Expendable

Umbra Rose Condos

It's my understanding that you buy your condo, but there are fees.

Umbra Rose Condos

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Goddamned 1% dragons and your high-roller lifestyles, with your penthouses and private pool parties and treasure hoards. >:(

@Xaltwind

You should see my treasure hoard after the IRS got done with it. In the olde days, back when old was followed by an e, people feared and respected dragons. Now a simple stretch of the wings could get you shot down and labeled as a UFO, then hours of interrogation by the FBI about terrorist intentions and being a living, breathing WMD. Do you know what it's like facing down two idiots in suits knowing with one sneeze, you'd have something crunchy and good with ketchup?

That pool is my bathtub!

Likely the penthouse is the owner's apartment, so I'll have to make do with one of the dimensionally transcendent rooms on a lower floor - or even a sub-basement.

Umbra Rose Condos

I am interested! Do monsters have to be real, or can we kinda make our own?

Also, you said there were some amenities, but like, if someone were to play a vampire or werewolf, I imagine they have to handle themselves when it comes to feeding and the full moon? Or are you thinking their rooms would be equipped to deal with those sorts of things?

@Morgannis

Count Dracula: Only in America! Plastic disposable bodies! It's like a supermarket!
-Love at First Bite

Blood banks and hospitals have to get rid of old blood, so there may be a "disposal service" that supplies the condo. Or they have live-in companions? Really, the only complication is if the vampire has been feeding off of drunks and have themselves become alcoholics. I don't want to imagine the AA meetings....

Perhaps for the werewolves, there's a bank vault or two downstairs. Livestock is brought in, put in the vault with the werewolves, and in the morning wash out the vault with a firehouse (good drains) and burn the remains in the furnace. I'd hate to be the one trying to break into the vault on a full moon only to find werewolves....

I've got an idea for a dragon, living in the penthouse on the top floor, overlooking the pool (which means there's an interstitial space the floor below for a mechanical room and the pool itself). Or maybe an indoor pool on the first floor to avoid helicopters and drones? The dragon wouldn't mind putting up some plants for a green space. Or are you going to be playing the dragon?

Simple guild adventure fun.

@Expendablemissed the guild part.

You will be responsible for everything from taxes to advertising. Upkeep, expansion, hiring and reputation.

@Dark Light

So we're the seed of a guild. Usually whoever's leading the guild will not be the one out there - someone's got to manage the place, take in applications. hmmm.

Simple guild adventure fun.

When you say we need to build up our guild, do you mean we're founding an adventurer's guild, or are we trying to increase the reputation of our party so the guild improves its standing by having us?

Are the secondary skills are like specializations or focuses? Are we starting out as masters in our craft?

Do you want to touch on personality?

In your OP, you mentioned the races are a little divided. So does this city they're in have like a dwarven quarter, a human quarter, etc? Or is there a dwarven underground kingdom and an elvish kingdom in the forest next to the city?

Are you just accepting the standard races of Human, Elf, Dwarf, and halfling? Are there half-elves in this world?

Umbra Rose Condos

I've been playing around with this concept for a while, I quite like how you've added your own twist here. Perhaps the monsters are referred here by monster rescue agencies? Under many cities, there are disused and closed loops for underground subways, perhaps missing from various maps? It would be one way for those of the supernatural persuasion to make their way about the city - perhaps to other locations, say markets, schools, or even a clinic? I remember reading a book about people digging tunnels and setting up bars and the like.

I love a spice-of-life story with a little extra spice!

Could I play a normal unsuspecting human who stumbles into this situation and is just terrified of everything/everyone? XD

@LupusIntus

Perhaps you inherit the place? Or there's a bit of confusion and the tenants believe you're a monster just like them?

Simple guild adventure fun.

Could be fun, but we don't like the term "thief" - gives people the wrong idea, you see. They keep checking their fat wallets and purses while their eyes accuse us for naught. Where is the trust in this world, I ask you? Expert Treasure Hunters, if you don't mind.

Although one wonders where one can find a treasure in this wilderness worth leaving the city?

DeadLiNe

Molly sighs, glancing about at the shelves. Rumors had started up that the town council intended to tear down the old library and replace it with a modern building. The pneumatic tube next to her thumped, giving her a start. No doubt carrying a note for a book to be sent down the booklift, as few liked climbing the iron spiral stairs through the stacks, or roving under the dim lights through the shelves. Not that the tiny flashlight she had was much better, but at least she could point it.

Most of the books had green or brown covers, from like the forties, but there were newer books with colorful spines and protective plastic jackets with the callsign label scattered here and there - and older books, half forgotten even by the card catalog. Not to mention the scattering of mouse traps. More than once had a mouse pop up while they were roving the shelves, you'd see their droppings on the few bare patches of shelves.

Molly felt her stomach fluttering - not that she'd say anything in front of the boys.

Rounding the corner, she turns her flashlight to look towards the rear shelves and shrieks when she saw the huge glowing eyes staring back at her.

