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Active

• Aurora, the Fae: played by BlackSheep
• Chloe, the Infernal: played by Xadun
• Jeremy, the Vampire: played by MixterAsh
• Karlena, the Witch: played by Andrensath

Retired

• Bryce, the Queen: played by Rook Seidhr
• Iggy, the Ghoul: played by insomniac
• Hester, the Serpentine: played by DannyK
• Wendy, the Mortal: played by Bremen

Strings

Those across the top hold the strings on those listed in the first column

☟ gave Strings to ☞	Aurora	Chloe	Jeremy	Karlena
Aurora	N/A			1
Chloe	1	N/A	1	3
Jeremy			N/A
Karlena		4	1	N/A

Homeroom Chart

Link to the thing to modify directly: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1IUcT0P6pgAY9IRPTzAELLwXMdNgWwqvoX6liHGYwIJ0/edit

There are supposed to be three seats at each table, at about 10, 12, and 2 to view the screen.

Relationship Map

Relationship Map

Class Schedule

A rough one, just for me to keep track of. Will bother with day shifts and so forth later.

Period	Aurora	Chloe	Jeremy	Karlena
One	Media Studies	Media Studies	Media Studies	Media Studies
Two	Theatre	Theatre	Theatre	Theatre
Three	English Composition	English Composition	History Electives	English Composition
Four	Art		Art	Arabic
Lunch	-	-	-	-
Five	Gym	Gym	Gym	Chemistry
Six	English Literature	English Literature	English Literature	English Literature
Seven	Math	Math	AP US History	Gym Study Hall

Roles

These are the various implied character roles by current PC stuff. When fitting in your PC or an NPC for your character, consider grabbing one of these and noting that either you're filling it or it has been moved to an NPC by firming them up by intersecting with them.

A note on parents: they're generally implied and even if brought up specifically I'm not adding them here. Talk directly to the player in question. The exception to this is if a player makes their parent a teacher or other official in town, which means they and their family should be more up for grabs as that's what that sort of thing flags to me.

• 'Hurricane' Katrina Walker, the BFF / creator of Bryce the Hollow.
• Luna Miller, former best friend of Katrina, Aurora's more-popular older sister, currently dating Lazarus Drake.
• Iggy's 'friend' who bailed
• Person who bullied Wendy into her harder state
• The real Aurora Miller, snatched as a baby and raised in Faerie.

The Drake Clan:

• Ophiucus Drake, Hester's father, is in white collar prison for financial improprieties.
• Belinda Drake, Hester's mother, is convinced that the trouble is because we strayed from the old ways.
• Uncle Phineas Drake, an alderman of the town, now running for state senate, who is keeping his distance to preserve his reputation.
• Lazarus Drake is Hester’s fraternal twin and a creep. He’s not taking the current situation well at all. Former boyfriend of Katrina, now dating Luna.
• Amity Drake is the terrifying grandmother.
• Little Tanith is her sweetly spooky sister.

The Setting

The Schools

Saint Anthony's

Run partially by the local convent and partially by overseers who are not happy with the sisters and their political bend, Saint Anthony's has served the Catholic community of Silence for quite sometime. The community informally known as Kennedy Commons is the primary source of students. Located near the school on the south side of town, it was finished not long after JFK got inaugurated and exuberant Irish-American inhabitants gave it the informal name. However, its boom time lasted about as long as Camelot did. Those who live in the rapidly degrading area are primarily employed by the contractors of Franklin Rendering, doing cleanup work from all the damage said company caused and getting ever closer to there being nothing left to clean up.

Silence High

Silence's public high school sits at the edge of the residential area, separated from the back of the main drag strip malls by a high retaining wall that back its bleachers. Of course, kids know all the way to go over and through the wall to shave time off getting to their favourite places during lunch and free periods. Drawing mainly from the low rise apartments of the area as well as bussed in kids from a few of the smaller rural communities nearby, Silence High is a massive palimpsest of American educational architecture and theory. A Brutalist library and administrative hub squats atop the central hill of the school, connected by locker lined overpasses to the various wings. Students run the gamut from working class kids worried about their parent's jobs to the well to do children of climbers who are just shy of making enough for private school.

