The Bitch [The Deceiver] Information

Name: Amy J. Drake Best Subject: Geography

+2 Age: 18 Star sign Gemini
Gender: Female Grade: 12

Willpower Advantages Disadvantages

+1 Keep it Together
+0
Seducer Liar
Manipulative Sexual Neurosis
Fortitude Reflexes
Impostor
Endure Injury Avoid Harm
Who you are
-2 +2 Every night before you go to sleep, you feel his hands all over you again. He died three
years ago but still it is as if he was there in your room, watching you. It happened over
Reason Intuition and over and over, and you could never tell anyone about how Frank Drake, your father,
Investigate +0 Read a Person
would touch you. Or about how he would force himself upon you and raped you. When
Perception he died in that car accident, you felt sad and relieved all at once. Because of course you
+1 Observe a Situation -1 loved him, he was your father. But finally, the nightly visits when your mother was work-
ing late would stop.
Coolness Violence
Act Under Pressure +3 Engage in Combat
The lies you told your school nurse about the itching and the lies you told your youth
Charisma psychiatrist about why you would start crying suddenly and without warning set you off
Influence Other to weave an intricate web of lies which you currently try hard to upkeep. The only thing
that keeps the pain away is fucking, which you do a lot of. Being a “manipulative slut”
and an “annoying bitch” does have its perks. Your clique at school is the most influential.
-1
And you are its leader. It is a little bit like being the leader of a herd of chicken, but beg-
Soul gars and choosers and all that. The boys want you and the girls fear you because you can
See Through the Illusion with one night bring a boy to heaven, or with one word bring living hell down on a girl.
Wounds
Your latest ex-boyfriend - Stephen, Stevie… something... was heavily into arcade ma-
Serious wounds (-1 ongoing) Stabilized chines and loved to hang around at Gregg’s Arcade Emporium which you hated at first.
☐ However, since you had a couple of spare quarters and were bored out of your mind
☐ anyways, you tried Polybius and you couldn’t help but to be drawn into it. You feel it’s
been a very therapeutic experience for you. Even though the boyfriend is already forgot-
☐
ten you do still go to the Arcade to play that game. You’ve tried to find it in other places
☐ but only Gregg’s seem to have it. Also, you got a nagging feeling that your current friends
☐ may be bad for you, and a change of scenery is nice.

Critical wound (-1 ongoing) Stabilized Family and Relations

Alex Smith (Boyfriend) [+1]
☐
Your current boyfriend. He is actually interesting enough to hang around with at a more
personal level. But you can’t let him in too close and also you can’t let him know that
Stability
even though he’s your current boyfriend, he’s not your only current sex partner.
☐ Composed
Roover (Family dog) [+2]
☐ Uneasy Moderate stress: This is the only member of the family you’ve actually spilled the whole truth about your
☐ Unfocused -1 disadvantages father to. This old German shepherd never got to witness the abuse against you, but he
was your confidant from the moment he arrived in your family until now. He is old in age,
☐ Shaken Serious stress: but still very lively and trusts you like no one else, because you have never ever lied to
☐ Distressed -1 Keep it Together him, nor would you ever do it.
☐ Neurotic -2 disadvantages
Motivation
☐ Anxious Critical stress: You feel like you’ve lost yourself in the last few years. Fucking your pain away has worked
only as far as realizing that you are empty inside. You have come to realize you have no
☐ Irrational -2 Keep it Together
friends, no real ones. Only people whom you can boss around. The arcade is the first
☐ Unhinged -3 disadvantages place in a long time where you can relax a bit and just concentrate on playing Polybius.
+1 See through the Illusion Here you can even meet people with a common interest. Alex might hate the place but
he doesn’t own you. No one does. No one will ever again. But you got a nagging feeling
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 The Bookworm [The Academic] Information
Name: Cathy J. Kaiser Best Subject: Literature
+2 Age: 14 Star sign Pisces
Gender: Female Grade: 10

