Lord Wraith

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

Demi Woods

D E M I W O O D S

_{"A Magni? … Well, what’s my spell save DC then?"}

P L A C E H O L D E R Demeter Angelina Woods ______________________________________________________ August 4th | 16 | Mexican American ______________________________________________________ Pansexual | ♀ | Single ______________________________________________________ Junior | Silver Trinity Ring Necklace | Selune

D E T A I L E D A P P E A R A N C E: Demi’s appearance is an unassuming one, standing at five foot three and weighing only one hundred thirteen pounds. She considers herself average in all ways: brown hair, brown eyes, the only thing that stands out in this new england backdrop is her tanned complexion. Her chestnut locks are parted straight down the middle and hang in long, loose, wavy curls that go just past her shoulder blades in the back. These curls are kept tamed with some mousse and a smoothing serum applied after she showers, which smells vaguely fruity. She wears no make up and, aside from her necklace, no jewelry. Her ears are not even pierced, though she is considering doing so soon. The only traditional feminine beauty routine that she subscribes to is getting her eyebrows waxed, because without this weekly maintenance, they would become one unsightly unibrow. All it took was a lot of middle school aged harassment for her to ask her parents to start doing this. As for fashion, Demeter dresses more for comfort and practicality than anything else. She likes sweaters and leggings and even wears dresses if they are flowy and easy to move around in. You won’t really catch her in jeans or other tight fitting clothing, as she finds them too uncomfortable. Demi has no notable scarring, tattoos, or birthmarks — she is just your average, quiet, high school nerd. M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S: I am interested in playing Demeter to see how much she can grow. She was adopted by a mundie family as an infant, so she has no idea that magic is real or that she can possess it. When the study group forms, this entire world is going to be new to her. It is going to scare her and challenge her, but in the end, she will be excited for it all. She grew up reading fantasy and playing role playing games and now suddenly, she will become like the protagonists that she has read about and played. I hope that this paranormal experience gives Demi the confidence that she needs to stop being a wallflower — to see her worth and that she is anything but average. But of course, the real treasure will be the friends she makes along the way.

C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:

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Demeter Woods was born as Angelina Rivera in northern Mexico. Her hexenbrut mother, or bruja as they are called there, fled across the border escaping from a magical predicament that she had gotten over her head in. Unfortunately for her, she could not outrun her demons, but she died with the peace of knowing that she had at least gotten her daughter to a safer place. Demeter doesn’t know this though, nor do her parents. All that she knows is that she was adopted by the Woods’ from an orphanage in Texas with nothing to identify her except for a piece of paper with her name written on it and a set of silver rings welded together in a trinity. Her adoptive parents, the Woods’, are just as nerdy as Demeter herself — so the proverbial apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Nigel Woods, her father, works as as ancient history and mythology professor at the nearby university, with a special focus on Greek mythology — hence the names of his three adopted daughters: Hestia, Demeter, and Hera. Meredith Woods, her mother, works as a high school physics teacher. Demi grew up knowing the importance of knowledge in a home where they not only had family game nights, but they had weekly family dungeons and dragons night, with her dad as the dungeon master. Hestia always played pretty elves, Hera always played some kind of melee brute, and Demeter loved the casters — particularly druids. To this day, when faced with picking a class choice, Demi will gravitate towards natural magic and healing focuses. Her love of this fantasy lore is reflected in her real life, where she is an avid botanist and aspiring doctor. Demi’s room is full of plants, looking more like a lush conservatory than the bedroom of a high school girl — not a single boy band poster in sight. Demeter cares a lot about her studies and maintains straight A’s with the hopes of going to medical school to become a doctor. During the summer, Demi hopes to snag an internship or volunteer at a hospital to gain some medical experience. When Demi doesn’t have her nose buried in schoolbooks, she spends her time reading fantasy and sci fi novels or playing tabletop games, video games, and the flute for the school band.

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Demi is but an infant in the magical world, she has no idea that it is real or that she is part of it — all of this will be experienced for the first time in character. Her witch bloodline, although unknown, is established in the world of mexican brujería where magic is heavily dependent on forces of nature and the spontaneity of the spirits. Demeter’s birth mother dabbled in dark magic and paid the ultimate price for doing so, an unfortunate outcome that is regrettably common in Demeter’s ancestry. For whatever reason, their blood is drawn to the dark arts. Demi’s mother left her with a silver conduit that is a family heirloom that Demi keeps hung on a cord around her neck to this day. Demeter doesn’t know the power of the object, she simply holds it close because it is the only thing she has from her birth family. As for Demi’s familiar, that is currently also unknown to her. When her familiar, a white short haired cat, came into being… it was far closer to Mexico than it was to Demi’s current home in the northeast of the US. All is well though, for Demeter is not ready for her familiar yet. The cat will arrive at the perfect time and the perfect place, as is designed by fate. It will come as no surprise to Demi that her familiar is a cat, as she’s always been drawn to them, but her dad’s allergic so she could never get one as a pet.

@GhostMami

Demi Woods is approved!

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

Going to be dedicating some time tomorrow to give all this info an in-depth read and hopefully work on a character sheet! Love this concept so far :3

@The Elvenqueen

Looking forward to it!

