Podmore, P.I. - The Story Continues
Okay, so, it turns out I'm not quite ready to let go of this little world yet. Since it sounds like some of you still want to play with it too...I have an idea.
I'm considering the idea of a PSL open just to FTH players (or to our few Podmore P.I. readers who aren't in the game, if they want to play), set in the Podmore, P.I. universe. I would run it essentially like one of those Murder Mystery Party kind of games. Somebody will die at the beginning, everyone will get some pieces of information but not all the information, and characters will have to interact in order to solve the mystery.
Basic Rundown: - Everybody gets two characters, max. - If one of your characters who you do not officially play is needed as an NPC, you'll get to play them. - We begin in the winter of 1931, still in Chicago and a couple years into The Great Depression. - Podmore P.I. is canon, but whatever you want to have happened with your character in the intervening years is entirely up to you. - You are still welcome to play even if your character has not appeared in Podmore P.I. If you want to play one who hasn't shown up yet, just let me know how you'd like them to fit into the universe (or you can just let me pick). However, characters are limited to people who will be trying to SOLVE the mystery - basically, no official playing anyone who'll be helping out Lucius Malfoy, the New King of the Underworld. You can, however, volunteer your bad guys for NPC status and NPC them for a scene or two in the future. Just expect that they're going to end up dead or in jail, because I <3 happy endings.
- No activity requirement. If you're not active, you're just not going to be solving the mystery. - There will be some things that you as a player will have to keep secret. - For a character to know something, it must be established IC that they know it either through log, note, or narrative. - We'll be shooting for keeping the film noir feel of the story.
...and that's basically all I've got so far. Any questions, comments, suggestions? Leave 'em in the comments. And if you want to play, just comment here and tell me which characters you'd like to play, and I'll start working things out. Probably looking at a mid-to-late-January beginning.
Character Claims So Far Sturgis Podmore, Private Investigator C.A. "Sully" Podmore, Girl Friday Regulus Black, Ex Mafia Princeling Lydia MacDougal, Wife, Mother, and Badass Meredith Watkins, Narrowly Escaped Fiancee Chloe Black, Narrowly Escaped Killer Fabian Prewett, Back Alley Bass Player Gideon Prewett, Drummer Turned Ironworker Remus Lupin, The Kid Nora Alderton, Silver Screen Goddess Emmeline Vance, Rescuing Society Dame Gawain Robards, Weary Police Detective Hope Dobbs, Organizer of Mayhem Octavius Pepper, Chief of the ER Edgar Bones, Special Agent Alex Savage, Dispatcher Joanna Podmore, Bohemian Lily Potter, Queen of Piano Jazz Ida Catchlove, Artiste Severus Snape, New On The Job Sloane Vaisey, Ace Reporter Miriam Prewett, Trauma Nurse Gretchen Davies, Secretary with Sass