If y'all wanna make it I'll be game for joining ya, was pretty excited for this.
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Course I have no idea how to start. I mean I might answer the questions Kahleen asked earlier.
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Let's start by using Kaheleen's unanswered questions as our guide to start. I want this to be a team effort since it is more fun.
We have to be human, is that right?
I feel like this could be up for debate. We could do hybrids or full non humans if you wanted. Humans can be so boring at times. I should know, I am one...
Would the characters meet in the beginning of the RP or already know each other for a short while?
I like the idea of having them know each other or at least know of each other. Sometimes the most boring part of an RP is the "Getting to know you" but it does lead to some great character development. It is also could be fun for them to be a group of rookies and experts.
Do they have to be some sort of scientist?
No because there is no fun in that. It would be a large group of diverse people. There needs to be someone to catch the creature or stop it.
What kind of jobs are acceptable for them to have?
The sky is the limit for this one. You can do whatever you want.
Will they leave their normal lives (former jobs, family, friends) behind for their search for the truth?
It would be interesting to have the normal lives still be there. One of the ideas for my guy is that he is fighting the monsters to try and keep his family safe from whatever creeping crawly is trying to destroy the world today. That is just one possibility.
Is their 'search' (as I call it now) a job, aka do they get paid, or is it a hobby?
I would think that the organization would be government funded with all the trappings. The Foundation (name not final) is funded through the Black Budgets of the United States and her allies. They are either born into The Search (their family was part of the Foundation) or joined the group through their own skills. Just to have an example of how they could join. The people do not have to be only Americans since that is fun either.
Do they have 'special rights' that normal civilians don't have? (talking X Files - they're 'cops', they get into places, interrogate and have access to files and to medial supplies and the like. Do our characters have any of the like?)
My idea would be for the Agents to be granted The Liberty. They are granted the power to get whatever they need so long as it is justified. It is worth it to remove privacy if some ancient brain slug is trying to subjugate a small town and they need the files on a local doctor to find the creature. However, they need approval to use these powers. They can enter and take over a crime scene with grumbling from the local police. They cannot kill with out approval and the power only works where they have allies.
Is the story completely driven by the characters (the players) or is it GM / co-GM driven, so that things maybe happen 'unexpectedly'? Do you know what I mean?
I was going to make a group effort and Gm driven at the same time. For example:
The group is sent to Point Pleasant, West Virginia because the town's most famous resident has returned after 49 years. Mothman has returned to the town he first appeared in and this is not a good thing. Every time this thing shows up somewhere, disaster follows it. Or does it? Is Mothman the Prophet or the cause? Is he warning the people to flee or there to feast of the misery. Is Mothman really a creature? Witnesses described how the creature did not seem to fly like a bird but move like a plane. Is Mothman an alien in a suit attracted to these disasters? Why does the thing seem interested in only certain people to the point where it will chase cars for miles to look at them? Why does it seem to want to keep people out of dangerous areas? Our Agents must solve this mystery before Point Pleasant faces another disaster.
Some research about the creature:
The scary thing is all that "research" is IRL info I found looking online. The idea is that it can go anyway. Is Mothman an Alien or a cryptid attracted to death? Does it cause the disaster cause it needs something? The creature seems obsessed with nuclear power. Do the characters find out what is the creature's goal?
I have so many other ideas for this and I want this to be a group effort with us all. So if you have any ideas do speak up.
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Let's start by using Kaheleen's unanswered questions as our guide to start. I want this to be a team effort since it is more fun.
We have to be human, is that right?
I feel like this could be up for debate. We could do hybrids or full non humans if you wanted. Humans can be so boring at times. I should know, I am one...
Would the characters meet in the beginning of the RP or already know each other for a short while?
I like the idea of having them know each other or at least know of each other. Sometimes the most boring part of an RP is the "Getting to know you" but it does lead to some great character development. It is also could be fun for them to be a group of rookies and experts.
Do they have to be some sort of scientist?
No because there is no fun in that. It would be a large group of diverse people. There needs to be someone to catch the creature or stop it.
What kind of jobs are acceptable for them to have?
The sky is the limit for this one. You can do whatever you want.
Will they leave their normal lives (former jobs, family, friends) behind for their search for the truth?
It would be interesting to have the normal lives still be there. One of the ideas for my guy is that he is fighting the monsters to try and keep his family safe from whatever creeping crawly is trying to destroy the world today. That is just one possibility.
Is their 'search' (as I call it now) a job, aka do they get paid, or is it a hobby?
I would think that the organization would be government funded with all the trappings. The Foundation (name not final) is funded through the Black Budgets of the United States and her allies. They are either born into The Search (their family was part of the Foundation) or joined the group through their own skills. Just to have an example of how they could join. The people do not have to be only Americans since that is fun either.
Do they have 'special rights' that normal civilians don't have? (talking X Files - they're 'cops', they get into places, interrogate and have access to files and to medial supplies and the like. Do our characters have any of the like?)