Willpower Advantages Disadvantages

+0 Keep it Together +1
Expert (Literature) Obsession (The repairmen)
Elite Sport (Soccer) Nightmares (The repairmen)
Fortitude Reflexes
Collector (Through Daniel Carlsen)
Endure Injury Avoid Harm
Who you are
+2 +1 Books. Just all things books! You just love reading and can’t seem to stop. This has been
a habit of yours ever since you can remember. What you read depends on mood and
Reason Intuition
Investigate +3 Read a Person age. Currently you’ve gone a bit into romance even though fantasy and sci-fi are still your
favorite genres. Apart from fiction you also read a lot of other things, such as biographies
Perception
and local legends and lore.
-2 Observe a Situation -1
Coolness Violence You live in a happy home with your father who works as a lawyer and your mother who
Act Under Pressure +0 Engage in Combat
is a secretary in the same law firm. You tend to stay by yourself a lot but your parents
Charisma force you to do soccer practice to get out and meet people. You are not bullied but rath-
Influence Other er you are invisible which, to be frank, is to your liking.

+1 Just a few weeks ago you encountered something horrible which you cannot really put
Soul into words. As you were down at Gregg’s Arcade Emporium with your friend Carolyn, you
See Through the Illusion saw three men who looked like repairmen entering and heading to your favorite arcade

Wounds machine, Polybius, to open it up. They didn’t empty the quarters, but they took some
strange vials out and replaced them with empty ones. All the while, they were talking to
Serious wounds (-1 ongoing) Stabilized
each other in chittering voices. As they looked over at you, they looked much more like
☐ cockroaches than people for a moment and it was as if they saw straight into your soul.
☐ This has haunted your nightmares ever since, and also fueled your need to know more
☐ about this. Perhaps then the nightmares will stop? Carolyn refuses to even talk about it
☐ though.

☐ Family and Relations

Critical wound (-1 ongoing) Stabilized David Carlsen (Rare items clerk) [+1]
Since a year or two back you’ve become friends with a man who deals with many rare
☐
things in his little corner shop. Amongst other things, you specifically go to him for his
Stability vast number of books that he keeps at hand. His store is a place where you can stay for
hours in, just looking at all the interesting and different items.
☐ Composed

☐ Uneasy Moderate stress: Carolyn Chambers (BFF) [+2]

☐ Unfocused -1 disadvantages You never really thought it would happen, but it actually has. You got a BFF! You are not
sure how, but Carolyn, who is the sportiest type person you know, somehow likes you
☐ Shaken Serious stress: just as much as you like her. The two of you can talk for hours on end about everything
☐ Distressed -1 Keep it Together and nothing. She is a friend whom you met through soccer practice and is the same age
☐ Neurotic -2 disadvantages as you and she loves everything that has to do with sports, even though you don’t care
for it that much beyond soccer.
☐ Anxious Critical stress:
☐ Irrational -2 Keep it Together Motivation
☐ Unhinged -3 disadvantages You have an overwhelming need to find out who or what those repairmen were. But
you know you cannot do it on your own. And you know that your parents, sweet as they
+1 See through the Illusion
are, will not listen rationally to what you say. You must leave your comfort zone and find
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 The Bereaved [The Avenger] Information
Name: Charles S. Lawson Best Subject: P.E.
+0 Age: 17 Star sign Aquarius
Gender: Male Grade: 11

Willpower Advantages Disadvantages

+2 Keep it Together +1
Eye for an Eye Stalker
Code of Honor (Help the weak) Oath of Revenge
Fortitude Reflexes
Rage
Endure Injury Avoid Harm
Who you are
+0 +1 Your family simply doesn’t understand. It was not your little brother that they found
floating in the lake last summer. It was not his corpse that was put underground. You
Reason Intuition
Investigate +1 Read a Person don’t know what it was, you cannot explain it, but it wasn’t Daniel. You saw with your
own eyes how the man in the white van kidnapped him after he was said to be found
Perception
+2 Observe a Situation +3 dead. And you refuse to let it go.

Coolness Violence
Act Under Pressure -1 Engage in Combat
One year ago, your brother suddenly disappeared for two weeks. Last anyone heard
from him he was heading to Gregg’s Arcade Emporium but from what you heard, he nev-
Charisma er reached the place. When he turned up, he was found floating in the lake, bloated as if
Influence Other
he had been drowned this entire time. You started your grieving then. The day after the
funeral, you retraced your brother’s last walk towards the emporium when you suddenly
-2 heard his voice call out for you. You couldn’t believe it at first, but as you looked up you
Soul saw him, clear as day, being pulled into a white van that peeled away at an insane speed
See Through the Illusion before you could catch up.
Wounds
Serious wounds (-1 ongoing) Stabilized Your parents are separated and you live with your father. He’s a good man but a bit slow.

