Playing The Caged

Trapped, naive, pliable, and eager to experience. The

Caged has been kept away from the rest of the world for
most of their lives, and is only now getting to
experience for the first time what is normal to everyone
else.

The two stat lines for the Caged allow you to choose
between someone who pushes away the outside world
(Cold 2 & Hot 1) or embraces it all, evil and good alike
(Hot 2 & Dark 1). The Caged is not used to typical threats
and dangers, leaving them with low Volatile.

The Caged gains experience incredibly quickly compared

to most Skins; between Where Are We Going?, Still
Learning, and their Kiss Move, they’ll advance fast
enough that they should have the ability to become
Experienced whenever it makes sense within the
narrative.

It is intentional that The Caged does not focus very

much on the Cage itself, and chooses to instead explore
the feeling of leaving your comfort zone - or your prison
- for the first time. The Cage is less important than the
behaviours and feelings it left you with.

The Caged
You’ve never been a part of the world everyone else grew up in. You lived
most of your life in a cage; a comfortable cage, maybe, or a beautiful one,
but still a cage. It is strange out here.

Credits
This is a fan Skin for Monsterhearts 2, designed by C.M.Ruebsaat
Check out the game at buriedwithoutceremony.com
You’re free now, or at least more so than you’ve ever been. You’re sheltered
and too different to ignore, but maybe you can find a way to fit in despite it
all...
Identity
Name: Alex, Zivanka, Grace,
Paton, Abby, Niko, Jean, Tanya,
Orion, Freya, Dove, Paris
Look: demure, old-fashioned,
sportsy, unearthly, immature
Your Backstory
Someone has been inside your
cage. Gain a String on them.
You think someone can help you
learn about the world outside
your cage. Give them two Strings
on you.
Darkest Self
You don’t want to be the naive
one anymore. You need to be
taken seriously, by your friends,
by your cage... go wild, go crazy,
anything to make sure you’ve
proven yourself. Escape your
Darkest Self when you willingly
go back to your cage, or when
people consider you a badass, a
credible threat, or a totally
different person.
Hot 1 Cold 2
Eyes: curious eyes, keyhole eyes,
guarded eyes, telling eyes, endearing
eyes
Origin: former cultist, giant’s daughter,
helicopter parents, sealed-away god,
homeschooled
Strings
Harm
Experience ❍❍❍❍❍
❍ Add +1 to one of your stats.
❍ Take another Caged move.
❍ Take another Caged move.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Take a move from any Skin.
❍ Lose Sheltered and your Kiss Move.
Gain Experienced and your Sex Move.
Conditions
Volatile -1 Dark -1
The Caged Moves ❍ Where Are We Going?
When someone asks you to go
Start with Sheltered, and choose one somewhere with them, mark
more. You cannot take Experienced experience if you agree. If
when you take a move. something goes wrong, give them
a Condition.
● Sheltered
You have a bit of a disconnect ❍ Still Learning
from the rest of the world. When When someone agrees to teach
someone tries to Turn You On, you something you should know
rather than picking a reaction, by now, you both mark
you can choose to take the experience.
Condition naive, oblivious, or
innocent instead. ❍ A Gilded Cage
When you bring someone back to
❍ Experienced a place you feel trapped, ask them
You know how the world works (explicitly or implicitly) if they
now. When someone helps you want to help you escape. If they
act outside your comfort zone, answer yes, take 1 Forward. If they
roll to Turn Them On. On a 10 up, answer no, you can roll to Shut
take 1 Forward, and they must Them Down with Hot.
also choose the following reaction
❍ Thought It Was Normal
in addition to a normal reaction:
When you defy social norms and
✦ I am impressed, and say so.
draw attention to yourself, take 1
❍ Friendly Innocence Forward to Shut Down or Run
Away from anyone staring at you.
When you hang out with
someone dangerous or nasty
because you don’t know any
better, take a String on them.
Kiss When you kiss someone, it feels like a big deal. Give them
a String on you and mark experience.
Move
Sex
Do not start with this move. When you have sex with
someone, ask them what they want most from you. They

Hot 2 Cold -1 Volatile -1 Dark 1 Move must answer honestly. If you give it to them, take a String
on them.