My idea would be for the Agents to be granted The Liberty. They are granted the power to get whatever they need so long as it is justified. It is worth it to remove privacy if some ancient brain slug is trying to subjugate a small town and they need the files on a local doctor to find the creature. However, they need approval to use these powers. They can enter and take over a crime scene with grumbling from the local police. They cannot kill with out approval and the power only works where they have allies.
Is the story completely driven by the characters (the players) or is it GM / co-GM driven, so that things maybe happen 'unexpectedly'? Do you know what I mean?
I was going to make a group effort and Gm driven at the same time. For example:
The group is sent to Point Pleasant, West Virginia because the town's most famous resident has returned after 49 years. Mothman has returned to the town he first appeared in and this is not a good thing. Every time this thing shows up somewhere, disaster follows it. Or does it? Is Mothman the Prophet or the cause? Is he warning the people to flee or there to feast of the misery. Is Mothman really a creature? Witnesses described how the creature did not seem to fly like a bird but move like a plane. Is Mothman an alien in a suit attracted to these disasters? Why does the thing seem interested in only certain people to the point where it will chase cars for miles to look at them? Why does it seem to want to keep people out of dangerous areas? Our Agents must solve this mystery before Point Pleasant faces another disaster.
Some research about the creature:
Mothman is described as a bipedal, winged humanoid. Despite his name which was given to him by newspapers, he is in no way moth-like. His coloration varies from Black, gray, to even brown, although its is usually the darker shades. He is often reported to be about 7 feet tall, with a wingspan of about 10 to 15 feet or more, plus the ability to fly over 100 mph. Sometimes hes described as not having a head with the two huge red eyes set in the chest. These eyes are reported to be glowing, or at least reflective. The details of his face and his feet have never been adequately described. One witness who saw the face clearly, could only say that the details were horrible and monstrous. She had terrible nightmares and nearly suffered a nervous breakdown.
Anyone who gets a close look at the Mothman seems to suffer from extreme fear and psychological distress, sometimes lasting for months or years afterwards. In particular, people say that a sense of pure evil overcomes them when they see Mothman's eyes.
He can fold his wings and walk with a weird shuffle that many witnesses compare to a penguin. When he flies, he unfolds his wings and shoots straight up with great speed, then levels out to go wherever he wants to go. He is rarely observed flapping his wings except for on take off. Witnesses often described his flight pattern as "Straight up, like a helicopter". He can fly much faster than any bird should be able to fly, as measured by those victims who suffered from what seems to be Mothman's favorite activity: chasing cars. He'll fly in front of them and even sometimes hit at the roof.
Anyone who gets a close look at the Mothman seems to suffer from extreme fear and psychological distress, sometimes lasting for months or years afterwards. In particular, people say that a sense of pure evil overcomes them when they see Mothman's eyes.
He can fold his wings and walk with a weird shuffle that many witnesses compare to a penguin. When he flies, he unfolds his wings and shoots straight up with great speed, then levels out to go wherever he wants to go. He is rarely observed flapping his wings except for on take off. Witnesses often described his flight pattern as "Straight up, like a helicopter". He can fly much faster than any bird should be able to fly, as measured by those victims who suffered from what seems to be Mothman's favorite activity: chasing cars. He'll fly in front of them and even sometimes hit at the roof.
Note how the creature is after chemicals and bombs in the TNT area. Why is this so obsessed with explosions?
On November 12, 1966, five men who were digging a grave at a cemetery near Clendenin, West Virginia, claimed to see a man-like figure fly low from the trees over their heads.[5] This is often identified as the first known sighting of what became known as the Mothman.
Shortly thereafter, on November 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette, told police they saw a large black creature whose eyes "glowed red" when the car headlights picked it up. They described it as a "large flying man with ten-foot wings", following their car while they were driving in an area outside of town known as "the TNT area", the site of a former World War II munitions plant.
During the next few days, other people reported similar sightings. Two volunteer firemen who sighted it said it was a "large bird with red eyes". Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson that when he aimed a flashlight at a creature in a nearby field its eyes glowed "like bicycle reflectors", and blamed buzzing noises from his television set and the disappearance of his German Shepherd dog on the creature.[8] Wildlife biologist Dr. Robert L. Smith at West Virginia University told reporters that descriptions and sightings all fit the sandhill crane, a large American crane almost as high as a man with a seven-foot wingspan featuring circles of reddish coloring around the eyes, and that the bird may have wandered out of its migration route. This particular crane was unrecognized at first because it was not native to this region.
After the December 15, 1967, collapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people, the incident gave rise to the legend and connected the Mothman sightings to the bridge collapse.
The Silver Bridge collapses and the creature vanishes to never return to Point Pleasant.
On November 12, 1966, five men who were digging a grave at a cemetery near Clendenin, West Virginia, claimed to see a man-like figure fly low from the trees over their heads.[5] This is often identified as the first known sighting of what became known as the Mothman.
