Night Birds

A slightly surreal dark urban fantasy PbP game of Cartoon Action Hour Season 3 run by Max.

Interest thread

Recruitment/meta thread

OOC thread

IC thread

The Series

Intro theme: "Kool Kat Walk", Julee Cruise

Closing credits: "Until the End of the World", Julee Cruise

Dials

Seriousness: 3. Situations can get absurd, and the sort of wry, laconic sense of humor characteristic of hard boiled fiction is encouraged, but on the whole things should be played straight rather than for laughs. "Goofy" comic relief characters should be avoided or, failing that, shot.

Realism: 3. This is not but for most intents and purposes might as well be the real world, at least in regard to how things and people generally work.

Violence: 3+. There will be blood, there will be death, and either might be yours. As a rule, the series aims for at most a TV-14 rating in terms of on-screen portrayal of sex, drugs and violence; when in doubt, go for stylishly coy rather than graphic.

Continuity: 2. Episodes are mostly self-contained, but connected by overarching storylines and character arcs. Past events affect the status quo.

Player Character Guidelines

Star Power: 3.

Tier and Trait Points: Human tier, 18 points to spend on Traits.

Houserules

All opposed checks are made against a standard DN of Trait + 6.

You lose one Setback Token after each scene in which you appear.

If you are Defeated by physical injuries, you must receive proper medical care before you start to lose Setback Tokens.

You can get back up and rejoin the action at any point after being Defeated, but if you do so and gain even one more Setback Token your character dies, even if this final defeat isn't physical in nature.

Player Characters

Player Character 1 (Player Name)

Brief description.

Oomph: 3

Upgrades: Upgrade 1, Upgrade 2, Upgrade 3

Signature Quality: Player-Controlled Protagonist

Standard Qualities: Something Physical, Something Mental

Traits

Trait 1 (Special Rule)

Trait 2 (Special Rule)

Trait 3 (Special Rule)

Trait 4

Trait 5

Player Character 2 (Player Name)

Brief description.

Oomph: 3

Upgrades: Upgrade 1, Upgrade 2, Upgrade 3

Signature Quality: Player-Controlled Protagonist

Standard Qualities: Something Physical, Something Mental

Traits

Trait 1 (Special Rule)

Trait 2 (Special Rule)

Trait 3 (Special Rule)

Trait 4

Trait 5

The City

Lake of Black Swans

A large, still pond, home to a flock of semi-tame black swans adopted by the City.

South Cemetery Park

A communal area of tended woods, lawns and hedges on the south side of the city, next to the former site of the City's oldest graveyard (now an open air cinema).

Links

Orokos (online dice roller)