Agent_0042
2013-01-04, 10:47 PM
This is a campaign log from an IRL NWoD crossover game. The premise is that we play as ourselves, recently transformed after an exposure with the supernatural, as we try to save our home and family from the apocalypse. We're part of a fairly tight-knit group of friends, all of us going or having gone to the same college, and have a decent range of RP experience - WoD, D&D, Shadowrun, what have you.
The prompt from our GM:
Strange things are afoot, and you’re smack dab in the middle of it.
One day, something happened to you. Something you probably didn’t want. Something you couldn’t explain. Something that was really unfortunate in pretty much every way.
You changed.
Maybe you changed for the better, but now you know things. Things that tear at your brain at night. Things that haunt you constantly.
Maybe you changed for the worse, your body and soul obliterated, the only thing left is a shadow of your former self, escaped from masters omnipotent.
Maybe you realized that you weren’t so normal after all.
Whatever happened, it changed you forever. And you’re not the only one.
Lafayette, Louisiana has become a burning hotspot for unusual activity and gatherings of not-things. The Prince is confused. The Elder is concerned. The Queen is lost. The Master is distracted. The Doctor is dying. The General is inquisitive. The Scientist is mystified.
And here you are in the middle of it all. Your life before the change is gone, unless you try to hold onto it. Your new life demands time and effort from your newfound “friends” and support team. You were thrust into a much larger, scarier world – but from your change, you have people like you. You are not alone.
In fact, you never really were. You had friends before it happened. You still do, and you have held onto them fiercely, though your superiors may disagree with them being who they are. You were united under a common banner, a common name, a common place.
Your parents and loved ones don’t, and can’t, understand what happened to you. Most of your colleagues don’t get it. The only ones that do are those who changed as well – and they need you as much as you need them.
Your lives will never be the same again, but your friends are still with you, and they have their own allies and abilities. A force of such diverse people has never been seen before. Together, with a little luck, you are unstoppable.
And maybe, just maybe, you can save creation.
Our core cast of characters (names changed to protect the guilty):
Me (Steven), a computer science senior who's taking a break for a semester to build up the finances. I live with two of our other friends, but in the same apartment complex as Lucian, Wallace, and Surge. My recent dreams have been filled with weird devices and schematics, and it's quite unnerving.
Lucian, the oldest of the group, is an English super-senior who is a semester away from graduation. He hangs out on these boards and is pretty damn creative, spending most of his free time writing fictional cultures, settings, and RPG premises. He suffers from insomnia that (seriously) seems to fluctuate with the moon, but it seems to be getting worse.
Wallace is a recent business graduate with acting talent and a flair for the dramatic. He can't really qualify it, but he gets the feeling that reality isn't quite what it seems.
Lorelei is an on-and-off (mostly on) student and self-professed female nerd. She's always been a bubbly person, but she's felt strangely optimistic as of late.
Phoebe is the newcomer to our group, a quiet girl hailing from the faraway land of New Zealand. Aside from vaguely foreboding feelings of her impending death, she seems to be perfectly normal.
Our GM (referred to as Surge) is also playing himself as a supporting character, and the rest of our friends will make occasional guest appearances.
The game takes place in our current home city of Lafayette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette,_Louisiana), a college town that's home to strong business and petroleum interests and is the heart of Cajun culture. The world is identical to our own, except (obviously) for the presence of the supernatural, and the fact that the original World of Darkness was not popular enough to warrant a sequel.
We're currently two sessions in, so expect those logs to be posted soon.
The prompt from our GM:
Strange things are afoot, and you’re smack dab in the middle of it.
One day, something happened to you. Something you probably didn’t want. Something you couldn’t explain. Something that was really unfortunate in pretty much every way.
You changed.
Maybe you changed for the better, but now you know things. Things that tear at your brain at night. Things that haunt you constantly.
Maybe you changed for the worse, your body and soul obliterated, the only thing left is a shadow of your former self, escaped from masters omnipotent.
Maybe you realized that you weren’t so normal after all.
Whatever happened, it changed you forever. And you’re not the only one.
Lafayette, Louisiana has become a burning hotspot for unusual activity and gatherings of not-things. The Prince is confused. The Elder is concerned. The Queen is lost. The Master is distracted. The Doctor is dying. The General is inquisitive. The Scientist is mystified.
And here you are in the middle of it all. Your life before the change is gone, unless you try to hold onto it. Your new life demands time and effort from your newfound “friends” and support team. You were thrust into a much larger, scarier world – but from your change, you have people like you. You are not alone.
In fact, you never really were. You had friends before it happened. You still do, and you have held onto them fiercely, though your superiors may disagree with them being who they are. You were united under a common banner, a common name, a common place.
Your parents and loved ones don’t, and can’t, understand what happened to you. Most of your colleagues don’t get it. The only ones that do are those who changed as well – and they need you as much as you need them.
Your lives will never be the same again, but your friends are still with you, and they have their own allies and abilities. A force of such diverse people has never been seen before. Together, with a little luck, you are unstoppable.
And maybe, just maybe, you can save creation.
Our core cast of characters (names changed to protect the guilty):
Me (Steven), a computer science senior who's taking a break for a semester to build up the finances. I live with two of our other friends, but in the same apartment complex as Lucian, Wallace, and Surge. My recent dreams have been filled with weird devices and schematics, and it's quite unnerving.
Lucian, the oldest of the group, is an English super-senior who is a semester away from graduation. He hangs out on these boards and is pretty damn creative, spending most of his free time writing fictional cultures, settings, and RPG premises. He suffers from insomnia that (seriously) seems to fluctuate with the moon, but it seems to be getting worse.
Wallace is a recent business graduate with acting talent and a flair for the dramatic. He can't really qualify it, but he gets the feeling that reality isn't quite what it seems.
Lorelei is an on-and-off (mostly on) student and self-professed female nerd. She's always been a bubbly person, but she's felt strangely optimistic as of late.
Phoebe is the newcomer to our group, a quiet girl hailing from the faraway land of New Zealand. Aside from vaguely foreboding feelings of her impending death, she seems to be perfectly normal.
Our GM (referred to as Surge) is also playing himself as a supporting character, and the rest of our friends will make occasional guest appearances.
The game takes place in our current home city of Lafayette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette,_Louisiana), a college town that's home to strong business and petroleum interests and is the heart of Cajun culture. The world is identical to our own, except (obviously) for the presence of the supernatural, and the fact that the original World of Darkness was not popular enough to warrant a sequel.
We're currently two sessions in, so expect those logs to be posted soon.