Shortly thereafter, on November 15, 1966, two young couples from Point Pleasant, Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette, told police they saw a large black creature whose eyes "glowed red" when the car headlights picked it up. They described it as a "large flying man with ten-foot wings", following their car while they were driving in an area outside of town known as "the TNT area", the site of a former World War II munitions plant.
During the next few days, other people reported similar sightings. Two volunteer firemen who sighted it said it was a "large bird with red eyes". Contractor Newell Partridge told Johnson that when he aimed a flashlight at a creature in a nearby field its eyes glowed "like bicycle reflectors", and blamed buzzing noises from his television set and the disappearance of his German Shepherd dog on the creature.[8] Wildlife biologist Dr. Robert L. Smith at West Virginia University told reporters that descriptions and sightings all fit the sandhill crane, a large American crane almost as high as a man with a seven-foot wingspan featuring circles of reddish coloring around the eyes, and that the bird may have wandered out of its migration route. This particular crane was unrecognized at first because it was not native to this region.
After the December 15, 1967, collapse of the Silver Bridge and the death of 46 people, the incident gave rise to the legend and connected the Mothman sightings to the bridge collapse.
The Silver Bridge collapses and the creature vanishes to never return to Point Pleasant.
Beginning in early April of 1986, the people in and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began to experience a series of strange events revolving around sightings of a mysterious creature described as a large, dark, and mutated man with gigantic wings and piercing red eyes. People affected by this phenomena experienced horrific nightmares, threatening phone calls and first hand encounters with the winged beast which became known as the Blackbird of Chernobyl. Note how the reports claim psychological damage like the Point Pleasant report. We must look into this.
Reports of these strange happening continued to increase until the morning of April 26, 1986, when at 1:23 am, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a catastrophic steam explosion that resulted in a fire, which caused a series of additional explosions followed by a nuclear meltdown. The power plant, located near Pripyat, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, spewed a plume of radioactive fallout which drifted over parts of the Western Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, the UK, Ireland and eastern North America. Large areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. The Chernobyl Disaster, as the incident was dubbed, is considered the worst accident ever in the history of nuclear power.
Following the meltdown, and subsequent explosions and fires, Soviet helicopters were dispatched to the scene, equipped with special fire fighting gear, these helicopters circled the plant dropping clay, sand, lead and other extinguishing chemicals on to the burning facility. Most of the fire was put out by 5 am with the fire burning with in reactor 4 continuing to blaze for several hours after. The firefighters who responded were unaware of the nature of the fire, assuming that it was simply an electrical fire, and received massive overdoses of radiation leading to many of their deaths.
The workers who survived the initial blast and fire, that would later die of radiation poisoning, claimed to have witnessed what has been described as a large black, bird like creature, with a 20 foot wingspan, gliding through the swirling plumes of irradiated smoke pouring from the reactor. No further sightings of the Blackbird of Chernobyl were reported after the Chernobyl Disaster, leaving researchers to speculate just what was haunted the workers of the plant during the days leading up to the disaster.
There the creature is again at one of the most famous disasters in history. Where else would it show up?
Reports of these strange happening continued to increase until the morning of April 26, 1986, when at 1:23 am, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a catastrophic steam explosion that resulted in a fire, which caused a series of additional explosions followed by a nuclear meltdown. The power plant, located near Pripyat, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, spewed a plume of radioactive fallout which drifted over parts of the Western Soviet Union, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, the UK, Ireland and eastern North America. Large areas of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. The Chernobyl Disaster, as the incident was dubbed, is considered the worst accident ever in the history of nuclear power.
Following the meltdown, and subsequent explosions and fires, Soviet helicopters were dispatched to the scene, equipped with special fire fighting gear, these helicopters circled the plant dropping clay, sand, lead and other extinguishing chemicals on to the burning facility. Most of the fire was put out by 5 am with the fire burning with in reactor 4 continuing to blaze for several hours after. The firefighters who responded were unaware of the nature of the fire, assuming that it was simply an electrical fire, and received massive overdoses of radiation leading to many of their deaths.
The workers who survived the initial blast and fire, that would later die of radiation poisoning, claimed to have witnessed what has been described as a large black, bird like creature, with a 20 foot wingspan, gliding through the swirling plumes of irradiated smoke pouring from the reactor. No further sightings of the Blackbird of Chernobyl were reported after the Chernobyl Disaster, leaving researchers to speculate just what was haunted the workers of the plant during the days leading up to the disaster.
There the creature is again at one of the most famous disasters in history. Where else would it show up?
Not much of this picture is know however it has yet to be proven as a fraud. The creature's obsession with death seems to match its modus operandi.
This is the eye witness account of a man at the area before the disaster. Notice how the creature circled the reactor like it did at Chernobyl before the eruption. It moves the same but why is it in Japan? Did it cause the reactor meltdown to get worse than it should have been?
