
  
  
  Spoiler

  Symbolism:
  
  

  
  Theme Song: Second Chance, Shinedown
  
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• Virtue: Patience
  
  
  Vice: Deceitful
  
  
  Breaking Points
  
  
  What is the worst thing you've ever done?
  
  
  left people behind
  
  
  She made several attempts to escape through the Hedge, but something would grab her and pull her back, leaving the rest of the motley in the Hedge. After this happened multiple times, she suspected she was either being used to strand other Changelings or it was part of some sinister deal where they were let free. Unsure what to believe, she struck out on her own--only to run into the first motley she had made an escape attempt with. They eventually made it out of the Hedge together.
  
  
  What is the worst thing you can imagine yourself doing?
  
  
  playing with a client's mind for Glamour
  
  
  Whether as professional psychologist or friend, she can offer a safe place to examine one's fears. But she could let them dwell on it longer than is healthy for her own benefit.
  
  
  What is the worst thing you can imagine someone else doing?
  
  
  enslaving or reprogramming others
  
  
  Her Keeper had her take on not only appearances but mannerisms, molding her identity into others'. Today, she consciously uses her ability to control her own appearance as an anchor for her sense of self and is reluctant to assume another person's identity. The sense of temporarily supplanting someone is close enough a Fetch to make her uncomfortable.
  
  
  What is the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to your character?
  
  
  found by Keeper in a dream
  
  
  She's not sure if it was her Keeper or just a memory of her Keeper, but she had this nightmare without a fellow Changeling to assist her. Thus, when there are no dreamwalkers she can trust about, she keeps mental tabs on the likelihood of things she sees in the day triggering nightmares and deals with the worst nights through caffeinated substances.
  
  
  Strange things happen in every life - what have you forgotten?
  
  
  seeing her Fetch alive and well and married
  
  
  Before she gave up her name, she saw her Fetch in a dream. Although she's since learned of how poorly Fetches may function in society and how their children may turn out, she's forgotten this dream. She's deluded herself into thinking she cannot bear responsibility for a Fetch she no longer shares a name with.
  
  
  
• Attributes
  
  
  Intelligence 3
  
  
  Wits 2
  
  
  Resolve 2
  
  
  Strength 1
  
  
  Dexterity 2
  
  
  Stamina 3
  
  
  Presence 2
  
  
  Manipulation 2
  
  
  Composure 4
  
  
  Skills
  
  
  Mental
  
  
  Academics 2
  
  
  Computer 2
  
  
  Crafts 1
  
  
  Occult 2*
  
  
  Physical
  
  
  Athletics 1
  
  
  Stealth 3
  
  
  Social
  
  
  Empathy 4*
  
  
  Expression 1
  
  
  Persuasion 2
  
  
  Socialize 2
  
  
  Subterfuge 2
  
  
  * 9-again from Supernatural Psychologist Profession, Merit
• Willpower 6/6
  
  
  Clarity: 7
  
  
  Wyrd 1
  
  
  Glamour 5/10
  
  
  Size 5
  
  
  Speed 8
  
  
  Defence 2
  
  
  Initiative Mod 6
• Profession: Supernatural Psychologist (Empathy, Occult) 2
  
  
  Patient: 1 (during extended action, additional two rolls above what Attribute + Skill would allow)
  
  
  New Identity: 2 (Eleanor Ridley)
  
  
  Mantle of Autumn: 1
  
  
  Goodwill of the Carnival: 1
• Seeming (mien): Darkling, Mirrorskin
  
  
  Her Fae mien actually stands at the height of an average male human. She is much more androgynous in appearance, with a face smooth and symmetrical, missing laugh lines and dimples. She usually applies a glamour before looking at her own reflection in the morning. She appears almost bald, her hair in scraggly wisps that quickly turn transparent. There are times her entire mien appears less solid.
  
  
  Blessings
  
  
  Darkling Blessing: Clarity of Abandon
  
  
  There are just times when the best choice is the worst choice. Any time a Darkling is forced to step in and make a bad choice for other characters, make the choice no one else could, she gains a sense of herself. She regains a point of Clarity for free.
  
  
  Mirrorskin Blessing:
  
  
  They never suffer penalties for lack of proper equipment when making disguise rolls and gain the 8-again quality to these rolls. If they spend a point of Glamour, they can make a disguise roll as a reflexive action. All of these disguises affect both their Mask and their Mien.
  
  
  Curse: A Shade’s Distrust
  
  
  A Darkling has been injured in the past, and believes she’s injured others to survive. A Darkling trusted once, a long time ago, and anyone asking her to trust may be pushing her too hard. Trusting anyone, even a Darklings’ closest allies, following them blindly, causes the Darkling to suffer a Clarity break.
  
  
  Contracts
  
  
  Contracts of Dream: 2 Clauses
  
  Pathfinder, Forging the Dream
  
  Fleeting Autumn: 1 Clause
  
  Witches' Intuition
  
  Eternal Autumn: 1 Clause
  
  Last Breath Isaac
  
  Fleeting Winter: 1 Clause
  
  The Dragon Knows
  
  Pledges
  
  
  Commendation of the Seeker of Mysteries (Scythe Compact)
  
  Type: Corporal, Nemesis Emblem
  
  
  Tasks: Fealty (-3)
  
  
  Boons: Vassalage (+3, vassal); Glamour (+2, vassal must render a tithe of Glamour equal to the liege’s Wyrd at
  
  
  some point during the year)
  
  
  Sanction: Banishment (–3, Vassal); Poisoning of Boon, Medial (–2, liege must offer up an amount of Glamour equal
  
  
  to what he would have drawn)
  
  
  Duration: Year and a day (+3)
  
  
  Invocation: 1 Willpower (both) + 1 Willpower dot (liege; paid only when he first takes part in an Oath of Fealty as liege)
  
  

 

[Crocodile]

So should I roll up a sheet here?

 

[Grey]

It'd be appreciated. Last couple of times I tried to run this I got the forum all set up, a couple of characters posted, and then nothing.

 

[Crocodile]

At least you got to the posting part.

 

[Thief of Words]

I have a werewolf in the works. It's just taken me forever to digest things fully and decide on an archetype I liked. Are folks okay with a gonzo journalism type for a Captain?