Benthesquid
2016-04-24, 12:28 PM
Had the first session of Monsterhearts yesterday. Partially because I think you guys might enjoy it, and partially to keep a record because we'll have an irregular rotating group, I thought I'd record the events here.
Cassius- an ages old vampire, ancient predator with the face of a teenager.
Crow- a Feyborn boy, born manipulator.
Cassandra- an Infernal, tied in ways she doesn't fully understand to a mysterious Dark Power she knows only as the Fallen.
Anita- a lovelorn mortal, pining after Cassius
It’s move-in day at Armstrong College, located on the edge of the town of Jerusalem Falls, and a certain segment of the college population has decided, as they do for most events, to celebrate with booze and pounding base.
A particularly clumsy student named Hank is avoiding Cassius’s gaze- nervous around the gorgeous alpha predator, though it’s not clear whether the gorgeous or alpha predator aspect unnerves him more. In any case, he’s so busy not looking at Cassius that he walks straight into Cassandra, spilling half a solo cup of beer on her. She snaps at him, trying to Shut Him Down. It works- kind of, he stalks off, humiliated, but snaps back at her as he goes, and they both get a tag (Ashamed, and Bitch, respectively).
Anita avoids dealing with a student who approaches her, looking for directions to the weed-smoking part of the party, in favor of gazing longingly at Cassius.
Meanwhile, a girl named Grace, having seen Hank’s run-in with Cassandra, draws completely the wrong message, and with a cry of “Beer shower,” dumps her beer over the guy next to her. The guy starts to get mad, but Crow steers the two away from each other, before wandering off to hit on Cassandra.
It doesn’t go well, and Cassius steps in, sending Crow on his way. This starts a minor feud between Cassius and Crow- Crow winds up tagged with Creep, while Cassius picks up White Knight as a condition. Crow also attempts to meddle with Anita and Cassius, and convinces Hank to go hit on Cassandra.
This doesn’t go well, and Cassandra slaps Hank, who shoves her against a wall and stalks off to commiserate with Crow. Crow’s having his own problems- Cassius told a lacrosse player named Jackson that Crow’s been talking **** about the team, and Jackson roughs Crow up a little, netting him the Marked Man tag. Anita retrieves her ugliest shirt for Cassandra, both helping and attempting to ensure that Cassius shows no further interest in her- and Cassandra uses it as a towel to sop up some of the beer before handing it back.
After a run in with Crow, Anita finds an excuse to cuddle up to Cassius, asking him to defend her against the indecent advances of Crow, but, after a brief conversation with Grace, who has decided that Anita should be her best friend, she excuses herself, as she has work early the next morning. Before she goes, Cassius bites her finger, drawing enough blood for her to smear her phone number on a sheet of paper for him.
Crow Cassius collects another phone number from Grace after he and Cassandra prevent her from pulling her shirt off to give it to as Crow wonders where Hank has got to. Cassandra follows Grace outside for a cigarette and Crow tags along as Cassius continues to prowl the party.
Their various pursuits are cut short by a blood-curling scream. As it turns out, where Hank has got off to is being gruesomely murdered, his heart ripped out. Overcoming the to him overwhelming smell of blood, Cassius remembers seeing something similar- the death of a Franciscan monk in Mexico, during the Spanish conquest. Calling on her connection to her infernal patron, Cassandra gets a vision of the murderer- a figure whose appearance seems to flicker between a leggy blonde, a shadowy form, and Cassandra’s own ideal mate.
Grace calls 911, and the party begins to break up, as those not panicking about the murder panic about disposing of all the booze before the cops arrive.
Cassius- an ages old vampire, ancient predator with the face of a teenager.
Crow- a Feyborn boy, born manipulator.
Cassandra- an Infernal, tied in ways she doesn't fully understand to a mysterious Dark Power she knows only as the Fallen.
Anita- a lovelorn mortal, pining after Cassius
It’s move-in day at Armstrong College, located on the edge of the town of Jerusalem Falls, and a certain segment of the college population has decided, as they do for most events, to celebrate with booze and pounding base.
A particularly clumsy student named Hank is avoiding Cassius’s gaze- nervous around the gorgeous alpha predator, though it’s not clear whether the gorgeous or alpha predator aspect unnerves him more. In any case, he’s so busy not looking at Cassius that he walks straight into Cassandra, spilling half a solo cup of beer on her. She snaps at him, trying to Shut Him Down. It works- kind of, he stalks off, humiliated, but snaps back at her as he goes, and they both get a tag (Ashamed, and Bitch, respectively).
Anita avoids dealing with a student who approaches her, looking for directions to the weed-smoking part of the party, in favor of gazing longingly at Cassius.
Meanwhile, a girl named Grace, having seen Hank’s run-in with Cassandra, draws completely the wrong message, and with a cry of “Beer shower,” dumps her beer over the guy next to her. The guy starts to get mad, but Crow steers the two away from each other, before wandering off to hit on Cassandra.
It doesn’t go well, and Cassius steps in, sending Crow on his way. This starts a minor feud between Cassius and Crow- Crow winds up tagged with Creep, while Cassius picks up White Knight as a condition. Crow also attempts to meddle with Anita and Cassius, and convinces Hank to go hit on Cassandra.
This doesn’t go well, and Cassandra slaps Hank, who shoves her against a wall and stalks off to commiserate with Crow. Crow’s having his own problems- Cassius told a lacrosse player named Jackson that Crow’s been talking **** about the team, and Jackson roughs Crow up a little, netting him the Marked Man tag. Anita retrieves her ugliest shirt for Cassandra, both helping and attempting to ensure that Cassius shows no further interest in her- and Cassandra uses it as a towel to sop up some of the beer before handing it back.
After a run in with Crow, Anita finds an excuse to cuddle up to Cassius, asking him to defend her against the indecent advances of Crow, but, after a brief conversation with Grace, who has decided that Anita should be her best friend, she excuses herself, as she has work early the next morning. Before she goes, Cassius bites her finger, drawing enough blood for her to smear her phone number on a sheet of paper for him.
Crow Cassius collects another phone number from Grace after he and Cassandra prevent her from pulling her shirt off to give it to as Crow wonders where Hank has got to. Cassandra follows Grace outside for a cigarette and Crow tags along as Cassius continues to prowl the party.
Their various pursuits are cut short by a blood-curling scream. As it turns out, where Hank has got off to is being gruesomely murdered, his heart ripped out. Overcoming the to him overwhelming smell of blood, Cassius remembers seeing something similar- the death of a Franciscan monk in Mexico, during the Spanish conquest. Calling on her connection to her infernal patron, Cassandra gets a vision of the murderer- a figure whose appearance seems to flicker between a leggy blonde, a shadowy form, and Cassandra’s own ideal mate.
Grace calls 911, and the party begins to break up, as those not panicking about the murder panic about disposing of all the booze before the cops arrive.