I’m not sure if this is the appropriate time to come forward with this story seeing that the recent events
in Japan are still fresh in every ones memory. I have been a follower of your website from pretty much
the start; I have read your reports and have heard you online before. Naturally your site was the one I
thought of first when this incident happened and I decided to write in and tell you what happened that
night in early February.
I was in Japan on business and had emailed a lifelong friend who was living in Japan and teaching
English at a local school. He had insisted on my staying with him for the duration of my stay, saying it
would help save me money and make my expense report look better when I turned it in. My friend (I
will call him Tim for the sake of his reputation and career) was a lifelong bachelor and had a fairly
large apartment all to himself and his cat. After several days of day long meetings and group
seminars, we had decided to go out to get a bite to eat and take in the town. After a fairly large meal
and hopping from one night spot to another we decided to go toward the ocean and check out the
moonlight reflecting off the waves. My friend stated that he wanted to check on a biology station that
some of his graduate students had set up near a large power plant.
As we approached the plant from the west, we walked along some paths and came to a simple metal
box bolted into the ground, from this box there were a myriad of weather vanes, and other
meteorological devices. My friend stated the schools science class students had a theory that just like
the water being used and discharged by the power plant was warmed by the production of electricity;
the air around the plant was also being warmed and thus affecting weather and tidal patterns in the
surrounding eco-system. It all sounded too complex and in my slightly tipsy and tired state was only
able to grasp the bare bones of the complex theory he laid out.
He finished up and changed the subject to something more jovial when all of a sudden we heard a
loud and distinct “WHOOSH” at first my mind thought it might be the sound of the distant waves
crashing ashore when we heard it again, followed by a ear pitching screech that shook me down to
the bone and made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. We looked around for the cause
of the noise, when we heard the sound again. The best way I can describe it is a city buses brakes
when they are in need of service, Loud and ear splitting. We both continued to look around when my
friend’s attention was drawn toward the plant by another nearby couple. A younger couple, out for a
walk were staring toward the plant, arms outstretched and the obvious fear in their voice showing
itself.
I looked toward the plant, and against the lights of the plant I thought I saw a figure silhouetted
against the moonlit sky. The figure was large and black, from the distance I was at it looked to be
sitting on top of one of the squared shape buildings. It sat there for about 5 seconds then it unfurled a
large set of what I could only describe as large, black wings. The only reference I can compare them
too are from the old John Travolta movie “Michael” where the main character unfurls his wings and
spreads them out to their full length. To say that this creature was large was an understatement.
The creature then took flight and circled the plant at least 4-5 times, some circuits he took at a fast
pace, some he seemed to slow down, all the while he kept his attention on the row of square shaped
buildings that I later found out housed the reactors. The creature then came toward us, flying at least
25-30 feet off the ground. The younger couple who had noticed the creature first were now screaming
and cowering, the man shielding the woman while shielding his head with a jacket. My friend and I
looked in awe as this creature flew over us. That’s when I noticed the two large red eyes; they
seemed to glow from within and with a blood red hue. They were unblinking in the 3-4 seconds we
saw them, we knew they were looking straight at us, we knew this creature knew we could see it and it
made no attempt to disguise itself. The sick, intense and overwhelming feeling of dread came over us.
A feeling that we shouldn’t be there was to say the least, overwhelming.
As quickly as it came, it flew away, back toward the town, eventually melting into the black night sky
and as it flew away from us a loud whoosh was heard again and then...silence. This lasted a second
or two before I heard the sound of a shutter and turned to see my friend trying to take pictures with
his cell phone, but all he got was dark, night time sky. We went straight home and my friend bolted the
door and drew all the blinds, he was shaking and saying that he could not believe what he saw, could
it have been a large, unknown species of bird? He kept mumbling to himself until I was able to calm
him down and get him to relax and talk about what we had seen. Eventually we both agreed that it
must have been some sort of large bird, or maybe an optical illusion caused by the lights given off by
the plant on a regular, known species of bird.
We talked about it late into the night, till we both fell asleep on the couches and awoke the next
morning to stiff necks and backs. My friend and I spent the last two days out and about and enjoying
each other’s company, till he drove me to the airport and we bid each other farewell and I came home.
We spoke about it only once more in an email about a week before he was due to come to the U.S. for his sister’s wedding. When I brought it up at the wedding rehearsal dinner, he was convinced that it had been an optical illusion. That was until the day before the wedding when he woke me out of a deep sleep with a frantic phone call telling me to turn on the TV. There came the images of the devastation of the Japanese earthquake and the near total destruction of the city of the town of Okuma, where my friend was living and working. The day of the wedding the news came of the
explosions at the local nuclear power plant and as CNN broadcast the report, we were both a gasp as
the same power plant where we had seen the strange bird-like object was not being shown on the
television set. The Fukushima Daiich was the exact same plant we had seen the strange bird like
creature circling. Was it pure coincidence or was it the mythical Moth-Man doing his strange work of
predicting disasters? I may never know and may go to the grave wondering that, but one thing is
certain for sure, I don’t think that neither of us is going to forget this event, no matter how long we live.
