Awful teens in an awful state: Let's play MonsterHearts II!

Oh god you made the thread already.

Holly, as a concept is entirely based on this #inktober tweet I saw in October:

Holly is a sweet innocent girl shameless prankster who doesn’t believe in experiencing the ramifications of her actions. Could be she’s bored or lashing out over some deep-seated emotions that she doesn’t want to share. Her dads are extremely good and she doesn’t appreciate how good they are because she is a shitty teenager who doesn’t have well-developed emotional skills.

She will do literally anything if it means she isn’t the one who gets in trouble for something she did.

Being The Witch, she wields magic like a cudgel without any hint of subtlety or nuance, but is quick to deny she’s an actual witch because haha like who would even be a witch in the year 2005? Like what are you even saying that’s crazy.

Spencer is a ghost. (And if he were actually writing his own backstory, that would be the only sentence in it). He died in 1968, after running away from home because his military parents signed him up for boot camp without asking. He was sleeping in the old gym to avoid a thunderstorm and woke up to it being on fire. No one knew he was in there, so his bones are still buried underneath the new gym, and he’s been bound to the school since then.
He is always wearing a hoodie, and so no one really knows what he looks like. A depressive loner who hangs out on the roof a lot, he hardly ever bothers to attend class and has as little respect for other people as is possible for a terrible teenager (who is almost fifty years old).

I also voice Lucifieri, and I sometimes scare myself how awful he is.

Gonna give this a listen soon :slight_smile:

This seems rather interesting, a bit more homicidal then most monster hearts campaigns i’ve seen. Hope to listen to it soon.

EDIT: Hi folks I’m really good at technology and had myself muted in OBS so this week’s recording is a loss. But I’ve sorted it out now so NEXT WEEK will be the REAL DEAL.

We play every Wednesday so I’ll have the recording up once all the participants check off on it (usually around Friday) Until then I’ll be summarizing this week’s game as well. I’M SORRY :sob:

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Heather Fitz
Heather is a short girl with very floofy blue hair, who expresses kinda like Link from the Wind Waker manga.
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In her first years of high school, Heather beat up pretty much every person in school, (barring Spencer, whose unpunchability has rendered him untrustworthy to Heather.) Many ended up following her out of respect, fear, or a combination of both. Think Fist of the North Star, if Raoh hated his underlings more than he already did.

Heather uses the Queen skin, which places an emphasis on using your followers to your advantage. The followers which, may I remind you, Heather does not like at all and avoids when she can.

Also, fun fact: The Power Trio’s original pog was the Barrier Trio from Mother 3. Their names haven’t come up in any sessions as of yet, but they’re still “Barrier Man” “Barrier Dude” and “Barrier Gal” on my character sheet.

My personal favorite aspect of Monsterhearts is how the mechanics of the game promote the core conceit: that all of the characters are monsters. Check out the basic moves for PCs: https://buriedwithoutceremonyblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/reference-sheets-and-core-skins1.pdf

Basically, the toolbox that the game offers (at least before you level up and mature enough as a character to unlock the Growing Up moves in the book) doesn’t give you, reasonable ways to deal with problems. You can only lash out and manipulate. A PC in Monsterhearts does not have the emotional intelligence to understand how to resolve problems in a way that isn’t transactional in some way.

You can only convince another character to do something they don’t want to do if you either attempt to Turn Someone On, or have some sort of leverage on them and spend a string to tempt them to do it. You can’t intervene between the bully and their victim by talking them down, you have to either Shut Someone Down or Lash Out Physically. Every move in the game is some sort of escalation, of which the conclusion can only be that someone will hold power over someone else.

Monsterhearts is a game about the cyclical nature of conflict, abuse, and manipulation, played out by characters who do not know how to break that cycle or even recognize that it can be broken.

I love it.

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Oh my god this session was WILD. I’ll post the functional audio as soon as it passes the ok from the crew. Probably gonna split it into bite-sized chunks.

In the meantime, have a sneak peek at our newest enemy!

The Face of Evil

Fieri Raccoon

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I failed so many rolls. It was everything I wanted out of this session.

is that a demonically empowered raccoon?

It sure is. @heyboots character opened a portal to Flavortown and now the town is being overrun by demon raccoons.

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Double post and I don’t care, audio is up Here’s the Playlist, enjoy.

Hahahaha, I’m the worst GM ever.

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don’t know if its on my end or not, but the gm is super quiet compared to everyone else.

Might be a good thing because I’m loud but I’ll try turning myself up and, if necessary, turning them down next recording.

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Hey folks, we play every Wednesday from 8:30pm EST to 11-11:30pm so if you check out https://www.twitch.tv/batilisk on those days and at that time you’ll be able to watch this trainwreck in real time.

I posted this in the wrong thread today but you now have it going forward.

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LP Update! Here’s the audio logs (now with pictures so you can see the dice rolls) for last Wednesday’s session. A small error in a theater of errors, I say Spencer when I mean Jack when Holly goes to talk to Jack’s parents. As always, you can click the playlist to binge watch this hot mess or just click individual videos. Whatever suits your fancy. I’m not the boss of you.
(:tw: Violence, bullying, talk of suicide, sexual harassment, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, death)
Session 7 Part 1
Session 7 Part 2
Session 7 Part 3
Session 7 Part 4
Session 7 Part 5
Session 7 Part 6
Bonus Video: Introductions and almost 3 mins of us being huge dorks followed by several hours of us being BIGGER dorks.
I’m sorry for saying “um”, “uh”, and “like” so much.

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Hey, I just wanted to share some fanart(?) I made of a couple of scenes!

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First up is Del’s fight with the demon raccoon!

And the dreadful scene that immediately followed!
You Came To The Wrong Neighborhood Son!

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The demon raccoons are planning something.