Fairview Update

Where things are at:

The last session was late October (school and work limited the last sessions to pretty much single-player ones) and then November and the hell that is December hit. So, this update.

Alex: Had been captured by the evil servants of the Shadow Walker (again), mostly due to being with Joni one session and then the player having to abscond due to work for a bit. OOCly, the plan was for the shadow walker to offer to undo her nature and cut her loose, as she's been nothing but an annoyance. Which lets Chaos re-spec her somewhat and figure where he wants her to go, as a character.

Emma: Emma is still dealing with Julius and the fall-out from her time travel escapade. Her father is aware (somewhat) of what Emma is and has ties to Vericorp, but doesn't seem pleased about what his daughter has become. Ah, families. Helena has agreed to let Emma drive a car and Emma is slowly but surely meeting adults and other people who aren't boring and have dull ideas that power shouldn't actually be used and the world is an egg people can break etc.: her kinds of people, in other words.

Joni: Currently, Joni is trying to find out why a self-styled God is using a home depot as a base point for building her own temple in the city, with Brodie and the Scry with her. She also has Hell looking for answers to things she's done and continuing to make her school/place of power into something to be reckoned with as well as her goal of making a police force for the city's supernatural community.

Karl: Is working for Vericorp and the Inquisition, hoping if the former leads to a shitstorm, the latter will allow him to clean it up. Despite Brodie having been changed somewhat due to time travel, Karl requested working with someone else and, unless the player shows again, can be considered to be MIA on a Very Special Mission.

Rei: Is doing just fine, thank you, and working on her tan.


Overall Meta-plots

Vericorp: THE VP of human resources (Loric) claims to be a god and knows the woman who calls herself Star and Emma's father of old. What the company's goals are -- and his in particular -- remain unknown at present but Vericorp seems determined to find a way to make money out of supernatural creatures even if it does open a portal to hell in the process. Company motto: profit = progress.

Scry: Still trying to find a way to free his master/best friend. He's at least managing a truce with Eugene, though neither really trusts the other, and seems content to wander about helping the pcs without, yet, asking for payment in return.

Magicians: the local magicians have yet to react the death of the White Lord, and no one is certain what that will do to whatever balance and power structure they had. His kids, who helped the PCs kill him, seem willing to be allies at least and it's doubtful he has friends who would avenge his death, though someone may on the grounds that it looks bad for the major magicians to have one of their own die.

Temporal Skinwearers: the 'fake' Cristal and Peter, whose goals and mission seems unknown at present; brought back via Emma's attempts to fix the past.

Hell & Heaven: [Redacted] But they do have plans, oh yes.

The Grey Man: After the failure of the storm, he's done nothing since. Licking wounds? Debating leaving? No one knows, least of all the PCs.

The tree: What is it? How much has it changed JOni, Ike and Helena? Who wants it, or to destroy? It was one of the first major plot events, and its tale is not yet done.


Other side plots include Dennis's plans with werewolves, Dave and friends building transformers, real estate companies trying to buy up cursed land and Joseph's quest to get his friend Kyle back from the Grey Man. (There are also ninjas, and one evangelical ninja out there, but they are busy consolidating power.)

And finally, this is a note I had at the bottom of a file, make of it what you will:
The antichrist will, naturally, run for public office. Tired of secularism? Vote antichrist! Want pro-life? Vote antichrist!

Game Update

Okay. New year, time to get crackin' (or crackling, to use a fire metaphor)

Option A: Continue Fairview. I'm up for this if players are (players currently being Chaos, Ken, Tass). If all 3 players are on board, or just two, it can work. And if someone wants to continue it as a single player side-game, I'm up for that as well. If people are NOT, however, I don't want people thinking they should play it just because it has gone on so long etc.

Option B: New Game! I'm up for anything modern (in terms of era), depending on what players want, both as settings and as characters. (High fantasy and sci-fi generally require a LOT more setting work than I'm prepared to spend on them, especially the latter.)

Option C: Lowlife finally begins! Set some time, in some era, and goes nuts.

Option D: Sparkie begins phase one. You are not authorized to know about phase one.

Option E: Cereus. [This one depends on ken, though :)]