The year is 2004 and it’s been three years since the Faline Incident sort of outed supernaturals to the world in varying degrees. 2002 was a bad year. Let’s leave it at that. Lots of stupid people on both sides of the issue yadda yadda yadda. 2003 was interesting with a lot of people deciding to put differences aside because, well, they could make money off of the supernatural. Lots and lots of money. (This was proved by the vampire Yousef Saad who defied convention in order to win $1 million from James Randi. The rumours that he made Randi a vampire afterwards are lies. Really.)
2003 also saw an explosion in supernatural movies staring real supernatural creatures, to say nothing of the use of were as stunt men in movies since they can heal at incredible rates. A wide varieties of movies began, the most notable being:
The Texas Were Massacre, directed by John Woo and being an interesting take on Faline and Trail. It has been widely boycotted by weres for repeated references to poaching and hunting down varmints.
Faline: The Movie (Live action version). Picture the Friday the 13th movies. Replace Jason with Faline. Clone Faline. Repeat. Wipe out small city.
Faline: The Movie (animated). A kids movie about how weres get picked on and how everyone is just the same inside if we ignore differences. A hacked version of it ends with the weres ripping the humans open and the humans shooting the weres and everyone saying “ooh, our blood IS the same inside” as they die while holding hands to the Care Bears theme song.
Trailing The Results of Trail, the first documentary on Trail. Noted mostly for sticking to hard facts as opposed to stories and being rather brief and disturbing as a result. It spared neither weres, vampire or humans in causing the mess that was Trail and is generally banned as a result.
A variety of other movies abound (player suggestions needed :p) and Hollywood wants to make more! And more! And soon rule the vorld, err, world, err, they’re just kidding. Right?
ADDENDUM:
PCs MUST be weres or vampires. All character concepts must be cleared with by Alcar.
The reason for this is simply to reduce the amount of different supernaturals in the game, and keep it's focus narrower.
“True art lies in peeling away the world and drawing forth the Story underneath it to bring it to the light. One must see into the very soul of things to be able to render them for the audience. Using decent image rendering is a must.”
- Terry Praxar, on Faline: The (Animated) Movie.
The PCs have been hired by Andre Belushi, the director of a movie. He’s French, and human (well, assuming the French are human, but we’ll stick with it). They get to be actors, gofers, and whatever else works on a movie set. The movie is currently titled Were World and is a 50’s era Sci-Fi spoof that is supposed to mix pathos, comedy, horror, romance, social criticism and pathos along with tributes to slasher films, Sesame Street and the works of Henry Darger, Dear Abby, and HP Lovecraft.
Currently the company funding the movie, Disunited Artists, is having trouble finding backers for it and it’s in danger of being shut down! The game will follow the PCs going to lots of Hlolywood parties, meeting locals, and trying to get funding for the movie, and discover who the writer of it was, anyway, and why Andre is so desperate to have it made....
Reporter: “So you’re a hero?”
Super Were: “Yes! Are you saying I’m not one? Are you?”
R: “No! No! Of course not. But all those people you killed...”
SW: “I had to make sure the vampire was dead.”
R: “You dropped five cars on him.”
SW: “I saw him twitch. I think.”
R: “Questions are also being asked about your fight with Lupus..”
SW: “That was my evil twin.”
R: “Are you sure he was the evil one?”
SW: “Excuse me?”
- From “Super Were: The Movie(TM)”
For this game we’re going to use the UA system because it’s fun, and quick, and skills are fun to make for it. The usual 220 points, 30-70 stat range applies when the PC is first built, but this will be modified based on what kind of supernatural they are.
Caveat: This is intended to be a fun game. PCs from previous games are NOT admissible, though players may get to play them as NPCs if the situation warrants.
PCs will have recently become supernaturals (a vampire can be no older than 50, human + supernatural years) or were born them and left home to seek their fortune in the new world.
PCs MUST be weres or vampires. All character concepts must be cleared with by Alcar.
The reason for this is simply to reduce the amount of different supernaturals in the game, and keep it's focus narrower.
After making the basic PC, you add the supernatural parts. This includes skills and bonuses/penalties to stats.