☐ Of course, you still fall in line and do your school work. Mostly B:s and C:s nowadays but
at least that is a passing grade. What time you have left you have spent in the kwoon,
☐
learning martial arts. You’re no expert yet, but you know that if you keep going, you’ll
☐
get there. The only distraction you still maintain is that game Polybius down at Gregg’s
☐ Arcade Emporium. Somehow, it makes you feel like you’re closer to your little brother.
☐ Most probably because it was his favorite game.

Critical wound (-1 ongoing) Stabilized Family and Relations

☐ Andréa Farland (Arcade Employee) [0]
A nice girl, perhaps a few years older than you who is the only employee at Gregg’s Ar-
Stability
cade Emporium. The two of you bonded a bit over your brother since she used to talk to
☐ Composed him occassionally and she is kind enough to give you free plays every now and then.

☐ Uneasy Moderate stress:

Zhang Ce (Sifu) [+1]
☐ Unfocused -1 disadvantages
Zhang might be the closest to a confidant you have found in your mission to find your
☐ Shaken Serious stress: brother. You have a feeling he knows a lot more than what you have told him, and that
☐ Distressed -1 Keep it Together if you one day were to tell him everything, he would listen. You’ve known him for two

☐ Neurotic -2 disadvantages years, and he is thirty years your senior, but you have a very close and respectful connec-
tion.
☐ Anxious Critical stress:
☐ Irrational -2 Keep it Together Motivation
☐ Unhinged -3 disadvantages You are dead set on finding your little brother. Sure, the martial arts practice has gotten
you some skills, but you must find some solid leads to guide you towards your brother.
+1 See through the Illusion
You are starting to realize that despite everything, you cannot do this on your own. You
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 The Troubled [The Broken] Information
Name: Evelyn C. Jordan Best Subject: Programming
+1 Age: 16 Star sign Taurus
Gender: Female Grade: 11

Willpower Advantages Disadvantages

+0 Keep it Together
+2
Wayfinder Broken
Contagious Insanity Drug Addict (Polybius)
Fortitude Reflexes
Sixth Sense
Endure Injury Avoid Harm
Who you are
-1 +0 Everything is… off. Not just slightly but you have felt really unhinged lately. You are still
able to hide it. You smile to your mother when you come home from school, answer po-
Reason Intuition litely about how school was today. After all, you’re the only one she has since the two of
Investigate +1 Read a Person
you live alone and she is between jobs at the moment. It is more like watching someone
Perception perform all the motions rather than you doing it yourself. The first month or so it was
+2 Observe a Situation -2 unnerving, but now it is actually soothing.

Coolness Violence The only time you feel alive, truly alive is down at Gregg’s Arcade Emporium with a fist
Act Under Pressure +1 Engage in Combat
full of quarters, standing in front of the Polybius machine. You hold the whole top 10 list
Charisma of that game. Every single line says EVE. And yet you haven’t been able to get to the last
Influence Other level. But you know it is just a matter of time. Every time you play the game, you feel like
you can tune out the world a little bit more and can perform just a little bit better.
+3
It started when you went to do research for a computer class project and then it just nev-
Soul er stopped. You know you should be worried. Your grades have been dropping. Not bad,
See Through the Illusion but enough that your mom will soon notice. You’ve stopped seeing your friends. You’ve
Wounds even started tapping into your college funds. Also, you keep losing track of time. Even
though you live far away, you find yourself being able to reach the Arcade in only a few
Serious wounds (-1 ongoing) Stabilized minutes. Whenever someone upsets you, your deeply hidden worries seem to manifest
☐ in them. And sometimes you get glimpses of their horrific nightmares. Over and over you
☐ encounter a sense of Déjà vu.

