Skins for the Skinless A collection of new Skins for Monsterhearts

by Topher Gerkey

Sex Move

Playing The Beast

Immediately after you have sex with someone, you become your Darkest Self and lash out physically at your partner. You may then choose to keep lashing out or run away.

The Beast is all about repression. You’re that kid who bottles up her passions, who’s terrified of intimacy, and whose emotions are so locked away that when you do finally let them out, they explode with a horrible, uncontrollable intensity. In this case, you’ve got a good reason, because your passions turn you into a killer animal.

Darkest Self You are an animal. No trace of your human body or mind remains, only your most primal emotions - lust, fear, anger, jealousy, hatred. You are drawn to anyone you have such intense feelings for, but your only means of interacting with them is to savagely attack them. If you can’t find someone you know, any target will do. You cannot escape your Darkest Self until you take a life.

Advancement m Take another Beast move. m Take another Beast move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You’re part of a Bloodline of Beasts. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Cathleen Tarawhiti

The one aspect of your human personality that never goes away is your emotional connection to others. It just turns twisted and malicious when you are your Darkest Self or are Feral with no impulse control, you’ll go out of your way to hunt and attack that teacher who humiliated you, that boy you have a crush on, or that girl who flirted with the boy you have a crush on. When you return to normal, you’ll probably be horrified - but some small secret part of you will have enjoyed it, and can’t wait to be let out of the cage again. Be careful about taking the Moves that make it easier to go Feral if you want your transformations to be rare! On the other hand, if you take moves that give you extra options while Feral, you’ll likely want to make it easier to gain the condition. If you take the advancement that gives you a gang, you will discover a group of other Beasts who also suffer from your condition. Sex with another Beast doesn’t trigger your Sex Move, which might sound tempting - but if you are part of a cursed bloodline, they’re also at least somewhat related to you. They might not care, and may pursue you anyway, if this is a type of subplot you’re comfortable playing out.

They call you frigid. A prude. An ice queen. Your friends think you’re just too uptight, and you’d be fine if you’d just loosen up a little. Have some fun. Let yourself like someone. But you know the truth. When you let go - when you lose control, even for a moment - you can feel yourself starting to change. The terrible animal in you is always roaring at you, always trying to claw its way out. And when it gets out, people get hurt. And the worst part? Sometimes you kind of like it.

The Beast Name

Look

Blake, Christina, Etienne, Irena, Isabeau, Jivan, Natassja, Paul, Simone, Tobias

pristine, rigid, icy hot, sculpted, exotic

Choose a name:

An exotic name, a sensual name, a difficult name, a regal name, a beautiful name

Animal Form Circle one:

big cat (panther, tiger, cheetah, etc), wolf (or coyote, jackal, or fox), bird of prey (owl, eagle, etc), hyena, alligator, bear, monitor lizard, gorilla, python

Circle one in each list:

intimidating eyes, glacial eyes, demure eyes, conflicted eyes, uptight eyes

Origin

Circle one: hexed, drank from a shapeshifter’s pawprint, cursed bloodline, deep hypnosis experiment, uplifted animal

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot 1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark -1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

Two of the others have asked you out in the past, but you turned them down. Take a string on each of them. You try not to have strong feelings about anyone. No one else can start with more than one string on you.

You start with this one, and choose two more: l Caged Heat Whenever you are turned on (especially as a result of having turn someone on used on you), your inner beast begins to assert itself. You gain the condition Feral, and for as long as you have that condition you may use Hot instead of Volatile to lash out physically. You can attempt to hold steady in order to remove this condition. Additionally, while Feral choose two: } You mostly retain your human shape. } You mostly retain your human intelligence and personality. } You mostly retain self-control over your violent and malicious impulses. m Green-Eyed Monster Your Caged Heat move is triggered by intense jealousy, anger, or hatred in addition to by being turned on.

Experience Points: >> Advance mmmmm

m Scaredy Cat Your Caged Heat move is triggered by intense fear, shame, or sorrow in addition to by being turned on.

Strings

Other Moves

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory

Beast Moves

m Beauty and... You can spend a string on someone to simultaneously turn them on and shut them down. Roll once and apply all the results; you may choose whether to use Hot or Cold for this roll. On a miss, they choose one: } They carry 1 forward against you. } They shut you down as if they’d rolled a 10 up. } They turn you on as if they’d rolled a 10 up, triggering your Caged Heat move. m Tooth and Claw If you are Feral and have lost your human shape, add 1 to your roll when you shut someone down by frightening them or when you lash out physically. m Fight or Flight If you are Feral and have lost your human intelligence, when you lash out physically and roll 10 up you can pick two options. Roll Cold instead of Volatile to run away. m Predator and Prey If you are Feral and have lost your impulse control, carry 1 forward against anyone who has a string on you. Take a string on anyone at whom you lash out physically and inflict harm. m Cat’s Eye When you look into someone’s eyes and gaze into the abyss, on a 10 up add this option: You know their deepest fear or secret lust, and add 1 to your roll when using that information to shut them down or turn them on.

Sex Move

Playing The Beast

Immediately after you have sex with someone, you become your Darkest Self and lash out physically at your partner. You may then choose to keep lashing out or run away.

The Beast is all about repression. You’re that kid who bottles up her passions, who’s terrified of intimacy, and whose emotions are so locked away that when you do finally let them out, they explode with a horrible, uncontrollable intensity. In this case, you’ve got a good reason, because your passions turn you into a killer animal.

Darkest Self You are an animal. No trace of your human body or mind remains, only your most primal emotions - lust, fear, anger, jealousy, hatred. You are drawn to anyone you have such intense feelings for, but your only means of interacting with them is to savagely attack them. If you can’t find someone you know, any target will do. You cannot escape your Darkest Self until you take a life.

Advancement m Take another Beast move. m Take another Beast move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You’re part of a Bloodline of Beasts. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: James Michael Romaguera

The one aspect of your human personality that never goes away is your emotional connection to others. It just turns twisted and malicious when you are your Darkest Self or are Feral with no impulse control, you’ll go out of your way to hunt and attack that teacher who humiliated you, that boy you have a crush on, or that girl who flirted with the boy you have a crush on. When you return to normal, you’ll probably be horrified - but some small secret part of you will have enjoyed it, and can’t wait to be let out of the cage again. Be careful about taking the Moves that make it easier to go Feral if you want your transformations to be rare! On the other hand, if you take moves that give you extra options while Feral, you’ll likely want to make it easier to gain the condition. If you take the advancement that gives you a gang, you will discover a group of other Beasts who also suffer from your condition. Sex with another Beast doesn’t trigger your Sex Move, which might sound tempting - but if you are part of a cursed bloodline, they’re also at least somewhat related to you. They might not care, and may pursue you anyway, if this is a type of subplot you’re comfortable playing out.

They call you frigid. A prude. An ice queen. Your friends think you’re just too uptight, and you’d be fine if you’d just loosen up a little. Have some fun. Let yourself like someone. But you know the truth. When you let go - when you lose control, even for a moment - you can feel yourself starting to change. The terrible animal in you is always roaring at you, always trying to claw its way out. And when it gets out, people get hurt. And the worst part? Sometimes you kind of like it.

The Beast Name

Look

Blake, Christina, Etienne, Irena, Isabeau, Jivan, Natassja, Paul, Simone, Tobias

pristine, rigid, icy hot, sculpted, exotic

Choose a name:

An exotic name, a sensual name, a difficult name, a regal name, a beautiful name

Animal Form Circle one:

big cat (panther, tiger, cheetah, etc), wolf (or coyote, jackal, or fox), bird of prey (owl, eagle, etc), hyena, alligator, bear, monitor lizard, gorilla, python

Circle one in each list:

intimidating eyes, glacial eyes, demure eyes, conflicted eyes, uptight eyes

Origin

Circle one: hexed, drank from a shapeshifter’s pawprint, cursed bloodline, deep hypnosis experiment, uplifted animal

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot 1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark -1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

Two of the others have asked you out in the past, but you turned them down. Take a string on each of them. You try not to have strong feelings about anyone. No one else can start with more than one string on you.

You start with this one, and choose two more: l Caged Heat Whenever you are turned on (especially as a result of having turn someone on used on you), your inner beast begins to assert itself. You gain the condition Feral, and for as long as you have that condition you may use Hot instead of Volatile to lash out physically. You can attempt to hold steady in order to remove this condition. Additionally, while Feral choose two: } You mostly retain your human shape. } You mostly retain your human intelligence and personality. } You mostly retain self-control over your violent and malicious impulses. m Green-Eyed Monster Your Caged Heat move is triggered by intense jealousy, anger, or hatred in addition to by being turned on.

Experience Points: >> Advance mmmmm

m Scaredy Cat Your Caged Heat move is triggered by intense fear, shame, or sorrow in addition to by being turned on.

Strings

Other Moves

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory

Beast Moves

m Beauty and... You can spend a string on someone to simultaneously turn them on and shut them down. Roll once and apply all the results; you may choose whether to use Hot or Cold for this roll. On a miss, they choose one: } They carry 1 forward against you. } They shut you down as if they’d rolled a 10 up. } They turn you on as if they’d rolled a 10 up, triggering your Caged Heat move. m Tooth and Claw If you are Feral and have lost your human shape, add 1 to your roll when you shut someone down by frightening them or when you lash out physically. m Fight or Flight If you are Feral and have lost your human intelligence, when you lash out physically and roll 10 up you can pick two options. Roll Cold instead of Volatile to run away. m Predator and Prey If you are Feral and have lost your impulse control, carry 1 forward against anyone who has a string on you. Take a string on anyone at whom you lash out physically and inflict harm. m Cat’s Eye When you look into someone’s eyes and gaze into the abyss, on a 10 up add this option: You know their deepest fear or secret lust, and add 1 to your roll when using that information to shut them down or turn them on.

Sex Move

Playing The Calaca

When you have sex with someone, treat it as though you had used the move Casting the Bones (even if you don’t have that move) and rolled a 10 up. Choose three options instead of two.

You’re a disarming mixture of cute and freakshow, a cheerful friend dressed in funereal blacks, a wise confidante who can’t resist telling dead baby jokes, a poet who writes odes to death and decay in a journal festooned with Hello Kitty stickers, a Manic Pixie Dead Girl (or Boy).

Darkest Self Enough hiding behind a mask of sweetness and humor. You are Death, so start acting like it. You’ve spent far too much time teaching others not to fear death and not enough time teaching them to embrace its peace and beauty. Twist your advice; make them see the unrelenting misery and futility of their lives and encourage them to end their pain with their own hands. You escape your Darkest Self when someone manages to show you the beauty and joy of life, or when you drive someone to commit suicide.

Advancement m Take another Calaca move. m Take another Calaca move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You have a Skeleton Crew. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Little Ms Spooky

Helping the people you care about especially by giving them wise guidance - should be one of your main priorities. Your story is the story of how you made other people’s stories better. Your meddling may create some drama, but that’s okay especially if it’s funny.

It really isn’t as bad as you might think. You don’t have to watch your weight, for instance. You can wear what you want and never get hot or cold. You never have to pee. Sometimes you miss getting the ofrendas, but it’s cool to help people out, push them along the right paths, without asking for anything in return. Better to keep the truth secret, though. Your friends can handle you as an oddly perky goth. You’re not sure a walking, talking skeleton would be quite as popular.

If something bad happens to your skin, you’ll need to replace it before you can pass for human again (unless you have the Sugar Skull move). The method for obtaining a new skin is up to you, but keep in mind that your human form will look like whoever supplied your replacement skin. If you take the Ossuary move as an advancement, you’ll need to explain where the extra bones came from and where you keep them. Once you actually use the move, the replacement bones will change your nature somewhat. In addition to picking a new move, you may want to display new or altered facets of your personality. If you take a Skeleton Crew as an advancement, you’ll need to decide if your gang consists of other Calacas like yourself, or if you have a number of mindless, animated skeletons who act as your minions.

The Calaca Name

Look

Cal, Catrina, Charity, Grace, Daniel, Frida, Jack, Manuel, Mercedes, Scully

skin like porcelain, gothic lolita, deathly pale, painted face, rail-thin

Choose a name:

a Latin name, a nickname, a beautiful name, a joyful name, a cute name

Circle one in each list:

hollow eyes, gleaming eyes, wise eyes, vivid eyes, kind eyes

Origin

Circle one: bone elemental, corpse bride, death spirit, necromantic construct, summoned ancestor

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile -1, Dark 1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone saw you slipping out of your skin. Each of you take a string on the other. You gave someone advice that changed their life for the better. Take a string on them.

Strings

Calaca Moves

You start with this one, and choose two more: ˜ Skin and Bones You can slip out of your skin and viscera at any time to reveal your true skeletal form. If anyone witnesses this process, you each take a string on the other. While in your true form, you take no harm from anything that a skeleton would be immune to (stabbing or slashing, strangling, etc). You can’t turn someone on or manipulate an NPC, but roll Dark instead of Cold to shut someone down. If your skin is lost or destroyed while you’re out of it, you will have to obtain a replacement in order to pass for human again. m Casting the Bones When you are offering wisdom, guidance, or advice to a friend and you gaze into the abyss, add the following options when you roll 10 up: } The visions show what your friend must do; they carry 1 forward. } The visions heal your friend; they may remove one condition. } Take a string on your friend. Add the following option when you roll 7-9: } The visions are lucid and detailed, but your friend takes a string on you. m Deadpan Your cheerful morbidity, gallows humor, and deathly aura are fascinating and off-putting. In your human form, roll Dark instead of Cold to shut someone down.

Other Moves

m Connected In your true form, you can disconnect and reconnect your bones at the joints, and retain full control over all your body parts regardless of whether they are connected. Only your skull can see, hear, or smell; your limbs and other bones are limited to a sense of touch. You can use this ability to be present and active in multiple simultaneous scenes. m Morte Alata In your true form, you have a pair of bony wings. When not in use they fold up and look something like an extra ribcage on your back, but you can use them for flight despite their skeletal nature. Roll Dark instead of Volatile to run away by escaping into the air. m Ossuary You have a small cache of “extra” bones. When you take your fourth harm, you can hold yourself together just long enough to get to your stash and rebuild yourself with your spares. When this happens, clear all your harm, mark experience, and trade this Move for a different Calaca move. You may take this move again as an Advancement. m Sugar Skull In your true form, you retain some of the features of the living. You have humanlike hair, eyeballs, a nose, lips, and ears. Your face and hands look like those of a beautiful human - albeit one with skin like fine bone china. You may turn someone on or manipulate an NPC, but if any part of your body aside from your face and hands is exposed, roll Dark instead of Hot.

Sex Move

Playing The Calaca

When you have sex with someone, treat it as though you had used the move Casting the Bones (even if you don’t have that move) and rolled a 10 up. Choose three options instead of two.

You’re a disarming mixture of cute and freakshow, a cheerful friend dressed in funereal blacks, a wise confidante who can’t resist telling dead baby jokes, a poet who writes odes to death and decay in a journal festooned with Hello Kitty stickers, a Manic Pixie Dead Girl (or Boy).

Darkest Self Enough hiding behind a mask of sweetness and humor. You are Death, so start acting like it. You’ve spent far too much time teaching others not to fear death and not enough time teaching them to embrace its peace and beauty. Twist your advice; make them see the unrelenting misery and futility of their lives and encourage them to end their pain with their own hands. You escape your Darkest Self when someone manages to show you the beauty and joy of life, or when you drive someone to commit suicide.

Advancement m Take another Calaca move. m Take another Calaca move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You have a Skeleton Crew. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: SpiteStock

Helping the people you care about especially by giving them wise guidance - should be one of your main priorities. Your story is the story of how you made other people’s stories better. Your meddling may create some drama, but that’s okay especially if it’s funny.

It really isn’t as bad as you might think. You don’t have to watch your weight, for instance. You can wear what you want and never get hot or cold. You never have to pee. Sometimes you miss getting the ofrendas, but it’s cool to help people out, push them along the right paths, without asking for anything in return. Better to keep the truth secret, though. Your friends can handle you as an oddly perky goth. You’re not sure a walking, talking skeleton would be quite as popular.

If something bad happens to your skin, you’ll need to replace it before you can pass for human again (unless you have the Sugar Skull move). The method for obtaining a new skin is up to you, but keep in mind that your human form will look like whoever supplied your replacement skin. If you take the Ossuary move as an advancement, you’ll need to explain where the extra bones came from and where you keep them. Once you actually use the move, the replacement bones will change your nature somewhat. In addition to picking a new move, you may want to display new or altered facets of your personality. If you take a Skeleton Crew as an advancement, you’ll need to decide if your gang consists of other Calacas like yourself, or if you have a number of mindless, animated skeletons who act as your minions.

