ok so we had a corpse that was reappearing random places and shit and the shepherd was a super creepy disembodied badtouch spirit voice and slowly we pulled things together that was like
OK IT WAS A LORD WHO GOT DEMON POSSESSED AND WAS EVIL AND WAS RUNNING THIS CRY WOLF GAME BECAUSE HOT DAMN HE WAS EVIL AND HE WAS GOING TO FUCKING KILL PEOPLE ONE AT A TIME BITCHES
And the corpse was his LOYAL BUTLER who had died horribly under his care BUT STILL BELIEVED IN THE GOODNESS OF HIS LORD'S HEART and couldn't move on while he was trying to get his lord to Believe In Goodness and redeem himself.
And once we had that we had a lot of room to play with things! We like had opposing forces -- the lord was in denial his butler was still here, the butler was trying to get attention but was a ghost and was so old and tired at that point and worn out that he was barely clinging to existence and couldn't do anything but tap and play music on his music box and shit like that.
So that is what we played with and then we were like WE NEED TO ESTABLISH THEM AS CHARACTERS NOT JUST CREEPY BACKGROUND SHIT so the players found letters in a box and that is how Kit and Bastien as characters were born, basically.
From there it was pulling it together.
Now, at this point it was supposed to be a one-shot game so we had a lot of stuff in there just for ambiance LIKE WHEN THEY LOOKED THROUGH BASTIEN'S BOOKS PEOPLE GOT PAPERCUTS THAT WOULDN'T STOP BLEEDING.
Anyway we finished the game, the players pulled together and got Bastien sort of redeemed, it was HARDCORE AWESOME OK and we were like "Hey that was a cool one-shot."
Then a few months later we were like "we should do another! But Kit and Bastien moved on. WHAT DO."
So we decided, ok, bastien left a lot of fucking awful demonic artifacts lying around, the demon that possessed him was still there, etc, and despite being a mansion out in the middle of fuck-all nowhere eventually someone would move in. So we invented a twin brother and sister and said, ok, their family moved in, the brother ran into the same demon that bastien had been possessed by and started killing the rest of their family. The sister caught him at it and stabbed him to try to protect her parents but COULD NOT SAVE ANYONE and a different demon who was also in the house then showed up and offered to try to help her get her brother back. She pacted with him, he possessed her brother's corpse, they are playing brother and sister and she is now a witch and she is running to the end of her contract and is out of time and needs a big human sacrifice to extend it but she is not a bad person and she is like WHAT DO and there is cry wolf as a result.
As you can see we planned this more. A lot was spontaneous and off the cuff but OH HEY LET'S BRING KIT AND BASTIEN BACK! We can have her have called Kit's soul into a clay golem vessel due to his attachment to the house and then omg Bastien will come back to GET HIS FUCKING BOYFRIEND BUTLER BACK GODDAMMIT and we'll see what the players do with this situation!
This was the start of the verse as an open ended thing TO BE CONTINUED MORE.
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OK IT WAS A LORD WHO GOT DEMON POSSESSED AND WAS EVIL AND WAS RUNNING THIS CRY WOLF GAME BECAUSE HOT DAMN HE WAS EVIL AND HE WAS GOING TO FUCKING KILL PEOPLE ONE AT A TIME BITCHES
And the corpse was his LOYAL BUTLER who had died horribly under his care BUT STILL BELIEVED IN THE GOODNESS OF HIS LORD'S HEART and couldn't move on while he was trying to get his lord to Believe In Goodness and redeem himself.
And once we had that we had a lot of room to play with things! We like had opposing forces -- the lord was in denial his butler was still here, the butler was trying to get attention but was a ghost and was so old and tired at that point and worn out that he was barely clinging to existence and couldn't do anything but tap and play music on his music box and shit like that.
So that is what we played with and then we were like WE NEED TO ESTABLISH THEM AS CHARACTERS NOT JUST CREEPY BACKGROUND SHIT so the players found letters in a box and that is how Kit and Bastien as characters were born, basically.
From there it was pulling it together.
Now, at this point it was supposed to be a one-shot game so we had a lot of stuff in there just for ambiance LIKE WHEN THEY LOOKED THROUGH BASTIEN'S BOOKS PEOPLE GOT PAPERCUTS THAT WOULDN'T STOP BLEEDING.
Anyway we finished the game, the players pulled together and got Bastien sort of redeemed, it was HARDCORE AWESOME OK and we were like "Hey that was a cool one-shot."
Then a few months later we were like "we should do another! But Kit and Bastien moved on. WHAT DO."
So we decided, ok, bastien left a lot of fucking awful demonic artifacts lying around, the demon that possessed him was still there, etc, and despite being a mansion out in the middle of fuck-all nowhere eventually someone would move in. So we invented a twin brother and sister and said, ok, their family moved in, the brother ran into the same demon that bastien had been possessed by and started killing the rest of their family. The sister caught him at it and stabbed him to try to protect her parents but COULD NOT SAVE ANYONE and a different demon who was also in the house then showed up and offered to try to help her get her brother back. She pacted with him, he possessed her brother's corpse, they are playing brother and sister and she is now a witch and she is running to the end of her contract and is out of time and needs a big human sacrifice to extend it but she is not a bad person and she is like WHAT DO and there is cry wolf as a result.
As you can see we planned this more. A lot was spontaneous and off the cuff but OH HEY LET'S BRING KIT AND BASTIEN BACK! We can have her have called Kit's soul into a clay golem vessel due to his attachment to the house and then omg Bastien will come back to GET HIS FUCKING BOYFRIEND BUTLER BACK GODDAMMIT and we'll see what the players do with this situation!
This was the start of the verse as an open ended thing TO BE CONTINUED MORE.