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Concrete Organs

Hi all! Sorry for the inactivity! I'll still be here and will check every so often but I've got some IRL things to deal with, so I apologize in advance for the delay. I'll try to get another IC post in response to your actions by the end of this week :D have a great day!

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@Eviledd1984 accepted!! make sure the bloodbending is used accordingly, and with equal consequence! excited to see her in the world :D

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@Eviledd1984 sounds interesting! hope you can join :D

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@CDT0925 You can post if you'd like! it might take a while for people to reply though. i'm a bit busy at the moment, but i'll also make a character to help guide the story with these starting stages

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@CDT0925 Simon Manaen is accepted! Maybe for his ability, most people, especially strangers, always seem to forget him. He gets easier to remember if they spend more time with him, but it still does limit the capabilities of him making friends. Thank you for the submission!

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The dimly lit, dreary streets of Maysville were cold this time of year. Though the temperature was clearly below freezing, the only precipitation the town ever got was a murky rain. Your shoes squelched as the mud from the ground crashed with the pavement below.

Ten minutes ago, you woke up in the forest. The infamous Haunted Hoffmann Hills, you awoke in, though there were no hills at all. Maybe the townsfolk just wanted alliteration, who knows?

Thoughts ran through your head as you scanned the empty streets for people. Was I kidnapped? What did they want? Who were the other figures who woke up in the forest with me?

Your group finally spots a house with a light on. Under normal circumstances, you’d find it suspicious that someone was awake at four in the morning, but now you were grateful for any sign of life.

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Awesome! Quick question! Do all of our abilities have to have a consequence, or would a lower-tier ability be consequence free? Also, are we allowed to come up with our own consequences, or would you prefer to assign them yourself?

@CDT0925

If the ability isn't superpowered/supernatural, you can have no consequence with it. (like, good at skipping stones). You can come up with your own consequence if you want to :D I might try and give suggestions, though.

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Could you be more specific about what ability means in this case? Maybe an example of an ability at the upper limit of what you would accept?

@CDT0925

@CDT0925 Sorry about the vagueness! An ability is just something your character is uniquely good at, or a special power they can control. The character can be a brainiac, able to solve complex equations with only their mind or super strength, able to lift cars and trucks with little to no effort at all.

I'm looking at the Kids on Bikes system RPG for reference and i think i'd say the upper limit is, for example, altering the speed of time. This ability is powerful, so it also has drawbacks. Maybe the character can't control how long they speed up/slow down for or they age rapidly if they try to use it.

Abilities can be mostly anything under the sun, as long as they have about equal consequence to the player. Another example could be telekinesis, but can only be used if the character is inebriated enough.

Consequences don't all have to be psychological/physical. For example, the brainiac can have a hard time socializing with others, as they've spent most of their time studying. Or the character with super strength is feared among the students/peers, even if they try to be friendly.

tl;dr Abilities are just special things your character can do, compared to other people. You can have almost any ability, as long as they have a suitable weakness/drawback.

thanks! :D

Psychological Lovecraftian Horror set in early 2000's

@CDT0925@Dark Cloud@Steel Legion

it's up! it's called Concrete Organs! im gonna be inactive for like this week since irl stuff is coming up, but yeah! i'll try and approve characters and make an IC introduction so you all can get to rping right away :D

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first time gm-ing a thing like this ooo boy!