The Calaca Name

Look

Cal, Catrina, Charity, Grace, Daniel, Frida, Jack, Manuel, Mercedes, Scully

skin like porcelain, gothic lolita, deathly pale, painted face, rail-thin

Choose a name:

a Latin name, a nickname, a beautiful name, a joyful name, a cute name

Circle one in each list:

hollow eyes, gleaming eyes, wise eyes, vivid eyes, kind eyes

Origin

Circle one: bone elemental, corpse bride, death spirit, necromantic construct, summoned ancestor

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile -1, Dark 1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone saw you slipping out of your skin. Each of you take a string on the other. You gave someone advice that changed their life for the better. Take a string on them.

Strings

Calaca Moves

You start with this one, and choose two more: ˜ Skin and Bones You can slip out of your skin and viscera at any time to reveal your true skeletal form. If anyone witnesses this process, you each take a string on the other. While in your true form, you take no harm from anything that a skeleton would be immune to (stabbing or slashing, strangling, etc). You can’t turn someone on or manipulate an NPC, but roll Dark instead of Cold to shut someone down. If your skin is lost or destroyed while you’re out of it, you will have to obtain a replacement in order to pass for human again. m Casting the Bones When you are offering wisdom, guidance, or advice to a friend and you gaze into the abyss, add the following options when you roll 10 up: } The visions show what your friend must do; they carry 1 forward. } The visions heal your friend; they may remove one condition. } Take a string on your friend. Add the following option when you roll 7-9: } The visions are lucid and detailed, but your friend takes a string on you. m Deadpan Your cheerful morbidity, gallows humor, and deathly aura are fascinating and off-putting. In your human form, roll Dark instead of Cold to shut someone down.

Other Moves

m Connected In your true form, you can disconnect and reconnect your bones at the joints, and retain full control over all your body parts regardless of whether they are connected. Only your skull can see, hear, or smell; your limbs and other bones are limited to a sense of touch. You can use this ability to be present and active in multiple simultaneous scenes. m Morte Alata In your true form, you have a pair of bony wings. When not in use they fold up and look something like an extra ribcage on your back, but you can use them for flight despite their skeletal nature. Roll Dark instead of Volatile to run away by escaping into the air. m Ossuary You have a small cache of “extra” bones. When you take your fourth harm, you can hold yourself together just long enough to get to your stash and rebuild yourself with your spares. When this happens, clear all your harm, mark experience, and trade this Move for a different Calaca move. You may take this move again as an Advancement. m Sugar Skull In your true form, you retain some of the features of the living. You have humanlike hair, eyeballs, a nose, lips, and ears. Your face and hands look like those of a beautiful human - albeit one with skin like fine bone china. You may turn someone on or manipulate an NPC, but if any part of your body aside from your face and hands is exposed, roll Dark instead of Hot.

Sex Move

Playing The Creature

After you have sex with someone, treat protecting them as part of your cause until you have sex with someone else. Additionally, if you have sex with someone underwater, they can breathe water until you have sex with someone else.

Pick a cause that makes sense given the setting of your game. Preventing a company from dumping toxic waste into a body of water or turning a forest preserve into a landfill, rescuing animals from a laboratory or oceanarium, or protecting an endangered species from poachers could all work. You don’t have to spend every waking moment working toward your cause, but if the opportunity comes up you should prioritize it.

Darkest Self Everything sucks and you’ll never change it, so just stop trying. Grab the person you care about the most and retreat to a safe place - your territory if you have one. Defend your little nest against all intruders and ignore everything else - it’s not like you were making a difference anyway. You can only return from your Darkest Self when someone shows you that you’ve changed things for the better.

Advancement m Take another Creature move. m Take another Creature move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You’ve joined some Extreme Environmentalists. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock art by: Sinned Angel

Territorial is a move that might not be available depending on your setting as well. If the game is set in an arid environment, the best available option might be a water park or old abandoned swimming pool. Frog Song, Hot and Wet, and Came Up Tails are geared toward a more social and persuasive type of play. Cold Fury and Squamous are more physical and combative. You can decide what kind of activism appeals to you more. In general you’ll probably want to choose either Came Up Tails or Squamous but not both, for reasons of theme - but taking both would certainly give you an interesting and flexible monstrous form. You’ll want to avoid using the tail on land, but anyone seeing you with both Moves active will experience the effects of both (they mark experience, you take a string on them, and they must hold steady). If you go Darkest Self and you don’t have a territory, pick someplace that would make a good territory if you DID have one. If you don’t have Frog Kiss or you can’t or won’t have underwater sex with the person you’ve brought with you, be sure that your refuge has some air for them to breathe. Do whatever you have to do to keep them from escaping - your Darkest Self is lonely and needs their support.

All that time and energy on the petition - all the convincing, all the seducing, all the threatening - and what do the fuckers do when you present them with a thousand signatures? They tear the papers in half and laugh in your face. Just a kid, they said. You can’t make a difference here, they said. Stay out of things that don’t concern you, they said. Well, dumping waste into the river does concern you. And maybe a pissed-off river monster will concern them.

The Creature Name

Look

Bessie, Blue, Champ, Gil, Jake, Jenny, Laguna, Madison, Ramon, Rico, Thetis

swimmer’s build, olive-skinned, nearly hairless, surfer’s tan, fishy smell

Choose a name:

A sporty name, a name based on a place, a water-themed name, a tough-sounding name, a nickname

Circle one in each list:

aquamarine eyes, teary eyes, limpid eyes, wide-set eyes, black eyes

Origin

Circle one: last of your kind, chemical spill exposure, first of your kind, blessed by Poseidon, cryptid, made a deal with a sea hag

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

m Cold Fury When you are filled with righteous anger in the service of your cause, you can do an extra harm when you lash out physically.

m

m

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone was once an ally to your cause. They get two strings on you. Someone thinks you are a dangerous fanatic. They get one string on you. You know someone is secretly involved in working against your cause. Take two strings on them.

˜ Missing Link Your lungs also work as gills, allowing you to breathe underwater. You can see and move underwater just as well as you can on land. Additionally, you have an environmentalist cause. You get +1 ongoing to all actions taken to further your cause, but every time you use that bonus, give yourself the condition fanatic if you don’t already have it.

Harm

Notes

(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

You start with this one, and choose two more:

m Came Up Tails You can transform your legs into a beautiful fish tail. On land, you are mostly immobile and cannot run away. In water, you swim at blinding speed and can instantly run away as if you had rolled 10 up. Anyone who sees you in this form for the first time marks experience, and you take a string on them. You can transform your tail back into legs, but your tail must be completely dry.

Cold

Volatile

Creature Moves

Strings

m Frog Kiss When you kiss someone while you are both underwater, they can breathe water for as long as they remain near you. If you kiss someone while you are both on dry land, their lungs fill with water. They roll with Hot: on a 10 up, they take 1 harm. On a 7-9 they take 2 harm. On a miss, they drown. NPCs always drown.

Your Territory

m Frog Song When you speak passionately to convince someone to join you in your cause, roll Volatile: on a 10 up, they mark experience if they help you. On a 7-9, you get a string on them. On a miss, they get a string on you. m Hot and Wet When you are soaking wet and showing a lot of skin (as if you were wearing a swimsuit or less), roll Cold instead of Hot to turn someone on or manipulate an NPC. m Squamous You can shed your human skin to become a scaly monstrosity. In this form you take 1 less harm from any attack, and your claws allow you to do 2 harm when you lash out physically. Anyone who sees you in this form for the first time must hold steady. You can shed your scaly skin to resume your human appearance, but you must be completely immersed in water. m Territorial You have claimed a nearby lake, cove, lagoon, or swamp as your territory. When you are alone in your territory and fully submerged in water, clear all conditions and heal 1 harm. If someone invades your territory, give yourself the condition Angry. You get +1 ongoing toward attempts to remove intruders from your territory.

Your Cause Other Moves

Sex Move

Playing The Creature

After you have sex with someone, treat protecting them as part of your cause until you have sex with someone else. Additionally, if you have sex with someone underwater, they can breathe water until you have sex with someone else.

Pick a cause that makes sense given the setting of your game. Preventing a company from dumping toxic waste into a body of water or turning a forest preserve into a landfill, rescuing animals from a laboratory or oceanarium, or protecting an endangered species from poachers could all work. You don’t have to spend every waking moment working toward your cause, but if the opportunity comes up you should prioritize it.

Darkest Self Everything sucks and you’ll never change it, so just stop trying. Grab the person you care about the most and retreat to a safe place - your territory if you have one. Defend your little nest against all intruders and ignore everything else - it’s not like you were making a difference anyway. You can only return from your Darkest Self when someone shows you that you’ve changed things for the better.

Advancement m Take another Creature move. m Take another Creature move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You’ve joined some Extreme Environmentalists. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock art by: Kenickie

Territorial is a move that might not be available depending on your setting as well. If the game is set in an arid environment, the best available option might be a water park or old abandoned swimming pool. Frog Song, Hot and Wet, and Came Up Tails are geared toward a more social and persuasive type of play. Cold Fury and Squamous are more physical and combative. You can decide what kind of activism appeals to you more. In general you’ll probably want to choose either Came Up Tails or Squamous but not both, for reasons of theme - but taking both would certainly give you an interesting and flexible monstrous form. You’ll want to avoid using the tail on land, but anyone seeing you with both Moves active will experience the effects of both (they mark experience, you take a string on them, and they must hold steady). If you go Darkest Self and you don’t have a territory, pick someplace that would make a good territory if you DID have one. If you don’t have Frog Kiss or you can’t or won’t have underwater sex with the person you’ve brought with you, be sure that your refuge has some air for them to breathe. Do whatever you have to do to keep them from escaping - your Darkest Self is lonely and needs their support.

All that time and energy on the petition - all the convincing, all the seducing, all the threatening - and what do the fuckers do when you present them with a thousand signatures? They tear the papers in half and laugh in your face. Just a kid, they said. You can’t make a difference here, they said. Stay out of things that don’t concern you, they said. Well, dumping waste into the river does concern you. And maybe a pissed-off river monster will concern them.

The Creature Name

Look

Bessie, Blue, Champ, Gil, Jake, Jenny, Laguna, Madison, Ramon, Rico, Thetis

swimmer’s build, olive-skinned, nearly hairless, surfer’s tan, fishy smell

Choose a name:

A sporty name, a name based on a place, a water-themed name, a tough-sounding name, a nickname

Circle one in each list:

aquamarine eyes, teary eyes, limpid eyes, wide-set eyes, black eyes

Origin

Circle one: last of your kind, chemical spill exposure, first of your kind, blessed by Poseidon, cryptid, made a deal with a sea hag

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

m Cold Fury When you are filled with righteous anger in the service of your cause, you can do an extra harm when you lash out physically.

m

m

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone was once an ally to your cause. They get two strings on you. Someone thinks you are a dangerous fanatic. They get one string on you. You know someone is secretly involved in working against your cause. Take two strings on them.

˜ Missing Link Your lungs also work as gills, allowing you to breathe underwater. You can see and move underwater just as well as you can on land. Additionally, you have an environmentalist cause. You get +1 ongoing to all actions taken to further your cause, but every time you use that bonus, give yourself the condition fanatic if you don’t already have it.

Harm

Notes

(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

You start with this one, and choose two more:

m Came Up Tails You can transform your legs into a beautiful fish tail. On land, you are mostly immobile and cannot run away. In water, you swim at blinding speed and can instantly run away as if you had rolled 10 up. Anyone who sees you in this form for the first time marks experience, and you take a string on them. You can transform your tail back into legs, but your tail must be completely dry.

Cold

Volatile

Creature Moves

Strings

m Frog Kiss When you kiss someone while you are both underwater, they can breathe water for as long as they remain near you. If you kiss someone while you are both on dry land, their lungs fill with water. They roll with Hot: on a 10 up, they take 1 harm. On a 7-9 they take 2 harm. On a miss, they drown. NPCs always drown.

Your Territory

m Frog Song When you speak passionately to convince someone to join you in your cause, roll Volatile: on a 10 up, they mark experience if they help you. On a 7-9, you get a string on them. On a miss, they get a string on you. m Hot and Wet When you are soaking wet and showing a lot of skin (as if you were wearing a swimsuit or less), roll Cold instead of Hot to turn someone on or manipulate an NPC. m Squamous You can shed your human skin to become a scaly monstrosity. In this form you take 1 less harm from any attack, and your claws allow you to do 2 harm when you lash out physically. Anyone who sees you in this form for the first time must hold steady. You can shed your scaly skin to resume your human appearance, but you must be completely immersed in water. m Territorial You have claimed a nearby lake, cove, lagoon, or swamp as your territory. When you are alone in your territory and fully submerged in water, clear all conditions and heal 1 harm. If someone invades your territory, give yourself the condition Angry. You get +1 ongoing toward attempts to remove intruders from your territory.

Your Cause Other Moves

Sex Move

Playing The Fury

When you have sex with someone, each of you takes two strings on the other. Give yourself the condition Hopeful, and for as long as you have that condition they gain +1 ongoing toward any attempts to manipulate, hurt, or betray you.

A desperate longing to be accepted and the rage that accompanies being rejected are the central themes for the Fury. Futile Hope is like the engine that makes you go: You will need to put yourself out there, willingly trusting and believing in people even though you know you shouldn’t, and be ready to massively overreact to their inevitable betrayal. Your fellow players will have an incentive to be nice to you and then dump you, since that allows them to build up strings on you and then clear off any strings you have on them. Go along with it! Being Betrayed is to your advantage since it powers up all your Fury moves and provides lots of grist for the drama mill.

Darkest Self Nobody loves you. Nobody ever will. It’s all pain and loneliness and watching other people from the outside, and it will never change. They only pretended to like you so they could hurt you even more. There’s nothing left for you here but revenge, so burn it all down. Smash everything to pieces. Rip their secrets out and make them dance like dolls for your amusement. To escape your Darkest Self, you must be confronted by someone who has never hurt, excluded, or betrayed you, or be shown an act of kindness that seems genuine.

Advancement         

Take another Fury move. Take another Fury move. Take a move from another Skin. Take a move from another Skin. You belong to a Psychic Gestalt. Add 1 to Hot (max 3). Add 1 to Cold (max 3). Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Riley Kathleen

Think carefully when choosing your moves about what kind of walking megapsychic catastrophe you’d like to be. Firestarter doesn’t need to imply pyrokinesis; it’s just a name and can represent any ability that causes chaos and destruction. Some of the moves are more themed around telepathy or clairvoyance than the others, which might be an interesting and more subtle variation for you to try. When you are your Darkest Self, be sure to go all out with your descriptions. Your moves can affect crowds and radically alter the environment when you’re in a full-on rage, so cut loose and enjoy your revenge. Taking a Psychic Gestalt gang as an advancement changes the theme of the skin somewhat. Instead of being completely alone in your trust/abuse cycle, your whole clique consists of social misfits and rejects. You can find some solace in each other, but the added power of a gang makes the temptation to strike back against the “beautiful people” that much harder to resist - and your new buddies want revenge just as badly as you do.

You never wanted this. You never wanted to be different or special or a freak. All you ever wanted was to fit in. To be liked. To be accepted. Maybe even to be loved. Was that so much to ask? You’re not a bad person. But they wouldn’t let you fit in. They hurt you. Taunted you. Called you names. Exploited you. Betrayed you. They pushed and pushed and PUSHED and PUSHED. They’re all going to be sorry when you start pushing back.

The Fury Name

Look

Alice, Bea, Cam, Carrie, Charlie, Kim, Jill, Joe, Robin, Will

raggedy, unfashionable, nerdy, nervous, beneath notice, frightened

A diminutive name, a nondescript name, an unpopular name, a victim’s name

desperate eyes, brittle eyes, teary eyes, resentful eyes, twitchy eyes

Choose a name:

Circle one in each list:

Origin

Circle one: genetic mutation, government program, confluence of bloodlines, abused child, experimental psychotherapy

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold

(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory You have a secret crush on someone. Take a string on them. Someone has been bullying you. Give them a string on you. Someone was kind to you once. Give them two strings on you.

You start with this one, and choose two more:

zzFutile Hope

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1

Fury Moves

Strings

Whenever someone acts kind or accepting toward you, you each take a string on the other, and you get the condition Hopeful (which replaces Betrayed if you have it). If someone you trust betrays or hurts you while you are Hopeful, lose all strings on them, replace Hopeful with Betrayed, and roll Dark. On a 10 up, trigger your Darkest Self. On a 7-9, choose one: } Give them one more string on you } Take 1 harm from psychic feedback } Trigger your Darkest Self When you are your Darkest Self, your Fury moves are amplified. You can affect groups of victims in the immediate area, and your destructive powers can affect large structures like buildings.

m Poltergeist When you lash out physically using telekinesis instead of physical attacks, your victim must hold steady before attempting to run away. If you are Betrayed, do 1 extra harm when you lash out physically.