Ex - Wanted: Dead or Alive

DeadLiNE

Narcisa Cosmescu

Name: Narcisa Cosmescu (a.k.a. The Romanian UFO Wolf Girl)

Age: 17

Occupation: Gift shop clerk at the local museum

Appearance: This young woman puts you in mind of a hungry wolf. She has large green eyes that are like two chunks of jade. Her silky, wavy, medium-length hair is the color of black coffee, and worn with a pony tail with a neon-green scrunchy. She is tall and has an amazonian build. Her skin is pale, she doesn't wear a lot of makeup. She has long-fingered hands. Wears jeans, a white web belt, a black fanny pack, red high tops, various t-shirts, a denim jacket studded with various cloisonne pins and buttons, and a red ballcap.

Biography: After failing to escape from Romania with her husband Vladimir and daughter Tara, Dr. Viviana Comescu was imprisoned. She was already starting to show, giving birth in her cell one frosty January morning. Narcisa was barely able to walk when a guard sold her to some peasants for a sack of potatoes.

Having no car, the peasants hiked until twilight, then set up camp in a grove of trees near the road. Romanian Militia found the ravaged camp just before noon the following day, no survivors. They reported as a wolf attack, with the baby taken back to their den to feed the cubs. Years later, a feral child was captured by farmers in a chicken coup and she made the papers as the Romanian Wolf Girl. Because of her unusual birthmark and footprints taken by the prison, she was identified as Narcisa. Her father and sister turned to the US State Department and a few months later, she was flown to America.

Tara was already in college, studying archeology.

She had a difficult time adjusting to school, her wolf instincts causing more than a few incidents, but Narcisa eventually settled in.

After her father died in a car accident, Narcisa moved in with Tara. One of her new classmates, Sara, invited her to her church, which Tara encouraged. However, after eight weeks, she got thrown out for lapping water out of the baptismal font "like an animal" and biting the hand of the pastor so hard it drew blood.

The year of her fifteenth birthday was the strangest year for her.

One spring night, Narcisa vanished, only to be later found unconscious in the woods by a search party, covered in a pile of leaves. She woke up during her examination at the hospital, claiming she saw some bright lights in the woods and went to check it out, only to see some strange creature scuttling about before everything went dark.

Her doctor pointed to an abrasion on her forehead and suggested she ran into a branch in the dark and knocked herself out, and had a weird dream. For weeks, she'd be approached by UFO nuts wanting to know about her "abduction".

It was after that she started to have the dreams. A woman calling herself Daniela would appear and teach her some weird martial art, how to throw a knife, pick a lock, speak this strange language her friends was sure she made up, and even how to fly a plane. It seemed so real to her, but her sister just looked at her oddly and told her she was eating too much junk food before bed and watching too many weird movies from Blockbuster.

And suddenly in typing class she could do 70 words a minute without errors. The computer lab was after her to do the typing on the punch card machine for their mainframe.

Tara also experienced a little weirdness during a summer dig in Wales, where this strange cult began calling her the "chosen one" that would lead them to glory. She just tried to ignore them and got out of the country as soon as possible. On her return, she dumped Tod Billings, claiming he wasn't himself anymore, then got hired over him to be the new assistant director for the museum.

Tara then used her new position to get Narcisa hired to work in the museum gift shop.

For whatever reason, her notoriety got her accepted to a lot of obscure back rooms, museum labs, and even behind the stage at events. Sure, some of them just wanted to meet the Romanian UFO Wolf Girl in their own private circus sideshow and listen to her howl, but others seem interested in her for reasons she couldn't grasp.

Personality: She seems very grim, her smile as rare and as brief as snow in July, but she's punctual and likes to help when she can. Narcisa is also a voracious reader, reading a lot of technical books and manuals. Currently she's learning how to bypass alarm systems and hotwire cars.

DeadLiNe

Molly Keaton

Name: Molly Keaton

Age: 17

Occupation: Apprentice Mechanic / Otto's Garage

Appearance:

Molly

This young woman makes you think of a busy bee. She has beady blue eyes. Her fine, wavy, red hair is worn in a style that reminds you of a river. She has a lithe, wiry build. Her skin is pale. She has a small mouth.

She wears a green and yellow raglan top, acid-wash jeans, tube socks, a pair of steel toe chukka boots, and a leather jacket. She keeps brass knuckles in her jacket pocket.

Biography: Mother left when she was young, and she and her father moved to the city. Wasn't much interested in playing with dolls or dresses - mostly because it embarrassed her father. Molly would help her father in the garage repairing the car, or playing baseball.

Thanks to such shows and movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Project U.F.O., and In Search of with Leonard Nimoy, she's got an interest in aliens, Big Foot and the Loch Ness monster - not that she's actually seen any of that.

She met Otto, a German mechanic with his own shop, and impressed with her skills, he offered her a job as assistant mechanic and lent her the use of the shop for her own project - building her own motorcycle rebuilt mostly from parts she got from the scrap yard.

Personality: A tomboy, she loves to play sports but not afraid to punch someone's lights out if they get grabby. Doesn't mind a bit of grease, but keeps herself clean and organized.