Following your lead, the guards are extra vigilant, expecting something to happen at any moment. You see the trustees fidgeting with their truncheons, watching for trouble. At the center of the "ring", you see Henry and Carey, off by themselves. Henry is a big man, 6'6" and muscular, ...

The job of cleaning out the cell is distasteful, but not difficult. The prisoner lies there and let's you clean around him, and doesn't object when Hal changes him into a clean outfit. You finish up without further incident, and report back to the Warden. This time, Warden Seymour is warmer, seeming...

Alright, so involuntary medium and repressed memories? Just checking... You still want the intense law & order, punish the evildoer element, right? What about the religious aspect of that? It conflicts less with the medium idea than the "occultist" idea... maybe he's concerned about ev...

Just want to make sure you want people to react to you as if you are a monster: Bad Reputation For some reason, you have attracted the public’s disapproval – even animosity. Perhaps you’ve been spotlighted in the tabloids as a pedophile or murderer, falsely or otherwise. In the first game session an...

Well, I suppose I was proposing different disadvantages, and wondering how you felt about them. Sounds like you want to go with the bad reputation, though? Not sure I heard an answer in your reply... To be clear, the family secret, which sounds like it is connected to the deaths, is *not* something ...

Alright... interesting! We already have someone who is in charge of the cell block with the murderers, but.... hrmmmm... how about if you are in charge of the "special" wing, with the death row inmates, and the solitary confinement cells? People who are being punished *more* than just bein...

The man rocks in place, seemingly ignoring Finn. For a moment, his eyes focus on you, and he mumbles weakly "can't... can't remember!" Then his eyes focus on a spot in the air in front of him, and he tries to grab at the air, at nothing, causing the chains to jingle, lost in his delusion. ...

Louis nods, and heads down the hall toward the supply closet, shooting the guard a sour look as he goes. "You got it, boss" The guard, a piggish man with a heavy brow named Hal, mumbles under his breath, complaining about the prisoner and the messy state of the cell. A few choice words lat...

Alright, super! Having family drama seems to be a thing we are interested in. I'd say that it's fine to have your repressed memories be about the death if your father and grandfather, and have it be related to a car accident. Keep in mind that this is the early days of cars, so it would definitely b...

No prob! I'm hoping to do some separate, and some "together" threads, as we go along... card games/ domestic stuff, or work things where you are together, etc, but for the moment, things are independent... this can facilitate new people (rossik?) still coming in, or just general issues get...

Hi Rossik, Glad to see that you are still interested. The first stage for you would be to create a character. Then we can progress toward getting you into the game. I'll start a special character creation thread for you, so that we can keep track of that conversation. Here is the thread: http://www....

Hi Rossik! The first thing that I would like you to do, as a step toward creating a character, is to select one "dark secret" and two "disadvantages". Your dark secret will be a thing that your character doesn't know, at the moment, and which you are not to develop, in detail, yo...

The man does not struggle as Louis and the guard move him to the back wall, and attach the manacles. He squints and tries to look away from the light, mumbling some long, unintelligible phrase which includes the word "forgive". The floor has a thin layer of dirty straw on it, but no other ...

The guard switches on the light switch before moving down to the end of the long basement corridor, jingling his keys. The paint on the walls in the hallway is peeling, and the smell of urine hangs in the air. The room, number 5, is at the end of the corridor. The guard unlocks the door, and opens i...

It's early December, 1920 on Blackwell Island. The weather is brisk, but not freezing. Your inmates are kept in their cells for much of the day, as they are considered quite dangerous. They are brought out for meals, and they spend an hour in the yard before lunch, but they are expected to stay in t...

We can assume you know about the basement where the isolation cells are, and which one he's talking about. If you have any questions, or want to bring anyone down to do the work with you or something like that, go ahead. Once you go down there, I'll tell you what it looks like

It's early December, 1920 on Blackwell Island. The weather is brisk, but not freezing. The inmates will be working in the shop in the morning, making furniture. It's going to be chilly in there, as the building is not heated, but not terrible. Business as usual. After lunch, the inmates will be in t...

Ooooook.... this seems like a good situation to start with :) Schizophrenia overtakes you. The GM takes 3 Hold. The GM may spend Hold to make a Move for your schizo-phrenia. For example, one of your hallucinations takes on physical form, you view your current surroundings as being hostile to you, yo...

mik wrote:I’m not worried if there is no plan yet for the Dark Secrets - “play to find out” applies to the GM too!

Precisely! Looking forward to finding out

Pre kicking off, I'll need a schizophrenia roll from Bobby. That'll potentially give me some "ammunition" as we get started

I put "instructions" for how to roll the dice in the rules thread. Hopefully it'll be clear enough...