[Overworld] Gielinor
Introduction Theme: Bella Morte - Fall No More
My name is Lydia Dresden. I'm a budding Thaumaturge and a masterful Evocationist, and daughter of world-renowned wizard, Harry Dresden. When I was just fourteen, I was inducted into an organization that protects humanity from threats unseen. When the sun sets and the moon rises high in the sky, creatures spawned from the Sin and Vice of the 21st century arise from their slumbers and begin to wreak untold havoc in the dark corners of the earth.
You have to understand one thing about Boston . It has two faces. The first is the Old Wold, a world of naked dancing gypsies in the moonlight and blood rituals in the dark of the night. Then there's the New World, a high enterprise built on top of the dead of old. The new progenitors of the 21st century seek to silence the threat of supernatural tentacles that coiled their arms around them in lascivious lust for power, but they can't do it on their own. I'm a wizard, and there are others like me. We use our power for good, to serve humanity. We don't ask for much in the form of gratitude, in fact I'm the only wizard willing to practice openly, we just rest easily knowing that another morning has dawned, and the beasts had been kept at bay.
If you've ever seen the creatures of the night, the Vampires of blood and emotion sucking the life out of the people of Boston, the Faeries of the Nevernever frolicking in the forests of Quincy, a troll rampaging through the streets of Concord, or a dragon taking flight across the skies of Springfield, or if you've ever set the air on fire with mere thoughts, then know that you're not alone. Come to 14 Elliot Square, Lincoln Apartments, and see me in my office. I'll help you find your way. — Ad in the Boston Bugle, 2016.
Game Diagnostics RPG System: FATE - Dresden Files Module, rulebook can be found easily, though no links can be provided.
Setting: High Enterprise Boston, plagued by the creatures of the night. Players are Psychics, Evocationists, Holy Warriors, or Thaumturges keeping a sinister and dark plot at bay.
Flavor: Expect cults and blood rituals (Lovecraftian Mystery Horror) in dark techno-punk cityscapes (Think Classic World of Darkness, but 21st century)
Deadline: We'll see.
Posting Rate: Four (4) posts per week. Once (1) a day if it all buffs out.
Power Level: Chest Deep.
Allowed Powers: Anything! Just consult me before you take anything unusual, like Faerie Glamours. Absolutely no evil characters with Dominate, or evil sorcerers that set people on fire. That just doesn't work.
Campaign Length: Less than 8 months with a 4/week rate. No pressure.
Character Application Stage I: Basic Info
Name: No long and winded names. Be realistic, and often simple is the best answer.
Age: No lower than 18 or older than 50.
High Concept: Your character's most definitive description, in the form of a single aspect.
Trouble: Your character's worst fear / weakness, in the form of a single aspect.
Template: Wizard, Faerie-Blooded, Psychic, or True Believer. Make sure your High Concept complements your Template, if you're Faerie Blooded, mention which creature's blood you possess. Ask before you pick something weird, like Chimerae or Satyr.
Stage II: Background Aspects
Phase Three: What Was Your First Adventure?
The third phase is your character’s first true adventure—his first book, episode, case, movie, whatever—starring him. You’ll need to come up with a title for this adventure. (This can be a lot of fun, but don’t burn too much time on it.) A quick way to do it is to pick an arbitrary rule to guide the selection of the title.
Then, you need to think up and write down the basic details of this story for the phase’s summary. The story doesn’t need to have a lot of detail—in fact, a pair of sentences (see below) works pretty well, because your fellow players will add in their own details to this past adventure in the next two phases (as you will to theirs).
If you find yourself stuck, look first to your character’s trouble. Find a dilemma that has a chance of throwing that idea into question or focus again. That said, you needn’t directly address the issue there—just provide an opportunity for it to be a factor.
You can also look to a tried and true author’s trick—the “story skeleton” (or “story question”). A story skeleton fits this format:
When [something happens], [your protagonist] [pursues a goal]. But will [your protagonist] succeed when [antagonist provides opposition]?
Simple as that, but powerful when put into effect.
Phases Four and Five (whose paths have you crossed?) are both replaced with a Second and Third adventure (see Phase Three) for the sake of simplifying character generation. You can still have NPC guest stars in your adventures, though, I'll make way for them in the game.
Example Character
Lydia Dresden
Age: 24
High Concept: Therapist by Day, Wizard by Night
Trouble: Hopeless Romantic
Template: Wizard
Phase One: Lydia grew up daughter of Wizard Consultant, Harry Dresden, and her mother died at childbirth. Soon she was inducted into the White Council (when she showed promising magic talents). Mortified by his wife's death, her father left her in the care of a mentor, Markhimmal Wallace, and ventured off in search of himself. She promised herself that she'd find him once she graduated from her studies.
Phase Aspect: Daddy Issues
Phase Two: When the White Council is attacked by a new Wizard group called the Sons of Ether, Lydia loses her mentor and a great deal of personal friends. Devastated, she summoned her powers to defend the Council's headquarters, killing many of the opposing Mages. For her incursion of the Laws of Magic, she was exiled, although her life was spared for her service to the council.
Phase Aspect: Emotional Magic Time Bomb
Phase Three
Story Title: Amber Blood
Guest Starring: Jennie Coulders
Story: When a new court of rabid Vampires invades Boston and causes wanton destruction in the shadows of the night, Lydia Dresden, acting on her own accord, sets off to stop their leader, the cursed Amber King, Maxwell Grendale, with the help of Wizard Friend and patient thaumaturge, Jennie Coulders. Will she end their rampaging blood spree? or will she fall victim to the curse of the Amber King?
Phase Aspect: Protector of the Innocent
Phase Four
Story Title: Chasing Shadows
Guest Starring: Harry Dresden
Story: When Wizard Harry Dresden returns to Chicago to meet his old friend, Detective Murphy, all hell breaks loose as an ancient curse falls and a dark evil awakens from the catacombs of St. James Cathedral. Reunited with her father, Lydia and Dresden must join forces to save all of humanity. Dresden leaves Lydia with four words. "Not So Subtle, Sweetheart"
Phase Aspect: Not So Subtle; Still Quick to Anger.
Phase Five
Story Title: Chic Flic
Guest Starring: Maria Morte "Psychic Extraordinaire".
Story: When a snuff film containing a hypnotizing spell is passed around the internet, thousands of young teens are compelled to form together to perform the greatest blood sacrifice and awaken an ancient primordial chaos that slept for eons. How will Lydia stop this outbreak of lunacy? She'll need the help of an old friend, she thinks, as she flips through the Phone Book looking for the "Psychic" heading.
Phase Aspect: Out of Sight; Out of Mind.
Last edited by Hanz; Dec 9th, 2015 at 01:04 AM .