BURNED CIRCLE - City/Character Creation Thread (DFRPG)

[Shayuri]

I have worked out Juno's skills too, finally!

Superb: Conviction, Fists
Great: Investigation, Athletics
Good: Guns, Alertness
Fair: Lore, Discipline, Intimidation, Stealth
Average: Resources, Empathy, Contacts, Burglery

Open to shuffles just to make sure we've got essentials covered. I picked things based on natural gifts conviction, investigation, alertness), supernatural enhancement (fists, athletics), and her limited on the job experience.

As for the 'trapped in the Nevernever' thing, I like that scenario. It reflects not only Juno's abilities, but her inexperience with them as well. Of course, she can punch a hole back to the normal world, I think...but perhaps the mind-altering fog prevents that from working? I'll assume so...or that some other interference prevents it.

In that situation, Juno's first instinct is to try to resist the influence of the fog...the physical dangers of the fetches is secondary (or at least more manageable). The idea of her mind being changed, her perceptions altered, is intolerable...she's an empiricist at heart, she lives by her senses. An aspect from finding a way to see truly surrounded by lies might be something like, 'Curse of Clarity' where she can see through false visions more easily...but is also unprotected by comforting illusions and seemings, tending to see things through that uncompromising and at times bleak lens.

 

[ThirdWizard]

[MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION]
I was having some dissonance there about getting out. But, we can say that the fetches or something else in the area was blocking your way out, or that you couldn't concentrate enough to do it because of the mental strain of keeping your wits about you in the mind fog.

I like Curse of Clarity. Very nice.

Go ahead and take that and write up an official Phase 4, then Bluedevil can take over for Phase 5. I think you've got a good idea where you want to go with it now.

 

[Thanee]

I will wrap things up tomorrow, hopefully getting everything done by then.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

I have worked out Juno's skills too, finally!

Superb: Conviction, Fists
Great: Investigation, Athletics
Good: Guns, Alertness
Fair: Lore, Discipline, Intimidation, Stealth
Average: Resources, Empathy, Contacts, Burglery

A word of warning. You have NO Endurance in there. That means only 2 boxes of physical Stress unless you have supernatural Toughness or something similar.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

How about this?

Beat the New Boss
When a Red Court servant starts pushing a drug (derived from the Red Court narcotic saliva) to the neighborhood kids and teens, Logan takes notice. And when his "little (pixie) sister" Bethany is approached, he resolves to shut down the scumbag and his whole operation. But will Logan even survive when the vamp behind the plan takes charge and brings in extra muscle to track down and get rid of the meddlesome ogre-kin?

Just as Keira is done with her shift in the Road House and ready to head home, she witnesses a bunch of thugs taking on a guy, who despite being rather brawny seems to be on the losing side.

As she jumps into the fray to give him a helping hand, they manage to turn the tables. But then she gets introduced to the vampire drug dealer and his narcotic saliva, and not quite knowing what she ran into there, things start falling apart once more.


Aspect: The Hunter Becomes The Hunted

I like that one as it works both ways here.

It couldn't be used very effectively as a boon too often, but it would have some great compels. That's fine. Every aspect doesn't have to be helpful. You'd just have to make sure that others were beneficial to balance it out.

I am mostly looking for "compelable" as a quality for aspects, actually, since that is the harder part and there sure will be more than enough situations where one of the aspects will be useful as a boon.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Shayuri]

A word of warning. You have NO Endurance in there. That means only 2 boxes of physical Stress unless you have supernatural Toughness or something similar.

Bye
Thanee

Gah!

See, this is why I wanted to post things and get reactions before setting things too far into stone.

Thanks!

 

[Thanee]

Phase Four: Whose Path Have You Crossed
A guest star will appear in your adventure, as follows:

• Thanee will guest star in Dragonwriter's adventure.
• Dragonwriter will guest star in BlueDevil's adventure.
• BlueDevil will guest star in Shayuri's adventure.
• Shayuri will guest star in Thanee's adventure.

Phase Five: Who Else's Path Have You Crossed
A second guest star will appear in each adventure, completing the adventure. It will be as follows:

• Thanee will guest star in BlueDevil's adventure.
• Dragonwriter will guest star in Shayuri's adventure.
• BlueDevil will guest star in Thanee's.
• Shayuri will guest star in Dragonwriter's adventure.

Hmm... Maybe you should reconsider Phase 5?

Like it is now, everyone is always following the same person as in Phase 4.

BlueDevil is doing Phase 4 after Shayuri's Phase 3, and Phase 5 after Shayuri's Phase 4
Dragonwriter is doing Phase 4 after BlueDevil's Phase 3, and Phase 5 after BlueDevil's Phase 4
Shayuri is doing Phase 4 after my Phase 3, and Phase 5 after my Phase 4.
I am doing Phase 4 after Dragonwriter's Phase 3, and Phase 5 after Dragonwriter's Phase 4

BlueDevil -> Dragonwriter -> Thanee
Dragonwriter -> Thanee -> Shayuri
Shayuri -> BlueDevil -> Dragonwriter
Thanee -> Shayuri -> BlueDevil


Maybe this is better to get things mixed up a bit more?

Phase 4 (as before)

• Thanee will guest star in Dragonwriter's adventure.
• Dragonwriter will guest star in BlueDevil's adventure.
• BlueDevil will guest star in Shayuri's adventure.
• Shayuri will guest star in Thanee's adventure.

Phase 5

• Thanee will guest star in Shayuri's adventure.
• Dragonwriter will guest star in Thanee's adventure.
• BlueDevil will guest star in Dragonwriter's.
• Shayuri will guest star in BlueDevil's adventure.

BlueDevil -> Dragonwriter -> Shayuri
Dragonwriter -> Thanee -> BlueDevil
Shayuri -> BlueDevil -> Thanee
Thanee -> Shayuri -> Dragonwriter

Just a thought.

Bye
Thanee

 

[ThirdWizard]

[MENTION=478]Thanee[/MENTION]

I hadn't looked at it like that! Thanks, you're absolutely right. We'll go with that as the Phase 5 postings.
[MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION], [MENTION=54988]Dragonwriter[/MENTION], & [MENTION=6694788]Bluedevil[/MENTION] so you all see this.

 

[Dragonwriter]

I'll get to work on that sharper Phase 4 for Logan, helping out Malcom. Sorry, I've been a little sidetracked recently. Had a small semi-vacation (not entirely by choice).

So Keira gives me a hand against some of the RCV's thugs, and we get a little more in over our heads. Then Malcom comes in... Maybe due to me calling in that favor?

And for my Phase 5, I am now finishing off Keira's story? Which is currently Keira and Juno stuck in a creepy, mind-fogging place in the Nevernever possibly connected to Winter?

 

[Thanee]

Gah!

Some more observations...

You are one point over the limit (need to lower one Fair to Average to fix it).

You have no Scholarship (real world education) and no Driving (not sure if you need to have that in order to be able to drive at all, but as a police officer it seems a little weird at least ).

Bye
Thanee