Push You can roll Volatile instead of Hot to turn someone on by using empathic projection to fuck with their head. On a 10 up, in addition to giving you a string, they must follow one short-term command of your choice. On a 7-9 also give yourself the condition Creepy. If you are Betrayed, also give them the condition Enthralled.

Scanners

When you gaze into the abyss, add 1 to your Dark roll. On a 10 up you can choose all three options. If you are Betrayed and roll 10 up, also mark experience. If you are Betrayed and roll 7-9, choose one of the 10 up options instead of one of the 7-9 options.

Roll Dark to invade someone else's mind. On a 10 up, take a string on them, and they must honestly answer one question. On a 7-9, take a string on them and choose one: } They take a string on you } Give yourself the condition Creepy } You each take 1 harm On a 6 or less, they must answer one question with a plausible lie and you must believe it. If you are Betrayed, do 1 harm to them in addition to any other results.

Firestarter

The Shining

Roll Volatile to summon jets of flame, unleash destructive telekinetic blasts, instantly freeze the air, or otherwise psychically attack your tormentors. On a 10 up, do 2 harm and give your victim an appropriate condition (Burned, Frostbitten, Concussed, etc). On a 7-9, do 1 harm, give them an appropriate condition, and choose one: } Give yourself the same condition } Take 1 harm } Trigger your Darkest Self If you are Betrayed, you may also carry 1 forward against them.

Other Moves

The Eye

Roll Dark instead of Hot or Cold to manipulate an NPC or shut someone down via telepathy instead of speech. If you are Betrayed, add 1 to your Dark roll and give them the condition Headache.

Sex Move

Playing The Fury

When you have sex with someone, each of you takes two strings on the other. Give yourself the condition Hopeful, and for as long as you have that condition they gain +1 ongoing toward any attempts to manipulate, hurt, or betray you.

A desperate longing to be accepted and the rage that accompanies being rejected are the central themes for the Fury. Futile Hope is like the engine that makes you go: You will need to put yourself out there, willingly trusting and believing in people even though you know you shouldn’t, and be ready to massively overreact to their inevitable betrayal. Your fellow players will have an incentive to be nice to you and then dump you, since that allows them to build up strings on you and then clear off any strings you have on them. Go along with it! Being Betrayed is to your advantage since it powers up all your Fury moves and provides lots of grist for the drama mill.

Darkest Self Nobody loves you. Nobody ever will. It’s all pain and loneliness and watching other people from the outside, and it will never change. They only pretended to like you so they could hurt you even more. There’s nothing left for you here but revenge, so burn it all down. Smash everything to pieces. Rip their secrets out and make them dance like dolls for your amusement. To escape your Darkest Self, you must be confronted by someone who has never hurt, excluded, or betrayed you, or be shown an act of kindness that seems genuine.

Advancement         

Take another Fury move. Take another Fury move. Take a move from another Skin. Take a move from another Skin. You belong to a Psychic Gestalt. Add 1 to Hot (max 3). Add 1 to Cold (max 3). Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: David Nanchin

Think carefully when choosing your moves about what kind of walking megapsychic catastrophe you’d like to be. Firestarter doesn’t need to imply pyrokinesis; it’s just a name and can represent any ability that causes chaos and destruction. Some of the moves are more themed around telepathy or clairvoyance than the others, which might be an interesting and more subtle variation for you to try. When you are your Darkest Self, be sure to go all out with your descriptions. Your moves can affect crowds and radically alter the environment when you’re in a full-on rage, so cut loose and enjoy your revenge. Taking a Psychic Gestalt gang as an advancement changes the theme of the skin somewhat. Instead of being completely alone in your trust/abuse cycle, your whole clique consists of social misfits and rejects. You can find some solace in each other, but the added power of a gang makes the temptation to strike back against the “beautiful people” that much harder to resist - and your new buddies want revenge just as badly as you do.

You never wanted this. You never wanted to be different or special or a freak. All you ever wanted was to fit in. To be liked. To be accepted. Maybe even to be loved. Was that so much to ask? You’re not a bad person. But they wouldn’t let you fit in. They hurt you. Taunted you. Called you names. Exploited you. Betrayed you. They pushed and pushed and PUSHED and PUSHED. They’re all going to be sorry when you start pushing back.

The Fury Name

Look

Alice, Bea, Cam, Carrie, Charlie, Kim, Jill, Joe, Robin, Will

raggedy, unfashionable, nerdy, nervous, beneath notice, frightened

A diminutive name, a nondescript name, an unpopular name, a victim’s name

desperate eyes, brittle eyes, teary eyes, resentful eyes, twitchy eyes

Choose a name:

Circle one in each list:

Origin

Circle one: genetic mutation, government program, confluence of bloodlines, abused child, experimental psychotherapy

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold

(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory You have a secret crush on someone. Take a string on them. Someone has been bullying you. Give them a string on you. Someone was kind to you once. Give them two strings on you.

You start with this one, and choose two more:

zzFutile Hope

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1

Fury Moves

Strings

Whenever someone acts kind or accepting toward you, you each take a string on the other, and you get the condition Hopeful (which replaces Betrayed if you have it). If someone you trust betrays or hurts you while you are Hopeful, lose all strings on them, replace Hopeful with Betrayed, and roll Dark. On a 10 up, trigger your Darkest Self. On a 7-9, choose one: } Give them one more string on you } Take 1 harm from psychic feedback } Trigger your Darkest Self When you are your Darkest Self, your Fury moves are amplified. You can affect groups of victims in the immediate area, and your destructive powers can affect large structures like buildings.

m Poltergeist When you lash out physically using telekinesis instead of physical attacks, your victim must hold steady before attempting to run away. If you are Betrayed, do 1 extra harm when you lash out physically.

Push You can roll Volatile instead of Hot to turn someone on by using empathic projection to fuck with their head. On a 10 up, in addition to giving you a string, they must follow one short-term command of your choice. On a 7-9 also give yourself the condition Creepy. If you are Betrayed, also give them the condition Enthralled.

Scanners

When you gaze into the abyss, add 1 to your Dark roll. On a 10 up you can choose all three options. If you are Betrayed and roll 10 up, also mark experience. If you are Betrayed and roll 7-9, choose one of the 10 up options instead of one of the 7-9 options.

Roll Dark to invade someone else's mind. On a 10 up, take a string on them, and they must honestly answer one question. On a 7-9, take a string on them and choose one: } They take a string on you } Give yourself the condition Creepy } You each take 1 harm On a 6 or less, they must answer one question with a plausible lie and you must believe it. If you are Betrayed, do 1 harm to them in addition to any other results.

Firestarter

The Shining

Roll Volatile to summon jets of flame, unleash destructive telekinetic blasts, instantly freeze the air, or otherwise psychically attack your tormentors. On a 10 up, do 2 harm and give your victim an appropriate condition (Burned, Frostbitten, Concussed, etc). On a 7-9, do 1 harm, give them an appropriate condition, and choose one: } Give yourself the same condition } Take 1 harm } Trigger your Darkest Self If you are Betrayed, you may also carry 1 forward against them.

Other Moves

The Eye

Roll Dark instead of Hot or Cold to manipulate an NPC or shut someone down via telepathy instead of speech. If you are Betrayed, add 1 to your Dark roll and give them the condition Headache.

Sex Move

Playing The Gargoyle

When you have sex with someone, protecting them counts as protecting your school for the purposes of School Spirit, and you cannot lash out physically at them for any reason. This lasts until you have sex with someone else or they do something to cause physical harm to your school. You can’t have sex when you are dormant or animate.

First and foremost: the school mentioned in various Moves doesn’t actually have to be a school at all. It could be a church, a summer camp, a community center, a nightclub, an apartment building, or any other establishment that’s located in a specific place and has regular hours of operation and a “community” of employees, patrons, customers, members, or inhabitants. Work together with your MC to figure out what setting will work best for your particular game.

Darkest Self Nobody else loves this school like you do. They just don’t understand how important it is. You’d be nothing without it, and you’re the only one that can protect it. The basketball team that beat yours in the playoffs, the school board members who want to cut funding, the teacher who molests her students - they’re all enemies, and they all have to be punished. Severely. You can recover from your Darkest Self only when someone shows you how your actions are hurting your school.

Advancement m Take another Gargoyle move. m Take another Gargoyle move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You’re part of a Stone Flock. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Kat

Similarly, not all Gargoyles are stone statues in their dormant or animate forms. You could be a sculpture of metal or wood or plaster, a painting or mural, an old mascot costume or band uniform, a stained glass window, or even a digital character on a computer or HDTV screen. Anything works as long as it’s at least vaguely an anthropomorphic form, and it should be something that won’t be easily missed when you are walking around looking like a human. As a Gargoyle you’re tied to your school (or whatever), so protecting and helping it should always be your first priority. If that causes conflicts with your friends and loved ones, great - hard choices will lead to drama. Taking Kirkgrim can make this easier, as can your Sex Move. Babewyn and Grotesque can make you more flexible. Hatchery also adds flexibility in a way, since you can use it to change what your dormant or animate forms look like.

You remember being a real human kid once, a long time ago. Before they built the school. Before they stretched you out on the foundation stone and cut out your heart. But you’re not so angry anymore. Now you go to classes, attend pep rallies, run for student council. You’re on the spirit squad and you’ve lettered in track. They wanted you to bless this school, and you’ve done your job well. And when vandals or thieves show up in your school at night...well, maybe you’re still kind of angry after all.

The Gargoyle Name

Look

Arris, Belvedere, Cary, Chevron, Gable, Garret, Laurel, Rochelle, Tiffany, Veranda

dressed in school colors, greyish skin, sculpted face, large mouth, stiff posture

Choose a name:

A fancy name, a cold name, an architectural name, a unisex name, a French name

Circle one in each list:

hard eyes, suspicious eyes, protective eyes, dry eyes, glassy eyes

Origin

Circle one: animistic spirit, cornerstone sacrifice, magically animated statue, cursed victim, summoned demon

Carry Forward

Name: Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone saw you transforming into your dormant form. They take 2 strings on you. You’ve been watching someone who seems to have a great love for your school. Take 2 strings on them.

Harm Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm Strings

Gargoyle Moves

You start with this one, and choose two more: ˜ School Spirit From sunrise to sunset (or vice versa) you appear to be a normal human being, but when your period of activity ends, you become dormant. While in this state, you are an inanimate object and are invulnerable to harm, but incapable of taking any action. When not dormant, you may treat failures as 7-9 and 7-9 as 10-up when you lash out physically to protect your school building or grounds. m Babewyn During your dormant period, if someone else is on the school grounds you can assume your human form. If you are alone, you can still become human, but take 1 harm. If you leave your school, you instantly know if someone enters or threatens the school grounds. m Grotesque You may transform from human form into animate form. In this form you are an inanimate object brought to life. While animate you take 1 less harm from anything that harms you (to a minimum of zero harm) and you get +1 to lash out physically or shut someone down. m Kirkgrim For the purposes of School Spirit, protecting the people associated with your school (students, faculty, employees) counts as protecting the building or grounds.

Other Moves

m Gullet You can vomit a gout of flame or torrent of freezing water. Roll Volatile: on a 10 up, you do 1 harm to your target and they must hold steady. On a 7-9, choose one: } You do 1 harm } You miss, but they must hold steady } You miss, but you get a string on them On a 6 or less, you miss and they get a string on you. m Hatchery You can invest some of yourself into a single object in your school, turning it into an egg. You may only have one egg at a time. If you die, you will be reborn from the egg at the beginning of your next period of activity, with a new dormant form (and animate form if you have one) based on the egg object. Mark experience when you are reborn. m Hunky Punk With concentration you can give your human form some of the durability of your inanimate form. When you get hurt, you can hold steady. On a 7-9, you take 1 less harm. On a 10 up, you take no harm and mark experience. m Rival Schools For the purposes of School Spirit, attacking a rival school or people associated with it counts as protecting the building or grounds. m Sheela na Gig When in human form, you can roll Cold instead of Hot to turn someone on or manipulate an NPC, but only if your genitals are exposed.

Sex Move

Playing The Gargoyle

When you have sex with someone, protecting them counts as protecting your school for the purposes of School Spirit, and you cannot lash out physically at them for any reason. This lasts until you have sex with someone else or they do something to cause physical harm to your school. You can’t have sex when you are dormant or animate.

First and foremost: the school mentioned in various Moves doesn’t actually have to be a school at all. It could be a church, a summer camp, a community center, a nightclub, an apartment building, or any other establishment that’s located in a specific place and has regular hours of operation and a “community” of employees, patrons, customers, members, or inhabitants. Work together with your MC to figure out what setting will work best for your particular game.

Darkest Self Nobody else loves this school like you do. They just don’t understand how important it is. You’d be nothing without it, and you’re the only one that can protect it. The basketball team that beat yours in the playoffs, the school board members who want to cut funding, the teacher who molests her students - they’re all enemies, and they all have to be punished. Severely. You can recover from your Darkest Self only when someone shows you how your actions are hurting your school.

Advancement m Take another Gargoyle move. m Take another Gargoyle move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You’re part of a Stone Flock. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Bojan Toporis

Similarly, not all Gargoyles are stone statues in their dormant or animate forms. You could be a sculpture of metal or wood or plaster, a painting or mural, an old mascot costume or band uniform, a stained glass window, or even a digital character on a computer or HDTV screen. Anything works as long as it’s at least vaguely an anthropomorphic form, and it should be something that won’t be easily missed when you are walking around looking like a human. As a Gargoyle you’re tied to your school (or whatever), so protecting and helping it should always be your first priority. If that causes conflicts with your friends and loved ones, great - hard choices will lead to drama. Taking Kirkgrim can make this easier, as can your Sex Move. Babewyn and Grotesque can make you more flexible. Hatchery also adds flexibility in a way, since you can use it to change what your dormant or animate forms look like.

You remember being a real human kid once, a long time ago. Before they built the school. Before they stretched you out on the foundation stone and cut out your heart. But you’re not so angry anymore. Now you go to classes, attend pep rallies, run for student council. You’re on the spirit squad and you’ve lettered in track. They wanted you to bless this school, and you’ve done your job well. And when vandals or thieves show up in your school at night...well, maybe you’re still kind of angry after all.

The Gargoyle Name

Look

Arris, Belvedere, Cary, Chevron, Gable, Garret, Laurel, Rochelle, Tiffany, Veranda

dressed in school colors, greyish skin, sculpted face, large mouth, stiff posture

Choose a name:

A fancy name, a cold name, an architectural name, a unisex name, a French name

Circle one in each list:

hard eyes, suspicious eyes, protective eyes, dry eyes, glassy eyes

Origin

Circle one: animistic spirit, cornerstone sacrifice, magically animated statue, cursed victim, summoned demon

Carry Forward

Name: Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone saw you transforming into your dormant form. They take 2 strings on you. You’ve been watching someone who seems to have a great love for your school. Take 2 strings on them.

Harm Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm Strings

Gargoyle Moves

You start with this one, and choose two more: ˜ School Spirit From sunrise to sunset (or vice versa) you appear to be a normal human being, but when your period of activity ends, you become dormant. While in this state, you are an inanimate object and are invulnerable to harm, but incapable of taking any action. When not dormant, you may treat failures as 7-9 and 7-9 as 10-up when you lash out physically to protect your school building or grounds. m Babewyn During your dormant period, if someone else is on the school grounds you can assume your human form. If you are alone, you can still become human, but take 1 harm. If you leave your school, you instantly know if someone enters or threatens the school grounds. m Grotesque You may transform from human form into animate form. In this form you are an inanimate object brought to life. While animate you take 1 less harm from anything that harms you (to a minimum of zero harm) and you get +1 to lash out physically or shut someone down. m Kirkgrim For the purposes of School Spirit, protecting the people associated with your school (students, faculty, employees) counts as protecting the building or grounds.

Other Moves

m Gullet You can vomit a gout of flame or torrent of freezing water. Roll Volatile: on a 10 up, you do 1 harm to your target and they must hold steady. On a 7-9, choose one: } You do 1 harm } You miss, but they must hold steady } You miss, but you get a string on them On a 6 or less, you miss and they get a string on you. m Hatchery You can invest some of yourself into a single object in your school, turning it into an egg. You may only have one egg at a time. If you die, you will be reborn from the egg at the beginning of your next period of activity, with a new dormant form (and animate form if you have one) based on the egg object. Mark experience when you are reborn. m Hunky Punk With concentration you can give your human form some of the durability of your inanimate form. When you get hurt, you can hold steady. On a 7-9, you take 1 less harm. On a 10 up, you take no harm and mark experience. m Rival Schools For the purposes of School Spirit, attacking a rival school or people associated with it counts as protecting the building or grounds. m Sheela na Gig When in human form, you can roll Cold instead of Hot to turn someone on or manipulate an NPC, but only if your genitals are exposed.

Sex Move

Playing The Harpy

After you have sex with someone, you must either compliment them or insult them. If you compliment them, lose all your strings on them, give yourself the condition Going Soft, and mark experience. If you insult them, treat it as if you shut someone down and rolled a 10 up.

