Everyone - I just realized I made a mistake in the Char Gen thread.  I said that Cover and Network each start with 15 points for free (and I might have said it in an unclear way), but Cover actually only starts at 10.  Network does indeed start at 15.  I've corrected it now in that thread.  Sorry about that.

Also, for those of you who have worked out your General abilities, I will add the associated cherries into your character sheets in a little bit.

Also also, since a couple of you have written in some past experience with the supernatural (at least suspected, if not verified), I'm going to declare for now that none of you have shared that information with each other up to this point - maybe dropped vague hints, but not openly discussed it.  But that only applies to life before the start of the game.

Rob - If I'm understanding this correctly, you've split the 15 points between Cover and Network, and then spent another 70 on top of that.  You can bump Cover and Network up to 10 and 15, respectively.  And no, those do not count toward the rule about your highest score being twice your second highest.
You do have the right idea about how Cover and Network work, but you don't have to spend those points now.  If you have ideas that you want to establish already then go ahead, but you are also free to save those points until the right moment comes up for you to call your friend at the BBC.
Sources of stability - the Symbol, Solace, and Safety are the sources, as far as game mechanics go.  You are welcome to have defined other people as well, they just won't have a game mechanics effect.  Also, for your Solace and Safety, please specify where they are located.

Galen - unless I missed something, you still have 2 more General points to spend

Antoine - see upthread for the Mule and Wheel Artist templates.  For the others that you're considering...
Cleaner:
Investigative - Bureaucracy 2, Cop Talk 1, Criminology 2, Urban Survival 1
alternates - Chemistry, Data Recovery, Electronic Surveillance, Notice, Streetwise
General - Conceal 6, Disguise 2, Driving 4, Explosive Devices 2, Infiltration 2, Stability 2
alternates - Digital Intrusion
Wet Worker:
Investigative - Intimidation 2, Streetwise 2, Urban Survival 2
alternates - Criminology, Electronic Surveillance, Photography
General - (Shooting or Weapons) 10, Hand-to-Hand 4, Surveillance 4
alternates - Disguise, Explosive Devices, Infiltration

Tyr - it looks like you have 8 General points unspent, unless you put them into Health or Stability and didn't include that in your table there.  Also, where did Notice 4 come from in your Investigative abilities?  I see where you shuffled a couple points around but not that much.


And here is the updated table for what we have so far:

...so that leaves Accounting, Flattery, Flirting, and Astronomy vacant.  Antoine, feel like taking any of those?  Or does anyone else feel like shuffling their points to cover them?

Here's my updated list. For some reason, I thought we could use some of the General Points to boost Investigation Abilities. Plus, I may have added things up wrong.

I could always swap Cop Talk for Accounting or Astronomy.

Health: 8/8       Stability: 5/5

CHANGES MADE
My full updated info' is in my character description

Drive: discovering the Mystery ; he traveled a lot, studied history, languages, and has the feeling there is some Occult force at play (he does not know of Vampires, but has spotted signs of their existence)

Solace - Mona Mooi ; my girlfriend (she runs a “food barge” in Amsterdam), Rob lives with her on that barge (on the canals of Amsterdam) when he is in town

Safety - beach pavilion in Schiermonnikoog (West Frisian Islands, up North, close to Germany). His vacation/retreat place

3 Languages (Academic) Dutch, English, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Hebrew
+5 languages left open

10 - Cover
• Samuel Stritham (4 Cover) ; British citizen, works for Williams Medical Supplies as an international sales rep’ (thus traveling a lot, with medical samples)
+6 left open

15 - Network
• Jenny Boorstil (4 Network) ; curator at the Tropenmuseum, the Amsterdam ethnographic museum
+11 left open

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that leaves Accounting, Flattery, Flirting, and Astronomy vacant
Tyr said he could take Accounting (giving up Cop Talk).
I would be up to dropping Law and taking Astronomy. Tell me if I should do that?
Leaving: Flattery & Flirting-- which go well together!

Thank you for your flexibility guys.  Let's wait and see what Antoine picks, and then if there are still gaps to cover and you are willing to make those changes you can do that.

Fair point, my maths is terrible! I'll probably drop them in 'conceal' to bump that up.

Happy to shuffle points around if it balances out the team. I could probably drop a point in Tradecraft for Astronomy?