☐ Family and Relations

☐ Timothy Kelley (Boyfriend) [0]
☐ You remember feeling something for Timmy. It is still there, smoldering somewhere deep
within. Like a dying ember. Somewhere underneath the thick veil of your numbed senses
Critical wound (-1 ongoing) Stabilized you still like him for his sense of humor, his kindness, his love for puzzles and brain teas-
ers. You even remember secretly liking his stupid role-playing game habit. You wish you
☐
could fan that ember, but you can’t get yourself to do it. He has stopped talking to you
and he is hurt by the lack of contact, but you know he is still there for you. At least for a
Stability
little while longer.
☐ Composed
Andréa Farland (Arcade Employee) [+1]
☐ Uneasy Moderate stress: Somewhere between an enabler and a good friend of yours. Every now and again when
☐ Unfocused -1 disadvantages you run out of quarters, she helps you out. You don’t even have to pay her back since
she says that her employer won’t even notice. You’re by far their best customer anyway.
☐ Shaken Serious stress: You’ve hung out occassionally after Andréa’s shift is over. Even though she’s recently
☐ Distressed -1 Keep it Together grown a bit distanced, almost uneasy around you.
☐ Neurotic -2 disadvantages
Motivation
☐ Anxious Critical stress: You find yourself in deep conflict. You have started to understand that something is
deeply wrong with you. These spontanious flashes and glimpses of the future that you
☐ Irrational -2 Keep it Together
sometimes get, your episodes of walking and just ending up where you need to be. You
☐ Unhinged -3 disadvantages even suspect that it is somehow you who unbalances the people whom you do not like,
+1 See through the Illusion as if you did it by your own will. At the heart of it all is the Arcade and Polybius. You need
to find a way to break this, but how? How can you do it when there is no way to explain
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 The Nerd [The Scientist] Information
Name: John K. Dent Best Subject: Science
+0 Age: 18 Star sign Aries
Gender: Male Grade: 12

Willpower Advantages Disadvantages

+1 Keep it Together
+2
Inventor Bad Reputation (Bullied)
Fortitude Reflexes Scientist Fanatic (Science, atheism)
Endure Injury Avoid Harm Genius

Who you are

+3 -2 You fucking hate school. No, you love school but you hate the people in there. Sure, you

Reason Intuition might not be the most agreeable person there, but people always seem to have it out
Investigate +1 Read a Person for you. None of the girls want you, because they all want some jock with huge muscles
and a bad attitude. Well, the joke is on them, you got a hidden camera set up in the girl’s
Perception
+1 Observe a Situation +0 locker room!

Coolness Violence
Act Under Pressure -1 Engage in Combat
Also, females are just a distraction. You got your focus set on science and for this reason
are some of the teachers’ pet. Suits you nicely, even though you know that you are bet-
Charisma ter than most of them. You are very smart after all. All you wish was that you’d dare to
Influence Other
say your opinions out loud and not just mumble them. Life is so unfair and everyone’s an
asshole. No matter, you got your sights set on the Nobel Prize. You have found a way, an
+2 actual way, to transport things through the very fabric of spacetime and make them end
Soul up… well, you don’t know quite where yet. But you have made a machine able to tear
See Through the Illusion a hole big enough to fit a hand through. Well, at a one in ten success rate. So far you’ve
Wounds managed to put all sorts of things through the hole. Like paper notes, your lunch and
Serious wounds (-1 ongoing) Stabilized that classroom hamster in the next classroom over. But fucking Alex Smith “accidentally”

☐ pushed your machine off the table that smashed the cathode ray tube into a thousand
pieces.
☐
☐
But you’ve seen just such a tube in Gregg’s Arcade Emporium, inside one of the games as
☐ some repairmen had it open for maintenance.
☐
Family and Relations
Critical wound (-1 ongoing) Stabilized
Elnora Nelson (Classmate) [+1]
☐ Your science lab partner. The only one you actually tend to get along with. She can
handle your outbursts and even ground you at times. Sometimes the two of you can sit
Stability
down and chat about life and things in general for a while, and the foggy cloud of anger
☐ Composed you carry around goes away for a bit. Too bad she’s a lesbian.

☐ Uneasy Moderate stress:

The Machine [+2]
☐ Unfocused -1 disadvantages
This is your ticket out of this school and into… well, you could go anywhere! NASA, NSA,
☐ Shaken Serious stress: MIT. It must be kept safe at all costs. No one may touch it and you are ready to actually
☐ Distressed -1 Keep it Together hurt Alex Smith if he tries to do it again. Or, well, maybe. Most probably!

