Storytown Interest Thread

Yarrun XIX

So...Yarrun's making a Tabletop game, and he needs people to playtest it

Right then. So, once upon a time, a great and powerful wizard created a set of nested pocket universes collectively referred to as Storytown, where the pen's not just more powerful than the sword; it's what calls the sword into being. Every pocket universe is the staging grounds for a story or set of stories, from which the universe draws its power, and each universe has a secret society based around writing, editing, fixing and producing said stories. While ensuring that the stories remain well-written without any of the participants realizing that they're being manipulated is a difficult task, the potential reward is great: ascendancy to a more powerful pocket universe, and the patronage of one of The Ten Muses. 

As players, you'll be assigned to one of the various Fixer teams, squads organized when a story is going off the rails and the head writer can't resolve it on his own. You'll each have incredible powers to warp the world to your bidding, ranging from producing MacGuffins to instigating montages, but be warned! If it becomes obvious that you're manipulating events, the characters will fight against your influence and the whole story is liable to collapse!

Yarrun XIX

Classes so Far:

Sub-writer: Not influential enough to have your own story to write, but you know enough about the writing process to pack a punch. 

Scrubber: A professional at fixing minor story issues. Whether it's filling plotholes or cutting out extraneous dialogue, you can fix it in a flash

Character Ascendant: It's both Very Illegal and Very Impolite to reveal the secrets of Storytown to the uninitiated. But sometimes it happens, and given the unique characteristics of characters, they often get recruited for Fixer teams.

Producer: Writers and Scrubbers can't function on happy thoughts. They need World Ink and Plot Filler and other materials forged out of raw stories, and the Producer can provide

Muse Speaker: While all Storytowners can call upon the Muses, it takes practice and it takes skill to gain boons from them consistently. The Muse Speaker has those skills to spare.

One-Winged Eagle

I call Producer.

Tanya

Sub-writer.

Yarrun XIX

You two had to pick the two classes that I'm still fixing up. Snaps and dang.

Well, while we wait, you can pick your stats. Each pair gets 9 stats to split between the two of them. So if you want Hedonist to have 6 points in it, then Austere has 3 points, and so on.

Austere/Hedonist: Are you an individual of discipline or pleasure?
Forceful/Subtle: Bash in the door or sneak in the back way?
Heartless/Magnanimous: Open hand or closed fist?
Fettered/Ruthless: Do you find strength in laws or breaking them?
Inspiring/Melancholy: Do you inspire high or low emotions?

One-Winged Eagle

Hedonist, Forceful, Heartless, all 3.

Yarrun XIX

...looks like I explained it poorly.

You have nine points per each pair. So an example stat spread would be

Austere (3) / Hedonist (6)

Forceful (4) / Subtle (5)

Heartless (6) / Magnanimous (3)

Fettered (1) / Ruthless (8)

Inspiring (2) / Melancholy (7)

One-Winged Eagle

Ah, okay.

• Austere (3)/Hedonist (6)
  
• Forceful (8)/ Subtle (1)
  
• Heartless (4)/ Magnanimous (5)
  
• Fettered (2)/ Ruthless (7)
  
• Inspiring (5)/ Melancholy (4)
  

Tanya

• Austere (7) / Hedonist (2)
  
• Forceful (6) / Subtle (3)
  
• Heartless (5) / Magnanimous (4)
  
• Fettered (2) / Ruthless (7)
  
• Inspiring (1) / Melancholy (8)