OPEN CR MEME.

[exsangui]

It's our first CR meme. Apps aren't yet open, so this is mostly a place to jam for anybody! If you comment to this meme, you have an invitation. Please use this space to talk about characters you're interested in apping, while I use this space to figure out how big the first round might be.

Please note that you do not have to app whatever characters you mention here, and you are not inextricably tied to whatever vampire abilities you discuss here. You're free to change your mind between here and apping.

The tentative open date is OCT 10, with apps opening OCT 05, so I figure we've all got plenty of time to get our ideas in order before then.

A reminder: This is a vampire-focused dark fantasy musebox. Please check out the faq (and feel free to ask me questions on the FAQ as needed!) Don't forget to join our discord server if you're feeling it, but you don't have to.

Some spoilers so you have things to plan around:

1. An ancient god has contacted you with terrible purpose.
2. Two pious clerics will aid you with their lives, if necessary. Will you make it necessary? Get to know them in the free demo below.
3. A maze, deep underground. The sun hides from you.
4. Hunger churns. Will you be able to keep your wits about you when prey is finally in view?
5. Feel free to ask for more questions about this below, though I don't want to spoil everything, I do want to give you something to plot around / look forward to.

CHARACTER INFO:
<b>WHO</b>: are you? <b>CHARACTER / FANDOM</b>: <b>VAMP ABILITIES</b>: You're not married to whatever you say here, but give people an idea of what you're looking to pick and workshop it with others if you're not sure. Give reasons for your choices, if you're interested. <b>CHARACTER DIRECTION</b>: How cool is your character with killing someone to survive? Why do you want them in this setting? What are you looking forward to? Saying 'idk it looks fun leave me alone' is fine. <b>WANTED CR</b>: lay it on me <b>ANYTHING ELSE</b>?

Comments

COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, CONCERNS.

[exsangui]

hit me.

NPCS.

[exsangui]

Here are the NPCs appearing in the next event. If you'd like to tag with them, consider this a voice testing opportunity. You may get a little info out of them ahead of time. These conversations will become game canon, if you want. As it is, consider this an opportunity for a little preview.

[exsangui]

ROHESE is a pious cleric of a secret god. She is quiet and withdrawn, which suits her worship well, but she isn't shy. An autodidact, she taught herself to read, and considers her membership in what some would call a cult another way to enrich herself and learn.

[exsangui]

Does VASILI truly believe in the order's precepts, or is he just here for the free food and bedding? Charismatic and lazy-- or, he pretends to be-- Vasili is in it for himself. At least, that's what he keeps saying.

[rietveld]

WHO: it's a-me, z.
CHARACTER / FANDOM: kaz brekker / grishaverse (books)
VAMP ABILITIES: i'm considering dirt nap, long fangs, and night senses as a combo. abilities that heighten the goth drama but also suit someone who specializes in work in subtleties (lockpicking, etc).
CHARACTER DIRECTION: honestly looking forward to seeing how kaz brekker's infamous willingness to do most things shady/murdery is going to interface with literal vampirism and the setting at large. murder in general, and to survive, isn't going to bother him, but he also does have a heart even if he believes otherwise, so it'll be cool to see what things bring that out in him.
WANTED CR: negative cr always fun, kaz is basically a neg cr machine. people to form alliances with! people he's forced to work together with! other crime-y underworldy types! anyone, anything, really. i've never played him in a game setting before and i'm stoked to see how things shake out.
ANYTHING ELSE?

[goty]

WHO: pel
CHARACTER / FANDOM: ellie / tlou2
VAMP ABILITIES: atm daywalker, night creature and blood memories, bc those would make (un)ellie's life the most hellish.
CHARACTER DIRECTION: im taking her directly from That Beach On Santa Barbara to see if she can really change when she's automatically thrown into a new violent situation
WANTED CR: ellie is going to come in very weak and injured, and while its survivable, it could be... more survivable. she'll be fine if nobody apps a medic, but jeez it'll hurt. somebody's gotta saw off her fucked up finger.

otherwise ellie won't be in the best mood, but some part of her desperately wants to live through this, and she's soft hearted enough to reach out toward friendship once she gets it. it'll be a slow process, because real world sucks, isekai NOT MUCH BETTER
ANYTHING ELSE?

