Monday, July 27, 2020

Vampiric-Depressive, Werewolf Patient, and Evicted Ectoplasm: Three "Failed Careers" for Electric Bastionland

Cold Cave Love Comes CloseVAMPIRIC-DEPRESSIVE
Emotions run high in Bastion

You feed off of these emotions

IF YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST PLAYER
THE WHOLE GROUP IS £10K IN DEBT TO

The Stone-Statue Studio of Sherry Sherrymint: A famed artist who's vampiric curse has her trapped with her life’s work--statues--on a small canal island, unable to cross the running water around it.

YOU GET
A key to the backdoor of a local blood bank, fangs (steals d6 HP)
Vampires cannot regain HP in any way besides biting mortals. They cannot tolerate direct sunlight.

WHAT IS YOUR GIFT?
£1 Your preternaturally long fangs do d8 damage.
£2 You can sense the emotions of those around you, even through walls.
£3 You can drain 1HP worth of your own blood to make a dose of POISON.
£4 With eye contact and a honeyed tongue, you can DOMINATE any mortal a simple one-sentence command that they must follow.
£5 Pick one alternate animal form which you can TRANSFORM into at will.
£6 You can't be reduced to 0 STR by any means but direct sunlight.

WHAT IS YOUR CURSE?
1HP You cast no reflection or shadow.
2HP You take on the CHA score of whoever you last drank from.
3HP Holy symbols and blessed water deal d6 damage to you on contact.
4HP You cannot willingly cross running water.
5HP You cannot enter a place of residence uninvited.
6HP A wooden stake to the heart instantly turns you to ash.

Kromphart, Alice - English / Welcome
WEREWOLF PATIENT
All of your meals left Deep Country for Bastion

They didn’t take too kindly when you came after them

IF YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST PLAYER
THE WHOLE GROUP IS £10K IN DEBT TO

Society of Advancements in Goblet Technology: Share ownership of a bowl-sized goblet that turns all liquid inside it into a niche brandy made at least partially of spinal fluid.

YOU GET
A registered lycanthrope license, teeth and claws (d8)

HOW DID THEY TRY TO HOUSE-TRAIN YOU?
£1 A Job with Mascot Manufacturing: Take a disturbingly realistic fursuit.
£2 Guard Dog Kennels: You ended up getting along with the dogs better. Take one as your companion.
£3 They mixed you up with somebody else and sent you to a Pyromaniac Rehabilitation Facility: Take a map of Bastion’s parklands and approved locations for therapist-sanctioned prescribed burns. Your wolfish nature always disapproved of the practice.
£4 Dan Dewey’s Allmeat Slaughterhouse: Take a sealed lunch pail full of anonymous meat.
£5 St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised By Wolves: Take an instructive textbook detailing how to adapt to human behavior.*
£6 Coal Mines: Take a pickaxe and a wallet full of nearly-useless company store vouchers.

WHY DID THEY GIVE UP ON YOU?
1HP You cannot wear human clothes.
2HP Your speech is always punctuated with GROWLS AND BARKS.
3HP You struggle to avoid EATING SMALL CRITTERS.
4HP Technically you’re just a BIPEDAL WOLF, not a werewolf.
5HP You have too many FLEAS (all of which are quite polite and do ask you ask)
6HP Your slobber is ACID.


Green Screen Ghost and Spirit 2 - YouTubeEVICTED ECTOPLASM
The variety of cutting edge astral-projection tech in Bastion suckered you in

Now you’re a ghost made of colored ectoplasm, unsure how to get back to your body

IF YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST PLAYER
THE WHOLE GROUP IS £10K IN DEBT TO

Dewey, Cheatem & Howe: A law firm who have been waiting in the lobby of an inn for a client afflicted with severe slow-motion sickness for the past four months.

YOU GET
An outdated map that should lead back to your body’s last location, a bottle of ether.

HOW DID YOU END UP PROJECTING?**
£1 You got caught up in a drawn out legal battle. When the courts had already taken your home and all your possessions, they still weren’t satisfied, and took your body.
£2 You meditated a little too much one day and transcended right out of your body. You have d4 followers fascinated by your inner peace.
£3 You underwent cryogenic freezing to wait for a time period when your body’s illness has a cure. You can freeze a moderate amount of liquid on contact.
£4 You are actually just dead and hanging around for another go at it. 
£5 You used a designer drug to project from your body. You can contact your old dealer by telegram.
£6 You spent too much time daydreaming at work  

WHERE WAS YOUR BODY LAST SEEN?
1HP Floating on a boat out to Deep Country.
2HP At the Laraby Medical Suites, undergoing shock therapy.
3HP As a dummy audience member at an unpopular political candidate’s rally.
4HP Passed out in a opium den, the other attendees none the wiser.
5HP As a scarecrow in the fields.
6HP Eating a sandwich and petting a kitten on the stoop of an apartment building.

*This is based off of the excellent short story “St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell
**These are partially based off of the White Wolf RPG line Orpheus.

3 comments:

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