I’m not sure if this is the appropriate time to come forward with this story seeing that the recent events
in Japan are still fresh in every ones memory. I have been a follower of your website from pretty much
the start; I have read your reports and have heard you online before. Naturally your site was the one I
thought of first when this incident happened and I decided to write in and tell you what happened that
night in early February.
I was in Japan on business and had emailed a lifelong friend who was living in Japan and teaching
English at a local school. He had insisted on my staying with him for the duration of my stay, saying it
would help save me money and make my expense report look better when I turned it in. My friend (I
will call him Tim for the sake of his reputation and career) was a lifelong bachelor and had a fairly
large apartment all to himself and his cat. After several days of day long meetings and group
seminars, we had decided to go out to get a bite to eat and take in the town. After a fairly large meal
and hopping from one night spot to another we decided to go toward the ocean and check out the
moonlight reflecting off the waves. My friend stated that he wanted to check on a biology station that
some of his graduate students had set up near a large power plant.
As we approached the plant from the west, we walked along some paths and came to a simple metal
box bolted into the ground, from this box there were a myriad of weather vanes, and other
meteorological devices. My friend stated the schools science class students had a theory that just like
the water being used and discharged by the power plant was warmed by the production of electricity;
the air around the plant was also being warmed and thus affecting weather and tidal patterns in the
surrounding eco-system. It all sounded too complex and in my slightly tipsy and tired state was only
able to grasp the bare bones of the complex theory he laid out.
He finished up and changed the subject to something more jovial when all of a sudden we heard a
loud and distinct “WHOOSH” at first my mind thought it might be the sound of the distant waves
crashing ashore when we heard it again, followed by a ear pitching screech that shook me down to
the bone and made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. We looked around for the cause
of the noise, when we heard the sound again. The best way I can describe it is a city buses brakes
when they are in need of service, Loud and ear splitting. We both continued to look around when my
friend’s attention was drawn toward the plant by another nearby couple. A younger couple, out for a
walk were staring toward the plant, arms outstretched and the obvious fear in their voice showing
itself.
I looked toward the plant, and against the lights of the plant I thought I saw a figure silhouetted
against the moonlit sky. The figure was large and black, from the distance I was at it looked to be
sitting on top of one of the squared shape buildings. It sat there for about 5 seconds then it unfurled a
large set of what I could only describe as large, black wings. The only reference I can compare them
too are from the old John Travolta movie “Michael” where the main character unfurls his wings and
spreads them out to their full length. To say that this creature was large was an understatement.
The creature then took flight and circled the plant at least 4-5 times, some circuits he took at a fast
pace, some he seemed to slow down, all the while he kept his attention on the row of square shaped
buildings that I later found out housed the reactors. The creature then came toward us, flying at least
25-30 feet off the ground. The younger couple who had noticed the creature first were now screaming
and cowering, the man shielding the woman while shielding his head with a jacket. My friend and I
looked in awe as this creature flew over us. That’s when I noticed the two large red eyes; they
seemed to glow from within and with a blood red hue. They were unblinking in the 3-4 seconds we
saw them, we knew they were looking straight at us, we knew this creature knew we could see it and it
made no attempt to disguise itself. The sick, intense and overwhelming feeling of dread came over us.
A feeling that we shouldn’t be there was to say the least, overwhelming.
As quickly as it came, it flew away, back toward the town, eventually melting into the black night sky
and as it flew away from us a loud whoosh was heard again and then...silence. This lasted a second
or two before I heard the sound of a shutter and turned to see my friend trying to take pictures with
his cell phone, but all he got was dark, night time sky. We went straight home and my friend bolted the
door and drew all the blinds, he was shaking and saying that he could not believe what he saw, could
it have been a large, unknown species of bird? He kept mumbling to himself until I was able to calm
him down and get him to relax and talk about what we had seen. Eventually we both agreed that it
must have been some sort of large bird, or maybe an optical illusion caused by the lights given off by
the plant on a regular, known species of bird.
We talked about it late into the night, till we both fell asleep on the couches and awoke the next
morning to stiff necks and backs. My friend and I spent the last two days out and about and enjoying
each other’s company, till he drove me to the airport and we bid each other farewell and I came home.
We spoke about it only once more in an email about a week before he was due to come to the U.S. for his sister’s wedding. When I brought it up at the wedding rehearsal dinner, he was convinced that it had been an optical illusion. That was until the day before the wedding when he woke me out of a deep sleep with a frantic phone call telling me to turn on the TV. There came the images of the devastation of the Japanese earthquake and the near total destruction of the city of the town of Okuma, where my friend was living and working. The day of the wedding the news came of the
explosions at the local nuclear power plant and as CNN broadcast the report, we were both a gasp as
the same power plant where we had seen the strange bird-like object was not being shown on the
television set. The Fukushima Daiich was the exact same plant we had seen the strange bird like
creature circling. Was it pure coincidence or was it the mythical Moth-Man doing his strange work of
predicting disasters? I may never know and may go to the grave wondering that, but one thing is
certain for sure, I don’t think that neither of us is going to forget this event, no matter how long we live.
