During a slow day, one of our characters walks into an innocuous shop. They must have passed it a thousand times before, but today there is actually time to peruse it, and the signs on the door-"Wizard in residence", "Spells Cast by Appointment Only"- always seemed to point to a sarcastic and interesting owner. It seems like a nice way to kill a few minutes, so they go in.

Turns out? Not so innocuous. And a few minutes with the owner leaves the character shaky and lost. How did this stranger know about their darkest secret, and what did they mean, 'marked for greater things?'....

So Basically, looking at a role play where some one goes into a stand alone magic shop, just for fun. Turns out the owner is a bone fide wizard, and can sense that the person has some kid of power attached to them. It concurs with the weird things the customer as experienced their whole life, and they are suddenly faced with a choice: walk away and try to pretend that everything is okay, or go back and learn who they really are...

The serial killer is the talk of the whole city. He sneaks into secure homes and businesses, somehow overpowers his victims, then rapes and murders them in a grotesque fashion. The police are struggling to find a connection--until a man/woman comes to then with information on the killer, and the fear that they will be next....

Basically, there is a back magic wizard who is raping and killing people to try and perform some big summons. The wizard-y community refuses to involve human authorities in the case, but when something strikes close to home a man/woman decides that enough is enough. They make an 'anonymous' tip to the police, but after only a few hours there is a detective at their door demanding answers, and both suddenly find themselves stuck with unwilling partners.

The werewolf character was bitten years ago while hiking in a national park. His change was rough and time consuming, and by the time he had control of it it was too late to go back to his human life. He'd been declared missing, presumed dead, and there was no good way to explain his absence without arousing suspicion. So he 'goes wild', staying in the vastness of the national park relatively undetected. His changed form is very similar to a wolf, and it's easy enough to blend in when there are people around.

But, after a few years of his chosen exile, he hears shouting. A search party, for a little girl. His human heart won't let him ignore it, and his keen senses find the child in less then a day. The girl will shock her rescuers with the story of the 'nice man who carried me to the ranger station', but refused to come in or even tell her his name. Most rescuers are ready to chalk it up to a childish imagination, and are just happy to have her back. But one ranger listens to her description, and is reminded of the one rescue he was never able to finish. Could that man still be out there?

Basically, a park ranger and a werewolf on national park land both know the other exists. They catch sight of each other occasionally, and for some reason the werewolf always helps with search and rescue missions. But then there is some sort of accident, and the park ranger is stranded and injured. Is it time to break the silence between them, or has it been too long for the werewolf to remember how to love like a human?

The really tall apartment buildings, the ones with very expensive pent house suites, often hire window washers to work overnight, so as not to ruin their tenant's view. One particular tenant is...a bit of a night owl. They begin to see the window washer every night, and a friendly relationship of scrawled notes and hand gestures provides more companionship then the vampire has had in years. But when an enemy of their past returns, and the window washer witnesses the attack, the vampire's enemies will go after him for sure. Which leaves the vampire with a moral dilemma: tell their friend the truth, and possibly risk the presence of actual living human blood too tempting to resist, or live the the knowledge that their friend would have died because of them.

It is a normal morning on a farm in Montana. A young man, in his late teens, has been given the job of running the trap lines for a few weeks while his father is resting from a broken ankle. About three miles from the house, he finds something astonashing: a large Zhuyin-half man, half snake- is caught in one of the steel traps. At first terrified, the boy slowly begins to realize that the creature is probably around his own age, and terrified of the human. He opens the trap and sets the thing free. The other boy thanks him, and over the course of the summer they become friends. But during the winter the two have no contact, and for the rest of his childhood he will never see his friend again.

Transport -set number- of years. The boy is now in college, studying for his masters in Folk Lore and Anthropology. He is still fascinated by these things, and during the research for his papers he comes across an entry for the creature that was once, long ago, his friend. Determined now to prove, even to himself, that the whole thing really happened, he sets off for a backpacking trip of discovery. Bit will he live everything he finds?

When financial circumstances force a model student to move from his home in the suburbs to an apartment in the city, he isn't sure how to cope. It's frightening and isolated, and all his friends don't know how to treat him now. And to make things worse, he thinks one of the guys downstairs is either stalking him or trying to flirt.

Even worse? He sort of wants to flirt back

When a man who was given up for adoption in the US at his birth gets a letter years later informing him that he is inheriting both a massive Scottish estate and the title with it, he has no idea what to do. His adoptive parents urge him to at least look at it, pointing out that it might help with the closure he never got when his birth parents refused contact with him. For an underemployed recent college graduate, the idea of spending the rest of his life in a castle isn't really all that bad.

Until he meets the steward of the estate, the man in charge of running it while he was gone. A man his own age, who resents a stranger coming in and ruining everything. When the two clash about every decision, is there no way the can be friends?

When an ambassador party carrying a vital treaty is attacked, and all but one member killed, the assistant ambassador is forced to take on the mantle of diplomat for his country. With only the aide of the young Royal Forest Ranger who had witnessed the attack, can they make it through enemy territory without losing their lives, the missives, or their hearts?

When the crown prince discovers a thief attempting to enter through the window of an empty room in the middle of the night. He gives the young man a choice. Submit to royal justice-a fast trial and faster hanging-, or agree to be his personal servant, using the thief skills he has to the crown's advantage. The thief agrees, of course, but when the prince sees that the thief has the branding of one who has been caught with a male lover, he has one more command to include in the deal: the education adn advantage of that forbidden love.

There must always be a balance of power among King and Queen. So it has become tradition for the Crown Princess, on the eve of her wedding, to be introduced to one of the crown's oldest and most guarded secrets....the Hand of the Queen. An assassin, trained from infancy to obey her commands. His job will be to kill, silence of intimidate any enemy of the crown, and to keep scandal from growing. But will a young queen who abhors violence truly utalize such a weapon?

Or, when she does, will they truly be able to avoid scandel?