CHARACTER SHEET FORMAT
Player Name:
Character Name:
Summary:
Background:
Dark Secret:
Personality:
Obsession:
Wound Points:
Passions
Fear:
Rage:
Noble:
Stats
Body: 00 (Descriptor of human) (Descriptor in other form(s))
Speed: Ditto
Mind: Ditto
Soul: Ditto
Skills
Body Skills:
Speed Skills:
Mind Skills:
Soul Skills:
Weaknesses:
Possessions:
Nice, and simple. Powers and weaknesses can be found in the previous sites, lolad and lolad3.
Basic general abilities include the clichés and auras. Weaknesses are the same. Sunlight hurts all vamps to differing degrees, silver hurts or kills weres. Weaknesses range in degree (Weak, Strong, Fatal) with 20%, 40%, and 90% given to put into supernatural skills for each weakness.
All weres begin with Body +40, Speed +20, Mind -20, Aura 15%, Shapechange (body skill) 30%, and Healing (body) 20% (they heal 20WP/Round). They get Silver (strong) by default. Vampires get Speed +10, Mind +10, Aura 15%, Controlling Gaze (soul skill) 30%, Healing 1% (1WP/five minutes) + one other Vampire skill at 30%., They begin with Sunlight (strong) as a default Weakness. Negotiations on the above are possible.
Player Name: Alcar
Character Name: Mathew Talon
Summary: A young Vampire trying to make it in showbiz.
Background: Mathew was your normal kid until he hung out with the wrong crowd in his last year of highschool. He went from being in the track team and taking martial arts to keep in shape to taking drugs and pimping girlfriends. He dropped out of school and spent the next year on the streets, whee he met the really wrong crowd and a girl, who turned out to be a vampire, and made him one, after explaning that pimping was really bad and he should never, ever, ever do it. Again. Or she'd come back. She left the next day and he's been trying to adjust ever since. (She thinks he died.) Not much for authority or conforming, he told certain vampires to go stake themselves and left for Hollywood. Now, if only he could act....
Dark Secret: Mathew can read minds, even that of other vampires. Possibly because of the drugs in his system when he was brought over, or for other reasons.
Personality: Mathew is a confused young man trying to make sense of what he is now, what it means, why he keeps getting into peoples heads and trying to be a tough guy.
Obsession: Being tough.
Wound Points:
Passions
Fear: People will guess he's really a coward. And the vampire who made him :)
Rage: People who abuse girls.
Noble: He'll stick up for good people even if there is nothing in it for him.
Stats
Body: 60 (Worked out a lot)
Speed: 80 (Martial arts)
Mind: 50 (Flunked classes)
Soul: 50 (Charming liar)
Skills
Body Skills: Work out Routine 25%; Lay The Good Old Smack Down 40%; Healing 16%
Speed Skills: Dodge 25%; Drive 25%; Bladed Weapon Fighting 50%; Flight 10%;
Mind Skills: Conceal 15%; Notice 35%; Street Smarts 15%; Break & Enter 30%
Soul Skills: Charm 25%; Lie 25%; Sexual Magnetism 30%; Aura 45%; Controlling Gaze 30%; Fade from sight 30%
Weaknesses
Sunlight (strong)
Mirrors (strong - whatever he sees in them terrifies him)
Possessions
Nothing of note besides a sword, some knives, and attitude. He wears black leather. And shades. And, err, lots of black.
NOTES
Starting stats were Body: 60; Speed: 70; Mind: 40; Soul: 50
Starting skills were:
Body Skills: Work out Routine 25%; Lay The Good Old Smack Down 40%; Get Back Up 15%
Speed Skills: Dodge 25%; Drive 25%; Knife Fighting 40%
Mind Skills: Conceal 15%; Notice 25%; Street Smarts 15%; Break & Enter 30%
Soul Skills: Charm 25%; Lie 25%; Sexual Magnetism 30%;
Supernatural Modifiers are:
Vampires get Speed +10, Mind +10, Aura 15%, Controlling Gaze (soul skill) 30%, Healing 1% (1WP/five minutes) + one other Vampire skill at 30%., They begin with Sunlight (strong) as a default Weakness.
I turned get backk up into Healing, and added Fade from Sight as free skills.
Then added Mirrors Strong and used that 40% for Aura and his obsession skill.
“Emote! Emote! ACT! Pretend you are a vicious brute, like a German! Snarl like you’re German! Sound like you are barfing! Look terrifying for the camera. And remember, don’t cause the cameraman to run away screaming this time!”
- Andre, directing the movie.
This shall list PCs and descriptions and likely the character summary too. Yay!