Skins So Far

The runners and riders at MiskU so far stand as follows:

Slot Zero Graduation

Lynn: Vampire
John: Fae
Andrew: Warlock
Steve: Werewolf
Elina: Neighbour (second skin)

Slot One: Freshers

Steve: Werewolf

Slot Two: Halloween

Mik: Ghost
Declan: Infernal

Slot Three: Thanksgiving

Mik: Ghost
Declan: Infernal

I have some orders for custom skin images, and I will be posting them when they are done. Shaping up nicely.

Introduction

IntroductionMonsterhearts is a game about teenagers and the monsters inside them and traditionally, I have ran it at conventions as a one-shot. However, for this project I wanted to do two things; run an extended, connected set of games at a convention and move the game from the traditional high school setting and until the ivory towers of higher education. Yes, it’s ambitious and it could well crash and burn horribly but if you don’t try, you will never know eh?

The FormatEach session will be 3-4 hours long and involve 5 players. There are three sessions across the main part of the convention and one prelude session in ‘Slot Zero’ on Friday night.  The antics on Friday night will form the themes of the game.  Each session will then subsequently build, forming the Threats that the subsequent games will have to face. Nothing pre-planned, all player-generated.

The Sessions
Session 0 (Friday Night): Graduation … a game set three months before the main game, as the darkness falls over Misk U. The themes and threats from this game will form the backdrop for what is to come.

Session 2 (Saturday Afternoon): Freshmen … a new batch of students arrive at Misk U. and they all have secrets. Pledging, keggers and frat parties are mixed with … well, who knows?

Session 3 (Saturday Evening) Halloween … nuff said.

Session 5 (Sunday Afternoon) Thanksgiving … the literal ‘term from Hell’ comes to a conclusion with big football games, dark nights and darker secrets.

SkinsAll of the standard skins will be available, as well as the original launch extension skins (Selkie, Serpentine, Hollow and Angel). If they are decent – and I have no doubt they will be – the six extra skins from the ‘Second Skins’ kickstarter will also be available.  Each skin will be exclusive to the first player to play it – so if you play the Vampire in the prelude game, that character is yours for the rest of the convention. Naturally, it would be awesome if people would come back for a second, third or maybe even fourth session – but if they don’t, that’s cool too.

Pre-Booking PlacesI love to be able to prep, and make things super awesome for people, so if you pre-book your GM slot into this game, I’m going to allow you to jump the queue for skin selection. Additionally, I’m going to make a custom art skin for you.

Custom Art Skins?Some of you may have seen my male/female skins (changing the gender of the images on the normal skins)? Well, if you have pre-booked your skin and you send me a cool picture of your character, I will ‘monsterheart-ify’ the image and make sure you have a nice custom skin to play with. If you can’t pre-book your skin/slot then I am going to bring a TON of images so that we can get you something awesome for your character. I’m all about the images.

Follow Misk U. on Twitter!In the run up to, and during, the weekend, I will be posting a number of updates on Twitter - follow @MHFurnace for all the fun!

More news as Furnace approaches…