The scary thing is all that "research" is IRL info I found looking online. The idea is that it can go anyway. Is Mothman an Alien or a cryptid attracted to death? Does it cause the disaster cause it needs something? The creature seems obsessed with nuclear power. Do the characters find out what is the creature's goal?
I have so many other ideas for this and I want this to be a group effort with us all. So if you have any ideas do speak up.
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Hmm, I think it'd be a mistake to make this a government thing. The draw for me to this was it was just a group of people either interested or personally invested in the strange and unexplained, not acting as some government stooges. Though that's just my two cents.
I would limit it to a very small number of non-humans, otherwise you end up with a bunch of vampires and hybrids. It would be more fun to have only 1-2 of them; example: Hellboy and Abe Sapien. (Perhaps one "mythical being" and other extraterrestrial sentient)
My plan is to be your regular Jane Doe persona, little bit crazy, organizing her own searches and investigations regarding paranormal and unknown. Perhaps way too active in supporting conspiracies and weird coincidences.
It would be definitely good to have something on governmental level like X-files, but not all of it. It would kill the whole fun, especially with the Liberty competence. Let´s say there would be official investigators and bunch of people inspired by Scooby Doo gang ;D
And The Mothman is one of my favourites! So it would be nice ho have him here.
My plan is to be your regular Jane Doe persona, little bit crazy, organizing her own searches and investigations regarding paranormal and unknown. Perhaps way too active in supporting conspiracies and weird coincidences.
It would be definitely good to have something on governmental level like X-files, but not all of it. It would kill the whole fun, especially with the Liberty competence. Let´s say there would be official investigators and bunch of people inspired by Scooby Doo gang ;D
And The Mothman is one of my favourites! So it would be nice ho have him here.
I'm certainly interested, and I might have a couple of friends coming along for the ride if this turns out to be a proper RP. I'm going to throw in my two cents here.
First of all I think it's going to be a heavily GM-driven RP the moment we're out on a mission, but there may be ways to facilitate the job a little. With most mystery RPs I've seen, the LAST thing you want is a PC controlling an NPC that conveniently knows the exact time and place where mothman will show up again. Preparation is key. Sure, you could do all of the NPC posts by hand, but if I was running it is plan out the entirety of the town, point out the main locations of interest, and then have notes of the NPCs present and the info they hold. When we split up to go clue hunting I would PM the relevant players the information they will inevitably find and let THEM do the work controlling the scene and the NPCs inside of it. Instead of having to type out page upon page of dialogue, the GM's job is narrowed down to making sure the players stick to what they were given. It also means that we can pick up some clues in one area that make no sense without the info from another area. As GM, you can easily interrupt scenes and throw a wrench in the plan by adding hostile NPCs or other events that will stop the PCs from gathering enough information, like an angry drunkard who insisted there is no werewolf and his daughter was murdered or a PC failure just as the local journalist brings up her notes on the aliens.
Secondly this RP feels like a small cast sort of deal with closed signups. If we're going to be doing part of the introduction in the RP itself and we're a set organisation of independent monster hunters then a smaller cast would speed up the dreaded meet and greet, whilst the closed signups after a set point prevents newcomers jumping in when we're midway through chasing down a mummy or something and saves us the hassle of getting them settled into the team, figuring out their role, ect. It looks like CS checking might also be a little stricter to ensure our supernaturals in the party are well balanced.
Finally, I'm all for a scooby doo gang style independent group of investigators, but I feel like they have to at least be working for some higher power who probably doesn't give two shits about them. After all, what are we going to do with the things we capture? Who's going to clean up our unprofessional messes? Who's silencing the press? I'm thinking of a bounty hunting type of deal where the government pays big money to those who bring in the beasts for experimentation, alive or dead, with the promise of tying up loose ends under the condition that we alone must do the dirty work. Their complete lack of affiliation to our group except for being our form of salary maintains the difficulty of a private company prying into sensitive issues but also gets rid of the logistics that will be bothering us once we actually catch the bugggers we've been looking for. Furthermore the presence of nonhumans in our team implies a moral dilemma - if it's well-known that the government experiments with these creatures, most likely inhumanely, what do we do with the ones that aren't obviously dangerous? Sell their safety and their body to science for a few bucks, or try to mcguyver a solution that'll keep these beasts away from society before lying to our benefactors and saying it was a dead end? Will the government always believe us?
I'm just throwing ideas out there. If we have a good cast and a dedicated GM, this RP can really kick ass, but I feel like it's going to need a bit of work on the GM's half and some trustworthy independence from the players.
