Hey all! Figured I would drop these on here and see if anyone had any input. I have a real tendency to do heavy prep for my games and I really wanted to prevent that from happening so I decided to go for 3 different scenarios that the players could choose when we sit down. That way, I spend my time on the skeletons of the mission and play to see what happens as opposed to having it all planned out. I will post them all in three separate postings.
The first, Massacre in Massachusetts.
The hunters hear about a grisly massacre where some apparently wild animal broke into a bingo game and savaged 20 people. What didn't make it into the reports is that the people apparently were eating each other. This is a result of a ghost of a child starved to death by his aunt who can make people ravenously hungry. He is exacting revenge on the town for hiding his disappearance, either willingly or unwillingly (it is the spirit of a kid so it might not be rational). His aunt is a Futakuchi-onna, a Japanese monster disguised as a dainty woman with a horrific second mouth in the back of her head. One of the stories says that she starved one of her stepchildren to feed her own children. So the characters are drawn to Greenfield, Massachusetts by the actions of the ghost that lead them to destroy the real monster disguised as Susan Truesdell. My mission outline is as follows:
Futakuchi-onna Stats:
Monster: Devourer (To consume People), disguised as Susan Truesdell
Powers: Deceptively beautiful, Climb Walls, Feign Weakness, Bestial Strength,
Attacks: Harm 0 (Body), Harm 3 (Evil Maw)
Armor: 0 (Body), 1 (Head)
Weaknesses: Distracted easily by food (meat and sweets are best), anti-emetics cause 2-Harm that bypasses armor but must be given orally. Futakuchi-onna are attracted by the scent of rice. If they consume a large quantity of rice they will explode as the rice swells in their belly.
Harm Capacity: 5 (Body), 7 (Head)
Custom Moves:
• Entangle: When someone takes Harm from monster apply Harm move and have player roll 2d6+Tough, 10+, no additional effect. 7-9, -1 Forward. Less than 7, Enveloped! -1 Ongoing until you escape!
• Swallow: When you take Harm from monster, add the additional Harm move, Swallow Whole. Begin countdown. 3 actions available to rescue person until Swallowed person is killed.
Countdown:
1) Day: Some cows go missing from Farmer Stanley’s pastures.
2) Shadows:
3) Dusk: Sally Hemstrong (daughter of Harold and Maggie) goes missing (eaten by the monster)
4) Sunset: Denise Hemstrong goes missing (eaten by monster).
5) Nightfall: The girls’ mother, Julia, goes insane and tries to kill Harold.
6) Midnight: The two Truesdell daughters in the attic will mature and enter the world as ravenous demons. Just like their mom!
Famine Ghost (Ravengheist) Stats:
Monster: Executioner (Punish the people of Greenfield for reinforcing the inadvertent lie of him heading back West).
Powers: Induce Hunger, Insubstantial, Fly, Manifest.
Attacks: Harm 3 (Intense Hunger). This will work better if there are Bystanders there, too. The hunger will cause them to attack the players and cause harm that way.
Armor: 0
Weaknesses: Rock Salt (2 Harm), exorcism, will evaporate if those that wronged him are vanquished.
Harm Capacity: 8, impervious to normal weapons.
Custom Move:
Countdown: (make sure at least one of these occurs while Susan Truesdell is confined or carefully watched by the players).
1) Day: A humungous school of fish wash up on the riverbank, some fish eating the others.
2) Shadows: Kills a couple walking down by the Connecticut River.
3) Dusk: Kills Marty Hendricks, he is shot after attacking police as they enter his house. He has eaten his dog.
4) Sunset: Kills two small children at the park.
5) Nightfall: Kills Julia Walton, daughter of Gerald, who helped hide the young boy’s body.
6) Midnight: When the town gathers at the Community Center it will drive them all mad with hunger, gaining enough power to slip its anchors keeping it here in town.
Characters:
• Harold Hemstrong (Minion), ex-husband of Susan Truesdell, he worships the ground she walks on. She, instead of eating him, had him remarry and provide more “blood kin” to consume and feed her starving daughters.
• Sally Hemstrong (Bystander, Victim), daughter of Maggie, stepdaughter to Harold. A headstrong teenager who has no idea how much danger she is in. She is, like stereotypical teens, extremely contrary and will actively resist efforts to cordon her off and keep her safe. She dislikes her stepfather, Harold (with good reason, apparently!).
• Susan Truesdell (Monster), a diminutive woman of half Asian descent, remarkably beautiful and on of the town’s more wealthy citizens.
• Marty Hendricks (Victim)
• Julia Walton (Victim)