Death Street Game
Summary
Life, Death, the world exists in an endless karmic cycle. But normal humans don't know anything about that- at least not until they die.
When the key arrived in the mail, you stopped being a normal human. Whatever your life was before, it changed, fundamentally, with that arrival.
An unexpected destiny awaits you, at the corner of Death Street & Despair.
What is it?
Death Street is a game about the afterlife- but an afterlife that may seem unfamiliar and strange. It is a game about strange beasts, and those who fight them, and about normal men and women donning a mantle of responsibility to balance the world of the living and the dead.
Prelude
You have been called- by curiosity, or perhaps some other force, to investigate the strange key you received in the mail, and the strange letter that accompanied it. Directed to a decrepit looking bed and breakfast in a sleepy little town, you find an abandoned and forbidding place.
Though you don't arrive all at once, you each find that your key unlocks a single, well furnished room. Though some of you may feel like leaving, you feel compelled to stay, compelled to spend a night here, in this place. The letter promises your questions will be answered, and to the last you decide to give it a shot.
Maybe it will all turn out to be some sort of giant prank- and you could use the laugh, right?
Night falls and one by one you turn out the lights and go to sleep.
And when you wake, everything is different. Where once there was an abandoned inn, now is a place in the best shape of its life, a warm and welcoming eatery. You exit your rooms to the smell of fresh breakfast cooking, and make your way downstairs to find your answers.
And those answers... they change you. Will it be for the better, or for worse? And when you're called by a destiny you never expected, will you step up to the challenge, or fall by the wayside?
Rules
Character Creation
10 Questions that define you
1. Who were you before you found your key? Your name and personal details.
2. What did you do for a living? Where you a student, a homemaker, in the army, or perhaps retired?
3. Did you have any interest in the occult, or in fantasy before you found your key? If so, what sort of interest?
4. Have you ever seen anything strange that you can't explain? If so, what?
5. Are you religious? If so, what religion do you follow, and how strongly do you believe in it?
6. Have you ever been in a fight? If so, what did you do? If not, what are your plans, if any, to get out of one?
7. Has anyone close to you died recently? If not, has anyone close to you died a longer time ago?
8. Were you adopted as a child, or raised by your birth parents? Are they living or dead?
9. What sort of person would you want to be, if you had the power to be anyone you chose?
10. Have you ever suffered from depression, or ennui? If so, how did you get past it? Did you get past it?