Changeling: The Lost

Changeling: the Lost is a projected IRC game by Exhack set in the New World of Darkness setting. The epynomous Lost were once human, creatures forever changed by their torturous and maddening Durances in Arcadia at the hands of the almighty and inscrutable True Fae who rule the shapeless forms of reality beyond the Hedge.

The characters must survive as strangers returned to humanity, paying rent, buying food and normal human things, while also dealing with the supernatural out of necessity. The night holds the other horrors of the World of Darkness, such as vampires, werewolves and those who hunt them, and the Gentry still seek their escaped slaves and servants. Even avoiding the worst of these terrors, the Lost will have to ply between the mortal realm and the Hedge to do favors for the Courts and Freeholds and keep their favor, experiencing a game of mundane survival and supernatural horror.

Characters

Background

• The characters are roommates or neighbors in the same suburban Chicago apartment building, who've just recently arrived in the past month (or less).
• None of the characters have stable sources of income, from contracts in the Freehold or work in mundane society, at least at the moment.
• The landlord Anton Bellini, is a fellow Lost who's been instructed to take care of the PCs by request of the Freehold King. Although he never said anything about giving them free lodging and utilities...

Chargen Specifics

• All characters begin with Resources at 0. It cannot be increased with BP and must be acquired and then payed for with XP.
• Instead, PCs may instead take starting equipment as if they had Resources 3, allowing any number of trivial Res 1-2 purchases (including weapons) and one or two major purchases that cost Res 3. Your furniture and clothing generally doesn't smell of dead bears, but you likely don't own six yachts. Your pocket money and savings consists of roughly 200 USD.
• No PC may begin with any Changeling-specific Advantages above 3, nor have any Influence or Ally ratings that relate to the supernatural above 2.
• Characters completed by the due date (September 20) receive 5 extra dots of Merits or Skills. These can also be exchanged at a 3 to 1 rate for Wyrd or a 2 to 1 rate for extrs Contracts.
• An apparently completed list of nWoD Merits can be found here.

Current Characters

• Yue, playing Amy Renwright.
• Kokuten, playing Norman Mellinger.
• Breefolk, playing Heather Gilligan.
• Sarpedon, playing Dylan Smith.
• BM, playing Samantha Chelsea Brown
• Changeling Template

NPCs

• Alexander Veeres, Amy's Fetch.
• Grover, a Flowering Changeling pickpocket, friends with Amy.
• Irene Vu, a middle-aged real estate agent that hangs out with Heather.
• Franklin Richter, human machinist and good friend of Dylan.