[nearlyunmade]

WHO: Ammmy
CHARACTER / FANDOM: Stella Willougby (OC)
VAMP ABILITIES: Coffin sleeper (interesting challenge), shark fangs (objectively awful and I love it), blood memories (feels like a lot of cool potential hooks here)
CHARACTER DIRECTION: Stella is very cool with killing fascists, less cool with killing other people, will be challenged by being thrown into a setting where it's not immediately clear whether someone is a fascist or not. (Presumably.)
WANTED CR: Would deeply love a) CR where the person decides they're friends and wins her over by pure attrition b) rivals/enemies to respected allies (to friends? idk it's a short game) c) people she's primed to feel protective of d) nearly anything else, hit me; she's a bit prickly but we can work things out or just go with negative CR
ANYTHING ELSE? I'll include a fuller elevator pitch in her app, but basically Stella is coming straight from a near-future dystopia so she's not prepared for vampires but sort of is prepared for everything to be terrible. HMU here or on disco if you want to chat about her in more detail!

[adnoto]

WHO: Carolyn/Kadath (Too Many Carolyns)
CHARACTER / FANDOM: Inquisitor Amberley Vail/Warhammer 40,000

VAMP ABILITIES: Pretty sure on Coffin Sleeper & Night Senses (for maximum handicap during the day and because having to deal with a religion that isn't hers will be Fun.) Could go either way on Long Fangs/Shark Fangs, because Amberley is 100% the kind of person who'd slit a throat and catch it in a glass even if she had dainty fangs.

CHARACTER DIRECTION: Amberley has almost certainly condemned entire worlds in her career as an Inquisitor, so killing is no problem. She'll find the blood cannibalism part abhorrent but will do it because she'd regard it as her duty to survive and call down the wrath of her peers on this place. What happened to her afterward wouldn't figure into her calculations. She has strong faith and a moral core, they're just a faith and morality incompatible with any kind of non-awful setting. The time frame of the game is probably not long enough to readjust her perspective unless there's a major metaphysical reveal that she finds trustworthy.

tl;dr she thinks she has to murder everyone here for the good of humanity, but it's nothing personal and she'll feel regretful about it

WANTED CR: Amberley's default "oh shit" mode is to pretend to be like 20 and flaky/in over her head so people underestimate/help her. Characters who buy it and characters who don't buy it are both great.

Also: Have you heard the word of our Savior, the God-Emperor of Mankind?

ANYTHING ELSE? warhammer is terrible, stay away

[adnoto]

So Amberley here is an actual fascist....

(It's a far future dystopia for her.)

[adnoto]

If nobody apps someone more competent, Amberley can do field medic stuff.

[goty]

HEY BB U WANNA DO SOME MINOR AMPUTATION

[adnoto]

Interested to see how that interacts with her usual "pretend to be 20 and kinda useless" shtick.

[goty]

feel like ellie might hit either a or b, no clue which. lets find out on their very bad no good day in a spooky death maze.

[goty]

from what youve said of kaz these two feel like bitchfest 2021. lots of sour feelings and cranky murderers pls

[goty]

ellie who just wants it OFF oh my GOD may not be very patient w that :')

excited 4 fireworks

[adnoto]

Not 100% married to it (gotta check a couple novels), but her canon point might have her in a corporal's uniform, and it's in keeping with that role to be okay at field medicine, so Ellie might be in luck.

[mandrake]

Did someone say medic—wait what do you mean vampires can't just casually regenerate any and all appendages here, what kind of antediluvian savagery is this

[goty]

ok genuinely laughing at the idea of her playing the roll her uniform implies when no one will recognize the uniform

SHINE ON U CRAZY DIAMOND

[goty]

sorry we're in basic bitchpire territory, regis

at least u got your transformation into a carpet stain out of your system

[adnoto]

I double-checked the timeline and no military uniform SORRY

But she'd totally lean in to being some random soldier even if she didn't need to because she likes playing pretend (and insists THAT'S NOT THE REASON, IT'S UNDERCOVER WORK GOSH.)

[goty]

HAHAH i love her already

enjoy twisting off her finger like a twix bar i guess. ellie will be grateful when she stops screaming

[adnoto]

Sure, she's a mass murderer, but she's delightful on a personal level!

actually that's probably gonna be the first sentence of the app

[goty]

compares headcount.... cringes

im so excited to read apps... u have no idea

[nearlyunmade]

Yes, fully! Also, it seems like you may have it covered elsewhere, but Stella does have medical training, even if she'll abruptly be making do with less equipment than she's used to. She can do some patching as necessary.

[adnoto]

I'll be very worried if anyone beats Amberley's "a few billion, probably—wait, are we including aliens? Several billion" body count.