Setting is the semi-fictional city of New Avalon, which has replaced modern-day Baltimore. City theme is "Wasted potential", city mood is "frustration." New Avalon is a city of 'should have, but didn't'. Building the new subway system should have solved traffic problems but everyone is too scared to use it. Ousting the corrupt mayor should have cleaned up government but it didn't.
New Avalon is full of opportunities wasted by circumstance or insufficient planning.
The one is formerly from New Orleans and works with the Lucifuge, an ancient order that specializes in demon hunting (note: supernatural is secret in this setting). Her former team went down fighting nearly a month ago and she's been ordered point-blank to assemble a new one (the other PC(s))
@C.Ross Touche
The other is a fresh, possibly unblooded Hunter working with the Ascending Ones (alchemists and drug dealers; the Ascending Ones do not specialize in a particular kind of monster, and use mystical elixers to aid their hunts), recruited first to make their drugs for them. Inducted into the Vigil when bad stuff went down during a drug buy
I can spend part of this first session just introducing them and getting some of the Mexican standoffs out of the way
New Avalon is currently experiencing a thus-far-successful attempt at reviving the Candle Compact (in short: hunters agree to hunt monsters, not each other) but things are still tense between various organizations and freebooters
Part of the reason our Luci girl is being ordered to reassemble her team
An opening story/conflict. I'm comfortable with them being ordered or requested into it; the Luci is struggling with grief and the other one is unblooded and in any event I intend on playing up the idea that working with Conspiracies means jumping through hoops
But I'm not entirely certain where to /go/ where the org can identify a threat without handing out all the info
Could do something with a slasher that turns out to be an idiot summoner possessed by the thing he called. When they put him down or exorcise it the killings start up again in the exact same pattern.
Depends on who you're asking, really. Fanatical Sin Eaters would want it, certain factions in the Underworld would be creaming their pants, the spirits of the Shadow are always trying to break through, Hell likewise
The forces of the Abyss want the walls of reality thin so they can turn 'something' into 'nothing'
A nascent godling might want to feast on the glut of energy
Or a sorcerer who thinks she knows what she's doing
My default would be to have a person or group on this side who have petty reasons for doing it, which are being exploited by a being or group on the other side who have more ambitious reasons.
Which will lead the PCs to the core cabal of supernaturals that serve and worship whatever this thing is
And eventually into containing or destroying it
Has room to incorporate non-hostile interactions with the supernatural and to try to preserve, or destroy, the Candle Compact as they seek allies against the spread of supernatural power in a city rife for exploitation
Example of what I'm thinking of (not WoD-based): a group of sorcerers use their powers to trick rich non-magicals into thinking they're being getting magic through terrible rituals and sacrifices, when it's really just a scam to get rich and powerful people in compromising situations so the sorcerers can manipulate them.
However, the rituals and sacrifices attract the attention of an ancient local spirit who had lain dormant for centuries, and is now rising to kill everyone--magical and mundane--who is trespassing on its land.
I think in this case I wanna play up the conflict with something more deliberately malevolent, partially because I have issues helping these folks into a 'Hunter' mindset
You know my reaction is "If you have to work to keep them from playing the kind of game they normally play, why aren't you instead helping them play that game?"
I've often attempted to run Hunter: the Vigil (part of the New World of Darkness gameline) for my players. Unfortunately I frequently run into the same problem; namely, when I set up villains with the tiniest shred of moral ambiguity ("It doesn't mean to hurt people, it has to feed..") they break...
US slavery was worst and must brutal system of slavery in all the history of mankind.
What was the effect of the japanese attack on fighting slavery in US?
@Lord_Gareth I've been reading backlogs right now. Up to this line my reply to your questions about morality would have been "have them play D&D murderhobos", so... I guess we're on the same line.
Conclusion: It is an encapsulation of Moffat's run producing Doctor Who. Whatever you liked about Eleven's series, or disliked about them, is contained therein.
Tasha Lem is not River Song, but I can see why people are confused: Moffat accidentally wrote the same character again.
Time is probably one of Smith's strongest performances as the Doctor, and he made it worth my while. I've always best loved Smith's Doctor when he's being So Very Old or In His Second Childhood, and he got to do both very well.
@ProfessorLokiCaprion That.... is hard to pin down.
If we take Ten's statement about his age at face value, he lost years compared to the last time he'd made a definitive statement about his age on screen (Seven, I think).
So here's the second point, which is much easier to discuss than the astonishingly elusive subject of the Doctor's age (Moffat says the Doctor's totally forgotten, actually, and is just making up numbers):
We have some small evidence that Time Lords in their last regeneration go to pot.
The Master spent several stories trying to get more regenerations (his plots ranged from "hug a black hole" to "take over a solar system of reality-bending psychics") before he gave up and just possessed a non-Gallifreyan's body.
So Eleven, being at the end of his last regeneration, may have suffered similar accelerated aging toward the end of his life.
It's rather amusing: Doctor Who wikis across the Internet watched Day of the Doctor, considered whether or not to edit thousands of entries to reflect an updated numbering sequence, and simultaneously went "Nah."
> It was the first time I've ever seen a fandom look at debatable minutia and go "You know what? Screw this."
So John Hurt is the Warth Doctor, Richard E. Grant is the Shalka Doctor, Eccleston is Ninth, Tennant is Tenth and Meta-Crisis, Smith is Eleventh, and Capaldi is Twelfth.
There's a scene in The Brain of Morbius which implies that the Doctor had previous faces, but it wasn't explicit.
And then there's the Cartmel Masterplan, which never got implemented because the show was cancelled, but heavy hints were being laid in Seven's era.
The Masterplan would've revealed that the Doctor had a whole previous life as one of the founders of Time Lord Society, alongside Rassilon and Omega, and that the Hartnell Doctor is a kind of miraculous throwback/reincarnation of that "Other" historical figure.
@RedRiderX I think the Valeyard should actually go between Tennant and Smith.
It makes more sense, for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that it fits neatly into the Time Lord Triumphant concept.
Mr. "I don't want to go" splitting off a personality to sabotage his own past and steal the regenerations for a do-over would make a lot of sense.
(As a side note, someday I hope they figure out a way to re-canonize the Shalka Doctor.)
@RedRiderX There's a weird short story which is of questionable canonicity even in the Shalka Doctor spinoff universe: it's written by the Shalka Doctor writer, but it's basically authorial fanfic.
Season 6b is the fan theory that between the Second Doctor being tried for his crimes by the Time Lords and his sentence being carried out, he and Jaimie spent time doing "community service" for the Time Lords.
wildwestscifi.net/gencrawlgaiden/10117 <-GenCrawl's the bastard child of a webcomic and a roguelike. A friend of mine draws/writes it. Once you get to the latest page you can leave commands (in the format "-> CHARACTERNAME: DO A THING") for the next update
There will be death unending amongst the people, and when the last dying wretch looks up at his impotent god and croaks, 'Why?' I will lean down and whisper, 'Screw Dr. Who.'
@Lord_Gareth And then, with his last dying breath, he shall exclaim "Wait, which Doctor? Because I agree with you about 11, but I think 9 is seriously underrated"
mh, ok, so. Nobody I really want to play with in my play by chat game, tired of fishing winter event in my mmorpg of choice, finished reading all the webcomics I'm in, no D&D session until next year. Yawn.
US slavery was worst and must brutal system of slavery in all the history of mankind.
What was the effect of the japanese attack on fighting slavery in US?