First of all I think it's going to be a heavily GM-driven RP the moment we're out on a mission, but there may be ways to facilitate the job a little. With most mystery RPs I've seen, the LAST thing you want is a PC controlling an NPC that conveniently knows the exact time and place where mothman will show up again. Preparation is key. Sure, you could do all of the NPC posts by hand, but if I was running it is plan out the entirety of the town, point out the main locations of interest, and then have notes of the NPCs present and the info they hold. When we split up to go clue hunting I would PM the relevant players the information they will inevitably find and let THEM do the work controlling the scene and the NPCs inside of it. Instead of having to type out page upon page of dialogue, the GM's job is narrowed down to making sure the players stick to what they were given. It also means that we can pick up some clues in one area that make no sense without the info from another area. As GM, you can easily interrupt scenes and throw a wrench in the plan by adding hostile NPCs or other events that will stop the PCs from gathering enough information, like an angry drunkard who insisted there is no werewolf and his daughter was murdered or a PC failure just as the local journalist brings up her notes on the aliens.
Secondly this RP feels like a small cast sort of deal with closed signups. If we're going to be doing part of the introduction in the RP itself and we're a set organisation of independent monster hunters then a smaller cast would speed up the dreaded meet and greet, whilst the closed signups after a set point prevents newcomers jumping in when we're midway through chasing down a mummy or something and saves us the hassle of getting them settled into the team, figuring out their role, ect. It looks like CS checking might also be a little stricter to ensure our supernaturals in the party are well balanced.
Finally, I'm all for a scooby doo gang style independent group of investigators, but I feel like they have to at least be working for some higher power who probably doesn't give two shits about them. After all, what are we going to do with the things we capture? Who's going to clean up our unprofessional messes? Who's silencing the press? I'm thinking of a bounty hunting type of deal where the government pays big money to those who bring in the beasts for experimentation, alive or dead, with the promise of tying up loose ends under the condition that we alone must do the dirty work. Their complete lack of affiliation to our group except for being our form of salary maintains the difficulty of a private company prying into sensitive issues but also gets rid of the logistics that will be bothering us once we actually catch the bugggers we've been looking for. Furthermore the presence of nonhumans in our team implies a moral dilemma - if it's well-known that the government experiments with these creatures, most likely inhumanely, what do we do with the ones that aren't obviously dangerous? Sell their safety and their body to science for a few bucks, or try to mcguyver a solution that'll keep these beasts away from society before lying to our benefactors and saying it was a dead end? Will the government always believe us?
I'm just throwing ideas out there. If we have a good cast and a dedicated GM, this RP can really kick ass, but I feel like it's going to need a bit of work on the GM's half and some trustworthy independence from the players.
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Perhaps a happy medium? I did much like the idea of them just going around as a group of nobodies. I based my idea off the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense from Hellboy (one of my favorite comic books). I'll remove the government oversight but I do like the idea Stitches came up with. There's a government body that couldn't care less about our heroes. So still a Scooby Gang but they have some oversight to cover up when some unholy monster pops up.
@baranica
Every Scooby Gang needs the Scooby even if it's not exactly human. I like the idea of someone sending them off somewhere. If it's just random chance,that's not very fun. I love the idea for your character.
@Stitches
I intend there to be full independent thought from the players. I'm going to give clues but never flat out hand the answers out. That's why I kept my sample plot so vague. It could go anywhere depending on how the players act. It's not like they find out Mothman is an angel or something random like that. There are a few set paths the plot can take.
I plan on closing the sign up after about eight or nine characters. Sometimes it is just too darn hard to get everyone up to speed if the join in later. It's easier this way.
The NPCs are an interesting topic. Let's use that Drunk as an example. If ,for example , he should discover that he was wrong and there is a werewolf,what would he do? Would he lead an angry mob to kill the werewolf even though the creature is their neighbor who can't control himself? Do the player characters stop him from killing the werewolf? That's just one example I could use. Or another NPC idea would be the crazy conspiracy guy. He rambles about water and how the government is using TV dinners to control us. However, he dies seem to have some logical ideas. It's impossible to tell when he is being truthful though.
I can be dedicated to this rp and I have so many ideas for plots and NPCs to use. I have an old list of plots from my tabletop days of gaming that I'm using. I'm willing to give the players just enough freedom. I want to do this plot and I'm willing to GM it.
Perhaps a happy medium? I did much like the idea of them just going around as a group of nobodies. I based my idea off the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense from Hellboy (one of my favorite comic books). I'll remove the government oversight but I do like the idea Stitches came up with. There's a government body that couldn't care less about our heroes. So still a Scooby Gang but they have some oversight to cover up when some unholy monster pops up.
@baranica
Every Scooby Gang needs the Scooby even if it's not exactly human. I like the idea of someone sending them off somewhere. If it's just random chance,that's not very fun. I love the idea for your character.
@Stitches
I intend there to be full independent thought from the players. I'm going to give clues but never flat out hand the answers out. That's why I kept my sample plot so vague. It could go anywhere depending on how the players act. It's not like they find out Mothman is an angel or something random like that. There are a few set paths the plot can take.