☐ Neurotic -2 disadvantages
Motivation
☐ Anxious Critical stress: A lot of mutterings have been going around school about supernatural things, God, Jesus
☐ Irrational -2 Keep it Together and other fairy tales like that. You can’t help but to throw in a sharp word about how un-

☐ Unhinged -3 disadvantages scientific it is. You believe in the supernatural about as much as you believe in UFOs and
Santa. Everything has a rational explanation. You need to get your hands on a cathode
+1 See through the Illusion
ray tube of the particular specifications you require. The only one you’ve seen is inside
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 The Sickly [The Cursed] Information
Name: Kyle C. Marshall Best Subject: History
+2 Age: 15 Star sign Sagittarius
Gender: Male Grade: 10

Willpower Advantages Disadvantages

+0 Keep it Together +1
To the last breath Haunted
Fortitude Reflexes Sealed Fate Condemned
Endure Injury Avoid Harm Occult studies ●●●●●○○○○○

Who you are

+3 +1 You have been sick ever since you were a little kid. Always going in and out of the hos-
pital and no one knows what is wrong with you. You’ve seen doctors, healers, snake oil
Reason Intuition
Investigate +2 Read a Person salesmen. Everyone offers cures, but no one actually delivers. You have been through a
stable phase lately though. Your mother and father always encourage you to show hope
Perception but you have lost it long ago. You know your death is fast approaching and you know
+0 Observe a Situation -2
there is nothing you can do about it. This is why you have started trying to find an alter-
Coolness Violence native way to cure yourself through reading up on occultism.
Act Under Pressure -1 Engage in Combat

Charisma Even though you sleep in an oxygen tent at night, you are allowed out to do normal kid
Influence Other things during the day. Maybe you can’t run as fast and for as long as your peers, but you
do your best to keep up. Despite the dark rings under your eyes and your pale complex-
+1 ion you do have a few friends around you that always lend a hand when you need to.

Soul
You think, or rather, you are almost certain this stable period started when you first went
See Through the Illusion
to Gregg’s Arcade Emporium to lose a few quarters into Gregg’s machines. Polybius was
Wounds the game that stuck with you, it just felt right somehow. Despite the game not being very
Serious wounds (-1 ongoing) Stabilized popular, there always seem to be some of the same few people hanging around it.
☐
Family and Relations
☐
Granny Fanny (Ghost?) [0]
☐ Ever since you went deep into the whole occult thing you have tried the rituals and spells
☐ that you’ve come across. Most of the time to no avail, but once you summoned a being
☐ that looks a lot like a very old lady. At first you didn’t realize what you did and thought
someone had walked in on you in your room, she just looks so very life like. But no one
Critical wound (-1 ongoing) Stabilized else can see her. She follows you around, very slowly, making certain teenage needs awk-
☐ ward and hard to do sneakily. She cannot talk, but sometimes she asks things from you
to put in a small storage box dug down in the park. Lint, copper wire, animal remains.
Stability You’ve not dared to oppose her yet. She’s given no name, but you call her Granny Fanny.
☐ Composed It just rolls well off your tongue.

☐ Uneasy Moderate stress: Cathy Keiser (Secret crush) [+1]

☐ Unfocused -1 disadvantages Oh where it that Cathy would ever look in your direction and smile. You often see her in
the library and she always carries around a new book or two. Almost only fiction. And
☐ Shaken Serious stress:
she’s so very cute. One of these days, you should work up some courage and ask her out,
☐ Distressed -1 Keep it Together maybe to Gregg’s Arcade?
☐ Neurotic -2 disadvantages
Motivation
☐ Anxious Critical stress: You are certain there is a deeper meaning behind your illness. The clock is ticking and
☐ Irrational -2 Keep it Together you can feel your life slowly being drained from your very being. The Arcade gives you
☐ Unhinged -3 disadvantages a certain temporary relief, or - to be honest - Polybius does. You feel something is weird
about it, but you can’t articulate just what. As if you fit just right in when you play the
+1 See through the Illusion
game. All too well. Something inside you is nagging at you to investigate this further, but
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