Expendable

Umbra Rose Condos

I've been playing around with this concept for a while, I quite like how you've added your own twist here. Perhaps the monsters are referred here by monster rescue agencies? Under many cities, there are disused and closed loops for underground subways, perhaps missing from various maps? It would be one way for those of the supernatural persuasion to make their way about the city - perhaps to other locations, say markets, schools, or even a clinic? I remember reading a book about people digging tunnels and setting up bars and the like.

I love a spice-of-life story with a little extra spice!

Could I play a normal unsuspecting human who stumbles into this situation and is just terrified of everything/everyone? XD

@LupusIntus

Perhaps you inherit the place? Or there's a bit of confusion and the tenants believe you're a monster just like them?

Simple guild adventure fun.

Could be fun, but we don't like the term "thief" - gives people the wrong idea, you see. They keep checking their fat wallets and purses while their eyes accuse us for naught. Where is the trust in this world, I ask you? Expert Treasure Hunters, if you don't mind.

Although one wonders where one can find a treasure in this wilderness worth leaving the city?

DeadLiNe

Molly sighs, glancing about at the shelves. Rumors had started up that the town council intended to tear down the old library and replace it with a modern building. The pneumatic tube next to her thumped, giving her a start. No doubt carrying a note for a book to be sent down the booklift, as few liked climbing the iron spiral stairs through the stacks, or roving under the dim lights through the shelves. Not that the tiny flashlight she had was much better, but at least she could point it.

Most of the books had green or brown covers, from like the forties, but there were newer books with colorful spines and protective plastic jackets with the callsign label scattered here and there - and older books, half forgotten even by the card catalog. Not to mention the scattering of mouse traps. More than once had a mouse pop up while they were roving the shelves, you'd see their droppings on the few bare patches of shelves.

Molly felt her stomach fluttering - not that she'd say anything in front of the boys.

Rounding the corner, she turns her flashlight to look towards the rear shelves and shrieks when she saw the huge glowing eyes staring back at her.

Ex - Wanted: Dead or Alive

DeadLiNE

Narcisa Cosmescu

Name: Narcisa Cosmescu (a.k.a. The Romanian UFO Wolf Girl)

Age: 17

Occupation: Gift shop clerk at the local museum

Appearance: This young woman puts you in mind of a hungry wolf. She has large green eyes that are like two chunks of jade. Her silky, wavy, medium-length hair is the color of black coffee, and worn with a pony tail with a neon-green scrunchy. She is tall and has an amazonian build. Her skin is pale, she doesn't wear a lot of makeup. She has long-fingered hands. Wears jeans, a white web belt, a black fanny pack, red high tops, various t-shirts, a denim jacket studded with various cloisonne pins and buttons, and a red ballcap.

Biography: After failing to escape from Romania with her husband Vladimir and daughter Tara, Dr. Viviana Comescu was imprisoned. She was already starting to show, giving birth in her cell one frosty January morning. Narcisa was barely able to walk when a guard sold her to some peasants for a sack of potatoes.

Having no car, the peasants hiked until twilight, then set up camp in a grove of trees near the road. Romanian Militia found the ravaged camp just before noon the following day, no survivors. They reported as a wolf attack, with the baby taken back to their den to feed the cubs. Years later, a feral child was captured by farmers in a chicken coup and she made the papers as the Romanian Wolf Girl. Because of her unusual birthmark and footprints taken by the prison, she was identified as Narcisa. Her father and sister turned to the US State Department and a few months later, she was flown to America.

Tara was already in college, studying archeology.

She had a difficult time adjusting to school, her wolf instincts causing more than a few incidents, but Narcisa eventually settled in.

After her father died in a car accident, Narcisa moved in with Tara. One of her new classmates, Sara, invited her to her church, which Tara encouraged. However, after eight weeks, she got thrown out for lapping water out of the baptismal font "like an animal" and biting the hand of the pastor so hard it drew blood.

The year of her fifteenth birthday was the strangest year for her.

One spring night, Narcisa vanished, only to be later found unconscious in the woods by a search party, covered in a pile of leaves. She woke up during her examination at the hospital, claiming she saw some bright lights in the woods and went to check it out, only to see some strange creature scuttling about before everything went dark.

Her doctor pointed to an abrasion on her forehead and suggested she ran into a branch in the dark and knocked herself out, and had a weird dream. For weeks, she'd be approached by UFO nuts wanting to know about her "abduction".