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

So for the familiars, do they have to be animals? Or can they be like mythical creatures or humans? And are familiars a way of casting magic through like a conduit?

@Lionhearted

Familiars are capable of appearing in almost any form however they are forbidden from taking human forms. They generally pick animals that will allow them to remain inconspicuous in their current surroundings.

Familiars can be used to cast magic in the place of a conduit. There's no advantage or draw back to casting this way but a price must still be paid the same if you were to cast from a conduit. Familiars are also capable of magic on their own without instruction and most commonly do so to protect their master in the event they were at risk of dying.

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

@Hillan & @Fallenreaper consider both of your sheets accepted!

Now for anyone else interested, don't let the number of accepted players discourage you. I'm more than happy to take more than six players. Was originally just looking for that number to have a solid base.

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

I love Kit Kats

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

Relationship sheet, yes please <3

Also, I was planning to make a female character but I'm worried about the ratio of male/female D:

@Lionhearted

I wouldn't get caught up in that. Would rather people play the character they want to rather than change to fit some pseudo-ideal about gender balance.

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

Your mom - physical relationship - im your dad now, kiddo.

@JunkMail

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

@Berlin Sheet looks good! Welcome aboard!

Question all accepted and interested players? Do you want relationship sheets?

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

Just finished reading through the OOC and this looks like it's going to be a really fun one! :) The ideas and lore are very, very compelling! I do have a few questions though regarding some of it, that I may or may not have looked over. If I did, I apologize!

1) I was just curious about Mather Memorial's student body. Is it like your average high school with the different cliques and whatnot? I feel like ever since 13 Reasons Why was released, there's been a broader spectrum of the different levels of bullying that exist in schools xD

2) To confirm, Hexenbruts are capable of having multiple conduits through conjoining rituals with their desired objects, yes? I know you briefly mentioned something regarding spell potency, and I was wondering if multiple conduits would limit the spell potency for some Hexenbruts. Or would different conduits suggest different potencies?

I think those are the only two questions I actually have :o

But if I have further questions I'll be sure to post them! :)

@Lionhearted

The answer to your first question is really on us to develop in the IC. I went with my character falling into the jock path but we can make the cliques and niches as broad or simplified as we want to make them.

As for the second question. You can definitely have multiple conduits but while some metals channel magic better than others it's more a degree of control and ease compared to potency. The power of a spell is related to the price paid, not the metal it's passed through.

The Haunting of Crestwood Hollow - A Supernatural Coming of Age Story

Marie

M A R I E

_{"Life sure was nice when I could blame all my problems on someone else."}

P L A C E H O L D E R Marie Charlotte Brunswick ______________________________________________________ November 1st, 2004 | 15 | Caucasian ______________________________________________________ Hetrosexual | ♀ | Single ______________________________________________________ 10 | Silver Comb | Oren (Southern White-Lipped Python)

D E T A I L E D A P P E A R A N C E: Marie has an average height of 5'4, a average weight of 121lbs, and an average face. Nothing about her particularly stands out among the number of teenagers attending Mather Memorial. While she owns nicer and more expensive clothes she typically opts for a pair of jeans matched with a t-shit or hoodie depending on the season. The most attention Marie draws to herself is the occasional deadpan comment in class; showing just enough backbone not to be made the butt of the more popular kid's jokes or pranks. To most people, Marie is little more than another piece of the school's backdrop, which, being the middle-semester transfer with a felon father, suits her fine. M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S: I want to play Marie as a character who hasn't been much more than a bystander in her own life. She's had wealth, but that came from her father with many strings attached, even her reputation at her former school was dictated by that which her brothers left behind from their time there. Then she suddenly finds herself in Crestwood Hollow with the chance for a fresh start that she has no idea what to do with. I want the discovery of her magic to be in tandem with her discovering the kind of person she really is, rather than whatever her family always dictated she be or do. Prior to coming into her magic, I want Marie to explore the Hollow as a sort of thrill-seeker. She feels something off with the town, and highly suspects that it is haunted, though she'd never admit to believing in the paranormal. Her main focus will be the school itself, being one of the oldest buildings in the town and having a tumultuous history behind it to boot.

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Marie has been living in Crestwood Hollow for just over half a year with her 28 year old brother. She hasn't put forth any effort to make new friends, and finds the entire town too eerie to feel 'settled in'. Prior to moving to New Hampshire, the Brunswick's were a wealthy Wall-Street-working family in New York. Right until the patriarch of the family was arrested for insider trading and stock-broker fraud in 2015. It took two years for his sentence to be finalized and for everyone to realize it was a bit more than a 'temporary setback'. Marie's stepmother was gone as soon as her father's money had run dry from lawyer's fees and court fines, which left her to live with her brother, David. Their move the Crestwood was his idea, and the first step in his plan to move away from the stocks towards real-estate development. Since moving, he has been trying to persuade the local government to build a 'vacation complex'- mostly a boardwalk along the beach, south of the harbor, to be lined with vacation condos, over-priced restaurants as well as a super-mall in the south-side.

C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:

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The large-scale commercial development projects Marie's brother has been petitioning for will likely put her at odds with the more traditionalist Hollow residents.

@Tackytaff

All looks good to me! Accepted!