Ok, I think This is Antoine's stats... still working on appropriate Drives, etc based o timeline...


This message was last updated by the player at 19:46, Sat 22 Aug 2020.

So that just leaves Flattery and Astronomy unclaimed.  A couple of you mentioned being willing to move a point from somewhere else into Astronomy, and no one has said anything about Flattery.  My hunch, from reading the game but not having tested it out yet, is that this takes away one method of pumping people for information but you still have enough others that we are probably okay without it.  That said, I will leave the final decision with you fine folks as far as whether or not you want to let that one slide.

I will drop Law and take Astronomy.
Updating now in my description.

If someone wants to take Flattery (Tyr? Instead of Cop Talk...).
This message was last edited by the player at 12:32, Mon 24 Aug 2020.

Sure, I'll take Flattery in place of Cop Talk. If I can't understand what a cop is saying, I'll just flattery him until he spells it out in plain English... or Swedish... or German... or whatever.


By the way, nice job, Rob, on putting your character sheet in your Description!
This message was last edited by the player at 17:28, Mon 24 Aug 2020.

By the way, nice job, Rob, on putting your character sheet in your Description!
Thanks. I'll see how to make that in tables once I it is finalized (I'm not rpol expert).

Cop Talk flattery: "That donut suits your eyes so well, detective!"

xD )))

Game is on!  Time to act serious, or at least something close to it.

By the way, since we're all still learning, you will have some leeway to adjust your characters once we get a better feel for how things actually work.

As I understand it, if you use the Quote function for a table, it'll preserve the formatting.

Here's the revised and updated table of everyone's Abilities. Everyone double check the table, though, to make sure I got it right. Don't know Galen's languages...


This message was last edited by the player at 20:04, Tue 25 Aug 2020.

Thanks a lot for all this!

I have 1 in Streetwise and Tradecraft too (the free points).
I will check all this (and use your table - quote works to copy the format, THANKS! - use your table to put up my finalized character) tomorrow I think (or later tonight).

I am well impressed with that table - wouldn't know where to start doing something like that!

Only corrections to Galen's stats that I can see are that his Cover should be 10 and his Conceal should be 4.

Languages I was going to throw in as they came up in play but his native is English and lets have Dutch and German given where we're based. Actually that pretty much fills up his slots...

Also hats off to Welsh as an impressively niche language choice! I so want that to come up in play!

*starts rewriting significant sections of villain plans to now be in Wales*

Other than that, I'm enjoying the preliminary planning so far.  You guys can keep that up as long as you'd like, I'm just going to put this out now that when you move from talking to doing you should include an OOC line about which Investigative ability you're using.  Even if you're not spending anything, that helps me keep track of what kind of info you're going to get, as well as how to set the scene and all that.  And what sort of bonuses you might get if you do decide to spend.

the city called Dikke Rups
Oh?! Wow...
I was even "worse" than you.
I though it was in a city called Dikke Rups!
The south side of that city.

The table was made using the Quick Table rules. There's a more extended version for doing more complicated tables.


Don't know if the Director came up with it the same way, but Google translate says Dikke Rups means 'Fat Caterpillar'.

I was going to comment that it seemed odd that no one chose any languages from the Far East, but then it did seem as if the game was going to be Euro-centric.

Yes, Google Translate is exactly how I came up with that :)  That, plus me trying to think of a name that might appeal to potheads.

And I apologize for the confusion about what exactly carries that name.  Having gone back and reread the sentence, I see now how it could have been ambiguous.  But don't worry, it's just the coffeeshop, not the whole neighborhood or the notorious suburb.

One of the vagaries of the English language.

Like the Churchill quote: "This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put."

Or the Pennsylvania Dutch line: "Throw the cow over the fence some hay."

I've never heard this one before, but I'm imagining the alternate version being spoken by a Canadian as "throw the cow over the fence some, eh?"

Yes, writing sentences that not only can be understood the way you want them to be... but actually can only be understood that way! A daily chore.

Here is my updated character sheet, pillaged and hopefully not too messed up:



This message was last edited by the player at 18:30, Wed 26 Aug 2020.

Looks reasonable to me.  Health and Stability both start at 4 for free, so it looks like you've bumped them both up to 12?