Stewing in resentment and envy, as the Harpy you are all about bringing others down and destroying their happiness. Maybe you used to be popular but lost it all, or used to be unpopular and radically reinvented yourself. You might even be on a divine mission to bring down the arrogant. You’re a social powerhouse with a razor-sharp wit, but somehow you can never leverage that power to get what you want, only to make sure that nobody else gets what they want either.

Darkest Self You’re never going to be happy, so why should anyone else get to be? They’re all just victims waiting to be brutalized anyway, and you might as well be the one to punish them. It won’t make you feel better, but at least it’ll make them feel worse. Pick out a vulnerable target and let them feel your talons. Don’t let up no matter what. Push them right to the edge and watch them topple over. You will recover from your Darkest Self when you drive someone to harm themselves in some way.

Advancement m Take another Harpy move. m Take another Harpy move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You fly with a Vicious Flock. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: FaeStock

The Harpy isn’t the Queen. You may be seen as one of the most influential figures in the school, but you’re not popular or revered - at best, your Vicious Flock gang advancement gives you a set of cronies who support you only in hopes of directing your withering gaze away from themselves. Your power and influence comes from the fear everyone feels when you start circling. Most of your Moves are centered around shutting someone down, as that’s going to be your main tool for interacting with others. Pick the Moves you feel will best enhance your particular style of social sadism. You’re typically not the kind of bully who beats people up, but a few moves do key off lash out physically, and they can can come in handy when one of your victims decides to seek revenge via a physical confrontation.

Look at them. Sniveling weaklings, the lot of them. They take advantage of their money, their looks, their brains, their cliques, but do they really deserve any of that power? What did they do to earn it? When have they ever suffered for what they have? The free ride ends now. What you can’t snatch away for yourself, you’ll make so foul that nobody would want it anyway. They all wither under your acid tongue. Your tactics may not win you any friends, but given the choice, you’ll always pick fear over love.

The Harpy Name

Look

Beatrice, Darcy, Ella, Hogan, Jasmine, Lane, Mai, Nick, Petey, Zoe

bleeding edge of fashion, perfectly coiffed, insincere smile, raptor’s beauty, shabby chic

a bird’s name, a Shakespearean name, a weather-related name, a beautiful name, an intimidating name

cruel eyes, stormy eyes, haughty eyes, hawk’s eyes, predatory eyes

Choose a name:

Circle one in each list:

Origin

Circle one: Alkonost is the Harpy’s only overtly supernatural Move. You can pick it to be a literal bird-creature, or avoid it if you simply want to be your school’s Alpha Bitch.

used to be popular, former nerd with extreme makeover, storm spirit incarnate, weaponized social cues, implement of divine vengeance

Name:

Carry Forward

Harpy Moves

Conditions

m Alkonost When you lash out physically, you become a storm of feathers and talons, doing 1 additional harm. Until you calm down, you can fly and easily shred physical items with your claws.

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

m Boread Chase When you run away, you don’t have to roll unless the person you’re running away from can fly.

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Take two strings on your favorite victim. You publicly embarrassed a powerful enemy, and they’re itching for revenge. Each of you take a string on the other.

Choose two:

Harm Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

m Defiler When you successfully shut someone down, in addition to the normal effects choose one: } They lose a string on someone other than you. } They gain the condition Befouled. } The next roll they make is at -1. } They lose access to their Gang until they hold steady. m Elegant Egotist When you turn someone on who currently has a condition you placed on them, roll with Cold instead of Hot. On a 10 up, you can offer them experience to do something for you without spending a string.

Strings Other Moves

m Lightning Talons When you shut someone down in front of witnesses, add 1 to your roll. If you roll a 10 up, they lose one intangible possession (a friendship, their sense of pride, their reputation) until they successfully use shut someone down or lash out physically against you, or otherwise assert their dominance. m Rose Whip When you manipulate an NPC and roll 7-9, treat it as a 10 up. If you roll 10 up, They will do as you ask without needing a bribe, threat, or other motive. m Screech Whenever you gain a string on someone, carry 1 forward toward your next attempt to shut them down or lash out physically at them. m Snatcher When you lash out physically and succeed, place a condition on your victim. On a 10 up, you steal or destroy an item belonging to them. m Storm Wind When you gaze into the abyss about a specific person and roll 7-9, carry 1 forward to your next attempt to shut them down. If you roll a 10 up, gain a string on them.

Sex Move

Playing The Harpy

After you have sex with someone, you must either compliment them or insult them. If you compliment them, lose all your strings on them, give yourself the condition Going Soft, and mark experience. If you insult them, treat it as if you shut someone down and rolled a 10 up.

Stewing in resentment and envy, as the Harpy you are all about bringing others down and destroying their happiness. Maybe you used to be popular but lost it all, or used to be unpopular and radically reinvented yourself. You might even be on a divine mission to bring down the arrogant. You’re a social powerhouse with a razor-sharp wit, but somehow you can never leverage that power to get what you want, only to make sure that nobody else gets what they want either.

Darkest Self You’re never going to be happy, so why should anyone else get to be? They’re all just victims waiting to be brutalized anyway, and you might as well be the one to punish them. It won’t make you feel better, but at least it’ll make them feel worse. Pick out a vulnerable target and let them feel your talons. Don’t let up no matter what. Push them right to the edge and watch them topple over. You will recover from your Darkest Self when you drive someone to harm themselves in some way.

Advancement m Take another Harpy move. m Take another Harpy move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You fly with a Vicious Flock. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: MistaMisery

The Harpy isn’t the Queen. You may be seen as one of the most influential figures in the school, but you’re not popular or revered - at best, your Vicious Flock gang advancement gives you a set of cronies who support you only in hopes of directing your withering gaze away from themselves. Your power and influence comes from the fear everyone feels when you start circling. Most of your Moves are centered around shutting someone down, as that’s going to be your main tool for interacting with others. Pick the Moves you feel will best enhance your particular style of social sadism. You’re typically not the kind of bully who beats people up, but a few moves do key off lash out physically, and they can can come in handy when one of your victims decides to seek revenge via a physical confrontation.

Look at them. Sniveling weaklings, the lot of them. They take advantage of their money, their looks, their brains, their cliques, but do they really deserve any of that power? What did they do to earn it? When have they ever suffered for what they have? The free ride ends now. What you can’t snatch away for yourself, you’ll make so foul that nobody would want it anyway. They all wither under your acid tongue. Your tactics may not win you any friends, but given the choice, you’ll always pick fear over love.

The Harpy Name

Look

Beatrice, Darcy, Ella, Hogan, Jasmine, Lane, Mai, Nick, Petey, Zoe

bleeding edge of fashion, perfectly coiffed, insincere smile, raptor’s beauty, shabby chic

a bird’s name, a Shakespearean name, a weather-related name, a beautiful name, an intimidating name

cruel eyes, stormy eyes, haughty eyes, hawk’s eyes, predatory eyes

Choose a name:

Circle one in each list:

Origin

Circle one: Alkonost is the Harpy’s only overtly supernatural Move. You can pick it to be a literal bird-creature, or avoid it if you simply want to be your school’s Alpha Bitch.

used to be popular, former nerd with extreme makeover, storm spirit incarnate, weaponized social cues, implement of divine vengeance

Name:

Carry Forward

Harpy Moves

Conditions

m Alkonost When you lash out physically, you become a storm of feathers and talons, doing 1 additional harm. Until you calm down, you can fly and easily shred physical items with your claws.

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

m Boread Chase When you run away, you don’t have to roll unless the person you’re running away from can fly.

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Take two strings on your favorite victim. You publicly embarrassed a powerful enemy, and they’re itching for revenge. Each of you take a string on the other.

Choose two:

Harm Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

m Defiler When you successfully shut someone down, in addition to the normal effects choose one: } They lose a string on someone other than you. } They gain the condition Befouled. } The next roll they make is at -1. } They lose access to their Gang until they hold steady. m Elegant Egotist When you turn someone on who currently has a condition you placed on them, roll with Cold instead of Hot. On a 10 up, you can offer them experience to do something for you without spending a string.

Strings Other Moves

m Lightning Talons When you shut someone down in front of witnesses, add 1 to your roll. If you roll a 10 up, they lose one intangible possession (a friendship, their sense of pride, their reputation) until they successfully use shut someone down or lash out physically against you, or otherwise assert their dominance. m Rose Whip When you manipulate an NPC and roll 7-9, treat it as a 10 up. If you roll 10 up, They will do as you ask without needing a bribe, threat, or other motive. m Screech Whenever you gain a string on someone, carry 1 forward toward your next attempt to shut them down or lash out physically at them. m Snatcher When you lash out physically and succeed, place a condition on your victim. On a 10 up, you steal or destroy an item belonging to them. m Storm Wind When you gaze into the abyss about a specific person and roll 7-9, carry 1 forward to your next attempt to shut them down. If you roll a 10 up, gain a string on them.

Sex Move

Playing The Minotaur

When you have sex with someone, give them a string on you and the condition Golden Thread. They may choose to ask you to spare one person; if they do, give that person the condition Golden Thread as well.

A violent bully who secretly longs for friendship and acceptance, you’re easily manipulated by anyone who knows how to push your buttons - which largely boils down to knowing how to make you mad at someone. If you have Red Flag, you’ll want to encourage others to manipulate you with their strings!

Darkest Self You’re nothing but a violent animal, and everybody knows it. They all just use you - the assholes who get you mad and point you at their enemies, the sick freaks who get off on making out with a dumb beast, the suckups who pretend to like you so you won’t end them. So fine, be a violent animal. Track down anyone who’s In the Maze and show them just how bestial you can be. If nobody’s In the Maze, choose someone to face your fury. You can escape your Darkest Self when there’s no-one left In the Maze or when you are confronted by someone with a Golden Thread.

Advancement m Take another Minotaur move. m Take another Minotaur move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You have a Herd of Cronies. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Jazmin Lashae

The conditions associated with the Minotaur are largely metaphorical. In the Maze is just a way of expressing that your dangerous attention has been drawn to someone, and can range from “I heard you’ve been talking about me behind my back” to “As soon as the three o’clock bell rings, you’re dead, man.” Golden Thread represents someone who is in your good books or who you’ve been asked to leave alone by someone worth listening to. You should be handing out In the Maze as often as possible, via shutting someone down, the Seeing Red move, or spending strings. If you have Tribute, be sure to remind people that they can eliminate your strings on them by throwing someone else under the bus. Hot is one of your high stats, but your “dumb, violent thug” reputation will probably get in the way of serious romance. Your Sex Move and Bestial Pleasures, if you have it, might help tempt others into sweaty, embarrassing encounters that they’ll want to keep secret, giving you some emotional leverage on them. Mess with the Bull is the skin’s only overtly inhuman move, so your setting’s themes should be taken into account when deciding whether to take it. In a more supernatural game, turning into a raging bull monster may come in very handy!

It wasn’t like you set out to be a bully. It’s not your fault you’re bigger than the others, or that you stumble over your words, or that you’re just kinda naturally scary. But it is what it is. You know your friends aren’t real friends, that they see you as a big dumb tool. But at least if you beat people up for them, they hang out with you. It’s better than being alone. Sure, sometimes it hurts. Sometimes it hurts a lot. But you know how to fix that. Getting angry fixes everything.

The Minotaur Name

Look

Aster, Bastien, Dorcas, Ferdie, Johnny, Manny, Nandi, Norman, Rosie, Shamala

beefy, sweaty, looming, shaggy, bodybuilder

Choose a name:

A kid’s nickname, a Greek name, a tough-sounding name, an embarrassing name, a workingclass name

Circle one in each list:

dull eyes, red-glinting eyes, furious eyes, threatening eyes, lonely eyes

Origin

Circle one: bestial demigod, abused animal growth hormones, cursed by a witch, testosterone poisoning, experimental hybrid, anger management issues

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory You regularly act as the muscle for someone. Give them three strings on you. You recently bullied someone. Take a string on them. You’re someone’s guilty one-night stand. Each of you take a string on the other.

Strings

Minotaur Moves

You start with this one, and choose two more: ˜ Labyrinth When you do harm to someone, take a string on them. You get +1 ongoing to lash out physically, shut someone down, or gaze into the abyss when your target has the condition In the Maze. You get -1 ongoing to lash out physically, shut someone down, or gaze into the abyss when your target has the condition Golden Thread. m Bestial Pleasures When you successfully turn someone on, take a string on them, give them a string on you, and give them the condition Golden Thread. m Bully When you use physical force to intimidate or harass someone, roll Volatile instead of Cold to shut someone down. Take -1 ongoing to hold steady; if you fail, gain the condition Enraged instead of Terrified. m In a China Shop When you lash out physically, on a 7-9 your target chooses one physical item they own that is either on their person or nearby; that item is destroyed or rendered unusable. On a 10 up, you choose the item.

Other Moves

m Mess with the Bull When you violently confront someone who is In the Maze, roll Volatile. On a 7-9, you take on a huge bestial form, complete with horns and hooves. On a 10 up, take on the bestial form and become your Darkest Self. While in your bestial form, do 1 extra harm when you lash out physically and take 1 less harm from any source. You must hold steady in order to return to your human form. m Red Flag When someone spends a string on you to ask you to do something for them and you accept, instead of marking experience choose two: } Carry 1 forward toward completing the task } Clear a condition } Mark experience } Remove 1 harm m Seeing Red When you gaze into the abyss about someone with whom you’re furious, roll Volatile instead of Dark. On a 7-9, add this to the list of options: “Place the condition In the Maze on them.” On a 10 up, add these to the list of options: “Place the condition In the Maze on them” and “Do 1 extra harm the next time you lash out physically at them.” m Tribute When someone else gives out the condition In the Maze, you lose a string on them.

Sex Move

Playing The Minotaur

When you have sex with someone, give them a string on you and the condition Golden Thread. They may choose to ask you to spare one person; if they do, give that person the condition Golden Thread as well.

A violent bully who secretly longs for friendship and acceptance, you’re easily manipulated by anyone who knows how to push your buttons - which largely boils down to knowing how to make you mad at someone. If you have Red Flag, you’ll want to encourage others to manipulate you with their strings!

Darkest Self You’re nothing but a violent animal, and everybody knows it. They all just use you - the assholes who get you mad and point you at their enemies, the sick freaks who get off on making out with a dumb beast, the suckups who pretend to like you so you won’t end them. So fine, be a violent animal. Track down anyone who’s In the Maze and show them just how bestial you can be. If nobody’s In the Maze, choose someone to face your fury. You can escape your Darkest Self when there’s no-one left In the Maze or when you are confronted by someone with a Golden Thread.

Advancement m Take another Minotaur move. m Take another Minotaur move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You have a Herd of Cronies. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Cathleen Tarawhiti

The conditions associated with the Minotaur are largely metaphorical. In the Maze is just a way of expressing that your dangerous attention has been drawn to someone, and can range from “I heard you’ve been talking about me behind my back” to “As soon as the three o’clock bell rings, you’re dead, man.” Golden Thread represents someone who is in your good books or who you’ve been asked to leave alone by someone worth listening to. You should be handing out In the Maze as often as possible, via shutting someone down, the Seeing Red move, or spending strings. If you have Tribute, be sure to remind people that they can eliminate your strings on them by throwing someone else under the bus. Hot is one of your high stats, but your “dumb, violent thug” reputation will probably get in the way of serious romance. Your Sex Move and Bestial Pleasures, if you have it, might help tempt others into sweaty, embarrassing encounters that they’ll want to keep secret, giving you some emotional leverage on them. Mess with the Bull is the skin’s only overtly inhuman move, so your setting’s themes should be taken into account when deciding whether to take it. In a more supernatural game, turning into a raging bull monster may come in very handy!

It wasn’t like you set out to be a bully. It’s not your fault you’re bigger than the others, or that you stumble over your words, or that you’re just kinda naturally scary. But it is what it is. You know your friends aren’t real friends, that they see you as a big dumb tool. But at least if you beat people up for them, they hang out with you. It’s better than being alone. Sure, sometimes it hurts. Sometimes it hurts a lot. But you know how to fix that. Getting angry fixes everything.

The Minotaur Name

Look

Aster, Bastien, Dorcas, Ferdie, Johnny, Manny, Nandi, Norman, Rosie, Shamala

beefy, sweaty, looming, shaggy, bodybuilder

Choose a name:

A kid’s nickname, a Greek name, a tough-sounding name, an embarrassing name, a workingclass name

Circle one in each list:

dull eyes, red-glinting eyes, furious eyes, threatening eyes, lonely eyes

Origin

Circle one: bestial demigod, abused animal growth hormones, cursed by a witch, testosterone poisoning, experimental hybrid, anger management issues

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory You regularly act as the muscle for someone. Give them three strings on you. You recently bullied someone. Take a string on them. You’re someone’s guilty one-night stand. Each of you take a string on the other.