It was after that she started to have the dreams. A woman calling herself Daniela would appear and teach her some weird martial art, how to throw a knife, pick a lock, speak this strange language her friends was sure she made up, and even how to fly a plane. It seemed so real to her, but her sister just looked at her oddly and told her she was eating too much junk food before bed and watching too many weird movies from Blockbuster.

And suddenly in typing class she could do 70 words a minute without errors. The computer lab was after her to do the typing on the punch card machine for their mainframe.

Tara also experienced a little weirdness during a summer dig in Wales, where this strange cult began calling her the "chosen one" that would lead them to glory. She just tried to ignore them and got out of the country as soon as possible. On her return, she dumped Tod Billings, claiming he wasn't himself anymore, then got hired over him to be the new assistant director for the museum.

Tara then used her new position to get Narcisa hired to work in the museum gift shop.

For whatever reason, her notoriety got her accepted to a lot of obscure back rooms, museum labs, and even behind the stage at events. Sure, some of them just wanted to meet the Romanian UFO Wolf Girl in their own private circus sideshow and listen to her howl, but others seem interested in her for reasons she couldn't grasp.

Personality: She seems very grim, her smile as rare and as brief as snow in July, but she's punctual and likes to help when she can. Narcisa is also a voracious reader, reading a lot of technical books and manuals. Currently she's learning how to bypass alarm systems and hotwire cars.

DeadLiNe

Molly Keaton

Name: Molly Keaton

Age: 17

Occupation: Apprentice Mechanic / Otto's Garage

Appearance:

Molly

This young woman makes you think of a busy bee. She has beady blue eyes. Her fine, wavy, red hair is worn in a style that reminds you of a river. She has a lithe, wiry build. Her skin is pale. She has a small mouth.

She wears a green and yellow raglan top, acid-wash jeans, tube socks, a pair of steel toe chukka boots, and a leather jacket. She keeps brass knuckles in her jacket pocket.

Biography: Mother left when she was young, and she and her father moved to the city. Wasn't much interested in playing with dolls or dresses - mostly because it embarrassed her father. Molly would help her father in the garage repairing the car, or playing baseball.

Thanks to such shows and movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Project U.F.O., and In Search of with Leonard Nimoy, she's got an interest in aliens, Big Foot and the Loch Ness monster - not that she's actually seen any of that.

She met Otto, a German mechanic with his own shop, and impressed with her skills, he offered her a job as assistant mechanic and lent her the use of the shop for her own project - building her own motorcycle rebuilt mostly from parts she got from the scrap yard.

Personality: A tomboy, she loves to play sports but not afraid to punch someone's lights out if they get grabby. Doesn't mind a bit of grease, but keeps herself clean and organized.

DeadLiNe

@ChronicFor your approval

Molly Keaton

Name: Molly Keaton

Age: 17

Occupation: Apprentice Mechanic / Otto's Garage

Appearance:

Molly

This woman makes you think of a busy bee. She has beady blue eyes. Her fine, wavy, red hair is worn in a style that reminds you of a river. She has a lithe, wiry build. Her skin is pale. She has a small mouth.

She wears a green and yellow raglan top, acid-wash jeans, tube socks, a pair of steel toe chukka boots, and a leather jacket. She keeps brass knuckles in her jacket pocket.

Biography: Mother left when she was young, and she and her father moved to the city. Wasn't much interested in playing with dolls or dresses - mostly because it embarrassed her father. Molly would help her father in the garage repairing the car, or playing baseball.

Thanks to such shows and movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Project U.F.O., and In Search of with Leonard Nimoy, she's got an interest in aliens, Big Foot and the Loch Ness monster - not that she's actually seen any of that.

She met Otto, a German mechanic with his own shop, and impressed with her skills, he offered her a job as assistant mechanic and lent her the use of the shop for her own project - building her own motorcycle rebuilt mostly from parts she got from the scrap yard.

Personality: A tomboy, she loves to play sports but not afraid to punch someone's lights out if they get grabby. Doesn't mind a bit of grease, but keeps herself clean and organized.

DeadLiNe

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Can my character be a vampire?

@Shin Ghost Note

My character was a feral child, not a werewolf. And she's lucky the farmers that found her in the chicken coup didn't sell her to some circus sideshow first. Chronic says your character must be human, not a supernatural. Mine was not, but I'm sure someone's whispering she is, and is likely the first suspect in an animal attack.

