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Okay! Hey everyone. Really good work in here so far. Answers to a couple of questions.
1. First edition or second?
-I'm going to stick with 1st, since that's the one I know well and the version that's in the rules threads. If anyone's Archetype has something different in 2E (move, debts), feel free to use it. Just make sure you tag it on your sheet.
Awesome. I think I might take the Benefactor then, just because it seems like a really interesting and varied relationship to have. (Also, without thinking about it, I wrote a character in who fits for this relationship.)
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TESSA
Her story is interesting both because she has no pre-existing relationship with others of her kind (although I have many plans), and because as the game starts her life is on the verge of changing drastically, one way or the other. So for her, I think what would be good is to think about what her 'human' life looks like, how has it already been changed by her sudden foray into the supernatural, and what does she have that she values, that will be threatened as her 'other' life starts to take precedence? The first few major steps into her new life should involve some hard choices about what it costs her to go one way or the other.
So, Tessa's human life right now is fairly innocuous. She still lives in her old apartment, and she is taking a term off from university while attempting to finish up a late paper. Before too long, she's expected to return to classes for her degree.
The foray into the supernatural caused this absence, and is likely to prevent her returning to university any time soon. Although she loves
studying esoteric matters, the ability to study at a distance and at leisure is something which she greatly enjoyed, and something which she's likely to lose permanently.
Tessa, of course, had a number of friends and other relationships at the university, and it's likely that she will come to be forgotten by these people. Those who won't forget, like traditionally long-remembering professors of religious studies, are likely to become disappointed in Tessa--her family already is. I think this will probably get worse in time, and Tessa might find that mundane sorts are not as benevolent as she thought.
I think that Tessa's noticed that her new...companions are in a weird spot with the law, and she wonders if she's going to have to cross that line eventually. I even think that there might be a symbolic threshold that Tessa will have to cross--a moment of casting off whatever in her is suited to normal/mortal life. The question, I guess, is when Tessa will be willing to give up the warmth of the sun, so to speak, and to descend into the cold, harsh world she's meant for.
Regarding the Benefactor, I think that Padbit's gang might be a dangerous association for Tessa, and might themselves bring harm to people Tessa loves or might endanger those people through their conflicts with others.
This message was last edited by the player at 09:39, Mon 24 May 2021.