Discourses of the Superfly night Crew

[MsFish]

I know I'm a punk... sorry that you got to deal with it.

Liar.  You're not sorry.  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Sounds like a great game....

You cant ask for a better group than that..

I wish I could get the folks here to look at White Wolfs stuff twice...

Saint Positively hates them...

Well hates may be too strong, but he doesnt like em.

[MsFish]

I think it's a blast.  I really enjoy the plot stuff...cause the way Jason runs it it's all a big mystery that we're trying to solve, which I think is the way it's supposed to be if you decide to follow the books.  We end up fighting spectres alot, which I find less exciting.  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Does the game have Shadowguides or have other characters play you bad side... and what kind of powers do ghosts have?

[MsFish]

This one time, we were supposed to help this one ghost pass on, and to do that we have to resolve the ties that he had to his earth-life, kinda like in Casper.  

Well, this guy wanted to sleep with his secretary.  But we didn't want to have him do that, so instead we had the secretary fall apart.  Literally--like with pieces of her body falling off all over.  

[MsFish]

Does the game have Shadowguides or have other characters play you bad side... and what kind of powers do ghosts have?

What's a shaddow guide?

[Eagle Prince]

In Wraith, the game its based on, everyone plays a character and also plays the dark side of someone else's character (called the Shadow Guide).

[MsFish]

My character can move things in the earth-world, create objects out of ghost-matter, hit people with raw force (last friday she sent this military lady flying into the air at 10,000 pounds of force--it was fun) and she can make people see or hear or feel things that aren't there--she can affect their senses with illusions, basically.  Hence the menstrual cramps.  

There are lots of other powers--Jezzy can tell the future, Freya (Mandy's character) can turn into swarms of small animals and also shape-shift some pretty scary stuff on herself.  Johannes (the german Jamaican) can inhabit things, and possess people...there's lots more.

[MsFish]

No, there's no shadow guides, at least not in our campaign.  None of us are evil; I'm not sure if the game lets you do that or not.  We have enough problems without evil going on, I think.  



Ooh, and my character can walk on walls and on the ceiling.  That's fun.  


My character and Brenna's aren't dead, they're living people who can hop out of their bodies, basically.  Well, Audrey (my character)'s body is frozen in michigan, actually.  She's traveling up there to get it this week.  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

It was a pretty cool mechanic in Wraith,... you never knew when the other players were going to screw up your best laid plans...

Plus your shadow could be more powerful than you could... making you want to have them take over...

Of course your shadow just wants to obliterate you...

[Eagle Prince]

Well there is sort of Shadows in Orpheus, but it works a bit different Jeffe.  For the most part, your Shadow is seperate from yourself.  Orpheus is not a part of the traditional World Of Darkness, the way Wraith is.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

hmm I may have to get it just because...

[MsFish]

Yeah, I think I remember something about shadows now, but they're basically NPC's, I think.  None of us are high enough on spite right now to have to deal with them.  


See, my problem in talking about this is, I'm not sure what terminology is specific to Orpheus, and what's just common RPG speak.  There's probably some of each, so I'm sort of simplifying it so I would understand, if I'd never played.  Which is probably way more simple than you need it.  


And I like that I'm probably getting all sorts of things messed up here.  Brenna can correct me, if she looks at this.  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

yeah we can puzzle out the terms...


People seem intimidated by these threads for some reason.

[Eagle Prince]

Even I think the World Of Darkness can get really confusing, and I've reread all the books several times.