Sweet Water Preparatory Academy

Just a bit north west of Silence proper, at the edge of the ring of mansions known as the Estates, are woods so perfect they have to be cultivated. And they are, as the grounds of Sweet Water Preparatory Academy. Popular with the inhabitants of the Estates, many of whom are multigeneration legacies, as well as with those drawn by a high price tag and a long history, Sweet Water Preparatory Academy shows an antiquated facade but has state of the art facilities wrapped up in the reclaimed wood. Even when the students go slumming in town without their telltale uniforms, you can pick them out by the posture, diction, and the careless way they wave their smartphones to pay for pretty much anything.

NPCs

NPC Related Strings

NPCs Holding Strings on PCs

☟ gave Strings to ☞	Abigail	Hunter Artemis	Astrid	Bryce	Hester	Iggy	Ms. Jansen	Lazarus	Luna	Mina	Old Bones	Phineas	Scion in Chains	Wendy
Aurora						1	1				1			3
Chloe		1		1									1	1
Jeremy
Karlena				1									4

PCs Holding Strings on NPCs

☟ gave Strings to ☞	Aurora	Chloe	Jeremy	Karlena
Hunter Artemis			1	2
Mr. Ahearn
Glory
Hester	3
Iggy				1
Jade	1
Lapis	1			1
Lars
Lazarus
Luna
Officer Friendly
Detective O'Toole	1
Riley	2
Scion in Chains	1	1
Tanith
Wendy	3

Staff

Portrait	Name	Subject(s) & Description	Conditions	Custom Moves
	Mr. Ahearn	Gym		His gym classes have 1-harm as established
	Mr. Auccoloni	AP US History
	Ms. Danish	Media Studies
	Ms. Dee	Chemistry
	Mr. Fitch	Media Production, Theatre	dead
	Ms. Fitzpatrick	School nurse
	Mrs. Frank	Home Economics
	Mr. Ito	English Composition
	Mr. Jefferson	Media Production, Theatre; Took over from Mr Fitch
	Ms. Kaplan	English Literature
	Ms. Jansen	Principal
	Ms. Lapine	Biology; former Playboy model
	Mr. Linden	Librarian		Librarian Death Stare—Making a commotion where Mr. Linden is present and in charge requires Keeping Your Cool.
	Miss Novak	Art
	Ms. Razek	Arabic
	Mr. Roth	History
	Ms. Straub	Computer Science, Math
	Dr. Zhang	Chinese

Parents

Portrait	Name	Parent Of	Conditions	Custom Moves
	Belinda Drake	Hester and Lazarus		If you go to her for help, she gains a String on you when you make the request.
	Ophiucus Drake	Hester and Lazarus
	Phineas Drake	(Ophiucus' brother)	Illusionist
	Joshua Jones	Karlena
	Lucy Jones	Karlena
	Lawrence James Quinn	Jeremy
	Elizabeth Ann Quinn	Jeremy
	Karen Taylor	Chloe
	Mary Miller	Aurora and Luna
	Thomas Miller	Aurora and Luna

Other Students

NPC Schedule

Portrait	Name	Connection and Description	Conditions	Custom Moves
	Abigail Nissenbaum	Karlena's newest ex-girlfriend; used to walk with a cane - local rabbi's daughter
	Alice Kennedy	Member of Karlena's coven
	Artemis (formerly Hunter)	Member of Karlena's coven; Was AMAB - had body altering spell cast on her by Karlena to turn her into a cis girl
	Astrid Jansen	Principal's daughter	One of them	You can exchange a String on Astrid for one on Principal Jansen while engaging the Principal, if you can Keep Your Cool during the interaction.
	Brian	Geeky guy; 2nd Period Chinese; dating Ty
	Brittany Schaeffer	Glory's lieutenant	Gossip
	Bryce	Media Studies Classmate	Queen Bitch; Life Ruiner; Subjugated by Darkness	She and the rainbow brigade are Of One Mind; if you are One of Them, Bryce is considered to have a String on you at all times
	Charity Featherstonehaugh	Ridiculously greedy; annoying nasal voice
	Glory Whelan	Co-captain of the cheerleading team
	Greg
	Hester Drake	Media Studies Classmate	Meddler	If you have sex with Hester, you get pregnant.
	Johnny "call-me-Ifan" Lewis	Media Studies Classmate
	Jay Smith	Media Studies Classmate
	Julie	Media Studies Classmate		If you are one of Julie's buyers, she knows where to find you. When you have one of Julie's edibles, you are bathed in moonlight from the secret moon. Any secret act you commit or secret you share is carried on the winds of that moon.
	Lars	Afternoon Media Studies
	Laura Westernra	Mina's younger sister; would-be member of Karlena's coven
	Matthew	Media Studies Classmate; Rachael's Brother
	Michael Petersen	Bryce's party date - deceased and forgotten; Girls knew to avoid him - much worse now; annihilated entirely		Cannot be reached even through the Abyss or Moves that can contact the dead
	Mina Westernra	Karlena's on again / off again girlfriend (Now permanently off); Comp Sci student
	Michelle
	Rachael	Afternoon Media Studies; Matthew's Sister
	Rajiv	Media Studies Classmate
	Riley Gallagher	Member of Karlena's coven; Social outcast; rumour mill says she got pregnant last year	Worse than nothing
	Tahira Nejem	Friend of Karlena and Mina; Theatre Classmate
	Ty	Social outcast; dating Brian; outed and bullied off the basketball team
	Victor Nguyen	Media Studies Classmate