Assuming she's still rejected, I'll hit the character tables and come up with another one.

DeadLiNe

With that background, I'd thought there would be many possible plots.

DeadLiNe

@Expendable I shoulda put you can’t be a supernatural character since this is about an human group of friends. Sorry for you makin that character for nothing

@Chronic

Sorry to hear that. However, Narcisa is about as supernatural as Mogli from the Jungle Book - she's a human who was raised by animals, a feral child, not a werewolf. She doesn't transform, she can't talk to animals but she does have an impressive growl and howl. Narcisa is just a girl with a strange past that makes others whisper behind her back and pull cruel tricks.

The museum might have an exhibit on feral children, which might explain why Tara was offered the job as a deputy director.

DeadLiNe

Narcisa Cosmescu

Name: Narcisa Cosmescu (a.k.a. The Romanian UFO Wolf Girl)

Age: 17

Occupation: Gift shop clerk at the local museum

Appearance: This young woman puts you in mind of a hungry wolf. She has large green eyes that are like two chunks of jade. Her silky, wavy, medium-length hair is the color of black coffee, and worn with a pony tail with a neon-green scrunchy. She is tall and has an amazonian build. Her skin is pale, she doesn't wear a lot of makeup. She has long-fingered hands. Wears jeans, a white web belt, a black fanny pack, red high tops, various t-shirts, a denim jacket studded with various cloisonne pins and buttons, and a red ballcap.

Biography: After failing to escape from Romania with her husband Vladimir and daughter Tara, Dr. Viviana Comescu was imprisoned. She was already starting to show, giving birth in her cell one frosty January morning. Narcisa was barely able to walk when a guard sold her to some peasants for a sack of potatoes.

Having no car, the peasants hiked until twilight, then set up camp in a grove of trees near the road. Romanian Militia found the ravaged camp just before noon the following day, no survivors. They reported as a wolf attack, with the baby taken back to their den to feed the cubs. Years later, Narcisa was captured by farmers in a chicken coup and she made the papers as the Romanian Wolf Girl. Because of her birthmark and footprints taken by the prison, she was identified as Narcisa. Her father and sister turned to the US State Department and a few months later, she was flown to America.

Tara was already in college, studying archeology.

She had a difficult time adjusting to school, her wolf instincts causing more than a few incidents, but Narcisa eventually settled in.

After her father died in a car accident, Narcisa moved in with Tara. One of her new classmates, Sara, invited her to her church, which Tara encouraged. However, after eight weeks, she got thrown out for lapping water out of the baptismal font "like an animal" and biting the hand of the pastor so hard it drew blood.

The year of her fifteenth birthday was the strangest year for her.

One spring night, Narcisa vanished, only to be later found unconscious in the woods by a search party, covered in a pile of leaves. She woke up during her examination at the hospital, claiming she saw some bright lights in the woods and went to check it out, only to see some strange creature scuttling about before everything went dark.

Her doctor pointed to an abrasion on her forehead and suggested she ran into a branch in the dark and knocked herself out, and had a weird dream. For weeks, she'd be approached by UFO nuts wanting to know about her "abduction".

It was after that she started to have the dreams. A woman calling herself Daniela would appear and teach her some weird martial art, how to throw a knife, pick a lock, speak this strange language her friends was sure she made up, and even how to fly a plane. It seemed so real to her, but her sister just looked at her oddly and told her she was eating too much junk food before bed and watching too many weird movies from Blockbuster.

And suddenly in typing class she could do 70 words a minute without errors. The computer lab was after her to do the typing on the punch card machine for their mainframe.

Tara also experienced a little weirdness during a summer dig in Wales, where this strange cult began calling her the "chosen one" that would lead them to glory. She just tried to ignore them and got out of the country as soon as possible. On her return, she dumped Tod Billings, claiming he wasn't himself anymore, then got hired over him to be the new assistant director for the museum.

Tara then used her new position to get Narcisa hired to work in the museum gift shop.

For whatever reason, her notoriety got her accepted to a lot of obscure back rooms, museum labs, and even behind the stage at events. Sure, some of them just wanted to meet the Romanian UFO Wolf Girl and listen to her howl, but others seem interested in her for reasons she couldn't grasp.

Personality: She seems very grim, her smile as rare and as brief as snow in July, but she's punctual and likes to help when she can. Narcisa is also a voracious reader, reading a lot of technical books and manuals. Currently she's learning how to bypass alarm systems and hotwire cars.