How is Roll20? One of my friends recommended it but I haven't actually used it with a  group.

Sorry to side track a bit.

I also saw your post on group sizes and was wondering if your group was still open to join? or at least sit in?

How did your maelstrom come to be? This is kind of directed towards everyone.

In ours WW2 paranormal scientists discovered psychic energy. It was an emission from sentient life and floated about the world like a second weather system. Fads, trends, the similar patterns of fairy tales, culture, and belief grew from this. The scientists tapped into the power of all thought and pulled pieces of this psychic weave bundling them into bombs. We never went atomic. Psychic bombs could preserve cities by killing only sentient life, telekinetic bombs could devastate areas without making it unusable for future use.

They didn't have a clue that this weave was us in a way and it responded from the multiple wounds our world wide arms race produced by calling out to its many parts and tried to put itself together. All the bombs reacted and went off. Reality fractured and spasmed. The Golden Age went out with bang as they always joked it would. The Weave is a Maelstrom now, feral, disjointed, bleeding memories, dreams, and ideas.

My MC and I were throwing ideas for a campaign. Something with semi premade character sheets. We offer positions within the Circus with a bare skeleton of a theme on it (playbook and act) and the players fill the rest (name, look, history).

Ideas we've spun so far.

Regular Playbooks:

Savvyhead: Using Reality’s Fraying Edge (Crystal Ball or Tarot Deck), Oftener Right, and Things Speak we have a fortune teller.
Brainer: Using Casual Brain Receptivity and In-Brain Puppet Strings we have a mentalist and hypnotist "Alexander Id, the man who knows"
Operator: His signature weapon and act is fire breathing. Although it's not enough to be a full time act so he has gigs on the side to afford what he wants.
Skinner: A lot of flexibility in this one, and I don't mean just as a contortionist. With the Pet option one could be the Snake Charmer or Lion Tamer.
Battle Babe: The melee custom weapon could be throwing knives. Dangerous and Sexy can keep people still for some William Tell.
Driver: Could ride Evel Knievel on a motorcycle as well as lead the Circus' caravan when they hit the road.

LE Playbooks:

Hoarder: Runs the Freakshow cough cough "Museum of Marvels". Human, animal, and fantastic plants alike are part of his menagerie. The hoard would be conscious and truly hungry. What wonders are behind those doors? Will you join the collection? The potential for drama here makes me giddy.
Marmot: Beloved circus mascot and the hoarders child in all but blood.
Grotesque: Fan made but this kind of scenario might be the one where they really do fit in.
Faceless: The stong man made up in clown paint. Terrifying. Fear his sledgehammer and squeaky over sized shoes.
Maestro D': The Ring Master of this traveling show. Where people go for the spectacle, the illusions, the thrills, and maybe even good old fashioned fun for the family. The establishment always has new venues, players can be integrated into the crew and tighten relationships. The de facto leader and face to this mob under the big top and functions like the Hardholder would in most campigns.

This is all we have at the moment and I'd love some input or ideas from you guys. "Every crowd has a silver lining" and all that.

In one campaign  the game logic and roll progression resulted two PC's fighting and one had to reroll a new character only five minutes into the game. The game is wild and brutal, but that's the charm of it.

Or one could give it a twist and make the Quarantine come from the future. His amnesia would be used to prevent "meta-gaming" and historical "spoilers". Though that would be tricky still.

One of the ideas we had in our group for savvy head was a psychic detective. "Ishmael" started with Things Speak and used it as a a sort of gut feeling-psychometry. He then made gadgets that helped him gather information, increase his mobility, and take down his enemies. Effectively it was the show Psych meets Batman.

This playbook reminded me of a lot of the Kungfu Flicks I grew up with.

Names options I'm just tossing around:
Windy, Ichi, Knuckles, Bear, Lee,Combo Breaker, Roy, Jet, Chuck, Laughing Chan, Stripes, Cassius, Thumper, Dempsey, Mr. One-Two, Slugger.

A New Beginning bothers me as a way to farm experience. It could be built like Oftener Right saying you can help and advise someone to go down another path and  if they turn a new leaf mark experience.

I personally like the Finishing Old Business as a forced retirement move. It reminds of those movies where the guy surpasses all human limits until the end of the conflict and he dies a tragic heroes death.

Interesting concept and I dig the unarmed approach.

I Have:
All "Official" LE Playbooks
-The Faceless
-The Hoarder
-The Maestro D'
-The Marmot
-The Quarantine
-The Touchstone
-The Grotesque

I've been looking for

-The Boy and His Dog
-The Feeder
-The Rat-Pack
-The Ruin Runner
-The Wurm
-The Coot
-The Fallen
-The Feral Kid

If you have others and are willing to trade. I'm open to substitute offers