Strings

Minotaur Moves

You start with this one, and choose two more: ˜ Labyrinth When you do harm to someone, take a string on them. You get +1 ongoing to lash out physically, shut someone down, or gaze into the abyss when your target has the condition In the Maze. You get -1 ongoing to lash out physically, shut someone down, or gaze into the abyss when your target has the condition Golden Thread. m Bestial Pleasures When you successfully turn someone on, take a string on them, give them a string on you, and give them the condition Golden Thread. m Bully When you use physical force to intimidate or harass someone, roll Volatile instead of Cold to shut someone down. Take -1 ongoing to hold steady; if you fail, gain the condition Enraged instead of Terrified. m In a China Shop When you lash out physically, on a 7-9 your target chooses one physical item they own that is either on their person or nearby; that item is destroyed or rendered unusable. On a 10 up, you choose the item.

Other Moves

m Mess with the Bull When you violently confront someone who is In the Maze, roll Volatile. On a 7-9, you take on a huge bestial form, complete with horns and hooves. On a 10 up, take on the bestial form and become your Darkest Self. While in your bestial form, do 1 extra harm when you lash out physically and take 1 less harm from any source. You must hold steady in order to return to your human form. m Red Flag When someone spends a string on you to ask you to do something for them and you accept, instead of marking experience choose two: } Carry 1 forward toward completing the task } Clear a condition } Mark experience } Remove 1 harm m Seeing Red When you gaze into the abyss about someone with whom you’re furious, roll Volatile instead of Dark. On a 7-9, add this to the list of options: “Place the condition In the Maze on them.” On a 10 up, add these to the list of options: “Place the condition In the Maze on them” and “Do 1 extra harm the next time you lash out physically at them.” m Tribute When someone else gives out the condition In the Maze, you lose a string on them.

Sex Move

Playing The Mummy

When you allow someone the privilege of lying with you, take a string on them. They carry 1 forward toward any action they take that is intended to benefit you, and take a -1 penalty to the next action they take that is intended to work against you. If they are your soulmate, mark experience.

You’re fully aware of exactly how awesome you are, and completely convinced of your own innate royalty - or even divinity. Never question whether you deserve money, popularity, influence, and romance, because of course you do, and only the best of the best will suit someone of your lofty status. Any actions you take to acquire these things is justified, because, well, it’s for you, isn’t it?

Darkest Self You have been patient for longer than some civilizations have existed, and now your patience is exhausted. No more planning, no more manipulating, no more waiting. You know what you want, so take it. Claim the riches that are your birthright. Eliminate rivals who covet your position. If you have a soulmate, pursue them relentlessly. You are an unstoppable, implacable force, and you can only escape your Darkest Self when you achieve at least one of your goals or someone else manages to force you into submission.

Advancement m Take another Mummy move. m Take another Mummy move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You have an Ancient Cult. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Vapourgrafix

Soul Eater, Sun-Blessed, and Tana Leaves all fulfill a similar narrative function (explaining how you stay awake, active, and healthy), so consider only choosing one of the three and using your other choice on a more active move - unless you have a good reason to double up. If you take Cursed Idols, be sure to play up the idea that you have this collection of unique magical artifacts. Don’t just say “I put a condition on her.” Instead, aim more for “I use the Amulet of Khepri to curse her with the smell of dung!” Remember, because of your rightful status, any use of the artifacts is justified, no matter how selfish or cruel it may seem to others. If an item’s curse ends up screwing you over, it’s not because you did anything wrong - obviously it’s a problem with that specific artifact, and next time you’ll be sure to use a different one. If you take the advancement that gives you an Ancient Cult, you have the aid of a group of fanatics who have been guarding your sleeping form for centuries. They may sometimes be overzealous in their protectiveness, but they can be a good source of new cursed artifacts or tana leaves.

Once you had it all. Wealth, power, station, the adoration of the people, love, magic. You were in your rightful place, at the head of the table, and it was good. Then it was all taken away from you, leaving you with nothing but darkness and the slow passage of millennia. Now you’ve awakened, and while the world has moved on, some things never change. You’ll have your rightful place again, and you know exactly how to get it.

The Mummy Name

Look

Ampata, Ananka, Ardath, Cleo, Johann, Juanita, Kharis, Ötzi, Ramses, Xin Zhui

imperious, old-fashioned, wealthy, foreign, compelling, powerful

Choose a name:

A regal name, a divine name, an ancient name, an immigrant’s name, an imposing name

Circle one in each list:

haughty eyes, unsleeping eyes, dry eyes, heavily made-up eyes, lonely eyes

Origin

Circle one: Betrayed royalty, peat bog murder, sacrificial offering, watery grave, frozen solid

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile -1, Dark 1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone has accepted their place at your feet. Take a string on them. You see someone as a threat to your position. Give them a string on you. If you have a soulmate, each of you take a string on the other.

Strings

Mummy Moves Choose two:

m Mummy’s Curse When anyone inflicts at least 1 harm on you, give them the condition Fungal Rot. m Royal Decree Roll Hot instead of Cold to shut someone down, and add 1 to your turn someone on and manipulate an NPC rolls. m Soul Eater You feed on the life force of others with a kiss. Roll Dark; on a 10 up, do 1 harm and mark experience. On a 7-9, give the condition Drained but also give them a string on you. On a miss, take 1 harm. m Soulmate The one you loved the most in ancient times has been reincarnated. Choose someone to be your soulmate. You and your soulmate get +1 ongoing to all rolls against one another, and any strings you gain on one another are doubled. You can spend a string on your soulmate to enter any scene they are in. m Sun-Blessed Remove a condition and 1 harm when you spend a scene bathed in sunlight. From sunset to sunrise you have the condition Weakened. m Tana Leaves You have a limited supply of tana leaves and know how to use them. Roll Dark; on a 10 up you’ve brewed a powerful tea that heals 2 harm and can raise a dead character as a new Mummy. On a 7-9, the tea will heal 1 harm. On a miss, the tea will remove a condition, but you’ve run out of leaves. You’ll need to pull strings, manipulate NPCs, or call on your Cult to get more.

m Cursed Idols You were buried with a large collection of cursed artifacts. You can use these idols to your own advantage, if you are willing to endure the side effects. You can only use one idol in any given scene. Each time you use an idol, choose a Blessing: } Add 1 to one of your stats for a scene } Treat one roll as if you had rolled 10 up } Do 1 harm to someone } Remove 1 harm from someone } Give someone a condition of your choice } Remove a condition from someone } Take a string on someone } Choose a third highlighted stat for one scene Also, the MC chooses a Curse: } Subtract 1 from one of your stats for a scene } Treat your next roll as if you’d rolled a miss } Take 1 harm } Gain a condition of the MC’s choice } Someone gains a string on you } An NPC acts with Advantage against you for the scene } One of your Mummy moves stops working for a scene } Your worst enemy marks experience

Other Moves

Sex Move

Playing The Mummy

When you allow someone the privilege of lying with you, take a string on them. They carry 1 forward toward any action they take that is intended to benefit you, and take a -1 penalty to the next action they take that is intended to work against you. If they are your soulmate, mark experience.

You’re fully aware of exactly how awesome you are, and completely convinced of your own innate royalty - or even divinity. Never question whether you deserve money, popularity, influence, and romance, because of course you do, and only the best of the best will suit someone of your lofty status. Any actions you take to acquire these things is justified, because, well, it’s for you, isn’t it?

Darkest Self You have been patient for longer than some civilizations have existed, and now your patience is exhausted. No more planning, no more manipulating, no more waiting. You know what you want, so take it. Claim the riches that are your birthright. Eliminate rivals who covet your position. If you have a soulmate, pursue them relentlessly. You are an unstoppable, implacable force, and you can only escape your Darkest Self when you achieve at least one of your goals or someone else manages to force you into submission.

Advancement m Take another Mummy move. m Take another Mummy move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You have an Ancient Cult. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: The Metronomad

Soul Eater, Sun-Blessed, and Tana Leaves all fulfill a similar narrative function (explaining how you stay awake, active, and healthy), so consider only choosing one of the three and using your other choice on a more active move - unless you have a good reason to double up. If you take Cursed Idols, be sure to play up the idea that you have this collection of unique magical artifacts. Don’t just say “I put a condition on her.” Instead, aim more for “I use the Amulet of Khepri to curse her with the smell of dung!” Remember, because of your rightful status, any use of the artifacts is justified, no matter how selfish or cruel it may seem to others. If an item’s curse ends up screwing you over, it’s not because you did anything wrong - obviously it’s a problem with that specific artifact, and next time you’ll be sure to use a different one. If you take the advancement that gives you an Ancient Cult, you have the aid of a group of fanatics who have been guarding your sleeping form for centuries. They may sometimes be overzealous in their protectiveness, but they can be a good source of new cursed artifacts or tana leaves.

Once you had it all. Wealth, power, station, the adoration of the people, love, magic. You were in your rightful place, at the head of the table, and it was good. Then it was all taken away from you, leaving you with nothing but darkness and the slow passage of millennia. Now you’ve awakened, and while the world has moved on, some things never change. You’ll have your rightful place again, and you know exactly how to get it.

The Mummy Name

Look

Ampata, Ananka, Ardath, Cleo, Johann, Juanita, Kharis, Ötzi, Ramses, Xin Zhui

imperious, old-fashioned, wealthy, foreign, compelling, powerful

Choose a name:

A regal name, a divine name, an ancient name, an immigrant’s name, an imposing name

Circle one in each list:

haughty eyes, unsleeping eyes, dry eyes, heavily made-up eyes, lonely eyes

Origin

Circle one: Betrayed royalty, peat bog murder, sacrificial offering, watery grave, frozen solid

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot 1, Cold -1, Volatile -1, Dark 1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone has accepted their place at your feet. Take a string on them. You see someone as a threat to your position. Give them a string on you. If you have a soulmate, each of you take a string on the other.

Strings

Mummy Moves Choose two:

m Mummy’s Curse When anyone inflicts at least 1 harm on you, give them the condition Fungal Rot. m Royal Decree Roll Hot instead of Cold to shut someone down, and add 1 to your turn someone on and manipulate an NPC rolls. m Soul Eater You feed on the life force of others with a kiss. Roll Dark; on a 10 up, do 1 harm and mark experience. On a 7-9, give the condition Drained but also give them a string on you. On a miss, take 1 harm. m Soulmate The one you loved the most in ancient times has been reincarnated. Choose someone to be your soulmate. You and your soulmate get +1 ongoing to all rolls against one another, and any strings you gain on one another are doubled. You can spend a string on your soulmate to enter any scene they are in. m Sun-Blessed Remove a condition and 1 harm when you spend a scene bathed in sunlight. From sunset to sunrise you have the condition Weakened. m Tana Leaves You have a limited supply of tana leaves and know how to use them. Roll Dark; on a 10 up you’ve brewed a powerful tea that heals 2 harm and can raise a dead character as a new Mummy. On a 7-9, the tea will heal 1 harm. On a miss, the tea will remove a condition, but you’ve run out of leaves. You’ll need to pull strings, manipulate NPCs, or call on your Cult to get more.

m Cursed Idols You were buried with a large collection of cursed artifacts. You can use these idols to your own advantage, if you are willing to endure the side effects. You can only use one idol in any given scene. Each time you use an idol, choose a Blessing: } Add 1 to one of your stats for a scene } Treat one roll as if you had rolled 10 up } Do 1 harm to someone } Remove 1 harm from someone } Give someone a condition of your choice } Remove a condition from someone } Take a string on someone } Choose a third highlighted stat for one scene Also, the MC chooses a Curse: } Subtract 1 from one of your stats for a scene } Treat your next roll as if you’d rolled a miss } Take 1 harm } Gain a condition of the MC’s choice } Someone gains a string on you } An NPC acts with Advantage against you for the scene } One of your Mummy moves stops working for a scene } Your worst enemy marks experience

Other Moves

Sex Move

Playing The Muse

When you have sex with your protegé, they can act as if they had your Catacombs move until either of you has sex with someone else. If you have sex with someone besides your protegé, you can treat them as if they are a second protegé until either of you has sex with someone else.

As the Muse, you are a frustrated genius, capable of taking your field to a whole new level - or you would be, if something wasn’t holding you back. Some sort of terrible injury, disfigurement, or other obstacle prevents you from truly reaching the heights you were destined for...but you can still teach, and your crazed brilliance manifests itself in an obsessive focus on the one you’ve chosen to be your student. You’ll do anything - no matter how vile - to see them succeed.

Darkest Self There’s only one person in the world who truly understands your genius and your torment, and you will do anything it takes to make them yours forever. Kidnap your protegé and take them back to your Catacombs, and make it clear that from now on their entire life is going to be about learning from you and making you happy. Destroy anyone who interferes. You can only escape your Darkest Self when your protegé takes harm as a result of your actions.

Advancement m Take another Muse move. m Take another Muse move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You have Secret Minions. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3). Skin Designed by:

Topher Gerkey Stock Art by:

Miette

Masked Angel allows you to have a somewhat normal teenaged life, so take advantage of the fact that nobody knows you’re secretly the “Phantom” haunting the school. If your game is set in an environment other than a school, pick the most central and frequently used location to place the Catacombs (which could be a deserted bomb shelter, a natural cave network, or even actual catacombs). Most of your moves are focused around your protegé, as you might expect, but even those that aren’t can be used to clear a path for them. Judas Hole and O.G. are great for blackmailing potential obstacles, and Punjab Lasso offers a more violent and perhaps permanent solution to your protegé’s rivals. The Secret Minions gang advancement can represent sympathetic friends or family members who know your dual identity, blackmailed victims who have no choice but to obey you, or broken, enthralled former students desperate for another chance to become your protegé again.

Christian was amazing in his last game. You knew he would be. All it took for him to shine was your special training...and the coach finding out his video collection wasn’t so secret...and the original quarterback’s awful leg-breaking accident. But now homecoming is coming up, and Christian has been blowing off your training sessions to spend time with Rhonda. It’s okay. You have a solution for that. And Christian will thank you when the scholarships come rolling in. You just know it.

The Muse Name

Look

Abner, Erika, Etta, Jason, Karla, Petrie, Santini, Shawna, Song, Winslow

fidgety, scarred, pale and sickly, disabled, well-dressed

Choose a name:

A haunted name, an overlooked name, an artistic name, an archaic name, a melodic name

Virtuoso

Choose a skill: Composing or performing one style of music or dance; creating one type of visual art; writing or performing one type of theater, writing one form of prose or poetry, playing one sport

Circle one in each list:

broken eyes, hopeless eyes, fanatical eyes, inspired eyes, jealous eyes

Origin

Circle one: born disfigured, Faustian bargain, terrible accident, targeted by a rival, crippling insecurity

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Choose one person to be your protegé. Take three strings on them and give them one string on you. You’ve spied on someone else who caught your interest. Take one string on them.

Strings

Muse Moves

You start with these two, and choose one more: ˜ Masked Angel When you wear a mask, no one can perceive your true identity. When you spend a scene training your protegé in your virtuoso skill while masked, take a string on them. The next time they perform the skill publicly, they do so at a level of expertise far above what they could manage on their own. ˜ Catacombs Your school has a secret sub-basement, accessed through a variety of hidden doorways and passages, and you have made it your own. When you’re on campus and you run away, you can treat a 6-9 as a 10 up, but the person chasing you is now aware that the Catacombs exist. m Don Juan Triumphant When you are performing your virtuoso skill and wearing a mask, you can roll with Cold instead of Hot to turn someone on or manipulate an NPC. Take +1 to the roll if you are performing for your protegé. m O.G. When you send a threatening or blackmailing note to someone you have strings on, roll with +1 to shut someone down even if you’re not in the scene when they read it.

Other Moves

m Grasshopper or Scorpion? When you force your protegé to make a choice between spending time with you and pursuing some other interest or relationship, they choose one: } They stay with you, you get a string on them, and they get +1 forward (or advantage) toward their next performance with your virtuoso skill. } They leave to pursue their other interest, they lose a string on you if they have any, and you get +1 forward toward interfering with or harming their other interest. m Judas Hole When you are in your Catacombs and you spy on someone through a peephole and learn a secret about them, take a string on them. If you're spying on your protegé, take two strings. m Punjab Lasso When you spend a scene setting up an elaborate trap, you can roll with Dark instead of Volatile to lash out physically at someone who enters the trapped area, even if you aren’t present. Your Catacombs are always considered to be trapped, without requiring a setup scene. m Toccata and Fugue When your protegé discovers your true identity for the first time, mark experience. They can choose to keep training with you, or to abandon you and mark experience. If they choose to abandon you, you can choose a new protegé and get +1 forward toward harming the old one.

Sex Move

Playing The Muse

When you have sex with your protegé, they can act as if they had your Catacombs move until either of you has sex with someone else. If you have sex with someone besides your protegé, you can treat them as if they are a second protegé until either of you has sex with someone else.