The Help and Stranger Things

Portrait	Name	Known Nature	Conditions	Custom Moves
	Nancy	Figment - Legal Guardian of Rainbow Brigade		As necessary—If you come to Nancy in distress, she becomes what you need to help (+1 ongoing until your problem is resolved if she's involved or tools necessary to get the job done); but Phineas will find out.
	Old Bones	Inhabitant of the Lost Woods		Dealer in Dreams and Dooms—If you think you need or want it, Old Bones has it for a price. Whenever you enter the Lost Woods in want of something, you can find Old Bones to make the exchange.
	The Voice in the Stone	Inhabitant of the Lost Woods		Memories from Before Time—The Voice in the Stone recalls all, but time moves strangely in its presence. When leaving its presence Keep Your Cool with Dark to reenter the world at a good time, otherwise the time spent there is at the mercy of fae whim.
	The Scion in Chains	Demon of the Outer Darkness		Beyond This World—Acting directly against the Scion's person can be attempted once directly, after that something more intense and mystical is required to bridge the gap / drag him down to the character's level.
	The King of Shut Eyes	Lord of the Lost Woods; A King of the Fae
	The Huntress	A Lady of the Fae
	Nyx, the Sister in the Dark	A Queen of the Outer Darkness		The Stress of Her Regards—When a character has Nyx's attention, they are subject to terrible stress as if lost in the Outer Darkness. If the circumstances are dangerous, they are thus also vulnerable to Whispering Darkness.

Other Townsfolk

Portrait	Name	Description	Conditions	Custom Moves
	Detective O'Toole	Silence PD's "weird shit" investigator	Wary	Can shut down gifts from the Scion
	Nathan Hutz	Lawyer for the Drakes, anyone else who'll pay; Kinda slimy

Strange Places

The Lost Woods

Anybody who comes into the forest will be lost

Here the Masquerade Never Ends—If you disguise your identity in the Lost Woods, everybody will treat you as who you disguise yourself as. Including yourself. You must Keep Your Cool to unmask if others are present.

The Drake Family Crypts

As we are now, they once were. As they now are, we may be

—Drake Family Motto upon the graves, tombs, and crypts

At the Edge of the Outer Darkness—You cannot reach the true tombs of the Drake family without a family member bringing you there. In the True Crypts, when you spill a wound worth of blood you may ask a question for each wound worth of blood spilled. The bones of the Drake family dead will answer honestly. If you follow the advice of the bones, mark xp (once per advance regardless of questions asked). When you reject the answers and seek your own way, take +1 forward.

The Outer Darkness

Whispering Darkness—Those lost in the Outer Darkness who enter into what would be stressful / dangerous situations in the regular world, risk suffering harm to their sense of self and identity. Instead of suffering physical harm, those subject to such things roll +Cool as they try to shut out the voices in the dark.

On a 10+, the voices are shut out for now.

On a 7-9, the MC will choose one:

• You lose something or someone you were attending to
• You miss noticing something important
• A secret about you passes from your mind entirely and into the outer darkness (the MC will ask you)
• A memory or secret comes into your mind from the outer darkness (the MC will tell you)

On a miss, the MC will choose one:

• You are tricked deeper into the outer darkness.
• Your body becomes a vessel for the whispers, or one of the whisperers, for a few moments you do things under their direction and come to without any idea of what you did
• Your nature is transformed, the MC will ask you how and you will answer and as part of the answer exchange the ratings of two stats