Arkham Nights

Our Host: Phantom Grunweasel

Setting:
The Buffyverse but also the Cthulhu Mythos

System:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Premise:
The Slayer has moved to Arkham High, where she has her work cut out for her with haunters in the dark, things on the doorstep, dreams in witch houses, and rats in the walls. A 21st century update on the Mythos, with an undercurrent of self-aware postmodern humour.

Mood:
Wise-cracking, deadpan banter shot through with some genuine heart and genuine horror

The Story So Far:

The creator of Julie the Vampire Slayer had a vision for a postmodern comedy/drama/horror/fantasy series set in Lovecraft's Arkham. It was adapted into a feature-length film, Julie the Vampire Slayer, but was not deemed a commercial success. Our creator managed to persuade a studio to sponsor a TV series that would be something between a sequel and a reboot of the movie - taking some of the things that had happened in it as read, quietly retconning others, and in general just moving forward.

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Julie arrived in town, where she met and befriended Claudia and Sam. A vampiric cult of Hastur turned out to have been kidnapping women for sacrificial purposes, and our heroes sprang into action. They saved the kidnapped women, and kicked much vampire arse. Now they defend Arkham from supernatural terror and also play in a band. Guitarist wanted.

Note: It’s the player characters that will make this one. I’ll be planning the stories around them.

Characters

Julie Connolly : played by Craig Oxbrow
Our Vampire Slayer. Originally from Boston, Julie is big into the club and indie music scene. Underneath a cool exterior, she may be more troubled than she seems. She moved to Arkham after unfortunate events in Boston related to her parents' divorce and her awakening as a Slayer. Now she leads the fight against evil in Arkham.

Samantha Butler : played by jamieth
A cheerleader and a responsible, level-headed girl. Sam is Claudia's older sister and is always trying to convince her sister to take more care of herself.

Claudia Butler : played by spaceranger
A goofy, easy-going drummer, stoner, slacker, and class-clown. Claudia ('Cloud' to some) is Sam's younger sister and frequently chafes under her sister's authority.

Gisa Amsel : played by MysteryCat
A Swiss punk rocker, forced to move to the States after her engineer father was offered a prestigious job in Arkham by Black Pharaoh, the multi-billion dollar tech company.

Sera Washington : played by Argent
An American-Kashmiri highschooler and acerbic sorceress with a gloomy and sarcastic streak.

Family

Professor Butler - Claudia and Samantha's dad
Professor Butler - Claudia and Samantha's mom
Stephen Connolly - Julie's dad

Schoolmates

WORK IN PROGRESS NOT FINAL
Bobby Blake - guitarist, deceased
Ramón Serrano - guitarist, erased from the timeline
Holly Davies - guitarist, killed and now haunting Kingsport
Sonia Waite - quiet, studious girl
Nick Armitage - English transfer student
Anna Armitage - Nick's twin sister
Dexter Ward - hipster, killed by Crawlers in Kingsport
Walt Gilman - math prodigy
Natalie Wingate - golden girl student
Steven "Skids" Brewer - hipster pot dealer and passive-aggressive/brown-nosing academic high achiever, his dad's a local cop
Chelsea Cho, horror movie buff
Joseph MacKenzie - friend of Sera's, now trapped forever in the distant past
Herbie West - head of the AV Club and an aspiring animator

Teachers and Faculty

WORK IN PROGRESS NOT FINAL
Jacquelyn Baker - School Principal
Hannah Nichols - Biology
Aaron Evans - English
Sherman Page - Librarian
Keziah Mason - Mathematics
Tara Jimenez - Chemistry
Trevor Watkins - Metalworking
Olga Pittman - History and German Language
Randy Carter - Physics
Margaret - school office administrator

Townspeople

Father Merluzzo - idealistic, leftist young Catholic priest
Ted & Rosemary - aging hippy proprietors of the Lucky Pig, Arkham's first vegetarian restaurant
Rami Peace - energetic young CEO of the Arkham-based tech company Black Pharaoh
Ali Peace - Rami Peace's nephew
Rich Pickman - reclusive underground comix artist
Julian Karswell - the elderly English proprietor of the Witch House, Arkham's best occult bookstore
Thomas Malone - Arkham police officer and aspiring detective
Eddie Derby - proprietor of the Crown and Shield, a local pub
Asenath Derby - Eddie's much younger wife

Episode Guide

Interest thread: [1]

"Pilot" Episode archive:

IC thread: https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?725800-Julie-the-Vampire-Slayer-Season-1

OC thread: https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?725789-Julie-the-Vampire-Slayer-Season-1

Wiki: https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Julie_the_Vampire_Slayer