As the Muse, you are a frustrated genius, capable of taking your field to a whole new level - or you would be, if something wasn’t holding you back. Some sort of terrible injury, disfigurement, or other obstacle prevents you from truly reaching the heights you were destined for...but you can still teach, and your crazed brilliance manifests itself in an obsessive focus on the one you’ve chosen to be your student. You’ll do anything - no matter how vile - to see them succeed.

Darkest Self There’s only one person in the world who truly understands your genius and your torment, and you will do anything it takes to make them yours forever. Kidnap your protegé and take them back to your Catacombs, and make it clear that from now on their entire life is going to be about learning from you and making you happy. Destroy anyone who interferes. You can only escape your Darkest Self when your protegé takes harm as a result of your actions.

Advancement m Take another Muse move. m Take another Muse move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You have Secret Minions. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3). Skin Designed by:

Topher Gerkey Stock Art by:

Chyla Marie

Masked Angel allows you to have a somewhat normal teenaged life, so take advantage of the fact that nobody knows you’re secretly the “Phantom” haunting the school. If your game is set in an environment other than a school, pick the most central and frequently used location to place the Catacombs (which could be a deserted bomb shelter, a natural cave network, or even actual catacombs). Most of your moves are focused around your protegé, as you might expect, but even those that aren’t can be used to clear a path for them. Judas Hole and O.G. are great for blackmailing potential obstacles, and Punjab Lasso offers a more violent and perhaps permanent solution to your protegé’s rivals. The Secret Minions gang advancement can represent sympathetic friends or family members who know your dual identity, blackmailed victims who have no choice but to obey you, or broken, enthralled former students desperate for another chance to become your protegé again.

Christian was amazing in his last game. You knew he would be. All it took for him to shine was your special training...and the coach finding out his video collection wasn’t so secret...and the original quarterback’s awful leg-breaking accident. But now homecoming is coming up, and Christian has been blowing off your training sessions to spend time with Rhonda. It’s okay. You have a solution for that. And Christian will thank you when the scholarships come rolling in. You just know it.

The Muse Name

Look

Abner, Erika, Etta, Jason, Karla, Petrie, Santini, Shawna, Song, Winslow

fidgety, scarred, pale and sickly, disabled, well-dressed

Choose a name:

A haunted name, an overlooked name, an artistic name, an archaic name, a melodic name

Virtuoso

Choose a skill: Composing or performing one style of music or dance; creating one type of visual art; writing or performing one type of theater, writing one form of prose or poetry, playing one sport

Circle one in each list:

broken eyes, hopeless eyes, fanatical eyes, inspired eyes, jealous eyes

Origin

Circle one: born disfigured, Faustian bargain, terrible accident, targeted by a rival, crippling insecurity

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

m

Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away)

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Choose one person to be your protegé. Take three strings on them and give them one string on you. You’ve spied on someone else who caught your interest. Take one string on them.

Strings

Muse Moves

You start with these two, and choose one more: ˜ Masked Angel When you wear a mask, no one can perceive your true identity. When you spend a scene training your protegé in your virtuoso skill while masked, take a string on them. The next time they perform the skill publicly, they do so at a level of expertise far above what they could manage on their own. ˜ Catacombs Your school has a secret sub-basement, accessed through a variety of hidden doorways and passages, and you have made it your own. When you’re on campus and you run away, you can treat a 6-9 as a 10 up, but the person chasing you is now aware that the Catacombs exist. m Don Juan Triumphant When you are performing your virtuoso skill and wearing a mask, you can roll with Cold instead of Hot to turn someone on or manipulate an NPC. Take +1 to the roll if you are performing for your protegé. m O.G. When you send a threatening or blackmailing note to someone you have strings on, roll with +1 to shut someone down even if you’re not in the scene when they read it.

Other Moves

m Grasshopper or Scorpion? When you force your protegé to make a choice between spending time with you and pursuing some other interest or relationship, they choose one: } They stay with you, you get a string on them, and they get +1 forward (or advantage) toward their next performance with your virtuoso skill. } They leave to pursue their other interest, they lose a string on you if they have any, and you get +1 forward toward interfering with or harming their other interest. m Judas Hole When you are in your Catacombs and you spy on someone through a peephole and learn a secret about them, take a string on them. If you're spying on your protegé, take two strings. m Punjab Lasso When you spend a scene setting up an elaborate trap, you can roll with Dark instead of Volatile to lash out physically at someone who enters the trapped area, even if you aren’t present. Your Catacombs are always considered to be trapped, without requiring a setup scene. m Toccata and Fugue When your protegé discovers your true identity for the first time, mark experience. They can choose to keep training with you, or to abandon you and mark experience. If they choose to abandon you, you can choose a new protegé and get +1 forward toward harming the old one.

Sex Move

Playing The Pr⊗xy

When you have sex with someone, make them your new subject (even if they don’t meet the criteria), and both of you mark experience. Your new subject’s experience counts toward triggering The Sickness. Carry 1 forward toward inflicting Harm on your old subject.

You are both villain and victim. You want to survive, and if that means adding to Its list of targets, that’s what you’ll do. On a conscious level, you may be unaware of the actions you take when wearing your mask. In any case, your main goal is to torment and tantalize your subject, drawing them further into Its grasp. Use your strings on them to offer experience for investigating your clues, taking trips into the woods or abandoned houses at night, or carrying around a camera; then use The Sickness to force them to take Proxy moves when they advance.

Darkest Self You’ve become desperate now - It is closing in, and your mask isn’t working to hide you like it should. You’ll do anything to save yourself, and you know what It wants. Find someone close to your subject and offer them up - either kill them yourself in Its name, or offer them up to It directly (which may leave them dead, memorywiped, or another Proxy like yourself). You may only escape your Darkest Self when you have successfully sacrificed someone else in your place, or when your subject catches you on video and prevents you from harming someone.

Advancement m Take another Proxy move. m Take another Proxy move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You belong to a Secret Cult. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Chris

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If you take Cryptic Bullshit, try to describe your notes, videos, or voicemails as disturbingly and puzzlingly as possible. If you can inflict a condition, it’s a good idea to go for something like Obsessed and then dangle some experience to get them to focus on deciphering your meaning. For inflicting conditions in general, Hazy Memories is also a good choice. Don’t feel like It has to be the Slender Man. You can be stalked by the Rake, or Zalgo, or an abomination of your own design. The important thing to remember is that It needs to be both malevolent and unknowable. It takes or kills people, or messes with their heads, but you don’t have a clue as to Its actual motivations. It doesn’t really communicate with you; most of your actions should be based on guesses and observation of Its behavior. Your MC will occasionally have It spend strings to offer you experience, but the actions It wants you to take may range from the horrific to the nonsensical.

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The Proxy Name

Look

Aimee, Alex, Emi, Evan, Jessie, Kevin, Noreen, Tim, Tyler, Xakk

Baby face, carrying a camera, clinging briars, gangly, sickly, shifty

Choose a name:

A familiar name, a modern name, a kid’s name, a unique name

Mask

Circle one: An animal-head mask, a burlap bag with eyeholes, a comedy or tragedy mask, a gas mask, a Guy Fawkes mask, a plague doctor’s mask, a porcelain mask, a Venetian carnival mask, a wooden tribal mask

Circle one in each list:

Angry eyes, dead eyes, paranoid eyes, sorrowful eyes, veiled eyes

Origin

Circle one: Stalked since childhood, delved too far, created a hoax that became true, student filmmaker, cult member

Carry Forward

Name: Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Conditions

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Notes

Cold

sil

(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

Experience Points: >> Advance mmmmm

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory

Strings

You have been recording video footage of everyone without their knowledge. Take one string on everyone. Take two extra strings on your subject. You’ve also been obsessively recording yourself, and someone has discovered and watched some of your footage. That person takes a string on you. It starts with five strings on you.

Pr⊗xy Moves

You start with this one, and choose two more: l The Sickness Choose one character to be your subject. You may change which character is your subject at any time, but you must have least three strings on your new subject. After the fifth time your subject accepts experience from you when you spend a string, they must use their next advancement to take a Proxy move. m Am I Interrupting? You can spend two strings on someone to gain complete access to their home and identity. You have full access to all their social media accounts (e-mail, Twitter, YouTube, G+, etc) and may make irreversible changes to those accounts. You can also edit your target’s uploaded videos, inserting scenes, frames, audio, or text, either obviously or subliminally. You may enter their home with sufficient stealth as to record video of them sleeping, without triggering security, being discovered, or leaving accidental traces of your presence. m Cryptic Bullshit When you shut someone down indirectly, through sending them a written or video message, roll Dark instead of Cold. This can consist of mysterious but meaningful images, phrases written in ciphers, or recurring symbols. Add +1 to the roll if it’s against your subject.

Other Moves

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m The Collective When you gaze into the abyss about your subject, if you roll 10 up, gain a string on them and do 1 harm to them. If you roll 7-9, choose one: } Gain a string on them, but It gains a string on you } Gain a string on them, but take 1 harm } Do 1 harm to them, but take 1 harm } Do 1 harm to them, but It gains a string on you If you roll 6 or less, It gains a string on you and you take 1 harm. m Distortion You can cause distortion in any photographic, video, or audio recordings of yourself. The distortion may range from mild static to severe interference. Anyone viewing or listening to the distorted recordings of you must hold steady; results of 6 or less give the viewer the condition Fascinated. m Masky When you are masked, others must hold steady before they can attempt to turn you on, shut you down, or lash out physically at you. If they roll 10 up they may make the second roll normally. If they roll 7-9, they may make the second roll at -1. If they roll 6 or less, give them the condition Hazy Memories and they may not attempt the second roll. m Path of Black Leaves Unless you allow it, you cannot be run away from. You will always be around the next corner or hiding behind a nearby tree, or your victims will find themselves repeatedly passing through the same hallways and doors without actually getting anywhere. You may release your victims at any time.

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Sex Move

Playing The Pr⊗xy

When you have sex with someone, make them your new subject (even if they don’t meet the criteria), and both of you mark experience. Your new subject’s experience counts toward triggering The Sickness. Carry 1 forward toward inflicting Harm on your old subject.

You are both villain and victim. You want to survive, and if that means adding to Its list of targets, that’s what you’ll do. On a conscious level, you may be unaware of the actions you take when wearing your mask. In any case, your main goal is to torment and tantalize your subject, drawing them further into Its grasp. Use your strings on them to offer experience for investigating your clues, taking trips into the woods or abandoned houses at night, or carrying around a camera; then use The Sickness to force them to take Proxy moves when they advance.

Darkest Self You’ve become desperate now - It is closing in, and your mask isn’t working to hide you like it should. You’ll do anything to save yourself, and you know what It wants. Find someone close to your subject and offer them up - either kill them yourself in Its name, or offer them up to It directly (which may leave them dead, memorywiped, or another Proxy like yourself). You may only escape your Darkest Self when you have successfully sacrificed someone else in your place, or when your subject catches you on video and prevents you from harming someone.

Advancement m Take another Proxy move. m Take another Proxy move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You belong to a Secret Cult. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Raven Cornelissen

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If you take Cryptic Bullshit, try to describe your notes, videos, or voicemails as disturbingly and puzzlingly as possible. If you can inflict a condition, it’s a good idea to go for something like Obsessed and then dangle some experience to get them to focus on deciphering your meaning. For inflicting conditions in general, Hazy Memories is also a good choice. Don’t feel like It has to be the Slender Man. You can be stalked by the Rake, or Zalgo, or an abomination of your own design. The important thing to remember is that It needs to be both malevolent and unknowable. It takes or kills people, or messes with their heads, but you don’t have a clue as to Its actual motivations. It doesn’t really communicate with you; most of your actions should be based on guesses and observation of Its behavior. Your MC will occasionally have It spend strings to offer you experience, but the actions It wants you to take may range from the horrific to the nonsensical.

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The Proxy Name

Look

Aimee, Alex, Emi, Evan, Jessie, Kevin, Noreen, Tim, Tyler, Xakk

Baby face, carrying a camera, clinging briars, gangly, sickly, shifty

Choose a name:

A familiar name, a modern name, a kid’s name, a unique name

Mask

Circle one: An animal-head mask, a burlap bag with eyeholes, a comedy or tragedy mask, a gas mask, a Guy Fawkes mask, a plague doctor’s mask, a porcelain mask, a Venetian carnival mask, a wooden tribal mask

Circle one in each list:

Angry eyes, dead eyes, paranoid eyes, sorrowful eyes, veiled eyes

Origin

Circle one: Stalked since childhood, delved too far, created a hoax that became true, student filmmaker, cult member

Carry Forward

Name: Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold -1, Volatile 1, Dark 1

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Conditions

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dra

Notes

Cold

sil

(Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

Harm

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

Experience Points: >> Advance mmmmm

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory

Strings

You have been recording video footage of everyone without their knowledge. Take one string on everyone. Take two extra strings on your subject. You’ve also been obsessively recording yourself, and someone has discovered and watched some of your footage. That person takes a string on you. It starts with five strings on you.

Pr⊗xy Moves

You start with this one, and choose two more: l The Sickness Choose one character to be your subject. You may change which character is your subject at any time, but you must have least three strings on your new subject. After the fifth time your subject accepts experience from you when you spend a string, they must use their next advancement to take a Proxy move. m Am I Interrupting? You can spend two strings on someone to gain complete access to their home and identity. You have full access to all their social media accounts (e-mail, Twitter, YouTube, G+, etc) and may make irreversible changes to those accounts. You can also edit your target’s uploaded videos, inserting scenes, frames, audio, or text, either obviously or subliminally. You may enter their home with sufficient stealth as to record video of them sleeping, without triggering security, being discovered, or leaving accidental traces of your presence. m Cryptic Bullshit When you shut someone down indirectly, through sending them a written or video message, roll Dark instead of Cold. This can consist of mysterious but meaningful images, phrases written in ciphers, or recurring symbols. Add +1 to the roll if it’s against your subject.

Other Moves

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m The Collective When you gaze into the abyss about your subject, if you roll 10 up, gain a string on them and do 1 harm to them. If you roll 7-9, choose one: } Gain a string on them, but It gains a string on you } Gain a string on them, but take 1 harm } Do 1 harm to them, but take 1 harm } Do 1 harm to them, but It gains a string on you If you roll 6 or less, It gains a string on you and you take 1 harm. m Distortion You can cause distortion in any photographic, video, or audio recordings of yourself. The distortion may range from mild static to severe interference. Anyone viewing or listening to the distorted recordings of you must hold steady; results of 6 or less give the viewer the condition Fascinated. m Masky When you are masked, others must hold steady before they can attempt to turn you on, shut you down, or lash out physically at you. If they roll 10 up they may make the second roll normally. If they roll 7-9, they may make the second roll at -1. If they roll 6 or less, give them the condition Hazy Memories and they may not attempt the second roll. m Path of Black Leaves Unless you allow it, you cannot be run away from. You will always be around the next corner or hiding behind a nearby tree, or your victims will find themselves repeatedly passing through the same hallways and doors without actually getting anywhere. You may release your victims at any time.

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Sex Move

Playing The Unchained

After you have sex with someone, your other self carries 1 forward to harm that person.

The key concepts for the Unchained are repression, freedom, dysphoria, and addiction, all rolled up into one violent little dysfunctional bundle. Your other self is your outlet for all your secret needs - you can be and do all those things you’re not allowed to be and do, but safely, as someone else, without ruining your reputation.

After your other self has sex with someone, take a string on that person.

Darkest Self Your other self always pursues its selfish desires, but now you’re truly free. No limits, no constraints, no regrets. Do what you please, with and to whom you please. Use and abuse anyone who crosses your path. Nothing is as important as satisfying your every whim, and no-one really matters except for you. You can only return from your Darkest Self when you cause some sort of unforgivable harm to someone your normal self cares about.

Advancement m Take another Unchained move. m Take another Unchained move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You’re part of an Underground Club. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Curious Peaches

Your other self can be as different from your normal self as you like, from minor changes like hair style and color to bigger shifts like changing your height or ethnicity, to major alterations like changing your sex (the Unchained lends itself to an exploration of trans* issues, but BE CAREFUL - don’t fall into the hazard of conflating trans-ness itself with monstrosity). Animal Magnetism, Addiction, and Dysphoria/Euphoria lend themselves well to a character who focuses on the other self in play, while Unholy Glee and You’re Not Me! are better suited for an Unchained who has a love/hate relationship with his other self, or considers it an antagonist. Freedom from Consequence can be a very handy move. Feel free to rack up conditions while indulging your deviant lusts as your other self, then wipe the slate clean when you change back into your respectable normal self in the morning. The Underground Club gang advancement may be a sex club, a fight club, a drug den, or whatever other seedy location your other self uses to unwind.

