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.
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
Heather is a short girl with very floofy blue hair, who expresses kinda like Link from the Wind Waker manga.
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.
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.
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.
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.