• Why do you hate ____ so much?
Werewolf: Whose scent makes your mouth
BEFORE PLAY
Introduce yourselves and find out
everyone’s experience with the supernatural
romance genre. Ask what’s one thing that’s
really important or interesting to them about
these stories. Make a note, and try and bring
up some of that stuff during the game.
SETUP
During the Backstory section, take a note of
interesting tensions between characters.
Run one scene for each of the characters
based on something interesting from their
Strings questions (each of these scenes is
set on the same night or day).
Then cut to the next morning, at school.
HOMEROOM
Draw the chart, and ask everyone:
• Where do you sit?
• Who sits next to [the PC to their left]?
What's [that person’s] deal?
• What’s [that person] think of (another
PC)?
USING THE QUESTIONS
Ask a question from each category.
Ask a mix of whatever questions feel right.
Create classmates who have hooks into the
PCs’ issues.
Try to build a chronology and understanding
of the supporting characters (classmates,
parents) as you go.
Write down questions you’re interested in
finding out the answers to. Later, frame
scenes based on these.
Sex and Love
• Remind me - who is it that you were
sleeping with? And why did you guys
break it off?
… (then, to another player) Why are you
so into ____?
• Why do you have a crush on ____?
• Who does (student in last question) have
a crush on?
• Why are you good friends with (answer to
last question)? (ask somebody who didn't
answer the first question)
• Who did you see _____ making out with
behind the bleachers last week?
• interested in ______?
• What does _____ smell like? Do you like
it?
• (once for each player) What's the hottest
thing about the guy with blue hair?
(Demand different answers from each. If
anyone tries to play the 'not into guys'
card, ask "What is it about the guy with
blue hair that gets you all confused
whenever you find yourself looking at him,
then?" instead... Or just say "It's probably
supernatural mind control or something.
Yeah, that's the ticket. So, when you're
under the influence of what is obviously
said powers, what's the hottest thing about
him?")
Gossip and Reputation
• What does _____ get away with that
nobody else does, and why?
• Why did you and ________ get expelled
from your last school?
• What rumor did you hear about ____ that
has to be false?
• Why did _____ miss so much school last
year?
• Who's the principal's daughter? What's her
reputation?
• Who is the new kid? What's the one thing
you know about them?
• Which girl had the abortion?
Who did she say was the father?
Who's really the father?
• _____ refused to be shamed by gossip
saying they had an STI Who’d they have
to hurt to change the dialog around STIs
at [school]?
• "What's the name of the class drug
dealer? And who wants to sleep with
him/her?"
Intimacy and Friendship water?
Ghost: Whose misery attracts you like a
• (once per PC ) "Why does _____ remind moth to a flame?
you that you are a monster?" Witch: Who survived one of your hexes
• "How do you remind ______ that they are unscathed?
human?" Chosen: So how did you save ____'s life?
Do they know you did it?
• What does ______ talk to you about that
Ghoul: So who is the most delicious of your
s/he doesn't talk to anyone else about?
fellow students, when it comes to satisfying
• What does _______ do that really gets on
your nerves? your Hunger?
Infernal: Why is your Dark Patron so
Events Vampire:
• (if feed on humans) So who's the student
• When you passed out stone drunk at the you've been feeding on, lately? And what's
last rager, who do you think rooted the name of their friend who is getting
through your pockets and stole your shit? worried about how they're so pale and
What did they steal? tired all the time?
• Who hosted the last big party? Which of • (if feed on animals) So that one night you
their parents did you make out with? couldn't find any strays or vermin... who's
• Who tried to kill you? Why? the student whose pet did you ate? And
• How did _____ humiliate you? what did you do with the body?
• What's the name of that student who was
• What did you do that hurt ___ most?
able to resist your hypnotizing gaze? And
• How has ____ changed kind of
dramatically in the past few days?
what were you trying to get them to do
when you found this out?
• Where are___________'s parents?
• Who does ____ remind you of from a
• Who's the kid with the knife? century ago?
"What's the name of the only
[gay|black|poor|foreign] kid in class?"
• Why does the student next to you go to
the school nurse's office so often?
Death
After filling up all but three or so seats of the
• Who does the teacher seem to pay the
most attention to, and why? classroom, say "So how did this dude die a
few months ago? Right, and what's the
• "What Nickname did you give ___that
name of the girl who died three weeks ago?
stuck?"
What's the official story about her death?"
• "So, there's this kid who's nickname is
Blades. Yeah, I know, right? But literally Then, “And why do you think [this guy] isn’t
everyone calls him that, even the teacher. at school today?"
How’d he get that nickname to stick?"
Skins and Supernatural
Fae: So what promise to you did ____
break? Wy haven't you punished them, yet?
Serpentine: So why do your grandparents
want to meet ____? PLAY TO FIND OUT
Selkie: Why does _____ remind you of the
sea?
Mortal: So what's the name of that one
student who has been making googly eyes
at your one true love?