All you could think about were the things you shouldn’t do, the person you shouldn’t be. All day, every day, burying your real feelings because giving in would mean losing everything - your family, your friends, your place in the world. So you did what you were supposed to do, and you quietly hated yourself, and everything felt wrong - until now. Now you can have everything. Your good life, and your secret pleasures. And if people get hurt sometimes... that’s a small price to pay for tasting the forbidden fruit, right?

The Unchained Name

Look

Bruce, Eliza, Fanny, Hank, Jackson, Jacqueline, Julia, Marlowe, Mary, Tom

pristine, stuffy, nerdy, average, tailored, sickly

Choose two names:

A respectable name, an antique name, a plain name, an inherited name

Circle one in each list:

prescription lenses, yearning eyes, dilated pupils, frightened eyes unkempt, trendy, hulking, stunning, devolved, small

Blake, Chloe, Dorian, Edwina, Emil, Harriet, Heidi, Helen, Holt, Ian

bloodshot eyes, smoldering eyes, hungry eyes, darting eyes

An outdated name, a simple name, a stolen name, a brutal name

Origin

Circle one: chemical concoction, invocation of Janus, mathematical formula, sensory deprivation, radiation exposure, meditative trance

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone is very important to you as a close friend or lover. Give them a string on you. Someone else is very important to your other self; take a string on them. Someone accidentally witnessed you transforming; each of you take a string on the other.

Harm Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm Strings

Unchained Moves

You start with this one, and choose one more: ˜ The Formula You have discovered a way to transform yourself into an other self. This alternate version of you may look or act completely differently, and exists to fulfill your repressed desires. Transforming in either direction requires a lengthy preparation, although you will always transform back into your normal self when you are unconscious. When you transform into your other self, subtract 2 from your Cold and Dark and add 2 to your Hot and Volatile. When you become your Darkest Self, you automatically transform into your other self. m Addiction You no longer need a lengthy preparation process; you may become your other self at will. Only being unconscious will return you to your normal self. When you become your other self, carry 1 forward. If you go a full day without becoming your other self, hold steady. If you don’t roll 10 up, give yourself the condition Needs a Fix. m Animal Magnetism When you are your other self, you may give yourself +1 to turn someone on or manipulate an NPC if you have previously lashed out physically at that person. If you take this bonus, give yourself the condition Bestial.

Other Moves

m Dysphoria/Euphoria When you are your normal self, your repression and dysphoria prevent you from using turn someone on or manipulate an NPC under any circumstances. When you are your other self, your exuberance at the freedom you feel allows you to roll Volatile instead of Cold to shut someone down or hold steady. m Freedom from Consequence When you transform, clear all your conditions and heal 1 harm. m Unholy Glee When you are your normal self and you hear from a third party about some shameful or violent incident your other self was involved in, you may give yourself +1 to gaze into the abyss about the incident or people involved in it. If you take this bonus, give yourself the condition seduced by darkness. m You’re Not Me! Your other self is a true separate identity, not just a release of your usual restraints. Neither of you remember what happens while the other is active, although you can communicate via leaving messages. Track strings as if you were two separate characters; you and your other self each get a string on the other when you take this move.

Sex Move

Playing The Unchained

After you have sex with someone, your other self carries 1 forward to harm that person.

The key concepts for the Unchained are repression, freedom, dysphoria, and addiction, all rolled up into one violent little dysfunctional bundle. Your other self is your outlet for all your secret needs - you can be and do all those things you’re not allowed to be and do, but safely, as someone else, without ruining your reputation.

After your other self has sex with someone, take a string on that person.

Darkest Self Your other self always pursues its selfish desires, but now you’re truly free. No limits, no constraints, no regrets. Do what you please, with and to whom you please. Use and abuse anyone who crosses your path. Nothing is as important as satisfying your every whim, and no-one really matters except for you. You can only return from your Darkest Self when you cause some sort of unforgivable harm to someone your normal self cares about.

Advancement m Take another Unchained move. m Take another Unchained move. m Take a move from another Skin. m Take a move from another Skin. m You’re part of an Underground Club. m Add 1 to Hot (max 3). m Add 1 to Cold (max 3). m Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). m Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Marcus J. Ranum

Your other self can be as different from your normal self as you like, from minor changes like hair style and color to bigger shifts like changing your height or ethnicity, to major alterations like changing your sex (the Unchained lends itself to an exploration of trans* issues, but BE CAREFUL - don’t fall into the hazard of conflating trans-ness itself with monstrosity). Animal Magnetism, Addiction, and Dysphoria/Euphoria lend themselves well to a character who focuses on the other self in play, while Unholy Glee and You’re Not Me! are better suited for an Unchained who has a love/hate relationship with his other self, or considers it an antagonist. Freedom from Consequence can be a very handy move. Feel free to rack up conditions while indulging your deviant lusts as your other self, then wipe the slate clean when you change back into your respectable normal self in the morning. The Underground Club gang advancement may be a sex club, a fight club, a drug den, or whatever other seedy location your other self uses to unwind.

All you could think about were the things you shouldn’t do, the person you shouldn’t be. All day, every day, burying your real feelings because giving in would mean losing everything - your family, your friends, your place in the world. So you did what you were supposed to do, and you quietly hated yourself, and everything felt wrong - until now. Now you can have everything. Your good life, and your secret pleasures. And if people get hurt sometimes... that’s a small price to pay for tasting the forbidden fruit, right?

The Unchained Name

Look

Bruce, Eliza, Fanny, Hank, Jackson, Jacqueline, Julia, Marlowe, Mary, Tom

pristine, stuffy, nerdy, average, tailored, sickly

Choose two names:

A respectable name, an antique name, a plain name, an inherited name

Circle one in each list:

prescription lenses, yearning eyes, dilated pupils, frightened eyes unkempt, trendy, hulking, stunning, devolved, small

Blake, Chloe, Dorian, Edwina, Emil, Harriet, Heidi, Helen, Holt, Ian

bloodshot eyes, smoldering eyes, hungry eyes, darting eyes

An outdated name, a simple name, a stolen name, a brutal name

Origin

Circle one: chemical concoction, invocation of Janus, mathematical formula, sensory deprivation, radiation exposure, meditative trance

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile -1, Dark 1

Conditions

m

Hot

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC) m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady) m

Volatile

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark

(Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory Someone is very important to you as a close friend or lover. Give them a string on you. Someone else is very important to your other self; take a string on them. Someone accidentally witnessed you transforming; each of you take a string on the other.

Harm Experience Points: >> advance mmmmm Strings

Unchained Moves

You start with this one, and choose one more: ˜ The Formula You have discovered a way to transform yourself into an other self. This alternate version of you may look or act completely differently, and exists to fulfill your repressed desires. Transforming in either direction requires a lengthy preparation, although you will always transform back into your normal self when you are unconscious. When you transform into your other self, subtract 2 from your Cold and Dark and add 2 to your Hot and Volatile. When you become your Darkest Self, you automatically transform into your other self. m Addiction You no longer need a lengthy preparation process; you may become your other self at will. Only being unconscious will return you to your normal self. When you become your other self, carry 1 forward. If you go a full day without becoming your other self, hold steady. If you don’t roll 10 up, give yourself the condition Needs a Fix. m Animal Magnetism When you are your other self, you may give yourself +1 to turn someone on or manipulate an NPC if you have previously lashed out physically at that person. If you take this bonus, give yourself the condition Bestial.

Other Moves

m Dysphoria/Euphoria When you are your normal self, your repression and dysphoria prevent you from using turn someone on or manipulate an NPC under any circumstances. When you are your other self, your exuberance at the freedom you feel allows you to roll Volatile instead of Cold to shut someone down or hold steady. m Freedom from Consequence When you transform, clear all your conditions and heal 1 harm. m Unholy Glee When you are your normal self and you hear from a third party about some shameful or violent incident your other self was involved in, you may give yourself +1 to gaze into the abyss about the incident or people involved in it. If you take this bonus, give yourself the condition seduced by darkness. m You’re Not Me! Your other self is a true separate identity, not just a release of your usual restraints. Neither of you remember what happens while the other is active, although you can communicate via leaving messages. Track strings as if you were two separate characters; you and your other self each get a string on the other when you take this move.

Sex Move

Playing The Unseen

When someone acknowledges your The Unseen is about being overlooked, existence through physical intimacy, give voyeurism, and the temptations we give in up all strings on them and give them to when nobody is watching. If you chose three strings on you. They develop an She’s Not There, your classmates and uncanny sense for your presence and will teachers literally don’t know you exist. In always know approximately where you some ways this is very freeing - you don’t are when you are in a scene together. This have to go to class if you don’t feel like it, sense lasts until either of you have sex and it’s easy for you to spy on everyone with someone else or until they harshly and learn what they do in secret. If you ignore you. took See Through You, you might conceal your condition with makeup - which leaves you as ignorable as ever - or cover yourself Darkest Self with bandages, claiming burns or skin disease, which carries its own sort of social Such a bland and boring wallflower. problems. You’re not even interesting enough to torment. None of them know you even Try to be invisibly present in as many scenes exist. What will it take to get them to as possible (Voyeur helps here), to increase notice you? Something big. Something your knowledge of everyone’s secrets. If bloody. Something vile and terrifying and you have Blackmailer, you’ll also rack up above all, something showy. They won’t strings, and you should be very free with be able to ignore you after this. You’ll spending your social leverage since you show them who you really are. You can retain the strings if your mark refuses to go escape your Darkest Self when someone along with your wishes. Remember that if makes it clear that they know you exist, you have She’s Not There you’ll need to roll even if only for a moment, because of to become audible before you can flex your something terrible you did. extortionist muscles.

Advancement         

Take another Unseen move. Take another Unseen move. Take a move from another Skin. Take a move from another Skin. Take the initial move that you did not choose. Add 1 to Hot (max 3). Add 1 to Cold (max 3). Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Kristina

Give in to the temptation to do all sorts of naughty things since nobody can see you. You’re not accountable to anyone, after all. As your Darkest Self, go all out: display the chess team in the library with their fingers cut off. Paint the cafeteria with kittens’ blood. Set the boiler room to explode. Come up with the most horrific spectacle you can, and bask in the attention. You may develop a reputation - if an anonymous one - around the school. Attention paid to “The Cell Phone Blackmailer” counts as attention paid to you, so you may even encourage your urban legend status.

Last week at the prom, when the captains of the football and basketball teams were making out in the locker room while their girlfriends wondered where they’d disappeared to, none of them saw you. But you saw them. Yesterday, when the calculus teacher hid in the supply closet during his prep period and snorted coke until his eyes looked like a doll’s, glassy and shining in the darkness, he didn’t see you. But you saw him. Earlier tonight, when the nerdy, sickly kid everyone picks on lured the head cheerleader into a dirty alley, sprouted fangs, and sucked her dry, they didn’t see you. But you saw them. Nobody ever notices you. But you can see everything. All the things they do when they think no-one is watching. And maybe it’s time you started taking advantage of that.

The Unseen Name

Choose a name: Billy, Cecily, Griffin, Grover, Jacques, Kitty, Laura, Lyle, Marcy, Sebastian, Sue A nerdy name, a stuffy name, a plain name, a foreign name

Look

Circle one in each list: bad posture, peering through bangs, beiges and creams, t-shirt that was popular two years ago, hand-me-downs (...not that anyone pays attention to your look.) knowing eyes, translucent eyes, downcast eyes, pearly eyes, forgettable eyes (...but when was the last time anyone looked into your eyes?)

Origin

Circle one: invisibility formula, psychic blank spot, cursed to fade away, someone-else’sproblem field, light-bending physics accident

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Conditions m

Hot m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark (Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory

The Unseen must always declare their backstory second-to-last. You are beneath notice. Erase all strings that other characters have on you so far. You watch everyone in their private moments. Take 1 string on everyone else. Someone inadvertantly showed you some very juicy blackmail material. Take 1 extra string on them.

And choose two more:

She’s Not There

Blackmailer

or

m

Volatile

You start with one of these two:

You are unnoticeable. Nothing with a mind can see, hear, smell, or otherwise sense you, or anything you wear or carry. People will alter their paths to avoid bumping into you without being conscious of doing so. Evidence of your presence is ignored - if you are dripping wet or standing in a snowdrift, no-one will notice the puddle or footprints. Cameras and other recording devices - anything non-sentient - can still register and record you. If you want to make yourself known to others, roll Cold. On a 10 up, you can interact with others for one scene. On a 7-9, you stay invisible, but you can make yourself noticed by whispering, writing notes, or pushing people or furniture around. On a miss, become your Darkest Self.

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC)

Unseen Moves

See Through You

Harm Experience Points: >> mmmmm advance

Strings

You are perfectly transparent. Nothing can see you, including cameras. This only affects your body, not anything that you are wearing or carrying, so to be completely invisible you will need to be nude. You can still be heard, smelled, or felt, and evidence of your presence (footprints, floating patches of paint, etc.) may give away your location. If you want to interact with others normally, you will need to wear bandages or a mask, or cover your exposed skin with makeup. If you are disguised in this way and your true invisible nature is exposed, roll Cold. On a 10 up, you can retain self-control and beat a hasty retreat, leaving viewers wondering what they just saw. On a 7-9, you are enraged and embarrassed. All onlookers get a string on you. On a miss, become your Darkest Self.

When you observe someone doing something they’d rather keep secret, take a string on them. When you spend a string to offer someone experience, keep the string if they refuse.

Grand Guignol When you do something violent, perverse, or sadistic in order to attract attention, roll Volatile. On a 10 up, mark experience and treat anyone seeing or experiencing your handiwork as if you had shut someone down and rolled 10 up. On a 7-9, treat them as if you’d shut someone down and rolled 7-9, but also choose one: } They gain a string on you } Gain the condition Urban Legend On a miss, your atrocity is blamed on someone else. Become your Darkest Self. If you are already your Darkest Self, gain the condition Enraged.

Out of Thin Air When you are invisible and lash out physically, add 1 to your roll. Others take -1 to attempts to lash out physically at you.

Threatening Whispers You can roll Cold to manipulate an NPC by threatening to expose their secrets. Add 1 to your rolls to shut someone down.

Vanishing Act You can always run away from someone without having to roll, but choose one: } They take a string on you } You take 1 harm } You gain the condition Urban Legend

Voyeur Spend a string on someone to insert yourself into any scene that person is in. When you gaze into the abyss about someone you have strings on, spend a string to change a miss into a 7-9, or a 7-9 into a 10 up.

Sex Move

Playing The Unseen

When someone acknowledges your The Unseen is about being overlooked, existence through physical intimacy, give voyeurism, and the temptations we give in up all strings on them and give them to when nobody is watching. If you chose three strings on you. They develop an She’s Not There, your classmates and uncanny sense for your presence and will teachers literally don’t know you exist. In always know approximately where you some ways this is very freeing - you don’t are when you are in a scene together. This have to go to class if you don’t feel like it, sense lasts until either of you have sex and it’s easy for you to spy on everyone with someone else or until they harshly and learn what they do in secret. If you ignore you. took See Through You, you might conceal your condition with makeup - which leaves you as ignorable as ever - or cover yourself Darkest Self with bandages, claiming burns or skin disease, which carries its own sort of social Such a bland and boring wallflower. problems. You’re not even interesting enough to torment. None of them know you even Try to be invisibly present in as many scenes exist. What will it take to get them to as possible (Voyeur helps here), to increase notice you? Something big. Something your knowledge of everyone’s secrets. If bloody. Something vile and terrifying and you have Blackmailer, you’ll also rack up above all, something showy. They won’t strings, and you should be very free with be able to ignore you after this. You’ll spending your social leverage since you show them who you really are. You can retain the strings if your mark refuses to go escape your Darkest Self when someone along with your wishes. Remember that if makes it clear that they know you exist, you have She’s Not There you’ll need to roll even if only for a moment, because of to become audible before you can flex your something terrible you did. extortionist muscles.

Advancement         

Take another Unseen move. Take another Unseen move. Take a move from another Skin. Take a move from another Skin. Take the initial move that you did not choose. Add 1 to Hot (max 3). Add 1 to Cold (max 3). Add 1 to Volatile (max 3). Add 1 to Dark (max 3).

Skin Designed by: Topher Gerkey Stock Art by: Gin

Give in to the temptation to do all sorts of naughty things since nobody can see you. You’re not accountable to anyone, after all. As your Darkest Self, go all out: display the chess team in the library with their fingers cut off. Paint the cafeteria with kittens’ blood. Set the boiler room to explode. Come up with the most horrific spectacle you can, and bask in the attention. You may develop a reputation - if an anonymous one - around the school. Attention paid to “The Cell Phone Blackmailer” counts as attention paid to you, so you may even encourage your urban legend status.

