A Continent of Banalities

I'm cheating a bit and posting yesterday's and today's characters together. They're made for By Dawn They All Were Dead, an entirely too rudimentary system I made for SHORT horror games. Claire and Sharona are college students, and they're on a road trip together. Sharona the Vet Student Physical 0 Intellectual 0 Social +1 Knack “Get me another body bag, the body bag’s full” If another Character dies, you get their +1. You can’t off them yourself. You lost Beignet when you were six. She was a mostly white mix of poodle and something else. She was your best friend, and in a lot of ways your only one. Beignet loved playing fetch, and on that fatal day her exuberance at fetching a clumsily-thrown frisbee overshadowed anything you had tried to teach her about the road. The driver of the Subaru was awfully sorry. He never had a chance to stop or swerve. Your father was busy with work. Your mother hugged you, and told you that you should have been more careful. That’s wh...

 Day 14 A quickly-made character for the system Dicks & Dames. The Chambers stuff is my addition.  “If only Queen Cassilda knew how we suffer” It was all Irma could do not to roll her eyes at the tiny woman in the purple shawl. Instead she looked out the window. A new fog was gathering, and another iron ship was disgorging its human cargo.  Every day new people seemed to arrive, each with their drawn faces and their precious nonsense. Some talk of the Imperial family of America, others of a sign which seduces the sensitive and artistic to madness. Still others talk of nights lost to absinthe and débauche. All talk of the King, the Mask and the Phantom. Symbolist bullshit, but bullshit which seemed to be at the center of all things. The dead center.  And so many of them ended up in Irma’s dusty office, exhorting her to find  the fiance that was sent to the penal colonies, or the comrade who was lost in a clandestine war in the streets of old New York. Irma fe...