Playing the Condemned

Time is running out for the Condemned: they know that have only days left and in
that time they either have to find a way to avoid their fate or squeeze in every
important experience they want to have in their life at least once. Whatever course
they take, their Bane will not be deterred… it is coming for them, remorselessly, and
tormenting it’s victim with promises of the horror to come.

The Condemned can be played as someone who has decided to live every day like
it’s their last (it could be) and is grabbing life by the balls, holding nothing back and
packing every moment with interest and excitement (Hot 2, Volatile 1.) They can
also be determined to escape their fate, desperately searching for some loophole
that will drive their Bane away for good. Until they find that magic formula though,
they have to stay out of trouble and keep others at arm’s length (Cold 2, Dark 1.)

The key to playing the Condemned is knowing how much time they have left and
deciding how to spend it: they might flirt with disaster, advancing the clock for
their own advantage with terrifying apparition or relying on knowing that they
cannot die before their time with appointment with death. If they really want to live
though, then they had better take pay the piper or live every moment and do
whatever they need to do to earn themselves another day. Either way, sex means
death for other people, so what have they got to lose but their life?

Need a ready made group of similarly reckless souls? Then look no further than the
Hedonist’s Club, who will embrace any new thrill and always live life to the
extreme, right up until their last day. They’re a captive audience for casual sex, but
be ready for questions to be asked when the bodies start piling up.

The Condemned
It’s not fair: what have you done to deserve this? You’re young, with your whole life
ahead of you. It’s not right that it should end so soon.

Well, you’re not going out without a fight: this curse had better be playing its A-game if
Credits it wants to take you down. You’re ready to spit in Death’s eye for one more day on this
Earth. Bring it on.
This is a skin for Monsterhearts 2, available at buriedwithoutceremony.com
This Skin designed by James Mullen
Identity
Name: Adnan, Erin, Imani, Kwame, Langley,
Narayan, Quincy, Sidney, Wallace
Look: forlorn, neglected, hurried, mismatched,
carefree
Bane: ghostly figure, inhuman monster, looks
like anybody, invisible presence, Death
Your Backstory
They’re at least partly to blame for your curse.
Gain a String on each other.
You’re ready to throw everyone else under
the bus. Gain a String on everybody.
Darkest Self
That was a close one; too close. Your Bane
could be using anything or anyone to get to
you, so trust no-one but yourself. Push others
aside, avoid contact and turn away any help
you are offered: if they persist, get violent.
You escape your Darkest Self when someone
forces their help or support on you without
hurting you.
Hot 2 Cold-1
Hot-1 Cold 2
Eyes: hunted eyes, needy eyes, self-
pitying eyes, startled eyes, accusing
eyes
Origin: passed to you by another,
wrong place at the wrong time,
cursed for transgression, just unlucky,
family secret
Strings
Harm
Experience 
 Add +1 to one of your stats.
 Take another Condemned move.
 Take another Condemned move.
 Take a move from any Skin.
 Take a move from any Skin,
 You play with the Hedonist’s Club.
Conditions
Volatile 1 Dark-1
Volatile-1 Dark 1
Condemned Moves  Pay the Piper
Decide what your Bane wants: discord,
You get Countdown and choose two
misery, terror or wanton destruction.
more:
Reset your Countdown clock to zero
 Countdown
when you provide your Bane with more
You have 5 days to live:
of that thing than you have ever
as each day passes, fill
provided them with before.
in a segment of your Countdown
and mark experience. If all 5
 Desperate Times
segments are filled in, you will die
You may roll+Countdown instead of
on the current day; you cannot
avoid this death by becoming your
roll+Hot or roll+Dark.
Darkest Self or losing all your
 Live Every Moment
Strings. If you confront and defeat
When someone spends a String to tempt
your Bane, lose all moves from
you, you may erase a segment of your
this Skin.
Countdown clock instead of marking
experience if you do as they say.
 Terrifying Apparition
When you lash out or run away
 The Tie That Binds
and miss, you may mark a
The MC may erase a segment of your
segment of your Countdown clock
and take a 10+ instead. Describe
Countdown clock as if it were a String
your Bane held on you. You may fill in a
how this is caused by the sudden
segment of your Countdown clock as if
appearance of your Bane.
it were a String you held on your Bane.
 Appointment with Death
If you die before your Countdown
is full, time rewinds by one hour
for you; you must make different
choices to avoid your death.
Sex When you have sex with someone, they gain Countdown and
you reset your Countdown clock to zero; if they are an NPC, all
Move the segments of their Countdown clock are already filled in.