Last week at the prom, when the captains of the football and basketball teams were making out in the locker room while their girlfriends wondered where they’d disappeared to, none of them saw you. But you saw them. Yesterday, when the calculus teacher hid in the supply closet during his prep period and snorted coke until his eyes looked like a doll’s, glassy and shining in the darkness, he didn’t see you. But you saw him. Earlier tonight, when the nerdy, sickly kid everyone picks on lured the head cheerleader into a dirty alley, sprouted fangs, and sucked her dry, they didn’t see you. But you saw them. Nobody ever notices you. But you can see everything. All the things they do when they think no-one is watching. And maybe it’s time you started taking advantage of that.

The Unseen Name

Choose a name: Billy, Cecily, Griffin, Grover, Jacques, Kitty, Laura, Lyle, Marcy, Sebastian, Sue A nerdy name, a stuffy name, a plain name, a foreign name

Look

Circle one in each list: bad posture, peering through bangs, beiges and creams, t-shirt that was popular two years ago, hand-me-downs (...not that anyone pays attention to your look.) knowing eyes, translucent eyes, downcast eyes, pearly eyes, forgettable eyes (...but when was the last time anyone looked into your eyes?)

Origin

Circle one: invisibility formula, psychic blank spot, cursed to fade away, someone-else’sproblem field, light-bending physics accident

Name:

Carry Forward

Stats

Conditions m

Hot m

Notes

Cold (Shut Someone Down, Hold Steady)

(Lash Out Physically, Run Away) m

Dark (Gaze Into The Abyss)

Your Backstory

The Unseen must always declare their backstory second-to-last. You are beneath notice. Erase all strings that other characters have on you so far. You watch everyone in their private moments. Take 1 string on everyone else. Someone inadvertantly showed you some very juicy blackmail material. Take 1 extra string on them.

And choose two more:

She’s Not There

Blackmailer

or

m

Volatile

You start with one of these two:

You are unnoticeable. Nothing with a mind can see, hear, smell, or otherwise sense you, or anything you wear or carry. People will alter their paths to avoid bumping into you without being conscious of doing so. Evidence of your presence is ignored - if you are dripping wet or standing in a snowdrift, no-one will notice the puddle or footprints. Cameras and other recording devices - anything non-sentient - can still register and record you. If you want to make yourself known to others, roll Cold. On a 10 up, you can interact with others for one scene. On a 7-9, you stay invisible, but you can make yourself noticed by whispering, writing notes, or pushing people or furniture around. On a miss, become your Darkest Self.

Add 1 to one of these: Hot -1, Cold 1, Volatile 1, Dark -1

(Turn Someone On, Manipulate an NPC)

Unseen Moves

See Through You

Harm Experience Points: >> mmmmm advance

Strings

You are perfectly transparent. Nothing can see you, including cameras. This only affects your body, not anything that you are wearing or carrying, so to be completely invisible you will need to be nude. You can still be heard, smelled, or felt, and evidence of your presence (footprints, floating patches of paint, etc.) may give away your location. If you want to interact with others normally, you will need to wear bandages or a mask, or cover your exposed skin with makeup. If you are disguised in this way and your true invisible nature is exposed, roll Cold. On a 10 up, you can retain self-control and beat a hasty retreat, leaving viewers wondering what they just saw. On a 7-9, you are enraged and embarrassed. All onlookers get a string on you. On a miss, become your Darkest Self.

When you observe someone doing something they’d rather keep secret, take a string on them. When you spend a string to offer someone experience, keep the string if they refuse.

Grand Guignol When you do something violent, perverse, or sadistic in order to attract attention, roll Volatile. On a 10 up, mark experience and treat anyone seeing or experiencing your handiwork as if you had shut someone down and rolled 10 up. On a 7-9, treat them as if you’d shut someone down and rolled 7-9, but also choose one: } They gain a string on you } Gain the condition Urban Legend On a miss, your atrocity is blamed on someone else. Become your Darkest Self. If you are already your Darkest Self, gain the condition Enraged.

Out of Thin Air When you are invisible and lash out physically, add 1 to your roll. Others take -1 to attempts to lash out physically at you.

Threatening Whispers You can roll Cold to manipulate an NPC by threatening to expose their secrets. Add 1 to your rolls to shut someone down.

Vanishing Act You can always run away from someone without having to roll, but choose one: } They take a string on you } You take 1 harm } You gain the condition Urban Legend

Voyeur Spend a string on someone to insert yourself into any scene that person is in. When you gaze into the abyss about someone you have strings on, spend a string to change a miss into a 7-9, or a 7-9 into a 10 up.

For the MC Under the Beast’s Skin

Under the Calaca’s Skin

The Beast is constantly struggling to repress her passions. In order to make that fun and dramatic, you’re going to have to put her in situations where she’s really tempted to give in. Don’t just constantly throw in NPCs who spam turn someone on at her; it will be much more rewarding to give her genuine reasons to like and be attracted to someone. Get her invested enough in another character and turn someone on might not even be necessary!

The Calaca is often focused on being a good friend or mentor, so an easy way to engage her is to threaten the people she cares about (whether fellow PCs or NPCs). Give her the chance to advise, direct, or intervene in her friends’ lives, then push back by bringing up unexpected consequences. You can also engage her more directly by playing up the way other people react to this cheerfully death-obsessed kid.

If the player chooses the Green-Eyed Monster or Scaredy Cat moves, she’s signaling to you that she wants to go Feral more often. Be sure to give her plenty of opportunities to get jealous, angry, terrified, or depressed by bringing in rivals or bullies to push her buttons and trigger her moves.

There are no specific rules for how a Calaca’s skin and flesh might be damaged or destroyed (or lost or stolen), so just use your best judgment and do what makes the most sense. The permanent loss of a skin is a very hard move, so use it wisely. If she wants to replace her skin, she’ll need to acquire and basically fillet a human body. You can make this especially horrific or keep it off-screen; keep in mind the comfort levels of your playgroup while deciding on the specifics. The same advice goes for a Calaca who decides to acquire some extra bones and take the Ossuary move as an advancement.

Be careful with the Bloodline of Beasts gang, as the subject matter may be triggery for some players. If you think it might be an issue, work with the player to define her gang as random people who also suffer from her curse, rather than actual relatives; alternately, just remove the “having sex with another Beast doesn’t trigger your Sex Move” clause to avoid the subject entirely. Monsterhearts isn’t a game that pays a lot of attention to things like movement, so if the Beast turns into an owl and wants to fly, or turns into an alligator and wants to swim, or turns into a cheetah and wants to run really fast, just let them do whatever sounds cool to everyone and makes sense in context. Remember that they don’t get any special bonus to actual moves (like run away) for being in an animal form, unless they have a Beast move that says otherwise.

If the player chooses the Connected move and wants to be in multiple scenes at once, make sure she tells you her plans in advance. This isn’t an “I was retroactively there all along” move. She should also let you know exactly which body parts are where, so you can MC the scene accordingly. Calacas with the Morte Alata move can fly. Again, use your best judgment as to what this means and how the player can take advantage of it. Special movement shouldn’t be an “I win” button!

For the MC Under the Creature’s Skin

Under the Fury’s Skin

The Creature won’t have much fun if you don’t give him something to protest and fight against, so be sure to give his cause an enemy or two, and make sure they won’t be easy to overcome quickly (or at all). Big business, the educational establishment, law enforcement, government, and parents/adults all make great examples of “The Man” trying to keep the Creature’s progressive ideas from coming to fruition. When he gets mad and goes for direct solutions (usually involving violence), feel free to show him that’s he’s only made things worse for his cause.

You’re going to want to play along with the Fury’s cycle of acceptance and rejection, but be judicious about it. When it’s time for her to catch a bit of a break or have some downtime, and if another player hasn’t already jumped in, have an NPC befriend her or at least be nice to her so she can pick up the Hopeful condition. Let her run with it for a while and build up momentum - maybe this time things will be different! Then when there’s room in the narrative for a big dramatic moment and the player is ready for some spotlight time, bring the whole thing crashing down with a cruel rejection or revelation of treachery. And now that she’s Betrayed, give her the time she needs to use her amped-up psychic powers and cause a little mayhem - or if she’s her Darkest Self, a LOT of mayhem. When it feels right, start the cycle again.

If word gets out that a merman, gill-man, or lake monster is in the area, cryptozoologists will come out of the woodwork to prove or disprove his existence. These make great intruders to throw at a Creature who has the Territorial move, and may even manage to capture him temporarily. Be sure to give him opportunities to escape if you go this route. When the Creature has the Fanatic condition, be sure to use it against him ruthlessly and remind the other players that they can use it as well. Being ridiculed and treated as a joke or a lunatic will give the Creature plenty of motivation to resort to questionable means in order to bring about his noble ends. As much as possible, frame scenes so as to give the Creature leeway to use his abilities. A scene at the high school might seem to leave him high and dry (so to speak) but, for example, if you throw in a sequence in the shower room so that he can use Hot and Wet to seduce a fellow swim team member, he’ll love you for it.

The Fury puts lots of conditions on herself and on others. Be sure to take advantage of conditions like Hopeful, Betrayed, and Creepy, and remember to play out your NPCs appropriately if they are Enthralled, Burned, have a Headache, or what have you. Let her play to her strengths. If her powers are mostly outward-facing (like telekinesis), set up scenes that are about physical confrontations. If she chose more inward-facing powers (like telepathy), choose scenes about social manipulation or hidden secrets. Once in a while, switch things up and put her in a tough spot where her psychic abilities won’t help her out and let her squirm.

For the MC Under the Gargoyle’s Skin A player who chooses to play the Gargoyle is expressing a strong preference for what kind of game they want to be part of - one in which the high school (or whatever other social center binds the characters together) has a major presence in the story. The Gargoyle’s entire existence and all his moves are focused around the school and its well-being, so keep that in mind when brainstorming Threats and Menaces. By default, a Gargoyle is inactive for twelve hours of every day. This can make it complicated to frame scenes in such a way that everyone gets roughly equivalent spotlight time! You’ll have to get creative to come up with replacements for typical teen scenes like sleepovers, keggers, and other nocturnal mischief. This becomes less of a problem if the Gargoyle takes the Babewyn move, so if you foresee difficulty in working him into your scenes, strongly suggest that he takes that move so he can be active when the other characters are. Certain other moves will suggest ideas for supporting cast members and/or plotlines. A Gargoyle who takes Kirkgrim is basically asking for a large, interesting student body and faculty who find themselves in peril frequently. Rival Schools should immediately inspire you to flesh out some other institutions, their populations, and the history and nature of their rivalries. Hatchery is another move that suggests some storylines. A Gargoyle’s egg can’t be destroyed, but what happens if it gets stolen? An egg held hostage could be a powerful tool to blackmail him into working for someone - as long as he’s not acting against the best interests of the school.

Under the Harpy’s Skin

For the MC Under the Minotaur’s Skin

Under the Mummy’s Skin

The Minotaur sees himself as a simple tool, and you should play along. If the other players aren’t spending enough time manipulating him into acting against their enemies, you should step in and have some NPCs take advantage of him. Use up any strings on him to offer him experience for doing your bidding, especially if he has Red Flag. Similarly, you should be having your NPCs throw each other and the players into the Minotaur’s maze (via the In the Maze condition) as often as possible, especially if he has the Tribute move.

The most important thing to remember when you have a Mummy in your game is that she has to learn some humility - and you’re the one who has to teach her. As much as she might wish otherwise, the world has changed and in many ways left her behind, and if she doesn’t change to match, she’s going to find herself lost and alone. Present her with as many object lessons to that effect as she can handle.

The Minotaur has a high Hot score but low selfesteem; you can reinforce this with the one-two punch of someone (especially someone he actually has feelings for) taking him out for a casual roll in the hay and then insisting that it be kept secret from everyone - or worse, pretending that it never happened at all. The big dumb hunk is fine to sleep with, but he’s certainly not relationship material, after all. If nothing else, it’s a good way to get the Golden Thread condition spread around. As important as it is to introduce NPCs to use and abuse the Minotaur, it’s also vital to have a collection of weakling NPCs for him to victimize. He can’t maintain his bully cred if he’s not frequently making other people miserable. For some added drama, maybe one of his most pickedon targets secretly has a serious crush on him - the one person who could genuinely show him love and affection is one of the people he torments because he doesn’t believe he’s worthy of love and affection. Such a character could even represent a happy ending for the Minotaur as he picks up Growing Up moves late in the story.

One of your primary tools will be Cursed Idols, if she has it. When she uses the idols unselfishly, to help or protect others without any ulterior motives, pick a curse that will only affect her mildly, if at all. On the other hand, if she uses the idols for her own benefit, to hurt others, or to get someone to do what she wants, feel free to screw her over royally by picking the worst possible curse - you want everyone at the table to say “holy shit, you are in trouble now” when they find out the effects of the curse. If you’re running a one-shot game, try to steer the Mummy away from taking the Tana Leaves move, as it can be difficult to replenish the leaves in a short timeframe. Soul Eater and Sun-Blessed are much better choices for one-shots. If the Mummy has a soulmate, try to throw as many roadblocks between them as possible. If the soulmate is an NPC, remember that the Mummy’s feelings of love don’t have to be reciprocated! Also be sure that the soulmate leverages the relationship against the Mummy as much as the Mummy leverages it against him - it works both ways, and anything that helps to humble the Mummy is a good thing.

For the MC Under the Muse’s Skin

Under the Proxy’s Skin You don’t have to be a Slender Man expert to help the Proxy’s player have fun, but it doesn’t hurt. Take a little time to browse YouTube for a bit and watch some videos (Marble Hornets, TribeTwelve, and EverymanHYBRID are all good choices) to pick up the proper mood - or just go hog wild with the alienation, paranoia, voyeurism, and hopelessness. Work together with the Proxy’s player to create his eldritch stalker. Come up with a basic sketch of Its qualities and behaviors, then every once in a while in play, have It brutally deviate from those qualities and behaviors just as a reminder that It is inhuman, inscrutable, and inescapable. Spend Its strings on the Proxy to offer experience in exchange for acts ranging from grafitti to animal mutilation, from kidnapping to obscene phone calls, from befriending a certain person to murder. Never let the Proxy know what’s coming next or why. Frame scenes that will allow the Proxy to share some screen time with his subject both as his normal self (possibly a friend, acquaintance, or even lover of the subject) and as his masked stalker self. Don’t blow his cover unless the scene calls for a very hard move, as much of the point of the playbook is that the other characters don’t know exactly who the masked creeper is. Join the Proxy in encouraging his subject to accept offered experience and trigger The Sickness; suggest that a subject with one or more Proxy moves who wants to switch to a new skin choose to become a new Proxy.

For the MC Under the Unchained’s Skin

Under the Unseen’s Skin

You’ll want to take a carrot-and-stick approach to the Unchained and his repressed desires. On the one hand, present him with temptations - all the stuff he wants to do and be but can’t...but could if he just took another dose of the formula. Show him other people happily indulging in the stuff he feels like he can’t have and dangle opportunities for a quick change of self.

If the Unseen takes She’s Not There, emphasize the idea that nobody has any clue that she exists. Go out of your way to describe other people interacting with one another in the way that no-one does with her, walking around her without noticing in the hallway, having conversations through her, and completely ignoring her speech and actions. Her only respite from her ostracism will be indirect contact - phone calls, scribbled notes, video mail, etc. If she uses this kind of tactic, you can have an urban legend spring up around her at the school, so that she is known of, if not actually known.

On the other hand, hit him hard with life in the closet. Put him in situations where his inability to just be himself is painful and frustrating. Hold up a mirror to his selfloathing and dysphoria, and make it clear that all this ugly could go away if he just made the choice to change again. Isn’t it worth the risk of someone getting hurt? Be careful, though. Issues of identity and dysphoria might be painful for the reallife people you’re playing the game with. As always, know your group and their boundaries. If someone is playing the Unchained, it’s a good idea for everyone to discuss beforehand where the borders of comfortable, good-uncomfortable, and baduncomfortable are located. Remember that the Unchained is not, by default, split into “good” and “evil” selves. One self is created for the explicit purpose of indulging the secret passions of the other. For a more modern “split personality” take on this archetype, the player should take You’re Not Me! and you should regularly surprise him with what his other self has been up to without his knowledge.

If she takes See Through You, she’s just invisible, not unnoticeable. She’ll be expected to go to classes and other people will be aware of her - but that’s no guarantee they’ll interact with her. If she wears makeup to look normal, she’s one of those “invisible kids” who are neither popular nor victims, simply ignored by almost everyone. If she wears bandages or a mask (perhaps claiming a skin condition, burns, or deformity) then the ignoring will be much more conspicuous - she’s outcast because she’s presumed to be grotesque. In this case, any urban legends around her will be as a result of her invisible activities, and not associated with her actual identity. Be sure to give the Unseen lots of blackmail fodder! If she has Voyeur, ask her if she wants to be in scenes if something scandalous is going on. If she has Blackmailer or Threatening Whispers, those are also good signs that her player is interested in being a collector and abuser of secrets.