I plan on closing the sign up after about eight or nine characters. Sometimes it is just too darn hard to get everyone up to speed if the join in later. It's easier this way.
The NPCs are an interesting topic. Let's use that Drunk as an example. If ,for example , he should discover that he was wrong and there is a werewolf,what would he do? Would he lead an angry mob to kill the werewolf even though the creature is their neighbor who can't control himself? Do the player characters stop him from killing the werewolf? That's just one example I could use. Or another NPC idea would be the crazy conspiracy guy. He rambles about water and how the government is using TV dinners to control us. However, he dies seem to have some logical ideas. It's impossible to tell when he is being truthful though.
I can be dedicated to this rp and I have so many ideas for plots and NPCs to use. I have an old list of plots from my tabletop days of gaming that I'm using. I'm willing to give the players just enough freedom. I want to do this plot and I'm willing to GM it.
@Avanhelsing Oh, I should've specified - the 'information' given would have been the clues. You could even supply pre-made NPCs with their own personalities and the like if you've got enough ideas. My worry is that you might have to deal with 8-9 different conversations in different locations with different NPCs and since it'll mainly be back-and-forth dialogue with one question at a time it could take weeks, even months IRL to finish a simple case - and that's provided you don't suffer from some serious burnout from having to manage all those different scenes at once. By PMing the clues, the setting and the NPCs to the players, you can use the players' independence to allow them to make their own scene and RP out their own interactions whilst you get to focus on the overarching plot.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not implying that this is the ONLY way you should handle the whole investigation side of the RP either. If you've got a particular plot-associated NPC (Like the drunkard) or we're all in one big group or something there's no reason why you can't take control of the scene, in fact I'd be more worried if you didn't. But for the simple clue-finding portions of the RP you could probably just provide us with building blocks and only intervene if we're doing it incorrectly.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not implying that this is the ONLY way you should handle the whole investigation side of the RP either. If you've got a particular plot-associated NPC (Like the drunkard) or we're all in one big group or something there's no reason why you can't take control of the scene, in fact I'd be more worried if you didn't. But for the simple clue-finding portions of the RP you could probably just provide us with building blocks and only intervene if we're doing it incorrectly.
I'd just like to butt in and say that I'm still interested, and everybody's spitballing sounds awesome! I agree that an independent group would be better than a government controlled one - then perhaps we could involve them getting into trouble with authorities for breaking laws or something. But I do also like Stitches idea of them being a freelance kinda monster hunting group. Maybe set up by some obscure branch of the government that likes to stay out of the limelight so much, they don't really pay attention to who they're employing for these outside jobs. I feel like this guy should be in charge haha.
An idea I had was an amateur photographer/videomaker/YouTuber or something, and (if secondary characters were to be permitted) a friend who's kinda a skeptic. Not quite Mulder and Scully, but the skeptic could be trying to think of scientific explanations behind things rather than just saying "Ah! Magic!!" like his/her videoing friend would be. Said videoing friend would be trying to blog/vlog their adventures, but always get's told his/her stuff is fake and photoshopped. And if they do find some decent footage, it mysteriously vanishes before they can post it, courtesy of shady government employers.
As for cryptid members, I think a handful could be interesting. Maybe put a cap on two or three cryptid characters only, depending on how many character's we have overall?
An idea I had was an amateur photographer/videomaker/YouTuber or something, and (if secondary characters were to be permitted) a friend who's kinda a skeptic. Not quite Mulder and Scully, but the skeptic could be trying to think of scientific explanations behind things rather than just saying "Ah! Magic!!" like his/her videoing friend would be. Said videoing friend would be trying to blog/vlog their adventures, but always get's told his/her stuff is fake and photoshopped. And if they do find some decent footage, it mysteriously vanishes before they can post it, courtesy of shady government employers.
As for cryptid members, I think a handful could be interesting. Maybe put a cap on two or three cryptid characters only, depending on how many character's we have overall?
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See I'm really digging where we're going with this and I dig the idea of a shadowy branch of the government that's aware of what we do but doesn't really interfere, only when we get Hard Evidence on camera and stuff do they budge in and tamper with stuff. They can't axe it completely because what we're doing isn't technically illegal but if word got out that, Yes, cryptids and the supernatural are very much real, people would flip their gourds.
I'm pretty brain dead today so I can't really formulate my ideas into coherent sentences but I gotta say this is turning into something I'm really excited to be apart of.
I'm pretty brain dead today so I can't really formulate my ideas into coherent sentences but I gotta say this is turning into something I'm really excited to be apart of.
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I'm looking forward to the OOC, is there anything else that we need to fix up before it can be posted?
An idea I had was an amateur photographer/videomaker/YouTuber or something...
Well you just earn yourself your fist fanatic subscriber when you decide to go for YouTuber. ;D
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Did everyone drop this now?? It went super silent all of a sudden xD
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oh my gosh, i hope this is still alive! the premise is like my dream come true (´ ε ` )♡
I'm still down, if this is still happening.
Did everyone leave?
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